The Babadook

Lonely single mother Amelia struggles to bond with and raise her son Sam. He is hard to deal with, obsessed with imaginary monsters, building traps and weapons to fight them with. This spills over into occasional violence/property damage, he has no friends and struggles to fit in at school.

Amelia seems to resent Sam, blaming him for robbing her of the opportunity to make and keep adult friends but also her partner was killed driving her to hospital for Sam's birth.

One day she reads to Sam from a new and sinister children's book, "Mr Babadook" and his paranoia about the monster described within goes into overdrive. Nobody gets any sleep at night any more and shit starts to go sideways.

The Midnight Sky

A lone scientist (George Clooney) stays behind at an Arctic scientific base when it is evacuated in the wake of a global catastrophe. Meanwhile a returning space exploration mission from Jupiter is puzzled by the loss of contact with Ground Control and the comms specialist (Felicity Jones) continues to try and make contact. The two end up communicating intermittently and he warns them to attempt no landing.

Countdown

Demonic phone app predicts your time of death. For real.

Parasite

Following an unlooked for opportunity, a poor family inveigle their way into every aspect of a rich household.

Exploiting insecurities and prejudices of the heads of the household they squeeze out those already there. 

Things escalate until a tragic denouement.

The Prestige

Two Victorian stage magicians spend years in obsessive rivalry aiming to outdo each other after a tragic accident makes them enemies. They make great and sometimes terrible sacrifices in doing so and ruin each other's lives in the process.

The VVitch

A pilgrim family, cast out from their community for some disagreement, scrape a meagre living on the edge of the dark forest. Here they fall prey to misfortune, their own failings, and the titular witch.

10 Cloverfield Lane

A woman wakes after a car accident imprisoned in the bunker of a creepy control freak survivalist who tells her some terrible event has happened and it's not safe to leave.

No good will come of this

Cold Skin

A naturalist travels to a remote island, finds himself menaced by amphibious humanoids and teams up with the misanthropic lighthouse keeper to survive the winter under regular nighttime attacks.

Bacurau

The return home for the funeral of a small town matriarch against a backdrop of tense and occasionally violent local politics begins to turn weird. The locals find their phones no longer work and that the town seems to have gone missing from the Internet.

The Other Lamb

A young woman pushes back against the toxic leader of the dysfunctional cult she was born into.

No good will come of this.

BlackkKlansman

Detective Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first black Police office in the Colorado Springs dept.

Despite struggling with some racism he has great success working undercover and gets assigned to the Intelligence devision.

Here he infiltrates the KKK posing as a white man through telephone conversations and correspondance but has to get one of his colleagues (Adam Driver ) to stand in when it comes to face to face meetings.

This all gets very complicated.

Midsommar

Student Dani (Florence Pugh) is struggling with the death of her sister and failing relationship with her boyfriend Christian.

Their friendship group has been invited by a Swedish friend Pelle to attend midsummer festival at his ancestral commune in rural Sweden.

Christian was going to dump Dani and head off to the festival without her, but after an argument instead he invites her along.

No good will come of this.