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Beware Boiúna (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Mike P Nelson)
Deep in the Amazon, a medical mission spirals into a fight for survival when Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator, awakens to reclaim her domain. In the jungle where nature holds absolute power, she decides who lives and who dies.
The Devils (Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Ken Russell; Writer: Aldous Huxley, Ken Russell, John Whiting; Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Michael Gothard, Georgina Hale, Brian Murphy, Christopher Logue)
Ken Russell’s camp-horror psychodrama was a breakthrough film for Jarman, who was production designer.
The Face Of Horror (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Anna Biller; Writer: Anna Biller; Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Kristine Frøseth, Ellie Bamber, Leo Suter, Ben Radcliffe, Bella Heathcote)
A vain knight, an inconvenient wife, and a marriage built on murder. Anna Biller’s gloriously lurid ghost story proves that killing your wife may only be the beginning of your problems.
Godzilla Minus Zero (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Takashi Yamazaki; Writer: Takashi Yamazaki; Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Miou Tanaka, Sae Nagatani, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando, Min Tanaka, Wes Wing)
Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting from recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges.
Hot Spot (Country: Poland, Greece, Sweden, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Robert Bolesto; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Filippa Kaye, Reika Kirishima, Andrzej Konopka, George Aurimas Cris, Yiannos Mpahas)
In the late 21st Century, an investigator and a member of a feared religious sect are brought together by a murder in a refugee camp.
Nightborn (Yön Lapsi) (Country: Finland, France, UK, Lithuania; Year: 2026; Director: Hanna Bergholm; Writer: Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi; Stars: Seidi Haarla, Rupert Grint, Pamela Tola, Pirkko SaiSio, Rebecca Lacey, John Thomson)
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Rogue Trooper (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Duncan Jones; Writer: Duncan Jones; Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, Daryl McCormack, Reece Shearsmith, Matt Berry, Jemaine Clement, Diane Morgan, Hayley Atwell, Sean Bean)
An adaptation of the influential British comic book following a clone soldier bred for an interstellar forever-war and his fallen comrades whose personalities live on within his gun, helmet, and backpack.
The Unknown (L'inconnue) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Arthur Harari; Writer: Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Lucas Harari, Justine Triet; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Victoire du Bois, Lilith Grasmug, Valérie Dréville, Shanti Masud, Alexandre Pallu)
Fantasy based on a graphic novel that sees a photographer wake up in the body of a stranger.
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