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Above The Knee
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Viljar Bøe; Writer: Viljar Bøe, Freddy Singh; Stars: Freddy Singh, Julie Abrahamsen, Louise Waage Anda, Viggo Solomon)
Amir has a secret. He's tormented by visions of his leg rotting and longs to cut it off, convinced it doesn't belong to him. So, he devises a plan - one that will drag everyone around him into his relentless quest for relief.
AJ Goes To The Dog Park
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Toby Jones; Stars: AJ Thompson)
A man who finds contentment in the simple pleasures - buttered toast, bicycle rides and walking his dog - discovers that his beloved dog park has been transformed into a 'blog park', a digital sanctuary where youths gather to open their laptops. He feels compelled to take action, to set things right.
Anora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker; Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, Ross Brodar, Mark Eydelshteyn, Emily Weider, Alena Gurevich, Paul Weissman, Luna Sofía Miranda, Masha Zhak, Vache Tovmasyan, Charlton Lamar)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
The Apprentice
(Country: US, Denmark, Ireland, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Gabriel Sherman; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Maria Bakalova, Jeremy Strong, Martin Donovan, Emily Mitchell, Patch Darragh, Stuart Hughes, Michael Hough, Joe Pingue, Eoin Duffy, Randy Thomas, Chloe Madison, Ben Sullivan, James Downing, Joel Labelle)
A dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Baal
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Joseph Sims-Dennett; Writer: Joseph Sims-Dennett; Stars: Meg Clarke, Di Smith, Rasmus Toyra, Lawrence Ola, Raphael Sikic)
A young woman reluctantly returns to her crumbling hometown, only to discover her brother has mysteriously gone missing. Consumed by guilt, she embarks on a harrowing journey to find him, which leads her deep into the dark wilderness surrounding the town.
The Nightingale and Drag Me To Hell
The Babadook
(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Jennifer Kent; Writer: Jennifer Kent; Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Tim Purcell, Benjamin Winspear, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall)
A character in a pop up book haunts the nightscape of a six-year-old boy
A Bell From Hell (La Campana Del Infierno)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 1973; Director: Claudio Guerín, Juan Antonio Bardem; Writer: Santiago Moncado; Stars: Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Alfredo Mayo, Maribel Martín, Nuria Gimeno)
After being falsely accused of being insane and put in a asylum so his wicked aunt and her daughters could steal his money, a recently released young man returns to seek the ultimate revenge against them.
Blue Velvet
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch; Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey, Ken Stovitz)
A young man befriends a woman in trouble and discovers a sinister side to life in his small town.
Bring Them Down
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Andrews; Writer: Chris Andrews, Jonathan Hourigan; Stars: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Susan Lynch, Conor MacNeill, Adam Behan, Diarmuid de Faoite, Gail Fitzpatrick, Youssef Quinn, Grace Daly, Tom Leavey, Martin Gilligan)
The Brutalist
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Brady Corbet; Writer: Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold; Stars: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola)
When visionary architect László Tóth flees post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild his legacy and witness the birth of modern America, his life is changed forever by a wealthy client.
Lethal Weapon and Southern Comfort
A Boy And His Dog (Psycho Boy And His Killer Dog)
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: L Q Jones; Writer: L Q Jones, based on a novella by Harlan Ellison; Stars: Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards, Alvy Moore, Helene Winston, Charles McGraw, the voice of Tim McIntire)
Sci-fi tale about a scavenger and his hound.
Chain Reactions
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama)
Exploration of the impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50 years after it was made.
Chime
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Mutsuo Yoshioka)
Tashiro, a student at a culinary school, hears voices in his head. His teacher, Matsuoka, remains unconcerned. But then Tashiro claims that half of his brain has been replaced by a machine.
Cloud (Kuraudo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Writer: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Masataka Kubota)
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
The Crow
(Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Alex Proyas; Writer: James O'Barr, David J. Schow, John Shirley; Stars: Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Ling Bai, Tony Todd)
A restless soul comes back from the dead to seek vengeance.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Ed Wood
The Cell
(Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: Tarsem Singh; Writer: Mark Protosevich; Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patrick Bauchau, Gerry Becker, Tara Subkoff, Catherine Sutherland, Jake Thomas)
Jennifer Lopez enters the mind of
a serial killer in scary scientific
experiment.
