Michael and Julia travel to the remote Two Rivers Ranch to spend a romantic weekend alone in a lodge nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains. As the weekend begins the couple meets the caretaker Henry who seems suspiciously unfamiliar with the surrounding area. Little by little they develop more questions about their weekend retreat that raise suspicion about the fate of the previous guests. As their suspicions continue to grow they discover the biggest secret of all; Desi a thirteen-year-old girl alone in the dark hallways of the lodge. Before too long their idyllic getaway becomes a life and death struggle that pits Michael and Julia against the only man for miles and more importantly the lodge itself.
When wealthy couple, Richard and Angela visit Marion and Alex in their decaying family home, their differing social and moral attitudes create uneasy tensions. An inharmonious evening of drunkenness and sexual rivalry soon turns bloody as the guests fall victim to an unhinged attacker. Featuring a rare performance from director Bill Douglas (Bill Douglas Trilogy, Comrades), and starring British screen greats Joanna David and Heather Page (both of whom would go on to work with Douglas in Comrades), Sleepwalker is an outrageous mix of biting satire and bloody horror that is at once reminiscent of otherwise unlikely bedfellows Lindsay Anderson and Dario Argento. The stellar cast also includes Nickolas Grace, and features cameos by Fulton Mackay, Michael Medwin (O Lucky Man!) and Raymond Huntley. Remastered from the only surviving print, this unique twist on the British horror genre is presented with two shorts by Saxon Logan and the rare 1971 mid-length fantasy, The Insomniac, directed by Rodney Giesler.
International horror star Paul Naschy stars as the immortal Waldemar Daninsky a man cursed for eternity with the mark of the werewolf. But when he rescues two young women researching the legend of a vampire queen they unleash a ferocious rampage of bloodlust lycanthropy and lesbianism. In the final battle to the death can a werewolf in love destroy the depraved desires of the undead?
Charlie (Dan Futterman) is a tormented young gay man who has recently become romantically unattached. Unable to reconcile himself to the loss of his long term companion Charlie decides to live on the edge. One night as he aimlessly wanders the streets of downtown Manhattan he locks gaze with a mysterious stranger. This chance encounter marks the beginning of a nightmarish quest as he haunts the city nightly in an increasingly desperate attempt to find him. Charlie meets a host of bizarre characters on his journey each of whom recounts an urban myth. Charlie finds his borders of reality quickly shifting - the lines separating past and present truth and illusion hate and healing gay and straight have been blurred. As a result the urban myths that are imparted - the man with the stolen kidney the poodle in the microwave - as well as his own visions fuse to create a new reality round him. Disturbed and dejected Charlie decides to punish those people responsible for his misery. 'Urbania' is a provocative sexually charged noir that probes the powerful and the trancendant nature of love
The Grudge (Dir. Takashi Shimizu 2004): American nurse Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar) living and working in Tokyo is drawn to an odd house and exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim... Produced by Sam Raimi The Grudge sees Sarah Michelle Gellar changing tack from her 'Buffy' guise in this superior chiller directed by Takashi Shimizu adapted from his
When three fugitives fresh off a casino heist stop for gas at the Six Corners Cafe in Death Valley they encounter an unexpectedly hostile breakfast crowd. Gunshots erupt. An explosion destroys the gas station. As the fire burns down people are missing. Only six seem to have survived - a sheriff and his son two of the criminals a female doctor and a young waitress. It's a volatile and eclectic combination of survivors - the Godd the Bad and the Cute. The fire department never arrives. The highway is deserted. No one comes to help. No one living that is. The survivors discover they are trapped in an in between world in a supernatural plane between night and day light and dark the living and the dead. And they are not alone. Horribly mutilated dead people mysteriously appear and warn of an inescapable killer - an evil trailing a sickening force of decay and rot. In order to see another day the survivors must unite set their differences aside and combine their skills and resources to fight off the source of these deaths - the soul collecting terrifying killing machine known as the Reeker.
It's time for some more murderous games from Jigsaw and his apprentice.
