saturday 1st march
Screen 1
10am - A Cat In The Brain
1pm - ZombIe Flesh Eaters
4pm - The House By The Cemetery
7pm - Don't Torture A Duckling
9PM - Welcome to Kittytown
Screen 2
11am - Short Film Showcase 1 [repeat]
2PM - All This Time [repeat]
5PM - Short Film Showcase 2 [repeat]
8PM - World Premiere: The Reign of Queen Ginnarra
Screen 3
1pm - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street [repeat]
4pm - Invasion Of The body snatchers [REPEAT]
7pm - Metropolis [repeat]
Screen 4
10am - The TenAnt [repeat]
1pm - Threads [repeat]
4pm - Man Bites Dog
7pm - The Shuttered Room [repeat]
9pm - Angst
[repeat]
Screen 7
10am - Cheap Thrills: Part 2
1pm - Eileen DAly introduces two of her movies First Bite a feature and Short film Dark Dates.
4pm - Razor Blade Smile [4K restoration]
7pm - Halloween Tales
9pm - Late Night Shorts [repeat]
ScReen 8
11am - The Busby & ME
2PM - Wrath Of Thorn
5Pm - Horrorscopes Volume 3: Dark Zodiac
7pm - Torture Day
9Pm - Simon SAys
Scroll down for film details
Lucio Fulci Quartet
93 Mins - 1990 - italy
A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.
To see this movie please purchase a Saturday day pass or Full Festival Pass.
91 Mins - 1979 - Italy
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
At the end of the movie, its stars Ian McCulloch and Ottaviano Dell'Acqua will be part of a live Q&A session with the audience.
To see this movie please purchase a Saturday day pass or Full Festival Pass.
86 Mins - 1981 - italy
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
At he end of the screening we'll be joined by Silvia Collatina who plays Mae in the movie.
To see this movie please purchase a Saturday day pass or Full Festival Pass.
105 Mins - 1974 - Italy
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
To see this movie please purchase a Saturday day pass or Full Festival Pass.
Classic Movie Lineup
76 Mins - 1936 - Uk
[REPEAT SCREENING]
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
100 Mins - 1927/1984 - Germany
[REPEAT SCREENING]
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
In 1984 Giorgio Moroder put colour to the palettes and gave it an 80s soundtrack, we are showing this version.
80 Mins - 1956 - USA
[REPEAT SCREENING]
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
126 Mins - 1976 - France
[REPEAT SCREENING]
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
285 Mins - 1993 - USA
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
Taking a nod and a wink from Twin Peaks, Wild Palms is a mega-epic with a solid gold cast including James Belushi, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson.
All 5 episodes will play back to back.
To see this feature, please purchase a full day pass from the bottom of the screen.
95 Mins - 1992 - Belgium
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
99 Mins - 1967 - UK
A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
87 Mins - 1983 - Austria
A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house
New Indie Movies
142 mins - 2025 - uk
World premiere of the new movie by Lawrie Brewster starring Megan Tremethick.
The Reign of Queen Ginnarra is a gritty, Lovecraftian sword-and-sorcery epic with a distinctly Gothic tone. At two and a half hours, it's a genuine epic charting the tumultuous reign of a terrifying Queen, whose pact with the Old Ones requires a level of inhumanity rarely seen in the fantasy genre.
88 Mins - 2024 - Canada
Welcome to Kittytown paints a hilarious, suspenseful, and unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic future. After a GMO contamination reverts civilization into a wasteland dominated by a deadly green soil, Vern (Darren Zimmer), an ailing farmer, is barely surviving.
When Vern learns of a possible safe haven with everything one could need, called "Kittytown," he teams up with another survivor, Ted (Robert Bryn Mann), to find it. Together, the odd couple fight for survival against each other, the harsh upcoming winter, illness, and the ire of a cannibal psychopath (Todd Lewis), to heartbreaking, heartwarming, and delightfully laugh-out-loud results.
91 Mins - 2024 - uk
[REPEAT SCREENING]
Trapped with a mysterious vampire in an endless time loop, Grace must unlock the secrets of the house, the previous night’s party, and her own past, to find any hope of escaping and returning to her normal life and young child.
80 Mins - 2024 - Spain
Luis lives with his parents in an urbanization.
On the afternoon of October 31st, his mother encourages him to do Trick or Treat near her house and thus put aside video games for a while.
