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Cerebrum and Hypochondriac
The Beast Must Die
(Country: UK; Year: 1974; Director: Paul Annett; Writer: Michael Winder and Paul Annett, based on a short story by James Blish; Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Michael Gambon, Charles Gray, Ciaran Madden, Anton Diffring, Tom Chadbon)
A wealthy game hunter invites a group of people to his remote mansion, suspecting one of them to be a werewolf. What follows is part action thriller, part Gothic whodunnit.
Blacula
(Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: William Crain; Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala)
In the late 18th century, Prince Mamuwalde travels from Africa to Transylvania to seek Count Dracula’s help in ending the transatlantic slave trade. Instead of helping, Dracula condemns Mamuwalde to eternal life as a vampire. When, a few centuries later, a pair of unwitting interior designers uncover his bones, the streets of 1972 Los Angeles won’t know peace until Blacula has his revenge.
Blood Flower
(Country: Malaysia; Year: 2022; Director: Dain Said)
Iqbal and his mother have a special talent for seeing things that others cannot. Together with his father, who doesn’t share their sight, they work as exorcists until one day his mother meets a tragic end, saving Iqbal from an attack by a particularly malevolent spirit.
Bones
(Country: US; Year: 2001; Director: Ernest Dickerson; Stars: Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Bianca Lawson)
The time is 1979. Jimmy Bones is respected and loved as the neighbourhood protector. When he is betrayed and brutally murdered by a corrupt cop, Bones’ elegant brownstone becomes his tomb. 22 years later, the neighbourhood has become a ghetto and his home a Gothic ruin. Four teens renovate it as an afterhours nightclub, unknowingly releasing Jimmy’s tortured spirit.
Cerebrum
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Blanc; Writer: Francesco Cinquemani, Loris Curci, Andy Edwards, Barry Keating, Mark Thompson-Ashworth; Stars: Tobi King Bakare, Ramona Von Pusch, Steve Oram, Davide Marangoni)
After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him.
Slash/Back and Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato On The Road Of Excess
Dark Nature
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Berkley Brady; Writer: Berkley Brady, Tim Cairo; Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Roseanne Supernault, Kyra Harper, Griffin Cork, Madison Walsh)
Members of a therapy group are forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.
Dracula A.D. 1972
(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Alan Gibson; Writer: Don Houghton; Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles, Marsha A Hunt, Caroline Munro)
Johnny Alucard raises Count Dracula from the dead in London in 1972. The Count goes after the descendants of Van Helsing.
The Elderly (Viejos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez; Writer: Raúl Cerezo, Rubén Sánchez Trigos, Javier Trigales; Stars: Irene Anula, Zorion Eguileor, Josele Román, Gustavo Salmerón, Paula Gallego)
An octogenarian, who enters into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparks a series of paranormal events that will put his family's lives at risk.
Evil Eye
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Isaac Ezban)
Luna is sick and no treatment seems to work. Her desperate parents take her to the Mexican countryside to seek an alternative treatment, where they leave Luna and her older sister Nala in the care of Josefa, their grandmother. Nala becomes convinced that something is after them.
Gwaed Ar Y Sêr
(Country: UK; Year: 1975; Director: Wil Aaron; Writer: Wil Aaron, Dafydd Huw Williams; Stars: Grey Evans, Dyfan Roberts, Stewart Jones, Dafydd Iwan)
A group of celebrities are scheduled to appear at a concert in a village hall. An elderly man and his choir of schoolchildren, fearing that the celebrities will steal their limelight, take drastic measures to stop their appearance…by murdering them.
Jethica and Nosferatu
The Harbinger
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andy Mitton; Writer: Andy Mitton; Stars: Raymond Anthony Thomas, Gabby Beans, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Emily Davis, Laura Heisler, Cody Braverman)
A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Hypochondriac
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Addison Heimann; Writer: Addison Heimann; Stars: Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima, Yumarie Morales, Marlene Forte, Chris Doubek, Paget Brewster, Adam Busch, Michael Cassidy, Peter Mensah, Debra Wilson)
When his bipolar mother walks back into his life, a young gay man is forced to contend with his family history of mental illness.
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato On The Road Of Excess (Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato Sulla Via Dell'Eccesso)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2021; Director: Manlio Gomarasca, Massimiliano Zanin; Writer: Manlio Gomarasca, Massimiliano Zanin; Stars: Lamberto Bava, Tinto Brass, Manlio Cersosimo, Joe D'Amato, Ruggero Depdato, Giuliana Gamba, Luigi Montefiori)
A documentary portrait of the famous film director.
I Walked With A Zombie
(Country: US; Year: 1943; Director: Jacques Tourneur; Writer: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, based on the article by Inez Wallace; Stars: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones, Jeni Le Gon, Richard Abrams, Doris Ake, Rita Christiani, Vivian Dandridge, Alan Edmiston)
A Canadian nurse heads to the Caribbean to care for a woman and tries to find a cure for her even though she is falling for the woman's husband
Jethica
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Pete Ohs; Writer: Andy Faulkner, Callie Hernandez, Will Madden; Stars: Callie Hernandez, Ashley Denise Robinson, Andy Faulkner, Will Madden, Stephanie Hunt)
When Jessica's stalker surprises her in New Mexico, she must seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good.
