Starring: Jamie Gillis, Kelly Nichols, Bobby Astyr, Vanessa Del Rio
Some men crave power, others success, but no man is able to resist temptation… Williams (Jamie Gillis) owes a debt. A debt he may not be able to repay. His daughter (Kelly Nichols) is a beautiful innocent, thrust into a world of carnal vengeance. His mistress (Vanessa del Rio) provides comfort, but may not be able to save his fate. His employee (George Payne) tries to help, but cannot resist his sinister desires. Only his brother (Bobby Astyr) holds the final, shocking surprise in this web of erotic deceit.
A dark tale of the frailty and hypocrisy of morality from the director of the notorious Last House on Dead End Street, Corruption is an erotic film like no other.
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Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, today is the hangover, and that means it’s time for this totally forgotten Hong Kong movie from the early 2000s. Beginning with a meet-cute, a totally charming young couple fall in love, fall into a rut, and decide to take a trip to Europe to kickstart their romance. Then their luggage gets stolen. Then this movie sinks its steel teeth into your soft brain and for the next 90 minutes it doesn’t let go. One of the unlikeliest collaborations in Hong Kong cinema produces a thriller with enough twists to keep your head spinning, enough hard-slamming action to keep your blood pumping, and enough high voltage, high impact, high wire mayhem to destroy the hardest heart. No lectures, no moralizing, no lessons about life. Just pure mayhem. With some kissing.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., Alfred Hsing
Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th century America. Orphaned at a young age, Robert grows into adulthood among the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest, where he helps expand the nation’s railroad empire alongside men as unforgettable as the landscapes they inhabit. After a tender courtship, he marries Gladys (Felicity Jones) and they build a home together, though his work often takes him far from her and their young daughter. When his life takes an unexpected turn, Robert finds beauty, brutality and newfound meaning for the forests and trees he has felled.
Starring: J.J. Rodgers, Lori Morrissey, Micky Levy, Lynne Baker, Ali Elk
“A live-action cartoon funhouse spiraling out of control.”
A group of college students chasing a sorority initiation stumble into a hallucinatory mix of low-budget, butt-biting vampires, unexplained time jumps, and increasingly ridiculous supernatural situations. What could have easily been a standard late-’90s sexy campus romp instead mutates into a kinetic, self-aware horror spoof. It stacks crude jokes, whiplash editing, and chaotic genre detours at such a relentless pace that it plays less like a conventional shot-on-video vampire film and more like a live-action cartoon funhouse spiraling out of control.
Les Sekely’s Vampire Time Travelers is also an absurdist precursor to the deliberately chaotic anti-comedy and disruptive editing later perfected by The Eric Andre Show and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and operates on the idea that psychically overloading the viewer is ultimately the joke. Its anything-goes structure, meta humor, and total disregard for narrative stability place it firmly in the lineage of the surreal DIY comedy that would eventually be refined for a generation of Adult Swim viewers, making it one of the most unique SOV horror films ever committed to tape.
Ash Ward’s short My Whore Roommate is a Vampire will screen before the feature
Starring: Burt Ward, Tyrone Wade, Roxanne Coyne, Mark Sawyer
“A perfectly blended, cut-price collision of The Hidden, I Come in Peace and The Terminator.”
A meteor loaded with the stolen souls of a savage alien race crashes to Earth, triggering a battle against human extinction. From the distant world of Praximus 13, an elite warrior named Trace is sent to destroy the meteor before his ruthless rival Gorak can unleash its evil power on humanity. Hunted by the FBI and locked in combat with his vicious alien nemesis, Trace teams up with a fearless earth woman in a no-holds-barred battle of technology and martial arts mayhem.
Directed by veteran SOV genre master Ron Ford (V-World Matrix, Tiki, Deadly Scavengers), Alien Force is a perfectly blended, cut-price collision of The Hidden, I Come in Peace and The Terminator, and explodes with wall-to-wall sci-fi action—nonstop karate brawls, scrappy early CGI eye candy, and unforgettable dialogue delivered with absolute conviction. Punching far above its tiny budget, the film spills over with raw energy, ambition, and genuine heart, proving that attitude and momentum always matter more than money in the shot-on-video realm.
Starring: Scott Davis, Blue Thompson, Barbara Dow, Brad McCormick
“A cross between Deliverance and Dawn of the Dead.”
When a toxic chemical spill tears open the ozone above rural Texas, backwoods locals mutate into drooling, slime-choked ghouls with an insatiable appetite for flesh. Environmental science student Arlene and hitchhiker Kevin stumble into the madness as small-town life collapses into a grotesque carnival of green vomit, yellow pus, and blood-soaked carnage.
Director Matt Devlen’s infamous Super-8 splatter oddity—sister film to Bret McCormick’s The Abomination (1988)—remains a true DIY regional relic, long overshadowed by its limited VHS release in the late ’80s via Muther Video. Overflowing with dubbed dialogue, surreal padding, Americana weirdness and gallons of inventive practical gore, the results are both unforgettable and stomach-churning.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Bruce Campbell, Dennis Haysbert
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Starring: Charli xcx, Alexander Skarsgård, Rachel Sennott, Rosanna Arquette, Kylie Jenner, Jamie Demetriou, Kate Berlant
A rising pop star navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her arena tour debut.
Starring: Marwen Soltana, Youssef Soltana, Deena Abdelwahed, Lassaad Jamoussi, Aymen Omrani, Montassar Ayari, Ghalia Benali, Baya Medhaffar
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As I Open My Eyes depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. Director Leyla Bouzid’s musical feature debut offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Patricia Kalember, Danny Aiello, Jason Alexander, Eriq La Salle, Ving Rhames
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Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.
