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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024

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Scared Shitless and Heretic
1978 (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti; Writer: Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti, Camilo Zaffora; Stars: Agustín Pardella, Carlos Portaluppi, Mario Alarcón, Agustin Olcese, Jorge Lorenzo, Santiago Ríos, Gustavo Bonfigli, Paula Silva, Gustavo Pardi, Ezequiel Pache, Valeria San Martin, Maria Eugenia Rigon, Justina Ceballos, Gustavo Bayley, Ignacio Francavilla)
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention centre.
The Beast Hand (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Taichiro Natsume; Stars: Takahiro Fukuya, Misa Wada)
A man seeks vengeance after a botched op.
Chainsaws Were Singing (Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Sander Maran; Writer: Sander Maran, Karl Ilves; Stars: Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Martin Ruus, Janno Puusepp, Rita Rätsepp, Ra Ragnar Novod)
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
Full Review See: Interview with Sander Maran and Peeter Maran about Chainsaws Were Singing
Cuckoo (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Tilman Singer; Writer: Tilman Singer; Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt)
On a trip to the German Alps with her father and stepmother, Gretchen discovers that the resort town where they’re staying hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.
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Heretic (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods; Writer: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods; Stars: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Topher Grace, Elle Young)
Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.
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Cuckoo Cuckoo
Cuckoo and Chainsaws Were Singing
The Rule Of Jenny Pen (Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: James Ashcroft; Writer: James Ashcroft, Eli Kent, Owen Marshall; Stars: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nathaniel Lees, Thomas Sainsbury, Maaka Pohatu, Ian Mune, Irene Wood)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Sayara (Country: Turkey; Year: 2024; Director: Can Evrenol; Stars: Duygu Kocabiyik, Emre Kizilirmak, Özgül Kosar)
When her sister is murdered by a group of politically connected rich kids, Sayara, a quiet gym cleaner from Turkmenistan, begins to follow in her father’s footsteps, seeking a path of revenge.
Scared Shitless (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Vivieno Caldinelli; Writer: Brandon Cohen; Stars: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chalsea Clark, Mark McKinney, Julian Richings)
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
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