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The Terrifier

Genre
The Terrifier

Met Halloween gaan Dawn en Tara verkleed op pad. Op de radio horen ze waarschuwingen over een moordende clown, maar daar trekken ze zich niet veel van aan.

Als Dawn naar de wc moet, gaat ze een streng beveiligd gebouw binnen. Het ziet het er sinister uit, maar dat is nog niets vergeleken met de daadwerkelijke gruwel die haar daar te wachten staat.

Production year
2016
Film duration
82minutes

Variant

Genre
poster Variant

The EonCorp series continues in this shot-on-video science fiction gore-fest. A lethal alien embryo is used by a deranged man to release a new infection that exceeds the malignancy of Havoc virus, raising the mutant dead from their graves, and unleashing a new breed of alien terror.

Production year
2020
Film duration
41minutes

The El Duce Tapes

Genre
poster the el duce tapes

Between appearing in supporting roles in General Hospital and local TV commercials, Ryan Sexton spent the early 90s documenting the life and art of El Duce, lead singer of the notorious shock rock band The Mentors. Famous for taking the stage in black executioner hoods, the band spent a few moments in the national spotlight after some of their most offensive lyrics were denounced on the floor of the US Senate.

Production year
2019
Film duration
104minutes

South Mill District

Genre
poster South Mill District

Ten years have passed since the alien war, and now the line between human and alien is blurred. The film follows two vagrants who were once subjects of a dangerous experiment involving the assimilation of alien and human DNA. Their bodies were hollowed out by over-sized spiders, bio-engineered by EonCorp, a corporation with evil intentions. The spiders used their bodies as dwelling places until the assimilation process was complete, and their bodies regenerated. Now they wander around the South Mill District, waiting for the spider's mutagenic virus to do what it was meant to do.

Production year
2018
Film duration
25minutes

Ascetic

Genre
poster ascetic

A monk’s dedication is put to the ultimate test in this psychotically psychedelic animated nightmare. Will he succeed? Or will he fall victim to the ultimate enemy his own Self?

Production year
2021
Film duration
18minutes

Dinner in America

Genre
poster dinner in America

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America's decaying Midwestern suburbs.
From director Adam Rehmeier comes this festival hit. His previous film THE BUNNY GAME was a shocker at our 2011 edition and, we are still proud of releasing the dvd back in 2011.

Production year
2020
Film duration
106minutes

Disciples of the crow

Genre
poster discipels of the crow

A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members are children.

Production year
1983
Film duration
30minutes

Attack Of The Giant Blurry Finger

Genre
poster Attack Of The Giant Blurry Finger

Best described as a typical lockdown film: one girl, one apartment one camera..and one giant blurry finger. Maybe better described as an extended joke for everyone who ever tried to take a picture or record some film.

Production year
2020
Film duration
60minutes

Children of the Corn

Genre
poster children of the corn

SWEET SICK TEENS

A boy preacher named Isaac goes to Gatlin, Nebraska and gets all the children to murder every adult in town, and to form a religious cult. A young couple on a road trip stop in Gatlin to report a murder and seek help, but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.

Production year
1984
Film duration
89minutes

The Children (1980)

Genre
poster the children (1980)

SWEET SICK TEENS

A busload of children has disappeared from the quiet New England town of Ravensback, and Sheriff Billy Hart is on the case. A short while later, he manages to track down the kids, but unfortunately they seem to have been transformed into murderous zombies by a cloud of radioactive gas. How can he stop the killer tykes before they destroy the town?

Production year
1980
Film duration
93minutes

Stuck

Genre
poster Stuck

A gymnastics coach must deal with a man who has taken an interest in the young girls she coaches.

Production year
2020
Film duration
14minutes

Right of Way

Genre
plaatje right of way

Imagine a time in the not-too-distant future... a time in which humans are free to roam the streets, without masks, without social distance guidelines. Will it be a dream come true? Or will almost 2 years of quarantining cause us to be a society of bumbling fools? This film answers that question.

Production year
2020
Film duration
2minutes

The Haunted Swordsman

Genre
poster haunted swordsman

A lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world.

Production year
2019
Film duration
16minutes

FUCKING GHOSTS

Genre
poster fucking ghosts

A parody film trailer about a family that buys a new home that’s haunted by horny ghosts.

Production year
2020
Film duration
3minutes

Kalley's Last Review

Genre
Kalley's Last Review - Beauty

Aspiring beauty vlogger Kalley is positively determined to finish her first sponsored review video for an unknown brand’s chemical peel.

Production year
2020
Film duration
10minutes

Make A Wish

Genre
poster make a wish

A timely dark comedy about the sweetest fiancé giving her boyfriend the best birthday present ever.

