South Korean Horror Movies - 3 - A

South Korean Horror Movies

301/302 – Two obsessive compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent relationship that forces both women to delve into their pasts of torment. The film details the relationship between two neighbors, Song-Hee a chef, and Yun-Hee an anorexic writer. After her divorce, Song-Hee moves in next door to Yun-Hee. Realizing she is an anorexic, Song-Hee begins to torment Yun-Hee by offering her food, eventually forcing it upon her violently. Both women’s pasts are explored. Yun-Hee’s sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, butcher by trade; Song-Hee’s dysfunctional marriage, her obesity, and finally the moment she cooks her husband’s dog and feeds it to him as an act of revenge. The film ends as Yun-Hee offers her own body to be cooked and eaten. After her death and consumption, Yun-Hee is shown living happily in Song-Hee’s apartment as a spirit. The film is told in flashback as Song-Hee is interviewed by a detective who is investigating Yun-Hee’s disappearance.

ACACIA – Mi-Sook and her husband have been attempting to have a baby, but their efforts have proven to be unsuccessful. They then decide to adopt a young child, although Mi-Sook was against the idea at first. While visiting the orphanage, Mi-Sook notices a painting that she is attracted to and decides to adopt Jin-Sung the child who drew the picture. The new family gets along well, but things change after Mi-Sook becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy. Jin-Sung begins to feel alienated from his family and he becomes obsessed with an acacia tree in the family’s garden. After his parents confront Jin-Sung about his behavior with his new stepbrother, Jin-Sung overhears his mom talking about sending Jin-Sung back to the orphanage. Soon after, Jin-Sung disappears and horrifying events begin to take place in their home. Unable to have children of their own, married couple Mi-Sook and Do-il adopt a young boy named Lee Jin-Sung. His name soon gets changed to Kim Jin-Sung when he moves with Mi-Sook and Do-il. The boy is drawn to an acacia tree in his new home’s backyard, believing it to be his mother, and soon it becomes the focal point for an increasing number of strange occurrences when Jin-Sung appears to have run away. Jin-Sung befriends an older girl named Min-Jee, She tells Jin-Sung that she cannot go to school as she has lost a lot of blood. After she kisses, Jin-Sung, he becomes even more aggressive and violent. He turns even worse as Mi-Sook becomes pregnant and has a new baby named Hae-Sung. Jin-Sung, experiencing many emotional difficulties, becomes more withdrawn and confused. He starts to develop an anger towards his adopted family, so much that he tries to smother the new baby. Mi-Sook gets so frustrated with Jin-Sung’s actions and obsession towards the acacia tree that she decides to chop the tree down, which results in Jin-Sung’s allegedly running away. After Jin-Sung runs away, the previously dying tree starts to bloom with spectacular life. Min-Jee starts changing as well, become more obsessed with the acacia tree. She starts climbing to hear Jin-Sung’s voice coming from inside the tree, witnessing experiences occurring around the tree, flowers and ants attacking the people in Jin-Sung’s family. It is revealed that his mother gravely injured Jin-Sung by accident while she was trying to chop down the tree. Her husband saw this and helped her bury their adopted son’s body, thinking he was dead. But when Jin-Sung’s arm moved, alerting the couple that he was alive, Do-il smashed his body with the shovel and finished burying him. Jin-Sung’s mother, out of guilt and stress, eventually created an illusion for herself that her son had run away, all the time sinking further and further into her guilt, losing her grip on reality.

