Matriarch

Laura (Jemima Rooper) has a successful career in an advertising agency but lives an empty personal life she fills with drugs and alcohol.

She has a significant nosedive and one night overdoses, recovering unexpectedly but finds herself unable to cope any more, lashing out at work and also suffering from unexplained bleeding.

When her mother Celia (Kate Dickie) calls out of the blue this triggers her to go back to her childhood home despite the two being estranged for twenty years.

No good will come of this.

CW: eating disorder, drug abuse, body horror

Talk to me

Mia (Sophie Wilde) and Jade (Alexandra Jensen) are into usual late teen stuff. There's drama, boyfriends, disagreements with their parents and parties.

The hottest party ticket is anywhere Hayley and Joss pitch up with the hand: supposedly the embalmed hand of a medium that can put you in touch with the dead. Videos of the unnerving results are all over their phones.

One night they manage to get an invite and Jade's younger brother Riley (Joe Bird) tags along, like he does.

No good will come of this.

CW: self harm, gore

Creep 2

Sara (Desiree Akhavan) has a YouTube channel where she meets up with people who've posted personal ads looking for companionship, the odder the better, and records the results. It's a cavalcade of lonely and/or odd people at times bordering on the fetish scene.

The channel is not doing well.

Her next meet is with Aaron (Mark Duplass) who almost immediately confesses to being a serial killer, although that's OK because he promises he won't kill her in the next 24 hours and he never lies.

No good week come of this.

CW: murder, suicide, stalking, full frontal nudity

Shoplifters

The Shibatu family live in a tiny cramped home in a poor part of Tokyo.

Grandmother Hatsue's (Kirin Kiki) pension provides some basic stability but otherwise they live precariously. Osamu (Lily Franky) does day labour on building sites and Nobuyo (Sakura Ando) works part time in an industrial laundry. Aki (Mayu Matsuoka) work on the fringes of the sex industry in a hands off fetish peep show.

To make ends meet Osamu takes young Shota (Kairi Jō) shoplifting for things they need or can sell and they're all into small grifts to make money.

One night walking home, Nobuyo spots a young girl shut outside of an apartment in the cold. They take her in and give her a meal, planning to take her home in the morning.

When it becomes clear Yuri is poorly fed and being beaten that plan sort of evaporates with nothing to take its place.

No good will come of this.

CW: child neglect

Polite Society

Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) has unconventional dreams for a young British Pakistani woman: training diligently in martial arts and making her own YouTube channel with her performing moves and stunts.

Ria wants to be a stuntwoman. Fuck being a Pharmacist.

Her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) has just dropped out of art school and is going through a despondent phase.

Their quite traditional parents tolerate their dreams but try to steer them onto a more conventional path.

When a chance meeting with a handsome Doctor has Lena in a whirlwind romance and sudden engagement Ria decides this is suspicious and that she must stop the wedding by any means necessary.

CW: solid swearing

Cocaine Bear

1985. When a plane carrying a smuggler's shipment of cocaine is forced to ditch over the Georgia mountains the cargo is distributed widely over the area.

No good will come of this

CW: gore splatterfest

The Boogeyman

Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) and Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair) Harper miss their mother, who died unexpectedly in an accident. Their father Will (Chris Messina) is distant and in a kind of denial.

Will works as a therapist, seeing patients in his home office. One day a troubled man comes to see him without an appointment.

No good will come of this.

CW: Jump scares

Totally Killer

Back in 1987 a masked killer slaughtered three high school girls around Halloween, stabbing them sixteen times each and the town has a small industry doing "sweet sixteen slasher walks" every year.

When the killer returns 35 years later, Jamie Hughes (Kiernan Shipka) finds herself thrust back in time and attempts to stop the first murders ever happening using the true crime podcasts about it on her phone.

No good will come of this.

CW: it's a slasher movie laden with 80s slasher movie stuff, but mostly comedically

No one will save you

Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an anxious young woman living a purposefully solitary life in the house she grew up in. She is a pariah in town due to her involvement in a tragedy when she was young but fills her life with retro styled homewares and makes a living doing mail order sales of her own similarly quirky clothes.

One night she is woken by a noise outside the house and assuming it is just raccoons goes to investigate.

No good will come of this.

CW: mild body horror

The Conjuring: The Devil made me do it

During a problematic exorcism Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) is hospitalised and it isn't until after he regains consciousness that Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) finds out they were unsuccessful and the demon had just migrated to the body of a young man present rather than being expelled.

In the meantime he has killed and stands trial for murder but the Warrens suggest a novel defence: "Not guilty by reason of Demonic possession".

CW: suicide