Films in Cult
From the mind-altering and unclassifiable to fantasy, sci-fi and horror.
Cult gala
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The Lighthouse
Dir Robert Eggers | USA
Robert Eggers, the Sutherland Award-winning director of The Witch, returns to terrorise the LFF with his masterful maritime shocker.
Feature films
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Adoration
Dir Fabrice du Welz | Belgium-France
The ‘lovers on the run’ genre is reimagined as childhood fairytale in this darkly unsettling odyssey from the acclaimed director of Calvaire and Alleluia.
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The Antenna
Dir-Scr Orçun Behram | Turkey
Paranoia reigns in this arresting hybrid of body horror and social commentary, which promises to be one of the year’s most subversive genre films.
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Color Out of Space
Dir Richard Stanley | USA
Richard Stanley, visionary director of horror classics Hardware and Dust Devil, makes a triumphant return with this dazzling adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s otherworldly tale.
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Deerskin
Dir-Scr Quentin Dupieux | France
One man’s love for his designer jacket escalates to dangerous heights in what might just be the strangest serial killer film ever made.
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The El Duce Tapes
Dir-Scr Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence, Ryan Sexton. | USA
Assembled from a treasure trove of archive VHS footage, the wild story of punk rock’s most outrageous provocateur is not for the faint of heart.
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Koko-Di Koko-Da
Dir-Prod-Scr Johannes Nyholm | Sweden-Denmark
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a very nasty surprise…
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Leap of Faith
Dir-Scr Alexandre O Philippe | USA
46 years ago, The Exorcist terrified an entire generation of cinema-goers. Now we explore what really went into the making of a horror masterpiece.
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Little Monsters
Dir-Scr Abe Forsythe | Australia-USA-UK
Lupita Nyong’o shines in a delirious zom-com that guarantees you’ll never listen to Taylor Swift in the same way again.
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The Lodge
Dir Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | UK-USA
Goodnight Mommy directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala take us to a remote cabin in the woods for their spine-chilling sophomore feature.
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Synchronic
Dir Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson | USA
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring, The Endless) return to the LFF with their latest hallucinogenic excursion into the far reaches of the mind.
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Vivarium
Dir Lorcan Finnegan | Ireland-Belgium-Denmark
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a pair of first-time buyers who get more than they bargained for in this twisted fable about the horrors of suburban living.
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Wounds
Dir-Scr Babak Anvari | USA
Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson are drawn into a bizarre nightmare in Babak Anvari’s fascinating and unconventional follow-up to Under the Shadow.
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You Don’t Nomi
Dir Jeffrey McHale | USA
Paul Verhoeven’s much-maligned masterpiece is placed under the microscope in this fascinating rumination on the one and only Showgirls.
Short films programme
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When You Think You Know How It Ends
Meet the doppelgängers, the outcasts and the weirdos.
