Horror

Abandoned by the world, a man suffers the grotesque and disturbing consequences of the past during his final days on earth.

In a not-too-distant future, the last remaining man tries to find a cure for the disease that wiped out humanity and start a new form of life. But things aren’t that easy, as he also suffers from the disease which destroys his mental and physical health.

As long as humanity exists, there’s a desire for eternal life. Many religions promise to give that, but all they offer are only empty promises. Only “The Dark Forces” really offer the opportunity to get eternal life. “The Dark Forces” will help you. Go and find the old well with the witch-mark. Find a victim. The victim must die an extremely violent death in the house the well is in. Bring a blood-sacrifice to the well, blood, lots of blood. Descend into the well and on the other side of it you will become, with the help from “The Dark Forces” an eternal heavenly life.

On a small island in the Florida Everglades, a DEA agent and a local sheriff gather a team of locals to take down a giant meth-fueled alligator. The Asylum meets “Cocaine Bear” (2023). Stop flushing your meth!

Traces a family of murderous sideshow performers as they travel around the world on the dying carnival circuit. From the Adams family and Toby Poser — “Hellbender” (2021) shown at BUTFF 2022 — we will screen this highly original horror film.

A dangerous virus turns everyone into zombies, except people with Down syndrome. A group of unlikely heroes undertake a dangerous trip to rescue their missing friend. Funny and wholesome take on the zombie genre with one or two familiar faces of the BUTFF crew.

A crazy projectionist is haunted by spirits from the age of analogue film

A man is surprised by the arrival of a meteorite in his room.

Jake Wilcox grows cannabis for the notorious steam-punk gangster, Mr. P. When the entire crop is burnt, Jake goes on the run with his accomplices, Tony and Dominic. They are quickly captured and drawn into a dark world of ritualistic murder, rune magic, and an evil cult of vampires. Will they survive until sunrise? Screening in the presence of director Kieran Edwards.

A man uses nose spray excessively in an attempt cure his runny nose. But as his nasal congestion continues to worsen, the evening quickly turns into horrid chaos.

A dancer's shift in a dive bar takes an unexpected turn.

Sandy is grievously forced to break it off with the boy of her dreams in order to avert him from meeting her unusual parents.

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become “free-fire zones”, into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides “tactical education units”. These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems.

Chased by knife hand, a paper boy realizes his nightmare is the same as his hope.

A multitude of guests visit the same cheap Tokyo airbnb at different times, unaware of the gruesome creature waiting for them.

There are certain protocols to follow for Close Encounters Five. As long as you follow them and follow them step by step you can have an effective experience.

After suffering the loss of a child, Alex and her husband Petri decide to take a much-needed holiday. Once they've touched down in the seaside city of Oxnard, they are spirited to a gorgeous beachfront bed & breakfast where they are welcomed by the charming if enigmatic host.

You'll never slice a tomato the same way again.

Horror slasher film with gore and ’80s homage. Blood, violence, and a killer on the loose in a small town. Pain is temporary, halloween is forever. Selected by Black Lava distribution in combination with “Des Töchterleins Leid”.

Set in an otherworldly human existence, scientist Sterling Pierce dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named ‘Divinity’. Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father's once-benevolent dream. Society on this barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery.

In 1996, two brothers go over the top to reach satisfaction from their interactive television. Worst nightmare or dream come true?

Tirana 1997. The chaos left by the fall of communism has opened the doors to a bloody civil war. Matia, just a teenager, is harassed by his playmates. In an attempt to escape, he hides inside an abandoned bunker. In that spooky building, Matia will be the first to discover something scary and unthinkable that will change his whole life… Screening in presence of Italian director Alex Visani.

Alex, a guy who lives in a desolate country place. He’s surrounded by rough and violent people and every day they don’t miss an opportunity to torment him. But inside Alex there is something wrong, something that pushes to get out. Something that is bloodthirsty.

Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. Screening in presence of Italian director Alex Visani.

A special roadshow 35mm presentation in Technicolor with an introduction by our projectionist!

There will also be an intermission.

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite – using stolen Western technology – malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

Fake trailers parody of exploitation cinema (Hong Kong Category III, Zombie, Splatter, Nazisploitation & Vomit gore). These are 5 fake trailers assembled into a single video.

