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Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Though Kate continues to prepare for the anniversary, she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff's preoccupation with the letter and the ensuing revelations about his past. By the time the party comes round, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate. - Director:
- Andrew Haigh
- Cast:
- Charlotte Rampling, Dolly Wells, Tom Courtenay
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Yesterday she was chosen, at midnight she was sacrificed, this morning she was buried. And tonight she comes. After a young woman goes missing, two of her closest friends and a mysterious set of strangers find themselves drawn to the isolated cabin in the woods where she disappeared. As the sun sets, they drink, laugh and flirt, enjoying the privacy of the empty woods. However, as midnight approaches, little do they realise that death is not far away... - Director:
- Matt Stuertz
- Cast:
- Larissa White, Jenna McDonald, Frankie Ray
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Hex (1980)Xie
Asian horror cinema was already hitting strikes by the time the 1980s dawned and nowhere was more ahead of the curve than the then-British colony of Hong Kong. The city of neon lights and vibrant street life was no stranger to scary movies and Hex was perhaps the island's crowning achievement. Released in 1980, and emerging from the legendary Shaw Bros Studios, whose knack for colourful landscapes and misty atmosphere remains legendary, 'Hex' tells a weird and wonderful story of witchcraft and wanton revenge! Directed by the late, great Kuei Chih-Hung, whose output also includes the frequently censored "nasty" 'The Killer Snakes' (1974), this formidable Eastern frightener has an abused woman caught in a strange mystery of manslaughter and macabre happenings. To say anything else would be to spoil one of the Orient's most influential terror titles, but rest assured that Hex has a few spooky surprises up its sleeve. Now gaining its worldwide, "Hex" may just be the greatest ghost story you have never seen! - Director:
- Chih-Hung Kuei
- Cast:
- Ni Tien, Yung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen
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Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work party girl who finds herself in relationship trouble with . her sensible boyfriend, Tim (Dan Stevens), and is forced to move back to her tiny hometown to get her life back on track She reconnects with childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), a good-natured bar owner with a coterie of drinking buddies (Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell), and resumes her drinking lifestyle. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a larger-than-life creature begins attacking Seoul, South Korea on a nightly'basis, captivating spectators around the world. One night Gloria is horrified to discover a connection between these catastrophic events and her own fractured psyche. - Director:
- Nacho Vigalondo
- Cast:
- Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell
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"Without Name" tells the story of Eric (Alan McKenna), a land surveyor hired by a private contractor to assess an isolated woodland location. Leaving behind his wife and child, Eric is joined in the remote countryside by a younger female research assistant (Niamh Algar) with whom he shares a complicated history. Beguiled by the forest, the pair go about their work all the while sensing an ominous presence lurking amongst the trees. Are there really external and sinister elements at play here or is Eric becoming a prisoner of his own thoughts, in this place Without Name? - Director:
- Lorcan Finnegan
- Cast:
- Alan Mckenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne
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The British tabloid press called for it to be banned among the furor of the Video Nasty witch hunts. The Censors refused it a rating in its uncut form. Many of the children involved in its production were never seen nor heard from again. Now 'Suffer, Little Children' can finally be seen! The full story behind this mysterious occult feature may never be known. The super rare and intensely troubled original UK video release was cut by several minutes and the box copy simply read: Suffer, Little Children a tale of a child's demonic supernatural powers and the brutal.... terrifying results. 'Suffer, Little Children' is a reconstruction of the events, which took place at 45 Kingston Road, New Malden, Surrey, England in August 1984. None of these events were reported in the press and now the house is scheduled for demolition in the immediate future. How in god's name did the power of the devil fall into the hands of a child? - Director:
- Alan Briggs
- Cast:
- Colin Chamberlain, Ginny Rose, Jon Hollanz
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Lisa and the Devil (1973)Lisa e il diavolo
Lisa (Elke Sommer) - an American tourist travelling in Spain - loses her tour party and seeks refuge in the tumbledown mansion of a blind countess after being guided there by the distinctly satanic butler of the house, Leandro (Telly Savalas). The son of the Countess notices Lisa's striking resemblance to his dead lover and pursues her as a night of murder, strange eroticism and dark hallucinations begins. - Director:
- Mario Bava
- Cast:
- Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina
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The Untamed (2016)La región salvaje
Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) is a housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel (Jesús Meza) in a small city. Her brother Fabian (Eden Villavicencio) works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of the mysterious Veronica (Simone Bucio). Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath. - Director:
- Amat Escalante
- Cast:
- Kenny Johnston, Simone Bucio, Fernando Corona
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As night falls, a secluded house hidden deep in the woods takes on a terrifying life of its own. Eleven year-old Neve is the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed the rest of her family. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's claims of supernatural events occurring at the family home. But if s not long before the nightmarish horrors of Neve's past return to claim more victims. - Director:
- Marina De Van
- Cast:
- Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney
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The poet John Clare's escape from Epping Forest; an epic march through hunger and madness, is an English journey to set beside "A Pilgrim's Progress". Toby Jones, lain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr. Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore, their progress narrated by Toby's father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films. Captured in lustrous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road; whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always 'By Our Selves'. - Director:
- Andrew Kötting
- Cast:
- Toby Jones, Freddie Jones, Alan Moore
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The Cat (2011)Go-hyang-i: Jook-eum-eul Bo-neun Doo Gae-eui Noon
So-yeon is an animal groomer who works in a pet shop. One day she gets stuck with a Persian cat named Silky when its owner suddenly dies. From that moment on, So-yeon is constantly haunted by a bob-haired girl with green, cat-like eyes who sends her life into disarray. So-yeon desperately seeks help from her friends and family, but no one will listen. The presence of the girl and the sound of Silky's cries start to terrify her more and more. On top of that, people around So-yeon begin to die one by one. Soon, So-yeon comes face to face with the bob-haired girl at the scene of a horrific death.
So-yeon gets rid of Silky hoping her troubles will come to an end, but Silky keeps coming back. Convinced that she could be the next to die, So-yeon sets out to discover the identity of this mysterious girl with the help of Jun-seok, her dead friend's ex-boyfriend.- Director:
- Seung-wook Byeon
- Cast:
- Min-Young Park, Dong-wook Kim, Ye-ron Kim
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Passion overtakes reason in this dark and layered romance - based on Daphne du Maurier's classic novel - starring Oscar Winner Rachel Weisz. Believing his mysterious, beautiful cousin Rachel (Weisz) murdered the man who raised him, Philip (Sam Claflin), a young Englishman, plots revenge against her. But, despite evidence that Rachel might be a killer, Philip finds himself falling deeply in love with her in this visually stunning, tension-laced film. - Director:
- Roger Michell
- Cast:
- Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen
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After Negan brutally forces Rick and the group to bend to his will, Rick finally understands that Negan cannot be reasoned with and that they must prepare to go to war. Victory will require more than just the supplies and numbers in Alexandria, and in the pursuit of more weapons, food and new fighters, Rick and the group will be tested like never before. Alexandria and their new allies will need to band together and rise up against Negan and his army, but nothing can prepare them for the all-out battle that awaits them. - Director:
- Greg Nicotero
- Cast:
- Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Michael Cudlitz
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