The Void

Danny Carter (Aaron Paul) is a bored sheriff in a rural area facing the end of a dull evening shift. When he spots a bloodied man by the side of the road he rushes him to the quiet hospital where his former partner Alison (Kathleen Munroe) works.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror and squishy abominations a go-go. They also treat the female characters badly in a "just there to be victims" 80s style

Incantation

Li Ronan (Tsai Hsuan-yen) is getting her daughter Dodo back home after her being looked after by the state for several years due to Li Ronan's mental health problems.

She records a video diary so her daughter can have it to look back on.

Once Dodo is home things initially go well but she starts to behave erratically and talk about there being "baddies" in the home and at school.

Li Ronan realises that she has not been able to escape the past but seems powerless to do anything without reliving the things that drove her to abandon Dodo in the first place.

Amulet

Tomaz (Alec Secareanu) is living homeless in London working cash in hand as a labourer. At night he has terrible dreams. Flashbacks to a a war (Kosovo maybe, the year is vague) when he was younger. When his current refuge burns down, a nun (Imelda Staunton) finds him passed out with smoke inhalation in the street and ensures he gets to hospital.

Once he's well she finds him a place to stay with Magda (Carla Juri) in the decrepit old house where she looks after her invalid mother. All they ask is he helps out around the house.

No good will come of this.

CW: rape, body horror

Predators

A group of ultimate badasses and a doctor (Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Mahershala Ali, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo & Louis Ozawa Changchien) are parachuted into a mysterious jungle not really remembering how they got there. At first they're suspicious of each other but then must work together when they realise they are being hunted by the titular Predators.

The reflecting skin

Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) lives a life ruled by superstition and ignorance in rural 50s America. At age 9 it's unclear if he ever goes to school and is punished cruelly for minor disobedience by his weirdly religious mother, Ruth.

His father has a small run down garage that sells gasoline and his mother constantly chides the man for stinking of the stuff.

He has a slightly odd encounter with their neighbour Dolphin Blue (Lindsey Duncan), a widow who has a home filled with curiosities, where she cries and shows him keepsakes of her dead husband and Seth takes a strong dislike to her.

Later, on being regaled by tales of Vampires from a pulp novel his father is reading he decides Dolphin must be a vampire. When his friends start turning up dead it just makes him more sure.

No good will come of this.

CW: animal cruelty, suicide

The Black Phone

Finney (Mason Thames) goes to school where the town is littered with missing posters and all the kids talk about "The Grabber" the person supposedly responsible for all the missing kids.

One day he falls victim to the sinister masked figure (Ethan Hawke) and finds himself locked in a stark soundproofed basement.

On the wall is a disconnected phone but it starts to ring and the voices on the other end begin to offer him advice on how to escape.

Meanwhile his sister Ginny (Madeleine McGraw) is having visions of the Grabber that might lead her to him.

Roma

Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) works as a maid for an affluent Doctor's family in 1970s Mexico City.

(that's it, there is no complicated premise)

CW: Absolutely mundane horrible onscreen death of people including a baby that is so unglamourised and matter of fact it's more horrific than any horror movie.

Ringu

Journalist Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) begins investigating the circumstances of her niece's unexplained death, which her schoolmates attribute to the watching of a "cursed" video cassette. It seems she's not the only one that died after viewing it.

Initially sceptical at this urban legend she tracks their movements and she ends up at the hotel where apparently the group of friends (now all dead) watched this.

While speaking to the proprietor she spots an unmarked tape on the shelves.

No good will come of this.

The Farewell

When aspiring New York writer Bilii's (Awkwafina) much loved but rarely visited grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer the family members in China resolve to cover this up to spare her distress until the last possible moment when it can no longer be kept from her.

A family wedding is hastily arranged as a pretext for the family to say goodbye to "Nai Nai" but Billi's parents deter her from attending. Travelling alone, she surprises everybody on arrival but the family are insistent that under no circumstances should her grandmother be told the truth.

Await further instructions

Nick (Sam Gittins) and his new girlfriend Annji (Neerja Naik) go home to his parents' house for Christmas and when faced with an overbearing conservative Christian father, vile racist grandfather and obstinately stupid sister there's a massive disastrous argument despite the best efforts of his mother to smooth things over. So the pair resolve to do an early morning flit the next day.

However on getting ready to leave they find every exit to the house blocked by a black fibrous wall and the TV displaying the cryptic message "Stay indoors and await further instructions".

No good will come of this.