Starting this Friday, November 17-19, more than 500 theaters nationwide will be hosting the After Dark Horror Fest. The horror fest will feature eight films premiering throughout each day. with encores of audience favorites playing on November 20-21. The movies include a variety of independent horror films:

Unrest leaves a med student exhausted over finding truth behind an unexplained death.

Penny Dreadful retreats with her psychologist in hopes of making sense of her car phobia; however, she finds herself in a frightening position.

In The Gravedancers, a group of friends memorialize an old friend with three antagonistic ghosts.

The Hamilton?s are a perfect American family taking part in the community as respectful citizens, who just happen to kill their neighbors.

Reincarnation (Rinne) is a suspenseful psychological horror film from the director of The Grudge.

A killer escapes a mental institution after viciously murdering two girls, to return to his territory -- a theme park attraction, Dark Ride.

The Abandoned tells the strange story of a film producer, adopted as a baby and sent to America, who returns home to find strange happenings at her family farm in native Russia.

A widow and her two daughters move to a remote mountain home inherited from the family of her late husband in Wicked Little Things.

Check www.horrorfestonline.com for show times and locations.