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100 Yards (Men Qian Bao Di)
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Xu Haofeng, Xu Junfeng; Writer: Xu Haofeng; Stars: Xu Changchu, Jacky Heung, Bea Hayden Kuo, Kevin Lee)
Two bitter rivals duel for stewardship of a wushu academy.
Animalia Paradoxa
(Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Niles Atallah)
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.
Azrael
(Country: Estonia, US; Year: 2024; Director: EL Katz; Writer: Simon Barrett; Stars: Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne, Katariina Unt, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
The Beast Within
(Year: 2024; Director: Alexander J Farrel; Stars: Kit Harington, Caoilinn Springall, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo)
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.
Bookworm
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: Ant Timpson; Writer: Toby Harvard, Ant Timpson; Stars: Elijah Wood, Michael Smiley, Nell Fisher, Morgana O'Reilly, Vanessa Stacey)
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.
Brave Citizen (Yonggamhan Simin)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Park Jin-pyo; Writer: Ji Na Yeo; Stars: Shin Hye-sun, Lee Tae Gyun, Cha Woo-min, Lee Chan-hyeong, Cha Chyeong-hwa)
A former female boxing champion now works as a substitute high school teacher, but after witnessing intolerable violence, she decides to take justice on her own fists.
Brush Of The God (Kami No Fude)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Keizô Murase; Writer: Keizô Murase, Takeshi Nakazawa; Stars: Takumi Saitô, Shinji Higuchi, Yumiko Shaku, Shirô Sano, Rio Suzuki, Takeru Narahara)
A boy comes across a rabbit, guardian of a magical brush to prevent the Yamata no Orochi from re-emerging in the modern world.
Carnage For Christmas
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Chris Asimos, Dominique Booth, Betsey Brown, Lewi Dawson, Olivia Beeble)
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.
Confession
(Year: 2024; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Stars: Yang Ik-joon, Toma Ikuta)
After an accident on a mountain prompts a dying confession, unexpected survival leaves two men having to deal with a truth never intended to be shared in life.
The Count Of Monte Cristo
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte; Writer: Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas; Stars: Pierre Niney, Pierfrancesco Favino, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Laurent Lafitte, Julien De Saint Jean, Oscar Lesage, Vassili Schneider, Bastien Bouillon, Patrick Mille, Matthew T. Reynolds, Abde Maziane, Bruno Raffaelli, Françoise Gazio, Olivier Le Montagner)
Adaptation of the Dumas classic.
Darkest Miriam
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Naomi Jaye; Writer: Martha Baillie, Maureen Dorey, Naomi Jaye; Stars: Britt Lower, Tom Mercier, Sook-Yin Lee, Jean Yoon, Jaimara Beals, Clyde Whitham, Susannah Hoffmann, Scott McCulloch, Igor Shamuilov, Joshua Odjick, Sarah Li Wen Du, Anita Yung, Peter Millard, Danté Prince, Scott Ryan Yamamura)
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?
Dark Match
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Lowell Dean; Writer: Lowell Dean; Stars: Steven Ogg, Sara Canning, Michael Eklund, Chris Jericho, Jonathan Cherry, Ayisha Issa)
A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.
Dead Dead Full Dead
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Pratul Gaikwad)
Junior police officers Balraam and Zubeida make a cute couple, but not the most diligent detectives. Called to a luxury apartment tower to investigate a reported murder, the seemingly straightforward case quickly becomes a conundrum. When the victim herself returns from the afterlife, matters become even more muddled, and soon enough the question isn’t who killed her, but who didn’t.
The Dead Thing
(Year: 2024; Director: Elric Kane; Writer: Elric Kane, Webb Wilcoxen; Stars: Ben Smith-Petersen, Blu Hunt, Katherine Hughes, John Karna, Brennan Mejia, Emily Joy Lemus)
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.
Don't Call It Mystery (Misuteri To Iu Nakare)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Hiroaki Matsuyama; Writer: Tomoko Aizawa, Yumi Tamura; Stars: Yasunori Danta, Riku Hagiwara, Nanoka Hara, Sairi Itô)
Kuno Totono, a curly-haired college student, visits Hiroshima and becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the inheritance of the Kariatsumari family's assets, using his intelligence and loquaciousness to unravel the case.
Electrophilia (Los Impactados)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Lucía Puenzo; Writer: Lucía Puenzo, Lorena Ventimiglia; Stars: Mariana Di Girólamo, Germán Palacios, Guillermo Pfening)
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.
FAQ
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Da-min; Writer: Kim Da-min; Stars: Kim Hee-won, Park Hyo-ju, Park Na-eun)
Dong-chun picks up a barrel of rice wine. When she realises that the fermentation bubbles tried to say something, she uses Morse code and Farsi language to find out the message that reveals the truth of the world.
Fly Me To The Saitama: From Biwa Lake With Love
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Hideki Takeuchi; Stars: Gackt, Fumi Nikaido)
Another adventure in a fantastical imaginary Japan.
Haze
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Fifer; Writer: Matthew Fifer; Stars: Cole Doman, Brian J Smith, David Pittu, Kirby Denny, Annie Golden)
A young man returns home after rehab and uncovers the secrets of his town's abandoned psychiatric centre.
Hell Hole
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: John Adams; Writer: Toby Poser; Stars: John Adams, Lulu Adams, Toby Poser)
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.
