Eye for Film: Fantaspoa 2025 - Features programme

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.

The Alienated (Fără suflet) (Country: France, Moldova, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Anja Kreis; Stars: Nikolay Mulakov)

A gynaecologist finds herself in a difficult position when a woman who claims she is carrying the antichrist, asks for an abortion.

Aloha (Aloha Malandro) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Evandro Scorsin; Writer: Evandro Scorsin; Stars: Renet Lyon, Giovanna Negrelli, Arno Pruner, Brenda Sodré, Fernanda Souto)

Jairo dreams of a life without much effort. The opportunity arises when his half-brother, gets involved with the sister of smuggler. He sees the perfect chance to rob the guy, but he didn't anticipate falling in love.

An Taibhse (A Ghost) (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: John Farrelly; Stars: Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tony Murray)

1852: A father and daughter embark on a tranquil caretaker role at an isolated mansion during the unforgiving winter months. But their peaceful assignment unleashes a nightmare of supernatural proportions as a malevolent force awakens within the mansion's walls, stirring dark secrets from the past.

Ash Wednesday (Quarta-Feira De Cinzas) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Fabio Brasil; Writer: Fabio Brasil, Roberta S Saboya; Stars: Emiliano Ruschel, Kéfera Buchmann, Juliano Laham, Daniela Escobar, Flávia Espírito Santo, Saulo Rodrigues)

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Baby Assassins: Nice Days (Baby Walkure: Naisu Deizu) (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Sakamoto Yugo; Writer: Sakamoto Yugo; Stars: Takaishi Akari, Izawa Saori, Maeda Atsuko, Ikematsu Sôsuke, Otani Mondo, Kaibashira)

On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.

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The Black Hole (Country: Estonia, Finland; Year: 2024; Director: Moonika Siimets)

As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs being dissected by the cosmic visitors; a woman fleeing an abusive relationship takes shelter in a muscle mummy’s giant-spider-ridden apartment; and a young man begins an affair with the domineering, alluring woman across the street while his mother seeks fulfillment in an expensive vacuum cleaner.

Bleeding (Year: 2024; Director: Andrew Bell; Stars: John R Howley, Jasper Jones, Tori Wong)

In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

Body Odyssey (Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Grazia Tricarico; Writer: Marco Morana, Giulio Rizzo, Grazia Tricarico; Stars: Jacqueline Fuchs, Julian Sands, Adam Misik, Stefan Sauk, Lukas Loughran)

Drama about a bodybuilder with a thirst for perfection.

Burning (Ot) (Country: Kyrgyzstan; Year: 2025; Director: Radik Eshimov; Writer: Aizada Amangeldy, Dastan Madalbekov; Stars: Aisanat Edigeeva, Omurbek Izrailov, Kalicha Seydalieva, Zhanilai Isakova)

In a suburban village, a house belonging to a young family who recently lost their firstborn is burning. Neighbours say that the house bears the mark of a curse, as no one understands how the fire started, and eyewitnesses to the incident each have entirely different versions of what happened.

A Cell Phone Movie (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Will Sterling; Writer: Will Sterling; Stars: Will Sterling, Tessa Glanville, Alan Peterson, Katie McCuen, JJ Obee, Edward Hong)

Shot entirely on a cell phone, this film follows a fictional version of writer/director/star Will Sterling, a similarly out of work, struggling actor trying to impress Hollywood by making a movie on a cell phone.

Chainsaws Were Singing (Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Sander Maran; Writer: Sander Maran, Karl Ilves; Stars: Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Martin Ruus, Janno Puusepp, Rita Rätsepp, Ra Ragnar Novod)

Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.

Full Review See: Interview with Sander Maran and Peeter Maran about Chainsaws Were Singing

Contact Lens (Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Ruiqi Lu; Writer: Ruiqi Lu; Stars: Fan Chen, Yanni Dai, Shiqi Wu, Yunxi Zhong)

Getting rid of your contact lens as a way of breaking free.

The Creeps (Country: Finland; Year: 2025; Director: Marko Mäkilaakso; Writer: Marko Mäkilaakso; Stars: Christopher Lambert, Joe Dante, Jarmo Mäkinen, Ismo Leikola, Kheba Touray, Chris Cavalier, Sami Huhtala)

Two American youngsters prepare to celebrate Monsterfest in a Finnish ski resort that gets overrun by small creatures.