Production year
2019
Film duration
9minutes

Green Cobra

Genre

With help of Russian mob clients, The Green Cobra details her rise as a “Life Ending Technician,” on the backdrop of a poor soul’s final hours.

Production year
2019
Film duration
13minutes

Red Light

Genre
Red Light

A famous social media influencer is on the way to a Hallowe’en party with friends, when stopped at a red light in a bad part of town, one of them road-rages with the wrong people. They end up handcuffed in a dark basement, where a card-carrying psycho unleashes his sickest fantasies on his victims. No one among millions of followers can help.

Production year
2020
Film duration
10minutes

29 Needles

Genre
poster 29 needles

GAYBUT

29 Needles is a psycho-sexual body horror that follows a disturbed man with an obsession for pain and sex, as he explores his darkest sexual desires. These obsessions lead him to try things most wouldn't dream of. The pain he inflicts upon himself is no longer working to hold back the horrors in his head. As he gives in to his most forbidden desires a whole new side of him awakens, a side that he no longer struggles to hide.

Production year
2019
Film duration
95minutes

Bad Girls

Genre
poster bad girls

Micromicrobudget feature. After robbing a strip club, three desperate teenage girls lead a misogynistic Federal Agent on a lysergic cross-country chase, scoring a duffle bag full of money, drugs, and a crew of willing kidnapees (the girl's favorite bands CHRISTMAS TITS and POLTERGASM) along the way. Director Bickel is known for THETA GIRL, our 2017 opening film.

Production year
2021
Film duration
97minutes

Knives and Skin

Genre
poster Knives and Skin

In rural Illinois, a young girl’s disappearance traumatizes the small-town residents, as secrets are revealed, destroying some relationships and strengthening others. Three girls, Charlotte, Laurel, and Joanna, form a bond in the aftermath of the tragedy. Sophomore year in the racially diverse community turns strange when a succession of traumas accelerates each character’s coming-of-age and mysteries emerge from every complication.

Production year
2019
Film duration
111minutes

Cyst

Genre
poster cyst

In the early 1960s, a small-town doctor invents a machine that uses laser technology to remove skin abnormalities. He experiments to make the machine go smoothly and obtain a patent, but his nurse (Eva Habermann) thinks the machine is dangerous and not ready. The struggle between the two causes the machine to malfunction creating a cyst monster that goes on a rampage in the doctor's office, causing the kind of bodyhorror-comedy that reminds us of Stuart Gorden films.

Production year
2020
Film duration
69minutes

The Hunt

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Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.
Expect an ultra-violent murder game with dark humor that challenges the limits of your political correctness.

Production year
2019
Film duration
90minutes

Stucco

Genre
Stucco Poster

An agoraphobic woman finds a suspicious, hollow wall in her house.

Production year
2019
Film duration
17minutes

Come to Daddy

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Norval's life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related struggles. So when he receives an unexpected letter from his estranged father requesting a visit, Norval catches a bus up to his dad's secluded and scenic waterfront home. Maybe reconnecting with his father will give Norval the emotional fulfillment he's been lacking. Before long, though, he notices something off about his dad, an uneasy feeling triggered by inappropriate comments and a possible over-dependence on booze.

Production year
2019
Film duration
96minutes

Butt Boy

bb

Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip's butt. The best way to get rid of your problems still is to stick it where the sun don't shine. The best title to screen at our festival, oh boy!

Production year
2019
Film duration
97minutes

Unholy 'Mole

Genre
Unholy 'Mole

A selfish man sells the soul of his unborn child to Satan in exchange for forcing his wife to make guacamole for him. Things go wrong...

Production year
2018
Film duration
5minutes

El Cuco - Portrait of a Boogeyman

Genre
El Cuco still

Disobedient kids all over Latin America have always feared El Cuco. The mystery boogeyman appears out of nowhere to kidnap and eat children that don’t obey their parents.

Production year
2018
Film duration
6minutes

MOPE

Genre
mope

In the multibillion-dollar world of pornography, the term mope refers to a low-level, wannabe porn actor who perhaps isn’t quite well endowed or otherwise attractive enough to achieve the success granted to “bigger”-name porn stars. Within the seedy underbelly of the industry, mopes are the lowest of the low, hanging around sets and taking on menial jobs with aspirations of being called upon to participate in a colossal gang-bang scene that could (but most likely won’t) lead to their big break.

Production year
2019
Film duration
105minutes

The Dead Ones

Genre
poster the dead ones

Summer break is almost over. Four youngsters are punished by having to clean the school and can only leave when everything is spick-and-span. At first sight, it looks like the school was left by a very enthused group of students, but soon they realize a horrible event has taken place. While trying to unravel the mysterious havoc, they are chased by four marauding, masked people. These four Gas Masks seem like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as they represent Famine, Pestilence, War, and finally Death. They set traps and hunt the young students down.

