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The Cellar
UK : 1hr 25m : 2024 : Directed by Jamie Langlands
10.00 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
A young girl wakes up imprisoned underground, with amnesia. She must escape, unravel the mystery behind her captivity, and confront her personal struggles. A suspenseful tale of survival, truth, and inner turmoil unfolds.
+ Soul Train
UK : 6m : 2024 : Directed by Dean Ferris
Strange things occur for two lonely souls waiting at an empty railway station. As they sit on opposite sides of the track, their lives will crossover in a cataclysmic event that will determine their fates.
+ The Station
UK : 7m : 2024 : Directed by Scott Dolling
What is going on at White Notley station? Why does no one seem to use it? Why do villagers not even want to talk about it? These questions have stirred interest from a regional news reporter, but there's no certainty that anyone will be particularly bothered or notice what he discovers, or whether he returns!
+ Inferis
UK : 7m : 2024 : Directed by Philip Wolff
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 the devil knows where! Warned at induction by his manager NOT to enter the door, Joseph tries to resist, but the door has other ideas.
Hell Hole
USA : 1hr 3m : 2024 : Directed by Toby Poser and John Adams
12.30 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
An American-led fracking crew uncovers a French soldier frozen in time during a Napoleonic campaign. He’s still alive – but how? And what has ‘invaded’ him?
+ The Camping Dead
France: 21m : 2024 : Directed by Sebastien Blondel & Julie Pintos
The world devastated by a virus, very few survived, is now populated by zombies. On the roof of a food hypermarket, are three men who survived the epidemic and zombies, three valiant heroes with one goal - to get food from the store to survive. A simple objective, unless you take into account their very limited intelligence. In another unsuccessful attempt, one finds a mysterious unconscious man with a phone and chocolate.
The Protos Experiment
USA : 1hr 31m : 2024 : Directed by Brian Avenet-Bradley & Laurence Avenet-Bradley
15.00 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
In a dystopian future a scientist uses memory implants to revolutionise the prison system. Four death row inmates must escape or risk losing their minds forever.
"A twisted mind-bending story that burrows into the brain" - Horror Pub
+ Amor
France : 20m : 2024 : Directed by Mark Cordier
One night after work, a man comes back home. His wife is waiting for him to announce something. The thing is that ever since she woke up this morning, she’s had only one desire, an all-consuming desire, to kill him.
Pat Higgins Masterclass: Indie Horror vs Money
15.00 : The Laurel & Hardy Suite, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
In this special one-off live event you can find out more about indie horror budgets and revenue than you ever thought possible, plus stupid jokes and creative crowd interaction just to stop all the money stuff getting to be too much.
Pat Higgins ("One of the Masters of Horror" - The Dark Side, "One of the key names in the British horror revival" - SCREAM) has never been good with numbers.
He got 7% in his Maths mock at school. But for 20 years he's had to deal with numbers in the indie horror scene; specifically, bringing budgets down and making money from movies in a changing marketplace. He's looked at hundreds of case studies of indie movies in the modern marketplace, and he's got some gore-soaked advice to share.
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Torture Day WORLD PREMIERE
UK : 1hr 10m : 2025 : Directed by S N Sibley
17.30 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
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!
+ The Diabolical Doctor Montague
UK : 18m : 2024 : Directed by Simon Cluett
In 1920, an eccentric inventor builds a creepy automaton named 'Doctor Montague'. A hundred years later, young Evie finds the strange little man and unwittingly triggers a terrifying sequence of events.
+ Roach
UK : 14m : 2024 : Directed by Angelica E Gayle
Bonnie, a 17-year old girl shows up at the eerie house of Mr Roach to answer a cleaning job advert. She has forged a CV hoping to get the job and is surprised when Mr Roach employs her. As time passes, she realises she is in way over her head as horrors begin to unearth in the house. She stumbles upon something hidden that she shouldn’t have, and this changes the way she now sees her seemingly innocent employer...
Video Shop Tales of Terror 2: Lust and Revenge WORLD PREMIERE
UK : 1h 30m (tbc) : 2025 : Directed by Various/Alex Churchyard
20.00 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
Dig out your membership cards, as it's time to rejoin the Video Dungeon in this sequel to the retro VHS horror ‘Video Shop Tales of Terror’. There are such sights to see - four tales of terror, a myriad of trailers, and a few surprises too. Come on in and see what's on the video racks for your entertainment - if you dare!
Directed by Debbie Lane, Richard Rowntree, Alexander Churchyard & Tony Mardon. With faux trailers from various other exciting filmmakers.
+ Open Your Eyes WORLD PREMIERE
UK : 3m : 2024 : Directed by Simon Darkman
A mother's lament becomes a predatory obsession with finding the key to unlocking her grief.
Take Your Bible and Run SUBTITLES
France : 1hr 3m : 2024 : Directed by Alexis Wawerka
22.30 : The Ballroom, Park Inn by Radisson Palace : Tickets £7.00
Shortly after the passage of an extraterrestrial emissary who came to warn humanity of the coming of a terrible danger, a meteorite shower containing a terrible infectious parasite transforms the population of a small town in the Somme in Picardy into rabid cannibals. From then on, colorful survivors and a humanoid alien monkey playing bounty hunters try to survive by all means, even the most unexpected.
+ Mr M
UK : 8m : 2024 : Directed by Tony Mardon
Thrown out by his wife, Mr M, seeking solace, finds himself in a most unusual shop, owned by an equally unusual shopkeeper. It is here that his real adventure begins, finding himself amongst castles, wizards, singing minstrels, masturbating knights and a beautiful princess... but adventures can’t last... or can they?
+ Troma Versus Witches
UK : 12m : 2024 : Directed by Tony Mardon
Sneaking into a Tromaville midnight showing of The Witches of the Sands, the cast and crew are confronted by an angry audience of Tromaville residents, unhappy with the poor quality of the movie they have paid to see... which is actually very rude of them as it takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie made...
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