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The Quiet Ones

The Quiet OnesA young man's rapid descent into madness fueled by memories of a distant past of painful family experiences. Main character Michael Rose believes a normal relationship in the form of a blossoming new love interest may save him from his own demons, only to find that recurring nightmares and memories of the past are too strong for any one love to quiet.

Salvage

SalvageWhen a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale HeartInspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart," this is the story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.

Joshua

JoshuaKelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of his hometown telling that his father had just died from heart attack. He decides to return to Bisbee for the funeral and Amelia goes with him. Kelby and Amelia lodge at his mother's house and he meets his slut sister Trish, his former friends James Lilly and the policeman Wally and his unknown uncle Tom. When Wally has a nervous breakdown with the name of Joshua, Kelby is haunted by the evil past in Bisbee.

Madness

MadnessTormented by his parents, Alex finally snaps and embarks on a wild murder spree in attempt to be rid of his family - and any others who just so happen to be around.

The Intruder

The IntruderTom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened.

Voodoo

VoodooA little girl uses a voodoo doll to get rid of her mother's date.

Blood Relations

Blood RelationsA trip to meet her fiance's family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife... Dying for a rich husband, Marie is thrilled when Thomas brings her home to his family's massive estate. But there is something wrong in the house, and as the days go by and Marie wanders the dim halls, she makes a gruesome discovery. There is a lab underground, and a body, and all that's missing is a brain...

Nightmares

NightmaresA little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.

Stigma

StigmaThe death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, but his apparent supernatural powers continue. As his own life nears its end, he becomes even more violent and sadistic.

Nightmare

NightmareA new and rich heir, Anna Margot, is receiving threatening phone calls from an old friend, Anna not knowing what to do requests the help of her friend Tonis Karzis, the anxiety will culminate as a series of unexplained murders follows .

Outer Dark

Outer DarkIn Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear.

Village of the Damned

Village of the DamnedIn a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

Dark Water

Dark WaterA woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Freeway

FreewayFollowing the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

The Fog

The FogTrapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.

The Omen

The OmenA diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

CAMP

CAMPEmily is the cause of two tragedies early in her life; her dad suggests she go to a Camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is taken in by the other counsellors; they accept her as she is and wrap her in a veil of peace & forgiveness. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but there’s a voice out there in the woods she can’t ignore, telling Emily to go home.

Ghost Stories

Ghost StoriesWhen Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child – Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.

The Severing

The SeveringEliza was emotionally abused by her stepfather and her mother, Claire. She tries to live with the traumatic experiences. However, this gets exponentially harder because of a terrifying entity, which is a creation of her increasing psychotic depression.

The Last Thanksgiving

The Last ThanksgivingStepmother Doris' final feast turns deadly when her dying husband's three children plot to poison her, driven by a sinister desire to claim their father's inheritance.

Alice

AliceThe prequel to the short film 'Mother'. The backstory of how Mother's family started to fall apart.

Do Not Open

Do Not OpenAfter arguing with her parents, a distraught teen opens an email promising acceptance, but what the message delivers infects the whole family.

Salomé

SaloméCecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.

Itch!

Itch!Amid a mysterious deadly outbreak called the ITCH, a widower and his estranged young daughter take sanctuary in a department store, only to realize the real terror is inside with them.

Mother

MotherClinging to control after a broken marriage, an overbearing mother begins to lose her grasp on reality.

The Judgment

The JudgmentA gay Egyptian couple return from America for a family emergency. In this homophobic environment, their secret threatens to unravel under anxiety, unease, and suspicion that someone is using witchcraft to send them back.

The Daughter

The DaughterAfter taking care of her mother for a long time, Hyo-eun inherits her mother’s house after she passed away. She tries to escape her mother’s shadow by removing any trace of her in the house. But as she is doing so, she hears whispers of her mother’s voice and strange things begin to happen.

Welcome Home

Welcome HomeWelcome Home is being touted as a psychological drama with lots of thrills. The movie follows a pregnant woman living in a house. She is visited by a few other ladies presumably some officials and ask her about her lifestyle.

9When forces within and beyond this world conspire to snatch his son away, a father resolves to do whatever it takes to protect him.

Prey

PreyAfter being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.

Pet Sematary

Pet SemataryDr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

Animas

AnimasAbraham and his female friend Álex have a close relationship; they share both secrets and fears. When Abraham starts going out with Anchi, he begins to distance himself from Álex, who gradually dives into a living hell where she encounters strange apparitions, nightmarish visions and extreme situations.

Habit

HabitManchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.

Stalked

StalkedYoung adults' hopes of becoming independent are questioned when strange things begin happening in their neighborhood. As the occurrences become more frequent and aggressive they find themselves at the mercy of a murderous stalker.

Aatma

AatmaA single mother fights against the supernatural in order to hold on to her daughter.

'Gator Bait

'Gator BaitDesirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.

A GIRL VANISHED

A GIRL VANISHEDA female college student went missing. The police questioned her two closest relations about the girl's whereabouts.

Mother, My Child

Mother, My ChildOn a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury—and finds a mirror of her own fragility

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York PhilharmonicIn 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession. (Filmed live at the Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic from March 5–8, 2014.)

Ire

IreAfter a violent outburst, a young man is forced to confront the destructive force growing within him.

UCK

UCKA middle-aged carpet cleaner discovers his town is overrun with aliens from the deep and must figure out how to defeat them and rescue his son all while trapped in a self-storage building.

This House That Bears No Fruit

This House That Bears No FruitA teenage girl must come to terms with her tense relationship with her mother while reckoning with the suspicion that she may be eating far more than just fruits from their garden.

Thanatos Phobos

Thanatos PhobosAfter being hit in the head, a distraught woman must come to terms with herself on if her injury will be fatal

Blue Lullaby

Blue LullabyA young girl retraces her relationship with her mother while they bake a pie together. Until she starts to remember what she seemed to have forgotten.

For the sins of the father

For the sins of the fatherFrancisco, a former priest, shares his story. When a demon possesses his daughter, he's forced into a spiritual battle that drags him back to confront his past. The only way to save her is to face his own history.

MotherWound

MotherWoundHaunted by her turbulent past, a young woman embarks on an emotional journey to confront her mother's legacy, seeking healing and closure as she grapples with the scars that still define her present.

Her Wings

Her WingsIn a remote Turkish village, a timid young man is haunted by his childhood and the mysterious death of his sister. Nightmares and unsettling visions draw him into an inevitable descent, as his reality begins to fracture. A poetic exploration of memory, loss and the psyche.

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