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I SELL THE DEAD (15)
Dir. Glenn McQuaid | 2009 | USA | 1hr 25mins
Starring Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden
The harrowing tale of Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes, two bumbling grave robbers embroiled in a series of adventures with the dead and not so dead. With an equal balance of scares and humour and lavish production design, I Sell The Dead is a pitch-perfect vintage-styled horror movie, harking back to the days of Hammer and Amicus.
LAKE MUNGO (18)
Dir. Joel Anderson | 2008 | Australia | 1hr 29mins
Starring Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe
A community in rural Australia is rocked by mysterious paranormal phenomena following the accidental drowning of a young girl in this faux-documentary that will send a chill down the spine of even the most hardened horror fan.
GRACE (18)
Dir. Paul Solet | 2009 | USA | 1 hr 25 mins
When an accident leaves her unborn baby dead inside her, Madeline insists on carrying her child to term. When she delivers, the baby miraculously returns to life, but begins to display a sinister hunger for human blood. Madeline must make a mother's ultimate decision and discover how far she is willing to go to save her child.
YOROI: SAMURAI ZOMBIE (18) – UK Premiere
Dir. Tak Sakaguchi | 2008 | Japan | 1hr 31mins
A family held hostage by criminals find themselves stuck in a mysterious abandoned village, where any single drop of blood spilled on the ground causes a samurai zombie to emerge. The streets soon become crowded with rotten, undead warriors, staggering around in search of someone to slice into tiny little pieces.
VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL (18)
Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu | 2009 | Japan | 1hr 25mins
The directors of TOKYO GORE POLICE and STACY offer their own deranged take on the classic high school movie. When new girl Monami offers chocolate to the most handsome boy in school on Valentine‘s day, she incurs the wrath of his uber-popular girlfriend Keiko. But things get complicated as Monami turns out to be a vampire and Keiko is soon transformed into Frankenstein’s monster by her mad scientist father and the stage is set for a showdown between the two. Think Clueless with blood. Lots of blood.
COFFIN ROCK (15)
Dir. Rupert Glasson | 2009 | Australia | 1hr 30mins
Jess and Rob are both desperate for a child but unable to conceive, and the arrival of Evan, a young stranger in town shatters their idyllic lifestyle after Jess has a drunken fling with him. As Jess’ guilt grows, so does Evan’s disturbing and psychotic behaviour, and Jess must fight to save not only her marriage but also her life.
NEIGHBOR (18) – UK Premiere
Dir. Robert Angelo Masciantonio | 2009 | USA | 1hr 30mins
A nameless young woman travels from house to house in a suburban neighbourhood, staying long enough to torture and kill the house’s occupants for her own amusement. Her latest occupation is a house belonging to Don, a young bachelor who’s having a house party in several days, so this time, maybe she’ll stick around a little longer than usual… A dazzling grand guignol epic… not for the faint hearted!
ANGUISH (18)
Dir. Bigas Luna | 1987 | Spain | 1hr 30mins
Starring: Michael Lerner, Zelda Rubenstein
After being hypnotized by his bizarre mother, a disturbed optometrist’s assistant goes on a brutal killing spree to carve the eyeballs from his victims. But just when you think you've seen it all, comes the most shocking twist imaginable in this seldom-seen classic of 80’s horror.
THE BURNING (18)
Dir. Tony Maylam | 1981 | USA/Canada | 1hr 31mins
A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned in a prank gone awry, returns years later to exact revenge on those responsible.
PIECES (18)
Dir. Juan Picquer Simon | 1982 | USA/Spain/Puerto Rico | 1hr 30mins
A deranged killer stalks a college campus, gathering various body parts to assemble a human jigsaw puzzle(!) in this gloriously trashy and over-the-top exploitation gem.
SHORT FILMS
Bad parenting, a crazed woodsman with a god complex and bizarre family rituals are just some of the delights within the festival’s short film programme which will be screened before the main features throughout the weekend. Highlights include a horrifying vision of work for the elderly in Matthias Vogel and Thomas Oberlies’ Full Employment and a tale of innocence lost in Alicia Conway’s haunting Rite, fresh from this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
RUE MORGUE PRESENTS: CURIOUS STORIES, CROOKED SYMBOLS
THE SHORT FILMS OF RODRIGO GUDINO
Dir. Rodrigo Gudino | 2006-2008 | Canada | 43 mins
We are proud to present a retrospective screening of the films of Rodrigo Gudino, founder of Rue Morgue Magazine. The films include The Eyes of Edward James, the multi award-winning Demonology of Desire and his most recent work The Facts In The Case of Mister Hollow, all three of which have screened extensively all over the world.
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