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Pulse and Total Recall
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 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
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.
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.
The Nightingale and Blue Velvet
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)
A restless soul comes back from the dead to seek vengeance.
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.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Scarface
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.
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'.
The Fall and The Cell
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.
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)
Martha Marcy May Marlene and Lethal Weapon
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.
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.
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 Crow and Saw
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.
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.
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
See:
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
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.
Dune and Sky Peals
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Babadook and Hellboy
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.
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.
The Nice Guys and Maldoror
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.
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.
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.
Event Horizon and Ed Wood
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.
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.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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