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Frankie Freako! and Animale
AJ Goes To The Dog Park
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Toby Jones; Stars: AJ Thompson)
A man who finds contentment in the simple pleasures - buttered toast, bicycle rides and walking his dog - discovers that his beloved dog park has been transformed into a 'blog park', a digital sanctuary where youths gather to open their laptops. He feels compelled to take action, to set things right.
Animale
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Emma Benestan; Writer: Emma Benestan; Stars: Oulaya Amamra)
Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual bull race, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.
Anora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker; Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, Ross Brodar, Mark Eydelshteyn, Emily Weider, Alena Gurevich, Paul Weissman, Luna Sofía Miranda, Masha Zhak, Vache Tovmasyan, Charlton Lamar)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
Apartment 7A
(Country: US, Australia, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Natalie Erika James; Writer: Natalie Erika James, Christian White, Skylar James; Stars: Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess, Kevin McNally, Andrew Buchan)
A struggling dancer finds herself drawn into dark forces by a peculiar couple promising her fame.
The Babadook
(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Jennifer Kent; Writer: Jennifer Kent; Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Tim Purcell, Benjamin Winspear, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall)
A character in a pop up book haunts the nightscape of a six-year-old boy
Nine Queens and The Wild Robot
Baby Assassins: Nice Days (Baby Walkure: Naisu Deizu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Sakamoto Yugo; Writer: Sakamoto Yugo; Stars: Takaishi Akari, Izawa Saori, Maeda Atsuko, Ikematsu Sôsuke, Otani Mondo, Kaibashira)
On a working holiday in Miyazaki, the teenage killers find themselves up against a deadly freelancer.
Baby Invasion
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Harmony Korine; Writer: Harmony Korine; Stars: Baby-faced home invaders captured using six body cams, one worn by the director, raid a house from a first-person shooter perspective in this unsettling footage.)
Baby-faced home invaders captured using six body cams, one worn by the director, raid a house from a first-person shooter perspective in this unsettling footage.
Big Top Pee-Wee
(Country: US; Year: 1988; Director: Randal Kleiser; Writer: Paul Reubens, George McGrath; Stars: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino)
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
Binary
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: David-Jan Bronsgeest)
Nisha is on the verge of gender-affirming surgery, but as the day of her procedure approaches, she experiences increasingly strange and violent visions. An immigrant from Pakistan working as an exotic dancer in the Netherlands, she finds that her identity is an issue for some of her clientele and a fetishising draw for others.
The Birthday
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Eugenio Mira; Writer: Mikel Alvarigno, Eugenio Mira; Stars: Corey Feldman, Erica Prior, Jack Taylor)
A soft-spoken, put-upon schmuck tries to impress his girlfriend at a lavish family function that slowly becomes more untethered from reality.
Wake In Fright and Chainsaws Were Singing
The Black Hole
(Country: Estonia, Finland; Year: 2024; Director: Moonika Siimets)
As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs being dissected by the cosmic visitors; a woman fleeing an abusive relationship takes shelter in a muscle mummy’s giant-spider-ridden apartment; and a young man begins an affair with the domineering, alluring woman across the street while his mother seeks fulfillment in an expensive vacuum cleaner.
Body Odyssey
(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Grazia Tricarico; Writer: Marco Morana, Giulio Rizzo, Grazia Tricarico; Stars: Jacqueline Fuchs, Julian Sands, Adam Misik, Stefan Sauk, Lukas Loughran)
Drama about a bodybuilder with a thirst for perfection.
Bone Lake
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan; Writer: Joshua Friedlander; Stars: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Marco Pigossi, Andra Nechita, Eliane Reis, Clayton Spencer)
When two young couples are mistakenly double-booked into the same vacation rental their romantic weekend becomes a twisted maze of sex, lies, and survival.
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.
