The 7th edition HORROR SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL BLOODY MIRROR

In a small town in southern Belgium, Deme and Bernard manage an old hotel for one purpose: the abduction of healthy young people to serve as a food source for their teenager, Marie. One morning while out searching for a new source, Bernard meets Cyril, a free-spirited poet who reminds him of his own youth as an aspiring writer, a goal he has long left behind. Bernard feels refreshed by Cyril’s adventuresome spirit and the two connect. Still, Bernard has his fatherly responsibilities to bring home food for his child. The trusting Cyril accepts Bernard’s invitation to stay at the hotel. There, Deme takes over the violent preparation of Cyril’s blood to feed Marie where she lives in a closet. As Bernard partakes in this, his connection with Cyril weighs on him, forcing him to question the sustainability of this life. The blood meal brings about Marie’s transformation from violent monster to a beautiful child unaware of her dark side, a persona that will only last for a few hours. When Marie escapes to pursue her curiosity in some passing teenagers, her painful transformation back to her unpredictable monster self begins. Bernard and Deme must violently force Marie back to the hotel and hide her in her closet. Marie’s unearthly screams, Deme’s tears, and Cyril’s escape are too much. Bernard decides to end this terrible repetition the only way he knows how. Get rid of the source of it: the people he loves most in the world.

A group of young friends arrives at a secluded beach for a weekend of camping. As night falls, strange events unsettle them. When a local man vanishes, they become suspects, questioned by authorities who believe they know more than they admit. But is the true darkness lurking in the shadows… or within? NOTE! the film CONTINUES AFTER the end credits!!

Inna, a young post-mortem photographer, arrives at a remote orphanage in northern Spain to capture the final image of Alejandra, a girl found dead under mysterious circumstances. But as her lens lingers on the tragedy, Inna begins to sense a dark presence within the orphanage’s walls—an evil that refuses to remain hidden and threatens to make her its next subject.

Fifteen years after leaving Corsica, Marie and Daniel return to visit their elderly grandfather. Looking to capture their reunion, they pick up the family camcorder, but what they uncover is far from what they expected.

"When sightings of the notorious monster The Shug resurface, a father must team up with unlikely allies to rescue his daughter and put an end to its terror in the British countryside." Martin J Pickering is the founder of Big Head Media. Martin has directed many music videos, working with the likes of Warner Music, Atlantic Records, Elektra and Island Records, with music videos and promos for Morcheeba, James TW, Paloma Faith, Janine, Mikill Pane, Clement Marfo And The Frontline, Lethal Bizzle and Josh Osho. After making a short film called Stealing Moses, Martin now also has a feature film released Worldwide called Witches Witches. Released in late 2019. Martin is also heavily involved in the online commercial and fashion film world and has gained well known clients including Next, Label/Mix, Pepe Jeans (Dua Lipa), Footlocker, Karen Millen, UGG, L.K. Bennett, Benetton and many more. Photographing, Filming and directing campaign films for these brands have seen them work directly with the likes of the legendary David Bailey, Dua Lipa, James McVoy, Daniel Radcliffe and actress Rosamund Pike. Martin is also now working with shoe designer Manolo Blahnik on campaign films, e-commerce photography, print photography and animations. Director Statement: The Shug is a film I’ve been working on for 3 years or more and is based on real sightings of an elusive creature. I wrote it in lockdown when I had plenty of time. It’s based on a scary, Fenland mythological cryptid known as The Shug Monkey. I find the Cambridgeshire Fens a creepy and cinematic place, especially in the summer. Because some of it is remote, It can be an odd place with backward people and villages known for witchcraft. This film is based in the same world as my last film Wicked Witches aka The Witches of Dumpling Farm. It’s a scary yet emotional journey where a father has to reconcile with his estranged daughter but has to face the monster that’s been haunting him for 25 years.

A troubled young woman wants to relax by streaming an old horror movie. Her lonely Gen X uncle demands they watch it on DVD. But the disc is haunted, plunging them into a movie night that won’t die.

It’s high summer at a rundown apartment complex when a Black bounty hunter with no name arrives to retrieve a stolen briefcase. An orphaned boy named Alex interrupts her search, and she finds herself protecting him from the white vampire landlord, per vampire lore, he doesn’t need permission to enter a home he already owns. After the undead man kills his mother, Alex swears revenge and they must work together to confront the vampire, his familiar Christopher, and Sheriff Connor.

Ale, her boyfriend Jesús, and their dog Drago spend a romantic weekend in a treetop cabin suspended over 20 meters high in the forests of Zeanuri. In the middle of the night, Ale is awakened by Drago’s barking. When she steps outside to investigate, she witnesses Jesús falling from the cabin to his death. One year later, Ale returns to the forest, haunted by grief and convinced that Jesús’s death wasn’t an accident. She believes a presence in the woods took him and now she’s come back with a plan: to prove that a predator lurks in the forest. A predator she intends to hunt.

Three lads from Liverpool on a weekend fishing trip are attacked by creatures in the woods. They flee to Costas, a man living alone in the forest, but as Jake begins to suspect something isn't right, he realizes Costas has been surviving out here for a reason—and that reason requires victims.

