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  • Last Shark

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    A no-budget chaos bomb by Taichiro Natsume, who writes, shoots, directs, and stars. A psychic TV crew chases spooky footage, falls into a yoga cult worshipping a giant alligator, and kickstarts the apocalypse. Plot twists pile up until downtown Tokyo explodes into an unholy shark-vs-alligator bat...

  • Exile
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    Exile

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    Aris, despairing and desperate, attempts to leave Greece on a rotting and barely seaworthy boat. After being rescued from drowning by the Coast Guard, he returns to his own ruined country as an outcast. There, he experiences every kind of transgression as an outsider of the new “system" where he ...

  • Just a Child

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    "Barbara comes back to her old house with a new boyfriend Anthony and her son Bob following the tragic death of her husband. Barbara hopes that the move will help Bob get past this trauma, but the ghosts of the past come back stronger than ever as Bob begins to develop a strange and terrifying co...

  • THE BEAST HAND

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    Osamu is a broke day laborer barely surviving Tokyo’s underworld—until crossing the wrong gangsters costs him his left hand. Left bleeding and broken, he’s rescued by his ex, Koyuki, who leads him into the city’s neon-lit underbelly and into the hands of an underground surgeon. The transplant sav...

  • Take Back the Knife

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    When three girls head out for a relaxing weekend in the woods, their plans are ruined by a crazed killer set to pick them off. What their attacker doesn’t know is that they’ve survived this kind of thing before... and this time they're ready for a fight, and blood is going to be spilled, because ...

  • Realm of the Damned

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    The Vatican’s last line of paranormal defence – The Congregation – has finally been overrun by the supernatural forces of darkness. Our heroes are all dead; only the damned remain. Among them is Alberic Van Helsing – addict, murderer, survivor – and the creatures that were once his prey now hunt ...

  • Blood Empires

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    In this Shakespearean crime drama, star-crossed lovers walk either side of the law, struggling to elevate themselves as the world pushes them down. Family, love, deceit, and violence paint the picture of Daniel, an unassuming hitman, and Elena, an unlikely rookie cop, in this stylized allegory of...

  • Violent Delights

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    The already rocky relationship of expecting lovers Lizbeth and Javier is put to the test when they become entangled with a disenchanted vampire couple.

  • Love Shark

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    Love Shark is a wildly unhinged parody of Japanese paranormal TV and YouTube popularity culture. Natsume and Momoka run the failing psychic investigations channel Big Summer until a clickbait dating show they put on leads Momoka to find true love- with a contestant who is also a man-shark. Cue as...

  • Tortured 4

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    A brutal double bill, featuring Violated: A crazed filmmaker mixes fiction with reality as his failing film career pushes him to make a snuff film. Followed by The Bleed: Three women stuck in a public toilet discover everything isn’t all as it seems, and tensions rise as they realize a grave mis...

  • Evil Spirits

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    Life circumstances, curiosity, vileness, ignorance. Four sinister stories based on folk legends. Directors Stepan Burnashev and Yevgeny Osipov deliver Evil Spirit, four chilling tales of demons and curses drawn from ancient Yakutian folklore.

  • Black Lizard Tales

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    This edgy horror anthology draws out ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder all set on an English university campus, in three interconnected tales of horror: a psychology professor tortured by a dark secret, a terminally ill nun who is terrified of death, and a traumatised young woman ...

  • Indieocracy

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    Celebrated director Domiziano Cristopharo (Phantasmagoria) leads you on a journey into modern history as he interviews the masters of Italian independent cinema, from the golden era and beyond. Witness testimony and incredible stories of their greatest accomplishments in film all from their own i...

  • Black Snow

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    Trucker Gosha delivers groceries to remote northern areas of Yakutia. He carries burned vodka to a local illegal alcohol dealer, thereby making the local population drunk. After the next flight, Gosha exchanges vodka for meat and fish - the only currency of the northern population. His greed lead...

  • When the Sun Stands Still

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    When Diana vanishes in the local woods, police reduce the suspects down to either her step-father or the on-the-loose psychopath stalking the local area. But when Diana suddenly reappears unharmed, the reason for her disappearance, and where she has been, proves more shocking and bizarre than any...

  • How to be Lucky

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    A captive is manipulated by her narcissistic stalker/attacker — an attacker well-versed in corporate communication — and who happens to be an actual vampire. The vampire uses manipulative propaganda and threatening insinuations to compel her to remain. The film’s aesthetic is a psychological horr...

  • Re-Agitator

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    Goth superstar Aurelio Voltaire and original gangsta rapper Schoolly D star in this cult camp catastrophe, where a beautiful aristocrat (Amanda Flowers) is resurrected by mad doctor Orbert Wescraft at the request of her obsessed husband (Rock N Roll legend Alan Merrill). But when When she rebels ...

  • Anna and the Dead

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    When her parents decide to separate, sixteen year old Anna Brooks, a narcoleptic, is sent to spend the summer in a small coastal town with her aunt and uncle, Jennifer and David, who hold some very antiquated values. Suffering traumatic hallucinations, Anna also witnesses several bizarre and sini...

  • Chopping Block

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    When a group of corporate employees get laid off, they decide to kidnap their ex-boss's daughter for ransom. Things take a bloody turn when they discover that the boss's daughter just happens to be the only survivor of a masked psychopath - a psychopath still out for blood.

  • Blood Bead

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    Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university who is going through a difficult time trying to film his new movie. Uninspired, he believes his movies should reflect his own personal experiences. When he crosses paths with the fascinating and beautiful student Ritsuko...

  • I Blame Society

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    A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by​ finishing her last abandoned film....and committing the perfect murder.​

  • The Notorious Finster (Rent/Buy)

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    A journalist who writes about a notorious serial killer called Finster leaves the city for a more peaceful life but soon learns violence has no boundaries.

  • French Blood 1: Mr. Pig

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    Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of 30 French directors experiment with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy.

  • French Blood 2: Mr. Rabbit

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    The story of women raped and left nearly dead, by a dark gang of five guys hided below a mask: Mister Pig, Mister Rabbit, Mister Frog, Mister Sheep and Mister Wolf. Now she had decided to get revenge.