2 Dugard Way, London
Fri 18 Sept · 19:30 · £10
A lot of filmmakers get told to make a genre piece because ‘it has an inbuilt audience’, expecting that if someone made a movie with a couple of jump scares and a spooky monster then suddenly they would have a hit on their hands. The world doesn’t work like that in practice, and a horror film that is just straight horror without any kind of meta-mastery of the genre and its expectations, well, it’s just trash. Perhaps that’s too much programmer lingo coming out, but Omnipresentes takes the best parts of the midnight zombie movie, adds in a dash of auteur slow cinema moody social commentary and then finishes it all off with some fine 16mm film grain. And no true cinephile can resist 16mm grain this fine. Get ready to experience the contemporary Peruvian ideal, as the working man rises to the top of the post-apocalyptic food chain. We have some intense metaphysical psychological horror from Mexico to open the evening. Content rating: 15. Omnipresentes (Peru, 2026) 77 mins In an abandoned city after a zombie epidemic, José walks the streets looking for supplies in houses, stores and taps to survive. He lives with the freedom that he did not have before the infectious outbreak. At the same time, Matías and Andrea arrive in the same city and are gathering supplies to meet his mother again and go to a safe area. Then they meet. The Final Attunement (Mexico, 2026) 18 mins In the innards of Guadalajara, a feathered wanderer stumbles upon a small bird-shaped totem. As he carries it through the city, making its strings vibrate, he witnesses death, destruction, and other evils. A question consumes him: is the totem unleashing something? Presented as part of the Clapham International Film Festival (opens in a new tab). This screening is being held in the wonderful Cinema Museum. Please consider making an optional donation to the fund to purchase the building. There are hardly any indie cinema venues left in London, and it’s up to us to help them keep on keeping on.