Cuadrilateral (Country: Peru; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Rodríguez Risco; Writer: Daniel Rodríguez Risco, Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco; Stars: Gianfranco Brero, Lizet Chavez, Amil Mikati, Fausto Molina, Gonzalez Molina)

Adriana lives a meticulous daily routine with her husband and two children. A new pregnancy upsets this delicate family balance.

Dead Mail (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)

An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.

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Derelict (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jonathan Zaurin; Stars: Suzanne Fulton, Michael Coombes, Pete Bird, Dean Kilbey)

Abigail is a socially isolated, angry young woman who is struggling to come to terms with the savage death of her father some years prior. Matt is a young man whose life gets turned upside down by the return of his brother. Their paths cross in ways that will tragically shape their lives.

Discordia (Country: Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Matthieu Reynaert; Writer: Matthieu Reynaert; Stars: Thierry Hellin, Soufian El Boubsi, Sophie Breyer)

An aging lumberjack lives all alone in desperate, cursed woods. Fifteen years ago, a mysterious tribe killed his wife and kidnapped his daughter. For years, he traveled the continent to find and rescue her, in vain. Years later, she is the one who finds him. But she was followed.

Doctor Brain (Doctor Cerebro) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Parés; Stars: Amanda Nara, Simon Ratziel, Bianca Temperini)

A group of rebels in Neo-Mendoza in 2037 embark on a dangerous journey across the Andes to save the last Artificial Intelligence on the planet. Spoiler alert: everything goes wrong.

Don’t Leave The Kids Alone (Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Emilio Porte)

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Ebony And Ivory (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jim Hosking; Writer: Jim Hosking; Stars: Sky Elobar, Gil Gex, Carl Solomon)

Two musical legends gather at a Scottish cottage on the Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global number one smash hit single.

The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Roman Bondarchuk; Writer: Alla Tyutyunnyk, Dar'ya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk; Stars: Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Rymma Ziubina, Andrii Kyrylchuk, Oleksandr Shmal)

Satire sees a biologist mixed up in a web of fake news as he tries to reveal a story.

Full Review See: Roman Bondarchuk on fake news, politics and the situation in Ukraine in The Editorial Office

The Embodiment (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Julio Cesar Napoli)

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Evil Within (Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Rodrigo Aragão)

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Exorcismo (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Alberto Sedano)

Following Franco’s death and the consolidation of democracy, ‘Clasificada S’ films – restricted to those over 18 years old – embodied a period in Spanish history when sex went from being a sin to becoming a cinematic expression of political freedom. This documentary explores that phenomenon.

A Fisherman's Tale (Un Cuento De Pescadores) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Edgar Nito; Writer: Alfredo Mendoza, Edgar Nito; Stars: Jorge A Jimenez, Perla Alejo, José Antonio Becerril, Myriam Bravo)

Legend says that long ago, nature thrived in harmony around the lake, until evil arrived. Men, blinded by dark desires, brought fear, hate, and death. Fishermen call it La Miringua, the one that drags you in the lake for your sins.

Foibles (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Ryan Oksenberg; Writer: Ryan Oksenberg; Stars: Debra Wilson, Dean McDermott, John Karna, Carina Conti, Michael Yo)

A struggling codependent with a hero complex bails his ex-girlfriend out of a DUI charge and attempts to rescue her from her alcoholism by forcing her to drink herself sober.

Frankie Freako! (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Adam Brooks, Conor Sweeney, Kristy Wordsworth)

In an attempt to impress his wife and boss, a nerdy man is lured by a 1-900 TV ad to party with a strange little creature called Frankie Freako. All hell breaks loose when Frankie and his two friends wreak interdimensional havoc in his life.

Full Review See: Interview with Steven Kostanski about Frankie Freako

Fucktoys (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Annapurna Sriram; Writer: Annapurna Sriram; Stars: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Damian Young, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Lorrie Odom, Jowin Batoon, Tamika Lawrence, Arianna Ortiz)

A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.

The Gesuidouz (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kenichi Ugana; Writer: Kenichi Ugana; Stars: Yûya Endô, Leo Imamura, Yutaka Kyan, Natsuko, Rocko Zevenbergen)

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.

