IFC Midnight (Firm)
1) Room 237
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways...
Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A debunker of all things paranormal, Professor Philip Goodman has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases. Even scarier, each of these macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to Professor Goodman's own life. Will they make a believer of him yet?
3) Rubikon
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station₂s ₃algae symbiosis system.₄
4) The babadook
Pub. Date
2015
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Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins...
6) Watcher
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
As a serial killer stalks the city murdering young women, an actress who just moved to Bucharest with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger constantly watching her from across the street. In a foreign country where she does not speak the language and under the scrutiny of this stalker, her life quickly becomes tense and insufferable, but she finds no one to believe her.
7) Mad God
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A disabled war veteran is in bad hands when his family hires the live in nurse from hell in this intense psychological shocker. George is an aging ex-soldier haunted by memories of Vietnam and struggling to reconnect with his estranged son and granddaughter. But when he suffers a stroke and is diagnosed with dementia, George is left in the care of Michelle, a seemingly sweet nurse with a disturbing dark side.
9) Grabbers
Pub. Date
2013
Description
On Erin Island, an idyllic fishing village off the coast of Ireland, charming inebriate Ciaran O'Shea is tasked with showing police officer Lisa Nolan her new beat. But strange doings are aloof. The crew of a fishing boat disappears, whales start appearing dead on the shore, and a local lobsterman catches a mysterious tentacled creature in his trap. Soon it becomes clear to O'Shea and Nolan that there's something unnatural out there, and it's hungry....
10) Barbarians
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Four friends come together for a celebratory dinner party at a country house. But as the night progresses dark secrets emerge and unsettling events begin to unfold around them.
11) Rent-a-pal
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the charming and charismatic Andy, the tape offers him much-needed company, compassion, and friendship. But, Andy's friendship comes at a cost, and David desperately struggles to afford the price of admission....
12) American fable
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
With her family's livelihood imperiled by the farm crisis of the 1980s, eleven-year-old Gitty loses herself in a world of fantasy and make believe. But she stumbles into her own fairytale when she makes a startling discovery, a well-dressed mystery man being held captive in her family's silo. It's the beginning of a labyrinthine journey that will turn Gitty's world upside down and force her to question her loyalty to her own family.
13) Hunter hunter
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the isolated wilderness. But they soon become progressively worried when a severely injured man shows up to disrupt their peaceful existence.
14) Mad God
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
15) Haunter
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In 1986, teenager Lisa and her family died in their home under sinister circumstances. Unable to move on, their spirits continued to roam the house during the intervening years. Now over a period of six days, Lisa must reach out from beyond the grave to help her living counterpart Olivia avoid the same fate that Lisa and her family suffered long ago. Uniquely unsettling and shocking, this one-of-a-kind reverse ghost story that chills long after the...
16) Skinamarink
Publisher
RLJ Entertianment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
19) Come true
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
20) Angels of sex
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Description
Bruno is a struggling martial artist and dancer who is violently mugged. When Rai, a fellow dancer, comes to his rescue, sparks begin to fly and within hours a connection develops between them. After Bruno returns home to Carla, his girlfriend, he wonders if he can be true to Carla and Rai, as well as himself.