Eye For Film >> Search >> 'The Dead'
Documentary on the Pamir Kirghiz's search for a homeland.
Two couples go on a weekend getaway in the middle of the desert, only to discover that their Airbnb is already occupied. It's a long and bloody night told from four points-of-view.
A young boy and girl enter the forest to dig a hole to hell. Said to be a cursed film from the late 1970s, Antrum examines the horrifying power of storytelling.
Young Lionel's mother won't leave him alone - even after she's dead.
A night-shift paramedic in Hell's Kitchen finds himself on the brink of breakdown.
Damage limitation after a jewellery heist goes wrong.
After a psychic has a disturbing vision, she and her reporter friend race to rescue the inhabitants of a town where a priest's suicide has released a terrible evil.
A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
Nostalgia for a working-class Liverpudlian childhood turns sour.
Documentary about the punk pioneers.
Flesh-eating zombies inhabit the city centre, forcing the few remaining mortals to take cover.
During a zombie apocalypse, a small group of survivors seeks refuge in an abandoned shopping mall.
Trouble flares in a small military base where some of the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse are holding out as scientists search for a solution.
Marbles, a hapless stoner, can see ghosts. Tagg, a recently dead wannabe super-cop, needs to find a serial killer. Can a critical ghost cop and a directionless stoner get over their prejudices and work together to save lives - and deaths?
US border guards bury the body of a would-be immigrant deep in the desert in an unmarked grave. Days later one of them is called back to find the same migrant at the river's edge.
A woman finds herself a victim of superstition after her husband dies in an accident.
After being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, Wade Wilson adopts the alter ego Deadpool and goes looking for revenge.
Deadpool brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from time-travelling mutant Cable.
Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.
A washed up internet personality tries to win back his followers by livestreaming himself spending one night alone in an abandoned haunted house.
A street kid helps an engineer make his way across zombie-infested India to save the latter's pregnant girlfriend.
A group of young billionaires who are always trying to surprise each other wake up after a strange ritual with fangs in their mouths and a body nearby.
After her father's death, Alyson, her partner Richard and their baby return to her childhood home.
A couple find themselves in trouble after stopping their yacht to take a stranger onboard.
A hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
A fiercely independent French Canadian woman embarks on an affair with a Danish immigrant.
An ageing rock musician is drawn to a young man he thinks has unusual talent, but the young man has a hidden agenda of his own.
A documentary about a group of Brighton women opposed to the secrecy and expense of the traditional funeral industry, they help the bereaved to be involved with the preparation of their loved one’s body and create bespoke funeral arrangements that are meaningful and personal to the deceased.
An ageing hitman offers to help a young man who keeps failing at suicide.
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.
Road movie about the friendship of a wounded young man in the western frontiers, who hooks up with a Native American.
An ex-army man strolls into town, seeking revenge on his disabled brother's assailants.
A man explains what it's like to be dead.
Citizens of rural Leitrim turn into flesh-eating zombies after contracting a rogue strain of CJD.
When a poker game is robbed, an ambitious young player and his girlfriend find themselves in a situation where the stakes are suddenly much higher.
A family planning a quiet weekend away at a cabin in the woods get more than they bargained for when they find a mysterious woman unconscious in the snow outside.
Cops versus the Japanese mafia thriller.
A renegade cyborg locks horns with a hard-boiled cop in the final part of Takashi Miike's sci-fi trilogy.
An ambitious pig farmer, sentimental salon owner, struggling busboy, and a wealthy young woman become intertwined during the social modernisation of Shanghai.
Twin gynaecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Through the description of the daily lives of the now elderly survivors of the Jiabiangou Forced Labor Camp, this documentary seeks to expose the truth about the political campaigns of the late 1950s that led so many people to suffer or to die.
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
A group of youths get caught up in a war between vampires and zombies.
With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilising moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humour, she celebrates Dr Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
A young couple's passionate relationship plays out against the backdrop of a manhunt.
Over-the-top parody of US beauty pageants.
Superior adaptation of James Joyce short story, about guests at an Epiphany party.
A brother and sister go on the run after a casino heist, leading to big trouble for those they meet.
After two teenagers find a dead girl in the basement of a disused mental asylum, the boundary between right and wrong becomes sickeningly blurred.
A cop with a troubled past tries to track down an assassin.
A toothy alien horror goes on the rampage.
Paranoia brews for a couple of Americans in Paris.
An ex-convict vows revenge on the gang who caused his brother’s death.
A private detective uses hypnosis to try to discover the identity of an amnesiac.
London hard-men discover business has bite, after the businessmen who offer to buy their nightclub turn out to be vampires.
A young Maori man sets out to avenge the death of his father.
A slice of gritty entertainment served with a sharp knife.
Black comedy sees teens find it's murder to get into college.
An ageing hitman goes on a darkly comic journey to nowhere.
A woman seeking revenge seduces a crime lord's lieutenant.
An ex-con goes on a desperate hunt for money to pay back a loan shark who is holding his mother hostage.
An inspirational teacher transforms the lives of boys at a strict private school.
