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Cube hosts horror shorts film festival
Bristol-based film-maker Ben Steiner has been touring his short horror film The Stomach around the international film festival circuit. To date, this self-styled “unique tale of supernatural noir” has picked up no fewer than 16 awards. Now The Stomach is coming home to the horror-friendly Cube cinema on Friday, May 1. Not only that, but Ben has also curated a full supporting programme of the freshest shorts from festivals around the world to create the Cube‘s own boutique horrorfest.
“The films on show are from England, Scotland, Norway, Turkey and Cuba, with some animation in there alongside live action,” Ben tells us. “There’s also a real spread of mood from sombre and austere to relentlessly visceral, to genuinely shocking and transgressive. Something for everyone!”
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Gorehounds can expect to savour the sombre and melancholic Autumn Harvest from Norwegian director Fredrik S Hana, winner of a Melies d’Argent at Sitges – Europe’s most prestigious genre festival; Turkish director Can Evrenol’s relentless and visceral Baskin; Ink, the concluding part of a body horror trilogy from Scotland’s Andy Stewart; BAFTA-nominated animator Robert Morgan’s stop-motion nightmare, Deloused (pictured above); the transgressive Cuban Cockfight from Julian Yuri; and Protein, in which Tony Burke reveals the cost of envy among weightlifters in a London gym.
Hellfire Video Club DJs will be providing suitably disturbing sounds in the bar during the interval and after the screening, until you’ve plucked up enough courage to skulk off into the night. Advance tickets are available here.
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