As Anna (Ella Hunt) nears the end of high school, an unexplained plague begins spreading in her tiny Scottish town before Christmas break, and she and her classmates must battle hordes of zombies in order to make it to graduation. Oh and they sing and dance, too… Anna and the Apocalypse features merriment and menace in perfect balance.

Pioneering Norwegian black-metal band Mayhem experienced a rise and fall so notorious that it’s provided the subject of multiple books and documentaries. And now a dramatization of their tragic tale makes it to the screen, profoundly disturbing but with a macabre, comical touch.

Nick brings his girlfriend Annji home for the holidays after three years of avoiding his massively dysfunctional family. On Christmas morning, a metallic substance surrounds the house, and they soon find they can’t leave. Tensions and paranoia escalate into blood-soaked chaos in this ever-relevant chiller.

Reeling after her latest novel flops, a best-selling crime writer is sent by her publisher to the Swedish countryside to regain inspiration. Totally out of place in her new surroundings, she discovers just how dangerous farm life can be.

A trio of perspective-shifting stories intersect into a maelstrom of murder, adolescent angst, sex, drugs, and black magic during the course of one summer weekend. This indie film has punk-rock energy to spare and a distinct cinematic vision that transcends its micro budget.

Rose’s husband has recently returned from military deployment and is struggling with PTSD. During Halloween, they try to rekindle their relationship, heading to the town’s haunted hayride to relive old traditions—but the night gradually descends into chaos in this gruesome and terrifying slasher.

Following a bad breakup, an aspiring filmmaker struggling with creative block begins hearing a sinister scream outside her window every evening. Justin Decloux’s ultra-indie second feature is as much a horror movie as a movie about the horror of creation.

In an attempt to secure some quick cash, three sisters break into the home of a super-wealthy family—and get a whole lot more than they bargained for. But The Inhabitant is no simple take on the old home-invasion-gone-wrong scenario.

Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid return with two new “Tales,” contemporary audio dramas performed live with actors, foley artists, sound designers, and musicians. It’s quite a sight, and if you dare to close your eyes, quite a listen!

Writer-director Issa López’s alternately heart-wrenching and chilling film follows a 10-year-old who is haunted by the dead shell of her mother before taking up camp with a group of local orphan boys in their small Mexican village.

A doctor is drawn into a nightmarish world after a little girl disappears without a trace in this feature debut by J.C. Feyer, relentless in both its dedication to scaring the pants off the audience and to shining a light on Brazil’s social unrest.

Jules heads to a lakeside cabin with her wife, Jackie, to celebrate their one-year anniversary. The tranquil setting quickly turns terrifying, but to say anything more would spoil the surprises of this audacious and unsparing movie.

A divorced dad takes his 12-year-old son to the farmhouse he’s purchased to flip in middle-of-nowhere Vermont. It was cheap—and for a reason: an old witch haunts the premises, and she has no interest in sharing her home.

Twelve years after a little girl’s alligator is flushed down the toilet by her father, body parts start showing up at the local sewage treatment plant and then in the city at large. One of the all-time creature-feature classics.

Two couples’ paradise sailing getaway quickly detours into hellish territory in Stuart Gordon’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” which never received a proper U.S. theatrical release.

Dead Calm is the ultimate in edge-of-your-seat suspense, starring Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill as a couple in mourning who take to the open seas for some peace and healing only to cross paths with the mysterious sole survivor (Billy Zane) of a sinking schooner.

The same year he appeared as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, Peter Cushing also played another grand villain in Shock Waves: a former SS commander involved in the creation of aquatic Nazi zombies as secret weapons.

Saturday, August 18 at 3:00pm at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater. Brittany Allen (What Keeps You Alive), Emily Milling (Impossible Horror), and Andréa Winter (Blood Paradise) weren’t just musical composers for their films screening in Scary Movies XI—they also served as, variously, actors, producers, writers, editors, and beyond. Here, they discuss being multi-hyphenate […]