Symbolicus Vol. 3

From the mind of Marcus Koch comes the second installment of bizarre visions from the underground’s finest filmmakers.

Symbolicus is an experimental anthology project developed by extreme horror maestro Marcus Koch (100 Tears, AGP: Bloodshock). Assigned with nothing more than a symbol, filmmakers were granted full control and creativity to construct absolutely anything they wanted. Spanning over three volumes and consisting of works from 39 different filmmakers from around the world. Symbolicus defies the boundaries of traditional filmmaking, dismissing the concepts of genre or narrative. Delivering a cinematic experience like nothing you have seen before.

A young man’s sudden descent into masochism and self-mutilation worsens, leading to an appointment with a psychiatrist that only gets more disturbing the further he retells his recent activities. The prequel to Larva Mental.

Plagued by a mysterious voice, a wife begins a darkened descent into demonic possession. Her body becomes infested with craters, maggots, insects, and blood. The suffering she endures begins a spiral into pain, torment, sadness, and an end to it all.

Golgota is a film about extreme body art with a very pronounced sexual component. The film is told through a series of title cards per hour. It’s 6 hours in the life of Wendy, a woman with multiple paraphilias who has no limits.

Made up of nine shorts, Vore Gore (2021) is an anthology that explores the links between sex and violence, consumption and capitalism all under the umbrella theme of voraphilia.

A father and daughter seem to have a shared trauma. One day, The Father puts on a collar shirt goes away on what seems to be a business trip leaving The Daughter at home to snoop around his computer. When she finds an intensely depraved video of him and some sketchy masks hidden away, she is so upset that she brutally kills herself. Upon discovering the body, he is so distraught that it sends him into a fit of depravity.

With a duration of 150 minutes, GORE TAPES includes trailers for films distributed by the label from 2019 to today, but also those of some of the new releases arriving in the coming months. Among these we remember the trailers for Orozco the Embalmer, Lucker the Necrophagous, The Life and Death Of a Porno Gang, Trypophobic Possession, films by Aldo Lado, Marian Dora, Andrey Iskanov, Jonathan Doe, Domiziano Cristopharo, Scott Schirmer, Brett Mullen and many other titles among the most extreme in the catalogue.

Edgar is a successful sculptor with an unstoppable international presence in the art world. But the arrival of the coronavirus in Europe and its global spread completely changed his trajectory. Isolated, pressured, and disfigured by the consequences of a system that devours human beings from within, he begins a brutal descent into mental and physical decay.

The documentary explains a feminist challenge undertaken by a group of women from Ondárroa. It involves traveling from Ondárroa to Donostia and from Donostia to Ondárroa in July 2024.

The Girl with the Cutter is an experimental art film and it’s inspired by a true story. Cofi Valduvieux plays a tormented woman who battles the urge to cut herself. She spends her time fighting voices, having visions of a demonic version of herself and trying to figure out the best way to harm herself. With her mental suffering mounting, things start to escalate.

A unique experience that challenges the limits of horror cinema and the poetry of life