Douglas Buck

The Aristofrogs

Buddy Giovinazzo, Jan-Hinrik Drevs

Deborah Twiss, Stacy Keach

A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an exceptionally talented frog.

Tales of the Uncanny

David Gregory

Eli Roth, Tom Savini

David Gregory and Kier-La Janisse take a detailed look at the history of horror anthology films with the help of more than sixty writers, genre specialists, and members of the film industry.

Prologue

Douglas Buck

Sally Conway, William Stone Mahoney

A young woman returns home one year after losing her hands in a savage attack. She cannot remember who her assailant was, but a trip to the local post office leads her towards the truth.

Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America

Douglas Buck

Gary Betsworth, Sally Conway

Three narratives ("Cutting Moments," "Home" and "Prologue") combine to create a shocking trilogy of modern American life, a portrait drawn with brushstrokes of hidden violence and disturbing cruelty. Directed by Douglas Buck, this unflinching film reveals what lies behind the drawn curtains of so-called "ordinary" households.

Home

Douglas Buck

Gary Betsworth, Ray Bland

Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.

Cutting Moments

Douglas Buck

Nica Ray, Gary Betsworth

In the center of a monotonous suburban existence, Sarah lives silently and in subservience to her icy husband Patrick. They have been together far too long, and Patrick's affections for his wife have all but vanished. Instead, his sexual urges are tempting him to lust after their own son. Realizing how far gone her husband is, Sarah undertakes drastic, shockingly sickening measures to salvage some sense of her life and purge her years of festering resentment.

The Theatre Bizarre

Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory

Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb

Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.

After All

Douglas Buck

Jarred Pilarski, Jeanette Smith

A darkly humorous black and white tale of a young boy, unable to fit in, finally realizing his calling while watching animals killing each other on nature documentaries. Raw non-sync early effort, interesting as an early and funny example of Buck's forays into continuing themes of painful isolation, suburban disassociation and the inherent violence that can follow.

Sisters

Douglas Buck

Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Rea

A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.

The Broken Imago

Douglas Buck

A plague wipes out all the adults on the planet, leaving behind only children and a select few who are immune. [This short was produced as a proof-of-concept for a feature film, which is yet to be made.]

The Broken Imago

Douglas Buck

At a school for troubled youths on an isolated island, a strange and horrifying viral outbreak results in an escalating conflict between the children and the adults.