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Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards and Queens Of The Dead
Burning
(Ot)
(Country: Kyrgyzstan; Year: 2025; Director: Radik Eshimov; Writer: Aizada Amangeldy, Dastan Madalbekov; Stars: Aisanat Edigeeva, Omurbek Izrailov, Kalicha Seydalieva, Zhanilai Isakova)
In a suburban village, a house belonging to a young family who recently lost their firstborn is burning. Neighbours say that the house bears the mark of a curse, as no one understands how the fire started, and eyewitnesses to the incident each have entirely different versions of what happened.
Cielo
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alberto Sciamma; Writer: Alberto Sciamma; Stars: Fernando Arze Echalar, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda, Cristian Mercado)
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
Dollhouse
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Shinobu Yaguchi; Writer: Shinobu Yaguchi; Stars: Kôji Seto, Tetsushi Tanaka, Ken Yasuda, Jun Fubuki, Totoko Honda)
Yoshie and Tadahiko are married. They have a 5-year-old daughter named Mei, but she dies. After the loss of her daughter, Yoshie goes into a spiral of despair. One day, she finds a doll resembling Mei at an antique market and buys it.
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.
Find Your Friends
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Izabel Pakzad; Writer: Izabel Pakzad; Stars: Helena Howard, Bella Thorne, Zión Moreno, Chloe Cherry, Sophia Ali, Chris Bauer, Istael Broussard, Jake Manley)
Amber and friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun getaway but face hostility from locals. As the tension escalates, they uncover Amber's past trauma, igniting their rebellion against toxic masculinity, turning their trip into one of revenge.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond and Good Boy
Flush
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Grégory Morin; Stars: Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Navarre, Elliot Jenicot, Rémy Adriaens)
Finding his ex in the nightclub where she works and convincing her to come back and live with him should be doable, correct? Losing the dealer and the bar owner who left him for dead in the restroom for trying to steal their stash is still within his capabilities. However, removing his head stuck in the toilet bowl is not a given.
The Forbidden City
(La città proibita)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriele Mainetti; Writer: Stefano Bises, Gabriele Mainetti, Davide Serino; Stars: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Sabrina Ferilli, Marco Giallini, Shansan Chunyu)
A woman leaves China for Rome in search of her missing sister.
Fragment
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Kim Sung-yoo; Writer: Kim Sung-yoo; Stars: Oh Ja-hun, Moon Seong-hyun, Kim Gyuna)
Jun-gang takes care of his little sister while being threatened with eviction, while Gi-su lives alone since his father was killed… by Jun-gang’s father. Will they be able to resist the vicious cycle brought on by such a sordid crime?
Fucktoys
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Annapurna Sriram; Writer: Annapurna Sriram; Stars: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Damian Young, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Lorrie Odom, Jowin Batoon, Tamika Lawrence, Arianna Ortiz)
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
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.
I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn and Fragment
Good Game
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2025; Director: Dickson Leung Kwok-Fai; Writer: Xin He, Ken Ho-Ming Law, June Zhong; Stars: Man-Chung Lam, Will Or, Yanny Wing-yan Chan, Meng Lo, Christine Ng)
The middle-aged owner of a failing internet café, joins a gaming tournament to hopefully win the grand-prize money and save his business. He assembles a team of oddballs, and these underdogs will have to combine their strengths in gaming if they’re to win this fierce competition.
Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: Tsai Chia-Ying; Writer: Zou Wan-Zhen; Stars: Liu Jasper, Yuen Angela, Tsao Yu-ning)
A legend in Taiwan's mountains says that when lost, hikers encounter a figure in a yellow raincoat who points to a blurry path, leading them to disappear.
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.
Hi-Five
(High Five, Haipaibeu)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kang Hyung-chul; Writer: Kang Hyung-chul; Stars: Park Jin-young, Oh Jung-se, Yoo Ah-in, Lee Jae-in, Ha Mi-ran)
Five ordinary people, who developed their superpowers after receiving organ transplants from a previously superpowered being, fight against a psychic, who also gained the power through a transplant and covets their powers.
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.
I Live Here Now and Hellcat
Holy Night: Demon Hunters
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Lim Dae-hee; Stars: Don Lee)
A team of exorcists goes up against a criminal gang of devil worshipers and the demons they summon.
Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards
(Akabane Honeko No Bodyguard)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Jun'ichi Ishikawa; Writer: Masamitsu Nigatsu, Hiroyuki Yatsu; Stars: Raul Murakami, Natsuki Deguchi, Daiken Okudaira, Yuki Kota, Chihiro Yamamota, Junki Tozuka)
Honeko has a 10 billion yen bounty on her head. Ibuki, her childhood friend turned bodyguard, must protect her incognito. Unexpectedly, all his classmates are assigned as her covert bodyguards.
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.
I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn
(Year: 2025; Director: Kenichi Ugana; Writer: Kenichi Ugana; Stars: Estevan Muñoz, Ui Mihara)
A jaded Japanese movie star stranded in NYC without money or phone meets a passionate indie filmmaker and his crew, leading to an unexpected creative journey that could reignite her love for cinema.
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.
Burning and Noise
Kazakh Scary Tales
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2025; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Stars: Kuantai Abdimadi, Anna Starchenko, Dinara Baktybayeva, Daniyar Alshinov, Yerken Gubashev, Sanjar Madi)
A collection of occult tales of terror.
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.
