Bloody Belgium

Niels Wed, 07/23/2025 - 21:54

Filmhuis Room 4 - Red Room

22:00 - 23:30

90min

Film screening

A brand-new edition of Belgica Obscura — a special program presented by our collaborators in Bruges at the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival. This showcase dives into the twisted talents of Belgian genre filmmakers, presenting fresh, freaky shorts that prove the Belgian lowlands are anything but low-key. Belgica Obscura drags their spawn into the light: a twisted sampler of Belgium’s subterranean cinema sins. All flavour. No apologies.

Mopsorden

Mélanie, a filmmaker with wasted potential, has taken refuge in corporate jobs. When a weirdo comes up on a silver lining, she won't resist the call of the buzz.

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Director

Julien Jauniaux

Production country

Production year

2025

Film duration

20minutes

Language spoken

French

The Masque of the Red Death

When the eccentric owner of a bustling nightclub keeps an eye on his business, his gaze falls on a mysterious lady dressed in red whom he wants to make his own at all costs. While the other guests at the club loose themselves in decadence, the owner remains spellbound by the lady and his inner demons. Will he risk to loose it all? The Masque of the Red Death is a stop-motion allegory about lust, decadence and decay.

Based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) in which a bloody pestilence manages to invade a masked ball in a barricaded castle.

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Director

Rune Callewaert

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

8minutes

Language spoken

English

Clac

One Halloween night, Jeanne discovers a package on her doorstep. When she unwraps it, she wasn't expecting to have to play a game of fang-fang with a ghost.

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Director

Jérome Pierrat

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

12minutes

Language spoken

French

Language subtitles

English

The Burglar

The Shadows of the Unknown is a series of episodes inspired by The Twilight Zone and the films that have shaped our vision. Each tale weaves mystery or horror, immersing you in eerie atmospheres and gripping suspense. The first episode, The Burglar, is about a thief that breaks into the wrong house on the wrong night—only to become the hunted. But when the body vanishes and reality starts to warp, it’s clear this break-in was just the beginning.

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Genre

Director

Steven Sterk, Stefaan Borremans

Production country

Production year

2025

Film duration

10minutes

Tetaniya

During the night, Dimitri has a disturbing experience: unable to move or speak, he is confronted by an indistinct presence that interacts with him in a curious way at first, then violently, causing him to wake up. What seemed like a nightmare turns out to be a never-ending loop in which Dimitri is confronted by an unknown part of himself.

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Genre

Director

Patrice Mougeolle

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

11minutes

Love Machine

Mia receive her first sex bot and try to make it work.

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Director

Tresor Katalay

Production country

Production year

2025

Film duration

6minutes

Clairvoyance

A young woman suffers from violent visions while she is waiting for the subway...

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Genre

Director

Brandon Gotto

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

4minutes

Entrails of Savage Capitalism

Toto, a twelve-year-old boy who looks like a monstrous humanoid creature, is sitting at the dinner table with his parents. They’ve made him some soup, but he doesn’t want to eat it. He says he’d rather eat “shit”. How far is Toto prepared to go to make his parents bend?

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Genre

Film

Director

Julien Cescotto

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

17minutes

Program category

Heads or Fails (a.k.a. Aimer Perdre)

Niels — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:43:24 +0000

Heads or Fails (a.k.a. Aimer Perdre)

Niels Wed, 07/23/2025 - 21:43

Filmhuis Room 4 - Red Room

20:00 - 21:45

105min

Film screening

Heads or Fails (a.k.a. Aimer Perdre)

Armande Pigeon is the queen of shenanigans. In Brussels, she struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes – they win it all. And when you hit a winning streak, you have to know when to stop.

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Director

Harpo & Lenny Guit

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

86minutes

Language spoken

French

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Program category

Immortal Beloved Horror

Niels — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:12:19 +0000

Immortal Beloved Horror

Niels Wed, 07/23/2025 - 21:12

Nieuwe Veste Room 1 - Black Box

14:00 - 16:30

150min

Film screening

With Johan Vandewoestijne a.k.a. James Desert in attendance!

Immortal Beloved Horror

IMMORTAL BELOVED HORROR is a feature-length, deep-dive documentary that charts the electrifying history of horror—from literary origins to VHS-era cult chaos.

