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  Death Ranch

  Review preview for Death Ranch

  On days when watching Nazis get punched on YouTube isn't enough, this hits the spot.

  Three African American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult
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  12 Hour Shift

  Review preview for 12 Hour Shift

  A splatter-happy romp through one night in the organ trade.

  Nurse Mandy is just trying to make it through her double shift alive, but her nasty drug addiction, annoying coworkers, needy patients, and devious cousin are making it pretty tough, not to mention organ-stealing criminals and an injured convict.
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  Ten Minutes To Midnight

  Review preview for Ten Minutes To Midnight

  Williams is fantastic in the central role.

  A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.
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  Ropes

  Review preview for Ropes

  Elena is not initially an easy character to like, but her courage and ingenuity is handling the crisis she finds herself in gradually wins viewers over.

  A young quadriplegic woman who has lost her sister moves to a country house with her father. A trained dog helps her, but then becomes her worst enemy.
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  Revenge Ride

  Review preview for Revenge Ride

  Revenge Ride has a kind of rough-hewn grace, a purity that's rare in today's cinema.

  After a young woman is drugged at a party, her cousin's all-female biker gang rides out for revenge.
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  Triggered

  Review preview for Triggered

  Shot at night with scenes designed to look as if they're lit by torchlight, this is no small technical achievement.

  Nine friends, each harbouring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. When they wake up with bombs strapped to their chests, they find themselves caught up in a deadly game.
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  Rent-A-Pal

  Review preview for Rent-A-Pal

  Wheaton is excellent as the twee yet sinister Andy.

  A lonely carer looking for love becomes obsessed by a videotape featuring a man who offers to be his friend.
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  The Horror Crowd

  Review preview for The Horror Crowd

  The film is beautifully edited, at times coming across like one long conversation between people in different places.

  A documentary about the Hollywood horror community.
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  Unearth

  Review preview for Unearth

  Overall, the story is slight, but Lee Eun-ah's atmospheric cinematography enables Unearth to punch above its weight.

  The relationship between two neighbouring farm families is strained when one of them chooses to lease land to an oil and gas company - and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface, is released.
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  The Oak Room

  Review preview for The Oak Room

  Few films have ever depicted the art of storytelling as brilliantly as this.

  During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.

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