Terror in the Aisles

Behave

2024 · ★ 2.9

After the death of their friend, a group of eccentric young adults are whisked away to a villa on the outskirts of London, but a mysterious entity seems to have followed them to their luxurious getaway.

The Anchor

2022 · ★ 6

A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.

The Campground

2013

In 1980 a mother took her son to get a present on his 10th birthday. They went to an old abandoned Campground: Little Farm on the River. She took him to an old camper and asked him to step inside, once he did she reached out and grabbed a screwdriver sitting on the counter and began stabbing him over and over again. Now 30 years later a group of friends decide to go down to the campground to celebrate a birthday party, but the mood soon changes when people start turning up dead. Will the the teens be able to check out or stay at camp permanently?

Siew Lup

2017 · ★ 3.5

Mia, an ex-prostitute, is trapped in a loveless marriage with the abusive Quan (Sunny Pang, who also stars in Headshot in this year’s Festival lineup), a butcher who runs a roast meat shop. When she meets sensitive funeral director Wu, their passion for one another escalates into an affair. But the path to true love is fraught with jealousy, forcing someone to make a deadly move.

Nightwatch

1997 · ★ 6.1

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Walden

2023 · ★ 6

Walden Dean is a stenographer, whose mind witnessed all types of injustices in the courtroom. After discovering he has a terminal illness, repressed anger deep within him surfaces -- taking justice into his own hands in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

The First Purge

2018 · ★ 6

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

Murder Box

2019 · ★ 6

A stand up comedian with a brutal alter-ego is interrogated by police about the contents of his hard drive.

Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster

2019 · ★ 7.6

New exclusive access and never before heard testimony gives a unique insight into the mind of America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy. Breathtaking archive from the time and the voice of Bundy himself, reveals the monster inside the man.

Rashawn's Desire: The Untold Story of Rashawn Brazell

RASHAWN'S DESIRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF RASHAWN BRAZELL is a feature-length documentary film that closely examines the story behind the 2005 murder of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell of New York City, whose dismembered body parts were found on a trackbed in a subway station in what one magazine referred to as the "most horrific murder since Jack the Ripper." Through in-depth examination of the sensational media coverage of the case and interviews with those who knew Rashawn best, the film tells the story of who Rashawn Brazell truly was, what likely led to the crime, the stalled investigation and one determined mother's continuing quest to find justice for her son.

Floater

2023 · ★ 7

After his abusive father's death, a troubled man builds a mausoleum to the relationship they never had in his parents' bathroom, while his grief-stricken family attempts to rescue him from his madness.

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

2015

There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can prevent it.