Cathedral Hill Productions: A Decade of DIY Weirdness, Halloween, and Cult Cinema

Friday, October 17 • 7:30 PM
The Historic Market Hall 

What started as a joke in a Peterborough living room has mutated into a full-blown Halloween tradition. For ten years now, Cathedral Hill Productions has been rolling out short films that are equal parts bizarre, hilarious, and oddly poignant—earning film fest cred while staying rooted in community mischief.

This is no slick Hollywood machine—it’s a scrappy collective of artists, friends, and co-conspirators who thrive on the absurd. One year, Peterborough was overrun by demons who only possessed people from the waist down (LHP: Understanding Lower Half Possession). Another year, the streets were haunted by Schnitzelback—a one-man, polka-fueled Nickelback cover act that somehow snagged Best Canadian Film at the 2022 Canadian International Comedy Film Fest.

Now, with Mr. Possibility set to premiere, director Matt Snell isn’t just serving up another dose of gonzo comedy—he’s asking the bigger questions. What does it all mean? How do you measure a decade of DIY filmmaking where the joke is the seed, but the heart is the harvest?

Taken together, these films are a time capsule of Peterborough’s offbeat spirit—a patchwork of community, creativity, and late-night “what if?” conversations brought to life. They’re scrappy, surreal, and defiantly homegrown. In other words: the cult classics you didn’t know you needed.

Ticket Prices: $25.00