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Freaks and The Witch: Part 1, The Subversion
Automata
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Lawrie Brewster; Writer: Sarah Daly; Stars: Erich Redman, Alexandra Hulme, Nick Ford)
Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess in the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered.
Black Circle (Svart Cirkel)
(Country: Sweden, Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Adrián García Bogliano; Stars: Christina Lindberg, Felice Jankell, Erica Midfjäll)
When her sister Isa recommends she listen to the B-side of an old Seventies vinyl album she swears changes lives, Celeste is sceptical. But deciding to go along with the request, she plays it just as slumber hits, only to discover she has released a ghostly doppelgänger desperate to replace its original.
The Dead Center (The Dead Centre)
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Billy Senese; Writer: Billy Senese; Stars: Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs, Bill Feehely)
A hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.
Freaks
(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B Stein; Writer: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B Stein; Stars: Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Lexy Kolker)
Seven-year-old Chloe's father tells her to adopt an assumed identity if she’s ever separated from him, or to hide in a well-provisioned panic room if he should not return from one of his forays outside. But Chloe is determined to find out what exactly lies outside the door he's frightened of.
Giant Killer Ant (Dead Ant)
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ron Carlson; Writer: Hank Braxtan, Ron Carlson; Stars: Tom Arnold, Jake Busey, Rhys Coiro, Sean Astin, Martin Blasick, Natasha Blasick, Michael Horse)
When the 1989 'one-hit-wonder' glam metal band Sonic Grave embark on a trip to Coachella in the hope of making a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an attack by giant ants.
Level 16 and Giant Killer Ant
Here Comes Hell
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Jack McHenry; Writer: Jack McHenry, Alice Sidgwick; Stars: Margaret Clunie, Jasper Britton, Timothy Renouf, Tom Bailey)
A sophisticated Thirties soiree at an isolated country mansion descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession as rivalries and old friendships are put to the test when a gateway to Hell opens up.
The Hoard
(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele; Writer: Tony Burgess, Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele; Stars: Lisa Solberg, Tony Burgess, Barry More, Ry Barrett, Elma Begovic)
A crew of TV personalities, including a professional organiser, a psychologist, two ghost hunters and a team of junk removers, attempts to reform a legendary hoarder who owns four condemned and haunted properties.
Level 16
(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Danishka Esterhazy; Writer: Danishka Esterhazy; Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning)
Two girls trapped in a prison-like boarding school embark on a dangerous search to uncover the truth behind their imprisonment.
Lords Of Chaos
(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Jonas Åkerlund; Writer: Dennis Magnusson, Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind, Jonas Åkerlund; Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Valter Skarsgård, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer, Jonathan Barnwell, Anthony De La Torre, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Jon Øigarden, Lucian Charles Collier, Anette Martinsen, Andrew Lavelle, Adrian Mills, James Edwin)
True story of the Norwegian black metal scene, which saw a teenager mount increasingly shocking publicity stunts to put a band's name on the map.
The Ringmaster (Finale)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Søren Juul Petersen; Writer: Carsten Juul Bladt, Søren Juul Petersen, based on the novel by Steen Langstrup; Stars: Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen, Damon Younger, Kristoffer Fabricius, Mads Koudal, Kim Sønderholm, Gustav Scavenius)
Denmark has reached the finals of the European Championships and everyone is glued to their TVs. Petrol station employees Agnes and Belinda were hoping for a quiet night but they have been chosen as players in a gruesome game and no customers means no witnesses.
The Dead Center and The Ringmaster
The Siren (The Rusalka)
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Perry Blackshear; Writer: Perry Blackshear; Stars: Evan Dumouchel, Maragret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews)
Tom falls in love with a mysterious woman who swims by night in a lake where far too many people have recently drowned.
The Witch: Part 1, The Subversion (Manyeo)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Park Hoon-jung; Writer: Park Hoon-jung; Stars: Kim Da-mi)
A nefarious agency has been conducting experiments on children. One of them escapes and goes into hiding with an adopted family. Ten years later, she appears on a talent show, where she's spotted by the bad guys and becomes prey for both her peers and a hit squad.
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