Berlinale 2017 – 109 Media announces its latest slate of international acquisitions that will sit under its genre label 108 Madcap. Securing worldwide distribution and sales rights to a raft of newly acquired genre films, the slate will be available for buyers at February’s Berlinale, one of the world’s leading film festivals held annually in Germany.
Launched in 2016, 108 Madcap is a speciality distribution arm that continues to build on its portfolio of genre films, offering global audiences nail-biting and thrilling content specialising in sci-fi, horror, thriller and fantasy themes. The label’s increasing rate of acquisitions continues to demonstrate the growing demand for this often under-served market.
Heading up the slate is the critically acclaimed The Triangle (1 x 94), a 2016 mystery horror which follows a group of four filmmakers who take their cameras into the Montana wilderness in search of a friend. Documenting the inner workings of a mysterious commune with a dark secret, the film is a chilling journey into the unknown.
New to 108 Madcap’s portfolio is BnB Hell (1 x 90), a gripping horror film which tells the story of a girl following the trail of her missing sister. Her trail runs cold at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Determined to find out the truth, she begins digging and soon discovers disturbing messages left by former guests suggesting dark and unsettling secrets lay buried there. Other new additions include; In Circles (1 x 89), a 2016 mystery sci-fi in which the clandestine world of crop circles is threatened. The film follows the journey of an ambitious TV journalist who plans to expose the truth drawing her into the enigma of lights, Celtic mythology and UFOs to discover both the beauty and danger in the mystery she seeks.
Produced in 2015, A Night of Horror Volume 1 (1 x 88) offers a pulse-charging night of cinematic horror as zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark horrors of this truly terrifying anthology from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today. Last of the new acquisitions is A Different Set of Cards (1 x 73) a 2016 German crime thriller by director Falko Jakobs, which centres around the gripping and mysterious tale of four poker players and their quest to outplay each other when the stakes are at their highest.