Attending a funeral of a loved one is an extremely difficult moment in any person’s life. But no funeral is quite as difficult as the one depicted in Brian Lonano’s gory short film M Is For Mourning.

This year will see the 9th annual edition of the Portland Underground Film Festival, which is screening Carlos Atanes’ Gallino; Jon Moritsugu’s Pig Death Machine and films by Neil Ira Needleman, Isabela Fondevila, Clint Enns and many more.

The Calgary Underground Film Festival enters its double-digit years when the 10th annual edition rolls out on April 15-21 at the Globe Cinema with its usual mix of oddball features, indie flicks and documentaries.

Dear Santa, Barbara Barbeau has been a very good girl this year, so please bring her something special this year.

It was a dark and stormy night. A little bit of absinthe combined with a rickety, old static-filled TV provides the perfect combination of spooky chills in Brian Lonano’s The Transmission. Has an elderly man had a little too much to drink or is he actually seeing the ghost of his dead wife on his television set? Or are there more malevolent forces at play here?

The 11th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival will honor special guest John Waters and screen films by Brian Lonano, Don Swaynos, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt and more.

Oct. 12: The InFEST Underground screening series has a delicious block of seven sick and twisted short films, plus the Brazilian horror feature Beyond the Grave.

The fourth annual Oakland Underground Film Festival is screening Frédérick Maheux’s documentary Art/Crime; short films by Don Swaynos, Brian Lonano, Bob Ray and more.

The 12th annual Coney Island Film Festival will open with Shade Rupe & Teller’s Play Dead, plus feature films by Carey Burtt, Greg Hanson, Brian Lonano and tons more.

The 5th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival is an epic nine-night event with films like Saturday Morning Massacre, The 25th Reich, The Exhibitionists and lots more.