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In rural Illinois, a young girl’s disappearance traumatizes the small-town residents, as secrets are revealed, destroying some relationships and strengthening others. Three girls, Charlotte, Laurel, and Joanna, form a bond in the aftermath of the tragedy. Sophomore year in the racially diverse community turns strange when a succession of traumas accelerates each character’s coming-of-age and mysteries emerge from every complication.

In the early 1960s, a small-town doctor invents a machine that uses laser technology to remove skin abnormalities. He experiments to make the machine go smoothly and obtain a patent, but his nurse (Eva Habermann) thinks the machine is dangerous and not ready. The struggle between the two causes the machine to malfunction creating a cyst monster that goes on a rampage in the doctor's office, causing the kind of bodyhorror-comedy that reminds us of Stuart Gorden films.

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.
Expect an ultra-violent murder game with dark humor that challenges the limits of your political correctness.

An agoraphobic woman finds a suspicious, hollow wall in her house.

Norval's life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related struggles. So when he receives an unexpected letter from his estranged father requesting a visit, Norval catches a bus up to his dad's secluded and scenic waterfront home. Maybe reconnecting with his father will give Norval the emotional fulfillment he's been lacking. Before long, though, he notices something off about his dad, an uneasy feeling triggered by inappropriate comments and a possible over-dependence on booze.

Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip's butt. The best way to get rid of your problems still is to stick it where the sun don't shine. The best title to screen at our festival, oh boy!

A selfish man sells the soul of his unborn child to Satan in exchange for forcing his wife to make guacamole for him. Things go wrong...

Disobedient kids all over Latin America have always feared El Cuco. The mystery boogeyman appears out of nowhere to kidnap and eat children that don’t obey their parents.

In the multibillion-dollar world of pornography, the term mope refers to a low-level, wannabe porn actor who perhaps isn’t quite well endowed or otherwise attractive enough to achieve the success granted to “bigger”-name porn stars. Within the seedy underbelly of the industry, mopes are the lowest of the low, hanging around sets and taking on menial jobs with aspirations of being called upon to participate in a colossal gang-bang scene that could (but most likely won’t) lead to their big break.

Summer break is almost over. Four youngsters are punished by having to clean the school and can only leave when everything is spick-and-span. At first sight, it looks like the school was left by a very enthused group of students, but soon they realize a horrible event has taken place. While trying to unravel the mysterious havoc, they are chased by four marauding, masked people. These four Gas Masks seem like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as they represent Famine, Pestilence, War, and finally Death. They set traps and hunt the young students down.

The whole truth behind Director Al Adamson’s strange life and gruesome death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.

A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches...including them. Director Richard Stanley was our main guest of BUT 2017

A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple.

With unprecedented access, HAIL SATAN traces the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple and its enigmatic leader Lucien Greaves are calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation's soul. But are they for real?

This slice of animated obscenity sticks the bony finger of a Very Important Truth in the viewer's mind's eye.

Joe Begos returns to BUT after his previous films ALMOST HUMAN and THE MIND'S EYE with an incredible new feature. BLISS takes you on a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles as a young and desperate artist seeks inspiration from constantly getting high to get over her creative block.

A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Presentation by Vanessa Morgan, introducing her new book: Strange Blood - 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies
Short film Orlok's Return, a Belgian Vampire film

As a follow-up to Hereditary Ari Aster delivers a 2,5 hour cinematographic experience that is the one not to be missed this year.
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Slow-burning horror in broad daylight.

Found at a Catholic hospital, filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns. Here she is to be tamed into a 'good girl' as an example of the miracle of the church. However, Darlin’ holds a secret darker than the 'sins' she is threatened with, and she is not traveling alone. The equally fierce and feral Woman, who raised her, is ever present and determined to come for her, no matter who tries to step in her way.

FP2 is sequel to The FP (2018): In a post apocalyptic future, two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park by playing "Beat Beat Revelation", a deadly version of Dance, Dance, Revolution.
Despite hanging up his boots following the events of 'The FP,' JTRO must return to the blood sport of Beat-Beat Revelation one last time. JTRO and KCDC - his mystical hype man - will quest deep into The Wastes, a land destroyed by the Beat Wars, to compete in the ancient Beat-Beat tournament, "Beats of Rage," face AK-47 - and, hopefully, save the world.

A miserable sad sack struggled to mollify a bully he can’t escape

Sarah is fired by her sexist boss and ends up in a different kind of employment: cleaning up the mess after suicides and murders. Trying to make a living for her son, she hangs in there, collecting body parts and mopping up blood and guts. Until her company gets offered a big operation in an empty warehouse where a serial killer puts his bodies. Once locked inside the team keeps finding more and more body parts, and they keep getting warmer.

An ex-soldier with a criminal past takes refuge in the woods. A demonic figure seeks the seamen of killers and the blood of the damned to feed his mandrake garden… Visual poetry and underground horror as part of our MIDNIGHT EXTREME program.

A scientist, trapped all alone on an outpost near Jupiter after the death of her companion, begins to imagine, or realise, that she is not alone after all.