Bring Them Down
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Andrews; Writer: Chris Andrews, Jonathan Hourigan; Stars: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Susan Lynch, Conor MacNeill, Adam Behan, Diarmuid de Faoite, Gail Fitzpatrick, Youssef Quinn, Grace Daly, Tom Leavey, Martin Gilligan)
The Babadook and Children Of The Wicker Man
Carnival Of Blood
(Country: US; Year: 1970; Director: Leonard Kirtman; Writer: Leonard Kirtman; Stars: Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Kaly Mills, Burt Young, William Grannell)
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, who he then murders and dismembers.
Chainsaws Were Singing
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Sander Maran; Writer: Sander Maran, Karl Ilves; Stars: Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Martin Ruus, Janno Puusepp, Rita Rätsepp, Ra Ragnar Novod)
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
Chain Reactions
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama)
Exploration of the impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50 years after it was made.
Children Of The Wicker Man
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn)
A documentary about The Wicker Man and its legacy.
Cloud (Kuraudo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Writer: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Masataka Kubota)
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
Plastic Guns and Heavier Trip
Daddy's Head
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Benjamin Barfoot; Writer: Benjamin Barfoot; Stars: Mary Woodvine, Julia Brown, Charles Aitken, Kaisa Hammarlund, Nila Aalia)
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after the boy becomes convinced that his deceased father has returned for him.
Daniela Forever
(Country: Spain, US, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Writer: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Henry Golding, Beatrice Grannò, Aura Garrido, Rubén Ochandiano, Nathalie Poza)
Follows a man as he joins a sleep trial that allows him to rebuild his life with his girlfriend who died in an accident through the use of lucid dreams.
Dead Talents Society (Gui Cai Zhi Dao)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2024; Director: John Hsu; Writer: John Hsu, Kun-Lin Tsai; Stars: Chen Bo-lin, Sandrine Pinna, Wang Gingle, Pai Ching-i, Tseng Soso)
Ghosts who want to become the spookiest of urban legends and most successful and famous stars in the underworld compete through their scare tactics and performances amongst the living.
A Different Man
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Aaron Schimberg; Writer: Aaron Schimberg; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Owen Kline, Adam Pearson, Marc Geller, Lawrence Arancio, Billy Griffith, Eleanore Pienta, John Keating, Juney Smith, Sergio Delavicci, Miles G. Jackson, Martin Ewens, Neal Davidson, Trenton Hudson)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical trial to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
Disembodied
(Country: US; Year: 1998; Director: William Kersten; Writer: William Kersten; Stars: Anastasia Woolverton, Hannah Nease, James Diederichsen, Patricia Mathews)
A young woman struggles to control the hungry parasite on her face.
Baby Assassins: Nice Days and V/H/S/Beyond
Don't Mess With Grandma (Sunset Superman)
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jason Krawczyk; Writer: Jason Krawczyk; Stars: Michael Jai White, Jackie Richardson, Billy Zane, Miles Faber)
JT must fix his grandmother's leaky sink while simultaneously keeping her oblivious to a deadly home invasion.
The Draft
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2023; Director: Yusron Fuadi)
Five college students—the jock, the nerd, the pretty one, the rich one, and the popular one—embark on a weekend trip to an isolated cabin. When they arrive, a mysterious older man gives them a cryptic warning about staying there, and later, strange and mysterious events begin happening around them.
Dragon Dilatation
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Bertrand Mandico; Writer: Bertrand Mandico; Stars: Clara Benador, Christophe Bier, Yuming Hey, Elina Löwensohn)
The combination of two film essays, Petrouchka and La Déviante Comédie. The first part is a rereading of Stravinsky's ballet, while the second consists of traces of an unpublished performance.
Ebony And Ivory
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jim Hosking; Writer: Jim Hosking; Stars: Sky Elobar, Gil Gex, Carl Solomon)
Two musical legends gather at a Scottish cottage on the Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global number one smash hit single.
