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"The Creeping Garden" is an award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould as revealed through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists who work with them. Long overlooked by biologists, in recent years this curious organism has become the focus of much research in such areas as biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot engineering, much of which borders on the world of science fiction. The film transports us from the laboratory into its natural habitat, depicting these otherworldly lifeforms using startling time-lapse macro-cinematography to reveal hidden facets of the world around us. Co-directed by the artist film-maker Tim Grabham (KanZeOn) and author and film critic Jasper Sharp, with an original soundtrack composed by celebrated musician and producer Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Grizzly Man), 'The Creeping Garden' is a unique exploration into a hitherto untapped subject matter, immersing the viewer within the worlds of the observers and the observed. - Director:
- Tim Grabham
- Cast:
- Mark Pagnell, Heather Barnett, Bryn Dentinger
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Local Louisiana Detective Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) is called to a remote house late at night where he finds the bodies of three slaughtered college students. The only person found at the scene claims he and his friends were holding a seance to summon spirits of murdered residents of the house years earlier. Criminal psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein (Maria Bello) and Det. Lewis work together to investigate recordings discovered at the scene, but what they discover is more terrifying than anything they ever imagined. - Director:
- Will Canon
- Cast:
- Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Cody Horn
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Hotel Artemis is a secret hospital for criminals run by The Nurse (Jodie Foster) and her orderly Everest (Dave Bautista). After a daring heist, a wounded bank robber (Sterling K. Brown) checks in while riots rage outside - but finds himself entangled with an arms dealer (Charlie Day), a crime lord (Jeff Goldblum) and a mysterious assassin (Sofia Boutella) whose mission pits all the guests against each other in a deadly game of survival. - Director:
- Drew Pearce
- Cast:
- Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella
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Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu's (Sophie Ward) investigations lead her to Simon McNeal (Jonas Armstrong), a college student who appears to be channelling messages from the dead. As their erotic relationship develops, the line between the worlds of the living and the dead becomes blurred and finally collapses in a stunning and astonishing climax. - Director:
- John Harrison
- Cast:
- Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Clive Russell
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After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family... but not for long. Louis (Dale Midkiff) and Rachel (Denise Crosby) Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery - built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbour, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne), hides the cemetery's darkest secret...until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, an unthinkable evil is about to be resurrected. - Director:
- Mary Lambert
- Cast:
- Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne
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Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon. Alone with only the base's vigilant computer Gerty as his sole companion, Bell's extended isolation has taken its toll. His only link with outside world comes via satellite messages from his wife and young daughter. He longs to return home, but a terrible accident on lunar surfaces leads to disturbing discovery that contributes to his growing sense of paranoia and dislocation so many miles away from home. - Director:
- Duncan Jones
- Cast:
- Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
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In the quest to save souls, the Spanish Inquisition will stop at nothing and knows no boundaries for its evil. Under the direction of Torquemada (Lance Henriksen) the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, a young baker's wife named Maria (Rona De Ricci) is falsely accused of witchcraft and dragged before the Inquisition and the Cardinal (Oliver Reed). Torquemada is enchanted by Maria's beauty and subjects her and her husband Antonio (Jonathan Fuller) to heinous tortures hoping to prove that his own desires for her are a result of her magic, and that she has "bewitched him". With the help of Esmerelda, Maria's cellmate and confessed witch, Maria must find the power to save her husband Antonio from Torquemada's ultimate machine of torture: the inevitable, razor sharp Pendulum poised over the inescapable Pit of hell. - Director:
- Stuart Gordon
- Cast:
- Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William J. Norris
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When an intergalactic transport ship crashes on a remote desert planet with no sign of help on the horizon, the survivors, led by Fry (Radha Mitchell), band together to find a way back home. Among the passengers is Riddick (Vin Diesel), a convicted murderer being transported by marshal Johns (Cole Hauser) - and now freed of his chains and on the loose. But as a solar eclipse plunges the planet into total darkness, a threat even worse than Riddick reveals itself, and the last humans standing may have to form an uneasy truce with the cunning fugitive (whose eyes have been surgically altered to see in the dark) to last the long night. - Director:
- David Twohy
- Cast:
- Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel
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Ten years on from the events of Monsters, the 'Infected Zones' have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East the army has just sent over more numbers to deal with a local uprising, but at the same time there has been a proliferation of Monsters in that region. Four fresh new recruits are given a special mission: to rescue five soldiers who have been lost deep in the Infected Zone. The main focus of their mission is 'human' but they are instructed to take down any creatures that get in the way along the route. Venturing deep into the IZ; the young troops embark on a life-altering mission through the heart of monster territory. By the time they reach their goal, they are forced to confront the true horrors of war and its fall out... - Director:
- Tom Green
- Cast:
- Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie
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A heroic crusader (Nicolas Cage) and his close ally (Ron Perlman) return home after decades of fierce fighting to find their world destroyed by the Plague. Believing a witch to be responsible for the devastation, they are commanded by the church Cardinal (Christopher Lee) to transport the girl to a remote monastery where monks will perform an ancient ritual to rid the land of her curse. But they soon discover the girl's dark secret and find themselves battling a powerful and destructive force that will determine the fate of the world forever. - Director:
- Dominic Sena
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Kevin Killebrew, Ron Perlman
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Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an Infected Zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures... A jaded US journalist (Scoot McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his boss' daughter, a shaken American tourist (Whitney Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border. - Director:
- Gareth Edwards
- Cast:
- Scoot McNairy, Cooper Smith, Whitney Able
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American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead and his life in disarray. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse (Jenny Agutter) to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital... - Director:
- John Landis
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- David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher
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When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation. It's only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people's life-force rather than their blood. So when they escape and run amok in London, the consequences are apocalyptic - and the shuttle crew's only survivor (Steve Railsback) seems to be the only man who can stop them. - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Steve Railsback, Patrick Jordan, Mathilda May
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Helmed by the legendary Arthur Penn and starring Academy Award winner Mary Steenburgen, "Dead of Winter" is a seasonal suspenser par excellence! Loosely inspired by the 1945 classic "My Name is Julia Ross", this eighties update presents Steenburgen as an aspiring actress who is lured out to a country retreat in Canada, in ice-cold weather, to audition for a well-paid dream job. Unfortunately for her, though, a sinister plan is being unravelled around her - which will culminate in entrapment, torment, torture and a blood curdling revelation! - Director:
- Arthur Penn
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- Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes
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The Possession (2012)Dibbuk Box
Based on a true story, 'The Possession' is the terrifying tale of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil. Clyde and Stephanie Brenek see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter, Em, becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box. But as Em's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst. They discover that the box was built to contain a Dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. - Director:
- Ole Bornedal
- Cast:
- Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick
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