Films 2018
Abrakadabra
‘Dante, The Great’, a prestigious magician, accidentally dies during a risky magic trick. Thirty-five years later his son Lorenzo, also a magician, presents a magic show in one of the most important theatres in the…
Anna and the Apocalypse
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her high school friends to fight, sing and slash their way to survival with a fast-spreading undead horde…
Assassination Nation
High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from…
Bloody Moon
At the International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages on the glamourous Costa del Sol the staff are salacious and the students ripe for the picking from the crazed killer that walks among them. Who’d have…
Blue My Mind
15-year-old Mia, and the parents she’s long felt distant from, move to the suburbs of Zürich. While Mia plunges into a wild teenager's existence in an attempt to cope with this estrangement, her body begins…
Cam
Alice (Madeline Brewer), an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself. As this copy begins to push the boundaries of Alice's online…
Friday the 13th
While setting up for another summer at the newly reopened Camp Crystal Lake, a team of young camp councillors are terrorised by an unseen assailant – could it have anything to do with the little…
Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D
Chris and her friends travel for a weekend getaway at Higgins Haven, her old home on Crystal Lake. Once there – following an altercation with a biker gang – Chris confides in her boyfriend Rick…
In Fabric
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to…
My Bloody Valentine
In a small Canadian mining town, the Valentine’s Day Dance is revived, the town having long forgotten about the fatal tragedy and violent revenge that occurred years earlier as a result of the dance. Needless…
Occult Bolshevism
UK PREMIERE
A group of people gather in an abandoned factory in order to take part in a forbidden psychic experiment. Occult Bolshevism is a pared-back, bare-bones chiller centred entirely around an extended séance. Deliberately paced and…
One Cut of the Dead
The film opens in a run-down, abandoned warehouse where a film crew are making a zombie movie – and yet, this is no ordinary warehouse. It’s been said that it’s a site where military experiments…
Party Hard, Die Young
UK PREMIERE
Finally graduated and off to Croatia, it’s supposed to be the party of their lives - but for Julia and her friends their graduation trip turns into a nightmare as one by one they’re picked…
Piercing
Reed says goodbye to his wife Mona and claims to be taking off on a business trip, but instead checks into a hotel with the intent to kill an unsuspecting victim. When he’s confronted with…
Prom Night
It’s the highlight of the year at high school – prom! But for Kim and her brother Alex, prom coincides with the death of their sister 6 years earlier. Could it be that her killer…
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up for auction at a convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time. What’s really…
Silent Shorts: Vol. IV
WORLD PREMIERE With Live Piano Accompaniment by Paul Shallcross
Once again, we’ve teamed up with the wonderful silent film pianist Paul Shallcross to mine the seemingly inexhaustible realms of Silent Horror to produce a programme featuring the best of the malevolent and macabre from…
Sleepaway Camp
It’s young Angela Baker’s first time at summer camp. The shy girl is terrorised by her camp-mates, but things are about to get worse for everyone as staff and kids start dying, and the deaths…
Summer of 84
Summer, 1984: The perfect time to be 15 years old and free. But when neighbourhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbour might be the serial killer all over the local…
The Black Forest
UK PREMIERE
In a forest based in the heart of Brazil, a girl sees her life – and everyone’s around her – change terribly, when she finds the Lost Book of Cypriano, whose Dark Magic, besides bestowing…
The Last House on the Left
Mari is turning 17 and to celebrate she heads to the city with her friend Phyllis to a rock concert. But their night of celebration becomes an ordeal after they are captured, tortured and killed…
The Last Man On Earth
+ live soundtrack by Animat
This 1964 post-apocalyptic horror fantasy stars Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan, the one man apparently immune to a virus that has killed 90% of the earth’s population and transformed the survivors into vampire-like creatures.…
The Nurse with the Purple Hair
When Sean met Michelle at Fan Expo in Toronto he was captivated by her stories about hospice. Their conversation led to this documentary. The film honours hospice professionals and the mind-body-spirit services they provide. The…
The Slumber Party Massacre
18-year old Trish’s parents are away for the weekend, so she invites three of her best friends from the high school girls’ basketball team over for a slumber party. While their boyfriends try to sneak…
The Tokoloshe
Busi, a destitute young woman crippled by suppressed emotions, is desperate to live on her own terms. Taking on a new job, she has to save the life of a young girl in a world…
Tumbbad
India, 19th century: on the outskirts of a decrepit village, Tumbbad lives Vinayak, the stubborn, conniving bastard son of the village lord, obsessed with a mythical ancestral treasure. He suspects the secret lies with his…
