A ’90s kids’ TV show descends into gore-spattered mayhem when its charismatic host turns violent in the surreal, gleefully deranged feature debut from Casper Kelly, creator of 2014 viral sensation Too Many Cooks.

When an idealistic young woman accepts a position living and working on a regenerative farm, she and her partner must navigate the commune’s unorthodox—and increasingly ominous—practices, under the watchful eye of their unnervingly intense leader.

Cronenbergian body horror is deployed to darkly satirical ends in Carlos Conceição’s English-language debut, the noir-inflected story of an anti-corporate activist who becomes involved in a cult-like underworld of black-market plastic surgery.

Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei anticipated our present moment with razor-sharp prescience in their first collaboration, an unnerving fable about a camgirl’s harrowing fight to wrest back control of her online persona from an invisible adversary.

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick co-direct and star alongside their real-life children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, in a campy send-up of B-movie slasher flicks that doubles as an ode to the scrappy resourcefulness and DIY ingenuity of small-town microbudget filmmaking.

A mom-to-be’s stubborn conviction that she alone knows what’s best for her unborn child is put to the gruesomest of tests when alarming complications arise during a home delivery in director Raymond Creamer’s diabolical spin on prenatal horror.

Forty years on, John McNaughton’s unflinching, profoundly bleak character study of an itinerant ex-con on a killing spree—loosely inspired by the real-life case of Henry Lee Lucas—has lost none of its power to shock, unsettle, and disturb.

The harrowing sixth feature from bilingual director Dave Boyle—his first shot entirely in Japan—follows a mild-mannered psychic medium who gets more than she bargained for when she accepts a job at an isolated hotel plagued by a hostile supernatural presence.

Dispatched to a fog-shrouded isle on a mission to gather audio “unprecedented in film history,” a sound recordist stumbles upon a mysterious missing person’s case that may or may not have something to do with spooky local rumors of a phantom sea captain.

Adapted by screenwriter Martin Algus from his own 2018 novel, Evar Anvelt’s directorial debut is a pulse-pounding thriller pitting a porn-addicted family man against a hardened con artist whose seemingly foolproof blackmail scheme devolves into a dog-eat-dog fight for survival.

Brian Damude’s pitch-black, no-holds-barred Canuxploitation classic traces the sociopathic machinations of a husband who leaves his wife for dead after a car accident, angling to cash in on her inheritance.

A recovering alcoholic who spends his days tending bar inside a drab suburban supermarket begins to suspect he’s being stalked by his own evil twin in the mordant first feature from production designer-turned-director Josef Brandl.

Drawing inspiration from traditional folklore, the “Western-horror” debut feature from South African cinematographer Meekaaeel Adam is a haunting, haunted meditation on the brutal legacies of settler colonialism.

Fraught family dynamics make for treacherous emotional terrain during a young woman’s long-delayed visit to her childhood home, where she’s alarmed to learn that her estranged father has been dead for three days—a revelation to which her mother seems strangely indifferent.

The munchies and murder don’t mix… or do they? Chaos and cannibalism ensue when four stoner friends discover a peculiar strain of weed at the middle-of-nowhere rental property where they’ve decamped for a toked-out New Year’s retreat.

Independent horror maestro Larry Fessenden returns to Scary Movies for a special 25th anniversary screening of his landmark 2001 chiller about a close-knit family’s encounter with vengeful forces of nature—human or otherwise—during a snowbound upstate vacation.