Else
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Thibault Emin; Writer: Alice Butaud, Thibault Emin, Emma Sandona; Stars: Lika Minamoto, Edith Proust, Matthieu Sampeur)
A romance blossoms between an introvert and a confident woman, but their relationship faces a threat when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings, trapping the couple in a shapeshifting nightmare.
Anora and Memoir Of A Snail
Escape From The 21st Century (Cong 21 Shi Ji An Quan Che Li)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Li Yang; Writer: Li Yang; Stars: Zhang Ruoyun, Zhong Elane, Song Yang, Wu Xiaoliang, Zhu Yanmanzi, Chen Yichen)
The story follows three friends who discover they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hoped, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
The Fall
(Country: India, UK; Year: 2006; Director: Tarsem Singh; Writer: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis, Tarsem Singh, Valeri Petrov; Stars: Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Sean Gilder, Ronald France, Andrew Roussouw, Michael Huff, Grant Swanby, Emil Hostina)
Tarsem Singh's visually opulent fantasy epic borrowing the narrative device of The Princess Bride to widen and scorch the eyes.
Frankie Freako!
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Adam Brooks, Conor Sweeney, Kristy Wordsworth)
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.
Gazer
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Ryan J Sloan; Writer: Ariella Mastroianni, Ryan J Sloan; Stars: Marcia DeBonis, Ariella Mastroianni, Emma Pearson, LeJon Woods, Grant Schumacher, Jack Alberts, Frank Huerta, Laris Macario, Sheilagh Weymouth, Annie Pisapia, Renee Gagner, Jarrett Austin Brown, Luis Arroyo Jr., Tommy Kang, Jeremy Cohen)
A young mum with a rare degenerative condition that affects the way she perceives time takes a job from a mysterious woman.
Get Away
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Steffen Haars; Writer: Nick Frost; Stars: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Maisie Ayres, Sebastian Croft)
Looking forward to spending a vacation on the small Swedish island of Svälta, the Smith family is unsettled by the unfriendly mainlanders who advise them to avoid it at all costs, especially during the Karantan festival. But the family is in deep need of some time away and stubbornly decides to take the ferry anyway.
Terrifier 3 and The Guest
Ghost Killer
(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kensuke Sonomura; Writer: Yugo Sakamoto; Stars: Akari Takaishi, Mario Kuroba, Masanori Mimoto)
After being possessed by the ghost of vengeful hit man Kudo, college student Fumika Matsuoka agrees to help him finish his quest for vengeance from beyond the grave.
Girl Internet Show
(Year: 2024; Director: Kati Kelli; Stars: Kati Kelli)
Assembled footage from a one woman subversive variety show covering everything from existential crisis, sexuality, fame and depression to gender identity in an absurdist style of comedy - assembled after its creator's death.
The Guest
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Adam Wingard; Writer: Simon Barrett; Stars: Dan Stevens, Joel David Moore, Lance Reddick, Leland Orser, Brendan Meyer, Maika Monroe, Sheila Kelley, Chase Williamson, Tait Fletcher, Jesse Luken, Alex Knight, Mike Miller, Tina Borek, Frank Bond, Michael Stone)
A man inveigles his way into a family home by saying he is a friend of a dead soldier.
Heads Or Fails (Aimer Perdre)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Lenny Guit, Harpo Guit; Stars: Maria Cavalier-Bazan, Melvil Poupaud, Catherine Ringer, Michael Zidel, Maxi Delmelle)
A heavily indebted woman with a gambling habit is fearful of falling in love.
Heavier Trip
(Country: Finland, Germany, Norway, Lithuania; Year: 2024; Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren; Writer: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren; Stars: Anatole Taubman, Johannes Holopainen, David Bredin, Max Ovaska)
Finnish black metal band Impaled Rektum is in jail but must escape and make it to a music festival in order to save the day after the guitarist's father falls ill and their family home/business faces demolition.
