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Game Of Death and Dead Shack
68 Kill
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Trent Haaga; Writer: Trent Haaga, Bryan Smith; Stars: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Alisha Boe, Sheila Vand, Sam Eidson)
A sewage worker is sweet talked by his glamorous girlfriend into robbing her sugar daddy, but nothing goes to plan.
Attack Of The Adult Babies (Adult Babies)
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dominic Brunt; Writer: Joanne Mitchell, Paul Shrimpton; Stars: Joanne Mitchell, Kate Coogan, Sally Dexter, Andrew Dunn, Charlie Chuck)
A home invasion forces two teenagers to break into a remote country manor little realising it is a retreat for middle-aged men who like to dress in nappies... and who have a sinister plot.
Alone
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: David Moreau; Stars: Sofia Lesaffre, Stéphane Bak, Jean-Stan Du Pac, Paul Scarfoglio, Kim Lockhart)
After going to a funfair the night before, Leila wakes up in an empty city. Where are her parents? Where has everyone gone? Thinking she must be the sole survivor of an unthinkable catastrophe, she wanders the weirdly deserted streets. Until she meets four other mystified strangers.
The Bar
(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Álex de la Iglesia; Writer: Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarría; Stars: Mario Casas, Blanca Suárez, José Sacristán, Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Jaime Ordóñez, Joaquín Climent, Secun de la Rosa, Alejandro Awada, Jordi Aguilar, Diego Braguinsky, Mamen García)
A group of strangers are trapped inside a bar.
Cult Of Chucky
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Don Mancini; Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif, Andy Barclay, Alex Vincent, Michael Therriault)
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions - an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll - a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn’t crazy after all.
Radius and Killing Ground
Dead Shack
(Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Ricq; Writer: Phil Ivanusic, Davila LeBlanc, Peter Ricq; Stars: Lauren Holly, Valerie Tian, Donavon Stinson, Lizzie Boys, June B Wilde)
A group of teens on a weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the woods soon find themselves fighting off a serious threat to their lives. Not only that they must save their hard-partying parents from a predatory neighbour.
Death Note
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Adam Wingard; Writer: Based on the manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Shea Whigham, Nat Wolff)
A studentcomes across a supernatural notebook with the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. He decides to rid the world of bad people - but something is hunting him.
Double Date
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Benjamin Barfoot; Writer: Danny Morgan; Stars: Danny Morgan, Georgia Groome, Michael Socha, Kelly Wenham, Dougie Poynter, Brooke Norbury, Lee Shone, Benny Bereal, Liz Kingsman, Elena Valdameri, Lewis Holloway, Kelly Wells, Sarah Carmen, Kerrieanne Booker, Charley Clark)
An innocent out to prove his manhood meets a pair of femmes fatales.
The End?
(Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Daniele Misischia; Stars: Alessandro Roja, Euridice Axen, Claudio Camilli, Benedetta Cimatti, Bianca Friscelli)
One day a businessman gets locked in his Roman office elevator before an important meeting with a client. Soon this annoying obstacle will turn into a nightmare. For outside that metal cage a deadly virus has begun to infect and transform people into extremely violent and dangerous zombies.
Freehold (Two Pigeons)
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dominic Bridges; Writer: Dominic Bridges, Rae Brunton; Stars: Mim Shaikh, Javier Botet, Mandeep Dhillon, Kola Bokinni, Michael McKell)
Hussein, a wide-boy estate agent, doesn't realise he's sharing his apartment with a forgotten stranger, a master of concealment - until his campaign of revenge starts to hit home.
Tragedy Girls and Still/Born
Game Of Death
(Country: Canada, US, France; Year: 2017; Director: Sebastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace; Writer: Edouard H Bond, Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Sebastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace; Stars: Sam Earle, Victoria Diamond, Emelia Hellman, Catherine Saindon, Nick Serino)
Seven millenials discover an obscure electronic board game and decide to test their wits against it. When it tells them they need to kill 24 people in the next 24 hours, mayhem ensues.
