Friday 1st March
book for 11am
Screen 8
SCREEN 8 - 11AM
A nurse goes to visit an old lady at her home. He soon realizes she has a few screws loose. And maybe she is not an old lady at all?
13 mins
Directed by Øyvind Willumsen
Norway
Screen 8 - 11;14am
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behaviour after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Stars Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neil
124 mins
Directed by Andrzej Zulawski
France/Germany
BOOK FOR 11AM
CHEAP THRILLS BLOCK 2
A SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS MADE FOR UNDER £1,000
Screen 7
11am - Screen 7
A medieval fighter is the last one standing. But, a dark presence hunts...
6 mins
Directed by Jason Balas
United States
11AM - SCREEN 7
In a bleak, concrete dystopia, Adam's solitary existence with his A.I. companion Belle, grows monotonous. However, when unexpected fatherhood enters his life, it brings newfound purpose. Yet, the harsh world soon conspires to snatch away his newfound happiness.
16 mins
Directed by Anthony Moran
United Kingdom
11AM - SCREEN 7
A young woman is thrust into a caretaking role after her boyfriend is diagnosed with a unique illness...
17 mins
Directed by Kristoffer Lucia
Australia
11am - Screen 7
Shooting a simple advert for a new health drink - what could go wrong?
6 mins
Directed by Deri Watt
United Kingdom
11am - Screen 7
The darkest recesses of social media play out in a borderland between virtual and physical reality. Ordinary people battle, enacting their fear and hatred. They are manoeuvred by a misanthropic young man, who leads them to act out their basest instincts.
4 mins
Directed by Steven Coles
United Kingdom
11AM - SCREEN 7
A woman is led down a path of dark decisions whilst befriended by an old possessed doll.
8 mins
Directed by Thomas Elliott Griffiths
United Kingdom
11AM - SCREEN 7
After getting trapped in an isolated woodland, a gruff hunter begins to be tormented by his former prey.
9 mins
Directed by Henry Fish
United Kingdom
11am - screen 7
A couple of wannabe social influencers try to increase their viewership by breaking into the crime scene of an unsolved vicious mass murder, only to discover that they have fallen into the killer trap.
5 mins
Directed by Michael Glynn Macdonald
Canada
BOOK FOR 1.30PM
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1.30pm - Screen 7
When a dinner with the new neighbours goes awry, an antisocial and severely co-dependent couple reignite the spark in their relationship by covering their tracks.
15 mins
Directed by Will Darbyshire
United Kingdom
1.45pm - Screen 7
Etta takes a job managing a half-way house between life and death, where newly deceased guests have the chance to do one last thing before crossing over. When her murdered friend arrives in breach of all the rules, she must juggle her responsibilities to the guests, help her friend get justice and not get caught by her interfering boss.
99 mins
Directed by Alexandra Gillespie
United Kingdom
BOOK FOR 1.30PM
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1.30pm - Screen 8
3 women are stuck in a public toilet. Tensions rise as they start to argue and discover ain't all what it seems, and a grave mistake may have been made.
44 mins
Directed by Jason Impey
United Kingdom
2.15pm - Screen 8
Out beyond the dark woods sits a lone house, the home of Nero. He's a violent man, a petty tyrant who rules with abuse and fear. For ten years, Dolly has lived in terror, growing more and more resigned each day. Her reason to cling to life is Angelia. At just ten years old, she's never known anything else. But late one night when a loud knocking at the door wakes them, everything in their lives begins to change.
29 mins
Directed by Vicky Wanless
Australia
BOOK FOR 3PM
Student Bodies
Two hours of short films created by young student filmmakers.
SCREEN 8
3pm - Screen 8
The sudden disappearances of girls in a small town shocks the residents, as Ana falls victim to the perpetrator and must escape him alive
5 mins
Directed by Justinas Balsys
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
Shape-shifting creatures are killing humans and replacing them in society.
4 mins
Directed by Connor Marsh
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A woman celebrates Halloween the same as every other year, that is until an unwelcome visitor arrives...
4 mins
Directed by Rebecca Hearn
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
The Watching showcases a character, who has been dealing with hypnotic, cognitive hazards known as "The Watching", a creature that's as real as you believe he is.
4 mins
Directed by Remi Amber Danielle Tees
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A boy listlessly scrolls through Spotify on an ordinary night at home with his sleeping parents.
'BANG!' What was that? He wonders. Hasn't anyone ever told him curiosity killed the cat?
