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The Ugly Stepsister and Touch Me
40 Acres
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: RT Thorne; Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, Leenah Robinson)
A ferocious matriarch and former soldier is hellbent on protecting her family and their farmland from a band of marauding cannibals in a world ravaged by plague and famine.
Abraham's Boys
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Natasha Kermani; Stars: Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Judah Mackey, Aurora Perineau, Brady Hepner.)
Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons, Max and Rudy, to the US in an attempt to escape their past. It does not work.
Ash
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Flying Lotus; Writer: Jonni Remmler; Stars: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Flying Lotus, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale)
A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Best Wishes To All
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Yûta Shimotsu; Stars: Kotone Furukawa)
A young nursing student gets an unexpectedly twisted dose of reality when she visits her grandparents in the countryside, only to uncover the secrets to their exceedingly happy life.
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.
Cloud and Redux Redux
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.
Clown In A Cornfield
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eli Craig; Writer: Carter Blanchard, Eli Craig, Adam Cesare; Stars: Katie Douglas, Carson MacCormac, Aaron Abrams, Cassandra Potenza, Verity Marks, Vincent Muller)
A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
Dead Lover
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Grace Glowicki; Writer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Leah Doz, Ben Petrie, Lowen Morrow)
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Death Becomes Her
(Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Robert Zemeckis; Writer: Martin Donovan, David Koepp; Stars: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke)
The rivalry between two ageing actresses only becomes more bitter when they acquire the gift of eternal youth.
The Descent
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Neil Marshall; Writer: Neil Marshall; Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Molly Kayll, Alex Reid, Craig Conway, Saskia Mulder, Oliver Milburn, Stephen Lamb)
Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
Zodiac Killer Project and Hallow Road
Drop
(Year: 2025; Director: Christopher Landon; Writer: Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach; Stars: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Ed Weeks)
A widowed mother, on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she meets her handsome date. But their chemistry curdles as she begins being irritated and then terrorised by a series of anonymous drops to her phone,
Fréwaka
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Aislinn Clarke; Writer: Aislinn Clarke; Stars: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya)
A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
Good Boy
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Ben Leonberg; Stars: Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Hunter Goetz, Max)
Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense.
Hallow Road
(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Babak Anvari; Writer: William Gillies; Stars: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Paul Tylak, Megan McDonnell, Stephen Jones)
Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
The Home
(Country: Sweden, Estonia, Iceland; Year: 2025; Director: Mattias J Skoglund; Stars: Philip Oros, Anki Lidén, Gizem Erdogan, Malin Levanon, Peter Jankert, Lottie Ejenbrant, Ayan Ahmed, Bengt CW Carlsson)
Terrified of facing the scars from his past, alcoholic and drug-addict Joel returns to his small town to move his dementia-ridden mother Monica out of her elderly care facility to look after her himself. When he starts to experience strange visions, he realises she might have brought something else back with her.
Re-Animator and Fréwaka
Ick
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joseph Kahn; Writer: Joseph Kahn, Dan Koontz, Samuel Laskey; Stars: Mena Suvari, Brandon Routh, Malina Pauli Weissman, Mariann Gvelo, Taia Sophia, April Clark, Harrison Cone, Cory Hart)
Science teacher Hank's life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects a new student is his daughter, all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Illusion-O!
(Country: US; Year: 1960; Director: William Castle; Stars: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Rosemary DeCamp, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Woods)
13 times the thrills! 13 times the screams! 13 times the fun! See the ghosts in ectoplasmic colour.
It Ends
(Year: 2025; Director: Alexander Ullom; Writer: Alexander Ullom; Stars: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, Mitchell Cole)
Four friends' post-college plans are derailed when a wrong turn traps them on a never-ending backroad.
Lifehack
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ronan Corrigan; Stars: Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed-Milesa)
Four slacker teens descend into the darkest corners of the internet to plan one of the greatest cyberheists of all time.
Lost Highway
(Country: France/US; Year: 1997; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch, Barry Gifford; Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette,
Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake,
Natasha Gregson Wagner,
Richard Pryor, Lucy Butler)
A mysterious murder is only the
beginning of the strangest story
ever told.
Clown In A Cornfield and The Descent
Monster Island
(Country: Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Wiluan; Stars: Dean Fujioka, Callum Woodhouse)
In 1942 — deep in the Pacific theater of World War II — a Japanese soldier and British prisoner-of-war find themselves washed ashore on a dangerous deserted island. As these sworn enemies soon discover…they are not alone, as a fanged amphibious creature called the Orang Ikan wishes to kill them even more than they wish to kill each other.
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.
Predators
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Osit)
To Catch A Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.
Re-Animator
(Country: US; Year: 1985; Director: Stuart Gordon; Writer: Dennis Paoli, William Norris, Stuart Gordon, based on the story by HP Lovecraft; Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Gerry Black, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Peter Kent, Barbara Pieters, Ian Patrick Williams, Bunny Summers, Al Berry, Derek Pendleton, Gene Scherer, James Ellis)
Students decide to resurrect the dead.
Redux Redux
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Writer: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Stars: Derick Alexander, Raphael Chestang, Debra Christofferson, Jim Cummings, Minita Gandhi, London Garcia, Jeremy Holm)
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
Ash and Lost Highway
Rosario
(Country: Colombia, US; Year: 2025; Director: Felipe Vargas; Stars: Emeraude Toubia, David Dastmalchian, Paul Ben-Victor, José Zúñiga, Diana Lein)
When the grief-stricken young Rosario is forced to wait overnight with the body of her deceased grandmother until an ambulance can get to her through a severe snowfall, she falls prey to ghoulish attacks from supernatural possessors determined to wreak havoc on her.
The Shrouds
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Al Sapienza, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jeff Yung, Matt Willis, Eric Weinthal, Steve Switzman, Paddington)
A widower invents a gadget that lets the bereaved connect with their loved ones inside a burial shroud... as they decompose.
The Spirit Of Halloweentown
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb)
A documentary about the residents of the small town whose residents decided to capitalise on spooky tourism after Disney used it as the setting for Halloweentown.
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
(Country: US; Year: 1995; Director: Ernest R Dickerson; Writer: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Mark Bishop; Stars: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Church)
High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.
Touch Me
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Addison Heimann; Writer: Addison Heimann; Stars: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster)
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Death Becomes Her and Dead Lover
The True Beauty Of Being Bitten By A Tick
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Pete Ohs; Writer: Zoë Chao, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O Harris; Stars: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, Jeremy O Harris, James Cusati-Moyer)
A woman reeling from a tragedy takes some much needed time away with a group of friends at their home in the countryside. After a walk through the woods, what seems like an innocuous tick bite has grotesquely unexpected consequences.
The Ugly Stepsister
(Den Stygge Stesøsteren)
(Country: Norway, Denmark, Romania, Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Emilie Blichfeldt; Writer: Emilie Blichfeldt; Stars: Lea Myren, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger, Ralph Carlsson, Isac Aspberg, Albin Weidenbladh, Oksana Czerkasyna, Katarzyna Herman, Adam Lundgren, Willy Ramnek Petri, Cecilia Forss, Kyrre Hellum, Richard Forsgren, Agnieszka Zulewska)
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Zodiac Killer Project
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Charlie Shackleton)
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
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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