Pest Control Film Collective

10/02/2025

Block 3: 'Hol' Up, WTF?!' will feature the wildest, grossest, most bizarre movies of the fest. We hope you can handle it!

See the full list of films on our website:
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

09/29/2025

Block 2: 'Macabre Michigan' runs from 3:00 - 5:15 PM and features all Michigan filmmakers! From black comedies to fright flicks, this block has a slice of everything.

Come help support your local Michigan talent! Get tickets here:
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

09/25/2025

Here are just a few of the posters for the films featured in Block One: 'Monsters and Ghosts and Ghouls, Oh My!' Join us from 12:00-2 PM for some monster madness!

Get your tickets here:
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

09/19/2025

Pick your block OR risk never escaping the Historic Howell Theater, as choosing the full festival pass binds you to every dark film...

Details linked below:
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

09/13/2025

Watch the trailer for PEST CONTROL FILM FESTIVAL 2025!

Join us on October 11 from 12:00-8:00 PM for a day of dark and disorienting horror cinema. This year's festival will showcase everything from local Midwest talent to grotesque international oddities! Located at the Historic Howell Theater, we're offering three film blocks with over thirty films!

Get your tickets HERE:
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

09/05/2025

WE'RE BACK! Pest Control Film Festival will return to the Historic Howell Theater on October 11 for a full day of uncanny horror cinema!

Get your tickets here!
https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-fest

10/21/2024

FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT!

Here are the selected winners of the inaugural Pest Control Film Festival! Congratulations to all of the talent involved this season and a special thanks to the movie-goers who showed up to support independent cinema.

BEST FEATURE FILM: 'The Wheel of Heaven' (dir. by Joe Badon)
PLAQUE OF PESTILENCE (reserved for the most shocking showpiece): 'Stinger' (dir. by Brian Zahm)
BEST SHORT SHORT: 'The Triangular Door' (dir. by Dylan Mars Greenberg)
BEST SHORT FILM: 'Ophelia' (dir. by Jeff Burton)
BEST MICHIGAN MADE: 'Overdrawn' (dir. by Niklas Hegg)

10/19/2024

We’ll see you at the movies 🍿💀

TICKETS: https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-festival

10/17/2024

Here’s a teaser trailer for the gross-out, WTF, body horror anthology feature ‘Fat Fleshy Fingers’, screening this October 19th! Join us for Block 3 starting at 6:00 (or watch all 12 films with the full fest pass) to squirm in your seat with this and three horror shorts.

“The film tells nine tales of the hapless souls who find themselves infected with a sexually transmitted parasite with mind-control powers and an array of disgusting side effects.”

TICKETS: https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-festival

https://youtu.be/SRbAC1NA_as?si=7BvqwmnoknXle6_4

FAT FLESHY FINGERS is a feature-length anthology film entirely by alumni of the BizaroLand Film Festival. The movie will have its world premiere in January 2...

10/16/2024

Thank you City Pulse for a great write-up 🎃

In a dimly lit theater, the last survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bonds in a reality show from hell.

10/16/2024

Watch the trailer for Joe Badon's unpredictable feature film, 'The Wheel of Heaven,' which is included in Block 2 of Pest Control Film Fest along with three equally eccentric shorts—and don't miss out on the full fest pass that grants access to all 12 films!

“A woman caught up in predatory relationships is thrown into a multi-layered world of choices after she discovers a mystical book in a thrift store.”

TICKETS: https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-festival

https://youtu.be/teqCiI8mbJw?si=J5ldrzmdXwxz3q0r

The Wheel of Heaven Coming Soon 2022! Directed by Joe Badon Written by Joe Badon and Jason Kruppa Cinematography by Daniel Waghorne Edited by Joseph Estrade ...

10/15/2024

Faustifilms ‘Burnt Flowers’ is one of twelve films screening at Pest Control Film Festival at Historic Howell Theater October 19th! Attend Block 1 (or rot in your seat with the full fest pass) to catch this and three other horror shorts!

“Following a visit from a mysterious femme fatale, detective Francis Alban finds herself embroiled in a missing persons case in which all is not what it seems. Past crimes, revenge and obsessive love collide in this haunting and surreal Horror-Noir.”

TICKETS: https://pestcontrolfilmcollective.com/film-festival

https://youtu.be/OD0Y-Zv7iCg?si=nxnn_6Tpno1XJppk

Following his audacious debut with the underground film hit “EXIT” in 2020, cult director Michael Fausti returns with his much anticipated second feature “BU...