Sawdust City Fright Fest Saturday Film Fest!

Time Community Theater

445 N Main St

Oshkosh, WI 54901

About

Saturday's offerings include two big blocks of independent horror shorts and two features, our Saturday features are both from Wisconsin! Many creators plan to attend so we'll have time for Q&A with them. Doors open about 12 and the first block of shorts starts about 12:30. Schedule as best we know it in the long description. Cash only for everything at the Time.

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Sat, Oct 10, 2026, 12:00 pm CDT

General Admission

This ticket type is all day Saturday.

Sales end Oct 10th @ 12:00 pm CDT

$13.00

per ticket

General Admission 7pm Feature only

This ticket is for Saturday night feature only

Sales end Oct 10th @ 7:01 pm CDT

$7.00

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General Admission weekend

This ticket gets you into Friday night and all day Saturday.

Sales end Oct 10th @ 12:00 pm CDT

$16.00

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Overview

Saturday shorts block one: Starts about 12:30

Supernatural Happenings (WI ) Runtime: 5 minutes Directors: Shelly Michalski & Mary Manchester Summary: A good dog falls asleep watching a paranormal found footage film and dreams herself into its haunting, where her worst fears come true.

Obstruction (WI) Runtime: 7 minutes Director: Emily Odegard Summary: When William is confronted with a haunting memory from the past, he does everything in his power to try to escape it.

Aroma-Vision (WI) Runtime: 11 minutes Director: Shun Powell Summary: Fred Jones is an unassuming Milwaukeean who is pulled into the new interactive cooking show, “Culinary Masters.”

Dreams of a Dead God (MS) Runtime: 37 minutes Director: Jim Weter Summary: October 1936: in the swamps outside of New Orleans, sanity and reality itself are tested during the filmed interrogation of a kidnapper with ties to an ancient cult.

Saturday Matinee Starts at about 2:

Awaken the Reaper (WI) Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes Director: Dave Campfield Summary: A woman has gone missing. The agoraphobic Keith Lamont is her last hope. But to find her, he’ll have to face his deepest fears.

Shorts block two: starts about 4:15

Halloween Bird (WI) Runtime: 4 minutes Director: Dean Bertram Summary: On Halloween night, a deaf girl and her grandmother carve pumpkins and wait for trick-or-treaters. They are about to receive a menacing visitor.

The RA (WI) Runtime: 11 minutes Directors: Lexi A Hull & Raegan VanWagner Summary: Austin, a first time Resident Assistant (RA) starts the new semester with an uncanny connection with a resident.

Necrosectos (Spain) Runtime: 10 minutes Director: Javier Lozano Summary: An invasion of strange insects disrupts a family’s world.

The Voice in the Vessel (WI) Runtime: 10 minutes Director: Daniel Wheeler Summary: A grieving father discovers a coin-operated automaton capable of channeling otherworldly voices, leading to a tense journey through guilt, redemption, and consequence.

Hide (PA) Runtime: 16 minutes Director: Brenden Hubbard Summary: Still reeling from an incredible loss, a father (Shakey Graves) and daughter cling to a bedtime routine keeping them safe in a town where an unfathomable horror visits its inhabitants night after night.

Break from approximately 5:20 to 6:30 (go get dinner?)

Friday night Feature at 7

The Withering (WI) Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes Directors: Daniel J. Pico Summary: Judith, an embittered woman in her seventies facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, becomes obsessed with a strange amulet she acquires at an estate sale-an ancient artifact that rejuvenates her body by siphoning vitality from the surrounding town. As Judith grows younger, stronger, and more violent, the community around her rapidly deteriorates, with illness, decay, and death spreading among its youngest residents. Haley, Judith’s compassionate caregiver, begins to suspect the truth just as she is cast aside and left alone in a dying town, her only ally is her troubled sister who senses the amulet’s dark pull. When Judith’s hunger escalates from passive draining to brutal murder, Haley races to destroy the artifact before it consumes everyone