4 mins
Directed By Poppy Moore
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A masked killer encounters his next victim. She's not what he's expecting. Bloodlust becomes blood-romance. They're meant to be.
4 mins
Directed by Ray Brown, Oliver Ferrier
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A desolate landscape, a mysterious rock, and two people looking for it.
4 mins
Directed by Nye Buck, Alfie Mullenger, Jude Stuchfield, Levi Coleman
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
Stalked by a Masked Man during Halloween
3 mins
Directed by Maria
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
3 mins
Directed by Jude White, Tom Bignold, Claudiu Agoston
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A killer clown who follows a boy into the woods and lures him into killing and become another victim of the Zippos killer.
3 mins
Directed by Leonardo-Felix Brinza
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
A young teenager is on her way home from the party going through the woods and comes face to face with a strange mirror in the middle of nowhere.
3 mins
Directed by Jason Gao
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
Aleena attempts to save her mother's life with help from a short-term time machine.
Over and over it fails but when she eventually succeeds, Aleena learns Zara has felt every single one of her deaths.
5 mins
Directed by Charlie Langford
United Kingdom
3PM - SCREEN 8
Unexpected outcomes occur as four women try to grapple with the consequences of death when initiating a final member into their supernatural cult.
11 mins
Directed by Maria Besko
United Kingdom
BOOK FOR 4PM
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4pm - Screen 7
Chris, a paranoid and self-centred man, is happily avoiding all human contact, preferring to escape from reality in whatever's on TV. When a friend reaches out to him to confront him about his past promises, Chris has to decide what kind of person he is inside, or it may just eat him...alive.
15 mins
Directed by Christian Bachini
Italy
4.15pm - Screen 7
Everyone around psychic Clementine Carter is being brutally murdered by a masked killer dubbed ‘The Scalper.’ Is it dead psycho Andrew Lubitz back from the grave, a copycat killer or a horror beyond imagination? Clementine must use her second sight to stay one step ahead of the maniac’s blade to solve the mystery.
83 mins
Directed by Chad Ferrin
United States
BOOK FOR 6PM
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6pm - Screen 7
After making the life changing decision to get a new fringe, a disregarded office worker attempts to get her dismissive colleagues attention in increasingly bizarre and violent ways.
10 mins
Directed by Michael Beddoes & Penelope Yeulet
United Kingdom
6.10PM - SCREEN 7
On Halloween night 1998, TV veteran Gerry Burns, teams up with popular children's presenter Michelle Kelly to investigate poltergeist activity in a haunted house in Belfast. A seance causes the broadcast to descend into chaos. When the youngest child is mysteriously abducted by an unseen force, the two presenters must face their greatest fears on live TV.
78 mins
Directed by Dominic O'Neill
United Kingdom
BOOK FOR 6PM
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6pm - Screen 8
Cassie is recently homeless and is about to spend her evening at a night shelter for the first time. The shelter offers her food, people to make her feel safe and a bed for the night. For the first time since living on the streets, she feels less on edge and then...the lights go out.
18 mins
Directed by Joe Duncombe
United Kingdom
6.18PM - SCREEN 8
Joe wakes from a nightmare to discover he is paralysed. A Doctor explains he was in an accident and his body is shutting down. Joe starts to see that the staff act strangely. Is Joe’s medication causing him to have nightmares or is there something more sinister happening.
84 mins
Directed by Steven M Smith
United Kingdom
BOOK FOR 8.30PM
Screen 7 8.30pm
Do you have a horror short film 20 minutes or under on Vimeo or YouTube?
Come prepared to show your film to an audience of unsuspecting souls, ready to watch whatever you have to offer them!
180 mins
BOOK FOR 8PM
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Screen 8 - 8pm
Boy Meets Girl on the Day of His Death
17 mins
Directed by Alex Mathieson
United Kingdom
Screen 8 - 8.45pm
Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are much out of their depth.
Stars George Lazenby & Anita Strindberg
90 mins
Directed by Aldo Lado
Italy
BOOK FOR 10.20PM
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10.20pm - Screen 8
When a white civil servant goes to his Nigerian girlfriend's family home to ask for their blessing, he is forced to face the darkness hidden in his history.
9 mins
Directed by Conscian Morgan
United States
10.30pm - Screen 8
Before the 'Taped Up Memories' killings, the hitcher found himself amongst a group of veterans out in the woods filming a promotional video for their support group.
The hitcher sees this as his opportunity to start his murder spree. The events that followed were found on a discarded camera, depicting the brutal murders of the soldiers.
70 mins
Directed by Steven Sibley
United Kingdom