Price
- £6.00
Length
- 100
For our third year of the festival, we are expanding the programme to include an international showcase of the best in horror and spooky short film making.
A Yorkshire Gamekeeper tries to discover what has been eating the birds... A grieving woman must confront the malevolent spirit lurking in her house... A man and a woman are having a candlelit dinner at a restaurant are forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations... A bored insomniac scrolls through a dating app but finds a match from hell; A containment failure at a research centre results in a mysterious incident across Lancashire... and more.
Join us for an evening of nightmarish tales with werewolves, ghostly presences, monstrous creatures and dates gone wrong.
The Films
UMBRA
Dir: Pablo Otero I With: Adriana Camarena & Alicia Moruno I Country: Spain I Language: Spanish
A twelve-year-old girl waits while her mother recovers after giving birth, but the night is long, and a hospital holds many secrets and countless doors to open.
MATCH
Dir: Victor Basallote I With: Adelaida Polo & Vanessa Orrego I Country: Spain I Language: Spanish
A bored insomniac scrolls through a dating app but finds a match from hell.
DISSIMULATOR
Dir: Holland Kerr I Country: Australia I Language: English
An astronaut, investigating the crash of a space station on a distant desert planet, receives a signal that water has been found deep in the belly of a mysterious cave.
HAIR
Dir: Tang Ruihong & Xu Nuo I With: Ma Ben & Yan Yuqi I Country: China I Language: Chinese
Hair is a reimagination of the Japanese story of Ringu and tells the story from the perspective of a desperate salesman.
THE WILDS
Dir: Greig Johnson I With: Freya Parker, Nicola Bryant, Tom Bell & Vincent Franklin I Country: United Kingdom I Language: English
Anna receives an urgent phone call from her desperate-sounding and somewhat estranged mother, Helen. Anna's troubled brother has returned to the family home; Helen needs Anna's help and it must be right now – definitely before tonight. The Wilds tells the story of the day Anna Wild finally reconnects with her family; all thanks to a lycanthropy-based emergency.
THE THING THAT ATE THE BIRDS
Dir: Sophie Mair & Dan GitshamI With: Erin Slattery, Rebecca Palmer & James Swanton I Country: United Kingdom I Language: English
On the North Yorkshire Moors, a Gamekeeper tries to discover what has been eating the grouse.
THE LOVERS
Dir: Carolina Sandvik I Country: Sweden
A man and a woman are having a candlelit dinner at a restaurant. All of a sudden, the man's appearance begins to change. A stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
SHE LIVES ALONE
Dir: Lucy Rose I With: Rachel Teate, Lauryn Elise & Karen Littlejohn I Country: United Kingdom I Language: English
Living amidst the lonely and barren hills, Maud is content to provide and rely solely upon herself. Still coming to terms with the death of her abusive mother, she refuses visitors and confines herself to her house. When Maud’s prayer beads go missing, she is happy to dismiss the disappearance but as the strange happenings go from bad to worse, Maud is left with no choice but to confront the spirit hiding in the shadows of her home.
DAYS OF SPRING
Dir: Arianne Hinz I With: Anoek Neervoort, Maeve Hickey & Carice Roth I Country: Netherlands I Language: Dutch
11-year-old Roos invites best friend Ella to join her enigmatic group of friends in their mysterious games. But there is a catch. As the stakes get higher, Roos must ask herself whether she can accept the group's increasingly disturbing demands.
LANCASHIRE 1981
Dir: Tom Bohan I Country: UKs I Language: English
A containment failure at a research centre results in a mysterious incident across Lancashire.