Production year
2019
Film duration
73minutes

Color out of Space

poster color out of space

A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches...including them. Director Richard Stanley was our main guest of BUT 2017

Production year
2019
Film duration
111minutes

Hail, Satan?

Genre
poster hail, satan

A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple.

With unprecedented access, HAIL SATAN traces the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple and its enigmatic leader Lucien Greaves are calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation's soul. But are they for real?

Production year
2019
Film duration
95minutes

Whence Come Brussels Sprouts

Genre
Whence Come Brussels Sprouts

This slice of animated obscenity sticks the bony finger of a Very Important Truth in the viewer's mind's eye.

Production year
2019
Film duration
2minutes

Bliss

bliss

Joe Begos returns to BUT after his previous films ALMOST HUMAN and THE MIND'S EYE with an incredible new feature. BLISS takes you on a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles as a young and desperate artist seeks inspiration from constantly getting high to get over her creative block.

Production year
2019
Film duration
80minutes

Night Owl

night owl

A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Presentation by Vanessa Morgan, introducing her new book: Strange Blood - 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies
Short film Orlok's Return, a Belgian Vampire film

Production year
1993
Film duration
77minutes

Midsommar

midsommar

As a follow-up to Hereditary Ari Aster delivers a 2,5 hour cinematographic experience that is the one not to be missed this year.
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Slow-burning horror in broad daylight.

Production year
2019
Film duration
140minutes

Darlin'

darlin

Found at a Catholic hospital, filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns. Here she is to be tamed into a 'good girl' as an example of the miracle of the church. However, Darlin’ holds a secret darker than the 'sins' she is threatened with, and she is not traveling alone. The equally fierce and feral Woman, who raised her, is ever present and determined to come for her, no matter who tries to step in her way.

Production year
2019
Film duration
100minutes

FP2: Beats of Rage

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FP2 is sequel to The FP (2018): In a post apocalyptic future, two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park by playing "Beat Beat Revelation", a deadly version of Dance, Dance, Revolution.
Despite hanging up his boots following the events of 'The FP,' JTRO must return to the blood sport of Beat-Beat Revelation one last time. JTRO and KCDC - his mystical hype man - will quest deep into The Wastes, a land destroyed by the Beat Wars, to compete in the ancient Beat-Beat tournament, "Beats of Rage," face AK-47 - and, hopefully, save the world.

Production year
2018
Film duration
89minutes

The Jerry Show

Genre
The Jerry Show

A miserable sad sack struggled to mollify a bully he can’t escape

Production year
2017
Film duration
9minutes

One must fall

Antonia Pantoja

Sarah is fired by her sexist boss and ends up in a different kind of employment: cleaning up the mess after suicides and murders. Trying to make a living for her son, she hangs in there, collecting body parts and mopping up blood and guts. Until her company gets offered a big operation in an empty warehouse where a serial killer puts his bodies. Once locked inside the team keeps finding more and more body parts, and they keep getting warmer.

Production year
2019
Film duration
85minutes

Dis

Genre
dis

An ex-soldier with a criminal past takes refuge in the woods. A demonic figure seeks the seamen of killers and the blood of the damned to feed his mandrake garden… Visual poetry and underground horror as part of our MIDNIGHT EXTREME program.

Production year
2018
Film duration
61minutes

Control

c

A scientist, trapped all alone on an outpost near Jupiter after the death of her companion, begins to imagine, or realise, that she is not alone after all.

Production year
2017
Film duration
14minutes

An accidental Zombie

zombie

Ted is not your usual Zombie; even as his skin transforms and his hunger for brains increases, he is still in denial that he is the living dead….until he meets a beautiful young Vampire at a therapy session for the paranormal.

Production year
2017
Film duration
83minutes

Reborn

Genre
Reborn

A stillborn baby girl is abducted from hospital by a morgue attendant and brought back to life using electrokinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday she escapes her captor and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of destruction behind her. 'CARRIE meets FIRESTARTER' is a nice comparison, and lead actress BARBARA CRAMPTON delivers a remarkable performance and Julian Richards (JINGA FILMS) directs.

Production year
2019
Film duration
80minutes

Purgatory Road

redeem

On the highways of Mississippi, a psychotic priest and his brother are on a murdering crusade to absolve and forgive with their own brand of murder. Driving around in a rundown van they spread the word of religious insanity and redeem sinners with even greater sins.

Production year
2017
Film duration
98minutes

The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds

Genre
ahhh!

A twisted campfire tale quickly accelerates into a barrage of inspired and gory slasher gags meted out by a body-building, ‘stache-sporting fiend.

Production year
2018
Film duration
8minutes

The Silver

Genre
The Silver Creature

When returning from a trip through the desert, a group of friends drive unknowingly into an alien invasion.

Production year
2018
Film duration
6minutes