I Walked With A Zombie and Skinamarink
L'Inhumain
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jason Bnrennan; Stars: Samian, Véronique Beaudet, Jeanne Roux-Cote)
Mathieu is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose perfect life is falling apart. Impending divorce, job loss, substance abuse, and a mid-life crisis are all factors that can cause him to go off the rails. The sudden death of his father forces him to return home to Anishiinabe territory, a place he has tried to avoid since his youth. The break away from the city promises to be a nice getaway until his pilgrimage quickly becomes an unimaginable nightmare.
The Menu
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mark Mylod; Writer: Seth Reiss, Will Tracy; Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes)
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Nosferatu (Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens, Nosferatu - A Symphony Of Horrors)
(Country: Germany; Year: 1922; Director: FW Murnau; Writer: Henrik Galeen; Stars: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Botz, Alexander Granach, John Gottowt)
F W Murnau's silent adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Offering (Abyzou)
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Park; Writer: Hank Hoffman, Jonathan Yunger; Stars: Paul Kaye, Nick Blood, Emily Wiseman, Allan Korduner)
Saul works as the undertaker for the local Hasidic community, and a corpse carries a Jewish demon with plans for his unborn child. His family must dive into Kabbalah lore to ward off the entity and protect their future.
The Revelation (De Openbaring)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Chris Mitchell; Stars: Victor Löw, Leny Breederveld, Monic Hendrickx, Peter Bolhuis)
Jacob, anxious and recently unemployed, moves in with his widowed mother at the start of the first lockdown, determined to protect her from the virus. Yet as his sister Magda looks on in disbelief as Jacob falls under the influence of an internet conspiracy-theorist, it becomes clear that his obsessive behaviour may be a greater threat to his mother than the virus itself.
Gwaed Ar Y Sêr and The Harbinger
Satanic Hispanics
(Country: USA, Mexico, Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Alejandro Brugues; Writer: Pete Barnstrom, Alejandro Mendez, Lino K. Villa; Stars: Efren Ramirez, Jonah Ray, Hemky Madera, Patricia Velasquez, Greg Grunberg)
An anthology of short horror films.
Skinamarink
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Kyle Edward Ball; Writer: Kyle Edward Ball; Stars: Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Jaime Hill, Ross Paul)
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father is missing and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
Slash/Back
(Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Nyla Innuksuk; Writer: Nyla Innuksuk, Ryan Cavan; Stars: Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Wolfe, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth)
A group of teenage girls living in the sleepy hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, discover an impending alien invasion and set out to defend their homeland.
Sugar Hill
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Paul Maslansky; Stars: Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Larry D Johnson)
When a black nightclub entrepreneur gets taken out by the mob, his girlfriend, Sugar Hill, calls upon the voodoo high priest Baron Samedi to summon up the undead to carry out an unholy plan for revenge.
Tombs Of The Blind Dead (La Noche Del Terror Ciego)
(Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 1972; Director: Amando de Ossorio; Writer: Jesús Navarro Carrión, Amando de Ossorio; Stars: Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman)
A group of people accidentally stumble upon the graves of 13th Century Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices.
The Menu and Dark Nature
Venus
(Country: US, Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Jaume Balagueró; Writer: Fernando Navarro; Stars: Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Fernando Valdivielso, Federico Aguaro)
Horror invades the concrete corridors of a cursed apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid.
Voyage Of The Rock Aliens
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: James Fargo; Stars: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Alison La Placa)
A group of aliens in a guitar shaped spaceship on the hunt to find the true source of rock n’ roll meet two teenagers who are competing to be the most popular rockers in their town.
What Is Buried Must Remain
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Elias Matar; Writer: Elias Matar, Edward E Romero, Israa Samman; Stars: Dahlia Nemlich, sAhmad Khreta, Farouk Zaroura, Asma Jamaa, Nour Al Zahab)
When a group of young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a haunted house, they encounter otherworldly forces engaged in an ancient war for the soul of the land.
The Whip And The Body
(Country: Italy; Year: 1965; Director: Mario Bava; Writer: Ernesto Gastaldi, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino; Stars: Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli)
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorised, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother.
Wolf Manor (Scream Of The Wolf)
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Dominic Brunt; Writer: Joel Ferrari, Pete Wild; Stars: James Fleet, John Henshaw, Nicky Evans, Jay Taylor, Sade Malone, Shaune Harrison)
Shooting a vampire movie in an old abandoned house should have worked like a dream. However, with the full moon, the nightmare begins. The body count rises as the cast and crew encounter the mansion's resident werewolf.
Wolf Manor and The Beast Must Die
XXXholic
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Mika Ninagawa; Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Ko Shibasaki, Tina Tamashiro, Hokuto Matsumura)
Watanuki is a lonely high school student who wishes to rid himself of the ability to see spirits and lead a normal life. One day, a butterfly leads him into a peculiar shop where he meets a mysterious owner, Yuko, who promises to grant his wish in exchange for 'the most precious thing' from him. As Watanuki grows closer to his new classmates, and tries to figure out what that might be to him, the demonic hands of spirits close in on him.
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