I saw The Devil

Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) works as a school bus driver by day but at night has a thing for occasionally stalking, abducting and killing young women. One night his victim is Jang Joo-yun, daughter to the local Police chief and fiancée to NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun).

The Police have been maintaining a list of suspects for these murders but have been unable to narrow it down and Joo-yun's grieving father passes this to Soo-hyun who vows bloody revenge.

CW: torture, mutilation, rape, bloody violence generally

Possessor

Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a very specialised operative, who through the use of kidnap to surreptitiously install implants can remotely inhabit a person for a few days.

Vos works for a business which facilitates assassination and espionage at the request of high net worth individuals and businesses and is being groomed to replace her mentor Girder (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Outside of work she struggles to relate to her now estranged husband and son, wearing her own persona much like she's one of her own targets.

We follow her as she takes the place of Colin Tate (Christopher Abbot) who is to alter the path of a corporate dynastic succession by eliminating those higher in the pecking order.

CW: Suicide, mutilation, grisly murder, loss of self

Raw

Gifted young woman Justine (Garance Marillier) gets a place at a prestigious veterinary school where her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) also studies.

The school has a tradition of lengthy, elaborate and humiliating hazeing rituals which at one point involve eating some raw meat. Lifelong vegetarian Justine is disgusted but goes along with this after pressure from her sister.

After this she becomes ill and develops a taste for meat she can't quite satisfy...

CW: bullying, animal slaughter & cannibalism

A Field in England

During the English Civil War, cowardly alchemist's assistant Whitehead (Reece Shearmith) is hunting his master's nemesis O'Neil (Michael Smiley) when they are caught up on the fringes of a battle and the mercenaries he is travelling with are killed.

Fleeing the battle he meets up with several deserters and they resolve to travel to a nearby Inn one of them knows of, which is just down the hill and across the field.

However it soon transpires that he is working for O'Neil who has laid a mystical trap for Whitehead in the field.

CW: flashing kaleidoscopic imagery

26 Years

1980: hundreds of civilians are killed in the Gwangju uprising when it is brutally put down by the Army. (This is a real event from Korea's recent history)

Now 26 years later the President who ordered this atrocity has been legally censured for it but lives in luxurious retirement, still feted by elements of business and high society.

Five disparate people who were victims of Gwangju are brought together to get justice and if not that, revenge.

Wounds

Will (Armie Hammer) is the bartender at a dive bar in New Orleans with a crowd of somewhat rough regulars. One night there is a fight, one of the more robust clientele gets glassed and in the general chaos, some affluent underage drinkers run out of the bar. One of them leaves their phone behind and Will picks it up to return to them.

Later he guesses the unlock code and starts messaging contacts to try and contact the owner.

No good will come of this.

The Predator

Captain Quinn McKenna all round US military badass is on a covert mission when a Predator ship damaged in a space battle crashes on earth and into the middle of his operation. The Predator on board kills the rest of the team but he manages to steal some tech and get away. Looking for a fall guy the military line him up for the nuthouse because he mentioned aliens.

Shortly after a secret government project manages to capture the Predator and brings in conveniently hot big brain scientist Casey Bracket to study it. Bracket wants to interview McKenna so the bus taking him to the nuthouse (along with various "comedy" nut job ex military) diverts to the secret facility.

The ship from the space battles arrives, piloted by another Predator which somehow causes the first one to escape. McKenna and Bracket team up with the bus of misfits to hunt it down as it's heading to retrieve the stolen tech, which is with McKenna's family, oh no!

The Mitchells vs The Machines

Katie Mitchell, an aspiring film student gets her dream spot in film school. Following a big family argument her father decides to cancel her flight and drive across the USA as a family to "fix things". This goes about as well as could be expected.

While they're at a run down roadside attraction the ubiquitous AI assistant most people rely on in their phones and computers turns against mankind and begins rounding everybody up with its army of robots.

Through a freak accident the Mitchells end up with information that can defeat the robot army and hatch a plan to save the world.

A Quiet Place

Society has been destroyed by the arrival of vicious predatory creatures that hunt by sound. The Abbot family have built themselves a rural haven where they live as quietly as possible and have many tricks and routines to keep themselves safe if threatened.

Now Evelyn (Emily Blunt) is pregnant and almost due so the family are preparing to bunker down in the basement for the birth. However a few misfortunes and a little teenage rebellion from daughter Regan (Millicent Simmons) mean they're about to have a bad night of it.

Saint Maud

Maud (Morfydd Clark) is a young palliative care nurse assigned as a live in carer to Amanda (Jennifer Ehle) a once famous hedonistic dancer and choreographer now living out her last months in an old house in a run down seaside town.

Given Maud's strong religious beliefs the two clash but she is determined to stay the course and save Amanda's soul.

CW: self harm, body horror, rape, blasphemy worthy of mention if you're remotely Christian, suicide