Friday 1 Sept

A bored accountant can't win for losing. He is passed over for promotion at work, has a nagging shrew of a wife, and is generally disrespected by all he comes in contact with. He devises a scheme to get what he feels he is owed. After executing his well thought out plan of kidnap and ransom, things soon go straight to hell.

Haunted by the death of his father and other psychological traumas, Daniel (Roberto Scorza) returns to the home where he was raised. Faced with intense emotional scars, as well as physical -- which are realized by the years of self-harm depicted by the cuttings adorning his body -- he enters the bathroom to begin a journey of self-exploration, self-mutilation and quite possibly, self-enlightenment. Prepared only with three white candles and some crude instruments, Daniel attempts to beckon the embrace of the Goddess Ishtar (Flora Giannattasio) to assist him on his self-illumination. The film that will be talked about for a long time after this screening. During our sister-festival in Paris SADDIQUE-MASTER, two people fainted and were taken away by ambulance. How tough is the audience at BUT Film Festival?

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived. Debut feature of musician Flying Lotus, with a huge roster of counter-culture comedians from America. Deliberately off-putting, hilariously offensive and crazily off-the-wall.

Erland is about to celebrate his 50th birthday. His wife Greta has invited some friends over to their newly bought cabin for a party. Erland is not happy about the upcoming party especially when some of the guests are relatives to Greta which he doesn't like. The day before the party hell falls down a dried well and finds a box containing some old artifacts. Artifacts of evilness which are going to change his life forever.

This years’ Metal Movie is a documentary about metal’s most extreme performer ever (who makes GG Alllin look like a kindergartener). While living in complete isolation in the desert of southern California, a long forgotten shockrock musician refl ects on his dark past of drug abuse, violence, and self destruction.

Games are usually fun, that’s why we have a gaming program. But the video repairman in Sequence Break finds out games can become a nightmare, when the boundaries between the technological and the biological are crossed. Cronenberg, eat your heart out!

A documentary about Richard Stanley’s failed attempts to make a feature film of The Island of Dr. Moreau. At least we have some brilliant anecdotes left.

Maxine has a love affair with a demon that lives under her bed, they want to be together forever but there is one thing left to do.

Stephen, a writer, escapes from the city with his wife Mia to write his new novel: A book about occultism. While doing research he comes across an incantation. As he writes it down, his wife starts to feel strange. By and by he realizes, that Mia seems to be possessed by a demon. At first the demon is simply playing games with Stephen, but when the demon commands Stephen to release him, Stephen has to make a tough decision: to either obey the demon and potentially save Mia, or to fight back against the demon and avoid further consequences. Regardless of his decision, Stephen has only one weapon: His old typewriter...

A beautiful vampire-girl works as a prostitute on the famous Augusta Street (in São Paulo, Brazil), because it's an easy way to get food. But suddenly her path intersects with another monster that attacks at the same address, the "Augusta Street Ripper" - a serial killer who is killing prostitutes in that region.

The daily routine of a maid will change when she discovers the mystery hidden in an old hotel room.

SPOOKED relates the encounter of a pro-Trump American family with an ancestral demon called Darken. This powerful and self-loving demon sneaks by night into the house of Brenda, Bobby and Uncle Sam. To everyone's surprise, Darken will fall victim to the dreadful Crumps, a warmongering, racist and over-armed family.

Melissa Baquer is driving on the wrong way when she requests to the Computer Emergency Center to route her vehicle via GPS. During the call will suffer an brutal accident.

A film by the enigmatic director working under the pseudonym Cosmotropia de Xam. Reminiscent of some David Lynch films, psychedelic seventies horror and nunsploitation, it follows the bizarre odyssey of a young woman possessed by dark thoughts.

A man is taken captive by a feral family in the deep woods. They are determined to transform him, body and mind, into one of their own -- whether he likes it or not. What starts of as a traditional slasher becomes much more interesting all of a sudden, which is business as usual in a Scott Schirmer-film.

Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant Professor Lucas, cells from the martial arts master's body are removed and grown into three adult Bruce Lee clones. After undergoing training to bring their skills up to the level of their 'father', the three are sent out to battle crime, with one sent to take on a gold smuggler, and the other two teaming up to shut down an evil mad scientist.

Mansfield 66/67 is about the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life, and the rumors swirling around her untimely death. As entertaining as a documentary can get. Examining reasons why Jayne Mansfield has become such a cult icon. Starring John Waters (BUT Film Festival Main Guest 2008)!

The bees are dying, and it is time for society to fi ght for the bees! Instead of a political pamflet, director Gyula Nemes spins a stylistically daring, surrealistic yarn spanning time and space. Expect subtitled bees and, as expected from a film as daringly weird as this, Udo Kier.

It's one of the "Bruceploitation" films that were made to cash in on Bruce Lee after his death. The story follows Bruce Lee after he dies and ends up in Hell. Once there, he does the logical thing and opens a gym. After fending off the advances of the King Of Hell's naked wives, he discovers that the most evil people in Hell are attempting a takeover, so Bruce sets out to stop it. As if it wasn't weird enough, the evil people are: Zatoichi (the blind swordsman hero of Japanese film), James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle (the "heroine" of many European softcore porn films), Dracula, and, of course, Clint Eastwood (played by a Chinese guy). Aiding Bruce is The One-Armed Swordsman (hero of kung-fu films), Kain from the U.S. tv series, Kung-Fu (actually played by a Chinese guy this time), and Popeye the Sailor Man! Yes, Popeye the Sailor Man. He eats spinach and helps Bruce fight some mummies.

WITH NIGHT OF THE ERROR INTRO!

It's time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambiance will give way to a nightmare.

Hidden deep in the south of France, practically untouched by the modern age, is a place known by many as ‘the Zone’. In this space, the supernatural is an everyday reality of life. Magic is everywhere. It is reason. It is currency. It is unquestionable fact. Richard Stanley’s documentary about his current hometown Montsegur and its inhabitants, who all seem to share an interest in the occult and the supernatural.

Written by Stephen Biro, it is the second part of the American Guinea Pig series. 'Japan's Darkest Secret is Americas Newest Nightmare!' Part of our Midnight Extreme selection, containing lots of medical horror, torture porn and a fantastic finale!