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The Fog and The Ones Who Grieve
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(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lucky Cerruti; Writer: Lucky Cerruti; Stars: Evan McFarland, Michael Lake, Kyle D King, Tyler Nye, Diego Rojas)
After a fatal car accident, a family is plunged into a nightmare.
Crawlers
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ángel Gómez Hernández; Writer: Jayson Rothwell; Stars: Matilda Lutz, Gregg Sulkin, Melina Matthews)
Tenants at Paradiso Palms apartments fight a deadly spider invasion.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jason Howden; Writer: Jason Howden; Stars: Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Joshua Blake, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell, Kieran Charnock)
Brodie resurrects his bandmates to win the battle-of-the-bands and reacquire his girlfriend. His uncontrollable undead bandmate raises an army of costumed corpses. Brodie must stop the zombie horde before it ruins his musical dreams and love life.
Disforia
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Christopher Cartagena González; Writer: Joan-Pol Argenter, Christopher Cartagena González, Imanol Ortiz López; Stars: Claudia Salas, Fariba Sheikhan, Noah Casas, Eloy Azorín, Kike Guaza)
Live-streamed games of torture on the dark web collide with a desperate mother’s fight for survival.
Dracula
(Horror Of Dracula)
(Country: UK; Year: 1958; Director: Terence Fisher; Writer: Jimmy Sangster, based on the novel by Bram Stoker; Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Olga Dickie, John Van Eyssen)
Adaptation of the classic vampire tale.
Never After Dark and Dracula
Evil Dress
(Year: 2026; Director: Jacob Santana; Writer: Fank Ariza; Stars: Belén Rueda, Vera Centenera, Santiago Molero)
After a difficult divorce, Alicia moves into an old house with her daughter Carla, unaware that it hides a tragic history. A blue dress discovered in the attic connects Carla to a girl from the past, triggering terrifying events.
The Fog
(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill; Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh)
A small town on the California coast is swathed in a mysterious fog containing the vengeful ghosts of shipwrecked sailors.
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.
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.
Victorian Psycho and Ithaqua
Ivan
(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Damien Fannon; Writer: Michael Schwartz, Damien Fannon; Stars: Stephen Bogaert, Tanya Clarke, Julia Tomasone, Anna Mirodin, Jordan Kronis)
Abigail is thrilled when her estranged father reappears, gifting her a cutting-edge AI device named Ivan. She soon realises, however, that he has an ulterior motive, and the device is not quite what it seems.
Marama
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2025; Director: Taratoa Stappard; Writer: Taratoa Stappard; Stars: Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers, Evelyn Towersey, Errol Shand)
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
Motherwitch
(Country: Cyprus, North Macedonia, US; Year: 2026; Director: Minos Papas; Writer: Evripidis Dikaios, Nikolas Kouroumtzis, Minos Papas; Stars: Margarita Zachariou, Miltos Yerolemou, Danae Katsameni, Dimitri Andreas, Athos Antoniou, Marina Makris)
Eleni, a painter in Cyprus in 1882, reaches into the shadows to resurrect her lost children, but instead summons the ancient Kalikantzari of Cypriot lore. She must now confront the storm of her grief and anger, and lift the curse.
Never After Dark
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Dave Boyle; Writer: Dave Boyle; Stars: Moeka Hoshi, Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, Tae Kimura)
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience - but the biggest danger she faces comes from the living.
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.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon and Marama
The Ones Who Grieve
(Les Âmes En Peine)
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Quarxx; Writer: Quarxx, Frederic Soulier; Stars: Thierry Frémont, Zelie Rixhon, Isabelle Anciaux, Ophélia Kolb, Jean-Baptiste Maunier)
At the end of the 19th century, as a mysterious plague spreads across the countryside, a young woman living under the tyranny of her deeply religious father fights to reclaim her freedom.
Reversion
(Year: 2026; Director: Jacob Santana; Writer: Frank Ariza, Marco Lagarde, Jacob Santana; Stars: Jaime Lorente, Manuel Vega, Belén Rueda)
Mario moves to a new house with his parents and his older brother, Carlos. One rainy afternoon, Mario witnesses his brother being kidnapped. After 19 days of agonising waiting, Carlos returns a different man, with no recollection of what happened to him.
The Room Below
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kurt Martin; Writer: Kurt Martin; Stars: Alyssa Sutherland, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Goran D Kleut)
After losing her son to cancer, a grieving mother kidnaps another boy as a replacement, but her plans unravel when a retired detective starts searching for the missing child, and she begins to suspect there is something supernatural living in the basement.
Sicko
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2026; Director: Aitore Zholdaskali; Stars: Ayan Utepbergen, Dilnaz Kurmangali, Azat Zhumadil, and Aida Kurmangaliyeva)
Happily married couple Azamat and Tancho live a carefree life until Azamat is forced to face his mounting debts. In desperation, they come up with a scheme to fake Stage 4 cancer for Tancho and raise money through crowdfunding - but success leads to temptation.
Stronger Than The Devil
(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Graham Guit; Writer: Graham Guit; Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Marine Vacth, Asia Argento)
A man living on the fringes of society is thrilled to reconnect with his son after 20 years of separation, but his ties to a sinister trio of criminals drags his son and his son's girlfriend into a violent downward spiral.
Terrestrial and Grind
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.
They Always Come At Night
(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Victor Català; Writer: Victor Català; Stars: Lucia Viga, Miguel Lago Casal, Paula Gallego, Daniel Arias)
Galicia, 1976. An already awkward family dinner is being constantly interrupted by calls from an increasingly hysterical neighbour warning of hooded figures emerging from the mist.
Under Your Feet
(Year: 2026; Director: Cristian Bernard; Writer: Cristian Bernard, Hernán Moyano, Ana Esperanza Villar Romarís; Stars: Maribel Verdú, Sofía Otero, Erik Probanza)
Strange sounds from elderly downstairs neighbours create a sinister disturbance for a recent divorcee who has moved into the building with her two children.
Victorian Psycho
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Zachary Wigon; Writer: Virginia Feito; Stars: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Evie Templeton, Jacobi Jupe, Amy De Bhrún, Katherine Moran, Dagmar Döring, Kate Brady, Elishka Lane)
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
The Whisper
(Country: Uruguay, Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: Gustavo Hernández; Writer: Juma Fodde; Stars: Ana Clara Guanco, Marcelo Michinaux, Luciano Cáceres)
Two siblings fleeing from their violent father take refuge in a remote mansion, only to uncover a terrifying secret: their neighbours are part of a criminal network which kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films.
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