Prevenge

Rated TV-MA

Runtime: 1hr 28min

Written & Directed by Alice Lowe

Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner and Jo Hartley

Premiered at Venice Film Festival September 1, 2016

Released in US (streaming) March 24, 2017

RT: 92% critics / 53% audience

Synopsis

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant and is being persuaded by her unborn child to exact revenge on the people she deems responsible for her husband’s death.

The Stylist

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 45min

Directed by Jill Gevargizian

Written by Jill Gevargizian, Eric Havens and Eric Stolze

Stars: Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant and Jennifer Seward

Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 26, 2020

Released in US (streaming) March 1, 2021

RT: 93% critics / 42% audience

Synopsis

Claire is a lonely, awkward hair stylist who occasionally scalps her clients and has a dungeon dressing room full of her grisly wigs. When a bride-to-be invites her into her circle of friends, Claire is thrilled. Unfortunately, she’s just too weird to not screw it up.

Huesera: The Bone Woman

Not Rated 

Runtime: 1hr 37min

Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera

Written by Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo

Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal and Mayra Batalla

Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 9, 2022

Released in US (limited) February 10, 2023

RT: 97% critics / 65% audience

Synopsis

Valeria and her husband Raul have been trying to conceive and are delighted to find that they have succeeded. However, Valeria soon begins having second thoughts. She used to be a riot grrrl with a girlfriend, how did she let herself become so square? Oh yeah, and some kind of evil spirit with bad joints is stalking her.

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