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The zombie genre has enjoyed unprecedented popularity with mainstream audiences thanks to the success of films like Dawn of the Dead and Frank Darabont’s hit TV series The Walking Dead. But 13 Eerie is a fresh take on a genre that’s literally decomposing. This epic battle of the undead follows the story of six ambitious [...]
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‘Brandon Cronenberg’s striking body-horror debut is a chilling vision of our cultural obsession with celebrity. In a dystopian future world, Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) works at the Lucas Clinic, which has an unusual and highly profitable line of business: deliberately infecting paying customers with diseases harvested from top celebrities, thus providing a ‘biological communion’ [...]
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With clarity and a deep respect for his subjects, filmmaker Petr Lom follows five stories of ordinary Egyptians who have suffered injustice at the hands of the State in the first year of the revolution’s aftermath. Shot in an intimate vérité style, the film takes us into hidden corners of Egyptian lives, far from the [...]
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Cult psychedelic sci-fi odyssey Beyond the Black Rainbow has divided critics and audiences, attracting outspoken champions and derisive naysayers in roughly equal numbers. Sufficed to say it is quite unlike anything else featuring eye catching retro-futurist production design, a pulsating analogue synth soundtrack and trippy visuals that make 2001 seem like The King’s Speech. Deep [...]
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Lars, once the young darling of the art scene, is slipping away fast into the land of has-beens: he has hit the proverbial creative brick wall. Up till now, his creativity has come at too high a cost: inspiration could only come in the form of carnage – blood, guts and limbs – and he’s [...]
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For the first time Fanomenon is presenting a special shorts package, with five films from across the world. While each film is unique, all five share a common theme – a shock ending!
Familiar Dir. Richard Powell, Canada, 2012, 20 mins
A hen-pecked man battling with his inner demons has plans to escape his humdrum life.Matriarch Dir. [...]
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A visionary new documentary about the hugely influential musician, composer, musicologist, outsider artist and all round eccentric, John Fahey, known as the father of American Primitive Guitar. Fahey’s music stretches the boundaries of past musical traditions, creating a complex musical dialogue primarily with his steel stringed solo guitar, transcending Delta influences to include bluegrass, classical, [...]
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The third feature already from 23 year-old Montreal filmmaker Xavier Dolan (Heartbeats) is an epic romance about an untenable love affair.The defiantly exclusive relationship of a young bohemian couple is sent spiralling out of control when the man, Laurence, confesses he believes he’s a woman trapped inside his male body.‘Shot in a kind of hyper-florid [...]
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Twelve years on and Night of the Dead has become an important date on the UK’s genre calendar. More than just the sum of its films, fans of the event come because they know they are going to get a fantastic night of gory entertainment. This year the line-up includes three UK premieres and the [...]
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Garnering a string of festival prizes and glowing reviews, War Witch is a Sub-Saharan love story between two young souls caught in a violent world. Komona, a 14 year old girl, tells her unborn child the story of how she became a rebel. It all began when she was 12; kidnapped by the rebel army, [...]
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