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Movie: Strange Darling
A twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree. [more inside]
Movie: I'm Not Scared
[TRAILER] In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds a boy, seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground. Terrified, Michele decides not to tell his father. Returning to the scene, Michele discovers the boy, Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro) is still alive and bound by a chain. Michele continues to keep his secret as he makes several visits to Fillipo, who has no memory of the events leading up to his captivity. A mystery/thriller by Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo, Marakech Express) based on the novel of the same name by Niccolò Ammaniti. Italian title: Io non ho paura. [more inside]
Movie: Grave Torture
[TRAILER] When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death--a fixation that leads her on a dark quest. [more inside]
Movie: Speak No Evil
[TRAILER] When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. A remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name, from the director of Eden Lake and starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Alix West Lefler, and Aisling Franciosi. [more inside]
Book: Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, John Rodrigues (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. [more inside]
Movie: The Front Room
[TRAILER] Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy Norwood) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere. [more inside]
Movie: Beast (2018)
[Trailer] A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders. - IMDb [more inside]
Movie: The King Tide
[TRAILER] In a small island fishing village, isolated from the mainland, a child turns up who has special, mystical powers, leading social order in the town to the brink of civil war as the residents disagree about whether the child was sent for a larger spiritual purpose. [more inside]
Movie: Blink Twice
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
Movie: The Crow
In this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic, "The Crow," soulmates Eric (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking... [more inside]
Movie: The Room
[Trailer] Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Femme
Fabulous drag queen Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is brutally attacked one night after a show by a thug (George MacKay) out with his mates. Three months later, a very different Jules recognizes the thug in a gay sauna, leading to a cat-and-mouse game of identity, desire, shame and revenge. 2023 British erotic thriller is the debut from directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, currently at 93/83 on Rotten Tomatoes. CW: violence, nail-biting suspense. Trailer. On Hulu and rentable elsewhere.
Movie: Luz
[TRAILER] Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. Meanwhile, an intense and peculiar young woman corners an on-call doctor and begins to tell him a story. The debut feature from Tilman Singer (Cuckoo). [more inside]
Movie: Humane
[TRAILER] After environmental collapse forces humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father (Peter Gallagher) explains his plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program to his assembled children (Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Sebastian Chacon, Alanna Bale.) The debut feature film of director Caitlin Cronenberg, who is indeed one of those Cronenbergs. [more inside]
Movie: Lumberjack the Monster
[TRAILER] After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a “monster mask,” he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge. The lastest film from prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins). [more inside]
Movie: Take Aim at the Police Van
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers. [more inside]
Movie: Raging Grace
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a care-worker for a terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But something is not right about the man's niece, Catherine. [more inside]
Movie: King Kong
[TRAILER] Peter Jackson's expansive remake of the 1933 classic follows director Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his crew on a journey from New York City to the ominous Skull Island to film a new movie. Accompanying him are playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) and actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), who is whisked away by the monstrous ape, Kong, after they reach the island. The crew encounters dinosaurs and other creatures as they race to rescue Ann, while the actress forms a bond with her simian captor. [more inside]
Movie: Doomsday
[TRAILER] When the first outbreak of the Reaper virus hit Scotland, Eden Sinclair was one of the last to escape containment and had to leave her mother behind. Twenty-five years later, Maj. Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) leads a team back into the hot zone to find a counteragent to the virus, which has re-emerged in London. She and her comrades wage a desperate battle for survival against feral survivors, as they try to prevent it from ushering in a new dark age. [more inside]
Movie: Infested
Original title: Vermines. Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders. A French language horror film from Sébastien Vanicek, who is currently shooting the sixth film in the Evil Dead franchise. [more inside]
Movie: [REC]4 Apocalypse
[TRAILER] Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days to verify she has not been infected. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine. [more inside]
Movie: [REC] 3: Genesis
[TRAILER] Newlyweds (Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín) watch their wedding reception descend into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies. [more inside]
Movie: A Thief in the Night
[TRAILER] Carefree young Patty finds that the Rapture spoken of in the Bible has come... and left her behind. This 1972 Evangelical Christian horror film was the first in a four film series. [more inside]
Movie: Abigail
[TRAILER] After a group of criminals (Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand) kidnap the ballerina daughter (Alisha Weir) of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that what they're locked inside with is no normal little girl. [more inside]