Girl America (Country: Czechia; Year: 2024; Director: Viktor Taus; Writer: David Jarab; Stars: Pavla Beretová, Lucie Zácková, Klára Melísková, Tomás Psenicka, Magdaléna Borová)

A girl in an orphanage employs fantasy as a means of escape.

Good Night (Buenas Noches) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Matías Szulanski; Writer: Victoria Freidzon, Matías Szulanski; Stars: Rebeca Rossato, Sofía Siniscalco, Tamara Leschner, Germán Baudino, Franco Stellatelli)

A young Brazilian girl travels to Argentina to visit her aunt, but after a misunderstanding and the loss of her belongings, she must kill time until the next morning.

Gunman (Gatillero) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Cristian Tapia Marchiori; Writer: Clara Ambrosoni, Cristian Tapia Marchiori; Stars: Sergio Podeley, Julieta Díaz, Ramiro Blas, Maite Lanata)

A raw story of tragedy and redemption, told through a single continuous shot.

Heads Or Fails (Aimer Perdre) (Country: Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Lenny Guit, Harpo Guit; Stars: Maria Cavalier-Bazan, Melvil Poupaud, Catherine Ringer, Michael Zidel, Maxi Delmelle)

A heavily indebted woman with a gambling habit is fearful of falling in love.

Heresy (Witte Wieven) (Year: 2024; Director: Didier Konings; Stars: Anneke Sluiters, Len Leo Vincent, Reinout Bussemaker, Nola Elvis Kemper)

In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.

Hot Sandwich (Sanguche Caliente) (Country: Uruguay, Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Manuel Facal; Writer: Manuel Facal; Stars: Eva Dans, Luciano Demarco, Manuel Facal, Alan Futterweit, Emanuel Sobré)

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Hunting Matthew Nichols (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Markian Tarasiuk; Writer: Sean Harris Oliver, Markian Tarasiuk; Stars: Miranda MacDougall, Markian Tarasiuk, Christine Willes, Trevor Carroll, Jay Hindle, Ryan Alexander McDonald)

Twenty-three years after her brother vanished, a filmmaker investigates his disappearance. Uncovering evidence, she suspects he may still be alive, fueling her quest to unravel the mystery.

The Hyperboreans (Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León; Writer: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Alejandra Moffat; Stars: Antonia Giesen, Francisco Visceral Rivera)

Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.

Infinite Summer (Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Miguel Llansó; Writer: Miguel Llansó; Stars: Hannah Gross, Ciaron Davies, Katariina Unt, Ciaron Davies)

Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.

Full Review See: Interview with Miguel Llansó about Infinite Summer

The Instinct (El Instinto) (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Juan Albarracín; Writer: Juan Albarracín; Stars: Rocío Bernal, Fernando Cayo, Silvia Conesa)

A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.

In Vitro (Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Will Howarth, Tom McKeith; Writer: Will Howarth, Tom McKeith, Talia Zucker; Stars: Will Howarth, Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman)

A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.

Full Review See: Interview with Will Howarth and Talia Zucker about In Vitro

It Feeds (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chad Archibald; Writer: Chad Archibald; Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Sara Garcia, Ashley Greene, Mark Taylor, Juno Rinaldi)

After a girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely.

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It Needs Eyes (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Zack Ogle, Aaron Pagniano; Writer: Zack Ogle, Aaron Pagniano; Stars: Lydia Fiore, Raquel Lebish, Isadora Leiva)

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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Green; Writer: Jane Albusche, Jake Bluenote, Kyley Scheier; Stars: David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Grace Zabriskie, Kimmy Robertson, Charlotte Stewart, Harry Goaz, Michael Horse, Will Haugse)

Explores Catherine E Coulson's life and her role as Twin Peaks' Log Lady, featuring interviews and archival footage that reveal her artistic journey and the character's cultural significance.

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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.

The Killer Goldfish (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi; Writer: Takayuki Kayano; Stars: Airu Kubozuka, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Erika Oka, Yoshinari Takahashi)

When angry goldfish begin to commit murders, detectives begin to unravel a surprising case of premeditation.