APT – A young woman, who lives in an old apartment suburban of Seoul, finds herself amused observing opposite side apartments. One day, she finds out that the lights of some houses on the opposite apartments kept being turned off at the very same time. She concluded that this weird happening is somehow related to those mysterious serial deaths. She begins to act to figure out the mystery and becomes deeply involved. Se-Jin Oh, a lonely young career woman, lives in a high-rise apartment building in a Seoul suburb, and sometimes watches her neighbors through binoculars for amusement. Taking the subway home one night near Christmas, a woman dressed in red throws herself in front of the train, attempting to drag Se-Jin with her. The dead woman haunts Se-Jin, though she doesn’t know it. However, she does notice that the lights across the way flicker mysteriously at exactly 9:56pm every night – often accompanied by an apparent suicide. Se-Jin is befriended by Yoo-Yeon, a wheelchair-bound woman abused by her caregivers, several of whom are among the victims. Yoo-Yeon gives Se-Jin a puzzle cube, noting it can help to forget the pain for a while. Se-Jin attempts to influence her neighbors, begging them to not turn their lights off before 10pm. This puts her in conflict with police detective Yang, who learns that many of the victims have identical keys to an apartment. The apartment that matches the key 704, is Yoo-Yeon’s – but Yang finds the resident is Shin Jung-Soo, a social recluse with long black hair, who attacks Yang, but denies having committed any murders. Se-Jin has also made friends with a student, Jung-Hong, whose parents leave her behind when they go out of town. Se-Jin passes the puzzle cube on to Jung-Hong, who notices that the tiles always go back to their original configuration. Looking at the cube, Se-Jin realizes the numbers inscribed on the tiles match up to the apartment numbers of the known victims, save one. They also find an article that notes Yoo-Yeon committed suicide a year ago. Se-Jin goes to apartment 1203 to investigate, finding another dead person, with a key to 704 in their mouth. In the apartment, Se-Jin relives Yoo-Yeon’s experiences, as the recluse relates them to Yang, orphaned when her parents died in a car wreck. Yoo-Yeon’s neighbors voluntarily decide to care for her, but over time come to hate and mistreat her, including attempted rape and assorted physical abuse. Yoo-Yeon takes her own life, her blood turning her dress completely red, but her spirit remains. Terrified to go back to the apartment, Shin Jung-Soo kills himself with an officer’s gun. Jung-Hong sees her parents come home, but as it is close to 9:56p she races to keep them from being hurt. Meanwhile, Yoo-Yeon confronts Se-Jin, threatening to kill her for turning away from her like the others. Se-Jin escapes to the roof, but is followed by Yoo-Yeon, to end her hatred and pain. Se-Jin allows Yoo-Yeon to take her over, and jumps from the roof, witnessed by Yang and Jung-Hong. Two months later, Jung-Hong helps Detective Yang move into an apartment in the same building. They see an apparition of Se-Jin and then the lights flicker, its 9:56 pm.

