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dark match

After his two WOLFCOP hits, in which he plays crazy with the werewolf genre, Lowell Dean comes up with a new, unusual idea. In DARK MATCH he crosses creative wrestling stunts with crude occult splatter! A wrestling group takes part in a fight because of the good fee. But then they encounter Satanists who have a brutal plan. Buckets full of blood flow in all directions. Get ready to rumble!

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twilight of the warriors: walled in

Big, loud and crazy: This is for sure what you will see already in the first few minutes of TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN by Soi Cheang (LIMBO). Set in Hong Kong and based on the “Walled City” that was till its demolition in 1993 the most densely populated neighbourhood in the world, he presents a frenetic action film. This hommage to Hong Kong cinema is a fantastic spectacle, reuniting big names such as Louis Koo and Sammo Hung on the big screen.

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speak no evil

James Watkins comes back with a brilliant remake of the Danish horror thriller by Christian Tatdrups SPEAK NO EVIL. In his interpretation an American family meets an Irish one, and from there things get out of hand. James McAvoy’s performance recalls Jack Nicholson’s unforgoten appearance in SHINING. As for the Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy and Aisling Franciosi they are no less impressive in this head-spinning tour de force full of bitterly wicked humour.

german premiere

kill

KILL is the best what action cinema can offer. Elite soldier Amrit finds himself in a night train to New Delhi to prevent the marriage of the love of his life, when a clan of robbers start to torment the passengers. KILL is as straightforward as THE RAID and a frenetic version of DIE HARD on rails. The audience will be pulled through it at the same speed as its protagonists. It will take your breath away.

fresh blood – deutschlandpremiere

hunters on a white field

Alex is excited: His boss has invited him on a hunting trip! After a while he feels Greger and his old friend Henrik act weirdly. The atmosphere becomes increasingly tense in this survival trip. What is fun and what serious? It's not just Alex who finds the profound experiences upsetting, the audience will feel so too. And then there are also the gory hunting scenes in this directorial debut by Sarah Gyllenstierna …

fear good – deutschlandpremiere

handling the undead

After LET THE RIGHT ONE IN a new Scandinavian horror bestseller by John Ajvide Lindqvist finds its way to the big screen. HANDLING THE UNDEAD by Thea Hvistendahl is no less disturbing, unsettling and a dark drama revisiting the zombie formula, which becomes all the more frightening the closer the horror gets to us. Disturbingly visionary genre cinema from our Nordic neighbours.

german premiere

azrael

Director of CHEAP THRILLS, E.L. Katz, teams up with the amazing Samara Weaving (READY OR NOT) in the lead role to create courageous adrenaline cinema without answers: What exactly does the cult believe in? Who (or what!) are the creatures burned beyond recognition who massacre everything in their path? There is no time for explanations: the breathless action rolls over us. AZRAEL leaves us speechless.

fear good – deutschlandpremiere

wake up

Armed with buckets full of animal innards, a group of activists plans to secretly demolish a huge department store. But they didn’t think of the night guard … After their genre comedies TURBO KID and WE ARE ZOMBIES, the directing trio RKSS switch to hard slasher – and with a lot of verve! It does for sure not spare anyone and entertains with creative killing methods and thrills right up to the consequent finale.

fresh blood – deutschlandpremiere

things will be different

Michael Felker has already made a name for himself as the long-time editor of the brainfuck films by indie icons Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Now, with THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, he delivers a directorial debut whose mysteriousness is entirely in line with his original employers. A wild, fascinatingly visionary sci-fi trip that shoots straight into the brain – and bites right into it.

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the substance

Why are the French female filmmakers of today so passionately devoted to radical body horror? Coralie Fargeat's new film after REVENGE knows no taboos. That is thrilling! Fargeat gradually leads us closer to the abyss of absurdity, and to a constantly more extreme monstrosity. Demi Moore is brillant in this exceptional role of a faded star who finds a substance with which she can overcome her age.