Projects in genres: Horror

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Set within a Victoria Asylum, an eldery surgeon recognises himself within the patient he is operating on.

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Thirty years in the future, mankind has been forced underground by a deadly virus. The surface is thought to be a lifeless wasteland. Loki and Sash, two members of the 'Subtropolis' special forces, are thrust into a deadly adventure when they accept a new mission: Return topside, rescue a lost recon team and come back alive. One problem: they've been lied to. Cut off from civilisation and slowly being infected by the deadly disease, their ordeal is just beginning. Before long the inhabitants of this apocalyptic world show up and are hungry. For them. A thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror that will infect you with fear.

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In the middle of a cold winter night, a mournful sound echoes through the darkness of the Irish countryside. Farmer Dan Reilly (John Lynch) waits as one of his cattle is about to give birth. The noise of her labour resonates through the barn. The animal’s agony weighs heavily on Dan’s mind, as he has reluctantly allowed a bio-tech corporation to run tests on his livestock in return for financial aid for his debt-ridden ranch. Camped in a nearby field are Mary (Ruth Negga) and Jamie (Sean Harris, who played Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People and also starred in last year’s Festival selection Creep). The young couple is running away, hoping to get to London for a fresh start. After giving them a surly warning to get off his land, Dan backpedals and asks them for assistance with the troublesome birth. In the dank straw, the warm breath of new life appears on the cold air - and the group is plunged into a blind panic at the realization that something has gone horribly wrong.

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When ambitious New York analyst Lincoln Mathers relocates his family to England, his wife unearths London’s disturbing past and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. When Mathers finally notices that his wife is not who she was, he’s forced to accept that his family’s only salvation lies in a leap of faith.

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Lovesick, the new film from Wolfgang Büld, is a tale of passion, betrayal and deceit. Who can you turn to when you can’t even trust yourself? Michael O’ Ryan and his mother run a hotel in Margate. The locals see him as a bit of an oddball, but still a respected member of the community. His mother is an overbearing, domineering woman who sees nothing but failure in her son. At the hotel, O’Ryan employs a beautiful young housemaid. Julia is on probation and trying to make ends meet while paying for her boyfriend’s nasty habits. Istvan is a Slavic musician/waster, happily attaching himself to Julia. O’ Ryan loves Julia. Julia loves Istvan. Istvan loves Julia. Julia falls in love with O’ Ryan. Julia falls out of love and hates O’ Ryan. O’ Ryan hates Istvan. Istvan hates O’ Ryan. O’ Ryan hates his mother. His mother hates everyone! Murdering old women? Yes. Doping young women? Yes. Stupid, obnoxious tourists? Yes. Running over dogs? No. Killing arrogant musicians? Yes. Blackmailing, double-crossing manipulation? Yes. Plans backfiring? Yes. Skeletons in the closet? Hell yes! Who can you turn to when you can’t even trust yourself?

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MirrorMask is the story of Helena, who juggles and sells popcorn at her family’s circus. After quarrelling with her parents over her longing to run away and join real life, her mother falls ill, and Helena is convinced it’s all her fault. One night, without warning, she finds herself drawn into a fantastical world far beyond wonder; a world where all the windows reveal her own room now occupied by an angry, badly behaved version of herself. Things in Helena’s new world are not going well at all. The White Queen has fallen into an unbreakable slumber, and the Black Queen’s shadows are spreading over the land, destroying the balance between light and dark.  And so Helena embarks on a desperate quest to win back her real life while rescuing a realm from the devouring forces of chaos. For all who believe in the glorious reality of dreams, for everyone who longs to ride their imagination to miraculous places, the window is now wide open.  Experience the world anew through MirrorMask.

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An experimental film about human evolution. Combining Darwinism, prehistoric art and science fiction, it portrays evolution as a dance of geometric forms leading from ape to man, and beyond, to an apocalyptic Super-Man. With dark humanity and driving energy, Monkey Project creates a singular blend of past and future.

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A Faustian puppeteer tells the story of Mary, a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness. She takes refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the survival or destruction of the deadlights realm, a world that exists between this and the next.

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Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope.

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An alaskan hunter stalks the wilderness - but what is his Prey?

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A single mother examines her choices in life - with horrifying consequences.

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Maria Bello (The Cooler, Assault on Precinct 13) and Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings, Troy) star in The Dark, a gripping supernatural chiller about a series of mysterious circumstances that befall a young family who move to the remote Welsh countryside, only to discover their farm has an imperfect bloody past making their present tense.