Video game spin-off sees a group of people try to survive a zombie attack.
A group of teens on a weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the woods soon find themselves fighting off a serious threat to their lives. Not only that they must save their hard-partying parents from a predatory neighbour.
A young man whose parents were killed as a comet passed finds people acting strangely as another comet appoaches.
Essay film mixing documentary and more abstract explorations onboard a freight ship.
Teens on vacation fall foul of a Nazi-zombie battalion.
Attack of the killer mutant sushi! (from Mars?)
Film students try to record the end of civilisation as they know it when the dead begin to walk. Plus read our exclusive interview with George A Romero.
Beautiful women beating each other up in a video game spin-off.
A documentary exploring the zombie genre.
Hit newsroom satire pulls no punches.
In this romcom, Ellie’s dead aunt has the perfect dating advice for her. But will she listen to it?
Five students unwittingly unleash flesh-possessing demons in a cabin, in the woods.
Sam Raimi returns to the shed in the forest where evil spirits cause unspeakable mayhem.
The reunion of two estranged sisters is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
A group of friends run into trouble in the woods.
Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of YouTube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?
A man works his way up the ranks of the IRA... while informing for the British.
Zombies on a plane.
Freddy haunts the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager.
The creator of the zombie genre returns with an allegory of Bush's abuses in Iraq.
A US teacher finds herself on trial after talking about Jesus in the classroom.
Steven Seagal helps jailbirds in New Alcatraz fight commando raiders who attack the prison.
A documentary about fans of the Evil Dead films.
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.
Twentysomething ravers find the party gets nasty on a zombie island.
A former KGB agent seeks out the ballerina he loved, but he cannot escape the past.
Once a gangster, always a gangster?
The Oxford tec solves two more murders.
Travels with an inflatable father.
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.
Classic detective thriller, where seduction and murder hide a deadly secret.
A man tries to stay alive and track down the killer of his adopted father.
Horror in its true, unglamorous, grossed out nastiness, as if filmed by the Manson family.
When an insurance agent discovers the corpse of a young boy, he becomes convinced that the child's stepdad must have murdered him for the insurance money.
British supernatural serial killer horror flick, with demonic overtones.
An ex-convict's journey up river in deepest Argentina.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world - but many residents are still proud to call it home.
Film that set the template for the modern zombie movie.
A journalist's frontline snapshot of the war in Iraq.
Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
A couple celebrate their first anniversary with friends in a remote house in the woods. Not everyone will make it through the night.
A romance with all that love entrails.
The franchise becomes increasingly weird and bloody, with intriguing sci-fi bits.
A charity shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition, he sets out to seek deathly revenge.
The continuing saga of comic pirates, a posh totty in drag, a ghost ship and the buried heart of Davy Jones.
An exploration of the exiled life of writer Ariel Dorfman.
When a brave knight arrives at a castle to try to overthrow an aged, skeletal king, the king, mistaking his intentions, begins to flirt with him.
Toxic gas brings the dead back to life just as a group of teenagers are partying in the graveyard.
Shakespeare doth zombies.
Tom Stoppard directs his first play about minor characters from Hamlet.
When a zombie outbreak occurs in a gay sauna, two men have to overcome their prejudices in order to survive.
Rom-Zom-Com.
A dispute over an allotment coincides with a zombie apocalypse.
A group of siblings respond to a family tragedy by rejecting adult authority and exercising their own brutal form of justice.
Two tribes go to war in an undead apocalypse.
A man who is still living in his girlfriend's apartment after their break-up finds his life transformed in unexpected ways by her photographer father.
Documentary about Orson Welles unfinished film, The Other Side Of The Wind.
A traumatised firefighter tries to help a young boy on the run from assassins in rural Montana.
A group of people accidentally stumble upon the graves of 13th Century Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices.
Sci-fi zombie spoof from Oz, in which aliens turn Aussies into walking corpses.
Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.
Reality TV contestants fight for survival out in the woods.
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
The military take on the zombie hordes.
During a post- apocalyptic zombie crisis, a mechanic sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of a mad scientist.
Agent Mulder has been abducted by aliens. Agent Scully is pregnant. Agent Doggett is new.
A dirty bomb causes a zombie outbreak.
Man about town Gay Talese on Watching Frank, Frank Sinatra, and his latest book, A Town Without Time
Magnificent creatures Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
A unified vision DOC NYC highlights and cinematographer Michael Crommett on Dan Winters: Life Is Once. Forever.
Poetry and loss Géza Röhrig on Terrence Malick, Josh Safdie, and Richard Kroehling’s After: Poetry Destroys Silence
'I’m still enjoying the process of talking about Julie and advocating for her silence' Leonardo van Dijl on Belgian Oscar nominee Julie Keeps Quiet
We're bringing you all the latest from Abertoir, DOC NYC and the Leeds International Film Festival.
We've recently covered the London Korean Film Festival, the Belfast Film Festival, Halloween Frightfest, the London Film Festival, Newfest, the New York Film Festival, the Scottish Queer international Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Read our full archive for more.
Visit our festivals section.