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Teen backpackers get more than they bargain for in sex-fuelled horror.
An Army captain escorts a Cheyenne chief through hostile territory.
Two documentary filmmakers traverse alternate dimensions, confronting nightmares to uncover the truth behind a graffiti artist’s disappearance who seems to have vanished into thin air. These dimensions mix the ordinary with the bizarre - a hilly idyll is thrown off kilter by whales floating across the skies.
When a family invites their neighbours, a sweet young couple, over to celebrate Christmas Eve and some very happy personal news, they do not realise that their dinner guests have just become hosts to malicious entities.
Haunted by visions, a socially inept man invites friends round.
A documentarian uncovers the story of a petroleum geologist who searched for the origins of civilisation in Iran in the 1930s.
A documentary about Irish priest Father Malachi Martin and his crusade battling the devil from the release of The Exorcist movie through to his suspicious death in 1999.
A bunch of annoying American students get tricked by stereotypical Eastern Europeans.
A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.
A filmmaker explores the life of the mother who died when he was just three years old.
Documentary looking at the impact of an asylum seeker detention centre on Christmas Island.
A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
A filmmaker's life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Law enforcement officers on Mars are attacked by Alice Cooper lookalikes in a mining town.
Ethan Hunt is forced to become a rogue agent in order to clear his name.
Sailors on a Spanish fishing ship fight a silent battle during their long, empty hours in the port of Montevideo.
A man whose young son has disappeared gradually uncovers a terrible secret as he searches for him.
A portrait of the city of Recife, re-envisioned in its 20th Century glory through the remains of the cinema palaces which were central to its busy social milieu.
A notorious criminal is sent to rescue an abducted woman who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
A non-linear discussion of Adrian Crowley’s life, his struggles to define his creativity, and reflections on his own persona.
When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
An urban legend speaks of a summer ghost, a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.
With their follower count dwindling, travel vloggers Teddy and Claire pivot to creating viral content around their most recent 'superhost', Rebecca, who wants more from the duo than a great review.
A house full of ghosts spooks Tony Shalhoub and family.
An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost.
A teen who survives a car crash finds herself the focus of things that go bump in the night.
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.
Story of a talented bass player on the path to self-destruction.
Where crows are watching JP Davidson and Craig Russell on nature, belief, UK horror and The Cull
Truth and lies Sean Hogan on true crime documentaries, unknowable characters and The Dark Gets In
A walking contradiction Sinéad O'Shea on James 'Fergie' Chambers Jr and All About The Money
Unconventional families Milcho Manchevski on being blacklisted and making Sister Brother Manhole Cover
Expecting the unexpected Jordan Mark Windsor and Sean Wallace on Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
Celluloid vampire Arthur Harari on Léa Seydoux, the mystery of ideas, and The Unknown
Patrick Stewart dies X-men and Star Trek actor was 86
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