The Reckoning (2021) | May 26

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind. – JustWatch.com

Director: Neil Marshall

Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson, Suzanne Magowan, Ian Whyte, Callum Goulden

Country: United Kingdom

Distributor: RLJ Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) | May 25

Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something? – IMDb.com

Director: Hélène Cattet , Bruno Forzani

Cast: Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Anna D’Annunzio, Hans de Munter, Birgit Yew, Ursula Bedena, Elsebeth Steentoft, Sylvia Camarda

Country: Belgium

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Ganja & Hess (1973) | May 24

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant, bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality… and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant’s beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja comes searching for her missing husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power blood holds. – Kino Lorber

Director: Bill Gunn

Cast: Marlene Clark, Duane Jones, Bill Gunn, Sam Waymon, Leonard Jackson. Candece Tarpley, Richard Harrow

Country: United States

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Platform: Shudder, Kanopy

Special Programming: Midnight Movies, Classic Cinema

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Slaxx (2020) | May 23

When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young salesclerk, to stop its bloody rampage. – JustWatch.com

Director: Elza Kephart

Cast: Romane Denis, Brett Donahue, Sehar Bhojani, Kenny Wong, Tianna Nori, Jessica B. Hill, Erica Anderson

Country: Canada

Distributor: The Horror Collective

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 17 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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The Wolf House (2018) | May 23

María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet— is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest. – JustWatch.com

Director: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

Cast: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña, Natalia Geisse, Javiera Ramirez

Country: Chile

Distributor: Kimstim Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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The Babadook (2014) | May 22

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. – JustWatch.com

Director: Jennifer Kent

Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Benjamin Winspear, Cathy Adamek

Country: Australia

Distributor: IFC Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes

Platform: Video-on-Demand

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations