Films in Cult
From the mind-altering and unclassifiable to fantasy, sci-fi and horror.
Cult gala
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Assassination Nation
Dir-Scr Sam Levinson | USA
The Salem witch trials are given a digital overhaul in this ferocious femme exploitationer.
Feature films
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All the Gods in the Sky
Dir-Scr Quarxx | France
Fans of New French Extremity take note, this mind-bending slice of transgressive perversity might just be the most outré horror film of the year.
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Cam
Dir Daniel Goldhaber | USA
An erotic webcam performer is plunged into a nightmarish world of duplicity and fear in this provocative techno-shocker.
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The Cannibal Club
Dir-Scr Guto Parente | Brazil
The wealthy elite feed off the lower classes in a deliciously twisted Brazilian social satire that’s definitely not for the squeamish.
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Dragged Across Concrete
Dir S. Craig Zahler | Canada-USA
As brutal and uncompromising as its title would suggest, the third feature from S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99) is another instant classic.
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Duplicate
Duplicate | USA
The peculiar story of two identical young men unfolds in this imaginative, low-key sci-fi fable featuring Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort.
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Knife + Heart
Dir Yann Gonzalez | France-Switzerland-Mexico
If you only see one arthouse slasher movie set in the gay porn industry this year, you had better make sure it’s this one.
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Lords of Chaos
Dir Jonas Åkerlund | UK-Sweden
The incredible true story of the Norwegian black-metal scene in the early 1990s is brought vividly to the screen by Jonas Åkerlund.
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Mandy
Dir Panos Cosmatos | USA-Belgium
Nicolas Cage gives perhaps his most unhinged performance yet in this wild, psychedelic slice of ultra-violence for the ages.
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May the Devil Take You
Dir-Scr Timo Tjahjanto | Indonesia
Join Timo Tjahjanto, one of Indonesian cinema’s rising genre filmmakers, for a hair-raising journey into the heart of the supernatural.
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The Night Shifter
Dir Dennison Ramalho | Brazil
A morgue worker breaks the unspoken code of the dead, with terrifying consequences, in this evocative and idiosyncratic Brazilian chiller.
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School’s Out
Dir-Scr Sébastien Marnier | France
A precocious gang of unnervingly smart teens appear to be harbouring a dark and dangerous secret in this elusive French enigma.
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Tumbbad
Dir Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad | India
In old India, a greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.
Short films programme
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Real Horrorshow
Journey to the deepest and darkest corners of humanity, exposing the horror in the everyday, and encounter those who refuse to be victims.
