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Hostage To The Devil (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Marty Stalker; Writer: Rachel Lysaght, Marty Stalker; Stars: Richard O’Leary, Ralph Sarchie, John Zaffis, Art Bell, Pope John Paul II)
A documentary about Irish priest Father Malachi Martin and his crusade battling the devil from the release of The Exorcist movie through to his suspicious death in 1999.
The Killing Of America (Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Sheldon Renan; Writer: Chieko Schrader, Leonard Schrader; Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, David Berkowitz, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy)
A documentary tracing murderous violence in America through the Sixties and Seventies.
Lost Solace (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Chris Scheuerman; Writer: Andrew Jenkins, Chris Scheuerman; Stars: Andrew Jenkins, Melissa Roxburgh, Leah Gibson, Charlie Kerr, Michael Kopsa)
Spence Cutler is a vicious psychopath who stalks his victims relentlessly without emotion, empathy or guilt. But one fateful encounter in a nightclub with a new designer drug is about to give him a dose of way too much reality.
Road Games (Fausse Route) (Country: UK, France; Year: 2015; Director: Abner Pastoll; Writer: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot, Lou Castel)
Two strangers travelling together in rural France find themselves in a dangerous situation after agreeing to stay in an older couple's mansion.
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