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From director Ian David Diaz and producer Julian Boote, who brought you the award-winning cult Brit-Flick, The Killing Zone (Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature, LA International Independent Film Festival 2000), Dead Room is by turns a dark, tense and sometimes bizarrely comic story of the various occupants of innocuously numbered Room No, 2. An otherwise ordinary flat in suburban London, owned by an untrustworthy Nigerian Landlord, No. 2 is a room born bad. You know the kind… bad karma on top of bad décor! It inevitably attracts all the wrong people, and something weird always happens there. Giving examples of its four latest occupants - a gentle writer being driven to murder by a cruel prankster; an ill-prepared trio of women falling foul of a self-perpetuating chain of evil; a TV journalist following an alien-obsessed, barking mad assassin; and a homeless man's encounter with a crazed Stalker and her victim - the Landlord shows us just how macabre and downright odd the room's history really is. Set in a bed-sitting London many will find all too familiar, Dead Room follows the grand tradition of Dead of Night, Creepshow, and Twilight Zone The Movie.

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Eating for Two is a re-telling of the nativity, positioning Mary and Joe(seph) in a fish and chip shop somewhere on the south coast. Mary is desperate for a child, a child that Joe seems unable to give her. When Joe flippantly asks for a miracle, he gets just that.

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At Holy Angel School for Girls, a New England boarding school, Nell Fisher is snatched by a mysterious, Poncho'd Figure. Escaping her assailant, she finds fellow students Natalie, Jade and Laurie, and reveals her attacker is the History teacher, Professor Leighton, recently suspended after accusations by Nell that he tried raping her. During the struggle however, Nell accidentally started a fire. The girls escape just as an explosion tears through the school dorm, killing many students. Five years later, Natalie - now an actress - is persuaded by her agent that a documentary about Holy Angel could kick-start her career. Jade and Laurie have already joined up. However, Nell - still traumatised by the event - has to be coerced into returning. Reuniting at the school, the girls tell of Leighton's obsession with Nell. Soon however a hooded stranger is seen roaming the campus. Then the group witness their documentary director's murder by a familiar Poncho'd Figure! Terrified, the girls retreat to the sanctuary of the school, but soon the killer is inside, stalking them in the dark. Is the killer one of the dead students' parents, eager for revenge against Nell? Or, worse still, did Leighton survive the fire?

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Tina's cheating on Grant. Grant's too drunk to care. Mandy is still in love with Alastair. Alistair is still in love with himself. Jackie is trying to keep her drug habit secret from Clark. Clark is keeping a secret of his own. Gav is desperate to go out with Sophie. Sophie's just desperate and Lee just wants to quit smoking. Housewives, dealers, coppers, cabbies, media execs and rent boys all cross paths in this tale of interconnected lives set in the chaos that is London. They are all searching for an escape from an unforgiving city. When Lee attempts to quit smoking he sets in motion a chain of events that ultimately ends in death and disaster.

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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is a taut, provocative character-driven thriller about contemporary life, justice and revenge. Will Graham (Clive Owen), a legendary London gangster, has given up the crime life to seek solace in the rural forest-land of North West Wales. His past will always affect him - he hardly sleeps; works without credentials - as he tries to make peace with himself. His young, womanising, street-smart brother Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), to whom he's devoted, is a dashing, minor criminal. After scoring a deal and partying late into the night, he's followed home and attacked. Sensing something is amiss, Will is pulled back to the city. Shocked and distraught, Will's antennae are re-tuned to the rush of London as he begins to investigate the disturbing event. He seeks the counsel of his former gang-mates, ignites the jealousy of crime boss Turner (Ken Stott), visits the distressed Mrs Bartz (Sylvia Syms), tracks the mysterious Boad (Malcolm McDowell) and rekindles his relationship with Helen (Charlotte Rampling), the wise, romantic restauranteur.