ARANG – Detective So-Young is reinstated after as suspension. She is then thrown into a mysterious case with rookie cop Hyun-Ki. The victim died from apparently acid released from inside his own body. The only clue the detectives have to work on is an email sent to the victim prior to his death. Then more deaths occur in the same manner. How are the victims related? How does a death that occurred 10 years ago and a salt storehouse relate to the case? The two detectives work feverishly to find the answers. A veteran detective So-Young and her rookie partner Hyun-Ki come across an incendiary homicide case. They discover that the present case is related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years prior. So-Young becomes plagued with nightmares in which the girl appears and the killings continue. The girl is actually Min-Jeong, Hyun-Ki’s firswt love. Those who died are killed by Hyun-Ki by giving them a cigarette that inlaid with a gas which causes a stimulated heart attack. Those who have the cigarette raped Min-Jeong 10 years ago in an abandoned salt house. Hyun-Ki was forced to tape the incident as he was emotionally wounded when he saw Min-Jeong and her lover making out in the salt house at graduation day. Hurt, he agrees to tape the incident when the group who plans to rape Min-Jeong persuaded him. Min-Jeong’s lover, who came by to save her, was killed by one of the group members. Min-Jeong was said to have gone mad and disappeared after that incident, but in fact she was pregnant and buried under a mount of salt after one of the police officers who handled the rape incident tricked her into the salt house and locked her inside, burying her along with her unborn child. Hyun-Ki threatens the police officer to go to the salt house and dig out Miin-Jeong. So-Young catches upon both of them and also threatens Hyun-Ki to put down his gun. Hyun-Ki pleads with So-Young to kill him, but So-Young refuses, saying that she will let him live in regret and make him watch his children suffer after him, whispering in his ear when he’s dying and says that his life is no better than a stray dog. Hyun-Ki states that he can’t bear it and is afraid to live that kind of life ends his life by committing suicide. The water that rains down on that day washes away the salt that buried Min-Jeong, and slowly Min-Jeong’s body is revealed along with her dead baby between her legs. Her corpse is not rotten, thanks to the salt that preserved her body. The forensic doctor states that when a pregnant woman dies, gas forms inside the body. The gas pushes the baby out even after the mother is dead. So-Young was once violated by an unknown man with a scar on his right hand when she was young. She stated that the reason she became a police officer was to find that man and kill him. After the incident, the man who violated her, now a father and a successful businessman, mysteriously dies in a hotel room. It is said that the night before the man died, So-Young dreamed about the girl wearing a white dress, smiling and laughing together in the salt house. She concluded that the dream she had signified that Min-Jeong had helped her take her revenge by killing the man, and after that So-Young writes a novel and gets it published. At the end of the film, there’s a myth said to relate to the movie. The Legend of Arang 400 years ago states that there’s a village full of new magistrates that are killed mysteriously. That is why no new magistrate dares to go to the village to be appointed. However, there’s a new magistrate willing to go to the village. He found out that the spirit of Arang is full of hatred and revenge because she was raped and killed. After that, he helped the spirit to catch the culprit who raped and killed her, sending the culprit to justice. He found Arang’s corpse and buried her. It was said that because of her hatred, her corpse did not rot when it was found after so many years. 

Thai Horror Movies - 3-4

Thai Movies

3AM (2012 Film) – 3AM is a 3D anthology horror film directed by Patchanon Tummajira, Kirati Nakintanon and Isara Nadee, and released in Thailand on November 22, 2012. It is composed of three short films with different themes, united by a common motif of the 3 A.M. hour, considered as the time when supernatural things tend to occur. 3 A.M. is divided into three stories: The Wig, Corpse Bride, and Q.T. None of the stories intersect, however, they do have a common motif of having supernatural things around 3 A.M.

The Wig – Sisters May and Mint are left to run their family business, a wig shop, while their parents are on a vacation in China. A customer offers to sell May some human hair of great quality, without knowledge that the hair was illegally salvaged from a female corpse and that the salvages seemingly committed suicide. May works overtime weaving the new wig but a female apparition haunts her, presumably the owner of the hair. Mint then returns with three friends to continue partying at home and May is infuriated as one of the friends carelessly toys with the wig. After the sisters argue, Mint orders her friend to return the wig to its rightful place, but finds him decapitated in the stock room as he fails to return. The ghost now torments the remaining party of four, then killing Mint’s remaining two friends. The sisters then seek refuge in the kiln dry room and the female ghost traps May inside the kiln dryer. Mint attempts to pry open the door in vain and the machine overheats and explodes. The impact lunges Mint towards the wall, but May is nowhere to be seen. Awoken to the sound of her parents’ return, Mint tries to explain last night’s ordeal, but is disturbed by a distraught May and the fact that everyone ignores her. Mint realizes that she has died from the explosion, being impaled by a glass shard, and that the ghost now inhabits May’s body.

