Writers and directors Julia Kern and Michael Prieto talk about their disturbing new horror short film **MARGE**, starring Rachel Matthews (Happy Death Day), Liv Davenport and Devon Ross.

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Making its WORLD PREMIERE at Beyond Fest 2026 and an Official Selection of the 2026 Woodstock Film Festival, MARGE explores motherhood, inherited trauma, family secrets and the terrifying possibility of becoming your own mother.

**ABOUT MARGE:**

Sadie is a twenty-something woman who has just discovered she's pregnant. The news forces her to confront a horrifying childhood memory.

One seemingly ordinary summer evening, ten-year-old Sadie hears strange sounds coming from a baby monitor. When her mother Marge disappears into the basement, Sadie finally opens the one door she's always been forbidden to enter.

What she discovers changes everything.

Her mother was a serial killer.

Years later, facing motherhood herself, Sadie begins to understand Marge in ways she never imagined.

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