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I Live Here Now and Dracula
After The Hunt
(Country: US, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Nora Garrett; Stars: Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg)
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Angel's Egg
(Tenshi No Tamago)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1985; Director: Mamoru Oshii; Writer: Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano; Stars: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Keiichi Noda)
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Black Phone 2
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Scott Derrickson; Writer: C Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson, Joe Hill; Stars: Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Anna Lore, Jeremy Davies, Madeleine McGraw, Demián Bichir, Miguel Mora, Arianna Rivas)
As the teenager kidnapped in the original film struggles with life after captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.
Blade II
(Blade 2)
(Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: David S Goyer; Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Thomas Kretschmann, Luke Goss, Matt Schulze, Danny John-Jules, Donnie Yen, Karel Roden, Tony Curran)
Wesley Snipes returns as the half human, half vampire destroyer of evil.
Bugonia
(Country: Ireland, South Korea, Canada, United States; Year: 2025; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Jang Joon-hwan, Will Tracy; Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkios)
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Manhunter and Angel's Egg
Bulk
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero)
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
Bury Your Dead
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Marco Dutra; Writer: Marco Dutra, Ana Paula Maia; Stars: Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano, Danilo Grangheia, Betty Faria, Maria Manoella, Chao Chen, Vittória Seixas, Magali Biff, Carlos Francisco, Gustavo Coelho, Everson Anderson, Ricardo Gelli, Gilda Nomacce, Majeca Angelucci, Clarissa Kiste)
A man embarks on an odyssey to save his girlfriend from a religious cult.
Big Trouble In Little China
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter; Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Chao Li Chi, Jeff Imada, Rummel Mor, Craig Ng)
A trucker gets drawn into an ancient mystical battle in Chinatown.
Cannibal Holocaust
(Country: Italy; Year: 1980; Director: Ruggero Deodato; Writer: Gianfranco Clerici; Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Salvatore Basile, Carl Gabriel Yorke)
A rescue team recovers found footage shot by a documentary team that set out to investigate lost cannibal tribes.
Crimson Gold
(Talaye Sorgh)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2003; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Hussein Emadeddin, Kamya
Sheissi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram
Vaziri, Ehsan Amani, Pourang
Nakhayi)
Anatomy of a murder, Iranian
style.
The Ring and Sisu: Road To Revenge
Deathstalker
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Orjalo, Nina Bergman, Paul Lazenby, John Ambrose, Conor Sweeney, Laurie Field, John Clifford Talbot)
When a ruthless warrior named Deathstalker steals a mysterious amulet from a dying man, he’s unwillingly thrust into a quest to stop the dark sorcerer Necromemnon and save the world from destruction.
Dracula
(Country: Romania, Austria, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude; Stars: Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, Neil Young. Alexandra .Harapu.)
Gonzo exploration of the Vlad the Impaler mythos.
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
(Doctor Strangelove, Dr Strangelove)
(Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, based on the book by Peter George.; Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed)
, Trailer
Classic black comedy about frantic politicians trying to avert a nuclear war.
Dick Tracy
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: Warren Beatty; Writer: Chester Gould, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr; Stars: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Michael Donovan O'Donnell, Jim Wilkey, Stig Eldred, Neil Summers, Chuck Hicks, Lawrence Steven Meyers, William Forsythe, Ed O'Ross, Glenne Headly, Marvellee Cariaga, Michael Gallup, Seymour Cassel, James Keane)
The detective battles Big Boy Caprice.
Every Heavy Thing
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mickey Reece; Writer: Mickey Reece; Stars: Josh Fadem, Vera Drew, Tipper Newton, John Ennis, Barbara Crampton)
An unassuming office worker at an online periodical becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder.
Bulk and The Ice Tower
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
(Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori, Female
Convict Scorpion)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1972; Director: Shunya Ito; Writer: Fumio Konami, Hiro Matsuda; Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Isao
Natsuyagi, Fumio Watanabe,
Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara)
After a failed escape a female
convict is thrown into solitary,
only for her ex to take out a hit on
her.
Fuck My Son!
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Todd Rohal; Writer: Todd Rohal, Johnny Ryan; Stars: Tipper Newton, Steve Little, Robert Longstreet, Kynzie Colmery)
A desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension (it says here).
The Furious
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2025; Director: Kenji Tanigaki; Writer: Frank Hui, Zhilong Lei, Tin Shu Mak; Stars: Joe Taslim, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Yayan Ruhian, JeeJa Yanin, Miao Xe, Brian Le, Enyou Yang)
A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.
Frankenstein
(Country: US; Year: 1931; Director: James Whale; Writer: Mary Shelley, Peggy Webling, John L Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, Robert Florey, John Russell; Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris, Ted Billings)
Classic rendering of the story of the mad scientist who wants to create life.
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.
Shelby Oaks and Hellcat
Hellcat
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Brock Bodell; Writer: Brock Bodell; Stars: Dakota Gorman, Todd Terry, Jordan Mullins, Elise Horn, Liz Atwater)
A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she'll suffer a horrific fate.
A Hidden Life
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Terrence Malick; Writer: Terrence Malick; Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Shoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz)
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Hold The Fort
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: William Bagley; Writer: William Bagley, Scott Hawkins; Stars: Mark Ashworth, George Quinones, Chris Mayers, Julian Smith, Michelle I Lamb, Ryan Monolopolus)
After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.
