Christmas film, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Slasher
Kelvin Cheatum is trying to save his father's studio from bankruptcy by producing worthy heirs to his father's slate of classic low-budget cult films. Cheatum Studio's current productions include Hamburger Time Traveler Detective and the ninth entry of his father's famous killer puppet franchise. A blogger who goes by the name of "Demon Warrior 13" is organizing effective boycotts of their films.
Four isolated astronauts in the lunar mining base Ark suffer a meteor storm. While inspecting the damage caused by the meteors, astronaut Ava Cameron discovers spores contained in one of the fragments and brings them back to the base for investigation. The medical officer discovers that these spores can grow rapidly, and in the process Ava is contaminated with them.
A large king cobra escapes during transport and kills two railroad workers before reaching a small town in Alabama. That night, Father Tom Farrow, the town's Catholic priest, is warned by librarian Evelyn Downs that an ancient enemy has come to claim his soul. The next day, two tree loggers are attacked by a rattlesnake, prompting Dr.
In 1947, Trinity College students Symonds (a theologian) and Alex (a scientist) visit the elderly Aleister Crowley. Crowley discusses the possibility of resurrecting from the dead with the help of sex magic rituals. The students deliver a letter, from which Crowley learns that one of his students gave away the secret of the "Moon Child" ritual to a science fiction writer.
Marcus (Xavier Samuel), his best friend Craig (Bobby Morley), and their friends, Liz (Georgina Haig) and Nina (Sophie Lowe) are touring the Australian outback. On the first night Craig and Nina make love in one tent while Liz in the other wants some of the same sort of action but Marcus, who is in love with Nina, ignores her. Later in the day they are deliberately nudged by a road train, resulting in a duel which ends when their Jeep Cherokee is pushed off the road and totally wrecked.
Kay is an abstract visual artist plagued by disturbing dreams since childhood. The intensity and frequency of the dreams have fluctuated throughout her life, as has their content; some of her dreams are simply glimpses of desolate locations that leave her feeling dread upon awakening, while others feature the gruesome deaths of her friends and loved ones at the hands of a supernatural force. Recently, her dreams have become more frequent and disturbing than ever, leading to a decline in the quality of her work.
The film opens in Tasmania in the 1800s. Alexander Pearce, a convict known as "the Pieman", has escaped into the wilderness, and he is being hunted by policemen with dogs. He is faced by a policeman who attempts to shoot Pearce, but his gun does not fire.
On an isolated island in a church, a priest is reading scripture on some ancient demonic artefacts, at the same time a young girl gives a Nun a similar looking artefact, after which she heads to the church. The church is suddenly flooded and the priest is stabbed by a floating cross. The following morning the nun holding the artefact (a sort of demonic medallion) falls to her death from the cliffs after being pushed by an unseen force.
Dr. Jennifer Allen in Baltimore, Maryland wants to find a cure for a disease known as the Gillen virus, capturing infected mosquitoes and giving them small doses of radiation. A convict named Ray Erikson joins Dr.
Astronaut and osteopath, Dr. Ivan Hood and his companion Kelly return to Earth after a 40-year space mission with two other astronauts. They are soon captured by human bounty hunters near the ruins of Portland, Oregon and one of their team is killed after sustaining a sprain; Dr.
Dennis Skinner is a handsome, likeable young man who is secretly a skid row slasher-style serial killer preying on sex workers. To avoid detection he moves from town to town, eventually ending up in his current location, where he rents a room from Kerry Tate, a married woman whose trucker husband Geoff is frequently out of town. Skinner immediately starts looking for new victims and also takes a job as a janitor.
Kate (Catherine Hickland) is driving alone down a highway in Riverton, Arizona after having left her fiancé at the altar. While driving, she hears the noise of horses galloping outside her car, but sees no one. After pulling onto the side of the road, she is whisked away in a dust cloud and disappears.
While praying in St. Agnes church in New Orleans, Father Dennis is confronted by a demon taking the shape of a seductive woman. The woman tears his throat open, killing him.
The film tells the story of a prop from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day it resurfaces, leading to murder and mayhem.
Late at night in early 1900s England, wealthy and elderly Ella Venable is murdered in her manor house by Andrew the butler in collusion with Ella's husband, Walter, and Clara the maid. Tabitha, Ella's tabby cat, witnesses the murder. The murderers resolve to kill her.
Madison, a single mother, lives with her two children, Jacob and Hayleigh, in a suburban home. Madison's financial difficulties prompt her to consider declaring bankruptcy. Jacob was involved in a fight six months prior and now sees a counselor to evaluate his state of mind.
The film opens with brief flashes of a man and a woman embracing. The man later proves to be Brady, the "odd-job man." There is also a flash of the woman's body floating in the lake. The reclusive Helen invites her friend Anne, a writer, to stay the weekend with her at her family's estate.
Frederic "Casper" Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he is staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia, who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead lover, Captain Howdy. When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case.
Cynthia Nelson, a teacher at an orphanage, prepares a fundraising costume party. Meanwhile, orphan Tommy wanders into the nearby cemetery and hears a voice giving orders to "rise." Then, vampire women rise from their graves. Tommy tries to escape but runs into Count Yorga.
Jeremy Taylor is traveling through the Amazon rivers along with his wife and daughter when his boat gets attacked by some Indigenous cannibals who eat his wife Elisabeth and take Jeremy prisoner. The little girl Léna manages to hide inside the boat, even though the cannibal witch doctor and his son Yakeké find her fainted on the side of a river and carry her to the village, where she gets worshipped as the "white goddess." After having suffered an arm amputation, Jeremy flees from the cannibal tribe and, rescued, manages to return to New York. His recovery, both physical and psychological, is still slow.
The film opens with a detective informing Jill (Caitlyn Folley) that her boyfriend Adam (Ian Duncan) is dead and that two others are missing. The film then cuts to Adam shooting film of Jill with the intention of turning it into a film about her and her paintings. He jokingly asks to film a sex tape and despite Jill initially declining, he then films the two of them trying to have sex in various locations.
In 1968, an infected Soviet man, Rubinsky, is being operated on at a military hospital when soldiers arrive and begin to shoot all of those who are in the building. One of the hospital students steals a strange vial, enclosing it in his thermos. He is later shot by the soldiers as he attempts to escape through the woods and the thermos is dropped.
Julia Streak (Louisa Krause) is a troubled, antipsychotic-dependent young woman who takes a job as a night guard at a grand but abandoned apartment complex so she can support her daughter, Clara. She is accepted by master keeper Dixon Boothe (Ezra Knight) and introduced to the only other security guard for the complex, the rude paraplegic Dennis Cooper (Jason Patric), who has been working at the complex since it opened. While patrolling, Julia hears whispers from Room 441, whose access is blocked by a locked door.