London Film Festival 2014

Short film showcase Take Me To The Other Side will also screen.

View other London Film Festival Films by strand: Dare, Debate, Documentary Competition, Experimenta, Family, First Feature Competition, Galas, Journey, Laugh, Love, Official competition, Sonic, Thrill

Spring Spring
Spring and Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
Cub (Welp) (Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Jonas Govaerts; Writer: Jonas Govaerts, Roel Mondelaers; Stars: Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Jan Hammenecker, Gill Eeckelaert)
A young boy heads to scout camp, certain he will encounter a monster - and he's right.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films (Country: Australia, US, Israel, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Hartley; Writer: Mark Hartley, Mark Hartley; Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Molly Ringwald, Bo Derek, Marina Sirtis, Olivia d'Abo, Robert Forster, Richard Chamberlain, Elliott Gould, Mimi Rogers, Cassandra Peterson, Catherine Mary Stewart, Alex Winter, Franco Nero, Diane Franklin, Michael Dudikoff)
Examination of exploitation cinema.
It Follows (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: David Robert Mitchell; Writer: David Robert Mitchell; Stars: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe)
A teenager finds herself having strange visions and becomes convinced that something dangerous is following her.
In Darkness We Fall (La Cueva) (Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Alfredo Montero; Writer: Javier Gullón, Alfredo Montero; Stars: Marta Castellote, Xoel Fernández, Eva García-Vacas, Marcos Ortiz, Jorge Páez)
Five friends run into trouble on holiday when they decide to explore a cave.
Jamie Marks Is Dead (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Carter Smith; Writer: Christopher Barzak, Carter Smith; Stars: Liv Tyler, Judy Greer, Morgan Saylor, Cameron Monaghan, Madisen Beaty, Erin Wilhelmi, Lizzy DeClement, Noah Silver, Nadia Alexander, Maryann Urbano, Ronen Rubinstein, Fred Tolliver Jr, Connor Antico, Andrew Polk, Ryan Munzert)
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Cub
Kristy (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Oliver Blackburn; Writer: Anthony Jaswinski; Stars: Ashley Greene, Haley Bennett, Lucas Till, James Ransone, Chris Coy, Mathew St. Patrick, Jon Arthur, Jaylen Moore, Corrina Roshea, John L. Armijo, Chelsea Bruland, Wayne Pére, James Rawlings, David Jensen, Al Vicente)
Slasher film set in a university.
The Man In The Orange Jacket (M.O.Zh.) (Country: Latvia, Estonia; Year: 2014; Director: Aik Karapetian; Writer: Aik Karapetian; Stars: Anta Aizupe, Maxim Lazarev, Aris Rozentals)
A fired man sets out for vengeance.
No Man's Land (Wu Ren Qu) (Country: China; Year: 2013; Director: Hao Ning; Writer: Xing Aina, Hao Ning, Ping Shu; Stars: Zheng Xu, Duobujie, Nan Yu, Bo Huang, Duo Ba, Hong Guo, Hao Ning, Hong Tao, Pei Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Xinming Yang, Hu Zhao)
A lawyer finds himself on an adventure as he tries to cross the Gobi desert for a trial.
Shrew's Nest (Musarañas) (Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel; Writer: Juanfer Andrés, Juanfer Andrés, Sofía Cuenca; Stars: Silvia Alonso, Carolina Bang, Nadia de Santiago, Asier Etxeandia, Macarena Gomez, Macarena Gómez, Gracia Olayo, Josean Pérez, Hugo Silva, Luis Tosar)
Post-war Spanish horror.
Spring (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead; Writer: Justin Benson; Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Nick Nevern, Augie Duke, Jeremy Gardner, Holly Hawkins, Vinny Curran, Kenzo Lee, Shane Brady, Chris Palko, Vanessa Bednar, Francesco Carnelutti, Jonathan Silvestri, Some Other Guy)
A grieving man falls for a woman with a dark secret.
It Follows It Follows
It Follows and Tokyo Tribe
Tokyo Tribe (Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Shion Sono; Writer: Santa Inoue, Shion Sono; Stars: Akihiro Kitamura, Ryôhei Suzuki, Hitomi Katayama, Hiroko Yashiki, Kokone Sasaki, Shôta Sometani, Shôko Nakagawa, Riki Takeuchi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Denden, Haruna Yabuki, Yui Ichikawa, Shunsuke Daitô, Motoki Fukami, Takuya Ishida)
Hybrid of Yakuza gang action and hip-hop musical.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Stars: Addison Timlin, Gary Cole, Joshua Leonard, Spencer Treat Clark, Denis O'Hare, Veronica Cartwright, Edward Herrmann, Ed Lauter, Wes Chatham, Starlette Miariaunii, Gracie Whitton, Arabella Field, Lance E. Nichols, Morganna May, Ricky Wayne)
Sixty-five years after a serial killer terrorised a small town... the murders begin again.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Tobe Hooper; Writer: Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel; Stars: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Paul A Partain, Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, William Vail, Terri McMinn, Jim Siedow)
A tragedy that befalls five youths in the Texas outback takes horror to a new dimension.
When Animals Dream (Når Dyrene Drømmer) (Country: Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby; Writer: Rasmus Birch; Stars: Lars Mikkelsen, Jakob Oftebro, Sonja Richter, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Mads Riisom, Stig Hoffmeyer, Tina Gylling Mortensen)
The appearance of dead bodies troubles an adolescent girl living on an island who can feel herself beginning to change.
The White Haired Witch Of Lunar Kingdom (Country: China; Year: 2014; Director: Zhang Zhiliang; Writer: Yusheng Liang; Stars: Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Vincent Zhao)
A new vision of Liang Yusheng’s classic novel Baifa Monü Zhuan.
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