2017 Festival Film Guide
2017 Films
Film Guide
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Alfred J Hemlock
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When Emily's boyfriend abandons her in the night, her only way home is through an alleyway where she is terrorised by the mysterious entity Alfred J Hemlock. After reaching the depths of her despair she finds the strength that she never suspected she had.
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Alone
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Leïlais 16. She wakes up late, like any other morning. Except that today, no one is here to tell her to get moving. Where are her parents? She gets on her bike and rides through the neighborhood: it's all empty. Everybody has disappeared. Thinking she's the sole survivor of an unexplained disaster, she eventually crosses ways with four other teenagers: Dodji, Yvan, Camille and Terry. Together they will try to understand what has happened and to learn to survive in a world that has become hostile... But are they really alone?
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Apostles
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Alone in his dark abode, a man with no head carefully prepares a large supper in front of a camera. Alert to the lunar calendar on his wall, he must find one last element to stage the gloomy picture he has in mind. Over the fireplace, he bears a strange collection: heads in jars named after the biblical apostles. But one is still missing; Judas. And to get it before the full moon rises, the man will have to do something unthinkable.
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The Baby Whisperer
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Two years after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Ruby still struggles with the loss, long after her father Aaron remarries Grace. With the arrival of newborn step-brother Archie pushing the family into a sleep deprivation limbo, Ruby's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. Withdrawing further into her world of fairy tales, Ruby's relationship with her beloved doll takes on a sinister dimension when she comes to believe she can be reunited with her dead mother. Out of desperation, Grace employs the assistance of a Baby Whisperer - Nina, a woman with a preternatural ability to sooth the sleepless Archie, and return some sanity to the family. But Nina's true motives become clearer as Ruby connects with her on a level of understanding deeper than anyone will suspect.
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Birthday
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Night. An abusive nurse wanders through the halls of a nursing home. She integrates her salary by secretly selling prescription drugs to junkies and stealing from the most vulnerable patients. The only thing she hates more than her job is old people. Upon entering room 12, occupied by three sisters, she discovers that one of them has just turned one-hundred years old: there must be a birthday present somewhere… that will change their lives forever.
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Bloodyback
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In the bloody heart of the French & Indian War, an undead plague strikes! Former enemies must join and fight to survive the horde.
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The Boogeys
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On a future Earth transformed into a planetary ghetto by alien overlords, Dawkins, a cop-turned-pickpocket, tracks down a missing child about to be sold to the ‘Boogeys.' The encounter will determine the child's fate and his redemption.
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The Candle
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Ryder makes a wish for her dreams to come true. She didn't realize it included her nightmares.
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Child's Play
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A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
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Crowded House (Casa Cheia)
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Abandonment:
Action of leave something, a person, a role, a place: family abandonment, abandonment of post; desertion.
Forgetfulness, renunciation: self-abandonment.
Action of leave something, a person, a role, a place: family abandonment, abandonment of post; desertion.
Forgetfulness, renunciation: self-abandonment.
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Day of the Dead
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A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies. The Dead have waited. The day has come.
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DEAD ANT
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When the "one-hit-wonder" glam-metal band "Sonic Grave" embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an "unworldly" vicious attack, and they must "rock" themselves out of harms way.
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Dead Cool
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A dinner party with a difference: meet loner Maurice as he struggles to entertain his new friends. His party is in full swing when a routine search brings the police to his front door. Unfazed by this interruption the party continues, but it isn't long before Maurice is keen to say goodbye to all his guests except Sally. Romance is in the air but it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems.
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Double Date
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Meet innocent Jim, terrified of girls, and on a reluctant quest to prove his manhood the night before he turns 30. He and his cocky friend Alex think they've hit the jackpot when they meet the beautiful siblings Kitty and Lulu, who seem up for anything on a wild party-fuelled night. But little do they know that the femmes fatales want to make Jim lose much more than just his virginity - Getting laid has never been so bloody difficult.
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Dublika
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Terribly late, the prominent scientist leaves the laboratory. She's stressed and absent-minded when she arrives home. Her boyfriend has prepared a special dinner for them. He tries to cheer her up, but her mind is elsewhere. What happened in the lab? Her experiment will have unexpected consequences for her and her boyfriend. "Dublika" is a science-fiction thriller produced in Sweden, in the fictitious german language brzni. A scientist whose life is suddenly threatened, finds herself literally to be in the way of her own happiness.
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The Funhouse
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Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
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Hobby Shop
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After getting herself into a spot of trouble, young Sophia finds sanctuary in a mysterious Hobby Shop. Letting her curiosity get the better of her, she ventures through the store where she encounters a kind and frail man with a peculiar passion for marionettes. Following the man into the depths of his basement workshop, Sophia is confronted with not just the secrets of his craft, but also the tragedies of his past. She must make a desperate attempt to escape the horrors lurking in the basement before she earns a more permanent residency in Mr Hotchkins's Hobby Shop.
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I Love Eva Marsh
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Summer 1996. A small town nestled in the shadow of a gigantic factory.
Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben : walk through the "pontoon of the deathâ€, and come back. But Ben fails miserably.
At night, the Creature appears to him.
Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben : walk through the "pontoon of the deathâ€, and come back. But Ben fails miserably.
At night, the Creature appears to him.
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It Began Without Warning
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The time has come,' the Walrus said. And all the little Oysters stood and waited in a row. From Couper Samuelson, Executive Producer of GET OUT. Co-Producer Efren Ramirez. Official Selection: SXSW 2017, Fantasia International Film Festival 2017 (Winner Silver Prize Audience Award for Best International Short).
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Killer Spacemen From Outer Planet X
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Three brave, intergalactic explorers find themselves in uncharted celestial territory when their ship runs critically low on their much needed fuel source – plutonium. Fatefully, they discover a nearby planet that hosts a wealth of plutonium reserves. Follow the crew on their descent into the unknown as they venture onto the mysterious landscape inhabited by… Killer Spacemen From Outer Planet X!
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Laboratory Conditions
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A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
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The Laplace's Demon
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Eight people are imprisoned in a secluded mansion on an uninhabited island. After waiting in vain for the host, they find a model with eight self-propelled pawns that reproduces the movements of each group member in real time...
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Leatherface
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In Texas, years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family, the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriff's daughter dead. Ten years later, the Sawyer teen kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with three other inmates. Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter's death, Sawyer goes on a violent road trip from hell, molding him into the monster now known as Leatherface.
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Like.Share.Follow
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Q & A with Glen Gers, Keiynan Lonsdale and Emma Horvath moderated by Brian Collins of Birth.Movies.Death
Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation community and rescue...or stalking, obsession and madness.
Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation community and rescue...or stalking, obsession and madness.
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THE LODGERS
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A gothic ghost story about orphaned twins Edward and Rachel who share a crumbling manor in 1920s rural Ireland - but they are not alone. They share the house with unseen entities who control them with three absolute rules. As separate fates draw them apart, the twins must face the terrible truth about their family's ghostly tormentors.
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Man in Box
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Trapped in a box with no memory, a man must escape his confines before it's too late. As time runs out he comes closer to the truth of his identity.
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The Night Delivery
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When grocery delivery employees Max, Bryce and Rich go on the last run of the day, their motives are anything but sincere. As they begin the theft at the Ramsey residence, they quickly discover an evil entity has already taken control of the home and its occupant. In a last ditch effort to escape, the co-workers find themselves hunted, unknowingly drawing the monster through past and present actions. With time running out and the body count rising, they are faced with one final choice. Will it be the right one?
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Night of the Living Dead
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There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these flesh eating monsters.
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Old MacDonald
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A road trip takes a turn when a group of young concert goers stumble onto Old MacDonald's abandoned farmhouse.
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Ouroboros
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Someone is banging on the door. It's the least expected visitor.
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The Passenger
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Cosmonaut Nikolay Valeryevich Basov, the hero of USSR, is trying to recover from the tragedy that darkened his life. He leads a reclusive way of life, isolating himself in his own apartment. Nikolay hardly perceives the world around him and is no longer able to treat life the same way he did before the accident - those fateful 36 hours left an indelible mark on his life after that forced landing in taiga.
Mysterious things begin to happen around Basov after a crucial event - people start disappearing. He suddenly realizes: getting rid of the enigmatic influence of Space will not come easy.
Mysterious things begin to happen around Basov after a crucial event - people start disappearing. He suddenly realizes: getting rid of the enigmatic influence of Space will not come easy.
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The Plague
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Rosa's father escapes from a nursing home and comes back to his former house. He hides a secret, and he's not coming alone.
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Please Love Me Forever
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In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother CLAUDIE (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her 16 year-old handsome neighbor. Scared by so much love, Lyesse rejects Lili. Devastated, she decides to take his heart out to understand why he doesn't love her...
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Post Mortem Mary
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A mother and a daughter who suffers from a crippling fear of death run a post-mortem photography business in 1840's Australia. They arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated parents grieving over the death of their ten-year-old daughter. The mother and daughter photography team quickly get to work but when the mother is required to comfort the grieving parent, the frightened daughter is forced to work alone for the first time. As the young girl confronts her phobia she must do all she can to make the dead look alive..
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Real Gods Require Blood
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Manchester 1990. Alice is new in town, alone and trying to kick an addiction. One hot summer's afternoon she is roped into babysitting for her hysterical neighbour. Meeting the two children, Isaac and Suzanne, she learns about their mysterious uncles and a creature called Bells-a-bus that must be fed when the lights go out. As she struggles with withdrawal and is visited by unwelcome guests, Alice must decide whether to abandon her new wards or stay the night.
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Ruin Me
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Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.
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Run Runner Run
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Run for health, Run for fitness... Run for your life.
Laura, a young and attractive mother, gets out to run as she does every morning through out the woods nearby her house. She could't imagine this time will be the run of her life when she got attacked by some mysterious strangers.
