The full line-up for this years festival has now been announced:
THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER
7.30PM - ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE + Q&A // Dir. John McPhail
10PM - NIGHTMARE CINEMA // Dirs. Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugués, Ryûhei Kitamura & David Slade
FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER
2.15PM - THE WHITE REINDEER // Dir. Erik Blomberg
3.45PM - PIERCING // Dir. Nicolas Pesce
6.15PM - NIGHTSHOOTERS + Q&A // Dir. Marc Price
8.30PM - PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH // Dirs. Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund
10.30PM - MANDY // Dir. Panos Costamos
SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER
12PM - ONE CUT OF THE DEAD // Dir. Shin'inchiro Ueda
2PM - PROSPECT - UK Premiere // Dirs. Chris Caldwell & Zeek Earl
4PM - NUMBER 37 - UK Premiere // Dir. Nosipho Dumisa
6.45PM - SHORT FILM SHOWCASE // Dirs. Various
AND THE BABY SCREAMED
Dir. Dan Gitsham Duration: 3’29, Country: UK - A father tries to put his baby to sleep
CATCALLS
Dir. Kate Dolan Duration: 8’39, Country: Ireland - Paul cruises around
late at night, looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions, only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately for him, he has picked the wrong girls. These girls are also out hunting tonight.
COYOTE
Dir. Lorenz Wunderle Duration: 9’55, Country: Switzerland - A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack of wolfs. Anguished from human emotions, he‘s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.
CRYING BITCH
Dir. Reiki Tsuno Duration: 14’25, Country: Japan, with English Subtitles - A man, who is having an affair with a young woman, gets home late as usual. But that night, he finds something wrong with his wife Satomi.
DICK AND STEWART: I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE [UK PREMIERE]
Dir. Richard Littler Duration: 12’49, Country: UK - Dick is asked by the totalitarian government to surveil his parents. When he refuses, he faces the unforgiving machinery of state control. Dick & Stewart find themselves on
the run. Their only hope is to escape from their town, which is surrounded by a heavily guarded wall.
HEARTLESS [UK PREMIERE]
Dir. Kevin Sluder Duration: 12’24, Country: US - Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". An overlooked associate struggles to complete a corporate presentation as a horrific secret gnaws at her conscience.
HUNTED [WORLD PREMIERE]
Dir. Owen Tooth Duration: 5’41, Country: UK - A pair of young holiday-makers find themselves in a horrific battle for survival, relentlessly hunted by a terrifying pack of subterranean creatures in a remote forest.
MILK
Dir. Santiago Menghini Duration: 9’48, Country: Canada - On a late night, a young teen goes into the kitchen for a glass of milk. Upon encountering his sleepless mother, he quickly realizes things are not as they seem.
SALT
Dir. Rob Savage Duration: 2, Country: UK - Stay inside the circle.
THE BLUE DOOR
Dir. Paul Taylor Duration: 9’14, Country: UK - Clare is a caring nurse opening the door to her new job. But maybe some doors are best left shut...
TiCK
Dir. Ashlea Wessel Duration: 13’5, Country: Canada - In a post-pandemic society, a vampire in hiding is forced to make a stand when confronted with the oppressive regime who kidnapped and enslaved her family.
ULISES [UK PREMIERE]
Dir. Jorge Malpica Duration: 8, Country: Mexico - Ulises is a fisherman ́s daily battle to try to appease his hunger. On the other, side mermaids in a classical view, are not cute and are often associated with death forces, as dangerous animals that dominate oceans based on their captivating voices. If the
y embezzle you with their call, they will devour you.
WE SUMMONED A DEMON
Dir. Chris McInroy Duration: 5’52, Country: US - They just wanted to be cool. Instead, they got a demon.
9PM - THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY + Q&A //Dir. Aislinn Clarke
11PM - DEMONS + CHOWBOYS (UK Premiere) // Dir. Lamberto Bava
SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER
12PM - INUYASHIKI - UK Premiere // Dir. Shinsuke Sato
2.30PM - THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL // Dirs. Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland & Yannis Veslemes
4.45PM - THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW //Dir. Andy Mitton
6.15PM - The Flinterrogation in Cafébar
7.15PM - THE NIGHTSHIFTER //Dir. Dennison Ramalho
9.30PM - WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE // Dir. Colin Minihan
More information and tickets available
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