Corpse Bride – Junior mortician Tod is assigned to be stationed at the bridal home of Mike and Cherry, an engaged couple who died a week before their wedding. While performing rituals and maintenance, Tod opens Cherry’s coffin in an attempt to oust an intruding lizard, but is infatuated with Cherry’s beauty. After seeing a dream of Cherry crying for help and uncovering some clues suggesting Mike was jealous and abusive, Tod separates the couple and gets intimate with Cherry’s corpse, hoping to at least save Cherry from Mike even after death. As Tod sleeps with Cherry’s corpse one night, Tod goes into the hallway to check on some noise, only to be frightened by Mike’s ghost. After retreating back into the bedroom, Cherry drags Tod under the bed and stabs his ankle. A frightened Tod then bumps into Mike’s corpse only to be struck by a revelation. Mike bounded Cherry not over jealously, but to prevent her from committing suicide. After Mike unties Cherry out of guilt and sympathy, Cherry overpowers Mike and breaks a glass figurine. Mike struggles to get the glass shard from Cherry’s hand only to have Cherry slash his jugular veins. Cherry then proceeds to slit her own throat and dies. Cherry then asks whether Tod no longer loves her in the same manner she did Mike. Revealing her now rotten face, she kisses Tod, causing him to faint out of fright. Tod awakens and panics as he is trapped inside a coffin, with Cherry sitting on top claiming her new lover.

Q.T. – Executives Karan and Tee take pleasure in playing ghostly pranks on their employees on a daily basis. After scaring of Bump and Ging with a floating head, they proceed to spook a transsexual employee. Rejoicing their success in pulling off such pranks, Bump and Ging make a failed attempt to spook them and then claim that they returned to prepare documents for tomorrow’s meeting. After the four pull off one gruesome prank over another on each other, they decide to return home. However, while in the elevator, both Karan and Tee each receive a phone call, saying that Bump and Ging were found dead under the stairs. It turns out that Bump and Ging fell off the stairs and plummeted into the first floor after being frightened from Karan and Tee’s floating head prank. Realizing the two employees behind them are already dead, Karan reaches for the buttons to get off, but is hindered by Bump. The short ends showing the elevator ascending into darkness.

303 Fear Faith Revenge – Is a 1998 Thai horror film starring Taya Rogers, Arthit Ryu and Ananda Everingham. In this film, an investigation into a star student’s suicide results in several students being stranded in their closed school where they are hunted and killed one-by-one. St. George boarding school, a typical Catholic school with strict rules. A group of new students have heard a rumor about the mysterious suicide case of an honor student whose name was in the school’s Hall Of Fame. Their curiosity to find the truth leads them into the horrid situation. Students and staff members are brutally murdered, one by one; and the entire campus is trapped on top of the hill as there is a landslide that ruins the only road to the school. 

999-9999 – Rainbow has just moved to an international school in Phuket. She soon becomes the center of attention as many new friends are curious to know about the recent death of a student at her old school up North. She relates it to a mysterious phone number: 999-9999, a number reputed to grant the caller’s wish. The victim apparently had his wish granted soon before he was found dead on a flagpole. Despite Rainbow’s warnings, many of her new peers decide to try this out. Although the various wishes are fulfilled, a series of accident-like deaths occur until Sun becomes the only teen in the group left alive. Death is awaiting him, however, as he’s also made a wish which has yet to be fulfilled. Together Rainbow and Sun must solve the mystery of the evil phone number and stop whatever it’s going to bring to them.

