UK
Scum
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s that leads to spiral of violence and prison revolt. Director Alan Clarke was given the chance to remake his 1977 version by the BBC two years later. Little did he hesitate to add a lot of violence and mental abuse to denounce the British justice system, much to the shock of the BBC.
The Visitor
A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they are able to redefine themselves in new, radical ways.
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing coloured balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.
Axel Falcon
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.
Eating Miss Campbell
A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.
A Troma released film that brings together all the funny gore and edgy humor you were craving for. And it has Lloyd Kaufman in yet another cameo, but most of all, Laurence R. Harvey plays a major role as supporting actor as the school headmaster. Join us in this special screening introduced by the headmaster himself. Oh, you behave!
Eat the Rich
Alex (Al Pillay) is a disgruntled server at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex and cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karpov (Dave Beard) and Spider (Lemmy) plot to involve the inept anarchists in their plans to derail the Prime-Minister-to-be's campaign.
In this Cult classic par excellence, The Pogues and Motorhead team up for 90 minutes of complete madness. As if a Young Ones episode turns into a full-length feature.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
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?
Video Shop Tales of Terror
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.
All You Can Eat
Are you eating it, or is it eating you?
FEED ME
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
Dark Encounter
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family.
Benny loves you
After the accidental death of his parents, Jack must sell his family home and start a new life. Cleaning out the house, Jack trashes his family belongings including his beloved childhood stuffed animal, Benny. It’s a move that turns deadly as Benny springs to life with one goal in mind, protect Jack at all cost!
Floor-filling comedy horror with an evil scorned teddy bear that brings together bloody mayhem and British black humor.
Speed
First impressions are so important.
A dark Song
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want. The ritual performed in the movie is the Abramelin Operation, an occult rite attempted by gnostics such as Alleister Crowley, meant to obtain "the knowledge and conversation" of the ritualist's guardian angel. Great Irish indy horror that somehow missed out on a festival run or theatrical release in our country.
Introduction by Theodoor Steen, film journalist of Schokkend Nieuws magazine
A Midwinter Night's Dream
Every year on Midwinter’s Eve in a centuries old ritual, the Sunstone must be returned to the Yew Tree Goddess or the Darkness will last forever. The Yew Tree is ancient, it is mystical, magical and poisonous. Young Morrigan doesn’t want to do it, but her mother and the Vicar insist.
This film was shot in one take, no edits, no cuts, no cheats!
Thelema
A visual representation of Aleister Crowley's magick filmed at various locations including the Hellfire Caves and Marrakesh
White Chamber
In the near future civil war rages in The United Kingdom. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated functionality, her captor tortures her for information; information she claims not to have - or does she?
Skilfully playing with the spectators expectations Paul Rachid's third film somehow reminds of a Vincenzo Natali movie (Cube, Nothing), but with a more relevant and contemporary approach, raising questions about the perception of truth and reality, and the use of interrogation methods.
Claustrofobia short: CONTROL
Habit
Michael, who spends most of his time in the pub, gets sucked into the seedy underbelly of Manchester. He discovers a frightening yet irresistible world: weird, addictive and full of violence, drugs and neon.
Smear
SMEAR is a lube-tastic horror-comedy inspired by Gremlins, Tremors and Little Shop of Horrors, about a woman going in for her first pap-smear test.
Queerama
The history of British gay culture in the last century, as told by found footage consisting of news footage, feature films and everything in between. The soundtrack is full of counterculture queer(-friendly) dance artists like Alison Goldfrapp, Hercules & Love Affair and John Grant.
Sunscapades
Happy-go-lucky triplets Lily, Milly and Billy are looking forward to a day at the beach, but their grumpy ol' dad won't let them have any fun. Time to make some mischief!
Spidarlings
Two lesbian, vegan anarcho-punk roommates are in a battle with their landlord and get obsessed by their arachnid pet. A musical comedy with an anarchistic streak, and songs that will stick in your head long after the screening.
Night of the Virgin, The
In this horror-comedy, at a New Year’s Eve party, Nico, a naive twenty year old, sets out ready to lose his virginity at all costs that same night. In the middle of the party, his gaze crosses Medea, a cunning and attractive mature woman.
Our Evil
What begins as a dark horror movie about a murderer for hire gets an unexpected twist. The murderer, not a very nice person, gets in over his head when one hit for hire has hints of the supernatural. Will he escape with his life and soul intact? Clever and twisted genre-mash up from Brazil.
Replace
A young woman gets a disease where her skin literally decays of her body. There is a cure: skin of other people. Sci-fi horror with a screenplay by Richard Stanley, and a marvelous role for scream queen Barbara Crampton as the main antagonist.