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The busiest genre festival in the US, Beyond Fest is back with an eclectic line-up which features some of the biggest name films on the festival circuit this year alongside intriguing new choices and old favourites.
The festival runs from 23 September to 6 October.
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Beyond Latest Reviews
Shape-shifting aliens land in Glasgow.
American mercenary Cole Franklin is recruited as a hired gun at the remote outpost of Fort William, struggling to survive the decline of the fur trade. With dwindling supplies, the keepers of the Fort blackmail Cole into leading a trading party to a nearby Indigenous village, where they discover a massacre.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
A documentary examining the life and cinematic achievements of the celebrated actor.
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
Three friends have spent their childhoods drinking, wreaking havoc, and filming crude stunts in their small town. Everyone hates them. Wanting to finally prove their lives have meaning, they decide to make a 'real movie'.
A Gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the vampire who is infatuated with her, which brings untold horrors in its wake.
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