Daniela Forever
(Country: Spain, US, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Writer: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Henry Golding, Beatrice Grannò, Aura Garrido, Rubén Ochandiano, Nathalie Poza)
Follows a man as he joins a sleep trial that allows him to rebuild his life with his girlfriend who died in an accident through the use of lucid dreams.
Darkman
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: Sam Raimi; Writer: Sam Raimi, Chuck Pfarrer, Ivan Raimi; Stars: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Nelson Mashita, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson)
A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
A Desert
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Erkman; Writer: Joshua Erkman, Bossi Baker; Stars: David Yow, Kai Lennox, Sarah Lind, Zachary Ray Sherman, Ashley B Smith, Rob Zabrecky)
A photographer on a road trip meets a carefree young couple and finds himself in danger.
Devara Part 1
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Koratala Siva; Writer: Koratala Siva; Stars: NT Rama Rao Jr, Saif Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Meka Srikanth, Shine Tom Chacko)
An epic action saga set against coastal lands, which briefs about rip-roaring, emotionally charged incidents in the periodic timeline, also comprises the titular protagonist being the rescuer of the deprived and fear itself to evildoers.
A Nightmare On Elm Street and Above The Knee
Dune
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch, based on the book by Frank Herbert.; Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Kenneth McMillan, Richard Jordan, Virginia Madsen, Jürgen Prochnow, Dean Stockwell), Trailer
Epic science fiction set around rival clans on a desert planet which is home to giant worms.
Drag Me To Hell
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Sam Raimi; Writer: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi; Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Dileep Rao, Reggie Lee, Bonnie Aarons, Tony A. Angelo, Joanne Baron, Adriana Barraza, Michael Peter Bolus, Gerry Carbajal, Tom Carey, Flor de Maria Chahua, Ksenia Jarova, Ted Raimi), Official Site, Trailer
A bank clerk having a bad day crosses an old gypsy woman and is afflicted with terrible curse.
Ed Wood
(Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Tim Burton; Writer: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski; Stars: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, G.D. Spraldin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bill Murray, Lisa Marie)
Biopic of 'the worst director of all time'.
Escape From The 21st Century (Cong 21 Shi Ji An Quan Che Li)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Li Yang; Writer: Li Yang; Stars: Zhang Ruoyun, Zhong Elane, Song Yang, Wu Xiaoliang, Zhu Yanmanzi, Chen Yichen)
The story follows three friends who discover they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hoped, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
Event Horizon
(Country: US/UK; Year: 1997; Director: Paul WS Anderson; Writer: Philip Eisner; Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill,
Kathleen Quinlan, Joely
Richardson, Sean Pertwee)
Deep space rescue mission crew
are tormented by evil from
another dimension.
Event Horizon and The Babadook
The Fall
(Country: India, UK; Year: 2006; Director: Tarsem Singh; Writer: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis, Tarsem Singh, Valeri Petrov; Stars: Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Sean Gilder, Ronald France, Andrew Roussouw, Michael Huff, Grant Swanby, Emil Hostina)
Tarsem Singh's visually opulent fantasy epic borrowing the narrative device of The Princess Bride to widen and scorch the eyes.
Ghost Killer
(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kensuke Sonomura; Writer: Yugo Sakamoto; Stars: Akari Takaishi, Mario Kuroba, Masanori Mimoto)
After being possessed by the ghost of vengeful hit man Kudo, college student Fumika Matsuoka agrees to help him finish his quest for vengeance from beyond the grave.
The Girl With The Needle (Pigen med nålen)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Magnus von Horn; Writer: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn; Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Thomas Kirk, Dan Jakobsen, Anna Tulestedt, Ari Alexander, Benedikte Hansen, Per Thiim Thim, Peter Secher Schmidt, Agnieszka Przyborowska-Mitrosz)
In Copenhagen in the aftermath of World War one, a young woman in desperate circumstances takes on a job which will lead her to still greater depths of despair.
The Green Fog
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin)
Compiles bits from 98 films and 3 TV shows set in San Francisco and re-imagines a post-modern version of Hitchcock’s classic Vertigo.
Hellboy
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, based on the comic books by Mike Mignola; Stars: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma
Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel
Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug
Jones, Brian Steele)
A comic book hero with alien ancestry battles an undead Rasputin for the soul of man.