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The Killgrin (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Joanna Tsanis; Stars: Konstantina Mantelos, Adam Tsekhman, Cristo Fernández, Peter MacNeill)

After a personal tragedy, Miranda explores unconventional self-help methods, only to learn from a spiritual healer that she has an infection of her aura called a killgrin, which thrives off her misery.

King Baby (Country: UK, France, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing; Writer: Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing; Stars: Neil Chinneck, Graham Dickson, Jasmine Albuquerque, Ryan Spencer)

Surreal comedy sees a king and his servant carve themselves a queen.

The Lonely Musketeer (Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolai Schumann; Writer: Nicolai Schumann; Stars: Edward Hogg, Richard Glover, Jennifer K Preston, Kate Barry, Holly Gordon Clark)

Rupert wakes up in a locked room without any doors or windows. He has no clue how he got there, and all he has is his mobile phone.

Lotus (Country: Latvia, Lithuania; Year: 2024; Director: Signe Birkova; Writer: Luis Enrique Vanegas; Stars: Severija Janušauskaite, Baiba Broka, Vilis Daudziņš, Mārtiņš Kalita, Rēzija Kalniņa)

A silent film director forms a bond with a woman who has a hidden agenda.

Maldives (Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Bolda; Writer: Daniel Bolda; Stars: Babis Makridis, Andreas Marianos, Drosos Skotis, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos)

An elementary music teacher living in a secluded town in the mountains with his dog, longs to escape the cold in favour of a warmer life by the beach. When his dog disappears, his sanity comes into question.

Massacre In The Delta (Masacre En El Delta) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Facundo Nuble; Writer: Emilio Agazzi; Stars: Walas Cidade, Lara Crespo, Juan Ignacio Pagliere)

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Night Silence (Cisza Nocna) (Country: Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Bartosz M Kowalski; Writer: Bartosz M Kowalski, Pawel Maslona, Mirella Zaradkiewicz; Stars: Maciej Damiecki, Zdzislaw Wardejn, Wlodzimierz Press, Anna Nehrebrecka, Anna Korzeniecka)

Lucjan is admitted to a nursing home, where he is welcomed by the residents and staff. Everything is fine, there are no dark secrets hidden in the basement, no strange, malevolent creatures. Don't worry about it. Everything - is - fine..

Old Teeth (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Armando Fonseca; Writer: Armando Fonseca)

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The Other (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Etheredge; Writer: Paul Etheredge; Stars: Olivia Macklin, Dylan McTee, Avangeline Friedlander, Lily D Moore, Shawnee Smith, Morgana Shaw, Denise Lee)

Wanting to build a family, a childless couple fosters a young orphan, survivor of a tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they find themselves besieged by a malevolent entity intent on destroying the new family.

The Other People (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chad McClarnon; Writer: Trey McClarnon, Chad McClarnon; Stars: Lyndie Greenwood, Bryce Johnson, Valentina Lucido, Quinnlan Ashe, BD Boudreaux, Ashley Crow)

When a new stepmother's troubled eight-year-old girl befriends a boy that lives in the shadows, the family learns why things that live in the dark don't want be seen.

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Parallel Consequences (Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriel França, CD Vallada)

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Parvulos (Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Isaac Ezban; Writer: Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes, Isaac Ezban; Stars: Noé Hernández, Carla Adell, Juan Carlos Remolina, Mateo Ortega Casillas, Horacio F Lazo)

Three young brothers living in a cabin in the middle of the woods hide a dark, disturbing secret in their basement.

Full Review See: Interview with Isaac Ezban about Parvulos

Pater Noster And The Mission Of Light (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Christopher Bickel; Writer: Christopher Bickel; Stars: Adara Starr, Mike Amason, Joshua R Outzen, Sanethia Dresch, Morgan Shaley Renew, Shelby Lois Guinn)

A young record store clerk stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the cult and its unholy spawn leads to grave circumstances.

The Phantom Of The Opera (Country: USA; Year: 1925; Director: Rupert Julian; Writer: Gaston Leroux, Walter Anthony, Elliott J Clawson, Bernard McConville, Frank M McCormack, Tom Reed, Raymond L. Schrock, Jasper Spearing, Richard Wallace; Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry)

Known as ‘The Man of a Thousand Faces’, Lon Chaney was the undisputed master of horror in the 1920s and one of the biggest box-office stars in the history of Universal Pictures. This stunning silent version of the Gaston Leroux classic remains one of his creepiest productions. Lovingly restored, it features a groundbreaking use of two-strip technicolor in the notorious Bal Masque sequence and hand tinting elsewhere. Chaney finds the pathos in the scarred composer, haunting the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera house, obsessed with a beautiful young soprano whom he kidnaps to ensure she will only ever sing for him. This screening is accompanied by live music on the Wurlitzer Cinema Organ played by organist David Gray.

