Australian A Horror and thriller movies

💎💎WISH YOU WERE HERE💎💎 – Wish You Were Here is a 2012 Australian mystery drama film directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith and starring Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer and Antony Starr. Set in Cambodia and Australia, it details the aftermath of a Southeast Asian holiday gone awry for two couples. Joel Edgerton stars as Dave Flannery, who reluctantly vacations in Cambodia with his pregnant wife Alice (Felicity Price), her younger sister Steph and new boyfriend Jeremy. After a night of partying, Jeremy vanishes without a trace. Dave and the women return to their lives, each bearing differing degrees of knowledge about what happened and slowly put the pieces of the puzzle together to find out what happened that night. Dave reveals he slept with Steph on the beach. He went back to the hotel, but Alice was asleep. He goes for a walk and meets a man, who offers to take him to a small bar. Dave went and began drinking. The customers at the bar began harassing him and tried to get him to take a prostitute, but he declined. He gets angry and throws all his money at them. He tells them he doesn’t want the prostitute but will pay for her. The men drag an 8-year-old girl from the backroom. Horrified, Dave begins screaming at them. Jeremy comes out of a backroom and apologizes for Dave, trying to calm the men down. The men lure Jeremy and Dave outside. Dave threatens to call the police on the men for child prostitution, but Jeremy tells Dave the men are the Vietnamese mafia. In a fight, Jeremy is stabbed to death. Dave is restrained and the men find his address. They say that if he tells anyone, they will go to his house and kill his family. In the present, Alice gets into an argument with Dave. She goes to Steph’s house and confronts her. On the way home, she gets into a car accident and is rushed to the hospital, where she prematurely gives birth to the baby. In the end, Dave tells the police the truth of Jeremy’s death.

Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asia holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy’s disappearance. When Alice’s sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia? Screen veteran Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature directorial debut with this ambitious non-linear drama centering on a group of Australian friends whose lives are irreparably changed after one of them goes missing during a spontaneous vacation in Cambodia. Alice and Dave are about to become new parents when they agree to join Alice’s little sister Steph and her new beau Jeremy on a sun-soaked trip to Cambodia. Their tropical retreat quickly turns bad, however, when Jeremy vanishes without a trace. As the investigation into Jeremy’s disappearance begins to reveal the nefarious motivations behind their trip, the remaining three struggle to carry out with their lives in Sydney amidst the threat that even more damning details will emerge.

💎💎SNAP SHOT (ONE MORE MINUTE)💎💎 – Angela, a naïve hairdresser, is kicked out of the house by her puritanical mother. At the behest of a model client, she gets her first modeling gig. While her future seems bright, she soon learns that everyone around her wants to use her. Angela, a naïve young hairdresser is thrown out of home by her puritanical mother. At the behest of one of her model clients, she gets her first modeling gig. While her future seems bright, she has no idea what sinister things surround her. Nineteen-year-old Angela Bailey has self esteem issues based on comments by her overly critical mother, with who she lives and who absconds with whatever money she makes working as a hairdresser. Her mother would be satisfied with Angela just keeping this job and marrying her ex-boyfriend Daryl Whipple, who operates his own ice cream truck. Angela hates Daryl, who is following her in an effort for her to get back together with him. As such, Angela dreams of getting away literally and figuratively from her life, preferably somewhere overseas. One of her hairdressing clients, famous model Madeline Stone, thinks that Angela would make a good model and introduces her to a fashion photographer named Linsey. Although she doesn’t fully trust Linsey, Angela agrees to pose for him, topless, for a possible advertising campaign, as she can’t pass up what looks to be a lucrative opportunity. This opportunity leads to Angela living in Linsey’s compound and hanging out with other models while she waits for her next big break. But Angela learns that there are some in her new life who have ulterior motives in their actions towards her. And concurrently, Daryl seems to be stepping up his intimidation tactics in stalking her, So, when Angela sees an opportunity for her dream, she leaps at it, unless someone stops her altogether.

After being thrown out of her own home by her puritanical mother, a young, naïve, pretty and impressionable hairdresser named Angela is lured into modeling by an impudent as well as equally bumptious model, named Madeline, who at her behest is talked into stripping for what is supposed to be a special photo shoot more or less her first modeling gig. However, while Angela’s future seems bright for the moment, her gaiety unfortunately is short lived as she has no idea what baleful things surround her. It is not too long after this that she subsequently starts to fall victim to being stalked by a sinister, mysterious assailant who will stop at nothing to get his hands-on Angela in a twisted game of Cat & Mouse. Her peculiar ex-boyfriend Daryl is also rather relentlessly possessive, in addition to quite eerie, plus seems to be hiding something. Could he be the one responsible for all of this? Who exactly can she trust? Meanwhile, Madeline’s husband Elmer also wants to photograph her naked to which the mother then proceeds to rob the girl that ensues in a desperate fight for her life. Will she succeed?

💎💎ANGEL OF MINE💎💎- Angel of Mine is a 2019 thriller drama film directed by Kim Farrant and written by Luke Davies and David Regal. It stars Noomi Rapace, Luke Evans, Yvonne Strahovski and Richard Roxburgh. It is a remake of the 2008 French film Mark of an Angel. A mother is distraught with the loss of her young daughter Rosie. She’s desperately trying to process the steps of grieving when she suddenly starts to lose a grip on her reality. The chaos surrounding her leads her to believe her younger daughter may still be alive. However, when she reaches out to those around her, no one believes her story, so she’s forced to figure out what is happening to her on her own. After growing suspicious of Australian couple Bernie and Claire, Lizzie elects to gather DNA evidence to prove or disprove her suspicion; she forces Claire to confess to her husband Bernie that Lola, their daughter, is Rosie. Claire and Bernie’s baby girl perished in a hospital fire; Claire kidnapped Rosie, raising her as her and Bernie’s own daughter.

A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive. Noomi Rapace (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) stars as a woman on the edge of this intense psychological thriller. Having suffered a tragic loss years earlier. Lizzie (Rapace) is trying to rebuild her life. Suddenly she becomes obsessed with a neighbor’s daughter, believing the girl to be her own child. As Lizzie’s shocking threatening acts grow increasingly dangerous, they lead to an explosive confrontation with the girl’s defensive mother (Yvonne Strahovski, “The Handmaid’s Tale”). As the grief of losing a child takes a toll on Lizzie (Noomi Rapace), she becomes increasingly mentally unstable. When she meets a married couple whose daughter, Lola (Annika Whiteley), bears a striking resemblance to her deceased child, her life starts to fall apart. Obsession takes a hold of her and she does everything in her power to spend time with the child she firmly believes is her own. As the tension between Lizzie and the couple escalates, heavily guarded secrets start to unravel. This 2019 adaption of the 2008 French film is directed by Kim Farrant.