It all begins in 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and friends—trapped indoors by volcanic ash-cloud weather—entertained themselves by writing ghost stories. What emerged was Frankenstein, the spark that ignited two centuries of macabre imagination.

From there, the film traces the genre’s evolution: Poe and Stoker, Edison and Méliès, German Expressionism and Universal Monsters, Hammer Films and Giallo maestros like Argento and Bava. Horror’s heartbeat pulses through Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, Daughters of Darkness, and the outrageous rise of Troma with The Toxic Avenger.

Told entirely through archival footage, film clips (75+ of them!), and a compelling voice-over (Johan De Paepe in Dutch, Marc Ickx in English), this documentary skips talking heads and dives straight into the guts of the genre—uncut, uncensored, and soaked in atmosphere. With narration-driven storytelling, rich visuals, rare materials, and original music by Yves Elegeert, it’s a blood-soaked love letter to horror cinema, concluding just before the VHS explosion changed the game forever.

Directed, edited, and written by cult icon Johan Vandewoestijne (Rabid Grannies), produced by James Desert, Johan De Paepe, and Erwin Busschaert. International distribution is handled by Zeno Pictures and Chriskepolis under DEFILM, with more language versions in the works.

A must-watch for horror fans, cinephiles, and lovers of cinematic mischief.

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Genre

Documentary

Director

Johan Vandewoestijne

Production country

Production year

2025

Film duration

134minutes

Program category

Blood Shack (2)

Niels — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:56:37 +0000

Blood Shack (2)

Niels Wed, 07/23/2025 - 19:56

Filmhuis Room 4 - Red Room

17:00 - 18:30

90min

Film screening

With Arno Pluquet in attendance!

Blood Shack (La Cabane À Sang)

A madcap director takes his cast and crew to a location once rumored to be home to a cannibal family, with the plan of shooting an amateur horror film. Scripts and preparation turn out to be completely unnecessary, and chaos soon ensues. But the real madness has yet to begin—because the legend isn’t as far-fetched as they thought. The psychopaths in question are still very much present. In fact, one of them harbors his own ambition to direct horror films and is handed the perfect opportunity on a silver platter.

The film crew will end up wishing they had never gone there, in Arno’s feature debut where Calvaire and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are clear influences—though here with a microbudget, killings where the FX remain just offscreen for budgetary reasons, and chaos… lots and lots of POV-style chaos. But one thing’s for sure: Arno & co were clearly having a blast!

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Genre

Director

Arno Pluquet

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

80minutes

Language spoken

French

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Program category

BUT Award nomination

De Potloodmoorden [35mm]

Ryan — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:16:33 +0000

De Potloodmoorden [35mm]

Ryan Tue, 07/30/2024 - 14:16

Nieuwe Veste Theaterzaal [Theatre room]

Sunday 1 Sep

14:00 - 16:00

120min

Film screening

A Bloody Special 35mm screening in the theatre room at Nieuwe Veste with a portable projector. Director Guy Lee Thys will be present for an introduction and Q&A.

A policeman neglects his young, attractive wife because of his professional duties. Soon, he has to face the fact that she deceives him. It seriously complicates the case he is working on: attractive young women are brutally killed by means of a pencil rammed into their noses until the brain is pierced.

De Potloodmoorden

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Genre

Other

Director

Guy Lee Thys

Production country

Production year

1982

Film duration

80minutes

Language spoken

Dutch

Language subtitles

French, English

Trailer

Program category

film-35mm

Belgica Obscura

Niels — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:21:37 +0000

Belgica Obscura

Niels Sun, 07/21/2024 - 10:21

Nieuwe Veste Room 2 - KWA

17:00 - 18:30

90min

Film screening

We have a new edition of Belgica Obscura, a special program in collaboration with Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival in Bruges, in store for you!

A rare thing, Belgian genre films and their makers, yet they exist! This year too, some brave ones managed to realise their dreams and visions in the form of diverse short films, all within the fantastic genre. Belgica Obscura collected for you a selection from their country’s modest offer. Over the years, Belgica Obscura managed to collect nearly 200 Belgian horror (co)productions, going from big budget pictures, student films, to inevitable homemade splatter and amateur flicks. Vampires, psychopaths, aliens, demons, zombies, even cardboard prehistoric creatures and more! They will bring you a small selection of short films to show you the diversity of what Belgica Obscura stands for. We have heard that there aren’t that many dinosaurs, vampires and zombies this time, but at least now we’ve got your attention!

