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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
This anthology where music and sound become the source of terror.
Desperate for companionship on a post apocalyptic Halloween night, the last girl on Earth gets more than she bargained for, when something far more sinister arrives on her doorstep.
When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
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.
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