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**Directed by: Denis Villeneuve**
**Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon**
**Rated: R for Some Strong Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 31 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Acting, Themes, Cinematography, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: A Bit Slight**

Enemy (2013)

December 14, 2020

A man spots his doppelganger in a film and tries to seek him out.

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**Directed by: Richard Attenborough**
**Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time:1 h 45 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Themes, Atmosphere**

Magic (1978)

October 17, 2020

A ventriloquist’s peculiar relationship with his dummy begins to affect his personal life.

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**Directed by: Mariano Baino**
**Starring: Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 34 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Production Design, Atmosphere, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Slightly Schmaltzy Climax, Mild Pacing in First Act**

Dark Waters (1993)

October 13, 2020

After the death of her father, a young girl travels to a remote convent on an island to find out why her father funded it for years.

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**Directed by: Dario Argento**
**Starring: Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Christopher Rydell, Frederic Forrest, Brad Dourif**
**Rated: R for Violence and Terror, and for Some Sexuality and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 46 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: A Couple Cool Kills, Some Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Writing, Pacing, Some Weird Directing Choices**

Dario Argento's Trauma (1993)

October 11, 2020

A young man tries to help a teenage European after she witnesses the murder of her parents.

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**Directed by: Ole Bornedal**
**Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Lauren Graham, Brad Dourif, John C Reilly**
**Rated: R for Strong, Morbid Violence, Language, Sexuality and Some Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 41 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting, Concept, Some Direction**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Most Acting, Some Execution**

Nightwatch (1997)

October 10, 2020

A law student at a morgue begins to discover clues that implicate him as the lead suspect in a series of grotesque murders.

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**Directed by: Adam Simon**
**Starring: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 25 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Inventiveness**
**WEAKNESSES: Predictability, Acting, Schmaltzy Moments**

Brain Dead (1990)

October 8, 2020

A neurosurgeon is recruited to extract crucial data from the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic, and finds he himself in a waking nightmare.

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**Directed by: Peter Callow**
**Starring: Eva-Marie Kung, Ross Noble, Colin Burnicle, Griffin Stevens, Sesselia Olafs, Edward Baker-Duly**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Violence Including Disturbing Images and for Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Atmosphere, Concept, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Effects, Acting, Unlikeable Characters**

The Circle (2017)

October 7, 2020

A group of archaeology students travel to a remote Scottish island where they stumble upon a mysterious site, and soon, unusual phenomenon begin.

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**Directed by: Brad Anderson**
**Starring: David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Stephen Gevedon, Josh Lucas, Brendan Sexton III**
**Rated: R for Language and Brief Strong Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: A Bit Slight**

Session 9 (2001)

October 6, 2020

An asbestos cleaning crew working in an abandoned mental hospital with a dark past starts to experience unusual phenomenon.

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**Directed by: Lukas Feigelfeld**
**Starring: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky**
**Rated: NR (Suggest R for Disturbing Violent Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Cinematography, Story, Sound Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Small Target Audience**

Hagazussa (2017)

October 5, 2020

A woman living in isolation faces judgement and persecution from a group of nearby villagers, who believe the woman to be a witch.

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**Directed by: Vincente Aranda**
**Starring: Simon Andreu, Maribel Martin, Alexandra Bastedo**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 22 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Dream Sequence, Atmosphere, Production Design, Weird Twist**
**WEAKNESSES: Mild Pacing, Thin Story and Characters**

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

October 4, 2020

Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of a centuries-old woman who murdered her husband on her wedding night.

81yjhYJo3dL._RI_.jpg — Starry Eyes (2014)

**Directed by: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer**
**Starring: Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Disturbing Graphic Violence and Gory Images, Language and Nudity)**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Third Act, Some Acting, Writing, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Subpar Moments**

Starry Eyes (2014)

October 3, 2020

A Faustian tale about a young actress struggling to make it in LA.

Audition (1999)

October 2, 2020

A widower takes an opportunity to screen girls at an audition arranged for him by a friend to find a new wife, only the girl whom the widower chooses to date is not at all who she seems.

Come to Daddy (2019)

March 9, 2020

A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to connect with the father he never knew.

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**Directed by: Bong Joon Ho**
**Starring: Hey-Ja Kim, Won Bin, Goo Jin**
**Rated: R for Language, Some Sexual Content, Violence and Drug Use**
**Running Time: 2 h 9 m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Characters, Twists**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Mother (2009)

March 5, 2020

A mother desperately searches for a killer so that she can free her mentally-handicapped son, who has been accused of murder.

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**Directed by: Leigh Whannell**
**Starring: Elizabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Storm Reid**
**Rated: R for Some Strong Bloody Violence, and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Great Scenes, Acting, Some Themes, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Lots of Tiny Plot Holes, Uneven Quality**

The Invisible Man (2020)

February 28, 2020

After Cecilia’s abusive ex Adrian takes his own life and leaves her a fortune, she begins to experience strange phenomena and suspects Adrian might be behind it.

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**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Dianne Ladd, Jack Nance, Sherilyn Fenn**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Story, Weirdness, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Lynch-lite, Somewhat Silly at Times**

Wild at Heart (1990)

February 27, 2020

Young lovers Sailor and Lula go on the run after Lula’s mother tries to keep them apart by any means necessary.

1*yr3aXzZNFx6Yxx-gtgcUIg.jpg — Inland Empire (2006)

**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Karolina Gruszka, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Terry Crews, Nastassja Kinski, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts**
**Rated: R for Language, Some Violence and Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 3 h**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Surreal Sequences, Unusual Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Length**

Inland Empire (2006)

February 24, 2020

An actress is cast to play the lead in a reputedly cursed script, and as she sets out to make the film, she finds it difficult to separate the film from reality, and reality from her dreams.

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**Directed by: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz**
**Starring: Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone, Jaeden Martel, Lia McHugh**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Violence, Some Bloody Images and Brief Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Atmosphere, Acting, Final Act**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Predictable**

The Lodge (2019)

February 21, 2020

A soon-to-be stepmother takes her fiancé’s children to a remote lodge to get to know them, but soon unusual events start to plague them.

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**Directed by: Shun’ya Ito**
**Starring: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Wantanabe, Yukie Kagawa, FUdeko Tanaka**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Graphic Violence and Nudity)**
**Running Time: 1 h 30 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Direction, Story, Action, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Sleazy/ Exploitative (?)**

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

February 18, 2020

The second entry in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series. After being locked in solitary confinement for a year, Matsu the Scorpion escapes with a van full of prisoners and flees across a surreal landscape.

eh 1.jpg — Event Horizon (1997)

**Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson**
**Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs**
**Rated: R Rated**
**Run Time: 1 h 36m**
**TMM Score: 4**
**Strengths: High Concept, Atmosphere, Horror Sequences**
**Weakness: Some Acting, Slight**

Event Horizon (1997)

February 6, 2020

Years after its disastrous disappearance, the Event Horizon, a ship designed to travel faster than light has reappeared near Neptune. It’s up to one crew to find out what happened to it, where it went, and what came back with it.

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