Director: Brian Taylor
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur, Lance Henriksen
A teenage girl and her younger brother try to survive the unexplained phenomenon of parents trying to kill their own children.
Child death
Crimson Peak (2015)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Doug Jones
A young writer meets a mysterious and charismatic baronet, and after a personal tragedy, marries him and is brought to live in his remote, crumbling family home.
Leatherface (2017)
Directors: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Actors: Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse, James Bloor, Sam Coleman, Jessica Madsen
In this prequel to the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface is one of four patients to escape a mental institution along with a nurse who’s been taken hostage.
Fun Size Horror: Volume One (2015)
Directors: Grant Olin, Anthony Lund, Erin Stegeman, Michael May, Max Isaacson, Dick Grunert, Lisa J. Dooley, Mali Elfman, Ben Rekhi, Jerry Pyle, Nat Dinga, Eric Pereira, Zelda Pinheiro, Nick Bragg, Glen Murakami, Rachel Noll, Ned Ehrbar, Josh C. Waller
Fun Size Horror is an anthology of 21 horror shorts, each varying in themes and tone.
Mama (2013)
Director: Andy Muschietti
Actors: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash, Morgan McGarry, Jane Moffat, Megan Charpentier
Five years after vanishing in the woods, two young girls are returned to their uncle and his girlfriend, who try to give the now-feral girls a loving home. However, after tragedy strikes, it becomes apparent that the girls did not return alone.
XX (2017)
Directors: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama
Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Natalie Brown, Christina Kirk, Kyle Allen, Breeda Wool, Peyton Kennedy
An anthology of four short stories, all directed by women. In The Box, a child suddenly and completely loses his appetite. In The Birthday Party, a woman struggles to prepare for her daughter’s party after a disturbing discovery. In Don’t Fall, a group of four friends camp in the wrong place. In Her Only Living Son, we see an alternate future to a classic horror story.
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Director: Fede Álvarez
Actors: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang
Three young thieves break into the house of a blind man, hoping to get their hands on money he won in a lawsuit. They soon find things won’t go as easily as they hoped.
It Comes At Night (2017)
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Actors: Joel Edgarton, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Griffin Faulkner, David Pendleton
A small family faces personal tragedy in a post-apocalyptic world, and soon after must decide how to live with the strangers who have found their home.
IT (2017)
Director: Andy Muschietti
Actors: Bill Skarsgård, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Lieberher, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton, Jeremy Ray Taylor
Based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel of the same name, IT is the story of the Losers, seven children in Derry who face an ancient horror of many faces.
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Director: David F. Sandberg
Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Miranda Otto, Stephanie Sigman, Lulu Wilson, Talitha Bateman
Annabelle: Creation is a prequel to Annabelle, though it can be enjoyed without seeing the latter.
12 years after a terrible personal tragedy, the Mullins couple opens their home to a group of orphans. A strange place becomes even stranger after one of the girls enters a forbidden room and rouses an evil that’s been locked away.
Chocolate Box of Horror 