Movie: Spy x Family Code: White
After receiving an order to be replaced in Operation Strix, Loid decides to help Anya win a cooking competition at Eden Academy, by making the director's favorite meal in order to prevent his replacement. [more inside]
Movie: Arcadian
[TRAILER] In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons (Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins) find tranquility by day but terror by night when ferocious creatures awaken and consume all living souls in their path. Faced with an impossible situation, the boys come up with a desperate plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive. [more inside]
Damien: Complete Series Season 0, Ep 0
[TRAILER] After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ. [more inside]
Book: First Lie Wins
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. [more inside]
Movie: Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
[TRAILER] Antichrist Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) is now a successful 32-year-old businessman ready to fulfill his destiny. As Damien is appointed United States ambassador to Britain, priests led by Father DeCarlo (Rossano Brazzi) try to kill him. While Damien prepares for the return of Jesus Christ, he takes advantage of his relationship with Kate Reynolds (Lisa Harrow) to recruit her son, Peter (Barnaby Holm), as his follower. [more inside]
Movie: Road House
[TRAILER] Ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems. [more inside]
Movie: Late Night with the Devil
[TRAILER] Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) hosts a syndicated talk show Night Owls whose ratings have plummeted since the tragic death of his beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other... unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America. [more inside]
Movie: The Andromeda Strain
[TRAILER] Virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents. [more inside]
Movie: Imaginary
[TRAILER] When Jessica (DeWanda Wise) moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun) develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. As Alice's behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be. [more inside]
Movie: Stopmotion
[TRAILER] Stop-motion animator Ella Blake (Aisling Franciosi) struggles to control her demons after her overbearing mother suffers a stroke. She embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella's mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own. [more inside]
Book: Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. [more inside]
Movie: Out of Darkness
[TRAILER] A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate, and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes towards the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. [more inside]
Movie: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train
[TRAILER] Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it! [more inside]
Movie: The Stranger
[TRAILER] Immediately following World War II, ex-Nazi Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) is living under a false identity as a teacher in a small Connecticut town, and has even married the headmaster's daughter (Loretta Young) as part of his cover. But when one of Kindler's old German associates (Konstantin Shayne) arrives unexpectedly in town, bringing in his wake a sly federal investigator (Edward G. Robinson), Kindler resorts to desperate measures to preserve his secret. [more inside]
Movie: Journey into Fear
An American engineer in Istanbul, Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten), becomes the target of a Nazi assassination due to his involvement in improving the Turkish navy. With the help of police Colonel Haki (Orson Welles), Graham escapes from his hotel to board a ship to safety, leaving behind his wife (Ruth Warrick). On board, he encounters a number of passengers, including the dancer Josette Martel (Dolores del Río). However, the passenger Peter Banat (Jack Moss) is not who he appears to be. [more inside]
Movie: TransSiberian
[TRAILER] A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple (Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer) encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers (Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega). [more inside]
Movie: The Marsh King's Daughter
[TRAILER] Helena (Daisy Ridley), a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous ‘Marsh King’, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father (Ben Mendelsohn) unexpectedly escapes from prison. [more inside]
Movie: The Bricklayer
An ex-CIA agent and his trusty bricklaying toolkit is reactivated when an extortionist targets the agency.
Movie: The Whiskey Bandit
[TRAILER] Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city’s largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit.” The police had finally captured him… or so they thought. [more inside]
Movie: The Mill
[TRAILER] A businessman (Lil Rel Howery) wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child. [more inside]
Movie: RED
[TRAILER] After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe (Morgan Freeman), crazy Marvin (John Malkovich) and wily Victoria (Helen Mirren) to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters. [more inside]
Movie: A Hard Day
After covering up a hit-and-run, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious figure claiming to have witnessed the event. Directed by Kim Seong Hun. [more inside]
Movie: Saltburn
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for the summer. [more inside]
Movie: Thelma
A sheltered college student tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her, causing her suppressed psychokinetic powers to reemerge. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Assassination
Assassination is a 2015 South Korean period action spy film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. The film, mainly set in 1930s Seoul and Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, depicts a group of Korean resistance fighters' plan to assassinate a highly ranked Japanese officer. (via Wikipedia) [more inside]
Movie: Reptile
A detective trying to start over again after a professional betrayal investigates the murder of a local real estate agent. [more inside]