Can’t sleep? Neither can we!
EIFF’s Midnight Madness strand returns for a second year with a bumper selection of six of the very best genre films of 2025. Films that will whet the appetite of night owls looking for something a little extreme. From lo-fi to high concept, period romp to futuristic dystopia, from feminine dreamscapes to the most toxic masculinity imaginable, these movies will shock, delight and dazzle in equal measure.
A quintessential midnight movie, Ben Wheatley’s wildly inventive, darkly funny and completely unpredictable new film draws on a wealth of references from Airfix and Thunderbirds
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In Dead Lover, Grace Glowicki crafts a macabre yet tender reimagining of Frankenstein, where a gravedigger’s grief leads to madcap resurrection experiments. Shot on 16mm
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A young woman finds herself in a strange, derelict hotel as nightmarish visions from her past come to haunt her. As the lines of reality
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Prone to lashing out at staff, indulging in drug-fuelled binges, and wildly over-selling the stability of her company, ruthless real estate agent Natasha (Maberly) finds
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A broken, grieving mother finds herself trapped in a loop of unfulfilling vengeance. Traveling through the Multiverse, she has but one purpose: to kill the
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A hapless middle aged man is thrust into the role of a brutal avenger after a disastrous encounter with chemical waste. In this inventive, hilarious
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A wealthy socialite (Cherry) and a struggling writer (Chalotra) are thrown together at a debauched party in this remarkable satire of greed and excess...
An intimate and emotional drama about the challenges of starting a family. Miriam Garlo stars as Ángela, a deaf pottery artist, who has to...
Spending his days teaching tennis to distracted families and his nights partying with strangers, aimless former tennis champion Tom (Sam Riley) has resigned himself...
