Projects in genres: Horror

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Every village has a secret. None more so than Coopers Cross; a remote, murky village, whose inhabitants' own existence relies on luring unsuspecting guests. The villagers will be so excited to meet you.

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QUEERING DI TEKNOLOJIK is a message from the future. Spoken by the collective digital voice of a group of queer artists and activists, this collaborative project speculates about the possibilities of a temporality yet to come. This is a message of hope. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Beth, a fifteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. Over the course of an evening on the streets of East London, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner. But Beth is the real monster lurking within our city. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Cult Strand - World premiere

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A paranormal thriller based on the events that took place back in 1991. Jack and 2 friends set out to try and capture the paranormal events that took place in his home shortly after his 13th Birthday. What they witnessed and recorded was truly terrifying and is known as one of the most authentic paranormal evidence ever caught on camera, today known as the Barmby Place Ghost. These events continued until 1997, when the activity suddenly stopped - Until now...22 years later after the events Jack now has a family of his own and his son Harry has just turned 13 years old and it looks like the family curse continues.

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A heartless and cruel drug dealer is forced to see the hurt he's causing. He refuses to change until it is too late, but is it ever too late?

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Narrated by Julian Barratt, FUTURE PERFECT follows a child's drawing of their parents as it is placed in a time capsule until the earth dries to a husk. It's then found by aliens who use the drawing as the blueprint for a twisted new version of humanity

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Recent graduate Robin, returns to her parents’ house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-destruction. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Short Cuts - World premiere

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Maud, a reclusive live-in nurse, becomes dangerously fixated with saving her newest patient’s soul. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Midnight Madness - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Competition - European premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020

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Eco-thriller - Autistic student Siobhán endures a research week on a ragged fishing trawler, miserably out of place in the close-knit crew. But in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life-form ensnares the boat. At first, the crew see the rare deep-sea animal as a chance to make a killing. But as members of the crew succumb to a mysterious infection, Siobhán must persuade them that to profit here is to risk their lives - and the lives of all humans. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Discovery - World premiere Official Selection Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2019 - European premiere

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A nerdy video game developer becomes the next contestant in an illegal live-streamed death match. A dark, viciously violent, and chillingly prescient sci-fi thriller. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Nicola, a successful actor, agrees to play Lucio Fulci in a biopic dedicated to the director. The actor begins a journey to discover Fulci man, so that he can interpret it in the best way. He will meet his daughters, friends, collaborators of the director, and the most profound scholars of Fulci's work. He will have access to new and unseen materials. Nicola, divided between the preparation of the film and the study of the character, will deeply question the true nature of a man who, already in life, had rewritten his biography. A biography in which myth, creation and legend have rewritten an exhilarating and dramatic life.

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Compelled to buy an old writing case, and finding faint traces of a poem within, a young Cornish poet unknowingly calls back the previous owner from beyond the grave. Haunted into completing the poem she becomes broken and succumbs to the endless cycle of creation and death... Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020