Today on VOD: Ava’s Possessions, Emilie, Road Games and The Wave
Did I fall asleep last night and wake up in October? Because judging by the volume of new horror movies that came out today, it sure as hell seems like Halloween must be near. While The Other Side of the Door (review) haunts the big screen, here’s your full list of new titles available from the comfort of your own home!
First up is the stylish and refreshing Ava’s Possessions, written and directed by Jordan Galland and featuring an original score by Sean Lennon. The film stars Louisa Krause, Jemima Kirke (HBO’s “Girls”), Carol Kane (Netflix’s “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), and Alysia Reiner and Deborah Rush (both of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black”), alongside horror favorites Whitney Able (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), William Sadler (Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight), Lou Taylor Pucci (The Evil Dead), and Dan Fogler (NBC’s “Hannibal”).
Synopsis:
Ava Bodkins (Louisa Krause) is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possession Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back, and figure out where the huge bloodstain in her apartment came from, she’s plagued by nightmarish visions – the demon is trying to come back.
Adventures in babysitting have never been so terrifying as they are in Michael Thelin’s Emilie, also now available for instant streaming. The film, which flips the script and makes the babysitter the villain, stars Sarah Bolger, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Thomas Bair, and Chris Beetem.
Synopsis:
As their parents head out for a date in the city, the three young Thompson children immediately take to their new babysitter, Anna (Sarah Bolger; “Into the Badlands,” “Once Upon a Time”), who seems like a dream come true: She’s sweet, fun, and lets them do things that break all of their parents’ rules. But as Anna’s interactions with them take on a more sinister tone, the kids realize that their caretaker may not be who she claims to be. Soon it’s up to big brother Jacob to protect his siblings from the increasingly nefarious intentions of a very disturbed woman whose weapon is trust and whose target is innocence.
Via IFC Midnight, Abner Pastoll’s Road Games (review) hit limited theaters (NY & LA) and VOD outlets today. The thriller stars Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume (Kiss of the Damned), Frédéric Pierrot (“The Returned”), Feodor Atkine, and Barbara Crampton (You’re Next, Re-Animator, We Are Still Here).
Synopsis:
On a sunny summer day in the French countryside, drifters Jack (Andrew Simpson) and Véronique (Joséphine de La Baume) hook up and hit the road together. But when they accept a ride from a local oddball (Frédéric Pierrot), the pair find themselves thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse in which nothing is what it seems. Bursting with nonstop twists and turns and an undercurrent of Hitchcockian malice, this riveting psychological thriller is a hell of a ride.
And last but certainly not least, Cold Prey director Roar Uthaug’s Norwegian film The Wave crashes into your home this weekend. It’s one of the best disaster movies in years, focused more on human drama than computer-generated destruction. Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, and Fritjof Saheim star in Uthaug’s fourth feature.
Synopsis:
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried, and his worst nightmare is about to come true when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time to save as many as possible, including his own family.
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