Lurker
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Russell; Writer: Alex Russell; Stars: Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic, Archie Madekwe, Daniel Zolghadri, Théodore Pellerin, Mikaela Poon, Rene Leech, Hannah Christine Shetler, Willa Jane Shaw, Zack Fox)
A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
Mother Of Flies
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser; Writer: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser; Stars: Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, John Adams)
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods - but every cure has costs
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.
Cielo and Stinker
OBEX
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Albert Birney; Writer: Albert Birney, Pete Ohs; Stars: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley)
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Byung-woo)
An ordinary office worker suddenly finds his favorite apocalyptic web novel unfolding in real life before his eyes.
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.
Rewrite
(Riraito)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Daigo Matsui; Writer: Haruka Hôjô, Makoto Ueda; Stars: Kei Adachi, Akari Fukunaga, Kurodo Hachijoin, Ai Hashimoto, Eikichi Ikeda, Elaiza Ikeda)
Transfer student Yasuhiko has had an amazing 21 days with Miyuki and their shared secret, that Yasuhiko comes from the future, binds them even closer.
Hold The Fort and Terrestrial
The School Duel
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Todd Wiseman Jr; Writer: Todd Wiseman Jr; Stars: Kue Lawrence, Christina Brucato, Oscar Nuñez, Jamad Mays, Michael Sean Tighe, Hudson Meek)
When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old enlists in a deadly competition.
Sham
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Masumi Fukuda, Hayashi Mori; Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Gô Ayano, Kazuki Kitamura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Fumino Kimura, Kazuya Kamenashi, Masahiro Takashima, Tamae Andô, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Kôji Ohkura, Rie Mimura, Rie Minemura, Kisuke Iida, Takaya Sakoda)
When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teacher. But all may not be as it seems.
Stinker
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2025; Director: Yerden Telemissov; Writer: Sergey Litovchenko, Yerden Telemissov; Stars: Irka Abdulmanova, Chingiz Kapin, Dulyga Akmolda)
In a remote corner of Kazakhstan, three unlikely characters cross paths: a despairing old man, a grouchy shopkeeper, and an alien just trying to get home. With the gentle help of a curious granddaughter, walls begin to break down, but with a government motorcade soon to arrive - and a bumbling cop hot on their tails - can this misfit group somehow hold together?
Straight Outta Space
(Straatcoaches Vs Aliens)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Michael Middelkoop; Writer: Michael Middelkoop, Daan Bakker, Nico van den Brink; Stars: Oscar Aerts, Rayan Belrhazi Alaoui, Seylan Avci, Evgenia Brendes, Jim Deddes, André Dongelmans, Dien Ben El Hossaien)
Two street coaches in a bustling neighborhood face an unexpected crisis when locals transform into bizarre, slimy beings.
Taroman Expo Explosion
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Ryo Fujii)
A mockumentary entangled with the tropes and aesthetics of 1970s tokusatsu superhero shows, especially Ultraman.
Lurker and Mother Of Flies
Terrestrial
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Steve Pink; Writer: Connor Diedrich, Sam Johnson; Stars: Brendan Hunt, Pauline Chalamet, Rob Yang, Germaine Fowler, Edy Monica, James Morosini)
During a weekend reunion, a rising science fiction author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination.
Together
(Country: US, Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Michael Shanks; Writer: Michael Shanks; Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman, Sunny S. Walia, Mia Morrissey, Jack Kenny, Karl Richmond, Tom Considine, Charlie Lees, Melanie Beddie, MJ Dorning, Rob Brown)
With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
Transcending Dimensions
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Toshiaki Toyoda; Writer: Toshiaki Toyoda; Stars: Chihara Jr., Masahiro Higashide, Haruka Imô, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Ryûhei Matsuda, Kiyohiko Shibukawa)
A monk has gone missing. His lover takes an assassin to a religious facility in search of him. There, they meet a sorcerer. Meanwhile, the missing man is on a spaceship heading to an unknown planet .
The Verdict
(Year: 2025; Director: Lee Chang-hee, Yusron Fuadi; Stars: Rio Dewanto)
When his pregnant wife is murdered by an affluent young man flexing his invulnerability, the trial is nothing but a masquerade, so a court security guard decides to take the law into his own hands.
The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Casabe; Writer: Benjamín Naishtat; Stars: Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Agustín Sosa)
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
Rewrite and Straight Outta Space
The Wailing
(El Llanto)
(Country: Spain, France, Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Martín-Calero; Writer: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña; Stars: Ester Expósito, Mathilde Ollivier, Àlex Monner, Tomás del Estal, Sonia Almarcha, José Luis Ferrer, Malena Villa, Claudia Roset, Lautaro Bettoni, Pierre Marquille, Miguel Belaustegui, Lía Lois)
Something’s stalking Andrea, but nobody, not even herself, can actually see it. 20 years ago, 10,000 kilometres away, the same presence terrorised Marie. Camila was the only person capable of understanding what was happening to her, but nobody believed them. On taking a stand against that oppressive threat, all three women hear the same horrific sound. Wailing.
The Woman
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Hwang Wook; Stars: Han Hye-ji)
An exchange of strawberries and a used household appliance turns into a nightmare for Sun-kyung when her partner turns up dead. Now she must follow the trail of a disturbing stranger.
Ya Boy Kongmin! The Movie
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Shuhei Shibue; Stars: Avantgardey, Avu-chan)
Zhuge Kongmin, the legendary military strategist of China’s War of the Three Kingdoms, has been inexplicably reincarnated in modern-day Tokyo. He’s now managing the career of a young amateur singer.
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