Hunting Daze
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Annick Blanc; Writer: Annick Blanc; Stars: Nahéma Ricci, Bruno Marcil, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Marc Beaupré, Alexandre Landry, Maxime Genois, Noubi Ndiaye)
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.
Infinite Summer
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Miguel Llansó; Writer: Miguel Llansó; Stars: Hannah Gross, Ciaron Davies, Katariina Unt, Ciaron Davies)
Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.
Kryptic
(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Kourtney Roy; Writer: Paul Bromley; Stars: Chloe Pirrie, Jeff Gladstone, Jason Deline, Ali Rusu-Tahir, Christina Meredith Lewall, Patti Allen, Pam Kearns, Jennifer Copping)
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.
Mantra Warrior: The Legend Of The Eight Moons
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2023; Director: Veerapatra Jinanavin, Manassavin Malevong; Writer: Sornperes Subsermsri; Stars: Ranee Campen, Tachaya Prathumwan, Sorrawid Tongtheng, Pattaeshin Sasipattanatada, Tanakrit Jenkrongtham)
A story inspired by the original Ramayana, retold in a futuristic universe, involving brave warriors who possess ancient powers from another dimension.
Mash Ville
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hwang Wook)
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.
Me And My Victim
(Year: 2024; Director: Maurane Pedlow, Billy Pedlow; Stars: Maurane Pedlow, Billy Pedlow)
A messy, docufiction take on a sometimes sexual, sometimes romantic friendship.
The Missing (Iti Mapukpukaw)
(Country: Philippines, Thailand; Year: 2023; Director: Carl Joseph Papa; Writer: Carl Joseph Papa; Stars: Carlo Aquino, Gio Gahol, Dolly De Leon)
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom In The Rain
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kenji Nakamura)
A mysterious Medicine Seller is caught up in palace intrigue in Edo-era Japan.
Not Friends (Phuean (Mai) Sanit)
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2023; Director: Atta Hemwadee; Writer: Atta Hemwadee; Stars: Anthony Buisseret, Pisitpol Ekaphongpisit, Thitiya Jirapornsilp, Tanakorn Tiyanont)
What are the most important things in your teenage life? ...For them, they're 'friends' and 'films'.
Oddity
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Damian McCarthy; Writer: Damian McCarthy; Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, Joe Rooney)
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
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Fábio Powers; Stars: António da Luz)
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.
Parvulos
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Isaac Ezban; Writer: Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes, Isaac Ezban; Stars: Noé Hernández, Carla Adell, Juan Carlos Remolina, Mateo Ortega Casillas, Horacio F Lazo)
Three young brothers living in a cabin in the middle of the woods hide a dark, disturbing secret in their basement.
Penalty Loop
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Shinji Araki; Writer: Shinji Araki)
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.
Rita
(Country: Guatemala; Year: 2024; Director: Jayro Bustamante; Writer: Jayro Bustamante; Stars: Giuliana Santa Cruz, Ángela Quevedo, Alejandra Vásquez, Isabel Aldana)
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
A Samurai In Time
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Writer: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Stars: Norimasa Fuke, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Hajime Inoue, Ichiko Kurenai, Rantaro Mine)
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
(Year: 2024; Director: Vivieno Caldinelli; Stars: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chalsea Clark, Mark McKinney, Julian Richings)
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.
Shelby Oaks
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Stuckmann; Writer: Sam Liz, Chris Stuckmann; Stars: Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Michael Beach, Keith David, Brendan Sexton III)
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 (Le Mangeur D'Âmes)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury; Writer: Annelyse Batrel, Alexis Laipsker, Ludovic Lefebvre; Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Paul Hamy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Francis Renaud, Malik Zidi, Cameron Bain)
When violent and gruesome deaths starts plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.
This Man
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Tomojirô Amano; Writer: Tomojirô Amano)
An inexplicable wave of tragic deaths plunges two investigators into a mystery as a far-fetched urban legend seems to come true. A mother is plagued by terrifying dreams, seeing her friends and colleagues disappear one after the other, and her family witnesses the horror unfold.
Voivod: We Are Connected
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Felipe Belalcazar; Writer: Felipe Belalcazar; Stars: Tobias Forge, Jason Newsted, George Stroumboulopoulos, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Claude Grégoire, Ivan Doroschuk)
The story of a groundbreaking 40+ year career in metal.
Wake Up
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, François Simard)
Incensed by the environmental destruction wrought by a fictitious minimalist Swedish furniture store, the band of six sneaks into the big-box store after hours to wreak havoc of their own, gleefully destroying displays and smearing animal blood on bathroom fixtures, but an angry night watchman is ready to bring them to justice.
Witchboard
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chuck Russell; Writer: Chuck Russell, Kevin Tenney; Stars: Madison Iseman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Charlie Tahan, Antonia Desplat, Mel Jarnson, Aaron Dominguez, Renee Herbert)
When a young couple discover an ancient Wiccan artifact, a pendulum board, as they prepare to open a bistro in New Orleans' French Quarter, an ancient spirit seizes the chance to live again.
Yin Yang Master Zero
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Shimako Sato; Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Shota Sometani)
A wily apprentice sorcerer and his dim but good-hearted best friend confront dark forces in Heian-era Japan.
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