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Terrestrial and Wrath Of The Gods
The Alice Paradox
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: William Brooke; Stars: Jessica Kinsey, Gwithian Evans, Madeline Smith, Jeffery Kissoon)
Depicting a famous thought experiment in Quantum Mechanics, Alice travels back in time and is transported into an alternate version of the recent past. Trapped in a world which prizes collectivism over individuality, Alice is forced to confront her life choices, grappling with profound questions about identity, fate, and the search for meaning.
Binding Eva
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Conscian Morgan; Writer: Will Clempner, Conscian Morgan, Roffem Uzong; Stars: Ryan Ralph Gerrard, Catherine Deevy, Darcey Wood, Beautiful Bill)
Deep in the Forest of Dean, a small-time criminal on the run, returns again and again to the same moment of judgement, and the same impossible choice.
Bowels Of Hell
(Privadas De Suas Vidas)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Gurcius Gewdner, Gustavo Vinagre; Stars: Antonia Baudouin, Gurcius Gewdner, Gustavo Vinagre, Chandelly Braz, Benjamín Damini, Maria Gladys, Caetano Gotardo, Bruce LaBruce)
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.
The Brook
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Paul Stainethorpe; Stars: Connor Lawson, Helen Chong, Kylie Ann Ford, Jill Dellow)
Moving to the village of his mother’s youth, an art student discovers that his grandad’s old video camera shows one hour into the past. The community believe their village is protected by a puma that watches over the 'good'. Then one of the 'good' goes missing.
Compliance
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kyle Mangione Smith; Writer: Kyle Mangione Smith; Stars: Megan Wilcox, Lindsey Normington, Charlie Wood, Neil Wachs)
A found footage horror film about the modern surveillance state, dark web crime, and political conspiracy.
Binding Eva and Dracula: The Night Around Us
The Death Of Us
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Annabella Rich; Stars: Nicholas Vince, Marta Svetek, Annabella Rich, Chris Mills)
A couple struggle to come to terms with the loss of their child during a violent home invasion by a cult.
Dracula: The Night Around Us
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Chris Schwab; Writer: Chris Schwab, based on the book by Bram Stoker; Stars: Eric Toms, Marlene Mc’Cohen, Raelan Mackieowitz, Spencer Weitzel, Brenton Jones)
A disillusioned Dr John Seward regains his faith in humanity through a bond with Mina and her daughter Lucy, only to be hunted by the legendary evil force that thrives on their destruction.
Electric Meat
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Dan Schaffer; Stars: Caspian Faye, Emily Booth, Nina Courson, Sylvia Soska)
A photographer's world unravels when a murdered model he's adopted as his muse decides she doesn't want to stay dead. A failed artist-turned-butcher, comfortable around dead meat, he decides to keep her body. But he becomes convinced that she is both alive and dead.
Faces Of Death
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Goldhaber; Stars: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, Charli XCX)
A moderator at a social media platform gets thrown face-first into a macabre mystery when she uncovers a series of visceral snuff videos bearing resemblance to a mythical 1978 cult film.
Full Moon Rising
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Sarah Appleton; Stars: Charles Band, Richard Band, Dennis Paoli, John Carpenter)
A documentary about the director and producer Charles Band.
Grin
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Lawrence Fowler; Stars: Gareth Tidball, Simon Davies, Lucas Edwards, Virginia Gilchrist)
Four friends who committed a horrific crime when they were young think it will remain a secret forever until they discover and play a vintage board game. When the game unwittingly summons the grotesque clown demon ‘Grin’, it soon becomes clear that the evil entity targets those who have committed terrible sins.
Heraldry Paranormal
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Ashley Nashville; Stars: Jimmy Roberts, Parker Paige, Tara Buranakul, Lance J Parker)
Four paranormal investigators want to find definitive proof of ghosts in Yorkshire, but soon find themselves at odds with conmen, an internet backlash, and terror beyond their expectations.
Infirmary
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nicholas Pineda; Stars: Paul Syre Lee, Mark Anthony Williams, Danielle Kennedy, Corinna Wagner-Smith)
A security guard is on his first shift at an abandoned Wilshire hospital. The facility was once notorious for unorthodox experimental practices on its mentally ill inmates, and paired with a retiring guard whose behaviour feels odd, hefinds the ambience instantly disturbing.
The Latcher
(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: James Hunter; Stars: Lucy Lovegrove, Darcy Kent, Monique Fisher)
A dedicated midwife and bereaved mother is put on leave and forced to process her grief in the remote bushland house where she lost everything, her attempts to move on disrupted by the creeping presence of a nightmarish entity.
Snapshot
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Joseph Archer; Stars: Cathy Wippell, Lydia Helen, Nadia Lamin, Hazel Rodgers)
Found-footage horror reveals the complex fate of an all-ladies ghost-hunting society in 19th century London.
Starsuckers
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Jason Butler, Brett Butler; Stars: James Alex, Manon Ens-Lapointe, Jersey Anderson, Jacob Stickles)
An influencer couple invites their most loyal superfan couple to an intimate weekend retreat, secretly planning to use them as the centrepiece of their next viral reinvention. However, the curated weekend unravels into psychological warfare when each couple’s vision for the weekend congeals into something feral.
Terrestrial
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Steve Pink; Writer: Connor Diedrich, Sam Johnson; Stars: Brendan Hunt, Pauline Chalamet, Rob Yang, Germaine Fowler, Edy Monica, James Morosini)
During a weekend reunion, a rising science fiction author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination.
Wrath Of The Gods
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Justin Hardy; Writer: Dominic Hardy, Justin Hardy; Stars: Francis Magee, Christiane Schaldemose, Lynsey Rendall, Martha Robertson)
The North Sea island of Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated because the local community despise her, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present as an ill wind blows through, and young girls vanish.
Zip Wire
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Howard J Ford; Stars: MyAnna Buring, Joseph Millson, Saffron Burrows, Silvia Presente)
When her groundbreaking discovery is stolen and her partner murdered, a pharmaceutical researcher is thrust into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse high in the Dolomite mountains, her only salvation being across a treacherous aerial runway.
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