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Based on the real practice of sin-eating. A Sin-eater was a historical occupation in 16-19th century England, Wales and Scotland where individuals were called to funerals to consume a meal in front of the deceased. By eating the food, they symbolically absorbed the deceased's sins, allowing the dead to be absolved and enter heaven

A young woman on the run from her shadowy past suffers a terrifying injury that strands in her in a lonely, out of the way town with a dark secret. As she tries to recuperate bizarre phenomena start occurring and growing in intensity. With no one to trust she will have to face not only her inner demons, her checkered past but actual demons who want to take her soul!

When Minerva goes to her grandmothers house to clean it out after she passes, the intrusion of a stranger forces Minerva to learn there was more to her grandmother than she could have ever known.

Two outlaws, wounded and on the run, struggle across the unforgiving landscape of Northern Arizona after a botched robbery. Their foredoomed path is crossed by a mysterious gift bearing nun who is not what she seems.

A poor construction worker makes a deal with a dying business mogul to inherit billions only to discover that he has also been cursed by the man's terrifying sins.

In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.

A low budget comedy-folk-horror starring The Lovely Boys.

1852, Wales: a desperate young mother carries out a forbidden ritual to save the soul of her unbaptised dead baby, but is tricked into taking on a terrifying supernatural burden.

This two-part film on Hollywood's dirtiest P.I. uses never-before-heard recordings to reveal the extraordinary methods Anthony Pellicano employed to hide the sins of celebrities and their lawyers when they thought no one was looking.

For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.