💎💎 MARK OF AN ANGEL💎💎- Mark of An Angel (L’Empreinte de I’ange) is a 2008 French film directed by Safy Nebbou. It is retitled Angel of Mine for its 2009 English-language DVD release. In a hospital Elsa Valentin gives birth to a daughter, but the baby reportedly dies in a fire. Seven years later she is divorcing her husband and they fight over who gets custody over their 12-year-old son Thomas. When Elsa collects her son from a party, she sees the 7-year-old girl Lola, who she thinks is her daughter. First, Elsa keeps this to herself, but she uses every opportunity to see Lola and keep in contact with her. Elsa begins by approaching Claire, the mother, by feigning interest in buying Claire’s house, which is on sale, so that she can inspect the house and thus see Lola. She later encounters Claire and Lola when they go ice skating, where Elsa and Lola skate together and wind up falling. At Lola’s ballet recital, Elsa stands on the side of the stage behind the curtains to watch her perform. Lola does not mind, as she feels as though Elsa supports her more than Claire does. Claire confronts Elsa with her stalking behavior. Elsa reveals to Claire that she believes Lola is her daughter, though Claire refutes it. When Claire refuses Elsa’s request for a DNA test, Elsa sneaks into the house to obtain a strand of Lola’s hair. She is caught by Claire and loses the hair. When Claire tells her husband, Bernard, about the incident, he suggests that they go through with the DNA test as it will prove to Elsa that Lola is not her daughter. Claire is forced to reveal the truth to Elsa and Bernard: Seven years ago, her own daughter died in a fire from smoke inhalation. At the hospital, she heard another baby crying and saw Elsa lying on the floor. Believing that Elsa was dead, she took the baby and pretended it was Lola while her own dead child was left in place as Elsa’s baby. Claire and Bernard agree that Lola should be returned to Elsa. Reunited, Elsa and Lola go for a walk together; though surprised with the decision, the girl does not appear to mind.

Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression, in the midst of a divorce from her husband of twelve years, develops an obsession with a seven-year-old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl’s family, by helping a friendship develop between Thomas and the girl’s brother Jeremy, so that in turn Elsa can befriend the girl’s mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession, telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off and watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will babysit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola’s house and watching her at night. At first Claire doesn’t suspect anything, but gradually notices that Elsa is paying too much attention to Lola and confronts Elsa. Elsa in turn claims that she knows that Lola is her long presumed-dead daughter and somehow Claire has stolen her.

💎💎ALISON’S BIRTHDAY💎💎- Alison’s Birthday is a 1981 Australian horror film written and directed by Ian Coughlan and produced by the Australian Film Commission, Fontana Films and the Seven Network. It stars Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal and Vincent Ball. The story starts in sequence with 16-year-old Alison Findlay (Samuel) and her two friends playing a seemingly innocent Ouija board game. Upon contacting a spirit, who is later revealed to be Alison’s dead father (she never knew her actual parents), the girls discover that Alison is in danger. The spirit then possesses one of the girls and warns her not to return home for her 19^th birthday. The girl is immediately killed after a bookcase collapses onto her. Less than three years later, Alison and her boyfriend Pete (Brown) return to her homeplace to celebrate her 19^th birthday with her Uncle Dean (Bluthal) and Aunt Jenny (Brooke), who raised her after her parents died in a car crash when she was just a newborn baby. Her homecoming is not quite what she expected as she makes a strange discovery in their backwoods and has disturbing nightmares. Even stranger is her Grandmother Thorn, whom she meets for the first time. Her relatives soon take a disliking to Pete and attempt to prevent him from seeing Alison. However, he is persistent and simply will not stop coming to see their niece. In a desperate attempt to keep Alison away from him, they regularly drug her and she becomes “ill”. In order to get Pete to believe them, they have a false doctor (Ball) come over and pretend to diagnose her. He prescribes that Alison stay home and avoid leaving. Later that night, Pete breaks into their house and tries to rescue her. However, as they are leaving, the doctor and her Uncle Dean subdue and drug the both of them. As a side effect to the drug, they are bale able to convince Alison into lying and informing the police that Pete – as a pestering, frightening ex-boyfriend – will not leave her alone. He is then arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and breaking-and-entering. Yet, the next morning he is released on bail. After researching several newspaper clippings and briefly studying Celtic occult, he determines that her aunt and uncle (along with the doctor and other relatives) plan to forcibly sacrifice Alison for a demonic female spirit called “Mirna”. Mirna’s soul is manifested in Grandmother Thorn’s body. As Ms. Thorn is aging quickly and Alison is in her youth, they plan to switch bodies between the two. It is revealed that this ritual has been practiced for over 200 years. When it is time for Alison’s birthday party, Pete desperately tries to save Alison. But upon arrival, he discovers that he is too late and that Mirna has possessed Alison. Mirna shoots Pete, killing him instantly. When Alison wakes up, she realizes what has transpired and the film ends with her screaming. A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone. A young girl is puzzled by a sequence of strange events which occur during the days leading up to her 19^th birthday. Slowly and with growing horror, she becomes aware of the celebrations which her “relatives” have planned for her.

South Korean A Scary, Thriller and Horror Films

💎💎OUR TOWN💎💎 – Two killers are living in our town. An ordinary small town is terrorized when local women are found brutally murdered and ‘crucified’ in public places. Gyeong-joo, a struggling novelist, impulsively kills his landlady during a fierce argument over rent. With the recent murders, he decides to stage the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer. Mimicking the details of previous killings, Gyeong-joo (Oh Man-seok) hangs the dead body in the village park. The police and media believe the case is the work of the same serial killer, but Hyoi (Ryu Deok-Hwan), who runs a small stationery shop in the neighborhood, knows something really interesting has happened. He knows that it is a copycat crime because he is the real killer. While Gyeong-joo’s childhood buddy and police officer Jae-shin (Lee Sun-Kyun) begins to suspect that there may be a second killer, anxious Gyeong-joo and Hyoi, begin their own secret investigations to track down each other. Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it would appear like the serial murders that have been occurring in his village recently. Anxious that the police might realize the latest killing was a copycat murder, he begins his own investigation to track down the killer with help of his detective friend.

A neighborhood is terrorized by a serial killer who kills and hangs his female victims in a uniquely specific way. When struggling crime fiction novelist Kyung-ju kills his landlady, he stages it to resemble the other murders. Realizing that the crime appears to be a copycat, he sets out to find the killer with the help of his detective friend.