The sexy mother of all vampires seeks revenge against a cowboy vampire who loved and left her in the Wild West. Doug Bradley (Hellraiser's 'Pinhead') stars in this stylish and gory vampire film, as the head of a dysfunctional family who move into a remote cottage and they find themselves at the centre of an old vampire feud. One hell of a night ahead lies ahead, as terror emerges from the darkness in the form of a deadly seductress hell-bent on revenge - it is Lilith, the mythical mother of all vampires. She has come to claim her vengeance on a cowboy vampire who is her greatest love and most deadly enemy. ''Sometimes the only weapon against evil is evil itself''
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
When a round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa.
A classic tale of undying love... A fresh and new interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel a chilling tale of one man's soulless desire to surpass the boundaries of mortal humankind. The crew of a weather-beaten ship stranded in the icy North Sea rescue a man close to death: Victor Frankenstein. He recounts his own story of a young scientist possessed of an obsessive thirst for knowledge who has challenged the very foundations of nature by creating a sentient cr
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with face-blindness after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Be afraid. Be very afraid... The Fly (1958) A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another. Successful in his initial tests he experiments with a human guinea pig - himself. But an ordinary housefly makes the journey with him and when they emerge both creatures have been extraordinarily changed. This is the chilling story of a man fighting to retain his humanity and a desperate woman's attempt to
Renee Summers has just been released from a mental institution when her fiancee and psychiatrist Jeffrey Morgan buys her a secluded cabin to rest before she faces her friends and family. Renee soon befriends her only neighbour Michael Richards who is not all that he seems to be. She also uncovers a deadly secret! The former tenants of the cabin a mayan family were butchered to death and dumped in an unmarked grave.
In this genre-defying grind-house throwback a group of drug-fueled sexually deviant medical students are systematically terrorized by Wilma and John Hopper. The Hoppers serial murderers and rapists mysteriously return from the 1970s and bring horrifying psychedelia with them. With comedy subversion satire and true gore the students must face escalating attacks shocking circumstances and visceral disgust. Inspirations for the film include counter-culture American icons such as Roger Corman Russ Meyer and Dennis Hopper. Shock cinema with a tongue-in-cheek humorous attitude is a hallmark of independent cinema in the USA and Someone's Knocking At The Door brings that philosophy to a new generation of socially conscious and intellectual viewers. Satire of sex drugs and rock n' roll abounds with a particular look at the US culture of consumption the medical community and follies of youth. With a hip youthful score and fringe dynamics the film brings an avant-garde contemporary spin to a classic genre.
In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker
American investigative journalist Arnold Silverman is tracking the financial network of Al-Qa'ida. He has a personal cause. His sister worked on the 99th floor of the World Trade Center and her body was never found. When Kamal a British Pakistani studying at London University is reunited with an old school friend who has become a Muslim fundamentalist he follows him to Bosnia to support the Muslim cause. In his attempt to infiltrate the terrorist network Arnold travels to Pakistan where he meets and forms a bond with Kamal who takes him to interview a spokesman for Al-Qa'ida. Will he survive when his true motives are discovered...?
House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. But it turns out the five people who arrive aren't the five he invited--did his wife (Famke Janssen), who hates him, make the switch? From there events unfold with a smart combination of human and supernatural machinations; spooky jolts are dispensed at regular, but not entirely predictable, intervals. The visual effects owe a considerable debt to Jacob's Ladder, a much more ambitious movie; House on Haunted Hill just wants to get under your skin, and succeeds more than you'd expect. Rush is his entertainingly hammy self; Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Bridgette Wilson are attractive and reasonably straight-faced about it all; and Chris Kattan is genuinely funny as the house's neurotic owner. Some elements of the plot seem to have been lost in the editing process, but it hardly matters. More bothersome is that the scares go flat when computer effects take over at the end--the digital images just aren't as creepy as the more suggestive stuff that came before. But that's just the very end; most of the movie has a lot of momentum. Watch until the end of the credits for a final bit of eeriness. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
Kieran Darcy-Smith directs this mystery drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. When Alice (Price) and her husband Dave (Edgerton) decide to get away from it all before the birth of their third child, they invite Alice's sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) and her new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr) to join them. A relaxing holiday is not what's in store for the group however, when a night of drinking, dancing and drug-taking leads to Jeremy's disappearance. As fragments of the previous nig.
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