Take a walk on the cinematic wild side in SFF's Freak Me Out
pathway. As the title suggests, Freak Me Out is where exemplars of
the unrestrained cinematic imagination are rounded up and
unleashed.
Movies can freak us out in many different ways and our 2011
selections include everything from diamonds carefully plucked out
of the B-movie trash compactor for a thoroughly deserved moment in
the spotlight to classy arthouse entries with a distinctly twisted
approach to story telling.
Things couldn't be better for Frank, an aloof medical student
who lives alone. That is until needy neighbour Lotte knocks on his
apartment door.
This unconventional supernatural chiller from South Korea starts
out with cab driver and his pregnant passenger picking up a
mysterious and possibly psychic stranger on a lonely stretch of
road. The man counts down to zero and the world suddenly
changes...
In crime-ravaged Hope Town there is no hope - until an unnamed
hobo (Rutger Hauer) shows up and swaps his walking stick for a
shotgun.
Troubled hitman Jay and his partner Gal are plunged into a
nightmare after accepting an assignment from a sinister client.
Carnage and comedy collide when a fighting force of foxy female
mutants goes into battle for the survival of their species.
Cornelius Rawlings visits his eccentric brothers in rural
Tennessee after an 18-year absence. A plumbing problem triggers a
bizarre chain of events in this disturbing, darkly comic,
horror-inflected send up of the family drama.
A vampire plague is sweeping America. Attempting to reach a safe
haven are teenage orphan Martin and his vampire-slaying guardian,
known only as 'Mister'.
Do trolls really exist? A trio of student filmmakers travel deep
into the Norwegian woods to locate these creatures of Norse
folklore.
A pair of kind-hearted hillbillies are attacked by crazed
college kids in this hilarious reversal of horror-movie
conventions.