Movies by Virginia Newcomb

Rumble Through the Dark
In the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, a former bare-knuckle fighter must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.

The Beta Test
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.

Peacock
A train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's bank clerk.

The Atoning
Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they're thrust into a horror worse than anything they've ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.

Euphoria
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors. With the multi-channel film installation Euphoria he continues this examination by exploring capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society.

The Death of Dick Long
Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.

Reparation
REPARATION is a powerful psychological thriller that swirls like a funnel cloud around Bob Stevens -- a small-town farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. When a mysterious stranger, Jerome, shows up claiming to have been his best friend in the Air Force Police, Bob's peaceful existence begins to unravel from the outside in. Bob's entire family is caught in the storm -- but none more than Bob's eight year-old daughter, Charlotte, who discovers that she might hold the key to conjuring Bob's forgotten past. As Charlotte comes to learn, "e...

Abductee
Abductee is a chilling "found footage" film set in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Terrifying in a way that few other horror films are, Abductee explores the bizarre and misunderstood world of alien abduction. Through a first person account, we come to know the fear and mental anguish that befalls a man as he attempts to unravel the mystery of what happens to him when he is alone in the middle of the night. Drew hasn't been sleeping very well. On numerous occasions he awakes suddenly, completely unable to move, a victim of a common, but t...

The Recycling Man
In an overpopulated and underprivileged suburban neighbourhood, Jacob, a boy immobilised on a wheelchair, fights to protect a girl he spots across the courtyard, doing all he can to warn her of the dark figure entering her room - The Recycling Man.

The Boogeyman
Based upon a short story by Stephen King, the Boogeyman is a film about Lester Billings as he struggles to hold on to his sanity as he copes with the mysterious death of his three children. For Stephen King or Darabont fans, this is an official 'Dollar Baby.'
Good Sport
Pat Nelson is the coach of his 12-year-old son Zack's basketball team. On the eve of the season opener, Pat learns that his ex-wife and high school sweetheart, Sophie, is engaged to Jeff, a wealthy British gastroenterologist. Distraught, Pat drinks the night away and shows up to the game hungover. As the game unfolds, he must contend with Jeff's presence in the stands, helicopter parents, an unhinged opposing coach, and his own insecurities -- all while trying to be a good dad.