Projects in genres: Horror

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High Stakes is Zulu meets Dusk Till Dawn: a fast paced, plot twisting, thrilling and grittily realistic vampire film. A teenaged girl called Lydia finds a blood covered young boy on the street, and takes him home for help, where the boy viciously kills Lydia's father. Traumatised she arrives at the nearby church, where she is taken inside by the vicar, Reverend Clegg. In an illicit gambling den, Guy, a low rent gambler gets the opportunity of his life to play a high rolling card player from London. As the game goes Guy's way, the card player and his entourage show their true colours - they are a nomadic pack of vampires, preying on society's low lifes. Guy manages to escape with his winnings, and seeks sanctuary in the same church, where he reasons the vampires will not be able to follow. Reverend Clegg is attacked and killed by the vampire clan on the threshold of the church. The people inside the church are now under siege. The stakes are raised - if Guy is not given up, the church will be burnt to the ground by the vampire clan. Their problems multiply as the Reverend is reborn as a vampire, bezerk on the blood lust. Sanctuary isn't as safe as it used to be.

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It has been said that the eye is the window on the soul. A snapshot of a terrifying moment, only partially revealed, i is raw uncompromising cinema.

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Davis, a down on his luck filmmaker, after having no luck getting backing with his story, spends his savings on his own camera only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a dead filmmaker which will help him make his movie, at a price.

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Did your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers? John’s mother did. It’s just that over the years, as he became an adult, he forgot - John walks into his garage and gets into his car. His ordinary life, however, is about to get extraordinary and - end. One of Lucifer’s minions, the Collector, is waiting for him in the car. The Collector shows him scenes from his life. John sees himself rape and murder his daughter and then kill his wife. He then sees the fateful meeting with Lucifer, before finally being ‘collected’. But maybe ‘Old Nick’ has one last trick to play!

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A unique collaboration between acclaimed young British writer and director Greg Hall and critically renowned composer and musician Steve Martland. Kapital is a gothic and uncompromising look at the darker crevasses of human nature and society. Following a cross section of characters lives, interweaved in a mosaic form over the turbulent course of one day, as they all deal with the demons and angels that haunt their harsh realities. An apocalyptic vision of modern day existence.

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Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma gives up a successful career on Wall Street to return to England and give her six-year-old son a new life. After moving into an impressive mansion outside London, Emma finds out that she is pregnant again. Everything seems to be perfect. But soon, Emma begins feeling uneasy. When left alone, the house seems to be speaking to her in strange voices. Emma’s dream of a perfect life starts turning into a nightmare. Despite her pleas for help, her husband grows more and more distant. Alarmed by a series of strange and terrifying happenings, Emma is convinced that the key to unlocking Parkside’s secret lies deep in the woods. She starts to act less and less rationally, and the once ‘in control’ Emma turns into a paranoid shadow of her former self. She has to discover that the truth of Parkside Lodge rests not in its past or future, but in the terrifying present.

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Simon Eaves' experimental and unique animated style depicts the surreal world of a man who wishes to escape only to find that he is less free when he does. Slavestakingly created using individual hand treated frames. Simon Eaves creates a surreal and beautiful world.

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The film charts the disintegration of Owen's troubled mind, from the initial conflict with his demons, to the ultimate and terrible acceptance of his 'purpose' in life. Isolated after the death of his Mother, Owen trawls the Internet and finds solace in the anonymous world of 'chat rooms'. Known only as Man_in_a_hat, Owen hides behind his alias to keep the demons at bay and make friends in a lonely and hostile world. But demons don't stay silent forever and Owen lacks the strength of mind to resist them.

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Ronny Long has been filming himself since he was nine-years-old, staging cryptozoological comedies, wrestling matches and horror movies in his suburban backyard in Texas. Now 19-years-old, he reflects on the phantasmagoric childhood he obsessively documented.

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Reggie lives in the near future, where modern medicine has evolved to prolong life indefinitely, courtesy of the Immortality (IMMO) Corporation. He is now a very old man, and has lost the memory of his past completely. When one day a shoe falls down from the shoeboxes stored high above him, he is given the chance to take back his most precious memory, a moment that he’d previously lost forever.

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Dr Richard Murray painfully rebuilds his life following his wife's death but his fragile calm is shattered when messages pleading for help start to appear on his computer. A serial killer is on the loose, murdering beautiful young girls and when another body arrives in the hospital, Dr Murray connects the cryptic messages to their deaths. Someone, somewhere wants him to find the murderer but as events progress, an awful realisation hits home - the killer is someone very close to him.

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Two sisters struggle to survive in a society of bright lights and 24-hour video walls, where sleep is illegal. When one refuses to take the tablets that keep everyone awake, the other must choose between the normality she craves - and the terror of falling asleep for the first time.