
saturday 6 june
saturday 6 june
ALL FILMS STRICTLY 18+
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Dreamland Awaits
Hungary : 1h 17m : 2025 : Directed by Demeter Laurent
11.00 : Ballroom, The Palace Hotel : Tickets £7.00
Josh, a hardened detective, faces his darkest case yet: his wife and daughters have been kidnapped. To save them, he must obey a mysterious captor, move into a desolate house, and complete disturbing tasks. But the house is no ordinary place; it's a gateway to a dark dimension that warps reality and forces Josh to confront the nightmare within himself.
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+ Undertone
UK : 13m : Directed by Shaun Munro
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A sound recordist captures strange sonic phenomena underneath their house, and things escalate from there.
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+ Darner
UK : 16m : Directed by James Edward Newton
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Depicted through the lens of horror this short film is the expression of an emotional moment. Woman's obsessive care-taking of Man and their decaying co-dependency is explored through her claustrophobic ritual of darning, which binds them together in sickness and ill health.


The Last Supper
Argentina : 1h 32m : 2026 : Directed by various
13.30 : Ballroom, The Palace Hotel : Tickets £7.00
In a deserted house, a mysterious man savors an exquisite menu in the company of an unseen guest. From this eerie dinner table, a succession of terrifying stories is revealed-each probing primal fears of hunger, flesh, and survival.
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+ The Sentry
USA / Cambodia : 18m : Directed by Jake Wachtel
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On assignment in Cambodia, a suave super-spy has a haunting encounter with a garrulous guard and must come to terms with the damage he's inflicted on the local community.
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The Cemetery of the Lost Souls
Brazil : 1h 35m : 2020 : Directed by Rodrigo Aragão
16.00 : Ballroom, The Palace Hotel : Tickets £7.00
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano’s dark book, a Jesuit and his followers begins a reign of terror in colonial Brazil, till they get cursed to live forever trapped under a cemetery tombs. Nowadays, centuries later, they are ready to free themselves and spread evil all over the world.
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Transylvania Tapes
USA : 1h 55m : 2025 : Directed by Brad Sykes
18.30 : Ballroom, The Palace Hotel : Tickets £7.00
In 1997, Romanian actress Silvia Enescu disappeared in Transylvania. She left behind a collection of home movies: the TRANSYLVANIA TAPES. Silvia's daughter Mara travels from Los Angeles to Romania to discover what happened to her mother. Helped by her cameraman Dylan, Mara documents her journey from the streets of Bucharest to the medieval town of Sighisoara, deep in the heart of Transylvania. Unearthing the truth about her mother comes at a terrible price, as Mara must escape an ancient family curse.
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+ My Best Friends
UK : 11m : Directed by Will Willoughby
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An apparent act of kindness - Alex brings home take-away food for his best friends - has horrifying repercussions.
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+ The Internet Remains Undefeated
UK : 7m : Directed by Robbie Gibbon
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The disturbance of a noisy neighbour leads to the discovery of a haunted boombox and a terrifyingly possessed dancer in this tale of internet memes gone wrong.
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Babybacks UK PREMIERE
USA : 1h 34m : 2025 : Directed by Geno Marx
21.00 : Ballroom, The Palace Hotel : Tickets £7.00
After being rescued by an older migrant-friendly couple, two young lovers from Mexico find themselves living an inescapable nightmare.
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+ Dead Zero WORLD PREMIERE
UK : 31m : Directed by Lee Donaldson
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Zero Squad, an elite military team, infiltrate a research compound shrouded in mystery. As the squad uncovers the facilities dark secrets they face a deadly enemy that blurs the lines between science and horror.
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The White Bus Ltd
The Old Waterworks
North Road
Southend-on-Sea
Essex
SS0 7AB
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