IFC Midnight (Firm)
1) Room 237
Language
English
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...
2) Barbarians
Language
English
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.
Language
English
Description
Mild-mannered sound engineer Gilderoy arrives in Rome to begin work on the soundtrack to a film called The Equestrian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an all-girl riding academy. Before long he finds himself entranced by the film's mysteriously terrifying allure, and the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur.
4) The vigil
Language
English
Description
A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
5) Rubikon
Language
English
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 station's algae symbiosis system.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files explores this Midwestern city by meeting those who knew Dahmer during and after his hidden killing spree.
Language
English
Description
Horror maestro Dario Argento puts his unique stylistic spin on the classic supernatural tale. It's been 400 years since Count Dracula's beloved Dolingen passed away, but when he discovers that Mina bears a striking resemblance to Dolingen, his furious yearning is reawakened as he believes Mina to be a reincarnation of his beloved. Dracula embarks on a bloody quest to reunite with his long lost love and live forever with her in hellish immortality....
Language
English
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.
9) The babadook
Language
English
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.
10) Burning man
Language
English
Description
Tom Keaton, a suave chef, meets and marries the beautiful Sarah and soon becomes a proud father. But when tragedy strikes, Tom is unable to cope and turns to a succession of sexual encounters with an array of women while neglecting his family and losing his grip at work. Tom must work to put his career and his relationship with his son back together in spite of his vice.
11) I remember you
Language
Icelandic
Description
An elderly woman hangs herself in a church. A grieving father searches for the truth about what happened to his missing son. And a trio of young city dwellers unleash a sinister force when they begin renovating a cursed home on a remote island. They don't know it yet, but each of these strangers is connected by a disturbing, decades-old secret, a mystery that holds the key to a series of terrifying supernatural events.