ACOLTES

AUSTRALIA

DIRECTOR JON HEWITT

UK PREMIER

James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They're going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest - the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl - 17 year old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It's suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they find the ghostly white body of a woman.  The "adult male" is her killer. And they've got him by the balls. Then, in Chasely's bedroom, as the girl cleans up the latest damage done to Mark's face by an animal called Gary Parker, James floats an idea; What if the killer were contacted and told the name of a guy that they'd like to see dropped in a hole of his own? He's their secret, isn't he? They kind of own him, don't they? If he thinks they might let him go he'd do anything, wouldn't he? What could go wrong? James, Mark and Chasley are about to cross a line of no return as serial killer Ian Wright lures the vulnerable teenagers into his violent world.

DARK REEL

USA

DIRECTOR JOSH EISENSTADT

UK PREMIER

Murder, mystery and mayhem as B movie fan, Adam Waltz, wins Walk on Role in a film Featuring Scream Queen, Cassie Blue (Tiffany Shepis). Thinking his luck had changed for the better he steps into chaos with a killer loose and no one on the production safe. Adams role gets bigger with the murder of an actress, studio chief's (Henriksen) low-budget thriller becomes big with the new publicity... Everyone is a suspect. Who is the killer? Why are they doing this? and who is next?

THE DOUBLE BORN

USA

DIRECTOR TONY RANDEL

UK PREMIER

Golden Globe nominee, Sammi Davis portrays a woman, tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins to resign herself to the bitter likelihood of never having another child. Striking up a friendship with two discarded young laborers, hired to re-paint her son's now silent room. The three lost souls form a disturbing bond as the boys are led deeper into the woman's tormented world. Her family's suspicions of this unsettling new friendship sets off an irreversible series of events, leading to madness and murder as the horrors of the past collide with the sins of the present, ending in tragedy and terror. THE DOUBLE BORN in an intense sexual thriller from the creative team behind the HELLRAISER and WISHMASTER series. Artistic, stylized and unconventionally cinematic, THE DOUBLE BORN is a gritty, voyeuristic exploration of family, desperation, lust and murder. Sometimes, family goes beyond blood.

HELL’S GROUND

PAKISTAN

DIRECTOR OMAR KHAN

Five urban Pakistani college youths lie to their elders and trek out from the familiarity of the city to the completely unfamilar rural countryside to watch the "hottest band in Pakistan" but unfortunately their journey takes one turn after another for the worse...and what was supposed to be a pleasure-ride turns into something quite different. HELL'S GROUND was awarded the BEST FILM award by the Jury at the RIOFAN Film Festival, Rio, Brazil 2008. The Top Award of the Festival

THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD

UK

DIRECTOR LOUIS MELVILLE

WORLD PREMIER

The story of Max: a man who becomes embroiled in time and space and the many dimensions of man's mind and his place within his own universe. One man's journey through the labyrinth of mans mind.

From the producer of The Last Horror Movie comes 1st time director Louis Melville feature film.

Louis is a local lad who got his love of films from  watching them as child at The Regent Centre.

CRUEL

 USA

DIRECTOR DUANE P. CRAIG

EUROPEAN PREMIER

A silent-horror-film, 'Cruel' follows an axe murderer killing people one-by-one, in front of a young girl as a twisted form of vengeance. A parallel storyline follows the young girl's father who will stop at nothing to find and save her.

THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

UK

DIRECTOR PETER GODDARD

Mary Blackwell travels back to her hometown of Maiden Hollow to clear out her recently deceased father’s house. She takes her two children Alice and Sam with her. Whilst there they discover a tiny village, which has been isolated from surrounding towns and in which the locals have developed their own way of life. The villagers are initially hostile towards the new family, but grow to accept them. Local priest Michael Howdy, however, takes an unhealthy interest in Mary’s daughter Alice. Villagers Harry Price, John Elliot and Tom Hopkins, notice this interest and keep a close watch on Michael. After being involved in a car crash some years back, Michael has suffered head and brain injuries which spark off a series of surreal fantasies confusing Alice with his dead wife Isobel (who died in the car crash.) Whether or not Alice is connected with Isobel or that she merely has a resemblance to her is left deliberately ambiguous. Fuelled on by his fantasies and an alcohol addiction that has steadily grown out of control, he rapes and kills Alice out in the woods. Alice’s younger brother Sam witnesses this, runs home and informs his grief-stricken mother. She in turn tells Harry Price and the rest of the villagers who discover Alice’s body and plan revenge.