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The Crazies and Eyes Without A Face
Bokshi
(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Bhargav Saikia; Writer: Harsh Vaibhav; Stars: Prasanna Bisht, Mansi Multani, Shernaz Patel, Rohit Tiwari, Sandeep Shridhar Dhabale, Kaushik Bharadwaj, Swaroopa Ghosh)
Anahita, traumatised by the brutal disappearance of her mother, finds comfort in Shalini, her history teacher. On an unconventional school excursion to a mysterious prehistoric site, she confronts her terrifying destiny.
Bride Of Frankenstein
(Country: US; Year: 1935; Director: James Whale; Writer: William Hurlbut and John L Balderston, based on the book by Mary Shelley; Stars: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester)
Doctor Frankenstein's creation persuades him to make him a mate.
The Crazies
(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: George A Romero; Writer: Paul McCollough, George A Romero; Stars: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Richard France, Harry Spillman, Will Disney, Edith Bell, Bill Thunhurst)
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
Eyes Without A Face
(Les Yeux Sans Visage)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1960; Director: Georges Franju; Writer: Gascar, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet, Jean Redon, based on the novel by Jean Redon; Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette, Claude Brasseur, Michel Etcheverry, Yvette Etiévant, René Génin, Lucien Hubert, Marcel Pérès)
A surgeon abducts girls - attempting to transplant their faces on to that of his disfigured daughter.
The Ghost
(Lo Spettro)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1963; Director: Riccardo Freda; Writer: Oreste Biancoli, Riccardo Freda; Stars: Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Elio Jotta, Harriet Medin, Carol Bennet, Carlo Kechler, Umberto Raho)
A woman and her lover murder her doctor husband, but when strange things start happening, they wonder if they really killed him, or if he has come back from the dead to haunt them.
Bride Of Frankenstein and Touch Me
The Invisible Half
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Masaki Nishiyama; Writer: Masaki Nishiyama; Stars: Lisa Siera, Miyu Okuno, Runa Hirasawa)
Elena, a 'half' Japanese girl, struggles with her identity. While constantly watched, she discovers she's also being watched by something else - a monster that can only be seen through her smartphone and heard through her earphones.
The Keep
(Country: UK; Year: 1983; Director: Michael Mann; Writer: F Paul Wilson, Michael Mann; Stars: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne, William Morgan Sheppard)
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Mag Mag
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yuriyan Retriever; Stars: Sara Minami, Takumi Saioto, Aoi Yamada)
"If you see her, it's too late. If she falls in love with you, the only escape is death." After her beloved is killed by the Mag Mag ghost, Sanae vows revenge, but soon discovers the true identity of the person to whom she truly owes her retribution.
Marama
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2025; Director: Taratoa Stappard; Writer: Taratoa Stappard; Stars: Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers, Evelyn Towersey, Errol Shand)
Mary, a young Māori woman, travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, Mary is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
Noise
(Noijeu)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Soo-jin; Writer: Lee Je-hui; Stars: Lee Sun-bin, Han Soo-a, Kim Min-Seok, Ryu Kung-soo, Jeon Ik-ryeong)
After the disappearance of her younger sister, a woman with a hearing impediment experiences bizarre happenings and frightening encounters when mysterious noises echo throughout the building.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond and Queens Of The Dead
The Old Dark House
(Country: US; Year: 1932; Director: James Whale; Writer: Benn W Levy, RC Sherriff, based on the play by JB Priestly; Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Elspeth Dudgeon, Brember Wills)
A couple run into trouble after they are stranded by a storm.
Phenomena
(Creepers)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1985; Director: Dario Argento; Writer: Dario Argento; Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, Tanga)
, Trailer
A girl who has a strange relationship with insects attends boarding school in a small town where a killer is at large.
Queens Of The Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Tina Romero; Writer: Erin Judge, Tina Romero; Stars: Katy O'Brian, Riki Lindhome, Margaret Cho, Jack Haven, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Cheyenne Jackson, Tom Savini, Eve Lindley, Danielle Vasinova, Dominique Jackson, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Kimball Farley, Becca Blackwell, Quentin Nguyen-Duy, Jaquel Spivey)
On what should be a fun night at a Brooklyn warehouse party, an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies
forces a ragtag group of drag queens, partygoers and party-throwers to band
together and somehow survive the night.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
(Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort)
(Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France; Year: 2025; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Koen De Bouw, Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Barbara Hellemans, Thi Mai Nguyen, Céline Camara, Kezia Quintal)
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
Theatre Of Blood
(Theater Of Blood)
(Country: UK; Year: 1973; Director: Douglas Hickox; Writer: Anthony Greville-Bell, Stanley Mann, John Kohn; Stars: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins)
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
The Old Dark House and Phenomena
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.
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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