💎💎ONE ON ONE💎💎- On May 9, a high school girl named Oh Min-ju is brutally murdered. Afterwards, the seven suspects are hunted down by seven members of a terrorist group called “Shadow”. A high school girl is brutally murdered. One of the seven men behind the girl’s murder gets abducted by some high-trained soldiers on his way home. He gets tortured and forced to write a confession to the murder, then gets released. Regretting that he had once believed himself to be invincible, the man suffers from the terrors that now dominate him. However, he later learns that other assailants to the murder case had also been abducted, tortured and even committed suicide. Getting suspicious of the people who abducted him, the man tails the next victim and discovers their hideout. Seven suspects in the brutal murder of a young schoolgirl fall prey to seven mysterious figures determined to see them suffer in this harrowing crime drama from director Kim Ki-duk (Pieta, Arirang). One on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization. One on One is a film about a high school girl being cruelly murdered. Seven suspects and seven shadow characters fight each other in the film. Among people who have surrendered to and compromised with corruption and lived as cowards, the protagonist fights for justice and tragically dies in the end. Critics said it is an impressive film plainly showing the painful aspect of Korea that all grudgingly ignored. Ma Dong-seok, Kim Yeong-min and Yi Yi kyung appear in this 20^th film of Kim ki-duk.

💎💎19-NINETEEN💎💎- “I’m 19 years old”) is a 2009 South Korean-Japanese film starring T.O.P. Seungri ad Huh-E-jae. Three nineteen-year-olds, two boys and a girl, are accused of murder and forced to run away. Everyone, including their parents, believes they are guilty, but the experience strengthens their bond as they attempt to find the real killer and prove their innocence. After graduating from high school Min-seo (Seungri) falls to get into college. He spends the next year cramming for his entrance exam once again. Jung-hoon (T.O.P.) is a university student fresh out of high school. Late one evening, a high school girl dies. Earlier that evening, Min-seo filmed the girl in an Internet café without her knowing. Min-seo, Jung-hoon and another girl named Eun-young (Huh E-jae) – who went to the same high school as the dead girl – all become murder suspects in the death of that girl. All three of these young suspects are 19 years old. They don’t know each other, but quickly become fugitives from the law. To clear their names they work to uncover the truth behind the girl’s death. Three teenagers that have two things in common: They are all nineteen and they all are suspects in the murder of another girl. Opting to run from a corrupt policeman that refuses to believe their innocence, the three young fugitives learn to trust one another and begin their personal journeys towards self-discovery, unravelling the mystery of the true murderer along the way. This is a story based on friendship and love, involving the lives of three 19-year-old teenagers (two males and one female) who are mixed in a murder case and have to run away. Everyone including the press, the police, their friends and even their parents, believe they are guilty. Through this hardship, they come to realize the importance of ‘life’ and the meaning of their existence.

💎💎4TH PERIOD MYSTERY💎💎- Released internationally as The Clue, 4^th Period Mystery is a 2009 South Korean thriller film starring Yoo Seung-ho and Kang So-ra. It was released on August 12, 2009 and drew a total of 67,602 admissions. Jung-hoon (Yoo Seung-ho) is the best student at his school. His rival, Tae-gyu (Jo Sang-geun) takes any and every opportunity to knock him down both verbally and physically and the two are known enemies amongst the other students. One afternoon Tau-gyu pushes Jung-hoon too far and the latter threatens Tae-gyu with a knife, an act that’s witnessed by another student. Jung-hoon walks away from the situation, but shortly after the beginning of 4^th period class he returns to find Tae-gyu dead. The boy has been stabbed repeatedly and still in shock, Jung-hoon picks up the bloody knife off a nearby desk just as Da-jung (Kang So-ra) shows up, catching him in a most incriminating position. Fortunately for him, she not only believes his innocence, but offers to help him solve the mystery and catch the real killer – a task made particularly urgent by the fact that in 40 minutes the rest of the class will return and the body will be discovered. The pair set out in search of the murderer and soon discover that just about everyone’s a suspect and even more unsettling, the murderer is now after them as well. Jung-hoon is every mother’s dream son who is smart and handsome and whose grades are always at the top nationwide. One day, he is alone in the classroom during 4^th period P.E. when he discovers the body of his rival Tae-gyu. Considering the circumstances, witnesses and motive, Jung-hoon is the only likely suspect for the murder… Da-jeong is a mystery buff who has no friends and is referred to as the ‘curtain witch’. She is the one who comes into the classroom during P.E. in the 4^th period and finds a panicking Jung-hoon with blood on his clothes standing before the gruesome body of Tae-gyu. Everything points to Jung-hoon being the killer. Da-jeong begins following the trail of clues to find either the real killer or proof that Jung-hoon is the one who did it. There is only 40 minutes left until the bell rings and someone else finds the body. The killer is still inside the school. Da-jeong musters up all the skills that she had been working on as a girl with dreams of becoming a private investigator while Jung-hoon finds crucial clues to analyze the murder. When best friend Do-il joins them, things speed up considerably. Just as the final 40 minutes are almost up, the details of the crime that seemed incomprehensible start to unravel…

High school guys must find the killer of their classmate before the next class starts in 40 minutes. When a student is stabbed at school, Jung Hoon (Yoo Seung Ho) is discovered at the scene of the crime by Da Jung (Kang So Ra). As a result these two form a team to uncover the murderer, but they must do this before the end of fourth period. Jung Hoon is a diligent and hardworking student. Meanwhile Da Jung, often referred to as ‘curtain girl’, is often immersed in crime novels. Two weeks prior during class, a student starts frothing from the mouth and collapses. As the class rushes forward to aid him Da Jung is seen taking photos of the crime. It is later shown through gossip that the student passed away. Tae Gyu is Jung Hoon’s rival, when he takes a photo of a girl without the girl’s permission, a fight ensues between him and Jung Hoon leaving them to serve detention. When the rest of the class goes to P.E. the two are left alone. Jung Hoon leaves to go to the bathroom but as he returns he finds the body of Tae Gyu who has been repeatedly stabbed in the stomach. It is here that Da Jung finds him. As a result the two band together to discover the murderer before the end of Fourth period, before everyone returns to find the body. But soon they may discover that the murderer is willing to kill again to prevent being discovered.

💎💎ASPHALT💎💎- In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal’s wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the wife of the policeman who killed his spouse. A revenge melodrama about a criminal whose wife is killed during his arrest. After serving 20 years in prison he attempts to kill the arresting officer’s wife out of revenge but fails and is again imprisoned. The detective with 20 years experience accidentally kills smuggler Choe’s wife as arresting him. After serving out his term in prison, Choe aims at the detective’s wife out of revenge, but he fails and is arrested again.

💎💎AZOOMA💎💎- Azooma is a 2012 South Korean film starring Jang Young-nam in her first leading role as a mother seeking justice for the rape of her ten-year-old daughter. It made its world premiere at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival and was released in theaters on April 18, 2013. The film has since received recognition in the international film festival circuit. Seoul, the present day. Ten-year-old Yeon-joo (Lee Jae-hee) is picked up outside of school by a man (Hwang Tae-kwang) who says he knows her mother and is then driven to a flat where she is sexually abused. Six hours later, her mother, Yoon-nam (Jang Young-nam) reports her disappearance to the police, who say it is too soon to launch a proper investigation. After being found dumped on the street in a suitcase, Yeon-joo is taken to a hospital by Yoon and recovers. However, Yoon’s ex-husband TV celebrity dentist Dr. Lee (Bae Sung-woo) is not happy at the adverse publicity Yoon’s actions has generated. Yoon eventually persuades a busy detective, Ma (Ma Dong-seok) to take an interest in the case; he questions Yeon-joo in the hospital but the child reveals little. Later, a female police officer questions her, with more success. Angry at the apparent slowness with which the police are treating the case, Yoon tracks down the child molester herself and questions her and confronts him at his flat. After a struggle and chase, the police arrive and take both of them in, though en route the child molester escapes. Yoon decides to take more radical action.

She (acted by Jang Yeong-nam) works for an insurance company and raises a 10-year-old daughter by herself. On the day she cannot fetch her daughter from school, her daughter does not come home. She weeps sorrowfully for her daughter, who comes back badly injured. Although investigations for arresting the sexual offender of her daughter are ongoing, the responsible investigator only gives mental pain severer than the physical injuries sustained by her daughter by commenting on procedure-related issues. Her estranged husband, who is a famous dentist, tries to hide the accident for fear of losing his honor. Damn world. This society is not the fair society she wants. In a world where even a child can be protected but is left unattended, among indifferent people in a sinful society, she begins to prepare to punish them using her own method. A former dental technician, currently working as an insurance saleswoman, Yoon Young nam manages to live with her 10-year-old daughter. One day, she finds out that her missing daughter has been raped on her way home from school. She reports it to the police only to be disappointed by the inabilities and intrusiveness of the police. After going through consecutive failures of seizing the rapist mostly due to the indifferent and passive attitudes of the police, she changes her mind to chase after the rapist for herself with all kinds of measures that she can take. One by one, she takes severe revenges on the rapist as well as those who sabotaged and disrupted her (including her husband) with a way she knows best.

💎💎AFTER MY DEATH💎💎 – After My Death is a 2017 South Korean mystery drama film written, directed and edited by Kim Ui-seok and stars Jeon Yeo-been, Seo Young-hwa and Go-Won-hee. When her missing classmate and close friend Kyung-min (Jeon So-nee) is suspected of committing suicide, Young-hee (Jeon Yeo-been) becomes the prime suspect because she was the last one seen with Kyung-min on the night of her disappearance. Young-hee faces accusations from Kyung-min’s mother (Seo Young-hwa) as well as her quick-to-concern classmates. She insists on her innocence and tries to find out the truth on her own. When the school and her family offer her no support with the bullying she is experiencing, she decides to commit suicide herself. My close friend is dead and people swarm around me for answers. One day, a high school girl Kyung-min goes missing. She seemed to jump off a bridge to her death, but without a body or a suicide note, no conclusion can be drawn. People question Young-hee who was the last person to be seen with Kyung-min on the night of her disappearance and start suspecting her of instigating Kyung-min’s death. While Young-hee keeps insisting on her innocence, no one believes her. When Kyung-min’s body finally is found, even her friends turn back from her one by one. To prove herself innocent, Young-hee makes the unexpected decision.

Australian Horror, Crime, Thriller - Alexandra's Project - Wolf Creek 2

💎💎ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT💎💎-Alexandra’s Project is a 2003 Australian drama thriller written and directed by Rolf de Heer and starring Gray Sweet and Helen Buday. Upon returning home from work on his birthday, Steve (Gary Sweet), a middle-class husband and father of two, finds the house dark and his family not home. He notices a chair, his television set and a video tape obviously set out for his viewing. He turns the TV and VCR on and begins to watch a tape made for him by his wife, Alexandra (Helen Buday). The first clip shows his wife and children wishing him a happy birthday, but after the kids leave the room, Alexandra begins a striptease and it appears to be nothing more than a birthday gift. As it progresses, however, it becomes clear that the tape is designed to humiliate and torture Steve for marital problems that Alexandra has been stewing about for years. As part of her show, Alexandra feigns breast cancer, has sex with their neighbor and tells Steve that neither she nor their two children are ever coming home. A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played… Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.

💎💎THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS💎💎- Based on true events, 16-year-old Jamie falls in with his mother’s new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder. Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie’s family, Elizabeth and her boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known. John moves from the role of Jamie’s protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John’s traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select group of friends. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is initially welcomed however as events occur around him, including the disappearance of several people, Jamie begins to harbor deep suspicions about John and his motivations. When the truth is finally revealed to Jamie his hopes of happiness are threatened by both his loyalty for and fear of, his father-figure John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer. This film is based on the horrific true story set in South Australia in the 90s and is about Jamie and his half brothers who live with their mother Elizabeth. Jamie is being molested by his half brother and a neighbor. They are friends with John Bunting, a guy who doesn’t like fat people, druggies or gay people and he doesn’t care if you know it. Jamie is easily lead on and John takes him under his wing. Jamie soon realizes that John is not a nice guy, he comes across nice when his mom and others are around but shows his true colors when he’s with Jamie. Slowly but surely Jamie’s friends and family start disappearing and then Jamie is put in a situation he can’t get out of. But is he as innocent as he thinks?

In the poor Adelaide suburb of Salisbury North, 16-year-old Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) lives with his distressed mother, Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris) and his brothers – including Troy (Anthony Groves), who rapes Jamie. One day, his mother’s boyfriend takes indecent photographs of the boys. When the police are reluctant to intervene, Elizabeth is contacted by Barry (Richard Green), a gay cross-dressing man who introduces her to John (Daniel Henshall). John, who despises paedophiles and homosexuals, continually harasses the boyfriend via means such as throwing kangaroo’s blood and body parts at his house until he moves away. John begins to assume the role of Jamie’s father figure. Barry tells John the names and addresses of paedophiles in the area and John creates a wall with pictures and details about each, including notes saying things like “I’m coming for you.”