Cloud and Parvulos
Heresy (Witte Wieven)
(Year: 2024; Director: Didier Konings; Stars: Anneke Sluiters, Len Leo Vincent, Reinout Bussemaker, Nola Elvis Kemper)
In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.
House Of Spoils
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy; Writer: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy; Stars: Marton Csokas, Ariana DeBose, Barbie Ferreira, Amara Karan, Arian Moayad)
It tells the story of a chef who opens her first restaurant where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor and self doubt, but the pressure heats up thanks to the spirit of the estate's previous owner who threatens to sabotage her.
Ick
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joseph Kahn; Writer: Joseph Kahn, Dan Koontz, Samuel Laskey; Stars: Mena Suvari, Brandon Routh, Malina Pauli Weissman, Mariann Gvelo, Taia Sophia, April Clark, Harrison Cone, Cory Hart)
Science teacher Hank's life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects a new student is his daughter, all while facing an alien threat in their town.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies
(Country: US; Year: 1964; Director: Ray Dennis Steckler; Writer: Gene Pollock, Robert Silliphant, EM Kevke; Stars: Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh, Pat Kirkwood, Erina Enyo, Toni Camel)
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The fortune teller turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.
I, the Executioner
(Year: 2024; Director: Seung Wan Ryoo)
Crime action sequel sees a detection department facing a crisis.
Get Away and Never Let Go
The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jon Spira; Stars: Peter Serafinowicz, Harriet Walter, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante)
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.
Little Bites
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Spider One; Writer: Spider One; Stars: Krsy Fox, Jon Sklaroff, Elizabeth Caro, Barbara Crampton, Heather Langenkamp, Bonnie Aarons, Chaz Bono)
In a desperate attempt to protect her ten-year-old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive.
Mac And Me
(Country: US; Year: 1988; Director: Stewart Raffill; Writer: Stewart Raffill, Steve Feke; Stars: Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley, Jade Calegory, Vinnie Torrente)
An alien on the run from NASA is befriended by a young disabled boy.
MadS
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: David Moreau; Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Lewkowski Yovel, Xiomara Melissa Ahumada Quito, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche)
A teenager who stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn
Maldoror
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Fabrice du Welz; Writer: Domenico La Porta, Fabrice du Welz; Stars: Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi López, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle, Lubna Azabal, Jackie Berroyer, Mélanie Doutey, Félix Maritaud)
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire and The Fall
Memoir Of A Snail
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Adam Elliot; Writer: Adam Eliot; Stars: Voiced by, Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tony Armstrong, Dominique Pinon, Eric Bana, Nick Cave)
A woman recalls the series of unfortunate events that have made up her life so far.
The Mission (Cheung Foh)
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1999; Director: Johnnie To; Writer: Yao Nai-hoi; Stars: Anthony Chau-sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet)
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination, hires five killers for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung gives a special order.
Mr. Crocket
(Year: 2024; Director: Brandon Espy; Writer: Brandon Espy, Carl Reid; Stars: Jerrika Hinton, Alex Akpobome, Elvis Nolasco, Lyla Randall, Ayden Gavin, Akim Black)
A mother embarks on a perilous quest to rescue her son from a demonic children's TV show host who is kidnapping kids.
Never Let Go
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre Aja; Writer: KC Coughlin, Ryan Grassby; Stars: Halle Berry, Anthony B Jenkins, Stephanie Lavigne, William Catlett, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park)
A family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and their surroundings come into question when one of the children questions if the evil is real.
Night Call (La Nuit Se Traîne)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Michiel Blanchart; Writer: Michiel Blanchart, Gilles Marchand; Stars: Jonathan Feltre, Natacha Krief, Jonas Bloquet, Thomas Mustin, Romain Duris, Sam Louwyck)
This night is like all the others for Mady, student by day, locksmith by night. But Claire, the enigmatic young girl he helps out that night, is not who she claims to be. Mady has only one night to prove his innocence in a city in turmoil.
