OCTOBER 19th & 20th 2024
PURGATORY JACK - UK PREMIER
a neo-noir mystery thriller set in the afterlife, a dangerous landscape that’s run by a bloodthirsty, limb-collecting gang and populated with outlaws and outcasts. The latest case for musician turned grizzled private detective, Jack Marlin, is helping new arrival Viv Vacious, a punk pop star who overdosed, stay safe as she races against time to find her mother who committed suicide twenty years earlier. While navigating the treacherous terrain of hells waiting room, these two musicians from clashing eras unlock a murderous conspiracy and discover why blood is more than a drug in Purgatory.
BLOCK 1
FIND YOU HERE
Find You Here is a gnarly piece of folkloric horror about what happens when a toxic couple find themselves at an abandoned scare event built on evil land. Will they survive the night?
UNDER THE BED
Horror legend Robert Englund, who gave us all nightmares as the iconic Freddy Krueger, narrates a bedtime story with a difference.
MOTHER
As his baby’s cries are soothed by the mother’s lullaby, Arnold soon picks up on a dark undertone to the song. A fact made all the more sinister when Oriana, the baby’s mother, arrives home, and the lullaby is still being sung.
HEREAFTER
A mortician and a young woman discover it'll take more than death to bury the hatchet.
BLOCK 2
HEDGEMILL- A FAIRLIGHT STORY
After their plane crashes near the remote Midwestern town of Farlight, two oddball friends seek help at an old farm only to find themselves trapped in a darkly comedic nightmare where guilt, madness, and disturbing encounters blur the lines between reality and imagination.
"Hedgemill" is part of an anthological feature film called "Farlight", containing multiple short stories.
THE WITCHING HOUR
A queer bedtime story about coming out...
Victor grieves the death of his father but late at night a mysterious entity claiming to be him plagues Victor's mind with disturbing thoughts.
The Witching Hour stars the wonderful Harriet Thorpe (Absolutely fabulous, Eastenders, The Brittas Empire, Wicked) and is the third and final ‘queer bedtime story’ from the Consequences of Monsters Series, taking us right back to the 1970’s.
CALL GHOST
On New Years Eve 1999, an unwitting couple find themselves trapped in a deadly game against a supernatural killer who advertises himself through their TV.
BLACK DRAGON
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers.
DEVIL
On the day his second child is being born, Lord Choi falls from his horse. On the brink of death, he prays to a goblin and his life is spared. In exchange, the goblin declares that it will take Lord Choi’s daughter away on the day she turns sixteen, but Lord Choi will not give up his precious daughter so easily.
SCENES OF THE ABSURD
Scenes of the Absurd is a stop motion psychological horror handcrafted by a dedicated team of over thirty students. When a young girl’s toy is taken from her, she ventured into a strange new world to get it back, eventually discovering that the best performances don’t always have a happy ending.
EMBRACE
Mélanie walks past the same alley every day without noticing the strange metal bucket there.
BLOCK 3
BACKMASK
In his desperate search for a new sound, 1970s rock star Billy Chapman isolates himself in his mansion, only to unleash a sinister force that becomes his dark collaborator.
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE
A grave robber searching for ancient bodies unearths a dark secret in a bog in rural Ireland.
BLOOD LINE
A woman struggles to care for her blood-addicted, vampire father while carving out a life for herself.
BOOKWORM
Spain, 1979. Irene is an aspiring writer who obsesses with the delicate ghost at the library she works.
ONLY SKY ABOVE
An anthology of 3 horror micro-short stories (in the vein of 'Creepshow' and 'Cat's Eye') which explore the themes that we are the monsters and creators of our own suffering and ultimately alone and without redemption because there's only sky above.
INVASION
A sinister presence invades a suburban home. Even invaders can have a bad day.
THE ORCHARD
Humanity has stopped listening, and is stripping the Earth bare. Widow Clara is tending her orchard, unaware that her rotting fruit carries the first wave of mutated spores.
Ambitious single mother Eve, is close to a breakthrough at the GM laboratories, that will unwittingly escalate our genetic breakdown.
While Clara is babysitting her grandson she is infected, triggering her bodies systematic breakdown. He watches terrified as a new species of human evolves.
The Earth has found a way to fight back. Humans will no longer be the dominant race. Nature will reclaim the earth, and our mutated genes will help secure our fate.
THE VICE
Desmond is an old man shackled by addiction and tormented by regret. Years after a horrific car accident, he comes face-to-face with the consequences of his life choices, forced to reckon with the toll he must pay.
STAY
A young girl finds herself alone after trespassing onto a carpark at the edge of a wilderness. When a strange trail of sweet and salted popcorn captures her attention, she is drawn into the nightmarish world of a silent era horror film, pursued by a demon bent on keeping her trapped in there forever.
THE MISSING
A young babysitter named Sarah takes on a job in a secluded area, only to encounter a series of chilling events that lead her to an ominous cellar, inviting her into the unknown depths of the house.
As Sarah delves deep into the darkness, she faces a terrifying entity lurking in the shadows, one that threatens her very existence. Sarah's night of babysitting turns into a nightmarish fight for survival filled with suspense.
BLOCK 4
WATCH ME SLEEP
A man pays a company to install a camera on the inside of his mothers coffin, with terrible consequences.
THE LONELY BODY
Escaping from the city rat race to find himself on a country escape a young man comes across a mysterious stranger with a story to tell. Not far from where they sit the body of a man was found unmarked, unidentified and unclaimed. How did the lonely body come to his end and what bearing could that have on the men discussing it?
SYMBIOSIS
After a serious nuclear leak, Country J discharged nuclear wastewater into the sea without any notice. The entire sea was seriously polluted, and the scope expanded to the entire Pacific Rim, and the sedimentation pollution of nuclear radiation was Begins to seep into groundwater...
BLOCK 5
EDGE OF INSANITY
Edge of Insanity follows Rylee, an aspiring actress in her late 20's, who slowly loses her sense of reality after witnessing her parents murdered.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Touring pub singer, Bex, lets her celebrity delusions get in the way of her relationship with her daughter, Rhian, who is left to pick up the pieces when faced with the cruel reality of her mother's lifestyle.
THE STATEMENT
Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?
