Set in 1952 Romania, a Catholic priest named Father Burke is sent to investigate the apparent suicide of a nun outside the front steps of a local monastery, accompanied by nun-in-training Sister Irene and a local villager, nicknamed “Frenchie”. The trio seek to find answers from the other nuns living at the monastery, but that […]
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Hereditary (2018)
Following the passing of her mother, Annie (Toni Collette) and her family find themselves haunted by past memories and tragedy, but soon learn that not everything is as it appears. Like a sick and twisted recreation of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, this family is plagued by pain and utterly poor luck. I don’t want […]
Mara (2018)
Kate Fuller, a criminal psychologist working for the police, is assigned to the murder of a man who has been strangled in his sleep by an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As you might have guessed, the demon is “Mara”, who’s like a […]
Summer of 84 (2018)
A group of neighborhood teenage friends spend the summer of 1984 playing outside, fawning over the girl next door, and stalking their neighbor who they think might be a serial killer. Think ‘Disturbia’ meets ‘The Goonies’. From the directors of ‘Turbo Kid’ (and not much else), this retro-styled thriller truly is something out of left […]
Slender Man (2018)
A group of teenage girls haphazardly summons a well-dressed, faceless entity which terrorizes them and the ones they love. For those not familiar with “Slender Man”, either from online stories or video games, he is a fictional character created in 2009 that steals children and has a tall, slender, faceless appearance. I first heard the […]
Ghost Stories (2018)
Professional paranormal debunker and self-proclaimed “truth seeker”, Professor Phillip Goodman, visits three people who claim to have had supernatural encounters. By the end of his journey, Phillip hopes to expose the cases as frauds or explain away their encounters with unwavering logic. However, this time Professor Goodman may have met his match. As soon as […]
The First Purge (2018)
A new controversial political party has usurped the nation’s traditional two-party system and managed to get one of their own elected as President. The President enacts an even more controversial social experiment – the first purge. Contained to a single island in New York, the nation’s first “purge” is encouraged by the governing party to […]
The Lodgers (2018)
Set in the 1920s, ‘The Lodgers’ centers around a pair of twins, Rachel and Edward, who live alone in a decrepit mansion in rural Ireland. They keep to themselves and only venture from the safety of their estate once a week to gather groceries, and never at night. Rumors about the twins are abundant – […]
Unsane (2018)
A short-tempered businesswoman, Sawyer, finds herself unwittingly committed to a mental institution after a brief meeting with a psychiatrist. Believing she was only signing standard paperwork under the instruction of the psychiatrist, Sawyer becomes enraged upon discovering she had signed permission for the institution to keep her for up to one week against her will. […]
The Night Eats the World (2018)
After stopping by his ex-girlfriend’s apartment to obtain his remaining belongings, one young man’s awkward encounter soon becomes horrifying after waking up the next morning to realize he has slept through the zombie apocalypse. Lucky for him, however, he has awakened after the chaos of everyone in the apartment building being turned into zombies has […]