The official trailer has been released for The Complete Howard French Course, a supernatural horror film from director Gustavo Sampaio, and the title alone sounds like something you'd find gathering dust on a shelf in a second-hand video shop.
Paul Parducci stars as Howard French, an instructor whose lessons on enlightenment were recorded on an old 1980s video course. The film starts with four young people picking up the tapes in a used bookstore, before settling in to watch Howard's rather unusual teaching programme, The Framework to Truly See. Parducci also wrote the film, so he's responsible for bringing this particular self-help nightmare to life.
Sampaio has already taken the film around quite a few festivals, including the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival, Fango Fest in Spain, Toronto Indie Horror Film Festival and the BUT Film Festival in the Netherlands. It also picked up Best Supernatural Feature at the 2026 New York Sci-Fi Film Festival, adding another award to its run.
Lara-Olivia Scott, Paula Velasquez, Gabriel Ramirez, Will Smart and William Utay also appear, with Sampaio taking on editing duties alongside directing. David Parks handled cinematography and Nga Weng Chio composed the score.
California Pictures is handling distribution, but there's no wider release date just yet. For now, the trailer is the best look at what Howard French has been teaching all these years.
The Complete Howard French Course on IMDb.