Pig That Survived Foot-And-Mouth Disease (Gujeyeog-eseo Sal-a Dol-aon Dwaeji) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hur Bum-wook; Writer: Hur Bum-wook; Stars: Kim Do-hee, Nam Doh-hyeong, Min Seung-woo, Han Woo-jin)

To escape mistreatment, a pig tries to become human. At the same time, a disillusioned soldier deserts the army and takes refuge in the forest to re-engage with his animal self. Their destinies cross in their respective quests for a new existence.

The Planet (Country: Russia; Year: 2025; Director: Mikhail Arkhipov; Writer: Mikhail Arkhipov, Timur Timerkaev; Stars: Darya Melnikova, Artyom Bystrov, Sergey Gilev, Denis Yasik)

August 1960. Director Nikolay Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. He tries to visualise life on other planets.

Portraits Of The Apocalypse (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Luca Castello, Fabián Forte, Nicanor Loreti; Writer: Luca Castello, Fabián Forte, Nicanor Loreti; Stars: Demián Salomón, Lorena Vega, Ezequiel Rodríguez, Paula Manzone, Natalia Santiago)

The film depicts a Buenos Aires overrun by zombies through four intertwined stories, exploring the outbreak's confusion, ensuing chaos, and humanity's fight to endure the impossible.

Psychonaut (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Thijs Meuwese; Writer: Thijs Meuwese, Lawant; Stars: Julia Batelaan, Fiona Dourif, Yasmin Blake, Lloydd Hamwijk)

Enabled by a mysterious futuristic machine, a young woman, dives inside the mind of her dying girlfriend, trying to find the essential memory that could save her life, all the while being hunted by a man they presumed to be dead.

Pyramids (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Buck)

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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.

Rita (Country: Guatemala; Year: 2024; Director: Jayro Bustamante; Writer: Jayro Bustamante; Stars: Giuliana Santa Cruz, Ángela Quevedo, Alejandra Vásquez, Isabel Aldana)

Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.

Full Review See: Interview with Jayro Bustamante about Rita

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Country: GB; Year: 1975; Director: Jim Sharman; Writer: Jim Sharman, Richard O'Brien; Stars: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Little Nell, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf)

Gothic horror meets rock musical.

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Salt Along The Tongue (Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Parish Malfitano; Writer: Parish Malfitano; Stars: Laneikka Denne, Dina Panozzo, Caroline Levien, Mayu Iwasaki, Maria De Marco, Liz Lin)

After her mother dies, Mattia moves in with her estranged aunt, her mother's identical twin. From beyond the grave, Mattia's mother possesses her daughter to protect her from a malevolent spirit, using food as a gateway.

A Samurai In Time (Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Writer: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Stars: Norimasa Fuke, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Hajime Inoue, Ichiko Kurenai, Rantaro Mine)

A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.

Full Review See: Interview with Yasuda Jun’ichi about A Samurai In Time

Séance (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Vivian Kerr; Writer: Vivian Kerr; Stars: Scottie Thompson, Connor Paolo, Jilon VanOver, Vivian Kerr)

In 1892 California, a Victorian woman contemplating adultery is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of her first husband and his unstable wife, who claims to be haunted by their dead child.

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.

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The Severed Sun (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Dean Puckett; Writer: Dean Puckett; Stars: Toby Stephens, Jodhi May, Emma Appleton, Barney Harris, James Swanton, Lewis Gribben, Oliver Maltman)

Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.

Shadow Of God (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Michael Peterson; Writer: Tim Cairo; Stars: Mark O'Brien, Jacqueline Byers, Shaun Johnston, Josh Cruddas, Barb Mitchell)

While performing an unauthorised exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being - perhaps even God.

