Ash
A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Cloud
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
Clown In A Cornfield
A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.

D

Dead Lover
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.
Death Becomes Her
The rivalry between two ageing actresses only becomes more bitter when they acquire the gift of eternal youth.
The Descent
Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
Fréwaka
A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
Good Boy
Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense.
Hallow Road
Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
The Home
Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.

I

Lost Highway
A mysterious murder is only the beginning of the strangest story ever told.

R

Re-Animator
Students decide to resurrect the dead.
Redux Redux
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
Rosario
When the grief-stricken young Rosario is forced to wait overnight with the body of her deceased grandmother until an ambulance can get to her through a severe snowfall, she falls prey to ghoulish attacks from supernatural possessors determined to wreak havoc on her.
Touch Me
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
The Ugly Stepsister
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

V

Zodiac Killer Project
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
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