Sun is a student in an international school in Phuket. Not academically inclined, he considers himself as “his own man” who doesn’t believe in love and is the head of a clique of pranksters consisting of the attractive but selfish Meena, geeky Chi, smart but timid Wawa and fun-loving Rajit. The overweight Moo Priew aspires to join Sun’s clique but is rejected every time. One day Sun and his friends notice a beautiful and mysterious new transfer student named Rainbow, who is beautiful and mysterious. Rainbow was transferred from a high school in Chiang Mai where a student had been impaled on the school’s flagpole. When asked how it happened, Rainbow says it involved a demon call from the phone number 999-9999. If one calls it after midnight and says a wish, the wish shall be granted later, but as a consequence, death will come to the caller. None of the clique members believe this and Rajit calls it after midnight in front of the others and wishes for a Ferarri. He wakes up the next morning receiving exactly what he wished for by luck. Rajit soon dies from a combination of a scorpion attack and a malfunctioning car wash machine which slices his throat with a spinning blade. The rest of the friends still don’t believe in Rainbow’s story, and even make wishes themselves, prioritizing only the first part of the deal. Meena wishes to be a Channel V Thailand VJ, only to be killed by a hanging noose at a party afterwards. Soon after Meena’s death, Sub begins to investigate about the deadly calls and spends more time with Rainbow. However, the other members of his clique continue to make wishes. Chi wishes not to be a geek anymore and is burned by a fire. Moo Priew wants to lose weight, only to die by falling out of a window with his organs pulled out (thus making him thinner). Wawa wishes to be an astronaut student sharp spears split her head in two. Sun calls the number, wishing for something he believes couldn’t be granted: love. Rainbow then kisses him, and he realizes that his wish was granted as Rainbow’s affection for him. To avoid the possibility of her being killed with him, Sun locks Rainbow in the tower where his clique usually hang out. While watching Rainbow via cameras, Sun realizes that Rainbow is the one causing the deaths of his friends by introducing them to the number, making her a devil’s apprentice. When he returns to the tower, Rainbow vanishes and the number calls Sun, telling him he’s going to die. A heavy box falls from the top of the tower, but Sun manages to avoid it, only to fall on a pipe which pierces through his chest, killing him. A flashback set in Rainbow’s former school shows Rainbow telling the girls there about the number, hence causing the deaths there later on, including the girl who was impaled on a flagpole. 

Canadian Horror Films - 13 Eerie, 5ive and 7 Days

Canadian Horror Films

13 Eerie – Six forensic undergrads, vying for a trainee position with the FBI, embark on a scientific expedition to a remote island that was once used as illegal biological testing grounds for life-term prisoners. Now, the mutilated cadavers of these convicts have come back to life and are savagely hunting them down one by one. Six forensic undergrads, Megan, Daniel, Josh, Patrick, Kate and Rob are assigned to complete a scientific field exam on a deserted island known as Eerie Strait, where life-term prisoners were once held and corpses lay dead. With cameras set up, Professor Tomkins dispatches them into pairs to examine corpses in different areas as part of staged numbers, restricting the pairs from interacting, only allowing their use of walkie talkies to report back to him. Unfortunately these have been accidentally damaged. He also monitors their activities from a surveillance cabin. Shortly, Larry, an ex-con who transported the group, warns partners, Megan and Kate, about finding the unexpected corpse of a skinhead female in a jumpsuit which soon comes alive in their working area. Rob spots the zombie in the woods and tries to warn his partner, Daniel, who dismisses it. Due to the earlier damage, all of the walkie talkies lose battery life and communication is broken. While in the woods alone, the zombie pursues Kate and cannibalizes parts of her. Josh and Patrick hear her screams and see a figure’s movements in the woods, suspecting there is a problem. As Larry tries to inform an initially skeptical Tomkins, who is upset with Larry for inadvertently destroying much of the equipment, Megan finds Kate injured, carrying her back to the student cabin before she dies. Rob, believing something is up, leaves Daniel to go out on his own. As Kate revives as a zombie and Rob approaches her as one after being bitten to death by the tattoo zombie and thug zombie, Megan is forced to gruesomely kill the two of them. The remaining crew splits up and searches for the missing others and Daniel finds Megan. Back at the main cabin, as the zombies attack, Tomkins shoots the skinhead zombie that is outside and inside where Larry botches the Molotov cocktail, the thug zombie is able to pull Larry underneath the cabin to bite him to death. Tomkins tells Megan and Daniel to hide in a school bus. Chased by the zombies, Josh and Patrick seek safety in a prison bus, honking the horn that alerts the others to their location. Leaving the school bus, Megan and Daniel see zombie Larry coming after them. Megan accidentally fires a shot that injures Daniel, but she shoots Larry dead. They are found and they join Josh and Patrick on the prison bus. The zombies attack the bus and they crash the tattoo zombie into a nearby cabin, resulting in Patrick’s death. The thug zombie comes after them and it shot down. They drive away, but the bus starts to smoke and it tips over a branch and crashes, though Megan, Daniel and Josh who sustains a knee injury, all survive. Not long after, the tattoo zombie catches up to them and Megan shoots it, but runs out of bullets. As she is about to be bitten, Josh saves her, driving an arrow through the zombie’s head.