Martha Marcy May Marlene and Nightbitch
The Hidden
(Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Jack Sholder; Writer: Jim Kouf; Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder, Clu Gulager, Ed O'Ross)
A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
Hold Your Breath
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Karrie Crouse, William Joines; Writer: Karrie Crouse; Stars: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Alona Jane Robbins, Annaleigh Ashford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach)
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
The Hot Spot
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: Dennis Hopper; Writer: Charles Williams, Nona Tyson; Stars: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities - and the local women - after he robs a bank.
It's What's Inside
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Greg Jardin; Writer: Greg Jardin; Stars: Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Devon Terrell, Gavin Leatherwood, Reina Hardesty, Nina Bloomgarden, David Thompson)
A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.
Jimmy And Stiggs
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joe Begos; Writer: Joe Begos; Stars: Joe Begos, Matt Mercer)
A filmmaker spirals into an out of control bender, during which he comes to believe that he has been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts an old friend to help him gear up for war.
Baal and The Nice Guys
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Shane Black; Writer: Brett Halliday, Shane Black; Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen, Dash Mihok, Larry Miller, Rockmond Dunbar, Shannyn Sossamon, Angela Lindvall, Indio Falconer Downey, Ariel Winter)
Small time crook is groomed for Hollywood with hilarious consequences.
Lake Mungo
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Joel Anderson; Writer: Joel Anderson; Stars: Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell, Tamara Donnellan, Scott Terrill, Chloe Armstrong, Charles Armytage, Claire Astbury)
A family are haunted by their daughter's death.
The Last Boy Scout
(Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: Tony Scott; Writer: Shane Black, Greg Hicks; Stars: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron, Danielle Harris)
A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
The Last Sacrifice
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Rupert Russell)
A documentary about the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton - the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre.
Lethal Weapon
(Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Richard Donner; Writer: Shane Black; Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Jackie Swanson, Damon Hines, Ebonie Smith, Bill Kalmenson, Lycia Naff, Patrick Cameron, Don Gordon, Jimmie F Skaggs)
A grief-stricken cop is teamed with a more staid veteran. The pair must overcome their differences to solve a case.
A Mother's Embrace and Cloud
Little Bites
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Spider One; Writer: Spider One; Stars: Krsy Fox, Jon Sklaroff, Elizabeth Caro, Barbara Crampton, Heather Langenkamp, Bonnie Aarons, Chaz Bono)
In a desperate attempt to protect her ten-year-old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive.
Maldoror
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Fabrice du Welz; Writer: Domenico La Porta, Fabrice du Welz; Stars: Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi López, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle, Lubna Azabal, Jackie Berroyer, Mélanie Doutey, Félix Maritaud)
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
A Man Escaped
(Country: France; Year: 1956; Director: Robert Bresson; Writer: André Devigny, Robert Bresson; Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Molod, Jacques Ertaud)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: T Sean Durkin; Writer: T Sean Durkin; Stars: Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Elizabeth Olsen, Louisa Krause, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Diana Masi, Allen McCullough, Michael Chmiel)
A woman is traumatised after fleeing a cult.
Full Review
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Keeping score: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians talk about Last Days In The Desert, Enemy and Wolfpack
, New York Film Festival: Diary piece - Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity
, New York Film Festival: Photo Gallery Three
, Sundance 2011: Martha Marcy May Marlene, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same and Restless City
, New York Film Festival: Diary piece - Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity
, New York Film Festival: Photo Gallery Three
, Sundance 2011: Martha Marcy May Marlene, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same and Restless City
Melvin Goes To Dinner
(Country: US; Year: 2003; Director: Bob Odenkirk; Writer: Michael Blieden; Stars: Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price, Annabelle Gurwitch)
A lonely young man finds himself at a restaurant with two strangers and his best friend.
Total Recall and A Boy And His Dog
A Mother's Embrace
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Cristian Ponce; Writer: Gabriela Capello, André Pereira, Cristian Ponce; Stars: Marjorie Estiano, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Javier Drolas, Chandelly Braz, Rafael Canedo)
During massive 1996 Rio storm, firefighter Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a collapsing nursing home, but the mysterious residents have other sinister plans.
The Nice Guys
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2016; Director: Shane Black; Writer: Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi; Stars: Starring: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Matt Bomer, Kim Basinger, Angourie Rice, Margaret Qualley, Lance Valentine Butler, Jack Kilmer, Maddie Compton, Ty Simpkins, Murielle Telio)
An unlikely duo of detectives searches for a missing girl in 1977 Los Angeles.
