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The 2023 edition of the popular Los Angeles genre festival has a fantastic line-up of classics alongside some of the highlights of this year's festival crop.
The festival runs from 26 September to 10 October.
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Beyond Latest Reviews
When a man who was cast out as a child after being considered a sorceror returns home, he faces prejudice.
A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with a music professor to discover an ancient song.
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
Miscommunication and a lack of empathy cause events to spiral out of control as a young waitress finds herself in the centre of a murder spree.
US backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analogue mashup of the forgotten Eighties.
A post-apocalyptic thriller involving a future impacted by a war between humans and AI.
In rural 17th century England, a group of men gather to carry a coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial. A great deal of ancient folklore and superstition surrounds the pathway to the church, and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark.
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