💎💎WASTED ON THE YOUNG💎💎- When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away. Wasted on the Young is a 2011 Australian thriller film directed by Ben C. Lucas and starring Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens and Alex Russell. Shot by cinematographer Dan Freene, it tells the story of a traumatic high school incident that sets off a fatal chain of events for two brothers. The film was shot in 2009 at an ultra modern mansion in City Beach and at Edith Cowan University’s Mount Lawley and Joondalup campuses. The film received $750,000 in ScreenWest funding through its West Coast Visions initiative, as well as funding from Screen Australia. Darren is a quiet, introverted teenager who attends a prestigious high school along with his popular and wealthy stepbrother Zack. A girl named Xandrie has a crush on him and decides to attend one of Zack’s elaborate house parties to spend more time with him. At the party, Xandrie meets Zack and he notices her interest in Darren. Xandrie fails to meet up with Darren and is intercepted by Zack’s friends Karen and Simone, who offer her a spiked drink. Xandrie is taken to the basement, where she passes out and is left alone with Zack and his friends, Brook and Jonathan. She wakes up at a beach and goes home after discovering she was raped. The next morning, Darren discovers Xandrie’s phone in the basement and is unable to find her at school. He meets up with Ella, Xandrie’s friend who was with her at the party, but got separated from her and doesn’t know where she is.

Darren gets no answer from Zack and instead follows Jonathan. He denies Darren an answer and is beaten up by him as a result. Darren tracks Xandrie’s home address and visits her, but she doesn’t answer her door. Xandrie eventually shows up at school and discovers her reputation is destroyed by false rumors surrounding her disappearance. Karenn threatens her, saying how the majority are more likely to believe their story than hers due to Zack’s wealth and reputation. Darren decides to find out what really happened to her and hacks into Jonathan’s laptop. He is sick to discover footage of Xandrie’s assault. At school, Darren finds Xandrie and tries to help her, but she refuses and tells him she passed out when it happened and has no concrete evidence. Zack pays Xandrie a visit and warns her about divulging the truth, as it could affect their chances of graduating. Xandrie and Darren soon reconcile, Brook convinces Zack that Darren knows the truth and might discredit them both. Zack has Brook corner him before beating him up. Bloodied, he is taken outside by Brook and Jonathan while Xandrie shows up with a gun, contemplating about killing Zack. He tells her that shooting him won’t change a thing – they will still believe his story more than hers. Despaired, Xandrie shoots herself instead. To secure his reputation, Zack soon throws another party. Filled with angst, Darren shows up at the party and makes Simone feel guilty about Xandrie’s suicide and convinces her to drug Zack’s drink. Darren also spreads the footage of Xandrie’s assault to everyone in the party through their phones. Brook finds out about this and confronts Darren, who hits him in the head with a bottle. The partygoers question Zack about the truth and he blames it on Brook and Jonathan, who overhear himself outside. Soon, the drug in his drink takes effect. He follows Darren (whom he sees as Xandrie) in the basement, where he passes out. He wakes up bound in one of two seats before a device Darren had engineered. Darren tells him that the partygoers will decide which one of them should die via their phones, as they are seen on the televisions around the house, placing a gun on the device, which will shoot one of them depending on the votes. He sits beside Zack in one of the seats and the gun later shoots. Darren is later shown swimming in a pool at some kind of facility. Zack (Alex Russell) a member of the cool clique and Darren (Oliver Ackland), a geeky kid are step brothers who occupy opposite ends of the school hierarchy. Bullied by the cool kids, Darren finds himself forced to act when his tormentors go too far by drugging and assaulting his best friend Xandrie (Adelaide Clemens). After being left for dead in the middle of nowhere, Xandrie suddenly makes a surprise return to school that sets off a chain reaction of events. What begins as the devastation and implosion of Xandrie’s world soon threatens to trigger the implosion of the whole social hierarchy as Zack tries to manipulate the facts of that night and Darren sets off to disillusion the masses that put Zack on his elitist pedestal in the first place.

💎💎WOLF CREEK 2💎💎- Wolf Creek 2 is a 2013 Australian horror film cowritten and directed by Greg McLean. The film is a sequel to the 2005 film Wolf Creek and stars John Jarratt, reprising his role as Mick Taylor. It was released on 30 August 2013 at the Venice Film Festival, then released in Australia on 20 February 2014. In North Western Australia, highway patrol officers Gary Bulmer and trainee Brian O’Connor are parked by an outback highway and are desperate to meet a quota for speeding tickets. Mick Taylor, a pig hunter, drives past going under the speed limit and they pull him over, claiming he’s going over the speed limit. After belittling and insulting Nick, the two officers give him a speeding ticket and an order to get rid of his truck. In retaliation, Mick promptly uses his hunting rifle to splatter O’Connor’s head as the officers drive away, causing the cruiser to crash in a gully. Despite Bulmer’s desperate pleas, Mick breaks his leg, stabs him in the back with a bowie knife and places the fatally wounded officer back in the car before dousing it with petrol and setting it alight. Mick departs, leaving Bulmer to die in the resulting explosion. A young German couple, Rutger (Phillipe Klaus) and Katarina, hitchhike from Sydney to Wolf Creek Crater and camp nearby. In the middle of the night, Mick is driving by and sees their tent in the distance. He offers them a lift to a caravan park so they do not get charged for camping in a national park. When Rutger insists on declining his offer, Mick loses his temper and stabs Rutger in the neck. He then ties down Katarina and prepares to rape her, but a wounded Rutger comes back and battles Mick. He is eventually overpowered and decapitated. Mick then informs Katarina that they’ll be spending “a fun couple of months together” before choking her until she falls unconscious. She later wakes up to see Mick cutting up Rutger’s body to feed to his dogs. She flees into the bush and Mick pursues her in his truck.

