Legends, Myths and Legacies: The Cine-Excess 2026 Screening Season
To complement this year's festival theme, Cine-Excess 2026 features the screening season Legends, Myths and Legacies, which considers how legends and myths circulate across cult film representations before becoming remediated and adapted by the curated selection of new releases featured in this year’s festival.
The season comprises in-person UK film premieres alongside a range of streamed releases, many of which are being made available for international audiences to watch.
The Legends, Myths and Legacies screening season is open to academics, students and members of the public (aged 18 years and over).
In-person screenings take place at the ODEON Birmingham New Street Cinema (this page will be updated with Odeon booking links in early October). Streamed releases can be accessed online via the Cine-Excess Film Festival Showcase on Vimeo, which will be made available to delegates who buy tickets to the academic conference (age verification requirements apply for streamed films).
Please watch this YouTube tutorial on how to Age Verify on Vimeo
All screenings start at 8pm - in person at Birmingham Odeon and streaming links going live each day.
Monday 19 October
Skeleton Park European Premiere plus pre-recorded Q & A, 8pm-10pm: Odeon New Street, Birmingham / Streamed (Dan Sacco, Max Boer, Canada, 2026) Folk horror meets the police procedural in this innovative new Canadian thriller that receives a simultaneous cinema/streamed European premiere at Cine-Excess 2026. In the film, a routine night shift turns deadly when two city cops are stalked by a malevolent presence. |
Tuesday 20 October
Carne European Premiere plus pre-recorded Q & A, 8-10pm: Odeon New Street, Birmingham (Tomás Marichal Urban, Uruguay, 2026) In future Uruguay, one wealthy family comes up with the perfect solution to the nation’s meat shortage in this uncompromising film that comes with an advisory content warning. Warning: contains scenes that some viewers may find offensive. |
Tuesday 20 October
AM/FM UK Streaming Premiere - Available to watch for 24 hours with Age Verification (Connor McBride, USA, 2026) Experimental filmmaker Connor McBride mixes DJ culture with issues of identity loss in this daring debut film, as we follow two parallel strands of alienated youth that come together. Ideal for cult film fans curious about the uncanny potential of analogue technology. |
Tuesday 20 October Enter The Television UK Streaming Premiere - Available to watch for 24 hours with Age Verification (Tom Seymour, USA, 2026) American documentary filmmaker Tom Seymour returns to Cine-Excess, with an ambitious new film that traces the influence of TV advertising on cult cinema cultures and communities. |
Wednesday 21 October
Wrath of the Gods Midlands Premiere plus pre-recorded Q & A, 8-10pm: Odeon New Street, Birmingham (Justin Hardy, UK, 2026) Completed shortly before his recent death, Wrath of the Gods, directed by Justin Hardy, is drawn from an original concept by his father Robin Hardy, director of 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man. Shot on location in the Shetland Islands, UK and featuring a mostly street cast of locals, Wrath of the Gods is the first horror film to feature dialogue spoken in indigenous Shetland dialect. |
Wednesday 21 October
Private Restroom UK Streaming Premiere with pre-recorded Q & A - Available for 24 hours with Age Verification (Amirhossein Amini, Italy/Iran, 2026) An unsettling new film by Iranian Amirhossein Amin which updates a Kafkasque nightmarish visions of anonymised state control into a claustrophobic narrative filmed entirely from one overshot camera position. |
Thursday 22 October
Scum of the Earth 1st UK Cinema Screening plus in person Q & A with Rob Schmidt, 8-10pm: Odeon New Street, Birmingham (Xavier Mendik, UK, 2026) An exclusive screening of the new Birmingham City University documentary that brings together leading filmmakers, scholars and critics to discuss the history of rural American horror cinema. The screening includes a live Q and A session from Wrong Turn (2003) director Rob Schmidt, who also appears in the documentary. |
Thursday 22 October
Stitches UK Streaming Premiere with pre-recorded Q & A - Available for 24 hours with Age Verification (Taylor Olson, Canada, 2026) This innovative queer body horror anthology by Taylor Olson channels the spirit of David Cronenberg cinema with a critique of the destabilizing influence that online media has on humanity, wellbeing and identity. Warning: contains scenes that some viewers may find offensive. |
Friday 23 October
Debone UK Streaming Premiere with pre-recorded Q & A - Available for 24 hours with Age Verification (Lee Daehan, South Korea, 2026) This new Korean film by director Lee Daehan is garnering international festival acclaim for its examination of the social taboos that govern domestic violence within South Korean society, with a dramatic shift into Asia Extreme style cult cinema imagery in the closing act. Warning: contains scenes that some viewers may find offensive. |
Saturday 24 October
Obedience (El Llanto del Perro) UK Streaming Premiere with pre-recorded Q & A - Available for 24 hours with Age Verification (Jano Piccardo / Federico Venzi, Argentina, 2025) Rounding off Cine-Excess 2026 is the streamed premiere of Jano Piccardo and Federico Venzi’s new Argentinian thriller, which explores the dark side of the wellness industry, and the tactics used the control and manipulate marginal community members. The screening continues the ongoing collaboration between the Cine-Excess international film festival and leading global genre film distributor Black Mandala. |