A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
Roger Corman (1926 – 2024)
Summer just got a lot shorter for 19 year old Raphael Tinski. It’s 2007 and the peak of emo-culture is in full swing. Raphael just got arrested by a psychotic cop. Raphael just fell in love with a girl at community service. Raphael might get blown up by nukes.
In “Mijn Ode Aan Jou,” an unnamed woman struggles with mental health issues. A stranger offers love and support, helping her find hope in her battle against inner demons.
Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee. But the toilet at the rest stop is broken. And an increasingly absurd odyssey through this toxic male biotope begins.
Deep in the Himalayas, a group of sherpas kills a gigantic humanoid creature. Convinced that it is the legendary Yeti, Dr. Claire Collier organises an expedition with her former student Matt Connor and hunter Rondo Montana, among others, to search for more specimens. But what awaits them is something that none of them could have imagined. A colourful fusion of real image and stop-motion that is reminiscent of fantastic films from the 1980s.
Club owner Chemkar lives for excess and criminal business. When the mysterious and seductive drug courier Eris brings him the brand-new designer drug FLASHBACK, the doors to long-buried memories of his childlike, innocent self are opened. Chemkar believes he has found redemption. But Eris's love does not lead to paradise, but straight to hell.
What is The Paragon? It’s a question that Dutch is about to find out the answer to in this microbudget fantasy-comedy set in an Auckland that has become the battleground of powerful psychics. An everyday schmo, Dutch is special in approximately one way—he’s died recently. The victim of a hit and run, he was technically not-of-the-living for about six seconds before he was resuscitated.
Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally ‘through’ the feared ‘gang of four’, and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen.
As part of our REBEL HELL program we present this insane gorefest to conclude the festival. Out with a bang!
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. The film was an international triumph, but its star Bruce Lee died unexpectedly after the release, leaving the world without its new action superstar.
After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he’s capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.
Alter, in her 40s, suffers from a profound ailment that is eating her inside out. After attempting suicide, she is consulting her therapist Léandro Lecreulx, a specialist in hypnosis, who connects her to her most buried terrifying fears. Léandro is developing unique methods to help his patients deal with their childhood trauma.
Two cult missionaries go door to door, and in one house accidentally kill a person. They hide the body and end up in the middle of a night of live role-playing gamers. They try to survive the night by blending in and trying not to get caught. Humour from Finland about Dungeons and Dragons with cosplayers who take it way too seriously.
This movie examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s. Journalist Marc Varenberg disappeared with his cameraman in mysterious circumstances while investigating. Almost thirty years later, two web reporters reopen the investigation to find out what really happened.
Alex (Al Pillay) is a disgruntled server at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex and cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karpov (Dave Beard) and Spider (Lemmy) plot to involve the inept anarchists in their plans to derail the Prime-Minister-to-be's campaign.
In this Cult classic par excellence, The Pogues and Motorhead team up for 90 minutes of complete madness. As if a Young Ones episode turns into a full-length feature.
After a strange dream, a young woman is abducted by aliens who try to take away her youth.
Buckle Up a.k.a. BAKLAP is an interactive action-comedy film. Berry (played by Henk van Straten) has lost everything, but his sister finds him a job at taxi company IVOTAX. When his new boss Ivo finds out about Berry's shady past, Ivo devises a bizarre experiment that results in an intense chase through the streets of Eindhoven (Netherlands).
The restoration of works of art requires great expertise, the right materials and a lot of work, but at the same time makes us enjoy, intense emotions...
A story of true love… and violence.
In the dark hall, candles flickered faintly. A body lay in the middle of the hall. Huei and her husband Wen Hsiung came to say goodbye to Huei’s dearest sister. The seemingly calm and sad farewell ceremony seemed to hide an astonishing and dark secret......
A short story about a unique history textbook written by only one of the letters from the alphabet.
Shay, the happy-go-lucky last woman on earth, thinks the end of the world is great. She can do, eat, and wear whatever she wants. In fact, the only downside she’s noticed is that the apocalypse makes it hard to get laid. So when she stumbles upon a zombie-infested sex shop, she’s willing to take on its undead horde of Mean Girls if it means getting satisfaction.
Three reckless robbers target a chinese club. They don't know that the bartender, the only one who knows the safe combination, is narcoleptic and falls asleep when too emotional...
After a bungled robbery, a petrol station owner must decide whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in Ballybeg.
Mai was abused by her parents in her childhood. Now she is 20 years old, spends meaningless days hanging out with her best friend Kana. One day, Mai encounters a possible "cosplay killer" in the news, he is said that he murders people repeatedly wearing mask and costumes of cute anime characters. Mai prepares to be killed, but the killer just stares at her and then disappears. Mai feels anxiety, but at the same time, she begins to associate the cosplay killer with "Shinji", the man who saved her in the past. Meanwhile, the cosplay killer strangely attracted to Mai.
