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The Descent: Part Two and Pontypool
An American Werewolf In London
(Country: UK, US; Year: 1981; Director: John Landis; Writer: John Landis; Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye, Joe Belcher, David Schofield, Brian Glover, Rik Mayall, Sean Baker, Paddy Ryan, Anne-Marie Davies, Frank Oz, Don McKillop, Paul Kember)
Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
Best Worst Movie
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Stephenson; Writer: Michael Stephenson; Stars: George Hardy, Michael Stephenson, Darren Ewing, Jason Wright, Randall Colburn, Adam Deyoe, Patrick Gibbs, Paul Gibbs, Eric Gosselin, Timothy Marklevitz, Ryan Martin, Chris Pudlo, Jason Steadman, James M. Tate, Scott Weinberg)
Documentary about Troll 2 - considered by many to be the worst film ever made.
Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Paul Davis; Writer: Paul Davis; Stars: Jenny Agutter, Ray Andrew, Vic Armstrong, Rick Baker, Sydney Bromley, Geoffrey Burridge, Malcolm Campbell, Michael Carter, Brenda Cavendish, Paul Davis, Rufus Deakin, Leslie Dilley, Linzi Drew, Griffin Dunne, George Folsey Jr.)
Documentary about the John Landis classic.
Black
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Pierre Laffargue; Writer: Pierre Laffargue, Lucio Mad, Gábor Rassov; Stars: MC Jean Gab'1, Carole Karemera, François Levantal, Anton Yakovlev, Christophe Aquillon, Ludovic Berthillot, Laurent Larrieu, Youssef Hajdi, Guillaume Zublena)
After a bank heist goes south, the surviving robber tries to get rich quick in Senegal, only to fall foul of a millionaire who is morphing into a snake and gaggle of other weirdos vying for power.
Case 36
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Christian Alvart; Stars: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Kerry O’Malley, Callum Keith Rennie)
A social worker's sympathy for a vulnerable 10 year old leads her into unexpected danger.
Best Worst Movie and I Sell The Dead
Clive Barker's Dread
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Anthony DiBlasi; Stars: Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen, Shaun Evans, Laura Donnelly, Carl McCrystal)
Two students agree to participate in a study of fear, not realising that another participant is a psychopath.
Coffin Rock
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Rupert Glasson; Stars: Lisa Chappell, Terry Camilleri, Sam Parsonson, Robert Taylor, Geoff Morrell), Official Site
A psychopath targets a woman who is seeking fertility treatment.
Colin
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Marc Price; Writer: Marc Price; Stars: Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Leanne Pammen, Kate Alderman, Tat Whalley, Leigh Crocombe)
One man's journey into the realm of the undead... from the wrong side of life.
Deadwalkers
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Spencer Eastabrooks, Greg Jeffs; Stars: Michael Shepherd, Adam Sterling, Brendan Hunter)
A bounty hunter stumbles into a town of the undead.
Dead Snow (Død Snø)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2009; Director: Tommy Wirkola; Writer: Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola; Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, Jenny Skavlan, Bjørn Sundquist, Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Lasse Valdal, Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst), Official Site, Trailer
Teens on vacation fall foul of a Nazi-zombie battalion.
Hierro and The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
The Descent: Part Two (The Descent: Part 2)
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jon Harris; Writer: J Blakeson, James McCarthy, James Watkins; Stars: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Douglas Hodge, Krysten Cummings, Gavan O’Herlihy)
The survivor of the first film is forced to lead a rescue party in search of her missing friends.
Evil Things
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Dominic Perez; Stars: Laurel Casilo, Elyssa Mersdorf, Morgan Hooper, Torrey Weiss, Ryan Maslyn)
Things go horribly wrong at a birthday party in a remote country house.
Fragment
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Andrew Miles; Stars: Wayne Bradley, Bree Robinson, Ian McPhee, Erin Chadwick, Alexandra Davies)
A military photographer dying of a brain tumour discovers that he can revive the dead through his camera, and seeks out the beautiful victim of a snuff film.
Giallo
(Country: USA, Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Dario Argento; Writer: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller; Stars: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky, Robert Miano, Valentina Izumi, Silvia Spross, Lorenzo Pedrotti, Byron Deidra, Daniela Fazzolari, Luis Molteni, Giuseppe Lo Console, Barbara Mautino, Taiyo Yamanouchi, Maryann McIver, Anna Varello)
As a killer stalks and kidnaps beautiful young women, how far will the local detective have to go to stop him?
Heartless
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Philip Ridley; Stars: Jim Stugess, Timothy Spall, Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke, Joseph Rawle)
A photographer's son with an unusual birthmark comes to suspect that demons are murdering the people of London.
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl and Heartless
Hierro
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Gabe Ibáñez; Writer: Jesus de la Vega, Javier Gullón; Stars: Elena Anaya, Hugo Arbues, Jon Ariño, Miriam Correa, Tomás del Estal, Andrés Herrera, Javier Mejía, Kaiet Rodriguez, Raquel Salvador, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe)
A mother becomes convinced her missing son is still alive.
The Hills Run Red
(Year: 2009; Director: Dave Parker; Writer: John Carchietta, John Dombrow, David J. Schow; Stars: Janet Montgomery, William Sadler, Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, Alex Wyndham, Mike Straub, Ewan Bailey, Raicho Vasilev, Hristo Mitzkov, Danko Jordanov, Itai Diakov)
A student becomes obsessed by a notorious slasher film tracks down the director's daughter but a trip to the film's location brings back more than bad memories.
