Far From The Apple Tree Far From The Apple Tree

The popular horror festival returned for 2019 packed with scary screenings, taking place at Dundee Contemporary Arts.A strong line-up included some of the hottest horror films of the year from around the world, alongside a selection of genre classics, and there was also a notoriously fiendish quiz.

The festival ran from 2 to 5 May, with a teaser screening of Lords Of Chaos on 25 April.

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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
Long-banned film about a future distopia.
Those Who Deserve To Die
Those Who Deserve To Die
A series of vicious murders are taking place, each performed with military precision, yet the killer is reluctant. It is the ghost of a vengeful 10-year-old girl guiding him to act, and she will not be denied.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Knife + Heart
Knife + Heart
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
Far From The Apple Tree
Far From The Apple Tree
A struggling artist gets her dream job working for a renowned visual artist. While cataloguing her work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, and learns that this girl is actually her boss' missing daughter.
The Dead Center
The Dead Center
A hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.
Level 16
Level 16
Two girls trapped in a prison-like boarding school embark on a dangerous search to uncover the truth behind their imprisonment.
Werewolf
Werewolf
Eight children rescued from a concentration camp, find themselves under siege from a freshly pack of former camp guard dogs.
Phantasm
Phantasm
Baffling Seventies horror flick about a scary tall mortician, killer dwarfs and sci-fi spheres
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project
Handheld, hyped-up horror.
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