• Canada
• 2012
• 103 min
• DIR: Jen and Sylvia Soska
• R 18+

After she is betrayed and brutalized by one of her professors, medical student Mary Mason’s life takes a surprising turn as she becomes a sawbones for the local mob after she stumbles into a seedy burlesque bar looking for work. Simultaneously ‘Bloody Mary’ becomes a hit in the body-modification underground after she helps a woman become the ultimate living doll. Before long Mary finds herself becoming increasingly unhinged as the operations pile up and the surgeries begin to leave more marks on her than her so-called freakish clientele. American Mary worked its body mod magic on the festival circuit, picking up over 15 international awards including Best Picture at Screamfest, Toronto After Dark and Shudder Fest, and has arrived.

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• Australia
• 2012
• 85 min
• documentary
• DIR: Penny Vozniak

Cinema’s prodigal daughter Jennifer Lynch braves the unmapped territory of Bollywood-Hollywood movie making, where chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realisation.

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• Australia
• 2011
• 76 min
• feature
• DIR: Donna McRae

Millicent, a professional musician, lectures in music at a university. She is also a recovering alcoholic who has a commemorative tattoo that stretches across her shoulder. When she decides to remove the tattoo, she encounters ghosts of her post-punk past who won’t let her move on so easily.

Featuring an original score by Dave Graney and Clare Moore and a compelling central performance from Anni Finsterer Johnny Ghost has won awards including a Special Jury Prize and Best Screenplay at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival and Best Feature at the South Texas Underground Film Festival.

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• USA
• 2012
• 93 min
• DIR: Jennifer Lynch
• MA 15+

Bob, a cab-driving serial killer who stalks his prey on the city streets alongside his reluctant protégé Tim, who must make a life or death choice between following in Bob’s footsteps or breaking free from his captor.

“Not for the faint of heart or the weak of spirit, and probably not even for fans of more traditional horror films… this is a grenade lobbed into a genre that desperately needs its bones rattled.”-Flick Philosopher

“Impressively directed and superbly written, this is a chilling, thought-provoking horror movie with a pair of terrific performances by Vincent D’Onofrio and newcomer Eamon Farren.”-View London

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• USA
• 2008
• 97 min
• DIR: Jennifer Lynch
• MA 15+

Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.

“In this long-time-coming sophomore film, Lynch exercises powers of her own. She gets repellant, seductive, sympathetic performances from her actors. Ormond and Pullman are frightfully good at teasing intimacy.”-Denver Post

“Beneath the film’s surface appeal as a twisty, morbidly funny freak-out lies a weightier theme on the resilience of children.”-Village Voice

“Some will be unable to appreciate the movie’s savagery on any level. Others will find it affecting and uncompromising, the kind of movie that plunges you into a nightmare and ratchets up the intensity until you’re grateful for a moment’s respite.”-San Fransisco Examiner