A poetic supernatural horror film from Two-Spirit director Bretten Hannam filled with ominous dread and ambitious narrative time leaps, At the Place of Ghosts follows two estranged Mi’kmaq brothers who venture into the wilderness to exorcise a demon that is stalking them and to mend a division between the siblings from years ago.

When a grieving young woman is sent to a camp for troubled youth, she is welcomed by the outcasts and screw-ups into their literal coven. With their help, Emily discovers the dark and light, ominous and ecstatic magic that her grief can create. This sophomore feature by Avalon Fast (frequent collaborator of Alice Maio Mackay and Louise Weard) is an operatic and landmark new work of queer horror.

This queer coming-of-age horror film is what happens when the star-crossed passion of Heated Rivalry and the unsettling atmosphere of It Follows collide. In Adrian Chiarella’s haunting-yet-sensual debut feature, teenagers Naim and Ryan live in an isolated and conservative small town that tries to “cure” them of their queerness. Forced to go on the run, the boys are stalked by a violent entity that takes the form of the person its victims desire most.

“Space is big and freaky and full of dangerous shit.” Even with a dad who studies the stars for a living, Sheri has always been afraid of the cosmos — and meteors in particular. After she begins to have strange dreams that coincide with a meteor shower and a string of local disappearances, Sheri uncovers an otherworldly evil that dates all the way back to her father’s youth.

Jane Schoenbrun cements their place as one of cinema’s most vital auteurs with a psychosexual slasher that’s as ambitious as it is inventive. Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, this riveting two-hander centers on a passionate writer who’s hired to reinvigorate their favorite horror franchise with the help of the original film’s now-reclusive final girl. But as the two women unravel the ways in which Camp Miasma has shaped them, they descend into a frenzied, blood-soaked world of desire, self-discovery, and delirium.