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Piggy and Vesper
Candy Land
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: John Swab; Writer: John Swab; Stars: Eden Brolin, William Baldwin, Owen Campbell, Olivia Luccardi, Brad Carter, Guinevere Turner)
A seemingly naïve and devout young woman finds her way in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. 'lot lizards'.
Cult Hero
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jesse Thomas Cook; Writer: Tony Burgess, Liv Collins, Jesse Thomas Cook; Stars: Liv Collins, Ry Barrett, Justin Bott, Tony Burgess, Jessica Vano)
Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a 'wellness center' with the help of a washed-up expert cult buster.
Dark Nature
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Berkley Brady; Writer: Berkley Brady, Tim Cairo; Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Roseanne Supernault, Kyra Harper, Griffin Cork, Madison Walsh)
Members of a therapy group are forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.
Do Not Disturb
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: John Ainslie; Stars: Kimberley Laferriere, Rogan Christopher, Janet Porter, Christian McKenna)
hloe and Jack travel to Miami for their honeymoon. Amidst the flashy neon and sunny beaches, they decide a peyote experience will strengthen their marriage. Unbeknownst to them, they've been given a rare and powerful strand of the drug that awakens a desire to eat human flesh.
Feed Me
(Year: 2022; Director: Adam Leader, Richard Oakes; Writer: Adam Leader, Richard Oakes; Stars: Christopher Mulvin, Neal Ward, Hannah Al Rashid, Samantha Loxley)
Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life.
Cult Hero and Megalomaniac
Final Cut (Coupez!)
(Year: 2022; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Michel Hazanavicius; Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Lutz, Raphaël Quenard)
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
The Goldsmith
(Year: 2022; Director: Vincenzo Ricchiuto; Writer: Germano Tarricone, Vincenzo Ricchiuto; Stars: Stefania Casini, Giuseppe Pambieri, Gianluca Vannucci, Tania Bambaci, Mike Cimini, Andrea Porti, Matteo Silvestri, Antonio Cortese)
A trio of desperate criminals break into the isolated country house of an elderly goldsmith and his wife. But their chosen targets turn out to be far less defenceless than they seem.
The Harbinger
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andy Mitton; Writer: Andy Mitton; Stars: Raymond Anthony Thomas, Gabby Beans, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Emily Davis, Laura Heisler, Cody Braverman)
A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Holy Shit! (Ach Du Scheisse!)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Lukas Rinker; Writer: Lukas Rinker; Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Friederike Kempter, Micaela Schäfer, Uke Bosse, Rodney Charles)
A man wakes up from a drunken stupor to find himself trapped in a portaloo, and realises that if he can't escape within an hour, it will explode.
House Of Darkness
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Neil LaBute; Stars: Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin, Justin Long, Lucy Walters)
A manipulative player accompanies his latest potential hook-up to her enormous Gothic mansion and experiences a rather different kind of evening from the one he had expected.
Candy Land and Final Cut
The Lake
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2022; Director: Lee Thongkham; Writer: Lee Thongkham; Stars: Wanmai Chatburirak, Palita Chueasawathee, Su Jack, Zang Jinsheng)
After a young girl finds a mysterious giant egg in the shallows of the Mekong River and takes it back to her fishing village home, it’s only a matter of time before the creature that laid the egg rises from the waters in search of revenge.
The Loneliest Boy In The World
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Martin Owen; Writer: Piers Ashworth; Stars: Max Harwood, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Ashley Benson, Evan Ross, Ben Miller, Susan Wokoma)
Told that he'll be placed in state care if he can't find a new family, a boy resorts to digging up and reanimating residents of the local graveyard in order to make one.
Malibu Horror Story
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Scott Slone; Writer: Scott Slone; Stars: Tommy Cramer, Dylan Sprayberry, Jacob Hughes)
A team of paranormal investigators searches a sacred Native American cave for clues following the unsolved disappearance of four Malibu teenagers.
Megalomaniac
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Karim Ouelhaj; Writer: Karim Ouelhaj; Stars: Eline Schumacher, Wim Willaert, Benjamin Ramon, Pierre Nisse, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Olivier Picard)
A film about the weight of patriarchy and the illusion of Manichaeism.
Moon Garden
(Year: 2022; Director: Ryan Stevens Harris; Writer: Ryan Stevens Harris)
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother’s voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
Dark Nature and Moon Garden
Night Sky
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jacob Gentry; Writer: AJ Bowen, Jacob Gentry; Stars: Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Sandra Benton, Adam Voss)
A trek across the American southwest with a ne'er do well petty thief trying to escape his mysterious past, a celestial vagabond trying to rediscover hers, and the ruthless killer who is following them.
The Passenger
(Year: 2022; Director: Fernando González Gómez, Raúl Cerezo; Writer: Javier Echániz, Asier Guerricaechevarría, Luis Sánchez-Polack; Stars: Ramiro Blas, Cecilia Suárez, Paula Gallego)
When their van hits a lone woman late one night, four friends bundle her into the back, only to discover that she's not what she seemed.
Piggy (Cerdita)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Carlota Pereda; Writer: Carlota Pereda; Stars: Pilar Castro, Claudia Salas, Camille Aguilar, Carmen Machi, Julián Valcárcel, Mabel del Pozo, Chema del Barco, Stéphanie Magnin Vella, Irene Ferreiro, Laura Galán, Fred Tatien, José Pastor, Richard Holmes, Fernando Delgado-Hierro, Amets Otxoa)
Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
The Price We Pay
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ryûhei Kitamura; Writer: Christopher Jolley; Stars: Tyler Sanders, Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Vernon Wells, Erika Ervin)
After a pawn shop robbery goes awry, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.
PussyCake
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2021; Director: Pablo Parés; Stars: Macarena Suárez Dagliano, Aldana Ruberto, Anahí Politi, Florencia Moreno, Sofia Rossi)
An all-female rock band schedules a new gig. When they arrive at the place, the city looks like a desert. There are only horrors that appear to be from another dimension.
The Harbinger and Holy Shit!
Vesper
(Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper; Writer: Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, Bruno Samper; Stars: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake, Melanie Gaydos, Edmund Dehn, Titas Rukas, Markas Eimontas, Markas Sagaitis, Marijus Demiskis, Matvej Buravkov)
At some point in the future the Earth’s ecosystem collapses. A tough 13-year-old called Vesper, whose father is paralysed, tries to get food for them wherever she can. When she finds a mysterious woman in the forest one day she starts to hope that things will change.
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