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Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon Of Rocky Horror and Healing Andy
The Arbiter
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Price; Stars: Craig Russell, Jon Xue Zhang, Georgina Leonidas, Jasmine Summer)
The city is a battlefield with gangs ruling the night, and with the bloodiest one of all making a murderous push, not stopping until every rival mob is erased. In a desperate bid to avoid being wiped out, the remaining gang leaders gather for an unprecedented summit.
Bambi: The Reckoning
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Dan Allen; Stars: Roxanne McKee, Nicola Wright, Samira Mighty, Russell Geoffrey Banks)
After a mother and son are involved in a car accident, they become the targets of a terrifying deer hunt. Traumatised by the loss of his own mother, Bambi undergoes a horrifying transformation, becoming a mutated and vengeful creature, and he goes looking for the two of them.
The Caretaker
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Luke Tedder; Stars: Ben Probert, Mackenzie Larsen, Scott Hume, Peter Pearson)
A mute man who takes care of his cruel, ailing mother, who is on the cusp of losing their home, takes a caretaker position at the foreboding Lockbridge School. There he meets a cleaner, sparking an instant connection that will alter the trajectory of his life
Death Cycle
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Gabriel Carrer; Stars: Kristen Kaster, Matthew Ninaber, Sasha Ormond, James Fler)
After the death of her sister, a distraught woman is visited by a man looking to solve a series of murders by a motorcycle maniac.
Don't Let The Cat Out
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Tim Cruz; Stars: Anthony Del Negro, Cerina Vincent, Edy Ganem, Sterling Sulieman)
A college student is hired to house-sit for an eccentric couple at their secluded mansion. But once they leave, His reality turns bizarrely pussy powered, with strange house rules and cat-related ornaments everywhere. Then his best friend arrives, only to be killed by a cat-masked intruder.
Foreigner and Pig Hill
Foreigner
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Ava Maria Safai; Writer: Ava Maria Safai; Stars: Rose Dehgan, Chloe Macleod, Cassie Collis, Talisa Mae Stewart)
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 Haunting At Jack The Ripper's House
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Natasha Tosini, Stephen Staley; Writer: Natasha Tosini, Stephen Staley; Stars: Jack Hoy, Kelly Rian Sanson, Natasha Tosini, Stephen Staley)
YouTube ghost hunters get out of their depth when exploring Jack the Ripper's home.
Healing Andy
(Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Villablanca; Stars: Matthew Kay, Frederik Lysegaard, Samuel Nunes De Souza, Elliott Eason)
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.
He Kills At Night
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Tom Pickering; Stars: Levi Heaton, Richard Galloway, Isabella Percival, Roger Bingham)
On Christmas Eve, a mother desperate to reconnect with her estranged family is abducted by a serial killer and forced to help him flee the country.
Human
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Matt Stuertz; Stars: Jackie Kelly, Brock Russell, Cecily Dowd, Jeffrey Decker)
It’s past midnight and Dani Ferris is a woman all alone, away from home. A woman who’s tired as hell, wanting nothing but a little tease of digital debauchery before shutting her eyes. A woman not even remotely prepared for the roller coaster of emotions she’s about to ride with a front-row seat.
Super Happy Fun Clown 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.
Parasomnia
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: James Ross; Stars: Jasmine Matthews, RJ Brown, Sally Stewart, Stephen Barrington)
After her friend is the latest to go missing in a series of strange events, a young woman comes to suspect that the demonic figure lurking in her night terrors may have found its way into the real world.
Pig Hill
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kevin Lewis; Writer: Jarrod Burris; Stars: Rainey Qualley, Shiloh Fernandez, Shane West, Tammy Pescatelli)
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.
Portal To Hell
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Woody Bess; Stars: Trey Holland, Romina D’Ugo, Keith David, Richard Kind)
Debt collector Dunn’s life is suddenly turned upside down when a portal to hell opens in his local laundromat. Out comes a demon who offers him a deal - to find three souls to save his neighbour, Mr Bobshank, from being dragged to hell for an unpaid debt.
Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon Of Rocky Horror
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Andreas Zerr; Writer: Andreas Zerr; Stars: Barry Bostwick, Jamie Donnelly, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Lou Adler, Sky du Mont, Christopher Biggins)
It's the story of a lifetime: a script, a play, a movie, unprecedented success, and everlasting fame.
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.
Sick Puppy
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jay Reid; Stars: Natasha Calis, Brett Geddes, Rachel Boyd, Dylan Taylor)
When Charlie's serial killer husband John decides to finally quit his crimes on her insistence, she's thrilled, but soon finds herself committing violent acts herself to protect the man she loves.
Super Happy Fun Clown
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Patrick Rea; Stars: Jennifer Seward, Nicole Hall, Matt Leisy, Deborah Madick)
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 Weed Eaters
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2025; Director: Callum Devlin; Stars: Samuel Austin, Alice May Connolly, David Correos, Delaney Davidson)
When Jules agrees to a rural New Year’s getaway with her boyfriend and two mates, she’s looking for peace and quiet and to smoke some dope. But when they stumble across their reclusive host’s long-forgotten stash of ancient cannabis, their holiday high takes a sudden nightmare turn, for the weed’s strange side effect is an insatiable hunger for human flesh.
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