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The Cramps: A Period Piece and Buffet Infinity
Affection
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: BT Meza; Writer: BT Meza; Stars: Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne)
Ellie is stuck in a cyclical nightmare grappling with a medical condition that erratically resets her memory. Left unable to remember her loving husband or young daughter, each reset leaves her disoriented and haunted with vivid memories and scattered recollections of an unfamiliar life she’s never lived. What is the cause of her rare illness, and can her husband really help cope with her affliction?
American Dollhouse
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: John Valley; Writer: John Valley; Stars: Hailley Lauren, Kelsey Pribilski, Tinus Seaux, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Richard C Jones)
A woman inherits her childhood home, seeking solace from a chaotic city life marked by addiction and debt. Unbeknownst to her, a psychotic neighbour becomes disturbingly obsessed with her due to a haunting resemblance to the neighbour’s deceased mother.
Buddy
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Casper Kelly; Writer: Casper Kelly, Jamie King; Stars: Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt)
A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids' television show.
Buffet Infinity
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Simon Glassman; Writer: Allison Bench, Simon Glassman, Elisia Snyder; Stars: Kevin Singh, Ahmed Ahmed, Brandon Vanderwall, Ben Bauce, Claire Thibeault)
Late night local television adverts reveal the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the town of Westridge County.
Capturing Bigfoot
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Marq Evans; Stars: Clint Patterson, Bob Gimlin, Bob Heironimus, Larry Lund, Greg Long, Vaile Thompson, Sandy Collier, Bill Munns)
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson captured 59 seconds of film showing a creature walking through the Northern California woods—footage that became the most analysed and debated in history. 57 years later, a reel of 16mm film discovered in a safe changes everything.
The Restoration At Grayson Manor and Flush
The Cramps: A Period Piece
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Brooke H Cellars; Writer: Brooke H Cellars; Stars: Lauren Kitchen, Martini Bear, Jared Bankens, Wicken Taylor, Michelle Malentina, Jude Douces, Halie Madison, Sylvia Grace Crim)
A vibrant collision of horror, comedy, and aching personal truth as seen through the eyes of a young woman dealing with the pain of her menstrual cramps.
Demon Lover Diary
(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Joel DeMott; Stars: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines, Donald G. Jackson, Jerry Younkins)
Jeff, a documentary filmmaker, is shooting a low-budget horror film for Don and Jerry, two Michigan factory workers. Jeff’s girlfriend Joel tags along, making a diary film. What could possibly go wrong?
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.
The Furious
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2025; Director: Kenji Tanigaki; Writer: Frank Hui, Zhilong Lei, Tin Shu Mak; Stars: Joe Taslim, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Yayan Ruhian, JeeJa Yanin, Miao Xe, Brian Le, Enyou Yang)
A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.
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.
Marama and Affection
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.
Normal
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Derek Kolstad, Bob Odenkirk; Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Lena Headey, Henry Winkler, Brenda Fletcher, Summer H Howell)
The story of a temporary small-town sheriff who uncovers dark mysteries after a local bank robbery.
Over Your Dead Body
(Year: 2014; Director: Takashi Miike; Stars: Ko Shibasaki, Ebizo Ichikawa, Miho Nakanishi, Hideaki Ito, Hitomi Katayama)
Jealousies swirl around a beautiful young theatre actress starring in a classic ghost story, with bloody consequences.
The Restoration At Grayson Manor
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Glenn McQuaid; Writer: Clay McLeod Chapman, Glenn McQuaid; Stars: Chris Colfer, Alice Krige, Daniel Adegboyega, Dedclan Reynolds, Gabriela Garcia Vargas, Matthew McMahon)
After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
Suffocation
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Chan, Stone Chang; Stars: Yao Ai Ning, Wang Yu Ping, Chu Meng Syuan, Julia Huang, Rainie Dun, Helen Wang, Chun Hong)
A group of elite high school swimmers find themselves cursed by a mysterious evil after releasing a video that exposes a teacher-student relationship.
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