Nightbitch
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Marielle Heller; Writer: Marielle Heller, Rachel Yoder; Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Zoë Chao, Jessica Harper, Mary Holland, Kerry O'Malley, Ella Thomas, Laura Meadows, Roslyn Gentle, Michaela Baham, Stacey Swift, Michael Andrew Baker, Adrienne Rose White, Preston Galli, Garrett C. Phillips)
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
The Nightingale
(Country: Australia; Year: 2018; Director: Jennifer Kent; Writer: Jennifer Kent; Stars: Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Aisling Franciosi, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Matthew Sunderland, Harry Greenwood, Sam Smith, Michael Sheasby, Ben McIvor, Baykali Ganambarr, Luke Carroll, Claire Jones, Magnolia Maymuru, Dallas Mugarra)
A young convict in a penal colony seeks revenge.
A Nightmare On Elm Street
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Wes Craven; Stars: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Johnny Depp)
A child molester killed by vigilantes seeks revenge on their children through their dreams.
The Brutalist and Zero
Night Call (La Nuit Se Traîne)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Michiel Blanchart; Writer: Michiel Blanchart, Gilles Marchand; Stars: Jonathan Feltre, Natacha Krief, Jonas Bloquet, Thomas Mustin, Romain Duris, Sam Louwyck)
This night is like all the others for Mady, student by day, locksmith by night. But Claire, the enigmatic young girl he helps out that night, is not who she claims to be. Mady has only one night to prove his innocence in a city in turmoil.
The Platform 2 (El Hoyo 2)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; Writer: David Desola, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, Egoitz Moreno; Stars: Natalia Tena, Óscar Jaenada, Hovik Keuchkerian, Milena Smit, Antonia San Juan)
As a mysterious leader imposes their rule in the Platform, a new resident becomes embroiled in the battle against this controversial method to fight the brutal feeding system.
Presence
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: David Koepp; Stars: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, West Mulholland, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday)
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.
Pulse (Kairo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2001; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Karume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Shinji Takeda, Jun Fubuki, Shun Sugata, Sho Akaiwa, Koji Yakusho, Kenji Mizuhashi)
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
The Quick And The Dead
(Country: US, Japan; Year: 1995; Director: Sam Raimi; Writer: Simon Moore; Stars: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Ball, Roberts Blossom)
A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.
Terrifier 3 and The Saddest Music In The World
A Rare Grand Alignment
(Country: Finland; Year: 2024; Director: Cinqué Lee; Writer: Cinqué Lee; Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Felix Jamieson, Charlie Price, Kristofer Hivju)
In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event.
A Real Pain
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jesse Eisenberg; Writer: Jesse Eisenberg; Stars: Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey, Jesse Eisenberg, Will Sharpe, Ellora Torchia, Liza Sadovy, Kurt Egyiawan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Rich Flu
(Country: US, Colombia, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; Writer: David Desola, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, Pedro Rivero; Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lorraine Bracco, Timothy Spall, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, César Domboy)
Explores how far people would go to save themselves when the wealth that made the world go round then becomes its most dangerous commodity after a strange disease threatens to kill anyone with any sort of fortune.
Rumours
(Country: Canada, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin; Writer: Evan Johnson; Stars: Alicia Vikander, Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Denis Ménochet, Roy Dupuis, Zlatko Buric, Ralph Berkin, Rolando Ravello, Alexa Kennedy, Tomi Kosynus)
World leaders become stranded in the woods during a G7 summit.
Seconds
(Country: US; Year: 1966; Director: John Frankenheimer; Writer: Lewis John Carlino, David Ely; Stars: Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Frances Reid, Barbara Werle, Edgar Stehli, Aaron Magidow, Young De De, Françoise Ruggieri, Murray Hamilton, Thom Conroy, Jeff Corey, Will Geer, Richard Anderson, Rock Hudson, Khigh Dhiegh)
A middle-aged banker is re-born as a young painter - but at what cost?
The Cell and Speed
Southern Comfort
(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Walter Hill; Writer: Walter Hill, Michael Kane, David Giler; Stars: Keith Carradine, Peter Coyote, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, TK Carter, Franklyn Seales)
National Guardsmen on an remote exercise run into trouble on the bayou.
The Saddest Music In The World
(Country: Canada; Year: 2003; Director: Guy Maddin; Writer: Guy Maddin, Georges Toles. Based on the screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro; Stars: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan), Trailer
Depression-era melodrama where beer baroness runs competition to discover the saddest music in the world.