Recall

In the early 2000s, scientists developed a dangerous time amendment program called RECALL. It allows desperate individuals to alter their recent history by creating a second timeline. Natan wants to save Hannah from death. He hopes to survive the RECALL program long enough, to create a timeline where they are back together.

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Director

Jelle Bleyenberg

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

10minutes

The Child / L’enfant

During her pregnancy, a woman experiences terrifying symptoms that necessitate an urgent intervention, plunging her into a live-threatening situation.

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Director

Bekim Vanbosche

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

23minutes

The Investment / L’investissement

Don’t say “slaughterhouse”, say “revaluation center”.

In a dystopian world where everything must be profitable, Rachel Boyer gets a negative rating. The only remedy is working in a slaughterhouse for unproductive people.

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Director

Frédéric Plasman

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

24minutes

Olga’s Eyes / Les Yeux d'Olga

Olga has the vampire blues. She’s is placed in a care home where she can deal with those who have “one foot in the grave”

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Director

Sarah Carlot Jaber

Production country

Production year

2023

Film duration

22minutes

Program category

TriZombie

Ryan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:25:05 +0000

TriZombie

Ryan Fri, 07/19/2024 - 17:25

Chassé Cinema Room 5 - CC 3

11:30 - 13:00

90min

Film screening

Cineville is valid at all our screenings in Chassé Cinema. If you want to use your Cineville pass, reserve via the website of Chassé Cinema, there is a limited number available for each screening: https://www.chasse.nl/nl/programma/9661/bob-colaers/trizombie

TriZombie

A dangerous virus turns everyone into zombies, except people with Down syndrome. A group of unlikely heroes undertake a dangerous trip to rescue their missing friend. Funny and wholesome take on the zombie genre with one or two familiar faces of the BUTFF crew.

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Genre

Director

Bob Colaers

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

79minutes

Language spoken

Dutch

Trailer

Program category

Life’s a Bitch / Chiennes de vies

Ryan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:49:07 +0000

Life’s a Bitch / Chiennes de vies

Ryan Fri, 07/19/2024 - 16:49

Chassé Cinema Room 5 - CC 3

20:00 - 21:45

105min

Film screening

Life’s a Bitch / Chiennes de vies

To please Cecile, Tom agrees to adopt her dead neighbour’s Chihuahua. Actress Greta is crushed. Her dog and her assistant both died, run over by a bus. Franck and Lola fall in love at first sight. They have so much in common, except Lola doesn’t like dogs. Three intertwined destinies, three stories of humans and their dogs.

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Genre

Live action

Director

Xavier Serron

Production country

Production year

2023

Film duration

88minutes

Language spoken

Frans

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Program category

The Belgian Wave + VF Minuit Frissons

Ryan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:55:35 +0000

The Belgian Wave + VF Minuit Frissons

Ryan Fri, 07/19/2024 - 15:55

Nieuwe Veste Room 2 - KWA

14:00 - 15:45

109min

Film screening

The Belgian Wave

This movie examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s. Journalist Marc Varenberg disappeared with his cameraman in mysterious circumstances while investigating. Almost thirty years later, two web reporters reopen the investigation to find out what really happened.

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Genre

Other

Director

Jerome Vandewattyne

Production country

Production year

2023

Film duration

90minutes

Language spoken

French

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Minuit Frissons

Get ready for your new favorite TV-show!

Details

Director

Clotilde Colson, Alan Santi

Production country

Production year

2024

Film duration

9minutes

Program category

BELGICA OBSCURA

Niels — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:16:27 +0000

BELGICA OBSCURA

Program 2023

Niels Wed, 08/02/2023 - 08:16

Chassé Cinema Room 5 - CC 3

Saturday 2 Sep

22:00 - 23:45

105min

Presentation

BELGICA OBSCURA

Over the years, Belgica Obscura managed to collect nearly 200 Belgian horror (co)productions, going from big budget pictures, student films, to inevitable homemade splatter and amateur flicks. Vampires, psychopaths, aliens, demons, zombies, even cardboard prehistoric creatures and more! They will bring you a small selection of short films to show you the diversity of what Belgica Obscura stands for.

We have heard that there aren’t that many dinosaurs, vampires and zombies this time, but at least now we’ve got your attention!

Program category