Slaughter is the feature film debut of writer and director Juno Jakob (Credited as Dan Martin) and takes horror back to its nasty, gritty and often tongue in cheek roots of the 1970's and 80's.
The film follows escaped mental patient David Ward as he hides in his derelict caravan spending his days hiding from the police and doctors and filming himself raping and murdering while police slowly discover his crimes and get closer to him. The film is told from two view points. The traditional third person camera and David's own Hi8 camcorder.
Henry Harper can't write: his efforts to create the 'perfect murderer' have left him with only a blank page and a hangover to show for it. His frustration is vented through a series of strange artworks that decorate his untidy flat and, as the dawn breaks over a grey horizon, he starts to question his motivations as a writer. But Henry's examination into the mind of the killer he is trying to create has chilling consequences, as he pushes himself to the edge.
Rat lives life like his namesake, doing whatever it takes to survive. Drug dealing, mugging, stealing are all parts of everyday life to Rat but when he steals a briefcase from a well dressed stranger he realises that there are worse things stalking the city than him, much worse.
Prowling in the darkest corner of a desolate, abandoned building on the edge of a wilderness is a dangerous animal, one that lives by the rules of the wild, where survival is it’s only concern. This creature of the night uses cunning and instinct to hunt and kill for pleasure. It has no qualms about its actions; it lives by its carnal desires alone.
Sophie, a teenager with a troubled past, puts herself and her friends at the mercy of this beast, when her curious obsession with the unexplained leads them deep into the Welsh countryside. When her friend is violently attacked Sophie soon discovers what it's like to become the object of this animal's obsessive desire. She is locked in an isolated empty room, where no one can hear her screams. In the night, in the dark, something is trying to get in and Sophie is terrified. Daylight brings Gavin. He keeps the animal at bay as best he can. A protector of sorts, but a protector who also keeps her imprisoned. Sophie’s attempts at escape repeatedly end in failure, but she clings to the hope that her friends will rescue her. Unfortunately their desperate search for Sophie will inevitably end in death and despair. Sophie must confront the mysteries that are locked in her past and discover the truth about her captor, if she is to survive the beast’s unstoppable and obsessive onslaught.
Strigoli is a Vampire movie that defies categorization. Shedding a fantastic light on a post-communist Romanian village, the film introduces us to an ancient myth: Strigoi, the souls that rise again after death to seek justice if they've been wronged, their appetites intensified by a hunger for blood.
Vlad (Catalin Paraschiv) investigates a mysterious death in his grandfather's village that raises questions about land ownership in the community. The trail points to ex-communist bully Constantin Tirescu and his wife, but when Vlad confronts them, he discovers that the richest landowners in the village have become real bloodsuckers.
A documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more dangerous and terrifying than they ever could have imagined.
After a heavy night out with the girls, Isabel, and attractive young professional woman catches an illegal mini-cab home. Things take a turn for the worse when the cabbie pulls her into an ally and violently forces himself onto her, taking her life.
From high above on the rooftop, an ancient female Vampire notices. Taken in by Isabel's beauty and innocence, she dispatches the Cabbie and feeds Isabel a drop of her immortale blood.
Isabel awakes with 48 hours to decide whether to embrace immortality, or kill herself before she becomes undead.
People wait for something to happen. They lay on the fields and in the houses and wait for the arrival of a foreign element that promises to change their lives. It won't be until this arrival that they will be set free.
Karen wakes in her home, drugged and dazed. But she has no time to dwell on the mystery, as she is not alone - Something is stalking her from the shadows with a taste for flesh and Karen finds herself locked in a battle for her survival.
The chase is on.
New Years Eve, and what should be a relaxing vacation for two families coming together to celebrate the holidays, ends up as a desperate fight for survival, as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and turn against their parents with horrifying consequences.
A space pod crashes from the sky and a body washes up on an Oceanic shore line; one man the survivor.
So begins a journey of discovery. The sea is hostile, the place a paradise and the people strange. Far from ordinary he has experienced many things in his time here understanding happiness, woes, alienation.
Unfortunately he did not come alone. Ghosts of past, fears, 'Shadowmen' haunt his every step. A tangible hope and search to find another of his kind turns to desperation as the fading sun quickly descends.
As the sunsets the man had lived a lifetime in a day.
