United Kingdom

As an introduction to the friday metal festival BAD TASTE we present THE DOOM DOC, about the stoner- and doom metal scene in England, including Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) and band members of Conan, Crowbar and Primitive Man. The scene is completely underground and auto-financed by Holy Spider Promotions, and operates independently opposing modern music trends and gentrification in the portrayed city of Sheffield.
Director Connor Matheson will be present to introduce the screening and join the metal fest!

Thomas Newton may look like a human, but something is not quite right - he is definitely not in his natural habitat. Sent to earth from his dessicating planet he must look for water and starts a high-tech company to finance his space journey back home.
BUT is proud to present the visually stunning classic film that formed the inspiration for this year's main theme about Alienation. David Bowie's two-coloured eyes, his dead pale snakelike body make him the best cast alien ever.
Both the protagonist and director recently left us - this screening is our way of paying tribute.

A stillborn baby girl is abducted from hospital by a morgue attendant and brought back to life using electrokinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday she escapes her captor and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of destruction behind her. 'CARRIE meets FIRESTARTER' is a nice comparison, and lead actress BARBARA CRAMPTON delivers a remarkable performance and Julian Richards (JINGA FILMS) directs.

After a journey to investigate desolate Pluto, astronaut Arthur returns home a shattered man. He sees eyes forcing their way through the skin of his hands, eyes that distort his friends and the landscape itself into monstrous visions. Believing himself the doorway to alien invasion and gruesome murder, he must take desperate action.

SMEAR is a lube-tastic horror-comedy inspired by Gremlins, Tremors and Little Shop of Horrors, about a woman going in for her first pap-smear test.

When the long-awaited dream dies, the reality begins to circle around us and encage us in the claustrophobic space of our fears and distorting anxiety.

'How do you explain your body’s strange transformations to your lover?'

‘Birds of a Feather’ is an animated short film that follows a man and his struggle with his identity, projected anxieties and relationships over the course of an evening. He has to contend with his insecurities with being seen with another man and his fear as feathers start to grow from his body.

‘The Flytipper’ is a gory tale of three men who, after illegally fly-tipping, encounter a rabid monster made of rubbish who will stop at nothing to hunt them down and take their lives in the most absurd ways possible.

An expressionist nightmare in which an inventor and his colleague test the ‘Automaton’, a machine able to create things from nothing. The machine works perfectly as long as the items it’s asked to create start with the letter N...in German. The results of the test will be catastrophic.