Films 2020
#ShakespearesShitstorm
UK PREMIERE
The Opioid Epidemic is destroying America. Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman celebrates Troma’s 45th and his 50th year making movies, by taking on Big Pharma, addiction and the intolerance of social media in #ShakespearesShitstorm. This irreverent…
12 Hour Shift
It's 1999 and over the course of one 12-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black-market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their…
Anything for Jackson
After losing their only grandson in a car accident, a grief-stricken doctor and his wife kidnap a pregnant patient with the intentions of performing a ‘Reverse Exorcism’, putting Jackson inside her unborn child. It doesn’t…
Bleed with Me
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Rowan, a vulnerable outsider, is thrilled when the seemingly perfect Emily invites her on a winter getaway to an isolated cabin in the woods. Trust soon turns to paranoia when Rowan wakes up with mysterious…
Blood Harvest: The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
In an idyllic 1873 American Protestant village times are harsh and the grass is always greener on the other side. As the village suffers, one woman prospers and there are grumblings that she may be…
Come True
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Dark dreams plague Sarah, a thoughtful and rebellious young woman. These are all hard things to be at the age of 18, and she’s in trouble at school and unable to go home. With nowhere…
Detention
Taiwan 1962: a sense of desolation and tension permeate society. Fang, a troubled high school student, falls in love with Zhang, her teacher, who hosts an illicit study group in his search for freedom. Reading…
History of the Occult
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It’s the final broadcast of ‘60 Minutes to Midnight’, the most famous journalism show on TV. Tonight’s guest is Adrian Marcato, who might expose a conspiracy that links the Government with an actual Coven. Meanwhile,…
In the Land of Franco
UK PREMIERE
We’re pleased to screen Franco’s classic alongside the brand new feature length documentary from Severin Films, exploring some of Franco’s best-loved and most recognisable locations in Portugal and Spain. Fronted by Stephen Thrower, and featuring…
Kriya
Neel, a DJ, encounters the ravishing Sitara while work at a club one night and is instantly transfixed by her. They go back to Sitara’s place where Neel is horrified to find the gagged and…
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, Leap of Faith explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that…
Relic
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover…
She Killed in Ecstasy
For his follow-up to Vampyros Lesbos, writer/director Jess Franco delivered perhaps his most twisted shocker of the 70s. In what fans and critics consider to be her greatest role, Soledad Miranda stars as the vengeful…
Tales of the Uncanny: The Ultimate Survey of the Anthology Film
WORLD PREMIERE
What began as a modest Bonus Feature for the Special Edition Blu-ray of THE THEATRE BIZARRE became – when Covid hit – an international Zoom-enabled feature-length documentary on the evolution, challenges and all-time Top 5…
The Cemetery of Lost Souls
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano’s dark book, a Jesuit and his followers begins a reign of terror in colonial Brazil, until they are cursed to live forever trapped under cemetery tombs. Nowadays, centuries later,…
The Reckoning
It is 1665, and the plague sweeps across England leaving panic and desperation in its wake. The righteous Judge John Moorcroft scours the land for the witches who have aided the devil in raising this…
The Returned
South America, 1919. The indigenous peoples of the Guarani tribe have either fled, been exterminated or reduced to servitude. Julia, the wife of a landowner, gives birth to her third dead child. Desperate, she begs…
The Witch of King's Cross
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In 1950s Sydney, bohemian artist Rosaleen Norton hits the headlines with allegations of satanic rituals, obscene art and sex orgies. Eventually the relentless scandals lead to the downfall of her famous high society lover. Told…
Who Saw Her Die
When Franco loses his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer he sets off on an unnerving journey of retribution that will bring him to the very edge of his sanity and quite possibly his life…
