Horror

Anthology by these directors: Alexander Churchyard, Michael Fausti, Tom Lee Rutter, Sam Mason Bell, MJ Dixon, Andrew Elias, Geoff Harmer, Tony Mardon

A sinister video shop holds the key to a collection of terrifying VHS related tales, told by a collective of the best UK indie horror filmmakers including MJ Dixon (Pandamonium), Michael Fausti (Exit), Andrew Elias (The Numbers), Tom Lee Rutter (Day of the Stranger), Sam Mason Bell (The Millenial Killer) & Alexander Churchyard (The Allotment). With fake trailers from Tony Mardon & Geoff Harmer.

Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.

When society breaks down due to a violent outbreak that turns victims into undead monsters, a former elite soldier breaks out of jail to find his family.

Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle.

Blood-on-the-boobs film with many playboy girls, as if Hugh Heffner and Russ Meyer teamed up.

An Interpol cop from Sydney, who has his own demons, pursues a man in the United States who liberates women from the cultural norms of thinness by feeding them to gross weights. He also shows their photographs to Internet subscribers. But what else is he up to? The Aussie suspects murder or worse. The cop, Phillip Jackson, and his mark, Michael Metszencalmpf, are in a game of cat and mouse - but which is the cat?

A twisted love story or a filthy thriller between a feeder and a gainer.

It’s delicious, low in calories and – better still – doesn’t stain the family carpet… What’s not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria… Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in fact he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird...

Overweight teenager Simi spends the Easter holidays at the farm of her aunt Claudia and her family. She wants her aunt, a professional nutrition coach, to help her lose weight, but has to realize more and more that things on the farm are not above board. Who can Simi really trust on this farm?

Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she'll soon wish she'd stayed on her usual tracks.

Three inept hunters search the woods for the legendary Sexy Bigfoot... but bloody mayhem ensues when they instead capture an angry catgirl!

In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Heidi lives the pure and simple life in the Swiss Alps. Grandfather Alpöhi does his best to protect Heidi, but her yearning for freedom soon gets her into trouble with the dictator’s henchmen. The innocent girl transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from the insane cheese fascists.

Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable. Over the top Horror Comedy

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

A young couple who has been trying desperately to have a baby seek an alternative solution to their problem. Unable to afford regular surgery, they agree to have their unorthodox procedure steamed live, which includes the demise of an organ donor. Soon after their lives delve deep into the underground world of snuff films and Red Rooms.

Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. Her first class will turn in a real hell.

A mute noblewoman’s vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers.

After a seemingly drunken evening, Charlotte wakes up in the middle of the night on her bed. While she has no memory of the past few hours, she hears her co-tenant being violently attacked in her room. Unable to rescue her, Charlotte finds herself alone with the intruder. The latter accuses him of having stolen his most precious possession. To stay alive, Chartlotte will have to identify the object in question, and above all, remember the misdeeds of which she seems accused.

Two hours before Karim and Dan are going on a trip to Argentina, Dan leaves their apartment and disappears without any trace...

 A morbid mystery unfolds when an ex-inmate starts his new job in a shady car repair shop.

5-year-old Alex Borden is handsome, charming, and intelligent. In fact, he may be too smart for his own good, as his life is swiftly becoming a living hell. Alex's nightmare begins when he meets Harry, a mysterious artist and chess-master. Alex becomes alarmed when his intellect mysteriously begins to grow, and so do the horrors that invade his nightmares--and soon his waking hours. Long-suppressed memories surface and Alex must face the terrors of his violent past, a vanished older brother, a father who abandoned both his sons, and a mother who was viciously murdered.

Mother wakes up in the middle of the night due to the noises coming from her daughter's room. When she gets there, her daughter is not behaving normally.

A French couple of artists.
She has no inspiration.
He has.
She wants it.

Hotel Poseidon volgt 24 uur in het leven van Dave (Tom Vermeir), een uitgebluste veertiger die in het bouwvallige hotel van zijn overleden vader woont. Hij vult er zijn dagen met luisteren naar ruis op een oude walkman, het ontlopen van zijn dominante moeder (Tania Van der Sanden) en het incasseren van vernederingen door zijn vriendin (Ruth Becquart). Dave wil liefst met rust worden gelaten... maar de komst van een mysterieuze gast (Anneke Sluiters) en een onbetrouwbare vriend (Dominique Van Malder) zet een reeks magische en surreële gebeurtenissen in gang...

A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures. A hundred years after Chaplin filmed his first feature film, The Kid, Norbert Pfaffenbichler offers an experimental punk-style interpretation, which the filmmaker himself has defined as a dystopian slapstick film.

There is a lonely cabin in the woods. There are two human species inside. One of them is dead. And another one... well, not anymore. What happened there?

"Half Neon, Half Demon, All Horror"

A mother and her daughter live a life almost in seclusion in a mountainous area of the United States. The adolescent Izzy only has as a friend, her mother, a woman full of secrets with whom she shares a primitive rock band. The mother does not want people to come near daughter, but Izzy manages to escape to the city several times. There she will discover that her family has a past related to witchcraft. International festival hit that might be the horror film sensation of the year!

