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Candyman Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Tony Todd Director: Nia DaCosta

The fourth film in this supernatural slasher franchise is a direct sequel to the 1992 movie of the same name. A struggling painter becomes obsessed with the legend of the eponymous bad guy who is said to appear and kill anyone who says his name five times while looking in a mirror.

Mousa

Starring: Kareem Mahmoud

Abdel Aziz, Eyad Nasser Director: Peter Mimi

Sci-fi drama in which an engineering student creates a robot that he hopes will help him to avenge his father’s death and bring his killers to justice. Instead, he finds himself in trouble with the law.

The Night House

Starring: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit Director: David Bruckner Psychological horror about a young widow called Beth whose husband Owen recently committed suicide. In the note he left behind, he tells Beth “Nothing is after you. You’re safe now.” It quickly becomes apparent that he was wrong.

The Protégé

Starring: Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson Director: Martin Campbell Jackson plays Moody, a man responsible for raising — and training — the world’s greatest assassin, Anna, a girl he discovered in the aftermath of a massacre in Saigon. When Moody is murdered, Anna returns to Vietnam to avenge him.

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Starring: Chad Michael Murray, Holland Roden Director: Daniel Farrands Dramatization of the hunt for one of America’s most feared serial killers, Ted Bundy, who confessed to 30 murders committed across seven states in the mid-Seventies. A veteran detective and a rookie FBI profiler team up to bring him down.