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  • Sausage Party (2016, Dir: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon)

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The products at Shopwell’s Grocery Store are made to believe a code that helps them live happy lives until it’s time for them to leave the comfort of the supermarket and head for the great beyond. However, after a botched trip to the great beyond leaves one sausage named Frank and his companion Bun stranded, Frank goes to great lengths (pun intended) to return to his package and make another trip to the great beyond. But as Frank’s journey takes him from one end of the supermarket to the other, Frank’s quest to discover the truth about his existence as a sausage turns incredibly dark. Can he expose the truth to the rest of the supermarket and get his fellow products to rebel against their human masters?

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  • Blair Witch (2016, Dir: Adam Wingard)

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In 1999, a handmade horror film came to haunt the silver screen, awaken your nightmares and become a phenomenon of pop culture. Years later, the Blair Witch returns and challenges another group of people to enter the woods. Primal fear and a supernatural threat that puts you up against the wall. You thought you’d seen everything. Think again.

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  • Lights Out (2016, Dir: David F. Sandberg)

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When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. A frightening entity with a mysterious attachment to their mother, Sophie, has reemerged. But this time, as Rebecca gets closer to unlocking the truth, there is no denying that all their lives are in danger…once the lights go out.

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  • The Neon Demon (2016, Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn)

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The sixteen year-old aspiring model Jesse arrives in Los Angeles expecting to be a successful model. The aspirant photographer Dean takes photos for her portfolio and dates her. Jesse befriends the lesbian makeup artist Ruby and then the envious models Gigi and Sarah in a party. Meanwhile the agency considers Jesse beautiful with a “thing” that makes her different and she is sent to the professional photographer Jack. Jesse attracts he attention of the industry and has a successful beginning of career. But Ruby, Gigi and Sarah are capable to do anything to get her “thing”.

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  • Busanhaeng (2016, Dir: Sang-ho Yeon)

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“World War Z” meets “Snowpiercer” in a post-apocalyptic hell brimming with zombies ready to devour any survivors aboard a train. Each station has more undead in store and the battle to keep even a single carriage safe will be bloody. The midnight crescendo which terrified the Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Shelley (2016, Dir: Ali Abbasi)

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Louise and Kasper, a Danish couple, live in an isolated villa in the middle of the forest away from modern life, technology and even electricity. Louise’s biggest dream is to become a mother but she is unable to have children. She finally decides, out of desperation, to seal a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena. Elena accepts to bear Louise’s child as a surrogate mother in exchange for a large amount of money. The life growing inside of her is taking shape too fast, affecting the lives of everyone like an evil force. Paranoia and horror set in around the inevitable birth…

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  • The Eyes Of My Mother (2016, Dir: Nicolas Pesce)

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A sadistic killer breaks into a farmhouse, only to meet his match in an equally unhinged young girl deeply interested in anatomy, whom he made the mistake of leaving behind alive. Shot in luscious black and white befitting an expressionistic nightmare, “The Eyes of my Mother” is the best art-house horror film of the year, a truly impressive directorial debut that is brash enough to mix together Ingmar Bergman and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.

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  • Raw (2016, Dir: Julia Ducournau)

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Cannibalism and vegetarianism can hardly share a meal. Or can they? The awakenings of the flesh experienced by a young vet student set the scene for a cinematic treat of gory imagery, sexual tension and an aftertaste of comedy, which drenched the Cannes Film Festival in blood and grabbed the FIPRESCI award. A film debut destined to stay fresh in your mind.

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  • The Greasy Strangler (2016, Dir: Jim Hosking)

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A father and a son dress up in retro women’s clothes and act as tour guides to disco attractions in Los Angeles, soon, though, they will clash over a woman. At the same time, the city is being ravaged by a sleazy maniac who murders innocent people and leaves greasy stains in his wake. Splatter explosions, farts, flaccid penises and all types of bodily fluids “adorn” the filthiest, most irreverent and guiltily enjoyable you get to see this year.

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‘Assembled’ by Christos Doukakis