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tiger stripes

Zaffan is the first in her class to get her period. Her friends are bewildered and react brutally. In her first feature film Amanda Nell Eu stages the onset of puberty as a monstrous transformation in which a demon must inevitably have a hand. But this body horror trip through the dense Malaysian jungle has it all. Once the claws of the resolute young protagonist are extended, there is no stopping her.

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raging grace

A fishy job offer brings Joy to a dusty mansion. She follows the strict instructions of her gruff employer and takes care of her comatose uncle. At the same time, no one must know about her daughter Grace, whom she therefore smuggles into the house in a suitcase and hides her in the closet. Director Paris Zarcilla manages the feat of integrating current topics into a brilliant, gothic horror setting, with surprising twists.

perpetrator

Jonny is sent to her aunt's house because her father has a nasty headache with odd symptoms. While at her new school, more and more young women go missing, and a psychopath is on the loose, Jonny's body changes rapidly. She eventually loses the ability to distinguish between her visions and reality. High school serves as the terrible core of a teenager's existence in Jennifer Reeder's bloodstained, disturbing coming-of-age horror film.

night of the hunted

Director Franck Khalfoun, together with his long-term collaborator and producer Alexandre Aja, delivers his own gripping version of the Spanish indie horror LA NOCHE DEL RATON. Following his adaptation of the classic MANIAC, the director's latest picture is another masterfully crafted example of genre film, complete with a powerful and evocative sound design and, of course, a large arsenal of gruesome effects.

new gods: yang jian

Bounty hunter Erlang travels through space to the various layers of the kingdom in order to catch a thief. Soon, he realizes that he is not the only one who is after him, and that the universe's survival is dependent on this mission. Chinese director Ji Zhao (WHITE SNAKE) transforms the screen once more into a sparkling firework of ideas and colors that form a magnificent animated spectacle.

the moon

Korea's attempt to fly to the moon goes wrong. THE MOON, directed by Kim Yong-hwa, is an innovative take on a space-based narrative that echoes both of the genre's masters, GRAVITY and THE MARTIAN. Using gripping pathos, the pulse is quickly pushed to the limit, and it creates sincere emotions that bring you close to the characters in their condition of emergency. A sensational film.

the harbinger

In the midst of the pandemic Monique leaves her quarantine to assist one of her friends who suffers from scary nightmares. Soon Monique too is haunted by a strange presence. THE HARBINGER is a deeply disturbing paranoia thriller that is just not another lockdown film, but allows its premise, steeped in real-life fears and events, to lead into a dark urban nightmare that drills straight into the subconscious.

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dogman

During a traffic stop, Doug is picked up at the wheel of a truck full of dogs, covered in blood and wearing an evening gown. During his interrogation at the police station, he tells the psychologist assigned to him of events so shocking that they defy the imagination. His story goes back to the days of his childhood, when his mother fled his sadistic father (Clemens Schick) and Doug - now locked up in the dog pound - made a unique pact with his four-legged friends. This inseparable bond is the foundation of an incredible life: Despite being outcast by the world, DogMan never gives up and, together with his army of animals, takes on the mighty and the evil.

With echoes of JOKER, DOGMAN is a fantastic, wild trip of a film. Its grandiose visuals, fast-paced action scenes and fantastic music make it an extremely intense cinematic experience. The spectacular scenario of the successful director Luc Besson, who could not have found a better person to play the role of DogMan than Caleb Landry Jones, unfolds in a comic-like, fairytale-like and magical way. Already awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 for his performance in NITRAM, he delivers another sensational, award-worthy performance here. Chapeau also to his 30 adorable, barking sidekicks who add to the charm of the film.

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lost in the stars

He Fei wakes up with a gorgeous lady in his bed who claims to be Li Muzi, just one day after reporting his wife, Li Muzi, missing. His attempt to demonstrate the opposite fails, especially because the woman is on all their common holiday pictures. Is this a criminal plot or is He Fei really loosing it? This Chinese blockbuster has so many twists and turns that it will leave you dizzy, much like the main protagonist.

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mars express

This masterfully crafted animation film presents a fascinating, in-depth dystopian portrait of life on Mars in the year 2200. The compelling science fiction thriller MARS EXPRESS poses the philosophical and timely question: How much soul does AI possess? A theme that has already helped METROPOLIS, BLADE RUNNER, and GHOST IN THE SHELL become iconic works of genre cinema. Advanced science fiction!