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Dog Of God and Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
Above The Knee
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Viljar Bøe; Writer: Viljar Bøe, Freddy Singh; Stars: Freddy Singh, Julie Abrahamsen, Louise Waage Anda, Viggo Solomon)
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.
The Arborist
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Andrew Mudge; Stars: Lucy Walters, Hudson West, Will Lyman, Chloe Trejo)
After suffering a devastating loss, a grief-stricken arborist and her resentful son are hired by mysterious recluse Arthur Randolph to fell the trees in part of his vast, remote estate. As the son starts falls prey to creature hallucinations, a past tragedy reveals itself, a haunting awakens, and Arthur discloses the real reason he chose them to clear the ‘Wound Wood’.
A Blind Bargain
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Bunnell; Writer: John Falotico, Paul Bunnell, Bing Bailey; Stars: Crispin Glover, Jake Horowitz, Lucy Loken, Annalisa Cochrane)
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.
Blockhead
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Matt Harlock; Stars: Danny Horn, Joe Sims, Michele Moran, Hussina Raja)
A failing novelist desperate for inspiration to spark his second book thinks his muse appears to him in the form of a drunk, psychotic handyman and decorator.
Blood Shine
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Emily Bennett, Justin Brooks; Writer: Emily Bennett, Justin Brooks; Stars: Emily Bennet, David Call, Brendon Sexton III, Larry Fessenden)
In her remote country home, a religious zealot takes a young filmmaker captive, claiming her sadistic rituals will change him into a god.
A Blind Bargain and Above The Knee
Borderline
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jimmy Warden; Writer: Jimmy Warden; Stars: Samara Weaving, Eric Dane, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails, Alba Baptista)
A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles.
The Confession
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Will Canon; Stars: Italia Ricci, Scott Mechlowicz, Terence Rosemore, Justin Matthew Smith)
When a struggling musician moves back into her childhood home, she discovers a recording of her deceased father confessing to a grisly murder he claims to have committed to protect himself from an unknown evil force. Then her young son begins exhibiting increasingly unsettling behaviour.
Degenerate: The Life And Films Of Andy Milligan
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Grayson Tyler Johnson, Josh Johnson; Writer: Josh Johnson; Stars: Hope Stansbury, Gerald Jacuzzo, Stephen Thrower, John Borske, Jimmy McDonough, Sam Sherman)
Before unsung gay NYC exploitation maverick Andy Milligan died of AIDS, he cranked out grindhouse-ready shock and so-bad-it’s-good schlock movies throughout the late 1960s and Seventies. Yet, as captured in this fascinating documentary, his life and on-set persona were messy, complicated, and unforgettable.
Dog Of God
(Country: Latvia, US; Year: 2025; Director: Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele; Writer: Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele, Ivo Briedis, Harijs Grundmanis; Stars: Armands Bergis, Einars Repse, Regnars Vaivars, Agate Krista, Kristians Karelins, Jurgis Spulenieks)
Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft
whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf.
Five
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Dani Barker; Stars: Teagan Vincze, Sean Depner, Donna Benedicto, Giles Panton)
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.
Hellcat and Five
Gill
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Ahn Jae-huun; Stars: Jin Yang-wook, Kim Sung-soo, Yoo Se-hee, Kim Ji-jung)
Gon was on the verge of death when suddenly, gills started to grow and he could breathe again. Kang Ha and his grandpa rescue Gon, and together they become an odd family.
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.
The Mannequin
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: John Berardo; Stars: Isabella Gomez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Shireen Lai, Krystle Martin)
A creatively starved stylist assistant discovers that the historical downtown Los Angeles factory building where her fashion designer sister mysteriously died is haunted by a serial killer posing as a headshot photographer for film studios who brutally murdered and dismembered his victims half a century earlier.
The Only Ones
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jordan Miller; Stars: Brett Wagner, Jesse L. Green, Cayla Berejikian, Nancy Anne Ridder)
A group of friends venture out to a remote family home for a weekend of reconnecting and relaxation, but their plans unravel when a string of misfortunes spirals into bloodshed.
The Other People
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chad McClarnon; Writer: Trey McClarnon, Chad McClarnon; Stars: Lyndie Greenwood, Bryce Johnson, Valentina Lucido, Quinnlan Ashe, BD Boudreaux, Ashley Crow)
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.
The Other People and Blood Shine
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alaric S Rocha; Stars: Arturo Ripstein, Brian Yuzna, Isaac Ezban, Julian Richards)
A documentary about Mexploitation movies, luchadores, true love, unhealthy obsession and a mysterious disappearance.
Your Host
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: DW Medoff; Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Ella-Rae Smith, Jamie Flatters, Seth Michaels)
Four friends are trapped in a macabre gameshow, forced to outwit his twisted mind while racing against time. Every move brings them closer to freedom or their final, gruesome fate.
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