The Ice Tower
(La Tour De Glace)
(Country: France, Germany, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic; Writer: Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadzihalilovic; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Gaspar Noé, August Diehl, Clara Pacini, Lila-Rose Gilberti, Carmen Haidacher, Wilhelm Bonnelle, Raphael Reboul, Marine Gesbert)
Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart ... The 1970s. Jeanne, a young runaway, falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film which is being shot in the studio where Jeanne has taken refuge.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mary Bronstein; Writer: Mary Bronstein; Stars: Rose Byrne, Danielle Macdonald, Josh Pais, Daniel Zolghadri, Ivy Wolk, Conan O'Brien, A$AP Rocky, Helen Hong, Ella Beatty, Delaney Quinn, Mark Stolzenberg, Lark White, Eva Kornet)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Crimson Gold and The Serpent's Skin
In A Cold Vein
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eric Owen; Stars: Evan Gamble, Brian Villalobos, P Michael Hayes, Mor Cohen)
After escaping an attempted assassination, a professional criminal will stop at nothing to find who is behind his attempted murder, and to make sure his beloved family is safe.
It Was Just an Accident
(Un Simple Accident)
(Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Madjid Panahi, Ebrahim Azizi, Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari)
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
I Live Here Now
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Julie Pacino; Writer: Julie Pacino; Stars: Madeline Brewer, Lucy Fry, Sheryl Lee, Matt Rife, Cara Seymour, Alex Gaumond, Sarah Rich)
A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.
Manhunter
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Michael Mann; Writer: Thomas Harris, Michael Mann; Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan, Stephen Lang, David Seaman, Benjamin Hendrickson, Michael Talbott, Dan Butler, Michele Shay, Robin Moseley, Paul Perri, Patricia Charbonneau)
A scarred FBI agent tracks a serial killer.
Ms .45
(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Abel Ferrara; Writer: Nicholas St John; Stars: Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto, Helen McGara, Nike Zachmanoglou, Abel Ferrara, Peter Yellen, Editta Sherman, Vincent Gruppi, Stanley Timms, Faith Peters, Lawrence Zavaglia, Alex Jachno, Jack Thibeau)
A timid woman, who is violently raped, starts to exact vengeance on the streets of New York.
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb and Reflection In A Dead Diamond
New Group
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yûta Shimotsu; Writer: Yûta Shimotsu; Stars: Anna Yamada)
A high school student sees her world collapse when a strange cult-like mentality gradually turns people around her into mindless followers who can transform simple gymnastics routines into a nightmarish dance of death.
Night Patrol
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Ryan Prows; Writer: Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna; Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Justin Long, CM Punk, Nicki Micheaux)
An LA cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighbourhood in danger.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Matt Johnson; Writer: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol; Stars: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Ben Petrie, Luke Lalonde, Ethan Eng, Anthony Fantano, Michael Scott)
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
No Other Choice
(Eojjeol suga eopda)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee; Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Son Yej-in, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won)
When man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
Primate
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Johannes Roberts; Writer: Ernest Riera, Johannes Roberts; Stars: Kevin McNally, Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur, Jessica Alexander, Kae Alexander, Gia Hunter)
Home from college, Lucy reunites with family including pet chimp Ben. Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy and her friends barricade themselves in the pool, devising ways to survive the vicious chimp.
Queens Of The Dead and Cannibal Holocaust
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.
The Ring
(Country: US/Japan; Year: 2002; Director: Gore Verbinski; Writer: Ehren Kruger, based on the film, Ringu, directed by Hideo Nakata; Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella, Daveigh Chase, Shannon Cochran)
Remake of Japanese horror film of a killer video tape and a demonic ghost child.
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.
Resurrection
(Kuang Ye Shi Dai)
(Country: China, France; Year: 2025; Director: Bi Gan; Writer: Bi Gan; Stars: Shu Qi, Jackson Yee, Mark Chao, Chloe Maayan, Jue Huang, Gengxi Li, Zhijian Zhang, Yongzhong Chen, Mucheng Guo)
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see - until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she chooses to enter the monster’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth that lies hidden within.
The Secret Agent
(O Agente Secreto)
(Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Stars: Wagner Moura, Udo Kier, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Hermila Guedes, Alice Carvalho, Thomás Aquino, Isabél Zuaa, Suzy Lopes, João Vitor Silva, Roney Villela, Rubens Santos, Luciano Chirolli, Buda Lira, Jimmy Astley)
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Deathstalker and It Was Just an Accident
The Serpent's Skin
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Jordan Dulieu, Charlotte Grimes)
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
Shelby Oaks
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Stuckmann; Writer: Sam Liz, Chris Stuckmann; Stars: Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Michael Beach, Keith David, Brendan Sexton III)
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
Sirât
(Sirat)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Sisu: Road To Revenge
(Country: Finland; Year: 2025; Director: Jalmari Helander; Writer: Jalmari Helander; Stars: Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang, Richard Brake, Einar Haraldsson, Jaako Hutchings, Ergo Küppas, Anton Klink)
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honour. When the Red Army commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless cross-country chase ensues
Stand By Me
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Rob Reiner; Writer: Raynold Gideon based on the story by Stephen King; Stars: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss)
Four young friends journey into the woods to investigate a death.
Good Boy and Stand By Me
To Live And Die in LA
(Director: William Friedkin; Stars: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro)
Secret Service agents trying to convict a counterfeiter resort to illegal methods. An action-packed thriller with Willem Dafoe countering the machismo of the federal agents with sardonic charm.
V/H/S/Halloween
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Bryan M Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman & RH Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, Anna Zlokovic; Writer: Bryan M Ferguson, RH Norman, Micheline Pitt, Anna Zlokovic; Stars: Lawson Greyson, Riley Nottingham, Isabella Feliciana, Jenna Hogan, Samantha Cochran, Juliana Danielle Ferreira, Bianca Thomson, Layton Khan)
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
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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