Shaman (Country: US, Ecuador; Year: 2025; Director: Antonio Negret; Writer: Daniel Negret; Stars: Daniel Gillies, Sara Canning, Jett Klyne, Alejandro Fajardo, Kuri Fuerez, Dylan Tacuri)

A Missionary converting an Indigenous Community in a remote Ecuadorian volcano must come to terms with her own faith when her son is possessed by dark forces.

She Loved Blossoms More (Agapouse Ta Louloudia Perissotero) (Country: Greece, France, New Zealand; Year: 2024; Director: Yannis Veslemes; Writer: Dimitris Emmanouilidis, Yannis Veslemes; Stars: Dominique Pinon, Julio Katsis, Sandra Abuelghanam, Panos Papadopoulos, Aris Balis)

Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine.

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The Silent Planet (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Jeffrey St Jules; Writer: Jeffrey St Jules; Stars: Elias Koteas, Briana Middleton, Bridget Wareham, Justin Nurse)

Follows two inmates in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.

A Sip Of Hell (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Mariano Asseff, Pilar Boyle; Writer: Pilar Boyle; Stars: Pilar Boyle, Romina Sznaider, José Luis Arias, Ignacio Torres, Melina Loscalzo, Mercedes Moltedo, Brenda Lafalle, Manuela Obrego, Rosario Boyle, Adrian Uribe, Fernanda Rodriguez, Cristian Cabrera, Florencia Naftulewicz, Julio Gutierrez, Julieta Lloret)

Niko is tired of being offered the same roles time and again. Frustrated by social injustice, she agrees to star in a debut feature but soon retreats to a remote wooden house to recharge, analyse the script, and rehearse alone. Suddenly, the filthy Rafa knocks on her door, shattering the calmness of her solitude.

Solvent (Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner; Writer: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Benjamin Roberts; Stars: Jon Gries, Aleksandra Cwen, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Roland Gratzer, Jasmin Hagendorfer)

While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a secret. An American expatriate becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil.

Soulcatcher (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Nelson Botter Jr, Fernando Alonso)

During a total solar eclipse, four girls visit a mysterious witch's house for a magical ritual, but something goes wrong and they find themselves trapped in an interdimensional limbo.

Still Life With Ghosts (Bodegón Con Fantasmas) (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Enrique Buleo; Writer: Enrique Buleo; Stars: Jordi Aguilar, Eduardo Antuña, Enric Benavent, Patty Bonet)

In a small town haunted by the struggles of life and death, ghosts and humans alike embark on a desperate journey to end their torment, resorting to extreme measures to achieve their goals.

Straight On Till Morning (Dressed For Death, Til Dawn Do Us Part) (Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Peter Collinson; Writer: John Peacock; Stars: Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam,)

An awkward young woman with a secret agenda meets a beautiful young man who is concealing something still more dangerous.

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Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire (Year: 2024; Director: Stuart Ortiz; Writer: Stuart Ortiz; Stars: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple)

A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorised Southern California for almost two decades.

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Succubus (Year: 2024; Director: RJ Daniel Hanna; Stars: Brendan Bradley, Ron Perlman, Rosanna Arquette, Olivia Grace Applegate, Rachel Cook.)

A new father with a failing marriage joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious woman, whose strange allure and manipulative powers of seduction entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Summer Hit (El Tema Del Verano) (Country: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Stoll; Writer: Adrián Biniez, Pablo Stoll; Stars: Gonzalo De Galiana, Romina Di Bartolomeo, Pablo Duarte, Azul Fernández, Daniel Hendler)

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Sun (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Dominic Lahiff; Writer: Dominic Lahiff; Stars: Cordell Purnell, Lauren Kelisha Muller, Willie the Genius, Yvonne Houston, Mark Manno, Synead Nichols)

After his wife goes missing, a haunted dancer helplessly experiences a night of celebration descending into a dark and chaotic hell.

Suçuarana (Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Sérgio Borges, Clarissa Campolina; Writer: Clarissa Campolina, Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Stars: Sinara Teles, Carlos Francisco, Karina Silvério Augusto, Marisa Bernadete, Rafael Botero)

Dora seeks a mythical homeland through Brazil's mining region, her journey complicated by the road's perils until finding temporary solace in an abandoned factory's worker community.

