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All You Need Is Death All You Need Is Death
All You Need Is Death and You'll Never Find Me
All You Need Is Death (Country: Ireland; Year: 2023; Director: Paul Duane; Writer: Paul Duane; Stars: Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Olwen Fouéré, Catherine Siggins, Barry McKiernan, Benedict Stewardson)
A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with a music professor to discover an ancient song.
Full Review See: Interview with Paul Duane about All You Need Is Death
Custom (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Tiago Teixeira; Writer: Tiago Teixeira; Stars: Abigail Hardingham, Rowan Polonski)
A couple producing custom erotic films are dragged into a nightmarish conspiracy.
Full Review See: Interview with Tiago Teixeira about Custom
The Deep Dark (Gueules Noires) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Mathieu Turi; Writer: Mathieu Turi; Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivérès, Jean-Hughes Anglade)
Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.
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The Funeral (Country: Turkey; Year: 2023; Director: Orcun Behram)
A lonely hearse driver falls in love with his passenger after she wakes up and starts moving around - taking her hunger for human flesh in his stride.
The Invisible Raptor (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Mike Hermosa; Writer: Mike Capes, Johnny Wickham; Stars: Mike Capes, Derek Alvarado, Sean Astin, Chad Bullard, Vanessa Chester, Grace Demarco, Bobby Gilchrist, Larry Hankin, Bill Kottkamp, Bunny Levine, Sandy Martin, Caitlin McHugh, Linda Eve Miller, Kelly Murtagh, JJ Nolan)
A raptor created as part of a top secret military experiment escapes from the lab and threatens the residents of a small town. Oh, and it's also invisible.
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Last Straw Last Straw
Last Straw and The Deep Dark
Last Straw (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alan Scott Neal)
Miscommunication and a lack of empathy cause events to spiral out of control as a young waitress finds herself in the centre of a murder spree.
Full Review See: Interview with Alan Scott Neal and Taylor Sardoni about Last Straw
Mom (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Adam O’Brien; Writer: Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Albert I Melamed, Adam O'Brien; Stars: Emily Hampshire, François Arnaud, Christian Convery)
A young mother struggles to cope alone in a new home.
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Mouse (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ewan J Fletcher; Stars: Rebecca Robin, Sandy Batchelor)
A woman walks home at night.
Subject 73 (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Reiff Gaskell; Stars: Freya Warsi)
In a mysterious experiment, a participant's pursuit of wealth unravels as money and morality clash.
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.
The Well The Well
The Well and The Invisible Raptor
The Well (Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Federico Zampaglione; Writer: Federico Zampaglione, Stefano Masi; Stars: Lauren LaVera, Claudio Nathan Brezzi, Yassine Fadel, Peppe Fonzo, Gianluigi Galvani, Melanie Gaydos, Claudia Gerini, Jonathan Dylan King, Elisabetta Klein, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Stefano Martinelli, Denise McNee, Maria Grazia Ortesani, Courage Osabohine, Tony Pandolfo)
A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know the sinister secret behind it - or what is going on down in the cellar.
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You'll Never Find Me (Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Josiah Allen, Indianna Bell; Writer: Indianna Bell; Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis, Angela Korng, Luca Trimboli, Finn Watson)
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave.
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