A band of deserters from the English Civil War are compelled by an alchemist (with the assistance of some psychedelic mushrooms) to dig a hole in search of buried treasure. Things get…
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The Alchemist Cookbook
Sean lives in a trailer in the woods with his cat Kaspar, working on alchemical experiments with plans to raise a demon and gain worldly wealth. His sanity and health deteriorate, and…
The People Under the Stairs
When 13-year-old “Fool”‘s family is threatened with eviction, he joins a pair of robbers who are planning an ill-conceived heist of the landlord’s house. The home, however, is an insane fortress with…
Velvet Buzzsaw
An assistant at an LA art gallery discovers a cache of strange and disturbing paintings when her reclusive neighbor dies. The paintings become the focus of much interest among art collectors and…
The Case of the Bloody Iris (Why Are There Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer’s Body?)
Jennifer is a fashion model on the run from her estranged husband and a sex cult. She moves into an apartment building with a friend where two women were recently murdered, one…
All the Colors of the Dark
Jane is tormented by her mother’s murder when she was a child, by a recent car crash that claimed her unborn child, and by terrifying nightmares of a blue-eyed knife-wielding killer. Her…
Strip Nude for Your Killer
After a fashion model dies during an abortion, people linked to her modeling agency start to die at the hands of a heavy-breathing killer dressed in black leather. This is a paint-by-numbers…
Ghostkeeper
Three friends snowmobiling in the Canadian Rockies become stranded at an apparently abandoned hotel. But the hotel is not abandoned: a mysterious old woman lives there, and she’s not alone. This is…
Life After Beth
Zach’s girlfriend Beth miraculously returns from the dead, but she’s a little different now … This movie works only so far as Aubrey Plaza’s performance gives it some soul. Her mix of…
The Girl with All the Gifts
At a military lab besieged by zombie-like “hungries,” a team of scientists and soldiers experiment on children infected by the fungus that creates the hungries to try to find a cure. The…