In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Loneliness and an obsession with vanity have pushed one woman to take unconventional measures to find happiness. Symbols of birth, death and rebirth grace the film and asks the audience to ponder the question: How far would you go to turn back time?
The fever dream of a 1980s standup comic who is either having a nervous breakdown or having the best set of his life.
Fueled by coke, a desperate couple attempts to capitalize on an unlikely opportunity.
A lonely man battles with a tune that he just cannot get out of his head.
A musical murder story about two girls who are followed home by a cannibal. There the victims become the aggressors.
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.
In the Wild West, the mysterious Death Rider enters a dangerous Vampire Sanctuary. Price of admission? One female virgin... Musician Glenn Danzig, (Danzig, Misfits), reinvents himself as a filmmaker, delivering outrageous B-movie fun with his improved follow-up to “Verotika” (2019).
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
Roger Corman (1926 – 2024)
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!
The men of this planet must be so strong and cunning to survive these inhospitable conditions.
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.
Summer just got a lot shorter for 19 year old Raphael Tinski. It’s 2007 and the peak of emo-culture is in full swing. Raphael just got arrested by a psychotic cop. Raphael just fell in love with a girl at community service. Raphael might get blown up by nukes.
Fifteen minutes? That's enough time for a ride on the Bonetown Express!
Iguana tell you something...
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.
Deep in the Himalayas, a group of sherpas kills a gigantic humanoid creature. Convinced that it is the legendary Yeti, Dr. Claire Collier organises an expedition with her former student Matt Connor and hunter Rondo Montana, among others, to search for more specimens. But what awaits them is something that none of them could have imagined. A colourful fusion of real image and stop-motion that is reminiscent of fantastic films from the 1980s.
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.
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of many progressive groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are ostensibly dealt with by the government, and yet there are still problems with jobs, with gender issues, with governmental preference and violence.
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.
The Boogeybunny
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.
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.
Combat excites him...
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.
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. The film was an international triumph, but its star Bruce Lee died unexpectedly after the release, leaving the world without its new action superstar.
The Art of Self-Harm is an uncompromising and unflinching look at the art collective known as “White Gardenia”. A group of artists who explore their cathartic expressions through acts of blood drinking, self-mutilation, and other forms of paraphilia. This documentary takes an in-depth look at this group's body of work, as well as conducts detailed interviews with group members to understand the inspirations and motivations behind their art. A warning is in order about the explicit content, which might also be a recommendation to some.
Get ready to play a game of death … and another … and another ... with Enter the Clones of Bruce, a documentary exploring the Bruce Lee exploitation craze. After Lee’s death, look-alikes like Bruce Li, Bruce Le, and Dragon Lee filled the void. Director David Gregory masterfully pieces together this astonishing and humorous phenomenon.
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.
Let's have another look at those cobwebs.
When a mob target is eliminated, a cunning hood seizes the opportunity, retaining the incriminating list to extort its entries. But when the mob discovers his betrayal, they swiftly dispose of him, enraging his voluptuous girlfriend. Armed with determination and her feminine allure, she embarks on a vengeful pursuit, wielding the only two weapons at her disposal. This red and dirty 35mm print is brought to you by our friends from Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam.
A blaxploitation classic. Transported to Transylvania in the 18th century, an African prince undergoes a ghastly transformation into a vampire. Centuries later, he awakens in Los Angeles, thirsting for blood and ensnaring unsuspecting residents. Fate intervenes when he encounters Tina, a woman whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his long-lost wife. A tale of eternal love and nocturnal terror. We hope you like red as well, because the 16mm print surely is!
A mysterious stranger tells the twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers caught in a series of otherworldly events whose lives will change in incredible ways forever.
The follow-up to BUTT BOY (BUTTFF 2020) is an anthology of six stories of the weird and wicked that can be a challenge even to those that say they have a strange sense of humor.
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.
A motorcycle riding dog must compete with the Grim Reaper to save his soul.
An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down. With a special Egyptian menu, he tries trick an inquisitive suburban lady.
Part of our foodfilm program it is listed high on the eternal list of cult films. Back in the early sixties, there was nothing like it, and audiences were shocked by the extreme sickness and gore of the film. Audiences nowadays might raise an eyebrow at the portrayal of the sinister Egyptian shop owner and his overacting.
Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror collide in this unique dreamlike cinematic experience. Shot with vintage lenses and on 35 mm.
The film begins when a little girl has a terrible accident and slips into a coma where she finds herself thrust into a darkly surreal industrial dreamworld. Haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother’s radio-static voice to find her way back to consciousness.
A feature length documentary featuring interviews with collectors, film directors and VHS enthusiasts as they take a trip down memory lane and take us through their first experiences with the medium and what it meant to them.
Part of our VHS soiree speciale together with STRAIGHT TO VIDEO's presentation of TCM 2 and Video Shop Tales of Horror.
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After discovering a hidden stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms, Roscoe, a maintenance man for a seedy motel, follows a path of self-destruction through the alleyways of Chicago. Guided by visions of a giant floating Worm, he encounters Benny, a moped enthusiast trying to manifest a baby from an inanimate sex doll. Together, they fall in love with doing worms before embarking on a euphoric, hallucinatory odyssey of sex and violence.
Take all the drugs in the world, but stay away from those worms and caterpillars. Remember NAKED LUNCH?
Based on the terrifying true story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world.
In this new documentary about Negativland, the footage is almost entirely made by the people who are in it. Plunderphonics is the name given to the genre by the band that named itself after the song by CAN. Media attention rose after the band made an unauthorized cover of a U2 song. Over The Edge live radio broadcasts, and news footage, and occasional interviews from the era. The format follows the footage: a continuous loop of time backward and forward, sometimes repeating.
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.
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...