Ancestral Beasts
A troubled Métis woman commits to finally facing the figurative demons in her past only to uncover a literal demon living within the bowels of her rural home that she must battle before it kills her and everyone she loves.
Attack On Paradise
Newly released after seven years in prison, Suleyman only wishes to return to Antwerp’s Paradise apartment complex and spend time with his ailing mother, but to protect her, he's going to need to fight cops and criminals alike.
Big Break
Years after Simple Town split up, three comics reunite with their successful ex-collaborator, leading to a fight for their lives (and careers) as it is revealed that one of them has become a serial killer.
Blaise
The Sauvage family just wants to be loved. Carole is trying to improve her poor reputation among her employees, while Jacques is trying to do the same with his friends. As for their son Blaise, politely, he's about to embark on a revolutionary, violent, and completely impromptu crusade for a girl.
Bowels Of Hell
A mother battling trauma faces a surreal nightmare when toilets mysteriously transform into killer beings, forcing her to confront both her personal demons and these bizarre supernatural threats.
Break Free
A middle-aged yakuza gangster finds a new direction in life after an improvised dance-off goes viral on TikTok.
Chaar Diwaari
A tenant moves into a too good to be true Mumbai apartment only to realise that the house is shrinking in size.
Colony
A biotechnology professor is among those trapped at a biotech conference after a rapidly mutating virus is released.
Corpus
Three young men travel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.

D

Dance Freak
A dangerous experiment goes awry resulting in a Dance Freak running wild.
The Fated Hour
Three days before her wedding, a deeply troubled woman tells her fiancé the story of her dead sister and the terrible prophecy that haunts her.
Foxing: Kitsuné-Tsuki
An animator struggles to complete her work while distracted by the characters in her imagination.
The Galactic Ghoul
A space opera about a great escape from a horrific prison planet under the rule of Queen Xaltalusia XXIII.
Godhead
Eccentric twins proclaim themselves prophets to a priest, blurring reality and delusion as they involve him in their supposed divine mission.
Gozu
A troubled gangster takes refuge in an inn where strange fertility rites will change him forever.
Home Bodies
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.

I

Insecstasy
Sadie struggles to find balance as she juggles work, her social life and her erotic fascination with insects.
I Love Paris
After being transformed into a vampire, a Parisian singer pursues stardom at the cost of her soul.
The Last Footage
Events unfold in almost-realtime, as the sun sets on the haunted Wingabar Forest and eerie howls pierce its night.
The Last Temptation Of Becky
Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
The Leader
In 1997, 39 members of the American cult known as Heaven's Gate committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.

M

Matapanki
A punk kid gets superpowers from alcohol and tries to reshape society, but a violent error sparks global tensions with him at the centre.
Nameless
Watching bizarre footage of a massacre in a café, a police detective is horrified to recognise something he has seen before.
Never After Dark
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience - but the biggest danger she faces comes from the living.
Nightborn
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Niko
In dystopian Seoul, with curfew and lockdown in effect, broke screenwriter Niko suddenly disappears. As her boyfriend Jeremy and new bestie Ji-eun try to locate her, they become unexpectedly intertwined in a love triangle.
No Rest For The Wicked
A fisherman falls in love with a rugged whaler on the isolated Faroe Islands in this unconventional vampire story.
The Origin Of Ultraman
A celebration of the superhero from Nebula M78 and his appearances in films, on television, and in wider Japanese culture.
Our Effed Up World
Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.
Papaya
Papaya, a tiny seed in the Amazon rainforest who is passionate about flying, must keep moving to avoid taking root. But when she discovers the power of her roots, it triggers a revolution that transforms her world and fulfils her dreams in an unexpected way.
The Peril At Pincer Point
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
La Place
A quarrel over a parking space pulls a couple into an unexpected confrontation with a stranger.
Pontypool
A radio DJ tries to track the source of a virus which turns people into zombies.

R

Rubberhead: The Life And Monsters Of Steve Johnson
The inside story of a monster-maker par excellence who has worked with some of the most exciting directors in the genre world.
A Safe Distance
A woman abandoned in the woods by her boyfriend after she turns down his marriage proposal is taken in by a mysterious couple.
The Seoul Guardians
A documentary recounting the events surrounding the imposition of martial law in Korea in December 2024, and the peaceful uprising of civilians against dictatorship.
Someone's Daughter
A lawyer and a client she once successfully defended against rape are kidnapped and stranded in the Canadian wilderness together.
Sour Minnows
After unknowingly peeking through the veil, two flatmates witness six men sensually licking the pavement on an empty LA street.
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
Tight Lettuce
A son films his father's addiction, hoping to document his recovery; but as he sacrifices everything to save him, he must decide how much he'll lose for someone who may not want saving.
Tokyo Burst: Crime City
A rookie detective from Tokyo’s red-light district must team up with a counterpart from Seoul with equally questionable practices, to track down a dangerous criminal spreading terror across Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
Trauma Or, Monsters All
An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within.
Tunnels: Sun In The Dark
In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, a Vietnamese revolutionary guerrilla team became the US military's top target - charged with safeguarding a secret group of intelligence agents at all costs.
Unholy Night
A family's Christmas Eve dinner becomes a nightmare as Gino must protect his loved ones from his reanimated grandmother who crashes the celebration with murderous intent.
Unidentified Murder
When an influencer couple's prank turns deadly, blackmail, aliens, and links to a 25-year-old missing child case emerge, plunging them into a web of mystery.

V

When You Open The Door
A 27-year-old working in an architectural firm wakes up in her small apartment, pulled out of her sleepy memory. Her world is quiet and strange, but will soon be interrupted by a transformative experience spurred by a half-remembered wolf bite.
Zsazsa Zaturnnah!
A pink meteor transforms shy, gay hairdresser Ada into a stunning superheroine, who must defend her village from giant mutant animals, wretched zombies, and anything else thrown at her by the militant, misandrist Amazonistas from Planet X.
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