Movies by Shaun Benson

Slash/Back
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

Code 8
In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.)

ARQ
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

Edge of Winter
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.

Flight of the Butterflies
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life ...

Good Wife's Guide to Murder
When an expert in spousal murder is accused of killing her husband, she must use her investigation skills to prove her innocence.

Queen of the Morning Calm
Follows 29-year-old immigrant sex worker Debra, and her self-aware 10-year-old daughter Mona, as they embark on a journey of emancipation. Debra attempts to escape cycles of abuse and poverty while learning to become a more nurturing mother and discovering her own self-worth.

Trench 11
In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

Home Sweet Home
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a killer inside.

Home Free
In 1997, a group of college misfits invite an unhoused professor to crash on their porch.

Prank
Jessica: A college co-ed gets more than she bargained for after playing a not-so-innocent telephone game and discovers that sometimes the wrong people just might call you back. Madison: As Madison sits alone and waits anxiously for her boyfriend to come home, she fears something terrible has happened to him, that she is being watched and that her life is in danger. Cassidy: Cassidy loves a good mystery and finds herself wrapped up in her very own surprise whodunit party, but the fun stops when her friends start really dropping dead.

I Still See You
Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

Name of the Rose
A Master Criminal needs to test the depths of his immorality by choosing the woman he loves as his next victim.

The Beautiful Risk
William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.

Girl in Woods
After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. Battling the demons in her mind may be the only way to come out alive.

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A director pressures an actress into full nudity on the morning of her first sex scene.

Never Saw It Coming
Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that’s what she passes herself off as. Her real powers have more to do with separating troubled families from their money than actually seeing into the netherworld. When Keisha targets the family of the missing Ellie Garfield she becomes entangled in the dark secrets of Ellis’s husband Wendell Garfield and his daughter Melissa.