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Colony and Grind
Alien
(The Eighth Passenger)
(Country: UK; Year: 1979; Director: Ridley Scott; Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett; Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright)
Ridley Scott's fabulously frightening grimy spaceship classic.
Big Baby
(Year: 2026; Director: Spider One; Stars: Krsy Fox, Brandon Scott, Adam Marcinowski, Catherine Corcoran)
As more nightmares, visions, and real life terror begin to challenge a writer's sanity, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to control his work, his reality, and who will be Big Baby's next victim.
Colony
(Gun-Che)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Yeon Sang-ho; Writer: Yeon Sang-ho, Choi Gyu-seok; Stars: Gianna Jun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-bin, Kim Shin-rock, Go Soo, Kim Hyeong-mook)
A biotechnology professor is among those trapped at a biotech conference after a rapidly mutating virus is released.
Dead Reset
(Year: 2026; Director: Stewart Sparke; Stars: Daniel Thrace, Lyndsey Craine, Dennis Rasaq, Andrina Carroll)
Trapped in an underwater research facility, surgeon Cole Mason is forced to operate on a mutating, parasitic creature. The catch? He’s trapped in a brutal, blood-soaked time loop and must relive his own violent demise over and over again.
Drag
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer; Writer: Greg Yagolnitzer, Raviv Ullman; Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, Christine Ko)
Two sisters with a contentious relationship decide to rob a rural home in upstate New York. The simple robbery turns into a nightmare when one of them throws out her back and becomes immobilised on the second floor. The night spirals out of control as they embark on a painful journey to make it out before the homeowner returns.
Species and The Last Temptation Of Becky
Frostbite
(Country: Denmark, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Lukas Rinker; Stars: Zoe Boyle, Kris Hitchen, Andrew Scarborough, Lily Curley)
On the foggy summit of Canada’s Mount Killgore, high-ranking investors want proof that the area can become a prestigious winter sports destination. But when a controlled avalanche blast goes wrong, a former skating pro, a geologist and her daughter are trapped in a crashed cable car beneath the ice. Even worse, something is trying to get in.
Gator Face
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Padraig Reynolds; Writer: Padraig Reynolds; Stars: Tabitha Brownstone, Amariah Dionne, Nikolas Kolasinski, Kiara Mitjans, Bella, Big Mack, Ella Mosca, Barron Regan, Scot Scurlock, Ellie Shaddix, Iain Smith)
A group of friends’ sun-drenched Florida vacation curdles into a nightmare after they stumble upon a remote cult devoted to an ancient alligator deity.
Ghost In The Cell
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2026; Director: Joko Anwar; Stars: Abimana Aryasatya, Endy Arfian, Bront Palarae, Morgan Oey)
A high-security prison run by a tyrannical warden is rocked by a spate of gruesome murders with bodies put on morbidly spectacular display.
The Glorious Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: John Adams, Toby Poser; Writer: John Adams, Toby Poser; Stars: John Adams, Lulu Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Judith Roberts)
A small-town sheriff and her deputy awaken to a changed world where blood drips from taps, people vanish, creatures roam the woods, and the dead rise as the town descends into chaos.
Grind
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust; Writer: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty; Stars: Rob Huebel, Barbara Crampton, Vinny Thomas, Jessika Van, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, James Urbaniak, Courtney Pauroso, James Paxton, Ify Nwadiwe, Aubrey Shea)
A horror anthology tackling the modern work landscape through four timely perspectives – the hustle culture of an MLM, the endless repetitiveness of a food delivery driver, the online horrors of a content moderator, and the unionisation of a coffee shop.
Spider Island and Alien
Hungry
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: James Nunn)
When a group of tourists ventures off the beaten track in the vast swamplands of the Louisiana Bayou, they find themselves trapped with a hippo.
Hyena
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Matthew Ninaber; Stars: Storm Steenson, Kristen Kaster, Jeremy Ninaber, Matthew Ninaber)
After a brutal breakup, Nicole finds herself drawn into a dangerous world of online sex work where money is the driving force for extreme fantasy. Under the influence of the charismatic Rachel, her life takes a darker turn when she becomes the target of a serial killer.
Imposters
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Caleb Phillips; Writer: Caleb Phillips; Stars: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett, Declan Bennett)
After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she has returned with isn't their son.
