Adrianne & The Castle
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.
Animalia Paradoxa
A strange creature, Animalia, roams an abandoned building. Dressed in rags and gas mask she moves like an alien dancer, crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic waste. She collects and fills empty bottles for a modest bath.
Baby Assassins: Nice Days
On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.
The Beast Within
A ten-year-old girl she starts to question her atypical life in her family's fortified compound in rural England, and he father's strange behaviour.
Berta
A woman decides to put her trauma to rest by dealing with the man who hurt her, once and for all.
Black Eyed Susan
Desperate for work, Derek accepts a job at a shady tech start-up, working intimately with Susan, a bleeding-edge BDSM sex doll meant to receive and appreciate sexual punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI.
Bookworm
11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
Carnage For Christmas
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
Chainsaws Were Singing
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
Cube
A group of strangers wake up trapped in a strange cubic room - and that's the least of their problems.
Cuckoo
On a trip to the German Alps with her father and stepmother, Gretchen discovers that the resort town where they’re staying hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

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Darkest Miriam
The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal with the vaguely threatening letters she keeps finding?
The Dead Thing
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
Devil Times Five
After five insane children are involved in a minibus crash, they start killing people at a lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
Electrophilia
A woman who survives a lightning strike finds herself drawn into an underground society of fellow survivors intent on engaging with strange and erotic new experiences.
Escape Attempt
Honeymooners are persuaded to give a ride to a stranger who wants to be dropped off on an uninhabited planet, but they're not prepared for what they find there.
Frankie Freako!
In an attempt to impress his wife and boss, a nerdy man is lured by a 1-900 TV ad to party with a strange little creature called Frankie Freako. All hell breaks loose when Frankie and his two friends wreak interdimensional havoc in his life.
From My Cold Dead Hands
Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of YouTube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?
The G
After a corrupt legal guardian ruins her life, a gran sets out for revenge.
Hell Hole
In the Adams Family's celebration of the classic creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host.
Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded
An English holidaymaker has a disturbing experience when walking through a peaceful Los Angeles neighbourhood.
Hollywood 90028
A young photographer, travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business. Unfortunately, the only jobs he can find are shooting porn loops for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on women he meets - by strangling them.
Hunting Daze
A young, tempestuous woman, is taken in by a group of hunters in a remote cabin. In the midst of this tough, yet endearing, male microsociety, she feels like she finally belongs. A mysterious stranger’s arrival disrupts her newfound haven.

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Infinite Summer
Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.
Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp
After helping a vampire, Araragi becomes one of them. To become human again, he must recover the vampire's limbs, which have been stolen by hunters.
Kryptic
A psychothriller about a woman’s search for a missing monster hunter and her growing realisation that she is inescapably linked to the creature being pursued.
Love And Pop
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

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Mantra Warrior: The Legend Of The Eight Moons
A story inspired by the original Ramayana, retold in a futuristic universe, involving brave warriors who possess ancient powers from another dimension.
Mash Ville
Someone has died after drinking the bootleg liquor brewed by Se-jong and his two younger brothers. While on a mission to retrieve their deadly booze before another person perishes from it, they come across two homicidal cultists who are terrorising the villagers.
The Missing
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
Oddity
A blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister's death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.
The Old Man And The Demon Sword
In the remote Portuguese mountain village of Pé da Serra, a monk arrives wielding a demonic sword. Before long, the mystical weapon ends up in the hands of the town drunk. Now, the drunkard and the sword will have to learn to fight an encroaching evil together.
Ouch!
A disabled man's chronic pain is explored through horror movie tropes that the people around him can't see.
The Paragon
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.
Parvulos
Three young brothers living in a cabin in the middle of the woods hide a dark, disturbing secret in their basement.
Penalty Loop
A man carefully plans and carries out the murder of the man whom he blames for his girlfriend's death, only to wake up with a confirmed sense of déjà-vu and his target alive and well, repeating the same routine as the day before.

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A Samurai In Time
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
Scared Shitless
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.
Self Driver
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured onto a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money.
Shelby Oaks
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.
The Soul Eater
When violent and gruesome deaths start plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.
Steppenwolf
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
Sunburnt Unicorn
Lost in an endless desert, an injured teenager adopts the identity of a mythical unicorn to survive surreal encounters and rescue his abducted father.
The Tenants
In a dystopian South Korean city, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant decides to complicate the process by renting his toilet out to an eccentric couple, but their strange behaviours soon become unbearable.
Timestalker
A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
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