The Faces of Horror in the Year 2020
After Midnight
Directors: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella
Writers: Jeremy Gardner
Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Henry Zebrowski
Story: When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
Other Films In Series: None.
#Alive
Directors: Il Cho
Writers: Il Cho (screenplay), Matt Naylor
Stars: Ah-In Yoo, Shin-Hye Park, Hyun-Wook Lee
Story: The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Antebellum
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz
Writers: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz
Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone
Story: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Directors: McG
Writers: Dan Lagana, Brad Morris
Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega
Story: Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.
Other Films In Series: The Babysitter (2017)
Blood Quantum
Directors: Jeff Barnaby
Writers: Jeff Barnaby
Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck
Story: The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Other Films In Series: None.
Brahms: The Boy II
Directors: William Brent Bell
Writers: Stacey Menear
Stars: Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman
Story: After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Other Films In Series: The Boy (2016)
Color Out of Space
Directors: Richard Stanley
Writers: H.P. Lovecraft (Original Story), Richard Stanley (Screenplay)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur
Story: A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
Other Films In Series: Die, Monster, Die! (1965), The Curse (1987), Colour from the Dark (2008), Die Farbe (2010)
Come to Daddy
Directors: Ant Timpson
Writers: Toby Harvard
Stars: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson
Story: A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.
Other Films In Series: None.
Deep Blue Sea 3
Directors: John Pogue
Writers: Dirk Blackman
Stars: Tania Raymonde, Nathaniel Buzolic, Emerson Brooks
Story: Studying the effects of climate change off the coast of Mozambique, a marine biologist and her team confront three genetically enhanced bull sharks. Now, a new bloodbath is waiting to happen in the name of science. Will humans never learn?
Other Films In Series: Deep Blue Sea (1999), Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
Doctor Sleep
Directors: Mike Flanagan
Writers: Mike Flanagan (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran
Story: Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
Other Films In Series: The Shining (1980), The Shining (1997)
Fantasy Island
Directors: Jeff Wadlow
Writers: Jillian Jacobs, Christopher Roach
Stars: Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale
Story: When the owner and operator of a luxurious island invites a collection of guests to live out their most elaborate fantasies in relative seclusion, chaos quickly descends.
Other Films In Series: None.
Gretel & Hansel
Directors: Oz Perkins
Writers: Rob Hayes
Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige
Story: A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Grudge
Directors: Nicolas Pesce
Writers: Nicolas Pesce
Stars: Tara Westwood, Junko Bailey, David Lawrence Brown
Story: A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.
Other Films In Series: Ju-On: The Curse (2000), Ju-On: The Curse 2 (2000), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003), The Grudge (2004), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Grudge 3 (2009), Ju-On: White Ghost (2009), Ju-On: Black Ghost (2009), Ju-On: The Beginning of the End (2014), Ju-On: The Final Curse (2015), Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
The Haunted
Directors: David Holroyd
Writers: David Holroyd
Stars: Nick Bayly, Maggie Daniels, Virginia Denham
Story: Emily's arrives for her first night-shift as a care-giver, to an elderly dementia patient. In an isolated house her night turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit, and starts to uncover the house's dark secrets.
Other Films In Series: None.
Host
Directors: Rob Savage
Writers: Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage
Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb
Story: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
Other Films In Series: None.
Hubie Halloween
Directors: Steven Brill
Writers: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Stars: Peyton List, Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen
Story: Despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem (and its Halloween celebration), Hubie Dubois is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something is going bump in the night, and it's up to Hubie to save Halloween.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Hunt
Directors: Craig Zobel
Writers: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz
Story: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Invisible Man
Directors: Leigh Whannell
Writers: Leigh Whannell
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer
Story: When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Other Films In Series: The Invisible Man (1933), The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Invisible Woman (1940), Invisible Agent (1942), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
The Lodge
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Writers: Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz
Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh
Story: A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Platform
Directors: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Writers: David Desola, Pedro Rivero
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan
Story: A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
Other Films In Series: None.
Relic
Directors: Natalie Erika James
Writers: Natalie Erika James, Christian White
Stars: Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote
Story: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Room
Directors: Christian Volckman
Writers: Eric Forestier
Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Joshua Wilson
Story: Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But, since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they miss the most is a child.
Other Films In Series: None.
Sputnik
Directors: Egor Abramenko
Writers: Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
Story: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Other Films In Series: None.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
Directors: Sang-ho Yeon
Writers: Sang-ho Yeon, Ryu Yong-jae
Stars: Dong-Won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee
Story: Peninsula takes place four years after the zombie outbreak in Train to Busan. The Korean peninsula is devastated and Jung Seok, a former soldier who has managed to escape overseas, is given a mission to go back and unexpectedly meets survivors.
Other Films In Series: Train to Busan (2016), Seoul Station (2016)
The Turning
Directors: Floria Sigismondi
Writers: Henry James (Based on The Turn of the Screw), Chad Hayes (Screenply)
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince
Story: A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after their parents' deaths. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
Other Films In Series: The Innocents (1961), The Nightcomers (1972), Presence of Mind (1999), In a Dark Place (2006)
Underwater
Directors: William Eubank
Writers: Brian Duffield, Adam Cozad
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie
Story: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Unfamiliar
Directors: Henk Pretorius
Writers: Henk Pretorius, Jennifer Nicole Stang
Stars: Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Rebecca Hanssen
Story: A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.
Other Films In Series: None.
You Should Have Left
Directors: David Koepp
Writers: David Koepp (Screenplay), Daniel Kehlmann (Novel)
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex
Story: A former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems.
Other Films In Series: None.
We Summon the Darkness
Directors: Marc Meyers
Writers: Alan Trezza
Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson
Story: Three best friends embark on a road trip to a heavy-metal show, where they bond with three aspiring musicians and head off to one of the girls' country home for an after-party.
Other Films In Series: None.
The Wretched
Directors: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Writers: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce
Stars: John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Jamison Jones
Story: A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
Other Films In Series: None.
Z
Directors: Brandon Christensen
Writers: Brandon Christensen, Colin Minihan
Stars: Keegan Connor Tracy, Jett Klyne, Sean Rogerson
Story: A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
Other Films In Series: None.