Paul Hammersmith (Ryan Corr), an English tourist, is driving along the highway and stops for Katarina standing in the road. He picks her up, but Mick relentlessly pursues them. He shoots at Paul, but accidentally kills Katarina instead when Paul ducks under the shot, much to Paul’s horror and Mick’s dismay. Paul then drives off, remorsefully leaving Katarina’s body in the sand and covering it with just a sleeping bag at daybreak. He then reaches a highway, but realizing he is off course and has low fuel, tries to flag down a truck in the distance. He soon realizes that Mick is driving the truck, having killed the original driver. After a long chase, Mick nudges Paul’s vehicle at a cliff side, sending it rolling down into a valley, then sends the truck hurtling down into Paul’s vehicle which explodes as he barely escapes. Paul treks across the outback for hours looking for help (unaware that Mick is slowly trailing him the entire time). Exhausted and dehydrated, Paul passes out near an outback cottage and is given food and shelter by elderly coupe Jack and Lil. They plan to take Paul to the nearest town after he has eaten but Mick finds the house, steals one of Jack’s guns and shoots Jack and Lil dead. Paul then flees again and Mick follows him on Jack’s horse. He catches Paul hiding in the grassland and knocks him out. Paul wakes up in Mick’s dungeon, zip-tied to a chair. Mick is furious at Paul for his role in Katarina’s death and prepares to torture him, but Paul pacifies him with his “English wit” by narrating bar jokes and leading Mick in drinking songs that he claims he learned at boarding school. Mick’s torture for Paul consists of a ten-question quiz about Australian culture and history, with a promise to free him if he answers five of them correctly. However, if Paul gets a question wrong, he loses a finger. Paul answers the first two questions and reveals that he is a history major. After he gets the next question ‘wrong,’ Mick (incensed by Paul’s knowledge) grinds off one of his fingers with a sander (the answer Paul provided was technically correct, Mick just had a different interpretation of it). During the next question, Paul tricks Mick into cutting his other hand free by deliberately answering incorrectly (and losing another finger), then grabs a nearby hammer and clubs Mick with it. He then flees through the tunnels, pursued by an injured Mick. Paul finds several decayed corpses of Mick’s victims and a severely emaciated woman (Jordan Cowan) woken by him begs to be freed. Eventually he finds an exit but notices a sheet on the ground directly in front of it. Lifting it up, he finds a Punji stick trap underneath and considers trying to jump over it. He hears someone come and hides in a corner, assuming that it is Mick coming to get him. When the person who approaches walks past the corner, Paul then knocks the person into the trap with the claw hammer, killing them. But when he looks down to see what he thinks is Mick’s corpse, he discovers it was just the woman he encountered earlier. Immediately afterwards, Mick finds and subdues Paul. After declaring himself “the winner” and lecturing how “It’s up to my kind to wipe your kind out”, Mick head-butts him unconscious. When he wakes up, Paul finds himself on a footpath in a small town far from Mick’s dungeon with no sign of him, dressed only in his underpants and with wounds across his body. He finds a note near him which reads “Loser”, and he soon discovered by the police. A series of title cards reveal that despite reporting Mick to the police, Paul was held as a suspect in various unsolved murderers in the Wolf Creek area. During the investigation, he suffered a complete mental breakdown and was deported back to the UK and placed in full-time care at Ashworth Hospital Merseyside. The film ends in a manner similar to the previous, with Mick walking off into the outback with his rifle.

The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig hunter Mick Taylor.

Hanger

💎💎HANGER💎💎- Payback is a bitch of a whore! The deformed survivor of a botched coat hanger abortion returns to seek revenge against the pimp who murdered his mother and tore him out of the world in this grimy horror yarn from Gutterballs director Ryan Nicholson. Low-rent prostitute Rose (Debbie Rochon) was nine months pregnant when her pimp attempted to give her a back-alley abortion. Though the fetus, nicknamed Hanger, was thrown in the dumpster and left for dead, he somehow managed to survive. Now Hanger is all grown up and the streets are about to run red with the blood of society’s garbage. Hanger is a 2009 Canadian horror film directed by Ryan Nicholson and written by Nicholson with Patrick Coble. The film is banned in Australia and Germany.

Unable to bring in any more money for Leroy, her abusive pimp, the pregnant Rose tries to run away in the middle of the night but is caught by Leroy. Using a clothes hanger, Leroy performs an impromptu abortion on Rose, unintentionally killing her in the process. Leroy disposes of Rose’s baby in a dumpster, where its cries attract the attention of a homeless man, who raises the disfigured child as “Hanger”. On his eighteenth birthday, the vagrant sends Hanger off to live with John, his biological father, who the man earlier met at a junkyard. John informs Hanger that he has gotten him a job at the junkyard and that he will be working there and living with Russell, an acquaintance with Down Syndrome. As he drives away with Hanger, John runs over the homeless man (who was defecating in his tent) and joyously tells his long-lost son “Welcome to the rest of your life!” John gives Hanger a picture of Rose and picks up a prostitute for him to have sex with, but upon seeing Hanger’s mutilated face, the woman goes into hysterics, so John crushes her head in his truck door. While Hanger is watching pornography with Russell in their home, a Jehovah’s Witness visits and Hanger mauls and partially eats her while being cheered on by Russell. Later, John drops by and reveals to Hanger that he has a plan to get revenge on Leroy for what he did to Rose. On his way out, John is approached by Foxy White, Leroy’s girlfriend, who offers to help John kill Leroy. John turns down Foxy’s offer but says he will make Leroy suffer “a little extra” if Foxy watches over Hanger.

While Hanger is at work, John is captured by Leroy and a prostitute named Trashy, who disfigure him with a blow torch and a hanger. Foxy finds John and tries to release him, but Leroy walks in on this and shoots Foxy in the head. As that occurs, Russell and Hanger are drugged by Phil, a coworker, who rapes them while wearing a Santa suit; at one point, Phil inserts his penis into Hanger’s leaking colostomy. Russell and Hanger get their revenge on Phil at the junkyard, knocking him out and placing him under a pile of garbage. Russell goes home and drinks tea made from used tampons, but after getting a call from Hanger, Russell goes to the junkyard and finds Nicole (the owner’s daughter) unconscious in her office. Hanger having knocked her out with Phil’s drugs. Russell takes Nicole’s tampon and she is later found by Leroy, who rapes her while she is unconscious and threatens her into luring away Russell so Leroy can be alone with Hanger. Once he is in Nicole’s office, Russell is seemingly killed by Leroy, who chokes him with one of Nicole’s tampons. Outside, Hanger stomps Phil’s head in and is confronted by Leroy, but John (who was left for dead, but recovered and killed Trashy by shoving a douche up her nose) appears and calls Leroy out. Leroy and John fatally shoot each other and a distraught Hanger runs off with the hysterical Nicole.

A pregnant prostitute is forced to have a brutal abortion in a dark back alley, an act of sheer violence that will eventually lead to a bloody revenge. A horrifying tale of revenge that begins with a back-alley abortion and ends with a bloodbath so vicious that it brings a new meaning to ‘an eye for eye’. From pimps to dealers and hookers to junkies, this film dives headfirst into the depths of human depravity. Unfortunately, Rose, the unlucky prostitute, got herself pregnant and it is starting to show. In addition, more bad news awaits her, since Leroy, her pimp who is losing money, intends on putting an end to this pregnancy in order to send Rose back on the streets again and start making money for him. So, without further delay, Leroy will drag his pregnant prostitute to a dimly-lit, almost dark back alley to perform the most brutal abortion ever, but when poor Rose dies in the process, the pimp will ultimately discard the newborn in the dumpster nearby. But the nameless baby survives and 18 years later, he turns into a monstrous and deformed adult going by the name of “Hanger,” looking for his true father and the ruthless pimp Leroy to finally exact his long-awaited and definitely bloody revenge. Pulled into this world to take you out! A horrifying tale of revenge… beginning with a back-alley abortion and ending with a bloodbath so vicious that it brings a new meaning to “an eye for eye”. From pimps to dealers, from hookers and junkies… “Hanger” washes the filth away with their own blood, cleaning the streets and making way for the ultimate showdown of good vs. evil. Diving headfirst into the depths of human depravity, Plotdigger Films plans on turning the world of horror inside out and letting it all hang out to dry! (D-Man2010)