The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee and Daddy's Head
Nine Queens (Neuve Reinas)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2000; Director: Fabian Bielinsky; Writer: Fabian Bielinsky; Stars: Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darin, Leticia Bredice, Tomas Fonzi)
Two small-time con artists in Buenos Aires attempt a high level rare stamps fraud.
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.
Planet B (Planète B)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Aude Léa Rapin; Writer: Aude Léa Rapin; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Souheila Yacoub, Eliane Umuhire, India Hair, Marc Barbé, Paul Beaurepaire)
France, 2039. One night, a group of activists pursued by the state vanish without a trace. Julia Bombarth is one of them. When she awakens, she finds herself trapped in an entirely unfamiliar world: Planet B.
Plastic Guns (Les pistolets en plastique)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse; Writer: Jean-Christophe Meurisse; Stars: Jonathan Cohen, Laurent Stocker, Charlotte Laemmel, Delphine Baril)
A case of mistaken identity fuels a twisted satire.
Queens Of Drama (Les Reines du drame)
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Alexis Langlois; Writer: Carlotta Coco, Thomas Colineau, Alexis Langlois; Stars: Asia Argento, Alma Jodorowsky, Thomas Poitevin, Bilal Hassani, Louiza Aura, Raya Martigny, Jean-Biche, Drag Couenne, Nana Benamer, Dustin Muchuvitz, Julia Fiquet, Gio Ventura, Elodie Barthels)
2055. Steevyshady, an overly botoxed Youtuber tells their idol’s mad destiny: we follow pop diva singer Mimi Madamour from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. For half a century these drama queens have sung their passion and their rage high upon a stage.
Steppenwolf and A Different Man
Raze
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Josh C Waller; Writer: Robert Beaucage, Kenny Gage, Josh C Waller; Stars: Zoe Bell, Rachel Nichols, Tracie Thoms, Sherilyn Fenn, Doug Jones, Bruce Thomas, Bailey Anne Borders, Rebecca Marshall, Adrienne Wilkinson, Allene Quincy, Kelly Thiebaud, Nicole Steinwedell, Tara Macken, Tonya Kay, Amy Johnston)
Women-in-prison tale. After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain when the game is done.
The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Benjamin Ree; Stars: Kelsey Ellison, Zoe Croft, Paul Wild, Ed Larkin, Elena Pitsiaeli, Sebastian Tjørstad, John Andrew Mclay)
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
Respati (Malam Pencabut Nyawa)
(Country: Indonesia, South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Sidharta Tata; Writer: Ragiel JP, Ambaridzki Ramadhantyo, Sidharta Tata; Stars: Devano Danendra, Keisya Levronka, Mikha Hernan, Budi Ros, Fajar Nugra, Ratu Felisha, Kiki Narendra)
A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realises that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.
The Rule Of Jenny Pen
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: James Ashcroft; Writer: James Ashcroft, Eli Kent, Owen Marshall; Stars: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nathaniel Lees, Thomas Sainsbury, Maaka Pohatu, Ian Mune, Irene Wood)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Satan War
(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Bart La Rue; Writer: Bart La Rue; Stars: Sally Schermerhorn, Jimmy Drankovitch, Jane August, Reggie De Morton, Michelene Alexander)
Unseen satanic forces terrorise a young married couple in their new home.
Bookworm and MadS
She Loved Blossoms More
(Country: Greece, France, New Zealand; Year: 2024; Director: Yannis Veslemes; Writer: Dimitris Emmanouilidis, Yannis Veslemes; Stars: Dominique Pinon, Julio Katsis, Sandra Abuelghanam, Panos Papadopoulos, Aris Balis)
Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine.
Sister Midnight
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Karan Kandhari; Writer: Karan Kandhari; Stars: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Dev Raaz)
Black comedy about a woman trying to navigate a newly arranged marriage.
