Projects in genres: Sci-Fi

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Set in an alternative future, Thespian X  follows a morning in the life of an out-of-work actor, Lukas Vince, signing on at the local Ministry of Employment. Degraded enough by his lack of work as a great and talented thespian, Lukas finds the waiting around amongst the city's bedraggled and bizarre mixture of unemployed robots, citizens and mutants a truly humiliating experience.

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In this dark surreal drama, Ray King, self-styled Top Dog greyhound trainer, thinks he's onto a winner. But on the night of the 'Grand Final', paranoia sets in and a bloody metamorphosis tries to take hold of him. Can his humanity survive losing the race.

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A mind-taunting psychological chiller, Trauma starts with a death, but then takes a far more sinister turn. Ben is a thirtysomething drifter whose life falls apart when his wife, Elisa, is killed in a car accident. The tragedy prompts him to return to sessions with Dr Manor, a shrink he used to see when he was younger. Attempting to build up his life again, he moves to a new apartment and befriends his attractive, bohemian neighbour, Charlotte. A new job as a painter and decorator with Tommy, an old chum from art school days also seems to help with his recovery. But then strange, unexplained things start to happen to Ben. Someone is moving things around in his flat while he sees apparitions of Elisa. When Charlotte persuades Ben to visit a medium, he makes a terrifying discovery. And this is just the beginning.

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A vagrant awakes on a platform in an underground station and finds a strange box nearby him. He opens the box and a powerful and malevolent force is transferred to him.
 
We then follow the journey of three separate passengers, travelling the routes they most likely make every working day. But this time their journeys will be anything but normal as they encounter the vagrant and his new 'powers'.
 
Tube is a vision of how an everyday routine journey can quickly become a nightmare with terrifying results when one is stalked in a confined space which is the London Underground.

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A mother tells her son the story of the Great Red Legged Scissor Man who always comes to little boys that suck their thumbs!

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Six soldiers. Full Moon. No Chance.

A squad of British soldiers is sent out on manoeuvres into the wilds of Scotland. But what should have been a routine military exercise turns into a waking nightmare for Sergeant Harry Wells and his men.

Stumbling into the encampment of Captain Richard Ryan, on a top secret mission for the Special Operations Division, they find him mortally injured and his crack unit torn to shreds. Stunned by the blood-soaked carnage they have witnessed, the shocked corps is taken by the mysterious Megan to a deserted farmhouse deep in the forest for refuge.

However, the farmhouse is the domain of a pack of hungry werewolves and they want to reclaim their woodland property as well as feast on the flesh of their trapped victims.

With no radio contact, limited ammunition and only each other to rely on, the frightened soldiers must fall back on their basic training if they are to fight the demonic monsters battering down the doors and smashing through the windows. Who will survive the terrifying threat? And what will be left of them if they do?

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Julie has a bad dream. Is it an omen of something that is rapidly approaching to destroy her waking life?

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In the year 2010, drugs and sexual excesses are the dominant forces that shape the lives of Europe's teenagers, and London and Paris are at the centre of this chemical nation. No child can shelter from this storm of abusive substances and nowhere is this more visible than in the daily lives of Demon and Davi.

Those two teenage girls have embraced drug culture and now spend their days sleeping and using the dark hours to explore life's chemical and sexual possibilities. Young and naïve they have become the possessions of a schizophrenic mentor, Ryu, who whilst saying he loves them, happily sells them into sex slavery. Too messed up on the drugs he gives them to notice that their lives have been stolen, they have accepted this 'vampiric' version of life.

Demon and Davi's illusions are shattered when their friend is sadistically tortured by one of the sex clients, with the knowing permission of Ryu. Horrified, they fail in an attempt to kill their false protector, and have to escape from his raging fury, only to find themselves in a different version of the same reality. This time with an angry Ryu breathing down their necks.

Realising that they carry with them the past they are trying to escape from, they attempt to clean up. An obsessed Ryu finds them. Now back in his clutches, Ryu begins his theatrical and brutal revenge. The hopelessness of Demon and Davi seems complete.

Demon, now clean, is stronger and able to find the courage to attempt a dangerous escape. Finally in control of their destiny, they have a future worth living for.

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Craig is a college student with a business plan. He and six friends have broken into a derelict asylum to stage the party of the year - and get rich in the process. With DJ Lux on the decks, Lee's spectacular light show and sexy Victoria pouring the drinks, how can they fail?

But as the team set up, things start to go horribly wrong. Sarah becomes convinced that they are not alone, and as the panic rises the asylum begins to take on a life of its own.

Walls disappear, they reappear and the group are forced further and further into the mysterious depths of the building - where something ancient and sinister is waiting for them.

The quest for fun is about to become a race to stay alive.

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A relic has been fought over by the forces of light and darkness for two thousand years. Missing for centuries, the sacred artefact turns up in the back of a camper van in 2001. A powerful secret society is slaughtering innocents to get hold of it. To discover and understand the relic, the ancient arts of sacred geometry, astrology and alchemy must be combined with modern cyber skills and cryptography.

Billionaire mogul Magnus Martel (Terence Stamp) is desperate to find and destroy the relic, reluctantly aided by his estranged son Jake (James D'Arcy), a computer decoding expert, and Mira (Natasha Wightman), a student of alchemy. The hunt takes the protagonists from Britain to France, Malta and Greece. The dangerous journey also becomes a voyage of self-discovery and personal fulfilment.

In pursuit is the Grand Master (Udo Kier), a demonic sentinel who has stalked the ages since witnessing Christ's crucifixion, and whose unfaltering quest is to take possession of the Loculus and reclaim its devastating knowledge. And when the secret of the relic is finally revealed, it heralds the crossover of science and religion in the new millennium.

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The Cicerones is a metaphysical ghost train ride into mystery and terror about a man who enjoys nothing more than visiting places of cultural interest.

In an unnamed corner of Eastern Europe he has an encounter that is eerier and more disturbing than anything he might have imagined.

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Ten environmental activists board an oil rig to protest against its reported destruction. They arrive in the evening and prepare to broadcast to the outside world. But things are not what they expect. They are surprised to find no maintenance crew. Then one of the group is bitten by a rat and later is found dead. And that night, another group member is exposed as a spy who has infiltrated the group. Struggling to make sense of it all, other - more sinister - deaths occur. They find a strange rune circle marked on a workshop floor and, discovering a hidden video camera, they learn that the rig's workforce met with similar deaths and were wiped out. An evil entity was apparently summoned in an occult session. Using living bodies, it transfers from person to person, leaving the host dead, and can only be controlled by the rune circle. Battling for survival, the group fragments and the evil exploits this, killing again and moving on. As dawn approaches, only four are left alive. Can they work out who is possessed and escape to safety? Can they prevent the evil from being released upon an unsuspecting world? A shocking twist provides unexpected answers.