Hatchet
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Adam Green; Writer: Adam Green; Stars: Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Tony Todd, Tamara Feldman)
When a group of tourists becomes stranded in a haunted Louisiana swamp, bad things happen.
Imitation Girl
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Natasha Kermani; Writer: Natasha Kermani; Stars: Lauren Ashley Carter, Lewis Black, Adam David Thompson, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Sanam Erfani)
A mysterious being appears in the desert and assumes the identity of the first person she sees – a magazine cover girl. Taken in by Iranian immigrants, she forms an understanding of her new surroundings, and comes to appreciate the beauty and the sadness of her new world.
Killing Ground
(Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Damien Power; Writer: Damien Power; Stars: Harriet Dyer, Aaron Pedersen, Stephen Hunter, Tiarnie Coupland, Ian Meadows, Maya Stange, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Aaron Glenane, Julian Garner, Tara Jade Borg, Michael Knott, Mark Gadaleta, Jackie Dettmer, Matthew Dettmer, Liam Parkes)
A young couple camping in the woods find an abandoned tent and then a lost toddler.
Leatherface
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Julien Maury Alexandre Bustillo; Writer: Seth M Sherwood; Stars: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Nicole Andrews, Sam Strike, Sam Coleman)
Four teenage patients escape from a mental institution, kidnap a nurse and take her on a road trip to hell in this prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Leatherface and Attack Of The Adult Babies
Lowlife
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ryan Prows; Stars: Nicki Micheaux, Ricardo Adam Zarate, Jon Oswald, Shaye Ogbonna, Santana Dempsey)
When a simple organ-harvesting caper goes awry, a twist of fate unites three of society’s forgotten and ignored to unite in an attempt to save a pregnant woman from a gruesome fate.
Mayhem
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joe Lynch; Writer: Matias Caruso; Stars: Steven Yuen, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Kerry Fox, Dallas Roberts)
A lawyer betrayed by a colleague fights his way up the building to try and see the boss while it's under quarantine due to a virus that makes everybody lose their inhibitions.
Psychopaths
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Mickey Keating; Writer: Mickey Keating; Stars: Ashley Bell, James Landry Hébert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur, Larry Fessenden, Jeremy Gardner, Sam Zimmerman)
Over the course of one excessively blood-soaked night, multiple serial killers’ paths cross, leaving a trail of bodies and begging the question: Which psychopath will live to see morning?
Radius
(Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard; Writer: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard; Stars: Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue, Nazariy Demkowicz,Terry Ray)
After a car crash a man is left with no memory... and discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Sequence Break
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Graham Skipper; Writer: Graham Skipper; Stars: Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Audrey Wasilewski, Lisa Long, Lyle Kanouse)
A reclusive video arcade technician encounters strange metaphysical forces that result in bizarre bio-mechanical mutations when a new console appears in his shop.
Sequence Break and Freehold
Still/Born
(Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Brandon Christensen; Writer: Brandon Christensen, Colin Minihan; Stars: Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson, Michael Ironside, Jenn Griffin)
For Mary, the joy of her son Adam’s birth is overshadowed by the stillborn death of his twin brother. Now she can't shake the feeling that something is coming for Adam too.
Tragedy Girls
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Tyler MacIntyre; Writer: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, Justin Olson; Stars: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand)
High school seniors McKayla and Sadie are obsessed with their social media presence as authorities on crime - the only trouble is, they're the hands-on type.
The Terror Of Hallows Eve
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Todd Tucker; Stars: Doug Jones, Caleb Thomas, Christian Kane, Juliet Landau, Sarah Lancaster)
Timmy Stevens is brutally beaten up by High School bullies on Halloween. Yearning for revenge while carving out a pumpkin head, unknowingly he summons up the evil spirit of the hideous Scarecrow.
The Villainess
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Jung Byung-gil; Writer: Jung Byung-gil; Stars: Ok-bin Kim, Jun Sung, Seo-hyung Kim, Seo-hyung Kim , Ha-kyun Shin)
Sook-hee is a trained assassin who was born to kill. Now she works as a theatre actress and secret agent of the South Korean intelligence services.
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