Spermageddon
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Rasmus A Sivertsen, Tommy Wirkola; Writer: Geir Vegar Hoel, Jesper Sundnes, Tommy Wirkola)
Two awkward teens are having sex for the first time, while Simon the Semen and his friends are on a quest to reach the golden goal, the Egg.
The Spirit Of Halloweentown
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb)
A documentary about the residents of the small town whose residents decided to capitalise on spooky tourism after Disney used it as the setting for Halloweentown.
Steppenwolf
(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2024; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Writer: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Stars: Anna Starchenko, Azamat Nigmanov, Yerkin Gubashev, Nurbek Mukushev)
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.
Maldoror and The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire
(Year: 2024; Director: Stuart Ortiz; Writer: Stuart Ortiz; Stars: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple)
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.
Terrifier 3
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Damien Leone; Writer: Damien Leone; Stars: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Jason Patric, Daniel Roebuck, Charlotte McKee, Bryce Johnson)
Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
Touched By Eternity
(Country: Latvia; Year: 2024; Director: Mārcis Lācis)
Self-proclaimed cryptocurrency expert Fatso is a middle-aged curmudgeon frittering away his days with video games and conspiracy theory videos. Obsessed with the concept of eternal life since childhood, he experiments with various quack theories in the hopes of becoming immortal,. Then he meets two strangers who invite him to become a vampire.
Universal Language
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Rankin; Writer: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin; Stars: Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Saba Vahedyousefi, Rojina Esmaeili)
Multilayered film that interweaves a story about a group of people trying to get frozen money out of the ice, a tale of a tour guide and a man who quits his job to visit his mother.
U Are The Universe
(Country: Ukraine, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Pavlo Ostrikov; Writer: Pavlo Ostrikov; Stars: Volodymyr Kravchuk, Daria Plahtiy, Alexia Depicker, Leonid Popadko)
In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is employed by the biggest nuclear waste disposal company in Eastern Europe, which is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
Raze and Spermageddon
V/H/S/Beyond
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian Long, Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, Kate Siegel; Writer: Evan Dickson, Jordan Downey, Mike Flanagan, Christian Long, Justin Long, Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, Kevin Stewart, Benjamin A Turner; Stars: Phillip Andre Botello)
Six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a science-fiction inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.
Wake In Fright (Outback)
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 1971; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Evan Jones, based on the book by Kenneth Cook.; Stars: Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty), Official Site
A young teacher gets more than he bargained for in a violent outback town, in a film that reportedly even gives Nick Cave nightmares...
What Happened To Dorothy Bell?
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Danny Villanueva Jr; Writer: Danny Villanueva Jr; Stars: Michael Hargrove, Lisa Wilcox, Asya Meadows, Steven Alonte, Arlene Arnone Bibbs, J Anthony Ramos, Sargon Odicho)
Ozzie Gray video documents her investigation into the traumatic events from her early childhood, which involved her late grandmother, Dorothy Bell.
The Wild Robot
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Sanders; Writer: Chris Sanders; Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pasca, Catherine O'Hara, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill)
A robot designed to assist humans finds herself stranded on an island populated only by animals.
Will & Harper
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Josh Greenbaum; Stars: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele)
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies and Queens Of Drama
The Workout
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: James Cullen Bressack; Writer: James Cullen Bressack, David Josh Lawrence; Stars: Galadriel Stineman, Josh Kelly, Maurice LaMarche, Jesse Kove, Augie Duke, Anna Harr)
After a tragic mob hit, an army ranger loses his wife. Consumed by vengeance, he abandons his workout video plans to relentlessly hunt down the mobsters responsible.
Zénithal
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Baptiste Saurel; Writer: Jean-Baptiste Saurel, Elodie Wallace; Stars: Vanessa Guide, Franc Bruneau, Cyril Gueï, Xavier Lacaille)
Together for ten years, Francis and Sonia no longer understand each other. While they try to save their relationship, Francis finds himself accused of the murder of his former rival Ti-Kong.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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