Anti-Fascism/Post Apocalyptic short animated:
In a remote rural estate house, a woman sleeps, she is alone. It’s a time not far from the dawn of the moving image, the obsessed and wealthy Dr. Epstein engineers a number of scientific experiments. He subjects his adopted children, Pete and Re-Pete, along with his darling flapper, Baby Dee, to his various scientific tasks. Things take a decidedly strange turn when Epstein makes a deal with some shifty-looking vagabonds. On doing so he opens a door to the unknown, ruptures the fabric of time and unleashes a shadow-like character bent on reducing all those he encounters to dust.
A documentary about a woman who handles her body dysmorphia by creating outrageous outfits.
A group of stoners wearing Electric Wizard and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats T-shirts drive to their vacation home with a van full of Black Sabbath CDs, weed, bongs, acid, and other goodies. Once at the house, the party starts, and an evil lysergic witch is summoned after Ricky "The Acid King" sacrifices his friend to Satan. Drug-fueled madness, murder, and mayhem follow in a downward spiral of violence.
The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male settler cab driver. As Stephanie tries to evade increasingly invasive questions from the driver, the ride takes a dangerous turn when he locks her in the vehicle and speeds out of the city. In a deserted lot she is faced with this predator.
We take a look in the life of an Aromatherapist, who treats his patients to truly transforming healings.
Undercover agent Watanabe has been sent to assassinate “Void Dharma,” the boss of an international crime syndicate based in K City, in the rear of Japan. Watanabe decides to carry out the assassination at the “Void Dharma Mass Assembly” and calls for his reinforcements. On the other hand, dreamy boy Housuke is being bullied fiercely in middle-school. In the midst of such a hellish situation, Housuke asks a machine called “Dharma-Ray” for help. Will destruction or regeneration be the destination for those living in a degenerate world where truth is mixed with lies?
Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with mainstream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against bourgeois society, but certainly in a negation - almost joyful in its senseless violence - of all the codes of a society that has excluded, raped and humiliated them. Controversial for its violence and real sex scenes: a vividly nihilist road movie set in France.
Rendered mute after a horrific assault in the park by a sadistic old paedophile, young Madeleine tries to escape the traumatic experience living in silence in her parents' farmhouse. However, things will take a turn for the worse, when an innocent offer for a lift by a handsome stranger in a flashy sports-car leads to a nightmarish life of prostitution, abuse, and drug addiction.
Il cittadino si ribella - Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side. The Italian title sounds like vigilante poetry: IL CITTADINO SE RIBBELLA. From Enzo G. Castellari, who was so kind to pay us a visit as the main guest of the 2017 edition.
Architect seeks revenge and becomes vigilante after group of hoodlums break into his apartment and rape his wife and sister. Sounds familiar? That's because it's a Turkish remake of the original Death Wish. A bit more bloody and less dramatic.
The story sees three wealthy, middle-aged CEOs - all married family men - get together for their annual hunting game in a desert canyon. It's a way for them to let off steam and affirm their manhood with guns. But this time, one of them has come along with his young mistress, who quickly arouses the interest of the two others. Things get out of hand and she is left for dead in the middle of this arid hell. However, the young woman is very much alive, and the hunting game turns into a ruthless manhunt.
After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice. BUT FF is proud to present the namesake title for this year's program. VIGILANTE comes at a 4K restoration by Blue Underground, featuring Fred Williamson and Robert Foster.
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed’s second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob’s next victim?
When Doug tell his mother he got an internship so that she gives him money to keep his weed plants, he doesn't realize where his lie will drag him.
When a ordinairy man visits the toilet in a restaurant, he hears two men talking about what seems to be a drug deal. Scared but quiet he listens to them.
'Is Your Teen A Homosexual?' is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump's America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.
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.
The caretaker of a neighborhood community hears strange strange percussive music, noises and screams that comes from the house of one of his neighbors. Something strange is happening in there.
Trevor reflects on his fear of dating.
SWEET SICK TEENS
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982.
A parody film trailer about a family that buys a new home that’s haunted by horny ghosts.
A poetic and nightmarish dive into the deranged mind of a psychotic little girl.
Nina is 10 years old but isn’t like other little girls.
Nina has two secrets... She has freed Tony the monster who lives in the magical cave and
she has just killed her parents...
BLOODY BELGIUM
Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it - or she will kick them out. Anywhere these schmucks turn up, there is chaos and misunderstanding, people get hurt or are killed by accident. They truly master the art of fucking things up. Brussels has become a dangerous place.
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.