102 Mins - 2024/1998 - uk
Lilith Silver is a killer with a difference. 150 years ago she was mortally wounded in a duel, but was saved from death by being transformed into a vampire. In 1990's London, armed with a coffin full of weapons she's now an assassin for hire know as 'The Angel of Death'. She's been contracted to target a dangerous group of 'Illuminati', who'll do everything in their power to find her and take her down.
However Lilith is full of surprises and will educate everyone on the true nature of a being contemporary Vampire.
Director Jake West & star Eileen Daly will b present for a Q&A following the screening
96 Mins - 2024 - uk
Nearly twenty years ago Wade created a documentary about 'The Busby Stoop Inn', its ghosts, and its famous legends. After seventeen years the original 8mm footage has been found and Wade returns to Thirsk to tell the story.
90 mins - 2025 - uk
A shadowy figure has arrived back in the town where it all started, but the Avondale they knew is long gone, what stands in its place is a decrepit, deathly town that has been awaiting the return of its god and his sacrifice.
They have a plan to end the curse once and for all, one that relies on the help of some old friends and a new one connected to the past.
The 11th Feature from Independent Studio Mycho Entertainment and the Final part of the Thorn Trilogy.
90 Mins - 2025 - uk
Things are about to get dark.
12 of the UK's finest filmmakers come together to present another 12 star crossed tales of danger, dismemberment and darkness as they delve into the Dark Zodiac.
88 mins - 2025 - uk
Lewis, a ruthless serial killer teams up with Robert, a husband of his late wife murdered by Lewis to help dispose of her body. Only to have their car along with the body inside stolen by two car jackers, Tony and CJ. Now Lewis and Robert set off to hunt Tony and CJ, killing anyone who gets in their way!
88 Mins - 2024 - uk
A terrifying origin story of the children’s playground game “Simon Says”. A group of lonely hearts are catfished by an online man. They all know him by different names but are individually enticed to come to his Scottish castle for a romantic weekend. Once there, they find themselves trapped, unable to leave. Then one of them finds an ancient board game titled “Simon Says” and they must play to the death.
'Cheap Thrills: Part 2'
8 Mins - 2024 - uk
Inferis is an eerie, unsettling and psychological no budget short horror film. A mood piece relying on atmosphere, creative lighting and impactful sound design.
Recent prison leaver, Joseph Mann, begins a new job at Inferis Security. Hoping for a fresh start he finds himself drawn toward a mysterious door that leads to God knows where.
13 mins - 2024 - uk
After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.
24 mins - 2024 - uk
On a hiking trip, Riley, John, and Sam encounter a cursed totem that feeds on their deepest fears. As the curse begins to possess and twist their minds, they’re trapped in a nightmare of their own making. Can they overcome their fears and escape the forest, or will they be lost to the curse forever?
8 Mins - 2018 - uk
'Maureen' recounts the story of his life with his beloved Graham. But how much of what he's telling us is truth or fiction?
8 Mins - 2024 - uk
When a young couple, Louis and CM agree to house-sit for Louis's parent's, it seems like a simple task. Look after the house, look after the dog. But something else seems needing to be looked after that they did not anticipate.
7 Mins - 2024 - uk
In the dead of night, creatures slink through the streets of London. Foxes howl to warn when they are close. A woman wakes up in the night to the sound of foxes and shortly after notices a strange figure outside her home.
14 Mins - 2024 - uk
Two roommates are preparing to move out of their apartment when one finds a severed finger in their fridge... making him question his roommate and his strange and freakish nature.
11 Mins - 2024 - uk
During the lockdown, victims of domestic violence found themselves living their nightmare - being trapped with their abuser.
13 mins - 2024
A day that begins like any other soon enough descends into chaos for one man as a supernatural force terrorises him while he tries to do the simplest of things - eat his damn breakfast.
Tickets
'Late Night Shorts'
[repeat SCREENING]
11 mins - 2024 - uk
A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbours who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.
11 mins - 2024 - japan
A man and a woman having sex. A woman he's never seen before arrives...
16 mins - 2025 - uk
A trio of Essex girls offer their special brand of hospitality to a morose and mysterious stranger.
12 mins - 2023 - uk
After an affluent man leaves a rough sleeper to die in the cold on Christmas Eve, he's haunted by a figure that may be a vengeful spirit - or his own guilty conscience.