Spooky Season
OVID's eclectic Halloween collection has something for everyone, whether werewolves (Good Manners), serial killers (Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart), high school bullies and sinister doppelgangers (Alena), demons (Demons), cannibal sorcery (Dachra), or supernatural ghost stories (Bedevil) are your thing.
For werewolf enthusiasts, you've never seen a birth scene quite like the one in Good Manners: "An unnerving werewolf tale that explores themes of motherhood and otherness, sometimes suggesting a retelling of Frankenstein. But with a werewolf. Yet for all the blood and gore, this is a quiet, gentle story…” —Village Voice
Also included in the Halloween collection is Bedevil by Tracey Moffatt, a stunning debut feature from the Indigenous Australian artist inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families.
For binging purposes: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Penance, an eerie serial thriller unfolding in a small town, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends in a playground, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls.
We also have more horror-hybrid films, including two recently added films by Polish filmmaker Jagoda Szelc: Monument and Tower. A Bright Day – two atmospheric experiences that leave you psychologically disturbed for days after.
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The Attachment Diaries
Directed by Valentín Javier Diment • Drama • With Jimena Anganuzzi, Lola Berthet • 2021 • 103 minutes
Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell...
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Visible Secret (Ann Hui)
Directed by Ann Hui • Drama • With Eason Chan, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong • 2001 • 101 minutes
Spirits lurk everywhere in Ann Hui's horror-comedy, Visible Secret. Instantly infatuated by enigmatic amnesiac June (Shu Qi, Millennium Mambo) who has the ability to see spirits, Peter is swept into a world ...
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Gateway
Directed by Niall Owens • Drama • With Tim Creed, Fiona Hardy, Ryan McParland • 2021 • 0 minutes
When four troubled criminals decide to set up their drug operation in an abandoned house, they find a mysterious locked room. As the house lures them each into this secret space, it confronts them wi...
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Arrebato (Rapture)
Directed by Iván Zulueta • Drama • With Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More • 1979 • 115 minutes
Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-g...
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The Strangler
Directed by Paul Vecchiali • Drama • With Jacques Perrin • 1970 • 96 minutes
An unconventional French giallo released before the sub-genre’s popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin, The Young Girls of Rochefort)...
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The Wolf House
Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña • Animation • 2018 • 72 minutes
Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream,...
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Ghosthunter
Directed by Ben Lawrence • Documentary • With Jason King • 2018 • 96 minutes
A 40 year old security guard & part-time ghost hunter cannot remember his childhood and has spent two decades searching for his absent father. When his life-long search for answers converges with a police manhunt, a hor...
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Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart
Directed by Cédric Anger • Drama • With Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot • 2016 • 111 minutes
Cédric Anger, once a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, wrote and directed this chilling chronicle of notorious serial killer Alain Lamare (here renamed Franck Neuhart and played by Guillau...
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Creepy
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba • 2017 • 130 minutes
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who made his name with classics CURE and BRIGHT FUTURE, gets back to his roots by putting the thumbscrews to the audience with his latest, CREEPY. A year after a botch...
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Monument
Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Zuzanna Lit, Anna Biernacik • 2018 • 108 minutes
A group of hotel interns wake up in an ice-cold van. They don't know each other yet, and have just arrived to do their internships. The strict manager of the hotel numbers the students: real names are not re...
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Thunderbird
Directed by Nicholas Treeshin • Drama • With Natalie Brown, Colten Wilke • 2021 • 95 minutes
A supernatural psychological thriller centered around the story of William Brook (Colten Wilke), a reclusive young fisherman who goes looking for his missing sister in the rugged Pacific Northwest. As th...
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Dachra
Directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak • Drama • With Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali • 2018 • 114 minutes
Ever since she was discovered naked and near-dead decades ago, Mongia has been institutionalized, with a tendency to bite her nurses. Grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills...
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Alleluia
Directed by Fabrice Du Welz • Drama • With Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas • 2014 • 95 minutes
Based on notorious real-life “lonely hearts killers” who make victims of their romantic liaisons, Alleluia is a dark and fascinating love-story-gone-wrong from Belgian horror maverick Fabrice du Welz. Miche...
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Alois Nebel
Directed by Tomas Lunak • Animation • 2014 • 84 minutes
It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the lone...
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Bedevil
Directed by Tracey Moffatt • Drama • 1993 • 90 minutes
BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal an...
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Detention
Directed by John Hsu • Drama • With Gingle Wang; Meng-Po Fu; Hung Chang Chu; Jing-Hua Tseng; Cecilia Choi • 2019 • 102 minutes
Set during the Taiwanese martial law of the 1960s, this shockingly gruesome and terrifying coming-of-age drama based on a hugely popular video game sees two classmates w...
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Vampire Clay
Directed by Soichi Umezawa • Drama • With Ena Fujita, Yuyu Makihara, Momoka Sugimoto • 2017 • 81 minutes
From Japanese special effects master Soichi Umezawa comes a singular horror experience in a wildly hilarious marriage of The Blob and The Evil Dead. After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to ...
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Good Manners
Directed by Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra • Drama • With Sabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo • 2017 • 135 minutes
Filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s second collaboration (after the acclaimed Hard Labor) deftly integrates art-house and genre cinema to create a thrilling and dark gothi...
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Alena
Directed by Daniel di Grado • Drama • With Amalia Holm, Molly Nutley, Felice Jankell • 2017 • 83 minutes
With a traumatic event in her recent past, Alena transfers to a posh private all-girls school where her decidedly lower class roots makes her an outsider. While a gang of mean rich girls are ...
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Tower. A Bright Day.
Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska • 2017 • 107 minutes
A protective woman has raised her young niece in the countryside as her own daughter. When her sister suddenly returns, it triggers a sense that she may be back to reclaim her offspring or to impl...
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The Long Walk
Directed by Mattie Do • Drama • With Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa • 2021 • 116 minutes
The Long Walk centers on an elderly man who has the power to travel back in time thanks to a mysterious companion whose death he witnessed 50 years earlier. With his new power, he ...
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Knocking
Directed by Frida Kempff • Drama • With Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm • 2021 • 78 minutes
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams b...
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Wild
Directed by Nicolette Krebitz • Drama • With Lilith Stangenberg • 2016 • 97 minutes
Nicolette Krebitz’s long awaited third feature WILD, shocked and awed audiences at the 2016 Sundance festival. A seductive, dark trip into the soul of civilized humanity, WILD is a strange, dream-like journey of ...
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The Midnight Swim
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith • Drama • With Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino • 2014 • 84 minutes
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters...