AnyMart
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror.
The Blood Countess
Screen icon Isabelle Huppert mesmerises as a glamorous vampire in iconoclastic queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s high-camp comedy.
Corpus
Lured to a mansion in the woods of upstate New York, party-loving bros find a threesome of witchy femmes who are down for much darker carnal pursuits.
Fingerbang
A lonely woman’s torrid affair with a severed finger turns toxic in a macabre Gothic tale that warns not to lose yourself to digital love.
Flesh Fruit
A dark, claustrophobic and unsettling slice of social satire and body horror, in which a struggling farmer looks to a sickly stranger to turn his fortunes around.
Ghost in the Cell
When a vengeful ghost starts mutilating the inmates of one of Indonesia’s toughest prisons, the men must work together to stay alive in this socially conscious action-horror-comedy.
Imposters
When a lost little boy is found, his father is sceptical that it’s really him. But don’t be fooled – this mind-bender isn’t really about changelings or revenants.
The Latcher
Accelerator Lab alum James Hunter makes his feature debut with this psychological thriller about motherhood and the monstrous clutches of grief.
Mārama
This distinctly Māori Gothic horror, set in a haunted seaside manor, tells a terrifying tale of dark family secrets and one woman’s wrath in the face of colonial violence.
Man Eating Pussy
In this utterly original vignette, a dying man visits a unique sex worker who can give him the release he craves.
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
A twentysomething homebody is stuck carrying more than she bargained for in this gleefully gloopy Kiwi body-horror comedy.
Of Womb
Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.
Our Effed Up World
To save Earth from an insatiable alien, this slacker will need her dad and her effing loyal mates, who make a crap planet worth fighting for.
Praying Mantis
Splattered in copious animated sex and gore, this body-horror tale follows a vicious predator who’s part woman, part deadly insect … and all mum.
Species
A stressed-out young doctor suspects hostile jobs are doing something gnarly to her generation. Turns out work doesn’t just suck – it mutates.
Victorian Psycho
Scream queen Maika Monroe plays an unhinged governess terrorising a posh 19th-century family.
WTF Shorts
Films for freakmaxxers, fetishists and other fans of flickering filth.