The Bloodlust Bloodlust Ventures

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 59min
Directed by Arkasha Stevenson
Written by Arkasha Stevenson, Tim Smith and Keith Thomas
Stars: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson and Sonia Braga
Released in theaters April 5, 2024
RT: 81% critics / 70% audience

Synopsis
Another young novitiate from the U.S. arrives at her new home in an Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 29min
Directed by Michael Mohan
Written by Andrew Lobel
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte and Simona Tabasco
Premiered at South by Southwest March 12, 2024
Released in theaters March 22, 2024
RT: 71% critics / 59% audience


Synopsis
A young novitiate arrives at her new home in a remote Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 33min
Directed by Robert Morgan
Written by Robert Morgan and Robin King
Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet and Tom York
Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 24, 2023
Available on streaming starting March 15, 2024
RT: 89% critics / 52% audience

Synopsis
An animator who works under her overbearing mother starts to come unglued when her mother has a stroke
Join us next time when we'll review Immaculate, now playing in theaters.

Not Rated 

Runtime: 1hr 38min

Written & Directed by Stephen Cognetti

Stars: Bridget Rose Perrotta, Destiny Leilani Brown and James Liddell

Limited theatrical release October 24, 2023, premiered on Shudder October 30, 2023

RT: 87% critics / 82% audience

Synopsis
Faux documentary about an internet sleuth who, along with her partner and her brother, spends five nights in the notoriously haunted Carmichael Manor, the site of a brutal multiple murder in the late 1980s. Once there they find connections to the equally infamous Abaddon Hotel.

Join us next time when we'll review Stopmotion, available to rent starting March 15, 2024.

Rated PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 44min
Written & Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Christopher Eccleston
Premiered August 2, 2001
RT: 84% critics / 77% audience

Synopsis
A woman who lives with her photosensitive children in the countryside and waits for her husband to return from WWII becomes convinced that their house is haunted.

Join us next time when we'll review Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, currently available on Shudder and AMC+.

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Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 52min
Stars: Efren Ramirez, Greg Grunberg and Sonya Eddy
Premiered at the Fantastic Fest September 25, 2022
Released on VOD September 14, 2023
RT: 91% critics / 45% audience


Synopsis

Wraparound segment - The Traveler
Directed by Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider! Tales of Halloween)
The sole survivor of a massacre is interrogated by police and confounds them with amazing stories of the supernatural
Tambien Lo Vi
Directed by Demián Rugna (When Evil Lurks, Terrified)
A math genius discovers a pattern that allows him to see and interact with the dead
El Vampiro
Directed by Eduardo Sánchez (Blair Witch, V/H/S/2)
A vampire goes out to enjoy himself in public on Halloween, only to be reminded by his exasperated wife about daylight savings time
Nahaules
Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero (V/H/S/85, ABCs of Death 2.5)
A CIA informant falls prey to a murderous indigenous force
The Hammer of Zanzibar
Directed by Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead, ABCs of Death 2)
A group of friends record a sacred ceremony on vacation, marking them for possession and death


Join us next time when we'll review The Others, available on Shudder starting February 15th.