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Red Mist (18
Director Paddy Breathnach follows up Shrooms with another horror-thriller, this time set in a teaching hospital, where lowly janitor Kenneth Chisholm (Andrew Lee Potts) stares adoringly from afar at beautiful medical student Catherine (Arielle Kebbel).
When he dares to approach her in a bar, her friends spike his drink and leave him unconscious outside of the hospital in the cold, unaware that he is slipping into a coma.
When Catherine learns of his critical condition, she introduces an experimental drug to his system in the faint hope this might revive Kenneth and assuage her guilt.
Instead, her friends begin to die in freak accidents and the medical student wonders if the wonder-drug has somehow released the patient from his body and allowed him to wreak revenge on his tormentors.
Am I Black Enough For You? (12A)
Directed by Goran Olsson, this fascinating documentary pays tribute to legendary Philadelphia soul artist Billy Paul, who rose to fame in the 1970s with his song Me And Mrs Jones, which stormed the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
However, the follow-up song Am I Black Enough For You faded without trace, almost ending Paul's career at a time when the civil rights movement was giving birth to soul music.
Olsson's film interviews Paul and his wife, Blanche, as they recall this volatile period in their lives, the relationship with record executive Kenny Gamble, and racial tensions within America of that era.
Strawberry and Chocolate (18)
Re-release of Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio's award-winning 1995 drama, famously the first Cuban feature film with an openly gay lead character.
David (Vladimir Cruz) is dumped by his girlfriend, who walks down the aisle with another man, leaving her ex to his pro-Communist views, which sit well with the ruling Castro regime.
In the park one day, David encounters openly-gay writer Diego (Jorge Perugorria), who flirts over a strawberry ice-cream and invites David back to his apartment.
A seduction of body and mind ensues as the two men question their ideologies, sowing the seeds of an extraordinary and tender relationship.
Embodiment of Evil (18)
The concluding part of the Brazilian "Coffin Joe" horror trilogy, which began with 1964's At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and 1967's This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse.
It follows the murderous undertaker (Jose Mojica Marins) as he is released from prison, having served 40 years behind bars for his heinous crimes.
Back on the streets, Joe immediately continues his quest for a woman to provide him with an heir.
As he runs amok on the streets of Sao Paulo, the undertaker leaves death and destruction in his wake as his reign of terror reaches its bloodthirsty climax.









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