B Psychopath Movies

💎💎THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS💎💎 – The Business of Strangers is a 2001 film that tells the story of an eventful night shared between a middle-aged businesswoman and her young assistant. The independent film was directed by Patrick Stettner; it stars Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles. Julie Styron (Channing) is a middle-aged businesswoman flying out of town to attend an important meeting. When her CEO contacts her and asks her to meet him for dinner afterward, she worries that her job may be in danger and engages the help of a headhunter named Nick Harris (Fred Weller) to look for a new position. Her mood worsens when her new assistant Paula Murphy (Stiles) is 45-minutse late to the meeting, which as a result goes badly. After its end, Julie fires Paula and they part ways. Later that evening, Julie is unexpectedly promoted to CEO of the company. After both their flights are delayed, Julie and Paula meet up by chance in a hotel bar. Julie apologizes for losing her temper earlier and buys Paula a drink. As they talk, Julie, who gave up having a family for her career, begins to question whether she made the right choice. The two of them visit the gym and the pool before returning to the bar. Nick joins them, explaining that his flight was also canceled. Paula rushes off to the bathroom and is followed by Julie, who wants to know what is wrong. Later, Paula informs her that Nick raped a friend of hers in Boston. Julie is shocked but eventually convinced and suggests they get revenge. Paula tells her to just forget about it. The two retire to Julie’s room and when Nick knocks on the door later on, Paula invites him in and then drugs hum. In order to keep him from realizing what they’ve done, the two women take him down into a restricted area of the hotel which is being renovated. Julie runs upstairs to get Nick’s briefcase and returns to find Paula stripping him. Paula explains that this way when he wakes up, he will hesitate to ask anyone what happened. Paula photographs them all with her Polaroid camera. Paula finds a magic marker and they write words on Nick’s chest and back like “pig” and “rapist.” They are nearly discovered by a security guard, but he leaves without seeing them. Paula eventually confesses to Julie that it was she who was raped, not her friend – which Julie had already guessed. They return to Julie’s room and sleep. The next morning, Julie finds the word “loser” written in marker on her own stomach and a few Polaroids on the bed of Paula sitting next to her own sleeping form. At the airport she meets up with Nick again. He reveals that he had never been to Boston, proving Paula’s rape story to be an elaborate lie.

Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist. A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted businessman while stuck at an airport hotel. Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) is a successful executive with a major international corporation who is starting to feel the pressure of her position, she has few friends and no family to buffer her from the responsibilities of her work and she suspects that the company’s CEO is thinking about replacing her. Trying to get one step ahead, she meets with the slightly manipulative headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller). Julie’s anxieties come to a head when she has to give a major out-of-town presentation without the help of her assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles), who failed to show up on time. Furious, Julie gives Paula a severe dressing down before firing her, but then Julie is called into a meeting with Nick in which she gets some unexpected news – she’s going to be taking over his job. Eager to celebrate, Julie runs into Paula and tries to apologize for their earlier encounter by offering her a hotel room for the night and a few drinks. In time, Nick also turns up at the hotel and the women- upon running into him – realize that he is a mutual acquaintance. Later, Paula shares a secret with Julie – Nick raped one of her friends while they were in college and since then Paula has pondered taking revenge against him. Julie is eventually drawn into Paula’s plan when they encounter Nick later that evening. But there may be more to Paula than meets the eye. The Business of Strangers was the first feature from writer and director Patrick Stettner, the film was shown in competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport, the two women get to know each other. They flirt, they drink, they lie, personal flaws are revealed and exposed. But at the end of the night their relationship turns and becomes a complex battle of power, authority and wit.

💎💎BRUSSELS BY NIGHT💎💎- Brussels By Night is a Belgian drama film from 1983, directed by former Humo journalist Marc Didden. The low budget picture was financed partly by Herman Schueremans, organizer of the Flemish rock festival Rock Werchter. The film was named after a 1979 song by Raymond van het Groenewoud, who also wrote the soundtrack for the movie. Brussels by Night was important in Belgian film history because its bleak, grey atmosphere and stream of consciousness structure were a sharp contrast with the more conventional films the country produced up to then. Brussels 1983. Max, an assassin, is seriously depressed. He tries to commit suicide by sticking a gun in his mouth, but when the gun jams he cries nevertheless, We follow him as he travels through Brussels without any goal and provokes everyone he meets. His mood changes at the most unpredictable moments. Max meets two people, Alice, a bar keeper and Abdel, her customer of Moroccan descent, who both fancy her as their mistress. The climax of the story takes place on the Ronquieres inclined plane. This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the “slanting plane” of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up frustrations flare up.

The unstoppable mood shifts of Max (Francois Beukelaers), a truck driver who has just put a gun to his mouth and fired an empty chamber, are evil enough throughout the film to indicate that all is not going be well, if it ever was. After his “gunplay,” Max takes a train to Brussels where he joins up with a barmaid, a streetcar driver and an od friend and proceeds to change from a good buddy to a cold, derisive stranger with no visible mental stability. Max has vainly tried to dial a phone number throughout the film and it is only after he loses it completely that the story reveals where he was phoning all that time.

💎💎BRIGHTON ROCK (2010)💎💎 – Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film loosely based on Graham Greene’s 1938 novel of the same name. Rowan Joffe wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Helen Mirren. The novel was previously made into a film in 1948 by the Boulting Brothers under the same title. Although the novel and original film are both set in the 1930s, the 21 Century adaptation is set during the Mods and Rockers era of the 1960s. In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed by the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang’s activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Rose’s employer and a friend of Hale’s, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married. Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie (Sam Riley), a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish. An adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who deduced that he killed a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent. While Mods and Rockers fight on the Brighton beaches in 1964, Pinkie Brown (Sam Riley), member of Spicer’s (Phil Davis’) protection racket gang, aims to wipe out his boss and take over the town from rival mobster Colleoni (Andy Serkis). Prior to the murder of Fred, one of Colleoni’s men, naïve waitress Rose Wilson (Andrea Risenborough) had been on the pier and inadvertently photographed Fred. Pinkie feigns courtship and marries Rose to keep her quiet, but Ida (Dame Helen Mirren), Rose’s employer and a friend of Fred’s, has her suspicions and makes it her business to save Rose from Pinkie’s clutches.

