The strain

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Stalker

162mn - Sci-Fi, Drama

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specif…

poster Blood Alley

Blood Alley

86mn - Action, Crime, Thriller

Elijah Kane Is on a new mission for the government after being promised that the CIA will provide information about who put out a hit on his previous team. Kane and the new team have to take down a high l…

poster Arachnicide

Arachnicide

91mn - Sci-Fi, Action, Horror

After years of experimenting, a researcher succeeds in creating an incubator that accelerates plant and animal growth. This technology is controlled by a powerful criminal organization and is being used t…

poster They Live

They Live

94mn - Sci-Fi, Action

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

poster Ashgrove

Ashgrove

Set during a pandemic that affects the world's water supply, one of the world's top scientists is battling to find a cure.

poster Invasion of the Saucer-Men

Invasion of the Saucer-Men

69mn - Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.

poster Discipline

Discipline

103mn - Thriller

A series of murders are confounding the local police with its residue of mutilated corpses. It begins when a sadistic cult murders willing victims for entertainment. Professor Lafitte, a rich sophisticate…

poster A Monster Among Men

A Monster Among Men

Five friends escape to a secluded cabin near Six Rivers National Forest for what should be a relaxing getaway. When a heated argument tears the group apart, tensions rise and hidden secrets emerge, turnin…

poster Intimate Agony

Intimate Agony

95mn - Drama, Short

Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted re…

poster The Brain from Planet Arous

The Brain from Planet Arous

71mn - Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the ev…

poster The Beast of Yucca Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats

54mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear te…

Rukus

87mn - Drama, Animation, Fantasy

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, Rukus is a queer coming-of-age story set in the liminal spaces of furry conventions, southern punk houses, and virtual worlds.

poster Steel Toes

Steel Toes

Nonemn - Drama, Crime

Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny Dunkleman, a Jewish liberal humanist, and the court-appointed lawyer representing Mike Downey, a Neo-Na…

poster Road Wars

Road Wars

90mn - Sci-Fi, Action

After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges…

poster Terminus

Terminus

115mn - Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action

An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fai…

poster Criminal Act

Criminal Act

93mn - Thriller, Horror, Crime

Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.

poster Fear and Desire

Fear and Desire

62mn - Drama, War

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly be…

poster The Monster Maker

The Monster Maker

62mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

Obsessed with a young woman, mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff injects her father with a horrific disease that causes grotesque deformities. As the pianist's condition deteriorates, he faces an impossible ch…

Hydra

94mn - Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transp…

Runt

Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.

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