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Honey Bunch and A Useful Ghost
All You Need Is Kill
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Ken'ichirô Akimoto; Writer: Yûichirô Kido, Hiroshi Sakurazaka; Stars: Ai Mikami, Natsuki Hanae)
Caught in a time loop during an alien plant invasion, Rita relives the same day repeatedly, becoming a skilled warrior. Exhausted by endless deaths, she discovers Keiji, another person trapped in the loop.
Alpha
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Ducournau; Writer: Julia Ducournau; Stars: Emma Mackey, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Charles Clichet, Christophe Perez, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Louai El Amrousy, Mélissa Boros, Fabien Giameluca)
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Anything That Moves
(Year: 2025; Director: Alex Phillips; Writer: Alex Phillips; Stars: Nina Hartley, Ginger Lynn Allen)
An innocent Chicago food delivery boy, after having sex for money, finds himself involved in a series of murders that can be traced back to someone who was in his bed.
The Book Of Sijjin & Illiyyin
(Kitab Sijjin & Illiyyin)
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2025; Director: Hadrah Daeng Ratu; Writer: Lele Laila, Ersan Özer; Stars: Yunita Siregar, Dinda Kanyadewi, Tarra Budiman, Djenar Maesa Ayu)
A woman uses black magic to cast a curse on a family. As a result, the family members experience scary events one by one that threaten their safety.
Bugonia
(Country: Ireland, South Korea, Canada, United States; Year: 2025; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Jang Joon-hwan, Will Tracy; Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkios)
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Anything That Moves and Alpha
ChaO
(Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yasuhiro Aoki; Stars: Oji Suzuka, Anna Yamada)
A junior designer at the leading shipbuilding company might have the key to peaceful relations between humans and merfolk. His role in achieving detente, however, suddenly becomes a lot stranger when the mermaid princess announces her intention to marry him.
Dandelion's Odyssey
(Planètes)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Momoko Seto; Writer: Mariette Désert, Alain Layrac, Momoko Seto)
Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa - four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth - are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive.
Dead Lover
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Grace Glowicki; Writer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Leah Doz, Ben Petrie, Lowen Morrow)
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Deathstalker
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Orjalo, Nina Bergman, Paul Lazenby, John Ambrose, Conor Sweeney, Laurie Field, John Clifford Talbot)
When a ruthless warrior named Deathstalker steals a mysterious amulet from a dying man, he’s unwillingly thrust into a quest to stop the dark sorcerer Necromemnon and save the world from destruction.
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.
Space Cadet and Flush
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.
Fucktoys
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Annapurna Sriram; Writer: Annapurna Sriram; Stars: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Damian Young, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Lorrie Odom, Jowin Batoon, Tamika Lawrence, Arianna Ortiz)
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
The Girl Who Stole Time
(Country: China; Year: 2025; Director: Yu Ao, Zhou Tienan; Stars: Liu Xiaoyu, Wang Junkai, Zhou Shen, Huang Bo)
A cheerful girl from a fishing village, obtains a mysterious pendant, the Time Dial, which gives her the power to control time. But her new ability attracts danger, including an assassin.
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 Holy Boy
(La Valle Dei Sorrisi)
(Country: Italy, Slovenia; Year: 2025; Director: Paolo Strippoli; Writer: Jacopo Del Giudice, Paolo Strippoli, Milo Tissone; Stars: Michele Riondino, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Giulio Feltri, Roberto Citran, Paolo Pierobon)
In Italy's happiest town, a haunted teacher discovers dark secret behind weekly gatherings where locals seek healing from a teenage boy's embrace. His quest to save the youth reveals the sinister nature of a community hiding behind joy.
Dog Of God and Dandelion's Odyssey
Honey Bunch
(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer; Writer: Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer; Stars: Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings, Grace Glowicki, India Brown, Ben Petrie, Jimi Shlag)
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she cannot remember why ... As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Queens Of The Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Tina Romero; Writer: Erin Judge, Tina Romero; Stars: Katy O'Brian, Riki Lindhome, Margaret Cho, Jack Haven, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Cheyenne Jackson, Tom Savini, Eve Lindley, Danielle Vasinova, Dominique Jackson, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Kimball Farley, Becca Blackwell, Quentin Nguyen-Duy, Jaquel Spivey)
On what should be a fun night at a Brooklyn warehouse party, an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies
forces a ragtag group of drag queens, partygoers and party-throwers to band
together and somehow survive the night.
Rains Over Babel
(Llueve sobre Babel)
(Country: Colombia, Spain, US; Year: 2025; Director: Gala del Sol; Writer: Gala del Sol; Stars: Jhon Narváez, Sofia Buenaventura, John Alex Castillo, Saray Rebolledo, Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez, Celina Biurrun, Jose Mojica, Jhon Bayron Quintero Valencia, Mairen Valoyes, William Hurtado, Jacobo Velez, Johan Zapata, Román Escobar, Santiago Ortiz, Christian Calles)
A group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca - the city’s Grim Reaper - presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself.
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.
Roqia
(Country: France, Algeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2025; Director: Yanis Koussim)
After a car crash, a man returns home to his family with his face covered in bandages and suffering from amnesia. His youngest son fears him and cannot recognize him any longer, while a voice in his head haunts him, repeating words in an unknown tongue. As mysterious and threatening events accumulate, the man begins to suspect he is possessed.
The Holy Boy and Fucktoys
Sirât
(Sirat)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Space Cadet
(Robot, Celeste & das All)
(Director: Eric San (aka Kid Koala); Writer: Mylène Chollet)
Robot’s sole purpose has always been to nurture Celeste into the brilliant scientist she has now become. But as the young astronaut sets off on her first interstellar mission, Robot is left behind.
The True Beauty Of Being Bitten By A Tick
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Pete Ohs; Writer: Zoë Chao, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O Harris; Stars: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, Jeremy O Harris, James Cusati-Moyer)
A woman reeling from a tragedy takes some much needed time away with a group of friends at their home in the countryside. After a walk through the woods, what seems like an innocuous tick bite has grotesquely unexpected consequences.
A Useful Ghost
(Pee Chai Dai Ka)
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2025; Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke; Writer: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke; Stars: Wanlop Rungkumjad, Wisarut Himmarat, Apasiri Nitibhon, Wisarut Homhuan)
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.
Vampire Zombies... From Space!
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Stasko; Writer: Jakob Skrzypa, Alex Forman, Michael Stasko; Stars: Lloyd Kaufman, Judith O'Dea, Michael C Gwynne, Simon Reynolds, Gavin Michael Booth, David Liebe Hart)
In 1957, the small town of Marlow is under attack by: see title.
Sirât and Redux Redux
The Virgin Of The Quarry Lake
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Casabe; Writer: Benjamín Naishtat; Stars: Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Agustín Sosa)
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
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