Screenwriter Rowan Joffe makes his feature directorial debut with this adaptation of author Graham Greene’s 1939 novel about an ambitious British gangster who will stop at nothing in his quest for ultimate power. Britain,1964: Pinkie (Sam Riley) is well on his way to becoming one of the most powerful figures in the British underworld when naïve waitress Roes (Andrea Riseborough) links him to a brutal murder. In order to ensure that Rose remains silent about the crime, Pinkie seduces her and begins tracking her every move. John Hurt, Andy Serkis, Sean Harris and Oscar winner Helen Mirren costar. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe’s debut feature Brighton Rock embraces the classic elements of film noir and the British gangster film to tell the story of Pinkie, a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing is way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. The film stars up-and-coming British actors Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough as the young couple. Veterans Helen Mirren and John Hurt costar as two friends who set out to save Rose from Pinkie’s deviant designs. Brighton Rock is based on the iconic 1939 Graham Greene novel of innocence and evil but the action has been updated to 1964 Britain, the year of the Mods and the Rockers were rioting across the South Coast. 

A Horror Films - Axe 'Em - Axe

AXE ‘EM (THE WEEKEND IT LIVES) – The film follows a group of teenagers on a weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods who become the targets of a crazed killer. A weekend retreat at a remote cabin the woods for a group of childhood pals turns into a terrifying fight for survival, as a former friend whose family was killed years earlier comes along looking for revenge.  

💎💎AXE💎💎 – Axe is a 1974 American independent horror film written and directed by Frederick R. Friedel and starring Leslie Lee. Its plot follows a trio of criminals who lodge at a rural farmhouse where a teenage girl resides with her disabled grandfather. After one of the men attempts to rape her, she enacts revenge. Originally titled Lisa, Lisa, the film is one of the famous “video nasties” that was banned in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. Three criminals on a murder spree arrive at a farmhouse, where a girl is living with her paralyzed grandfather. A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.

A group of three mobsters – Steele, Lomax and Billy – enter a hotel room and await Aubrey, a local man who owes them money. Aubrey arrives shortly after with his male lover and Lomax shoves a burning cigar down his throat before beating him to death. Aubrey’s lover leaps to his death from the 12^th-floor window. Afterward, Steele, Lomax and Billy drive through the countryside. Billy is remorseful for the crime they have perpetrated, while Steele and Lomax are indifferent. During a stop at a grocery store, Steele and Lomax relentlessly terrorize a female clerk, tearing off her blouse before firing a gun above her head and pouring Coca-Cola on her. The next day, the three men seek lodging at a remote farmhouse where an impassive young woman, Lisa, lives a solitary existence with her disabled grandfather. She is notably evasive toward the men but agrees to allow them to spend the night when they claim that Billy has fallen ill. When the police arrive searching for the men, Lomax and Steele threaten Lisa with a gun and she wards the officers away, assuring them she has not seen the criminals. At dinner, Lisa serves the three men a chicken she slaughtered that morning. While the men eat, Lisa attempts to cut herself in the upstairs bathroom, but is interrupted by Billy, who knocks on the door. In the middle of the night, Lomax attempts to rape Lisa while she sleeps, but she stops the assault by slashing his neck with a straight razor, killing him. She drags his body to the bathtub, where she dismembers it with a hatchet. She stuffs Lomax’s dismembered body parts into a steamer trunk. The following morning, Billy helps her carry the trunk into the attic, unaware of its contents. When he discovers blood dripping out of it, he opens the lid to find Lomax’s body inside. Lisa lies and claims that Steele killed him. Billy and Lisa go into the woods to talk about the incident away from Steele. Lisa calmly unveils a straight razor, but Billy takes it from her hand, presuming she was passing it over to him to arm himself against Steele. Upon returning to the house, Lisa makes Steele a sandwich in the kitchen. He comments on her physical beauty, to which she does not respond and this enrages him. Steele drags Lisa upstairs to the parlor where her grandfather is watching television and the two scuffle. She manages to grab a hatchet near the fireplace and kills him with it. When Billy returns, he finds Steele missing; Lisa claims he was gone when she returned. Lisa prepares tomato soup for Billy and her grandfather in the upstairs parlor. While eating the soup, Billy finds Steele’s ring inside his bowl. He watches in horror as Steele’s body dislodges from the chimney flue and tumbles out of the fireplace. Lisa pays no attention, quietly humming while feeding her grandfather. Billy flees in horror and runs outside where he is shot to death by police who have returned in search of the trio.

Released originally under the title Lisa, Lisa, this seedy murder-fest was later retitled during drive-in circulation then again for its video release in 1985 as The California Axe Massacre to capitalize on the hype of another new arrival to video, Tobe Hooper’s cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film itself (actually filmed in North Carolina, not California) has little in common with Hooper’s hit, the bloody revenge scenario is more reminiscent of Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left. It involves a gang of grimy fugitives who hole up in the rural abode of a pretty but unstable young woman (Leslie Lee) and proceed to abuse her and her grandfather. Of course, things get out of hand from there and the hoods kill the old fogey, which brings gory retribution as the sweet young thing brandishes the title implement. Painfully cheap-looking, this tawdry exploiter is too slow-moving to sustain the interest of chop-em-up fans who might be lured by the title.

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SALVAGE – Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death – and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced and stabbed, Claire awakens at work – where it all began – untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he’s ready for more blood… The film begins with Claire closing out her night shift at a store and is to be picked up by her boyfriend and driven home but instead someone else, who identifies himself as “Duke” is driving her boyfriend’s truck. After an unsettling ride home during which Duke makes increasingly overt sexual comments about her, Claire closes herself into the safety of her house, but Duke shows up at her door again, claiming she has dropped an earring. Claire refuses to let him in and he drops the earring on her front porch and apparently leaves. Claire spends several moments crouched in the doorway retrieving the earring, but upon successfully recapturing it and pulling the door closed, finds her back door has swung open. Duke has entered the house from the rear and proceeds to brutally murder Claire. Claire awakens at the convenience store again all seems well. She decides that she has had a bad dream. She begins to repeat her day, except this time her boyfriend does come to pick her up and she makes it home and to school. However, unsettling hints begin to appear. The sequence of events once again leads to a moment where Claire is being murdered and she again awakens in the convenience store. As each sequence leads towards her death, she hears from time to time people who she trusts talking just out of earshot about how she is “catching on”. Finally, she puts together the clues and realizes that not only has Duke been killed by the local police, but that she herself is missing and presumed dead, as is her boyfriend Jimmy. In the end, it is revealed that Duke Desmond’s soul has been occupying Claire’s physical body the entire time and he is in Hell reliving the brutal murder of Claire over and over again as eternal punishment. Just before the end credits, Claire again awakens in the convenient store.