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Hold The Fort and Mother Of Flies
213 Bones
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Jeffrey Primm; Stars: Colin Egglesfield, Dean Cameron, Toni Weiss, Liam Woodrum)
A group of anthropology students begin finding human bones and personal property scattered around their campus. It emerges that a masked maniac is targeting them
Appofeniacs
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chris Marrs Piliero; Stars: Sean Gunn, Jermaine Fowler, Aaron Holiday, Michael Abbott Jr)
An ensemble tale with intersecting storylines that escalate into chaos as each portrays how easily deepfake technology can be weaponised to exploit society.
Bamboo Revenge
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Edgar Marie; Stars: Audrey Pirault, Paul Deby, Constantin Vidal, Jimony Ekila)
Three young people wake up tied to the ground in a remote forest. A young woman accuses them of being responsible for the disappearance of her sister during the evening they spent together having wild fun and sexy games. She has planted a special type of bamboo shoot underneath them, which grows 120cm in 24 hours. Either they confess to their alleged crime or they will be fatally impaled by the deadly shoots by the end of the day.
Bone Lake
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan; Writer: Joshua Friedlander; Stars: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Marco Pigossi, Andra Nechita, Eliane Reis, Clayton Spencer)
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.
Cognaitive
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Tommmy Savas; Stars: Piper Curda, Noel Fisher, Josh Zuckerman, Natasha Bahnam)
Convicted but reformed hacker Kaya enlists a group of co-workers to stay overnight at the office in preparation for the launch of their cleverer, faster, more cognitive version of ChatGPT, but they quickly come to realise that the AI they’ve created has its own sinister agenda.
The Descent and Flush
Crushed
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Simon Rumley; Writer: Simon Rumley; Stars: Steve Oram, Margaux Dietrich, Sahajak Boonthanakit)
In suburban Bangkok, a family's faith is thrown into crisis when their daughter is kidnapped.
The Descent
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Neil Marshall; Writer: Neil Marshall; Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Molly Kayll, Alex Reid, Craig Conway, Saskia Mulder, Oliver Milburn, Stephen Lamb)
Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
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.
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.
The Home
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: James DeMonaco; Writer: James DeMonaco, Adan Cantor; Stars: Pete Davidson, Marilee Talkington, Jimmy Gary Jr., Matthew Miniero)
A man comes to believe that the residents and caretakers in the retirement home where he recently started working are concealing sinister secrets.
The Red Mask and Bone Lake
Influencers
(Year: 2025; Director: Kurtis David Harder; Stars: Cassandra Naud, Lisa Delamar, Veronica Long, Jonathan Whitesell, Georgina Campbell)
The troubled CW finds hope in a new relationship, but jealousy of a rival influencer leads to trouble.
Jimmy And Stiggs
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joe Begos; Writer: Joe Begos; Stars: Joe Begos, Matt Mercer)
A filmmaker spirals into an out of control bender, during which he comes to believe that he has been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts an old friend to help him gear up for war.
Marshmallow
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Daniel DelPurgatorio; Stars: Kue Lawrence, Giorgia Whigham, Corbin Bernsen, Alysia Reiner)
A shy boy is sent to the secluded Camp Almar for summer. On the first night, he and his new friends are told a horrifying campfire tale about The Doctor experimenting on children, turning them into deformed monsters. Before long, the fear fable becomes real - but nothing is quite what it seems.
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
Night Of Violence
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Illya Konstantin; Stars: Gigi Gustin, Russ Russo, Kit Lang, Caitlin Borek)
A group of suits that become trapped in their office after scoring a win against the public in a high-stakes class action lawsuit, with angry townsfolk outside.
The Toxic Avenger and Appofeniacs
Odyssey
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Gerard Johnson; Writer: Austin Collings, Gerard Johnson; Stars: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborrow)
A ruthless estate agent finds herself in debt to some vicious gangsters.
Redux Redux
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Writer: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Stars: Derick Alexander, Raphael Chestang, Debra Christofferson, Jim Cummings, Minita Gandhi, London Garcia, Jeremy Holm)
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
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Ritesh Gupta; Writer: Samantha Gurash, Patrick Robert Young; Stars: Inanna Sarkis, Helena Howard, Kelli Garner, Jake Abel)
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.
The Rows
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Seth Daly; Stars: Brindisi Dupree, Lara Pictet, Marcus Woods, Hans Heilmann)
Seven-year-old Lucy wakes up in the middle of a mysterious cornfield. She has a bloody wound on her head and no memory of how she got there. Discovering a dead body and an abandoned gun in a nearby clearing, she is immediately confronted by three masked killers searching for her.
Self-Help
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Erik Bloomquist; Stars: Jake Weber, Landry Bender, Madison Lintz, Amy Hargreaves)
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.
Self-Help and Odyssey
A Serbian Documentary
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Stephen Biro; Stars: Srdjan Spasojeviċ, Aleksandar Radivojević, Srdjan Zika Todorović, Sergej Trifunovć)
A documentary about the artistic vision, horror and controversy surrounding A Serbian Film.
Tomb Watcher
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2025; Director: Vathanyu Ingkawiwat)
After his wife passes away, a man is relieved to be able to live openly with his mistress after years of hiding their relationship. But the dead woman’s will states that he must live with her corpse in a glass coffin for one hundred days if he is to inherit her assets.
The Toxic Avenger
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Macon Blair; Writer: Macon Blair, Lloyd Kaufman; Stars: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, David Yow, Annette Badland)
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.
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 .
What She Doesn't Know
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Juan Pablo Arias Munoz; Stars: Sienna Agudong, Jessica Belkin, Conor Husting, Denise Richards)
As a student grapples with going to college, and how to tell her best friend about their impending separation, a serial killer is wreaking havoc on the local community. Too scared to attend prom, they and another friend lock themselves in a secluded modern mansion to avoid the stress. But danger may be closer than they think.
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