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'Me? Take it easy now, calm down. It couldn't be me, it couldn't be me! I mean if you don't know yourself who do you know? But the blood - It seemed crazy but how else could I be sure? So I set the camera up, tied myself to the bed and lay there, waiting - Guess I must have nodded off somehow, 'cos the next thing I know it's morning and I'm there just where I left myself. No problem, I'm telling myself, no problem - Then I played the tape. I just couldn't take it in. Me, a fuzzy black and white image in pyjamas, getting out of bed, leaving the room.' Leonard Grey, superintendent of Jericho Mansions. His world may be small but he cares for every inch of it. The fading wallpaper in the entrance hall, the ageing carpet on the stairs, the clank of the elevator and above all, the faint but continuous refrain of lives being lived around him - For the last thirty years the building has been his universe. Beyond the front door of the apartment block lies a terrifying agoraphobic nightmare into which, for as long as he can remember, he has never dared to venture. But Leonard's sanctuary is beginning to crumble; forces are conspiring to kick him out. Constant accusations by Lily Melnik, the landlady, of stealing worthless items from her apartment, stirrings of discontent among the residents, infidelities and finally a murder. Bill Cherry, one of the building's inhabitants is found dead, his body thrown down the garbage chute. Though the cops believe they have their killer and motive - a jealous tenant taking revenge on his wife's lover - Leonard begins to discover clues that point to a different kind of killer. Himself.

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Alan, a young man who desperately wants to get married. Today is his birthday and he wants to give Mila, the girl of his choice, the ring tonight. But his past womanising ways, and his friends, catch up with him and things do not go according to plan. Maybe for good maybe for bad, but he finally has to be honest with himself and accept what he is.

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Maureen's life might seem dull, but she hates interruptions to her routine. So when her husband's retired big game hunter Dad arrives, she doesn't greet him with open arms. He never says a word, just looks at her, like a lion watching a gazelle. He's up to something - but what?

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Warning: This film contains scenes of a controversial nature, political correctness is undetectable, bad taste and silliness are bountiful - those of a sensitive disposition beware. The story of two unlikely lads from Belfast stumbling through London's underground gay scene in search of gainful employment to subsidise their giros. Our protagonists build up an unusual clientele, offering their services to the homosexual misfits who just can't get laid. When one of the lads witnesses the death of a punter, they are forced to look for 'work' elsewhere which leads them to discover the myth of 'The Bread in the Bed' - a bed packed full with money that can only be accessed by the man who has what it takes to pass the mysterious 'Really Hard Red Bull Test'. Nine Dead Gay Guys is the hilarious, outrageous but unfortunate result of the ensuing caper.

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A Jeep travels along a nighttime freeway; Senga Wilson (late 30s) is behind the wheel, tired, drawn & tense. In the passenger seat is her daughter Nat (15), there is a mother daughter tension in the air; Senga is starting to fall asleep and Nat insists they pull over. Just before they rejoin the freeway, Senga stops at an ATM, while Senga has her back turned, Nat invites a young girl backpacker into the car knowing it will annoy her mother. A few more miles, having dropped off the backpacker Nat's father rings to say Nat's birthday gift has been left behind and once again the two pull off the freeway to wait for him. The gift is tickets to a concert that Senga has forbidden Nat to attend, the three have a terrible fight and Senga rips up the tickets, Nat screams at her and runs. Senga calms down and starts to search for Nat to apologise. She sees Nat with the backpacker and a strange couple climbing into an RV. Senga screams and rushes after Nat, it's too late she has gone. Senga runs to her Jeep and sets off after the RV and moments later the backpacker's belt tightens around her throat, in front of them a silver fuel tanker suddenly brakes, Senga swerves and hits the central divide. The door opens and the backpacker climbs out leaving Senga slumped unconscious, blood dripping from her temple.

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The fine line between fiction and reality becomes blurred when a horror video rental is used by a serial killer to morally justify his crimes to the world. What starts off as a conventional teen slasher, transforms into a stark and disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer, with a taste for human flesh.

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May is 65. An ordinary granny from the suburbs. When her husband dies she finds herself thrown upon the mercy of her far-too-busy metropolitan children. Stuck in London, far from home, her kids abusing or avoiding her, she feels that life for her is more or less over. Until... The granny from the sticks, the old lady you don't even notice in the supermarket, the broken woman who's life is finished, falls headlong, suddenly, rapturously, disarmingly, girlishly, carnally in love. With a man half her age. (Who just happens to be fucking her daughter as well) From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi comes another brilliant and shocking slice of modern metropolitan life.