Renowned oneirologist Ambrose London [Edward Furlong] is requested to Arkham Asylum by newly appointed Dr. Barnard [Susan Priver] to study the strange case of James Fhelleps [Robert Miano]. He’s a patient seemingly inhabited by the personality of Joe Slater, a denizen of the Catskill Mountains region–a primitive colonial peasant of barbaric degeneracy, who had mysteriously vanished 122 years ago. Ambrose and Barnard’s investigation takes an unexpected turn when Fhelleps/Slater is attached to London’s ‘Dream Machine,’ which releases an alien life form bent on world annihilation.

A loner artist, exiled from the art community for creating a sculpture deemed too offensive, embarks on a bizarre odyssey of art, flesh, decomposition, and spiritual ascension. Vexanthrone details the mental and physical difficulties of the creative process in an experimental and surreal fashion that mixes arthouse sensibilities with gross-out body horror.

The call of the Matinta brings bad luck.

Don't you know the meaning of "No Trespassing"?

Two gay men, one cis and one trans, clash at a nightclub glory hole when one tries to castrate the man he believes raped him.

Meet Axel Falcon, a dedicated cop determined to cleanse the streets from murder and corruption. But tragedy strikes when his family is brutally taken from him. With nothing left to lose, Axel embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance, following the enigmatic clues left behind by an unknown assassin.

When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy. Together they fight the deadly sea monsters with everything nice about Greece: sirtaki, retsina and delicious seafood.

The movie all about robbing graves to make drugs from the brains of the dead!

Jason Allman is pushing against the government and their illegal monster fights and heart collection. Can he stop the cruelty done to the monsters and bring an end to the slaughter in the streets. Find out!
The Black Heart Collectors Club is Box Creep Films most ambitious movie yet. With Loads of blood and gore, stop motion monster fights, and stunt work, this is a 45 min film you wont wanna miss!

In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him. With introduction by Lovecraft connoisseur and writer Vanessa Morgan.

A new horror anthology featuring frightening films, toxic trailers, and creepy commercials! Trashy film by Lucky Cerruti, to whose next film “Boxcutter” the festival will contribute via crowdfunding. What a lucky guy!

A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.

Martha and Félix are children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. While Martha lives an unstable life riddled with insecurities, her brother, crushed by the family legacy, takes over their father’s killings. Harassed and violently assaulted at work, Martha falls into madness and goes through the looking glass into the strange and terrifying world inhabited by her brother.

From 1996 until today, 33 violent murders are perpetrated during the Halloween period in Belgium by a serial killer who calls himself "the clown". We are on the eve of Halloween. Vincent hates this party and for good reason: his father committed suicide during this period. That morning, he receives a call from his friend Alice to babysit her cats because she has to be away for a few days. On the way, he realizes that he is being chased by a strange, masked man. Very quickly, he realizes that this stranger covered in a clown mask is prowling around Alice's place, determined to enter.

David Stojan is the name! Last year we showed two of his films, this year he made a new challenging atrocity: A deranged loner only known by his online alias "Webmaster" spends his days and nights operating an international sex trafficking ring on the dark web known as "Lolita Slave Dolls", where kidnapped victims have gruesome operations performed on them and are then sold to customers to be used to fulfill their most depraved desires. For his next operation, he enlists a group of corrupt and sadistic doctors to torture, degrade and humiliate a new victim at the behest of a customer.

The (stand-alone) sequel to the 2016 film takes place three years later and follows our final girl Michelle who is now in college. However, she is still plagued with the question of what truly happened after a night of terror that left her friends missing. This years annual haunted house thrown by the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi is forced off campus, but thankfully the ban on Halloween has been lifted by the town mayor. Unfortunately for Michelle, some uninvited trick-or-treaters from her past come knocking... 

Doug Bradley & Lloyd Kaufman in small roles.

In a Dystopian Future, A mysterious nurse tries to repair the neural system of a sick android by transferring five repair files. Each file corresponds to a terrifying story where technology dominates humanity in different ways. Screened with director Davide Pesca present.

After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.

First of our pooh-spoofs, made possible by the expiring of copyright of the original. Bambi and Peter-Pan are next. What might they look like as slashers?

Visualization of the new album of MATER SUSPIRIA VISION, released March 1st on https://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com. In a space ritual, a girl is controlled by a mysterious woman, caged between visions, vampires and morbid rituals.
An experimental art film with support of Super 8 and artificial intelligence by Cosmotropia de Xam.

Based on the terrifying true story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world.

Vengeance lies upon the snowy mountains of Norway when the unhinged Ask E. Laedden returns to his cabin 15 years after the spine-chilling night that scarred him for life.