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7 Keys and Charlotte
7 Keys (Seven Keys)
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Joy Wilkinson; Writer: Joy Wilkinson; Stars: Emma McDonald, Pete Postlethwaite)
When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.
The A-Frame
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Calvin Lee Reeder; Writer: Calvin Lee Reeder; Stars: Johnny Whitworth, Dana Namerode, Nik Dodani, Laketa Caston)
A quantum physicist's groundbreaking machine inadvertently opens a portal to a subatomic universe while attempting to prove its efficacy. During his experiments on rats, he stumbles upon a radical cancer treatment that could revolutionise modern medicine.
Agatha
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Roland Becerra, Kelly Bigelow; Stars: Emily Joyce-Dial, Ryan Whiting, Erin McDonough, Lauren Mascali)
The Professor is a man suffering from a terminal disease. By a strange twist of fate he witnesses an incredible event involving his mysterious neighbour Agatha. In the hope of finding a cure to his sickness, he agrees to follow her on a strange and risky journey into a forgotten but not entirely deserted urban wasteland beset by the passing of time and the disintegration of nature, institutions, and people.
Bogieville
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Patrick Cronin; Stars: Arifin Putra, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Jonathan Hansler, Sean Cronin)
A young couple on the run come across a derelict trailer park, Bogieville. Convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker Crawford they soon learn he is guardian to the residents, a pack of vampires, headed by the formidable Madison who has condemned his 12 year-old daughter to everlasting immortality. An eternal struggle exists between Madison and a rival vampire who will stop at nothing to take control.
The Bunker
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brian Hanson; Stars: Chelsea Edmundson, Chad Michael Collins, Tobin Bell, Tony Todd)
A scientist must create a bio-weapon to stop unknown alien visitors before they can take over the Earth. But paranoia and isolation cause her to question the true intention of her mission with devastating consequences.
The Daemon and Scared Shitless
Carnage For Christmas
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Chris Asimos, Dominique Booth, Betsey Brown, Lewi Dawson, Olivia Beeble)
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
Charlotte
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Georgia Conlan; Writer: Georgia Conlan, Martin Hardwick; Stars: Georgia Conlan, Louis Brogan, Dean Kilbey, Liam Conlan)
In the dead of night, a young teenager appears on Roy's doorstep, fleeing from her abusive father. Despite a few too many drinks, Roy reluctantly offers her shelter for the night. But is either of them what they seem?
Children Of The Wicker Man
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn)
A documentary about The Wicker Man and its legacy.
Cinderella'a Curse
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Louisa Warren; Stars: Kelly Ryan Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Lauren Budd, Natasha Tosini)
Cinderella wishes for love and happiness, but she finds herself ill-treated and abused daily by her evil stepsisters and stepmother, unable to escape their cruel clutches. Until she summons her fairy godmother from an ancient flesh-bound book, who is able to grant Cinderella her greatest wish: ultimate revenge. Now, with bloodlust, Cinderella goes to the ball to massacre those who have done her wrong before the hour strikes midnight.
The Daemon
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Yohe, Matt Devino; Writer: Matt Devino, David Michael Yohe; Stars: Adriana Isabel, Tyler Q Rosen, Sara Fletcher, Oscar Wilson)
Haunted by his father's suicide, Tom abandons his wife Kathy and seeks refuge at the lakeside cottage where he met his tragic end. There, tormented memories from childhood resurface, all intricately connected to an ancient, mystifying force lurking beneath the lake's depths, driving Tom inexorably towards madness.
Never Have I Ever and Carnage For Christmas
The Lonely Man With The Ghost Machine
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Graham Skipper; Stars: Graham Skipper, Paul Guyet, Christina Bennett Lind)
After a global catastrophe, the last man on Earth finds himself questioning his purpose and sanity as both his deceased wife and a mysterious stranger confront him with his past, his present, and whatever future might remain in the wastes of a dead world.
Mutilator 2
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Buddy Cooper; Stars: Terry Kiser, Eva Hamilton, Chaney Morrow, Cody Renee Cameron)
Many years after its initial 1984 release, the slasher classic The Mutilator is being remade. A wrap party has been scheduled for the night following the final day of shooting. Cast members from the original film have been invited too and everyone is excited. Unfortunately they are besieged by an unknown killer, who favours the use of similar nautical implements of death to those used by Big Ed, the original grief-crazed Mutilator maniac.
Never Have I Ever
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Damon Rickard; Writer: Damon Rickard, Andrew Lee Potts, Mitch Bain; Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Amber Doig-Thorne, Beatrice Fletcher, Johnny Vivash, Graham Skipper)
Sam is having a bad day. He is battling an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, is late on a deadline for a writing gig and risks having to pay back an advance he can’t afford to. Then a chance encounter whilst drowning his sorrows sends his already bad day spinning in directions he couldn’t possibly have seen coming.
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.
Protein
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Tony Burke; Stars: Craig Russell, Andrea Hall, Charles Dale, Ross O’Hennessy)
A traumatised ex-squaddie and serial killer returns to South Wales to escape his demons. There he becomes workout and gym-obsessed and eats a local drug dealer for their protein. Compelled to kill again, he sends shockwaves through the local criminal underworld.
Scarlet Blue and A Nightmare On Elm Street
Scared Shitless
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Vivieno Caldinelli; Writer: Brandon Cohen; Stars: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chalsea Clark, Mark McKinney, Julian Richings)
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
Scarlet Blue
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Aurélia Mengin; Writer: Aurélia Mengin; Stars: Amélie Daure, Anne-Sophie Charron, Stefano Cassetti, Patricia Barzyk, Emmanuel Bonami)
A woman who struggles with depression, schizophrenia and a schism of communication with her mother endeavours to recover from a suicide attempt by consulting a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and lives an isolated existence in a cave.
Scopophobia
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Aled Owen; Stars: Catrin Jones, Emma Stacey, Ellen Jane Thomas, Bethany William Potter)
Scopophobia: the extreme, irrational fear of being looked at. Four young women return home to a ghost town but find themselves being followed. By someone who knows what they did? Or just their guilty conscience?
Touchdown
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Josephine Rose; Stars: Will Attenborough, Cressida Bonas, Kai Luke Brummer, Jason Flemyng)
When meteor storms bring a new life form to earth, global authorities implement emergency controls as they move in secret to eliminate the predators. A group of five friends, who are separated in different countries, risk everything to survive.
Year 10
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Benjamin Goodger; Stars: Toby Goodger, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Duncan Lacroix)
A cataclysmic event has blackened the sky plunging the earth into an endless winter. Toxic clouds turned rain to acid, crops can't grow and the human race is all but extinct. Deep in the dying forest Son and his Father eke out an existence scavenging the wreckage of the former world. Though their lives are bleak they have each other. But when Son's girlfriend is struck down by an infection, everything falls apart.
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