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Water Rites (2026)

  • Horror
  • 99 min
  • NR age guide
  • ★ 4.3/10 from 3 ratings

A couple takes a break from their work-a-day lives by spending the summer at a secluded lakefront community. After uncovering the locals' secrets, the couple's idyllic retreat quickly turns into something neither of them can return from.

Directed byDean Jacobs

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    Deathwoods

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    The End of Sex

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    Killer in the Woods

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    Places in the Sun

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    Samuela despairs of her lack of breakthrough as an author. When she is abandoned by her boyfriend, she secretly travels with her brother to the family holiday home in Lanzarote, where she wants to work on her novel. But instead of the peace she hoped for, she finds her father there, who occupies the house after the divorce. When her mother also shows up, the chaos is perfect.

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