Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, 'Steven Berkoff’s Tell Tale Heart' is the story of an unnamed servant who sets out to convince the viewer of his sanity by narrating the meticulously calculated murder of his old master whose “vulture eye” was too much for him to bear.
The servant describes carefully dismembering and hiding the body under the floorboards. Convinced he can still hear his victim’s beating heart, the murderer’s guilt drives him to confess to the killing.
Hindu Kush, Afghanistan October 2014. War ends at midnight, all five British soldiers have to do is stay alive till then.
In the midst of a firefight the five British soldiers try to find a safe haven to sit out the last night of the Afghan war. Trekking through dense woodland they come across a large imposing British fort dating from the early 19th century. On nearing the entrance to the fort they see 5 other British soldiers enter, with great relief they also enter the fort but find it eerily unoccupied. Where have the British troops gone?
As the night unfolds and their mission is finally explained, they find themselves in a labyrinthine nightmare of seemingly un-combatable spirits from another realm. Time also seems to move in inexplicable ways to the point where they question their own reality. Who will stay alive till midnight, will any, are they already dead?
'Boots on the Ground' makes a little bit of film history by being the first British feature film to be shot entirely by its actors wearing head-cams, mirroring the use of head-cameras by real soldiers in combat situations in 21st century war zones.
Summer 1997 in a small Scottish village, where each day seems like the last and nothing ever happens. A strange, cosmic event will disturb Julianne's monotonous daily life.
Jack loves a bargain. And sheds. When he buys cheap second-hand parts to build his dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen find they’ve got more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood.
A comedy horror about a man’s twisted love for his shed…
Qi’an, a Chinese student begins work as a film translator at a secluded English mansion. Working with her best friend, she discovers gruesome family secrets and uncovers the truth behind the tragic life of Kunqu opera star, Susu.
“The angry sleeper stalks his dreams/hard from night to night”. Dirk Bouts's 1470 painting of demons carrying sinners off to Hell is the starting point for this not-quite-serious animated nightmare. Pachelbel's famous canon played on a musical box is the accompaniment.
A darkly comic fable in the style of an old magic lantern show with each scene hand-painted as the lantern glass slides would be, with music by Tom Fazzini.
