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A young woman reluctantly returns to her crumbling hometown, only to discover her brother has mysteriously gone missing. Consumed by guilt, she embarks on a harrowing journey to find him, which leads her deep into the dark wilderness surrounding the town.
Two Americans find themselves in Dakar, Senegal with bombs strapped to their chests and ten hours to find out why.
A reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, set in present day Oregon.
A study of an esoteric community hidden within the French Pyrenees, supposedly the home of the Holy Grail.
The rings of power are forged as the dark lord Sauron prepares to try to take control of Middle Earth.
Two estranged cousins try to make amends for many generations of family dispute.
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
A insight into the lives of Black LGBTQ+ people in Atlanta.
Six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a science-fiction inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.
Amir has a secret. He's tormented by visions of his leg rotting and longs to cut it off, convinced it doesn't belong to him. So, he devises a plan - one that will drag everyone around him into his relentless quest for relief.
Ten trafficked women attempt to escape from a ruthless gang after being abducted from a holiday resort.
A mute serial killer decides to end his life, but resolving his guilt is not that easy.
The race is on to solve a mystery and find the six ancient swords which point the way to a legendary treasure - and a famous detective trapped in the body of a child is on the case.
On a weekend trip to Scotland, four scare-loving friends book a ghostly horror-themed camping excursion. That night around the campfire, their guide encourages them to tell the most twisted stories that they know and to burn a totem that will help feed the evil that lives there. Tales of sinister spirits, demons lurking in the shadows and the truest forms of malevolence emerge.
A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorised Southern California for almost two decades.
A couple find their marriage deteriorating after a disturbing episode when the husband declares in his sleep, “Someone’s inside”.
A gamekeeper seeks revenge on the rich man who persuaded him to agree to a compromise on hunting safety rules which had devastating consequences.
Colourblind artist Neil Harbisson is the world's first formally recognised cyborg, with an antenna permanently implanted in his head allowing him to hear colour. He is on a mission to convince the world to adopt his credo: design yourself.
When a poker game is robbed, an ambitious young player and his girlfriend find themselves in a situation where the stakes are suddenly much higher.
After she's she's bitten by her dead friend's cat, Booger, a woman's life starts to get stranger every day: she's hungry for canned fish, she keeps swallowing her hair, and her predator instincts are out of control.
A theatre critic enlists a glamorous young actress in a desperate scheme.
When she's diagnosed with a variation of sex characteristics, a teenage girl is forced to reevaluate her life, relationships and identity.
When it becomes impossible to keep repairing the sea barriers in low-lying Denmark, the country is evacuated and once affluent Danes become refugees, with families torn apart in the process.
The crippled and angry victim of a hit and run, who takes a course on how to be psychic so he can find the car that hit him and take revenge on the driver. But when his teacher draws him into her search for a mysterious crystal known as the paragon, he finds himself trapped in a parallel universe and on the run from her evil brother and his band of enslaved psychics.
A war hero, struggling with his memories as his body is ravaged by heart disease, makes one last trip to Venice to face his demons and discover an unexpected source of joy.
Having raising an unusual spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet - and fight for her family's survival - when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.
Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
In the dead of night, a young teenager appears on Roy's doorstep, fleeing from her abusive father. Despite a few too many drinks, Roy reluctantly offers her shelter for the night. But is either of them what they seem?
1937: young Emily is trapped in a nightmare. Chronic agoraphobia and a strange, domineering mother have turned their sprawling gothic mansion into a prison. On the brink of madness, she's haunted by lurking malevolent forces, her only hope that her missing father might save her. But as she longs for his return, she's tormented by visions of a sinister, gnarled black hand—a spectre haunting her earliest memories.
Lucas returns to his native village lost in the mountains to bury his parents who have tragically died in a mysterious fire. Traumatised by his abusive father as a child, he also witnessed the death of his best friend when he was eight-years-old. But he has never told anyone the truth about what really happened.
Sam is having a bad day. He is battling an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, is late on a deadline for a writing gig and risks having to pay back an advance he can’t afford to. Then a chance encounter whilst drowning his sorrows sends his already bad day spinning in directions he couldn’t possibly have seen coming.
The story of a Catholic student, animal lover and devout vegan who is also a sociopath with dissociative identity disorder, and a serial killer.
Genre icon Christopher Lee is brought back to life in a documentary using fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation.
Wet Dreams, a middle-aged male stripper group, has hit rock bottom when they get an offer of a mysterious gig that might change everything. What they don't know is that they have become caught up in a plot to raise a murderous witch from the dead.
When an old VCR mysteriously shows up at the digitising facility Video Vision, it starts affecting one of the employees in strange ways. Meanwhile, her new romance with a trans man has her head in the clouds - until she's brought to her knees by the supernatural force that's slowly taking control of her body and mind.
When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.
Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
A documentary about the history of physical media, the rise of boutique specialty collector labels and the role they have played in film restoration, preservation and elevation of underrepresented voices.
On board the Russian schooner Demeter, 24 unmarked wooden crates are being transported from Carpathia to London. But as cargo animals and the crew start turning up dead, a mysterious stowaway sets out to convince the doomed sailors they’re dealing with more than just a rabies outbreak, something more in the supernatural realm.
A yacht trip goes awry after the Earth's polarity reverses and a mum fights to save her children in a world where crazed humanity and hungry creatures from the abyss now hunt for human flesh.
A documentary about The Wicker Man and its legacy.
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
A woman who struggles with depression, schizophrenia and a schism of communication with her mother endeavours to recover from a suicide attempt by consulting a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and lives an isolated existence in a cave.
Haunted by his father's suicide, Tom abandons his wife Kathy and seeks refuge at the lakeside cottage where he met his tragic end. There, tormented memories from childhood resurface, all intricately connected to an ancient, mystifying force lurking beneath the lake's depths, driving Tom inexorably towards madness.
While mourning the death of his wife and fending off an ambitious detective who thinks he killed her, Ben encounters a man who claims that he can teach him to fly.
A lonely mortician who has spent her whole life looking for love finds her reason slipping away from her, her dark desires becoming more insatiable and progressively more out of control.
A relentless predator tracks an injured woman through the Oregon wilderness. The woman does her best to outsmart her attacker, but with each tense moment she grows weaker and less able. He’s a man on a mission, and it’s only a matter of time before he captures his prey.
A young man happens to encounter with an old friend on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
Following the death of a loved one, best friends embark on a demon-killing spree, but there are stranger things going on than they ever imagined.
Wool power Concrete Land director Asmahan Bkerat on learning about herself as she filmed a Bedouin clan's life
New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies
Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach
Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements
That shrinking feeling Shivek Gupta and Syed Shadan on the Mumbai housing market and Chaar Diwaari
A woman who didn't belong Anna Cazenave Cambet on working with Vicky Krieps in Love Me Tender
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