
Kill Theory(2009)
While celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.


“Murder by design.”
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.

Shane West
Tom Levin

Sarah Hay
Marie Verdin

Bruce Dern
Emil Larson

Stephen Lang
Frederick Banner

Vanessa Williams
Beverly Gordon

Annapurna Sriram
Officer Raquel Dorado

Ellen Toland
Joanne Waxtan

Bill Chott
Dr. Volker

Chelsea Gilligan
Dr. Alice Dodgson

Sonja O'Hara
Kerri Brenan
Mid-Century is a horror, thriller, drama, mystery film released in 2022 exploring themes of psychopath, architect, architecture, misogyny, young couple, vacation home. Directed by Sonja O'Hara, it stars Shane West, Sarah Hay, Bruce Dern. A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
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