The Horde (La horde)
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher; Writer: Arnaud Bordas, Yannick Dahan, Stéphane Moïssakis, Nicolas Peufaillit, Benjamin Rocher; Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Jo Prestia, Jean-Pierre Martins, Aurélien Recoing, Claude Perron, Alain Figlarz, Doudou Masta, Yves Pignot, Antoine Oppenheim, Laurent Demianoff, Sébastien Peres, Cédric Boyer, Gauthier Lamothe)
When corrupt cops storm a mobster's hideout the arrival of zombies forces unlikely alliances to form.
The Horseman
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Steven Kastrissios; Writer: Steven Kastrissios; Stars: Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy, Brad McMurray, Jack Henry, Evert McQueen, Christopher Sommers, Bryan Probets, Steve Tandy, Chris Betts, Damon Gibson)
A grief-mad father tracks down the men responsible for his daughter’s death and discovers more about his daughter than a father should ever know.
The House Of The Devil
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Ti West; Writer: Ti West; Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, A.J. Bowen, Dee Wallace)
Retro suspense thriller centers on a cash-strapped college girl who answers a babysitting ad only to gradually unravel the horrifying secret behind why she was truly hired.
Black and An American Werewolf In London
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (The Human Centipede)
(Country: Netherlands, UK; Year: 2009; Director: Tom Six; Writer: Tom Six; Stars: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlyn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura), Official Site
A mad doctor plans to graft people together so that they form a crawling monstrosity, and two unfortunate American girls fall into his clutches.
Infestation
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Kyle Rankin; Writer: Kyle Rankin; Stars: Diane Gaeta, Deborah Geffner, VJ Kewl, Chris Marquette, Bru Muller, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard, Linda Park, Efram Potelle, Dale R. Simonton, E. Quincy Sloan, Mike Straub, Wesley Thompson, Jim Cody Williams, Ray Wise)
Humans get bugged by outsize creepy crawlies.
It's Alive
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Joseph Rusnak; Stars: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphael Coleman, Ty Glasser, Owen Teale)
After being treated with experimental drugs, a woman gives birth to a baby which is determined to kill everyone is sight.
I Sell The Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Glenn McQuaid; Writer: Glenn McQuaid; Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm, Daniel Manche, John Speredakos, Eileen Colgan, Brenda Cooney), Official Site, Trailer
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.
I Think We're Alone Now
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Sean Donnelly; Writer: Sean Donnelly)
Documentary about two fans obsessed with the pop star Tiffany.
Colin and The Horseman
Macabre
(Country: Singapore, Indonesia; Year: 2009; Director: The Mo Brothers; Writer: The Mo Brothers; Stars: Ario Bayu, Shareefa Daanish, Julie Estelle, Ruly Lubis, Daniel Mananta, Mike Muliadro, Arifin Putra, Dendy Subangil, Imelda Therinne, Sigi Wimala)
Four friends pick up trouble along with a hitchhiker.
Night Of The Demons
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Adam Gierasch; Writer: Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch; Stars: Monica Keena, Shannon Elizabeth, Edward Furlong, Bobbi Sue Luther, John F. Beach)
A group of young women discover that the house where they're enjoying a party is inhabited by demons which want to possess them.
Pontypool
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Bruce McDonald; Writer: Tony Burgess; Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak, Rick Roberts, Tony Burgess)
A radio DJ tries to track the source of a virus which turns people into zombies.
The Shadow
(Country: Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Federico Zampaglione; Stars: Chris Coppola, Jake Muxworthy, Karina Testa, Matt Patresi, Emilio De Marchi, Gianpiero Cognoli, Ottaviano Blitch, Nuot Arquint)
A young soldier on an adventure after returning from Iraq, finds the horrors of war are the least of his worries.
Smash Cut
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Lee Demarbre; Writer: Ian Driscoll; Stars: Sasha Grey, Michael Berryman, David Hess, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Meghanne Kessels, Phil Caracas, Cinthia Burke, David Lipman, Jade Carpenter, Ray Sager, Ian Driscoll, Peter Michael Dillon, Dennis Stamp, Rusty Nails, Kathy Logan), Official Site
Able Whitman is a horror-film director whose movies are panned by critics and audiences alike — until he starts killing people and using their body parts as props in his new flick.
Giallo and The House Of The Devil
Trick 'R Treat
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Michael Dougherty; Stars: Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, Quinn Lord, Leslie Bibb)
Scary stories of vampires, werewolves, zombies and serial killers combine in a small town one Halloween night.
Triangle
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Christopher Smith; Writer: Christopher Smith; Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Melissa George, Emma Lung, Rachael Carpani, Michael Dorman, Henry Nixon), Trailer
When a yachting party get caught in a storm they take refuge on a liner... but is it really a safe haven?
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl
(Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu; Stars: Yuki Kawamura, Elly Otoguro, Takumi Saitoh, Eihi Shiina, Takashi Shimizu)
Two schoolgirls fight over a boy - using supernatural powers and extreme violence.
Zombie Women Of Satan
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Warren Speed, Steve O’Brien; Stars: Victoria Hopkins, Warren Speed, Christian Steel, Seymour Mace, Kate Soulsby)
A rock singer attempts to save her sister from a Satanic burlesque cult.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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