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There's lots to look forward to at the latest edition of the Overlook Film Festival, which opens with Carry Barker's sinister Obsession and closes with Hokum. A partnership with MUBI has allowed the festival to significantly expand the range and quality of its international films. With a second wave of films yet to be announced, watch this space.
The festival runs from 9 to 12 April.
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Overlook Latest Reviews
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience - but the biggest danger she faces comes from the living.
In Italy's happiest town, a haunted teacher discovers dark secret behind weekly gatherings where locals seek healing from a teenage boy's embrace. His quest to save the youth reveals the sinister nature of a community hiding behind joy.
A fine arts painter becomes convinced that he is a werewolf, wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon.
A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
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