In a city ruled by the underworld, a religious fanatic teenager is kidnapped by a gang of vampires and taken to a cursed land.

Raised by wolves, the vulnerable last survivor of a cannibalistic tribe bathes wounded in a river somewhere in the lush woods of Northeast Coast, where she used to roam free. In the eyes of misogynistic lawyer Chris, the naked beast-like savage seems to be the perfect trophy for his home; however, is there a place for a feral, flesh-eating primitive among civilized people?' An alternative take on the female revenge genre from a book by Jack Ketchum with a feral woman, starring Pollyanna McIntosh. The sequel DARLIN' has already premiered at BUTFF in 2020.

When a gang leader retires, the leader of a rival gang arranges the murder of his girlfriend and merges the two formerly opposing gangs. The former gang leader wreaks havoc on the newly unified group as he seeks revenge.

A group of filmmakers realizes that their surroundings is way more horrifying than the horror film they're trying to write. Kasper Juhl (Your Flesh, Your Curse/Madness of Many) returns to our festival with his newest shocker, combined with his short film KAKERLAK (27 min).

Four young women ride together in the remote countryside of La Plata. On the way, they witness a crime. A local gang of trash shot a girl and left her for dead. The friends drag the victim into their car and rush to the nearest police station. When they reach a village, the girl has bled to death and they want to make a statement. When the leader of the gang walks in, they discover to their dismay that he is the boss of the local police. With the foot on the accelerator, the girls drive away as quickly as possible. However, the gang manages to overtake them and get stuck.

An entomologist finds a way to fulfill his ultimate desire.

For three years, James (Harry Shum Jr.) has been haunted by his wife’s sudden and inexplicable disappearance. His best distraction is work—specifically, archiving old videos. While watching decade-aged TV news footage one night, he sees a video interference that’s deeply disturbing. And it’s not the only interference he’ll see. As his obsession over these strange clips increases, and he submerges himself into their mysteries, James discovers troubling connections to his missing wife. Based on actual, but never resolved hacks. Was it a serial killer releasing information?

A man is driving at night when he notices a refrigerator. He walks near it and then is taken to an unknown place by the refrigerator, which ...

“Their idea of fun is killer!“

Een onderhoudsmedewerker werkt in een vreemd attractiepark en komt daarbij plots in een levende nachtmerrie terecht. Als de poppen in het attractiepark tot leven komen, moet hij voor zijn eigen leven vechten door alle monsters te verslaan om de ochtend te halen en zo uit het park te kunnen ontsnappen.

The Virgin Spring of Dracula - an experimental approach to vampirism rituals. The vampires need the blood of a virgin to reincarnate the force of the virgin spring. This movie was filmed on original filming locations of Nosferatu (1979, Werner Herzog) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) Phenomena (1985, Dario Argento) Lucifer Rising (1972/1980, Kenneth Anger) Les Demoniaques (1974, Jean Rollin) Malpertuis (1971, Harry Kümel) Daughters of Darkness (1971, Harry Kümel) and was built on the cosmic spirit of these places.

A man wakes up in a tank, with arms and legs amputed. A story of suffering, curse, gore, souls and demons...

Bloodthirsty fashionistas, body parts, and plastic all collide in this explosion of the senses. Dystopia is visually arresting and full of surprises - expect an unforgivable filmic experience.

On her last day of work, a drama student at the theater is targeted by a crazed killer.

After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother.....

A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.

After the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. They become the prey of a deadly creature.

Get ready for shellshock! It’s the ZOMBEAVERS meets GODZILLA hybrid you always craved in the creature feature comedy horror of the year

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back....

Post-war Europe is destroyed by an experimental weapon with a deadly substance. 76% of the population has been exterminated. Most of it has been evacuated, and only a few have remained, including Norah (Dorien Rose Duinker) who is looking for Salina, who has been kidnapped by the psychopathic cannibal Dennis (dikke Dennis). Then Norah meets the mysterious Leonid. What follows is a dangerous search in the ruins of The Norah Zone....

What happens after the movie is over?

A serial killer is in San Francisco, looking for new victims.

A BAROQUE HOUSE has been on our festival radar for years, we are glad to finally present their latest release, although new stuff might already on the way from the ever productive SAM HEL.

Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes tells the story of a disruptive couple in a '60s gothic setting. Margot (Luisa Taraz) has inherited a castle, which is visited by her husband Dieter (played superbly by Frederik von Lüttichau). The first half skillfully delivers a psychodrama of this toxic relationship, amid the surreal castle where space and time seem to have their own rules. This summary does not even describe a small fraction of the sensation this film brings about: visual ecstasy, confusion and disorientation, but also a captivating experience you will not be able to recapitulate.

Telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.

JACINTO is a nine-year-old child trapped in the body of a man near his forties. He lives in Mallou, a decaying and abandoned small village in the middle of the mountains, along with his parents and his dearest pig, Martiño. It's been a long time since the last time he spoke. Something happened when he was a child that shut him up for good. Jacinto spends his days playing in the woods, going to church on Sundays, watching old vampire movies and visiting his secret spot: an abandoned Seat 127 hidden in the mountain. His mother, Maruja, adores him and makes sure he has everything he needs.