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The Beyond and Dead Sushi
American Mary
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska; Writer: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska; Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Julia Maxwell, Antonio Cupo, Connor Stanhope, Paul Anthony, Sierra Pitkin, Paula Lindberg, John Emmet Tracy, Rikki Gagne, Jen Soska, David Lovgren, Twan Holliday, Sylvia Soska, Nelson Wong, Sean Amsing)
A disenfranchised medical student goes AWOL into the lucrative underworld of unnecessary surgery.
Antiviral
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2012; Director: Brandon Cronenberg; Writer: Brandon Cronenberg; Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell)
In a future where people pay to be infected with the same diseases as their idols, a dealer races to find a cure after a starlet whose illness he has stolen dies.
The Barrens
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Darren Lynn Bousman; Stars: Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, Allie MacDonald)
Things go horribly wrong on a family trip out to the Pine Barrens, with mutilated animals and whispers of the Jersey Devil.
The Beyond (E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore - L'Aldilà, Seven Doors of Death)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1981; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Dardano Sacchetti; Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Veronica Lazar), Trailer
A woman inherits a New Orleans hotel with a sinister secret, and horror commences.
The Butterfly Room
(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2012; Director: Jonathan Zarantonello; Stars: Barbara Steele, Ray Wise, Erica Leerhsen, Heather Lagenkamp)
Befriended by a deceptively sweet younger woman, a lepidopterist is drawn into a dangerous world - but she has secrets of her own.
John Dies At The End and Quatermass And The Pit
Citadel
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ciarán Foy; Writer: Ciarán Foy; Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels)
A bereaved, agoraphobic single father is beseiged by hooded teenagers who may not be quite human.
Dead Mine
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2012; Director: Steven Sheil; Stars: Ario Bayu, Afwan, Andre)
Treasure hunters encounter unexpected horrors when searching for wartime gold deep in an old Indonesian mine.
Dead Sushi (Deddo sushi)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Noboru Iguchi; Writer: Makiko Iguchi, Noboru Iguchi, Jun Tsugita; Stars: Asami, Jiji Bû, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Hiyori Hachiya, Aiko Hashiuchi, Miho Hoshino, Nao Ibaraki, Yûya Ishikawa, Kentaro Kishi, Marin., Shigeru Matsuzaki, Maaya Morinaga, Hiroaki Murakami, Yui Murata, Takashi Nishina)
Attack of the killer mutant sushi! (from Mars?)
Errors Of The Human Body
(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2012; Director: Eron Sheean; Stars: Michael Eklund, Karoline Herfurth, Tómas Lemarquis)
A bereaved geneticist on the brink of a startling discovery undergoes a dangerous psychological breakdown.
The Ghastly Love Of Johnny X
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Bunnell; Stars: Will Keenan, Creed Bratton, De Anna Joy Brooks)
Exiled alien juvenile delinquents get their kicks on Earth.
Citadel and The Shining
The House By The Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1981; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Elisa Briganti, Lucio Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo, Dardano Sacchetti, based on the story by HP Lovecraft; Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina, Dagmar Lassander, Giovanni De Nava, Daniela Doria, Gianpaolo Saccarola, Carlo De Mejo, Kenneth A. Olsen, Elmer Johnsson, Ranieri Ferrara, Teresa Rossi Passante, Carolyn De Fonseca)
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include beheadings...
John Dies At The End
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Don Coscarelli; Writer: Don Coscarelli, based on the novel by David Wong; Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Fabianne Therese, Jonny Weston, Jimmy Wong, Tai Bennett, Allison Weissman, Angus Scrimm, Riley Rose Critchlow, Jerry Droz)
Two friends use a drug that enables them to warp space time in an attempt to save the world.
Last Kind Words
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Kevin Barker; Stars: Brad Dourif, Spencer Daniels, Alexia Fast)
A teenager uncovers dark secrets on an isolated farm.
The Mad Magician
(Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: John Brahm; Stars: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor)
An illusionist exacts a terrible revenge on the fellow magicians who betrayed him.
Manborg
(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, Meredith Sweeney)
A supersoldier is raised from the dead as a cyborg so he can battle the armies of Hell.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Resolution
Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut
(Year: 2012; Director: Russell Cherrington; Writer: Clive Barker; Stars: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, Doug Bradley, Simon Bamford, Oliver Parker, Nick Vince, Hugh Ross, David Cronenberg)
Restored version of Clive Barker's controversial 1990 film.
Quatermass And The Pit (Five Million Years To Earth)
(Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Roy Ward Baker; Writer: Nigel Kneale; Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Grant Taylor, Maurice Good, Robert Morris, Sheila Steafel, Hugh Futcher, Hugh Morton, Thomas Heathcote)
A scientist steps in to invesigate after something sinister is unearthed in a London tube station.
Resolution
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead; Writer: Justin Benson; Stars: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., Kurt David Anderson, Emily Montague, Skyler Meacham, Carmel Benson, Justin Benson, Catherine Burns, Michael Felker, Josh Higgins, David Clarke Lawson Jr., Bob Low, Melissa E. Low)
An attempted intervention at the remote woodland home of a troubled addict reveals unexpected dangers.
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.
Sleep Tight (Mientras duermes)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Jaume Balagueró; Writer: Alberto Marini; Stars: Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez, Iris Almeida, Carlos Lasarte, Amparo Fernández, Roger Morilla, Pep Tosar, Margarita Rosed, Rubèn Ametllé, Manel Dueso, Tony Corvillo, Ricard Sadurní, Xavier Pujolràs)
Unassuming janitor holds dark fantasies.
The House By The Cemetery and Sightseers
The Shining
(Country: US, UK; Year: 1980; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Joe Turkel)
After moving his family to a remote hotel with a troubled past, a writer gradually loses his mind.
Sightseers
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Alice Jump; Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover)
A young couple on a caravan holiday find themselves going on a killing spree.
True Love
(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2012; Director: Enrico Clerico Nasino; Stars: Ellen Hollman, John Brotherton, Gabriel Myers)
A newlywed couple find themselves trapped in a room with no exit, forced to reveal their secrets in order to survive.
The Unknown
(Country: US; Year: 1927; Director: Tod Browning; Stars: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford
)
A knife thrower has his arms amputated to please the bareback rider he loves, only to find a strongman emerging as his rival for her affections.
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