Week of March 10-16:
1. Blackout
Release: Theatrical (Limited) (On Demand April 12)
Painter Charley (Alex Hurt) wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows your name. Charley is saying goodbye to the estranged love of his life, Sharon (Addison Timlin), and settling his affairs with a manic urgency that culminates with a call to a friend, Earl (Motell Gyn Foster), saying: “You better be ready, I’m coming.” But Charley never makes it to his friend’s house: When the sun goes down he has convulsions while driving his car, goes off the road and ends up in a ditch. Charley, it seems, is a werewolf. He attacks his rescuers and moves through the outskirts of town at night wreaking havoc. But the next day he can’t remember the things he’s done. Now the tight-knit town must rally to find out what is tearing it apart: mistrust, fear, or a vicious monster.
2. Escape
Release: On Demand
Best friends Carla and Tamsin, embark on a serene island vacation seeking relaxation and adventure. Their idyllic getaway takes an ominous turn when a ruthless criminal gang kidnaps them. As the gang soon discovers, they have gravely underestimated the strength and determination of these two women. What was meant to be an easy score becomes a high-stakes game of survival, as Carla and Tamsin turn the tables on their captors, transforming a vacation nightmare into a gripping tale of empowerment, resilience, and unexpected retribution.
3. Exhuma
Release: Theatrical (Limited)
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family’s ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
4. Followers
Release: Screambox
As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the past rises from the dead to claim its revenge. A year after surviving a brutal attack, a social media influencer and her friends find themselves once again in the crosshairs of a dangerous and relentless dark web cult, thirsting for retribution and willing to stop at nothing to get it.
5. Invader
Release: Theatrical (Limited)
A young woman arrives in the Chicago suburbs and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her missing cousin, but soon realizes that her greatest fears don’t even begin to scratch the surface. Written and directed by Mickey Keating.
6. The Prank
Release: Theatrical (Limited)
Ben and his slacker friend, Tanner play a prank on their high school physics professor. When she fails them on a test, they teach the demanding instructor a lesson by falsely accusing her of murder on social media.
7. Prey
Release: Theatrical (Limited)
After their lives are threatened by an extremist militant group, a young couple must flee their missionary post in the Kalahari Desert. But when their aircraft crashes in an animal preserve, they must battle man and beast in a fight for their lives.
8. State of Consciousness
Release: Theatrical (Limited)/On Demand
Where do you turn when your nightmares become reality? Stephen and Alicia are a happy young couple living a simple life until Stephen is accused of a mysterious murder. Small town justice lands Stephen in a shady mental facility where an experimental treatment causes a year-long gap in his memory and an inability to separate his horrific hallucinations from real life. As he fights to regain the fragments of his old life, Stephen begins to realize the truth is more frightening than anything he could imagine. Emile Hirsch stars in this spine-chilling psychological thriller.
9. Stopmotion
Release: On Demand
Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.
10. Aliens: Ultimate Collector’s Edition 4K
James Cameron’s action-packed sequel finds Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) accompanied by a platoon of space marines as she reluctantly returns to the planet where her crew discovered the alien. But their mission to rescue a group of colonists turns into a desperate battle for survival as they find themselves up against an entire hive of the lethal creatures.
11. Event Horizon 4K Steelbook
Seven years ago, pioneering research spacecraft “Event Horizon” mysteriously vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. But then, in the darkness of deep space, a persistent signal prompts a rescue crew to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. What they uncover is an unimaginable interstellar horror that will test the entire team’s sanity and souls.
12. I.S.S.
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, working with Nick Shafir’s Blacklist script, brings together a stellar cast that includes Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbaek, John Gallagher Jr., Costa Ronin, and Masha Mashkova, in a high-stakes thriller set entirely in the confines of the I.S.S. as astronauts are called to duty in fateful and terrifying ways.
13. Jonah
After an alleged alien abduction of Margot’s son Jonah, Ozzie and Darren, journalists investigating supernatural cases, are determined to expose the truth. During their investigation, Ozzie grapples with his own haunting memories, leading to intense skepticism about Margot’s story.
14. Terror of the Master
Two sisters become entangled in a terrifying mystery involving bizarre kidnappings, murder, and an ancient evil right in their own small city. For part-time television reporter Drew Thompson, a series of sensational kidnapping cases could present just the career break she has been looking for. After a chance encounter with a would-be victim, Drew decides to investigate. Unfortunately for her, she soon finds herself face to face with the horrific forces behind the kidnappings. Drew’s horror has just begun… She learns she is the next in line destined to meet a grisly demise. Luckily, her sister Amelia and others have followed her to an isolated, remote location. They may be her only hope… A lost shot on video, never released until now!
15. The Whip and the Body
Steeped in sadomasochism and lushly photographed in the vivid hues for which the director is known, Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body is a Gothic thriller that far surpasses the AIP Edgar Allan Poe films that it was intended to emulate. Horror legend Christopher Lee stars as Kurt Menliff, the sadistic son of a wealthy Count, who returns to the family castle, much to the dismay of his family, their servants, and the beautiful woman with whom he shares a fondness for the lash (Daliah Lavi). When Kurt is found murdered, it brings no peace to those who had feared him, as his vengeful spirit cannot be contained by the grave, and he returns to torment those unfortunate enough to remain within Menliff Manor.
16. The Woods Are Real
Joba and Quincy are a wealthy Brooklyn couple who value charity above all. But when a friend returns from a country pilgrimage to challenge their bleeding hearts, they accept an invitation that will change their lives forever.
17. Woods Witch
When two up-and-coming internet vloggers take a road trip to film footage in a forest that’s known for disappearances and deaths, they find themselves in a fight against the supernatural–for more than just ratings. The events to follow considerably deteriorate, spiraling the adventure seekers head on into mysteries, mayhem, and murder. Tom Sizemore, Sally Kirkland, James Duval, Robert LaSardo and Lisa Wilcox star in this deliriously dark and funny look at the perils of internet celebrity!