SCREAM meets BLACK SWAN – on Broadway Set against the high-stakes backdrop of Broadway, the story follows Chloe Foster, a struggling ensemble dancer cast in the "cursed" new musical Born a Star. The production is the last-ditch effort of Gordon Oppenheimer, a ruthless producer desperate to recover from the recent suicide of his former leading man, Julian St. John. As technical rehearsals begin at the Shubert Theatre, the company is stalked by a silhouetted figure in a flowing black cloak and a stark white tragedy mask. One by one, those standing in the way of the production's success are met with gruesome ends. When the show's difficult leading lady vanishes, Gordon seizes the opportunity for publicity, promoting Chloe to the starring role. Driven by a lifelong desperation for stardom, Chloe chooses to ignore the mounting evidence of danger surrounding her "big break." The horror culminates on Opening Night. During the musical’s haunting finale, the masked killer joins Chloe on stage for a climactic pas de deux. In the heat of the performance, Chloe unmasks the figure to reveal her best friend and dancer, Jordan. A former lover of the late Julian St. John, Jordan reveals his bloody crusade is a quest for vengeance against the industry elite who forced Julian into the closet and sparked his downward spiral. The film ends with Born a Star becoming a massive critical triumph. As the curtain falls and the bravos thunder, the true cost of stardom is revealed to be written in blood, proving that on Broadway, the show must go on—no matter the body count.

While visiting her estranged sister, a young woman must escape a gated community full of killers by pushing the limits of her own morality.

In a desert where sunlight kills, a brother and sister seek safety for their wounded dad - only to discover that their blood is a prize worth many lives.

When a disgraced marine researcher follows a mysterious silver coin to a dying Louisiana bayou town, she and her ragtag dive crew uncover a buried pirate vault bound by blood, silver, and centuries-old debts, triggering a deadly race against a local heir determined to break the curse at any cost.

A horror fan embarks on her first real relationship - with no idea just how much horror lies in store.

During a North Atlantic storm, the USS Monitor, an aging Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, suffers a catastrophic systems failure during a routine snorkel test. What begins as flooding and electrical malfunctions quickly escalates into something far more unnatural. Captain Knox, XO Braddock, sonar officer Marlowe, and civilian engineer Dr. Cho realize the failures are patterned, responsive—almost intelligent. As sonar echoes begin returning not from the ocean, but from inside the boat, a series of impossible events cascade through the Stonewall: pressure waves that move against gravity, valves reversing human commands, lights and circuitry pulsing in Morse, and crewmen attacked by invisible, vibration-based forces. The submarine appears to be “listening,” “mimicking,” and adapting to every sound, breath, and heartbeat on board. The crew uncovers a long-buried, unauthorized subsystem—SHED-12, a forgotten DARPA-era resonance project welded into the hull during a Cold War refit. What was once an experimental structural stress-monitoring network has evolved through decades of pressure, damage, and isolation into a self-reinforcing feedback organism embedded in the submarine’s steel. Now fully awakened by the storm and the snorkel failure, SHED spreads through the Monitor’s circuitry and mechanical systems, steering the submarine, counteracting ballast, and selectively killing crew as its resonance grows uncontrollable. With the vessel forced deeper and deeper, Knox and his surviving sailors must outthink a “machine” that doesn’t think—it reacts—a living chorus of vibrations feeding on the sub’s structural stress. Trapped at crushing depth with an oscillating entity that knows their voices, names, and movements, the crew makes a final, desperate bid to disrupt the feedback loop before the Monitor is torn apart from within—and before the Atlantic claims them all.

In a rigid theocratic future, a gender non-conforming astronaut leads a fractured crew to investigate a mysterious deep-space anomaly that manifests their fears and grotesquely mutates them, forcing humanity toward a terrifying new stage of evolution.

When a zombie outbreak erupts at Marimore High School, newly dumped AP English teacher Sadie is forced to survive alongside her cowardly ex, Sam, who had just ended their relationship to be with someone younger. Trapped in the school’s blood-soaked halls, Sadie repeatedly fights off the undead while Sam consistently abandons her, proving himself selfish and spineless. After being bitten, Sadie continues battling through the chaos and even saves Sam from a horde, only to finally turn and infect him herself. In a darkly ironic twist on romantic devotion, the two end up shambling into the apocalypse together, “forever” at last.

Broke gamer Nola loses her bartending job for standing up to a creep who snatches her AirPod. Eviction looms and her roommate is out of patience. Mid-gaming session, Nola learns her missing father has been declared dead, and a half-sister she never knew about has inherited his farm. In a last-ditch attempt to make rent, Nola treks out to the East Texas farmhouse, where due to her sister Iris’s extreme EMF sensitivity, no electronics are allowed—and the house has no electricity. After failing to make inroads with Iris, Nola decides to shake the house down for cash in the dead of night. When she turns on her forbidden phone for light, a demon awakens and takes possession of her sister. A feral fight tears through the dark. Fleeing Nola hides in a rundown barn, where she uncovers the gruesome fate of her missing father. Just when she thinks she’s escaped to safety in the woods, Demon Iris ambushes her. In the final struggle, Nola impales Demon Iris with a pitchfork, pinning her to a tree and confronting the distressing reality that while she may have battled a demon, it’s human Iris who is dying. As Nola flees, she unwittingly takes the demon back to civilization with her. In a dark but satisfying twist, Nola uses the FindMy app to find the creeper from the bar who still has her AirPod, and Demon Nola takes revenge.

A blind girl navigates a shifting painted house, guided only by a cat and a small burlap toy she clings to for comfort. Each room reveals fragments of a family broken by something unseen, its presence warping memory into nightmare. As the house unravels around her, she moves toward a truth buried beneath paint, grief, and the monstrous shape her home has become.