Salem's Lot
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Gary Dauberman; Writer: Gary Dauberman, based on the book by Stephen King; Stars: Lewis Pullman, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, Bill Camp, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard)
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
Saw
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: James Wan; Writer: Leigh Whannell; Stars: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht, Tobin Bell)
Gruesome horror film with serial killer pretensions.
Sayara
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2024; Director: Can Evrenol; Stars: Duygu Kocabiyik, Emre Kizilirmak, Özgül Kosar)
When her sister is murdered by a group of politically connected rich kids, Sayara, a quiet gym cleaner from Turkmenistan, begins to follow in her father’s footsteps, seeking a path of revenge.
The Fall and Pulse
Scarface
(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Brian De Palma; Writer: Armitage Trail, Ben Hecht, Howard Hawks, Oliver Stone; Stars: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Ángel Salazar, Arnaldo Santana, Pepe Serna, Michael P. Moran, Al Israel, Dennis Holahan)
A migrant Cuban thug attempts to claw his way to the top of the drugs trade in Florida.
Serpent's Path (Hebi No Michi)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1998; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi; Stars: Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi, Shirô Shimomoto, Kaei Okina, Kaoru Sunada, Takumi Tanji, Kana Satô, Satoshi Morihiro, Ayami Oda, Mizuho Tanaka, Kazutaka Niyama, Yoshitaka Kowashi, Hideo Usui, Takeshi Ôshima)
In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge.
Shadowland
(Country: Finland; Year: 2024; Director: Otso Tiainen; Writer: Kalle Kinnunen, Otso Tiainen; Stars: Richard Stanley)
A study of an esoteric community hidden within the French Pyrenees, supposedly the home of the Holy Grail.
Shush Cut
(Year: 2016; Director: Mike Flanagan)
A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live in solitude must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
Sky Peals
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Moin Hussain; Writer: Moin Hussain; Stars: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra, Steve Oram, Jeff Mirza, Bill Fellows, Adrian Hood, Maizie Wickson, Alan Cammish, Teresa Mondol, Junaid Arshad, Christian Foster, Vicki Hackett, Lynne Payne)
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
Blue Velvet and The Crow
Speed
(Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Jan de Bont; Writer: Graham Yost; Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels), Trailer
A blackmailer places a bomb on a bus. The bomb will explode if the bus slows down.
Terrorvision
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Ted Nicolaou; Writer: Ted Nicolaou; Stars: Chad Allen, Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Jon Gries, Bert Remsen, Jennifer Richards)
A monster beamed away as unwanted waste from an alien planet finds its way into a suburban American home through a satellite dish.
Terrifier 3
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Damien Leone; Writer: Damien Leone; Stars: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Jason Patric, Daniel Roebuck, Charlotte McKee, Bryce Johnson)
Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Tobe Hooper; Writer: Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel; Stars: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Paul A Partain, Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, William Vail, Terri McMinn, Jim Siedow)
A tragedy that befalls five youths in the Texas outback takes horror to a new dimension.
Total Recall
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: Paul Verhoeven; Writer: Ronald Shusett, based on the short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K Dick.; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mel Johnson Jr., Michael Champion, Roy Brocksmith, Ray Baker, Rosemary Dunsmore, David Knell, Alexia Robinson, Dean Norris, Mark Carlton)
Unable to afford his dream holiday, Doug decides to have false memories of one implanted instead, leading to a shocking discovery.
Terrorvision and Shadowland
V/H/S/Beyond
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian Long, Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, Kate Siegel; Writer: Evan Dickson, Jordan Downey, Mike Flanagan, Christian Long, Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, Kevin Stewart, Benjamin A Turner; Stars: Phillip Andre Botello)
Six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a science-fiction inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.
Who's Watching?
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tim Kasher; Writer: Tim Kasher; Stars: Zachary Ray Sherman, Gracie Gillam, Olivia Luccardi)
A metalhead loner becomes obsessed with his new coworker and begins invading every aspect of her life. As his infatuation escalates from inappropriate to criminal, we are left questioning who is really watching whom.
Zero
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jean Luc Herbulot; Writer: Jean Luc Herbulot, Hus Miller; Stars: Gary Dourdan, Moran Rosenblatt, Hus Miller, Annabelle Lengronne, Cam McHarg)
Two Americans find themselves in Dakar, Senegal with bombs strapped to their chests and ten hours to find out why.
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