Above The Knee
Amir has a secret. He's tormented by visions of his leg rotting and longs to cut it off, convinced it doesn't belong to him. So, he devises a plan - one that will drag everyone around him into his relentless quest for relief.
Affection
Ellie is stuck in a cyclical nightmare grappling with a medical condition that erratically resets her memory. Left unable to remember her loving husband or young daughter, each reset leaves her disoriented and haunted with vivid memories and scattered recollections of an unfamiliar life she’s never lived. What is the cause of her rare illness, and can her husband really help cope with her affliction?
Appofeniacs
An ensemble tale with intersecting storylines that escalate into chaos as each portrays how easily deepfake technology can be weaponised to exploit society.
A Blind Bargain
A reimagining of the Lon Chaney classic in which a desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.
Blood Shine
In her remote country home, a religious zealot takes a young filmmaker captive, claiming her sadistic rituals will change him into a god.
Bone Lake
When two young couples are mistakenly double-booked into the same vacation rental their romantic weekend becomes a twisted maze of sex, lies, and survival.
Coyotes
Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family fight for survival when caught between a raging wildfire and a pack of savage coyotes.

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Daughters Of Darkness
While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
Brodie resurrects his bandmates to win the battle-of-the-bands and reacquire his girlfriend. His uncontrollable undead bandmate raises an army of costumed corpses. Brodie must stop the zombie horde before it ruins his musical dreams and love life.
The Descent
Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
Dog Of God
Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf.
Dolly
A young woman fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise her as a child.
Every Heavy Thing
An unassuming office worker at an online periodical becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder.
Five
A struggling actor is hoping her star will rise again with the romcom Renovated Romance, but while on location shooting her hopeful comeback, she finds a cabin in the woods and becomes possessed by a demonic force, causing havoc amongst the crew.
Flush
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.
Foreigner
An Iranian-born teenager is desperate to fit in at her new high school in Canada, but the more she tries to absorb and understand the unfamiliar mindset, the more she becomes consumed by a dark entity.
The Haunted Forest
A high-school senior obsessed with all things horror and Halloween lands his first job - as a scare actor at the famous Markoff’s Haunted Forest attraction in Maryland. Then a mysterious series of killings begins.
The Haunting At Jack The Ripper's House
YouTube ghost hunters get out of their depth when exploring Jack the Ripper's home.
Healing Andy
When Andy gets left at the altar, his best friends turn his Italian honeymoon into a ‘bros trip’ for the world to see. But as their influencer-fueled getaway spirals into a nightmare, they soon realise some things aren’t meant to be filmed.
Hellcat
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.
Hold The Fort
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

The Instinct
A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.

M

Mother Of Flies
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods - but every cure has costs
Noseeums
When student Ember is invited to a fun weekend at the country home of school Queen Bee Abigail, she finds the place oddly familiar. Drawn to an unkempt grave in the backwoods, Ember begins to be plagued by the black bugs known throughout Florida as Noseeums.
Odyssey
A ruthless estate agent finds herself in debt to some vicious gangsters.
The Other People
When a new stepmother's troubled eight-year-old girl befriends a boy that lives in the shadows, the family learns why things that live in the dark don't want be seen.
Pig Hill
A writer is fascinated by the local legend of the pig people of Pig Hill, revolting creatures who breed and cause havoc in the area of Radio Tower Hill, where women keep going missing.
Posthouse
A troubled film editor and his distant daughter release an ancient monster while working to restore an incomplete silent horror movie from the forgotten Filipino horror past.

R

Redux Redux
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
The Red Mask
When an outspoken queer screenwriter is chosen to pen the final instalment of the legendary slasher franchise The Red Mask, she and her girlfriend are harassed by die-hard fans. They escape to a secluded Airbnb, where she concocts a dangerous game to play to unlock her writer’s block. Then two uninvited guests crash the scene.
Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon Of Rocky Horror
It's the story of a lifetime: a script, a play, a movie, unprecedented success, and everlasting fame.
Self-Help
Members of an underground online community attend a secret weekend retreat to confront their fears and regain their sense of self. Two girls discover that one of their mothers has become romantically entangled with its leader, whose unusual self-actualisation methods may be deadly.
The Serpent's Skin
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.
Super Happy Fun Clown
An unhappy woman who is tired of being pushed around decides to combine her love of clowning, serial killers and classic movie monsters into a night of bloody horror the world will never forget.
The Toxic Avenger
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.

V

Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
A documentary about Mexploitation movies, luchadores, true love, unhealthy obsession and a mysterious disappearance.
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