Ithaqua
(Year: 2026; Director: Casey Walker; Writer: Pascal Trottier, Peter Scott Vicaire, Casey Walker; Stars: Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, Michael Pitt, Leenah Robinson, Pamela Matthews, Aaron Poole, Mara Pasley)
American mercenary Cole Franklin is recruited as a hired gun at the remote outpost of Fort William, struggling to survive the decline of the fur trade. With dwindling supplies, the keepers of the Fort blackmail Cole into leading a trading party to a nearby Indigenous village, where they discover a massacre.
Labyrinth
(Year: 2026; Director: Ryuhei Kitamura; Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Alexxis Lemire, Chris Klein, Shane West, Tommy Flanagan)
A group of strangers are brought together under mysterious circumstances by a nefarious leader to be judged for their past transgressions in a facility designed to test their mettle against a gauntlet of deadly challenges.
Gator Face and Valley View Motel
The Last Temptation Of Becky
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jenn Wexler; Writer: Jenn Wexler, Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote; Stars: Lulu Wilson, Neil Patrick Harris, Kate Siegel, James Urbaniak, Brandon Flynn)
Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
The Nameless Ballad
(Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Federico Zampaglione; Stars: Jamie Ward, Alana Boden, Fabrizio Ferracane, Seaumas Sargent)
Under pressure from his record label, a young musician in crisis takes refuge in an isolated Italian villa to find inspiration for his next album. But the discovery of an ancient piano and a forgotten diary drags him into a spiral of twisted obsessions, supernatural visions and ghostly presences.
Nervous
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Ko Asung, Sungsoo Yune)
Sarah and her husband Sungsoo move to the Korean countryside in the hope of saving their crumbling marriage. But their new home hides a strange secret - an unmarked vinyl record that plays nothing but silence. After listening to it, Sarah slowly begins to lose the ability to hear men’s voices.
Oddities
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Tyler Savage; Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Xander Berkeley, Lovie Simone, Lilimar)
Best friends who inadvertently killed their drug dealer stop at a seemingly sleepy roadside antique shop, only to discover that the owner is not as sweet as she seems.
The Pitchfork Retreat
(Year: 2026; Director: Gregory Van Voorhis, Nicole Van Voorhis; Stars: Tony Todd, Danielle Harris, Dee Wallace, Adrienne Barbeau)
Three genre writers journey to a secluded island for a life-changing competition at the high-stakes horror Jigsaw retreat, but the top prize comes with a price as they realise there is nowhere to hide when the darkness from within comes to light.
Ponderosa
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Rob Rice; Writer: Rob Rice; Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel, Bill Camp)
When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to entertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly and vehemently obsessed with becoming his father.
Species
(Sanguine)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Marion Le Corroller; Writer: Marion Le Corroller, Thomas Pujol; Stars: Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali, Stefan Crepon, Sonia Faïdi)
Margot dreams of becoming a life-saving doctor. But as an intern at the most competitive ER in the country, she has trouble keeping up. Soon, young burnt out patients come to her with unusual symptoms, just as she starts developing a strange metamorphosis…
Spider Island
(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Christopher Smith; Writer: Ben Jacques, Christopher Jolley, David Quantick; Stars: Rose Williams, Tim McInnerny, Andy Nyman, Divian Ladwa, Avani Gregg, Lena Mahfouf)
On a secluded private tropical island, The Oceania Pearl Hotel invites a group of famous social media influencers to its opening party to help solidify its place as the world’s most luxurious new resort destination. But the hotel hides a nightmarish secret… the subterranean caves disturbed during construction have awakened a horde of deadly spiders
Valley View Motel
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis; Writer: Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis; Stars: Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis, Soulo Smith, Melissa Collins, Laura Im, Tom Mesmer, Logan Psinakis, Janie Sharon)
It’s 1977, and after a diamond heist goes seriously awry with multiple slaughters, two small-time crooks attempt to flee the wrath of the hitman put on their tail. Seeking refuge at a motel in the remote foothills of Pennsylvania run by a very peculiar owner and his sister, they make the mistake of thinking that they're safe.
You Are The Film
(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Makoto Ueda; Writer: Makoto Ueda; Stars: Riko Fujitani, Takafumi Imai, Kai Inowaki, Gôta Ishida)
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