New Release Thursday, June 25, 2026

Over 94 new titles landed on Relay this week. Here are 6 worth clearing your Thursday night for.

Radius

The premise is one of the cleanest in recent science fiction. A man wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. Everyone who comes within 50 feet of him collapses dead, instantly, with no warning or explanation. He discovers this by accident. Radius spent five years in development, premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival in 2017, and landed a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Canadian directors Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard said they drew from Oldboy and a Superman comic. Neither reference is obvious once the film starts. Shot in the wilds of Manitoba, it stays small and stays mean, and the restraint is almost the whole point.

Sci-Fi

Cockfighter

Monte Hellman shot half this film at real cockfighting arenas in Georgia using actual fans as the crowd. The cinematographer was Nestor Almendros, who later shot Days of Heaven for Terrence Malick. Warren Oates takes a vow of silence until one of his birds wins a championship, and he never breaks it. Not once. Harry Dean Stanton is his rival. Roger Corman, as producer, went behind Hellman’s back after the final cut was locked and had additional gore footage spliced in. Audiences reacted badly. Much of it was removed. Cockfighter was recut and retitled three separate times trying to find an audience. The UK has never released it. The Scottish SPCA intervened at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the BBFC still won’t certify it under a 1937 animal protection act.

Drama

No One Cares About Crazy People

Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His younger son was a musical prodigy who died by suicide in their Vermont home one week before his 21st birthday. Powers spent years writing a book about the American mental health system from inside that grief. Gail Freedman’s documentary adapts it. Bob Odenkirk narrates. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco scored it. The film won a NY Women in Film & Television Award for Excellence in Documentary Directing and sold out theaters on its initial theatrical run. The title comes from a line Powers heard from a hospital administrator when he tried to get his son help. It stuck because it wasn’t an outlier.

Documentary

Where’s Rose

Ty Simpkins isn’t just the lead here. He produced it. That’s not something the kid from Iron Man 3 and Avengers: Endgame needed to do, which means he believed in this one enough to put his name and money behind it. A little girl goes missing. Something comes back. Her older brother is the only one who recognizes that it isn’t her. His co-star Anneliese Judge, who plays the babysitter, went on to land the lead in Netflix’s The Watcher after this. Critics gave it 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. The setup is economical and the film trusts the economy.

Horror

The Old Dark House

This was considered a lost film for decades. A print turned up buried in Universal’s own vaults in 1968 and received a 4K restoration in 2017. It’s James Whale’s follow-up to Frankenstein, released in 1932, and Universal was so uncertain about Karloff’s brand recognition that they added a producer’s note at the opening explaining that yes, this is the same actor from that film. Charles Laughton appears in his first American role. The family patriarch everyone encounters is played by actress Elspeth Dudgeon, billed in the credits as “John Dudgeon.” Whale packed the whole thing with pre-Code queer subtext and double-entendres, counting on American censors not catching them through the Welsh accents. They didn’t.

Horror

Dimension 20: Escape from the Bloodkeep

The entire six-episode season was filmed in two days. The setup is a direct Tolkien parody: you are playing the dark lord’s generals in the immediate aftermath of the Ring being destroyed. The heroes won. Everyone at the table is a villain figuring out what comes next. Brennan Lee Mulligan runs the game. Matthew Mercer, the GM of Critical Role and the most-watched D&D show in the world, is sitting across from him as a player. That role reversal is both the joke and the point. Erika Ishii, Ify Nwadiwe, and Rekha Shankar complete the table.

Comedy

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