Any relation to Bram? Blood thirst, yes; fangs, not so much. At the core of the Stoker family is Mia Wasikowska’s India (think De Palma’s Carrie), a teen with her dead father on her mind and evil Uncle Charlie up her skirt (cue Hitch’s Shadow of a Doubt). Chan-wook Park’s first English-language film (scored by Clint Mansell) is a coming-of-killer Sundancer with just enough gore and more than enough weird to satisfy.
It’s like: Oldboy meets an American Psycho.
Take: Horror fans.
Premieres: Today

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You’re 15 and knocked up. What do you do? Blame it on God. Rachel, a fundamentalist Mormon, gets pregnant from slow jamming to a Blondie cover, then flees to Vegas to find the singer/supposed father. Recognized as a director to watch by Variety and Film Independent, Rebecca Thomas borrows from her own Mormon childhood for the SXSW flick. Some call it Martha Marcy May Marlene’s companion piece; we call it Thomas’s immaculate conception.
It’s like: Little Birds in Big Love.
Take: A holy spirit.
Premieres: March 8

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Sex, drugs, rock, crack rock, guns, bullets, robbery, ice pop fellatio … too much? For one crew of half-naked best friends (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens), that’s just a day at the beach. After robbing a diner for vacay money, the girls are bailed out by an Alien, James Franco’s juvenile gangsta. It’s euphoric insanity from visionary Harmony Korine that’s not to be missed, as is Franco’s poolside rendition of Britney Spears’s “Everytime.”
It’s like: Disney Girls Gone Wild.
Take: With a grain of salt.
Premieres: March 15

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She got her start on The Real World, but Jamie Chung leaves an impression on the reel world with director Megan Griffiths’s true story-based, domestic human trafficking pic that won an Audience Award at SXSW and cleaned up at SIFF. Once a teen with braces and a fake ID, she’s abducted, dubbed Eden, and pimped out at frat parties and nightclubs. Things get graphic, but Griffiths craftily balances the bad without getting too ugly.
It’s like: Maria Full of Grace gets Taken.
Take: Pepper spray and a buddy.
Premieres: March 20 in NYC (on demand April 20)

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Not the ordinary joe, Starbuck is the alias to David Wozniak, a sperm donor with swimmers stronger than Phelps — he made 533 babies, 142 of whom now want to meet their pops. Scoring a Genie, a few People’s Choice Awards, and TIFF’s second-place Audience Award, the French-Canadian comedy is a breeding ground for Hollywood — DreamWorks has already spawned a Vince Vaughn remake.
It’s like: Klown meets Big Daddy.
Take: A crowd; it’s a pleaser.
Premieres: March 22

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You’ve seen The Shining — with your eyes wide shut. See it for the first time through the subjective documentary that snaked its way through Sundance, Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF. Told in nine parts, it uncoils scene by scene as historians play a creepy game of I Spy and you settle in for twists and turns rivaling a Charlie Kaufman screenplay.
It’s like: Being Stanley Kubrick.
Take: Breadcrumbs. It’s a maze more intricate than that snowy labyrinth.
Premieres: March 29

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We can’t wait for Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster. Holding us over ’til 2014: the Gos in how to make a face tatt look good. He reunites with director pal Derek Cianfrance for a sprawling triptych pivoting around the sins of a motorcycle stuntman. Others along for the ride include Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta, Eva Mendes, and Ben Mendelsohn.
It’s like: Drive meets Blue Valentine.
Take: A partner in crime and plant it for two and a half hours.
Premieres: March 29

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No need for illegal psychotropic substances; Quentin Dupieux can get you fried completely sober. A couple of nuts and bolts shy of craftsmen David Cronenberg and David Lynch, the French writer/director/musician known as Mr. Oizo has enough tools to turn a case of missing dog into a hallucinatory trip. If you’ve seen Rubber, a meta-horror about a telepathically serial-killing tire named Robert, then you know what we mean.
It’s like: The Shaggy Dog meets Eraserhead (kind of).
Take: A lunatic.
Premieres: March 29 (on demand now)

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