german premiere

project silence

Dense fog sets on Seoul's gigantic Incheon Bridge and causes a pile-up and explosion. The survivors have to get off the bridge quickly, danger lures from all sides, especially inside a military van …. A spectacular disaster scenario meets creature spectacle as an increasingly desperate fight for survival rages 70 metres above the sea. In one of the main roles stars recently deceased PARASITE actor Lee Sun-kyun.

fear good – deutschlandpremiere

plastic guns

The crème de la crème of criminology is looking for murderer Paul Bernardin. A breathless chase through Europe begins. After BLOODY ORANGES, director Jean-Christophe Meurisse continues to explore the boundaries of taste and genre with relish in PLASTIC GUNS. The subversive satire turns everything upside down. A marvellously mean caricature of the serial killer thriller – or as they say in France: a homage.

german premiere

the well

Everything gets out of hand when restorer Lisa saves a mysterious painting from the 15th century. Federico Zampaglione sends TERRIFIER 2 amazon Lauren LaVera into a splatter frenzy that's a real treat – and us into a nostalgic, bloody homage to the Italian horror wave of the 1970s/1980s. The setting, the soundtrack, and the extreme special effects recall immortal classics such as PROFONDO ROSSO or MACABRO.

fear good – deutschlandpremiere

sayara

With BASKIN Can Evrenol catapulted Turkey in 2015 onto the horror film map. With this mercilessly intense thriller, he aims to another level of brutality. Fists smash bodies, blades split skulls and brain matter drips from combat boots. As Sayara's father would put it: "Warriors like you and me only remember our first execution. Everything after that is darkness." It gets very dark.

fresh blood

humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person

French-Canadian director Ariane Louis-Seize finds her own charm for the nocturnal quarrels of bloodthirsty immortals in the tradition of cult films such as LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Her feature film debut celebrates the fragile first love and coming into being of young vampire Sasha. If she wants to survive, she has to stop to have mercy with her potential preys. This does not mean that this enchanting horror comedy is not bloody.

the roundup: punishment

The fierce policeman Ma Seok-do is back and goes after cybercrime! His opponents are the tech genius Chang Dong-cheol and his partner Baek Chang-gi. The ex-soldier Baek turns out to be a psychopath and ensures that PUNISHMENT, round 4 of the ROUNDUP series, is for sure the most brutal of all parts. Don Lee (TRAIN TO BUSAN, THE ETERNALS) as Ma is in top form and once again will get plenty of bloody knuckles. 

internationale premiere

oddity

Dani spends the night alone in her mansion in the countryside. Suddenly, a man comes to the door and warns her about an intruder. Some time later: Dani was murdered that night. While her husband Ted has a new girlfriend, Dani’s blind sister Darcy, who deals with antic oddities, wants to find out about the truth concerning her sister’s death. CAVEAT director Damian McCarthy once again proves his skills as a connaisseur of fear. 

abschlussfilm | deutschlandpremiere

late night with the devil

Jack Delroy, the host of the late-night show “Night Owls”, has one wish: the programme of the 1977 Halloween night has to be spectacular. Among his guests is also 13-year-old Lilly, who claims to be possessed by the mysterious Mr. Wiggles. LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL by the Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes is a hommage to 1970s television culture and classics such as THE EXORCIST.

the empire

A science fiction parody wins the Jury Prize at the Berlinale! And well deserved, since Bruno Dumont’s absurd STAR WARS spoof defies all conventions when it contrasts an epic "space opera" with mundane provincial everyday life. THE EMPIRE delights with bizarre characters and amazes with its creative effects. The space stations in the form of Notre-Dame and Versailles Palace alone are unbeatable. 

german premiere

bitten

Françoise is sure that this will be her last night. To celebrate the last hours before her death, she escapes with a friend from the monastery boarding school to join a party in the woods. There she meets her first love: the vampire Christophe. Set in 1967, this melancholic gothic drama by French director Romain de Saint-Blanquat, with its close-ups and 1960s score, is an ode to the morbid romanticism of youth.