Laura, a young and attractive mother, gets out to run as she does every morning through out the woods nearby her house. She could't imagine this time will be the run of her life when she got attacked by some mysterious strangers.
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SEE YOU TOMORROW
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Mexico City has gone through an epidemic where infected people become terrible beings. In the middle of the chaos, Beatriz gets orphaned and finds interesting to break into abandoned homes because of the virus' outbreak, no matter how dangerous her actions are.
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Slaughter At Lonesome Rock
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A solitary outback police woman investigates two abandoned cars on an isolated road in the dead of night. Searching for clues she is drawn into the surrounding wilderness. One by one she discovers the cars' missing occupants in horribly mutilated states. Shocked and confused she soon becomes doomed to the same dark end, without answers or hope.
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They Make You Grow A Beard
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A young father must fight to save his son when he finds his friends have been replaced by bearded replicants. A chilling, absurdist horror the film looks at the changing nature of the modern man.
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Tigers Are Not Afraid
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We are in a Mexican city turned into a ghost town by the drug-war. Estrella is 11, and when her mother vanishes, she makes a wish: she wants her mother to come back. And mom does return...from the dead. Terrified, Estrella escapes and joins a rag-tag gang of other children orphaned by the violence, all escaping their own past. But she learns that in a city ruled by death, you can't simply leave the ghosts behind; they walk with you wherever you go.
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To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
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Featuring interviews with cinema legends, including Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story peels off the mask of Kane Hodder, cinema's most prolific killer, in a gut-wrenching, but inspiring, documentary.
To Hell and Back is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, leading to his ultimate rise as Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series and making countless moviegoers forever terrified of hockey masks and summer camp.
After decades of watching Kane Hodder on screen, get ready to meet the man behind the mask in To Hell and Back – an uniquely human story about one of cinema's most vicious monsters.
To Hell and Back is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, leading to his ultimate rise as Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series and making countless moviegoers forever terrified of hockey masks and summer camp.
After decades of watching Kane Hodder on screen, get ready to meet the man behind the mask in To Hell and Back – an uniquely human story about one of cinema's most vicious monsters.
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Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: The End of The End
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Continuing where the cult TV series left off, Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: The End of The End: The Animated Feature Film returns to Crowley Heights to find Todd, Jenny and Curtis grieving the loss of their dear friend Hannah. The three must reunite to fight evil when the Book of Pure Evil returns to Crowley High, bringing with it some familiar faces as well as some new foes. But these enemies are merely warm-ups to the final battle with their greatest nemesis yet: The New Pure Evil One.
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Totem
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The howl of a predator interrupts an ancient ceremony. The tribal leader summons the youngest boy to join his brothers in the hunt. They descend into a snowy forest where the boy finds himself alone. Lost and afraid, he plunges into the fight of his young life. Will he survive?
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Tragedy Girls
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Best friends Sadie and McKayla are on a mission to boost their social media fandom as amateur crime reporters hot on the trail of a deranged local serial killer. After they manage to capture
the killer and secretly hold him hostage, then realize the best way to get scoops on future victims would be to, you know, murder people themselves. As the @TragedyGirls become an overnight sensation and panic grips their small town, can their friendship survive the strain of national stardom? Will they get caught? Will their accounts get verified?
the killer and secretly hold him hostage, then realize the best way to get scoops on future victims would be to, you know, murder people themselves. As the @TragedyGirls become an overnight sensation and panic grips their small town, can their friendship survive the strain of national stardom? Will they get caught? Will their accounts get verified?
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Trench 11
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Northern France, 1918. Canadian tunneller ABRAHM BERTON (Rossif Sutherland) specializes in tunneling under enemy lines and exploding their trenches from below. It’s brutal, claustrophobic work – even more deadly than life above ground in the trenches. As World War One approaches its bloody conclusion, Berton allows himself the luxury of dreaming about a life after war with his French fiancé, VERONIQUE (Karine Vanasse). Berton’s superiors CAPTAIN JENNINGS (Ted Atherton) and DR. PRIEST (Charlie Carrick) have other plans. They need his unique expertise to lead a team of Allies below ‘Trench 11’ inside a secret underground German base they suspect to be the home of REINER’s (Robert Stadlober) weapon laboratory. World War One was a violent era for the development of lethal force. ‘Mustard gas’ and the machine gun were both invented during these unforgiving years. Reiner has lost control of a highly contagious biological weapon – a parasite which was intended to destroy Allied livestock, but has an even more profane effect on humans. Despite profound apathy towards his
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Vidar the Vampire
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Vidar Haarr is a 33 year old, sexually frustrated bachelor farmer who leads a Christian, monotonous and strenuous working life on his mother's farmstead in the Western outskirts of Norway. In a desperate attempt to break free from routine, Vidar prays to a higher power to grant him a life without boundaries. Unfortunately, his prayers are heard and Vidar wakes up one evening as the Prince of Darkness in sin city, Stavanger.
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What Metal Girls Are Into
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A darkly comedic thriller about three women going to a three day metal festival in the desert who find something disturbing in the freezer of their isolated vacation rental.
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