Mystery

Poland Nights

Poland Nights poster After a meteorite impact, a small polish village fall into a parallel dimension. A television crew goes on to investigates, but little do they know that their reporter just escaped from a mental institute.

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Phantom of Death

Phantom of Death DVD Michael York stars as piano virtuoso Robert Dominici who suddenly contracts a devastating disease that ages him rapidly. With death closing in fast a decaying Robert abandons tinkling the ivories to instead embark on an arpeggio of vicious slaughter upon anyone who finds out about his impending gruesome fate!

Closing in fast to try and end this crescendo of violence is Police Inspector Datti, played by the seasoned psychopath chasing Donald Pleasence. Will he solve this mystery? Not before you’ve enjoyed a long and lingering symphony of superbly gory set pieces!

Phantom of Death (Un Delitto Poco Comune) was released on UK DVD on October 1st by Shameless Screen Entertainment.

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Fragments

Fragments poster Fragments is a double-murder-mystery with fast paced twist after twist after twist. It is being filmed digitally and will be presented in black-and-white.

The film is directed, written and produced by Ross Nickson, under his Dubious Films production banner.

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Saxon

Saxon Saxon is a 90-minute drama that lives in the same dark alley as Dead Man’s Shoes and Trainspotting. The basic story runs along classic lines: a reformed bad man is compelled to undertake a desperate mission which unleashes the demons of his past. On a journey through revenge, hope and horror, the narrative unfolds at the gripping pace of a good thriller.

London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie’s other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing, feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth, and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon: the place where he grew up, the place where his mother works as a prostitute, the place where he murdered a bailiff.

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Sleuth

Sleuth poster In Sleuth, a millionaire detective novelist (Michael Caine) matches wits against an unemployed actor (Jude Law) who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious and seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences.

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The 4th Dimension

Poster for The 4th Dimension The 4th Dimension is a meditative examination into the mind of an introverted genius who obsesses to solve the complexity of time. The 4th Dimension explores the dark and lonely world between dreams and reality.

Jack is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock, unexplainable events begin to occur. After finding Albert Einstein’s journal on his still unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack becomes compulsive about analysing time and theorizing its connection to his supernatural experiences, his surreal dreams, and his perception of reality, only to lead to the discovery of the biggest mystery of all - himself.

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Deadwing

Deadwing David is a loner, submersed in his job as a sound designer. Late one night he spots something in the film rushes that he cannot explain. This event, and a chance encounter with the mysterious Elizabeth, leads him down the winding path of his subconscious where he has to confront his past head on.

The writers of Deadwing are Mike Bennion and Steven Wilson. Mike directs TV commercials, music videos, the occasional short film. Steven is singer/songwriter/lead guitarist of the bands Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Blackfield and Bass Communion. Mike plans to direct this movie, Steve to compose the soundtrack.

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The Kovak Box

Poster for The Kovak Box David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, his heroes, his villains, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?

David arrives in Majorca, an idyllic Mediterranean island, for a conference. Everything seems to be going well until his fiancée receives a strange telephone call. Suddenly, she jumps to her death from the hotel balcony. What could possibly have driven her to do this? As David desperately searches for an answer, people start dying all around him, inexplicably committing suicide.

David becomes the reluctant hero of one of his own stories, but this time, he has no idea how it ends. The writer crosses paths with a young tourist named Silvia, who has survived her own suicide attempt, and together they are plunged into a nightmarish game that could spell disaster for the whole of mankind.

To prevent this, David must now do what nobody else has done: he must somehow find a way to escape from The Kovak Box.

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Den Brysomme Mannen

Poster for Den Brysomme Mannen Picture this: after a bus ride through a bleak desert, an eccentric older man drives you to a nameless town, where a house, a three-piece suit and an office job are waiting for you. Anonymously you disappear into the grey nothingness of an existence as functioning wage slave and average citizen. This will either snuff out all feeling and initiative you ever had, or cause you to develop a rebellious spirit which you never knew you had in you. The latter happens to Andreas (Aurvag) in the Norwegian/Icelandic production Den Brysomme Mannen (The Bothersome Man): Andreas’ necktie of monotony starts to strangle him. Alcohol and sex don’t help, nor do a bit of self mutilation or even a bloody suicide attempt. The inevitable has to be faced: find a way out of this prison filled with identical living dead with model homes and fake smiles.

Even though this shrewd horror comedy by Jens Lien mainly ridicules the current Norwegian society, it is perfectly clear that it’s just as relevant for other West European countries. The director didn’t even use an old-fashioned society bashing novel for inspiration, but a vicious radio play by author Per Schreiner, who wrote the film adaptation himself. Subtitle to The Bothersome Man could be: ‘The Scandinavian thinker’s horror vacui’. The highly feared spiritual and intellectual emptiness of the consumer society is everywhere. In every modern city in the world you can find identical copies of protagonist Andreas in traffic jams, standing at the bus stop and at the train station, dreaming of 4.30PM. No serial killer or flesh eating alien monster can beat that nightmare image.

Den Brysomme Mannen is screening at the Amsterdam Fantasy Film festival on April 20th and 24th.

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No Right Turn

No Right Turn poster Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook. She is quite fed up of her current lifestyle especially the drunken dreams of Johnny and, to escape from her weary life she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy. One night after an argument with Johnny, she storms home where she is abducted by a pair of thugs and is fortunately rescued by a timid and guilt-ridden girl, Monella.

Even though they are from two very different worlds, they quickly become close friends and sooth each other lives.

Johnny hearing about Nina’s ordeal with the thugs, sadly attempts to win her heart back by going on a crazy revenge spree. This scares Nina off even more. Nina eventually tells Monella of her ploy of escaping from Johnny’s seedy world by conspiring to steal his much talked about hidden stash, stored in a safety deposit box deep in the neon city.

Monella reluctantly agrees to help…and we follow each of their dangerously entangled lives until their ultimate and timely fate.

No Right Turn is a haunting fairy-tale thriller set between snowy landscapes and a neon city.

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