Projects in genres: Horror

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Supernatural drama set in the British trenches of WW1. Along with the rest of his platoon, young Private Edwin Childs fears imminent German gas attacks. As the dreaded attack begins, how much will Edwin give of himself in the ultimate act of compassion towards his fellow men?

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A post-modern, tragic romance about a young couple trying to rid themselves of the past using an unorthodox and bizarre ritual as they rekindle their love.

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An ‘urban fear’ grips the tenants of an inner city allotment when the long-predicted apocalypse finally arrives. Gardeners of all levels of green-fingered ability and produce-preference, are afraid to venture onto their plots, especially late at night. And, even when they can summon enough courage to do so, there is no safety in numbers, for the dead have risen from the depths beneath the cabbage patch and the rows of sweet pea, hell bent on mischief, mayhem and consumption of the living. Only the nimble fingered “figurine war-gamer” Trevor, aka ‘Casimir the Destroyer’, and his best friend Graham, the knightly “Sir Brandt”, stand between the devilish hordes of undead and the salvation of mankind – well at least in their alter-ego fantasies they do. Until of course one dark night, as they look beyond the confines of Trevor’s little wooden shed, they discover the world has truly fallen into the hands of the undead – particularly Trevor’s allotment tenant neighbours. Now Trevor must venture into the unknown to save his wife, Bobbi, and her ‘capricious’ friend Harriet from a world gone to chaos, and in so doing become the hero he has always fantasised he was.

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Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness... and they’re about to meet their match. Don Wallace is a wide-eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals, presided over by sadistic sixth formers. Matters of status are aggressively enforced and conversations with school goddess Clemsie, are strictly forbidden. But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally. When a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron become locked in a bloody battle for survival.

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Do you love or do you live? In post-apocalyptic North America one family fights for survival. A sci-fi action drama set two years in the future after a major nuclear war has destroyed civilization on earth as we know it. A mother and her daughter struggle to survive this cruel new world, as they embark upon a perilous journey through this blighted, poisoned, radioactive wasteland. They must fight scavengers, mutants, deviants and worse in their quest to build a better world.

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The stories of the desperate souls who pass through the doors of 508, a room on the fifth floor of an anonymous, decaying hotel. A surreal and blackly comic journey down the hotel's lonely corridors and behind its out-dated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunging into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of the establishment. Adulterers, lonely businessmen, and hustlers grapple with their demons whilst a prying, occasionally sinister hotel staff always seems to be within earshot. Inside this hotel the mundane transforms into an implement of threat; a faulty light fixture appears to contain a hidden camera; a heating unit whispers to guests with increasing menace; a television set randomly flips channels, displaying TV shows which reveal a guest's secret paranoid fantasies; and a stray look into the bathroom mirror becomes the quickest way to disprove your existence.

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A blind Iraq war veteran and his wife awake to hear devastating news, throughout the day escalating events happen globally. This is the day the internet goes down and stays down, if they manage to make it through the day, the world will never be the same.

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A restless young man wants to leave love, and the Earth, behind. Mankind reflects the idea of humans being explorers by nature, and the consequences of standing still, for too long.

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Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 Journey Strand - World premiere Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Critics' Week - International premiere

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A frightening, menacing tone pervaded the conversation between psychiatrist Afjal Khan and his patient Mr. Jabbar. In an instant, a clear, lovely, and delightful afternoon turned into a dark, unsettling night. One demon that can change day into night to hunt you down is called Dream Monster.

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A group of convicts is duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful. But, the authorities have no intention of ever letting them return to earth. They want the inmates to procreate and raise a child in space as part of a larger experiment. The film follows the character of Monte a few years after the mission’s launch as he raises his daughter, Willow, in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards its final destination, a black hole. He fathered Willow against his will after his sperm was used to inseminate another convict in space as part of the experiment. In the process of raising her, however, he comes to experience real love for the first time in his life. Claire Denis's first English-language feature is "an adventure beyond the solar system set in a future that seems like the present". Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Deep Focus

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A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Midnight Madness - World premiere Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Tribeca Critics’ Week