This Too Shall Pass (Country: Canada, US; Director: Rob Grant; Writer: Michael Simon Baker, Rob Grant; Stars: Michael Ironside, Katie Douglas, Joanne Kelly, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Maxwell Jenkins, Mark McKinney, Robert Longstreet, Munro Chambers, Nikki Roumel, Kaya Coleman, Ben Cockell, Chris Sandiford, Alana Hawley Purvis, Jerod Blake, Mike Kovac)

Three (Country: UAE; Year: 2024; Director: Nayla Al Khaja; Writer: Nayla Al Khaja, Ben Williams, John Collee; Stars: Jefferson Hall, Faten Ahmed, Noura Alabed, Saud Alzarooni)

A young boy's mental health crisis prompts his desperate mother to seek help from an unexpected source - a man who must abandon his Western mindset and embrace a powerful, ancient ritual to save her son.

Through The Deepening Night (Al Progredire Della Notte) (Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Davide Montecchi; Writer: Davide Montecchi; Stars: Lilly Englert, Pier Sandro Freglio, Ioana Laura Jitariuc, Lucia Vasini)

Claudia, a 25-year-old with serious insecurities, rents the upper floor of a isolated house. There she meets Letizia, a charming woman who introduces her to metaphony. That innocent game soon turns into a nightmare.

Time Travel Is Dangerous (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Reading; Writer: Chris Reading, Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Hillary Shakespeare; Stars: Johnny Vegas, Sophie Thompson, Jane Horrocks, Mark Heap, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Laura Aikman, Guy Henry, Brian Bovell, Ruth Syratt, Tom Lenk, Simon Killick)

Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop, with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.

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Transcending Dimensions (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Toshiaki Toyoda; Writer: Toshiaki Toyoda; Stars: Chihara Jr., Masahiro Higashide, Haruka Imô, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Ryûhei Matsuda, Kiyohiko Shibukawa)

A monk has gone missing. His lover takes an assassin to a religious facility in search of him. There, they meet a sorcerer. Meanwhile, the missing man is on a spaceship heading to an unknown planet .

Traumatika (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Pierre Tsigaridis; Writer: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts; Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts)

Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

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Trizombie (Country: Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Bob Colaers; Writer: Lars Damoiseaux, Lectrr; Stars: Jelle Palmaerts, Jason Van Laere, Gitte Wens, Tineke Van Haute, Charlotte van den Bergh, Eva Kamanda)

In a zombie-filled world, a group of unlikely heroes embark on a dangerous journey to rescue their missing friend.

Universe 25 (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Melkonian; Writer: Richard Melkonian; Stars: Giacomo Gex, Ana Maria Guran, Dan Sociu, Andre Flynn, Alex Bogdan, Tania Khan, Jacob Meadows)

Mott the angel is sent on a holy mission in London and Bucharest. In his search for a mysterious saint, he encounters a world that sends him off course and forces him to face his true identity.

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Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall Of Sleep (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chad Ferrin; Writer: Chad Ferrin, based on the work of HP Lovecraft; Stars: Edward Furlong, Bai Ling, Ginger Lynn, Lew Temple, Steve Railsback, Robert Miano, Cyril O'Reilly)

Renowned oneirologist Ambrose London is requested to appear at Arkham Asylum to study the strange case of dissociative identity disorder in patient James Fhelleps/Joe Slater.

Vampire Zombies... From Space! (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Stasko; Writer: Jakob Skrzypa, Alex Forman, Michael Stasko; Stars: Lloyd Kaufman, Judith O'Dea, Michael C Gwynne, Simon Reynolds, Gavin Michael Booth, David Liebe Hart)

In 1957, the small town of Marlow is under attack by: see title.

A Whale (Una Ballena) (Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Hernando; Writer: Pablo Hernando; Stars: Ingrid García Jonsson, Ramón Barea, Paolo Sassanelli, Iñigo de la Iglesia, Asier Tartás, Haizea Carneros)

Ingrid is a lonely contract killer. She never fails. She leaves no trace. No one knows her origin.

Working Class Goes To Hell (Country: Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia; Year: 2023; Director: Mladen Djordjevic; Writer: Mladen Djordjevic; Stars: Tamara Krcunovic, Leon Lucev, Momo Picuric)

A small-town labour union turns to the dark arts for empowerment against the corrupt forces in its community.

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