Ted is not your usual Zombie; even as his skin transforms and his hunger for brains increases, he is still in denial that he is the living dead….until he meets a beautiful young Vampire at a therapy session for the paranormal.

A stillborn baby girl is abducted from hospital by a morgue attendant and brought back to life using electrokinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday she escapes her captor and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of destruction behind her. 'CARRIE meets FIRESTARTER' is a nice comparison, and lead actress BARBARA CRAMPTON delivers a remarkable performance and Julian Richards (JINGA FILMS) directs.

On the highways of Mississippi, a psychotic priest and his brother are on a murdering crusade to absolve and forgive with their own brand of murder. Driving around in a rundown van they spread the word of religious insanity and redeem sinners with even greater sins.

A twisted campfire tale quickly accelerates into a barrage of inspired and gory slasher gags meted out by a body-building, ‘stache-sporting fiend.

When returning from a trip through the desert, a group of friends drive unknowingly into an alien invasion.

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognise the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.
Short film: TERATOMORPH

1989. In an era of Nintendo-mania, toymaker giant Mattel unleashes a bold technological experiment to an eager public. The POWER GLOVE: the first video game controller that allows players to operate Nintendo games with intuitive hand gestures. Despite immense hype surrounding its release, the product is a critical failure, disappointing thousands of children with its subpar gameplay. More than two decades later, however, dedicated fans continue to repurpose the Power Glove for art pieces, hacking projects, electronic music, and more.

An animated reaction to masculine stereotypes and tired cliches.

This famous porn-chique classic is rare in that it's artful, titillating, surreal, disturbing and melancholic, thanks to its status as the only psychological horror porn. The film will be screened in a rare 35mm print and will be introduced by famous artist Willem de Ridder, who will take us back to the first porn festival, Wet Dreams, which took place in Amsterdam in 1970/71.

The latest film in the reboot of the infamous Guinea Pig series, The Song of Solomon, is an utterly twisted, apocalyptic, religious horror film that combines the exorcist genre with the underground gore film. With special effects courtesy of Toetag films (August Underground) and Oddtopsy (American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore), and a starring role for Jim van Bebber (Deadbeat at Dawn).

A group of Las Vegas showgirls undergoes commando training to fight terrorists in this classic slice of sexy 80's cheese. The film will be shown on VHS, including trailers and with all the glitches intact.

Three alien 'space babes' crash on earth and need the power of love and erections to escape. They are hunted by their enemies, de-evolved males called the Scrotes, but learn to 'embrace' the male species again in this funny, sexy, sci-fi romp that is an ode to both sexploitation and sci-fi serials from the late fifties and early sixties.
Co-producer, DOP and 2019 festival guest Scott Schirmer will be present to introduce the screening!

Porn-chique's best director, Radley Metzger, once again finds the balance between sex, class and humor in this classic hardcore porn. Restaurant food is not the only thing entering your body in this film...

A family's holiday dinner is interrupted by a band of bloodthirsty vagrants. As secrets float to the surface, the dinner quickly devolves into an all out class war. A shockingly violent and darkly comic commentary on modern life.

Using footage from over 2000 VHS tapes, the found-footage comedy collective Everything is Terrible! tells the story of our Dark Lord Lucifer. A wild, entertaining and thrilling ride with fragments of everything from satanic panic scare videos, Christian children's entertainment, low-budget B-horror, Jerry Maguire and cheap religious rapture movies.

In this fun Australian creature feature, the wilderness of the outback is a place where a giant monstrous boar can slip under the radar, until it kills you. Bad news for backpackers!

The latest film by gonzo low-budget director Damon Packard (Reflections of Evil, Foxfur) starts out as a riff on films like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction, but quickly turns into something more psychedelic, off-kilter and volatile. Filmed without a permit at real Los Angeles locations, with a cast filled with celebrity look-a-likes, this is underground filmmaking at its strangest.

Haunted by the movie 'Jaws' since childhood, a filmmaker discovers why the movie affected him so deeply.

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.

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.

When a gangster and his followers threaten to take over the city, it is up to a martial arts master and a street fi ghter to stop them. It’s like that martial arts movie where EVERYBODY FUCKING DIES. Shown in 16mm.

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.

The wildest ride of this BUT Film Festival is this second selection of Midnight Madness. A drug called purple neon when people abuse it become susceptible to a demon queens demands. A trash horror masterpiece of epic proportions!

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.

Five friends go camping, releasing the sexual tension with games of truth or dare and skinny dipping. That doesn't stop a libidinous monster from outer space from becoming part of the romantic camping-trip. Sexy monster-movie with great characters and a beautifully off-beat style. Schirmer throws in a lot of nudity and a cool monster in this erotic mystery-fantasy. Starring Ellie Church.

An outlaw biker finds himself addicted to a diabolical substance and hunted by a grenadetossing femme fatale, bounty hunters, law enforcement, a rival motorcycle gang, mutations and a topless stripper hit squad. Trashy fun in retro-grindhouse-style, with lots of humor and kick-ass characters.

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!