Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Adam Wingard
Written By: Simon Barrett
Starring: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen and Barbara Crampton
Studio: Lionsgate
Synopsis: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 43% (Audience)
Directed By: Larry Fessenden
Written By: Tony Daniel and Brian D. Smith
Starring: Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, Chris Conroy and Jonny Orsini
Studio: Chiller Films
Synopsis: Six high school seniors celebrating with day’s excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 0% (Audience)
Directed By: Charles Band
Written By: Kent Roudebush
Starring: Wade F. Wilson, Ciarra Carter, Gregory Niebel, Karen Black and Stacy Keach
Studio: Full Moon Features
Synopsis: Ooga Booga follows an innocent African American boy who is brutally murdered by dirty cops, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure named Ooga Booga. With on his tribal spear and old girlfriend to help he takes to the streets and trailer parks to find the men that ended his once bright future – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 84% (Audience)
Directed By: Jacob Vaughan
Written By: Jacob Vaughan and Benjamin Hayes
Starring: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, Peter Stormare and Stephen Root
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis:Duncan’s (Ken Marino) life is a real pain in the ass. Tormented by a manipulative, crooked boss (Patrick Warburton), a nagging mother (Mary Kay Place) with a boyfriend 1/3 her age, a deadbeat new age dad (Stephen Root), and a sweet, yet pressuring, wife (Gillian Jacobs), his mounting stress starts to trigger an insufferable gastrointestinal reaction. Out of ideas and at the end of his rope, Duncan seeks the help of a hypnotherapist (Peter Stormare), who helps him discover the root of his unusual stomach pain: a pintsized demon living in his intestine that, triggered by excessive anxiety, forces its way out and slaughters the people who have angered him. Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0% (Critics) / 17% (Audience)
Directed By: Roger Christian
Written By: Roger Christian and Christian Piers Betley
Starring: Christian Slater, Michael Therriault, Amy Matysio and Brendan Fehr
Studio: RLJ Entertainment
Synopsis:Four isolated astronauts on board a bio-dome space craft, experience a ghostly intercession after a meteor storm, leading to paranoia, fear and death. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 66% (Audience)
Directed By: Andrew Goth
Written By: Andrew Goth and Joanne Reay
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Riley Smith and Tanit Phoenix
Studio: LionsGate Entertainment
Synopsis:A cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Spencer Parsons
Written By: Jory Balsimo, Kat Candler, Aaron Leggett, Jonny Mars and Jason Wehling
Starring: Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker, Adam Tate and Jonny Mars
Studio: Xlrator Media
Synopsis:Four professional ghost hunters, who travel in a vintage van accompanied by their canine companion (sound familiar?), get far more than they bargained for when they investigate an abandoned schoolhouse with a mysterious past. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: James Wan
Written By: Chad and Carey Hayes
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis:Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. “The Conjuring” tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 83% (Audience)
Directed By: Steven C. Miller
Written By: Eric Stolze
Starring: Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Peter Holden
Studio: Xlrator Media
Synopsis: Every child knows about the monster under the bed-Neal Hausman’s mistake was trying to fight it. Neal (Jonny Weston, Chasing Mavericks) has returned from a two-year exile following his tragic attempt to defeat the monster, only to find his father ticking ever closer to a breakdown, a new stepmother who fears him, and his little brother Paul (Gattlin Griffith, Green Lantern, Changeling), terrorized by the same monster. While Neal and Paul work together to try and fight the nocturnal menace, their parents are taking desperate measures to get the family back to normal. With no support from their parents, the brothers have nothing to rely on but each other, and courage beyond belief. (Source)
HATCHET III continues the tale of the now-iconic villain Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder). As a search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and carnage left behind from the first two films, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) hunts down the true secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left the ghost of Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans & Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez & Greg Hale, Adam Wingard
Written By: Simon Barrett, John Davies, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans & Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez & Jamie Nash
Starring: Kelsy Abbott, Hannah Al Rashid, Fachry Albar and Kevin Hunt
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Synopsis: Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student’s disappearance. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% (Critics) / 43% (Audience)
Directed By: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Written By: Brad Miska, Simon Barrett, David Bruckner & Nicholas Tecosky, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence
Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard and Kentucker Audley
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. (Source)
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