Welcome to the Dahlhouse
Ruby has spent five years trapped in the grip of Michael, a manipulative abuser who thrives on control, fear, and isolation. What once resembled love has decayed into something far darker. When Michael forces her to join him and his friends for a night in a remote, abandoned barn, Ruby has no choice but to follow.
From the moment they arrive, the barn feels wrong. Its rotting walls and flickering lights seem to breathe with their dysfunction, mirroring the emotional prison Ruby has lived inside for years. As the night spirals into a haze of drugs, cruel games, and buried resentments, Ruby’s sense of reality begins to fracture. The house shifts and warps around her, blurring the line between memory, hallucination, and truth.
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Say Rape
Directed by Ashley Dahl, Say Rape is a raw, unflinching short documentary exploring how language, silence, and stigma shape the way survivors are heard or dismissed. Through personal narrative and stark visual minimalism, the film confronts a culture that too often protects perpetrators and silences truth.
Trip
Directed by Ashley Dahl, Trip is a disorienting descent into fear and control, following a woman caught in a manipulative night of drugs, obsession, and blurred reality. With pulsing red light and suffocating close-ups, the film traps viewers inside a psychological spiral they can’t easily escape.
The story behind Threshold
Directed by Mikayla Waskul, The Story Behind Threshold is an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the making of Threshold — from late-night rehearsals to the emotional heartbeat of the story. This short captures the creative energy, vulnerability, and vision of an independent horror film coming to life.
Mourning in America
Directed by Ashley Dahl. A typical Morning in America, Right?
about us
Dahlhouse Entertainment began as a response to the way horror has historically framed women’s pain without granting them perspective or power. As a filmmaker, Ashley Dahl noticed a recurring absence: stories that centered fear, but not the people living inside it.
The company grew from a desire to create horror that reflects lived experience: fear shaped by systems of control, bodies under scrutiny, and the emotional weight of survival. What started as a personal artistic practice evolved into a production company built around feminist storytelling and intentional collaboration.
Dahlhouse Entertainment was created to reclaim horror as a space for confrontation and agency. Our films do not exist to sanitize fear, but to examine it honestly, and to transform it into something deliberate, defiant, and deeply human.
ASHLEY DAHL, FOUNDER
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