The next day Tomkins finds them. Captain Veneziano drives by and they have him pull over. Megan, Daniel and Josh get into the car as Tomkins attacks Veneziano, who is pressured to admit the island was used for conducting biological experiments on prisoners sentenced to death row and turned into a death camp when the testing went wrong years ago. The tattoo zombie approaches from behind and Tomkins sacrficies Veneziano to save his own life. He attempts to drive with his students, only to realize the keys are clenched between the teeth of the zombie. The final scene shows Megan, Daniel, Josh and Tomkins looking terrified about their fates.

5150 Elm’s Way – Elm’s Way is a calm street in a small town. When Yannick falls from his bike, he knocks on the door of the Beaulieu residence, to call a cab home. Entering the house, Yannick hears a man screaming upstairs. When he finally encounters the source of the screams he realizes that Beaulieu has wounded the man and was holding him hostage. Beaulieu then locks down Yannick in fear of him calling the police. Over time, he learns Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatical chess player who kills drug dealers, pedophiles and other bad people for a better world. Weeks pass and Yannick remains a prisoner, though is otherwise not mistreated by Beaulieu. He tries to escape, but is recaptured by Beaulieu’s daughter Michelle, who breaks his leg. As he has done nothing wrong, Beaulieu doesn’t want to kill Yannick and eventually agrees to let him go if he wins a game of chess against him. Beaulieu has never lost a game in his life so far. They play chess constantly, but Yannick never wins, though he rattles Beaulieu by once managing to a draw. After Beaulieu’s wife and daughter finally stand up to Beaulieu, they free Yannick. But Yannick has gone mad sitting locked in the room playing chess games against Beaulieu and doesn’t leave, believing that the only option to stop Beaulieu is to win against him. In the final showdown the two play a chess game in the cellar, where Beaulieu has conserved all of his victims and placed them as pieces on a giant chessboard. During the game, Beaulieu’s little stepdaughter enters the cellar and witnesses her dead mother placed as a piece on the chessboard. She is then shot accidentally by Beaulieu, which renders him catatonic. The police arrive, free Yannick and arrest Beaulieu. Four months later, Yannick is still madly obsessed with the interrupted chess game, so thoroughly consumed by the thought of the final position that he alienates himself from his girlfriend.

5ive Girls – Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which hold thrall over the sinister institution. The story takes place at St. Mark’s, a Catholic boarding school for girls. One day, a young student, Elizabeth, is studying in a classroom on the third floor when, without warning, she is attacked by unseen evil forces. One of St. Mark’s priest, Father Drake attempts to save Elizabeth from the apparently demonic aggressor, but he quickly proves to be powerless against it and the girl vanishes without a trace. The school is immediately shut down and all of the students are removed from campus by worried families. Five years later, the school reopens. A harsh headmistress, Miss Pearce, rules the girls with an iron fist. Father Drake remains at the school as a teacher, but because of Elizabeth’s disappearance, he has become a drunkard and was found by Miss Pearce at a bar. Five troubled and unwanted girls are left by their families at the school: Alex, Mara, Cecilia (who is blind), Leah and Connie. The girls are strictly forbidden to go to the third floor (the site of Elizabeth’s disappearance). Cecilia and Mara enter the third floor, prompting Miss Pearce to punish the responsible party. Alex takes the blame and is severely beaten with a ruler.

Alex begins to have visions of Elizabeth being possessed by a demon. Other strange things begin to happen, revealing all five girls possess supernatural gifts. Connie is a “conduit”, or a magnet for spiritual activity. Leah can pass through objects (though not doors or walls), Cecilia has “second sight” or what the viewer could interpret as ESP, Mara can heal recent wounds (she heals Alex after her beating) and Alex has telekinesis.

It is revealed that Miss Pearce has brought the girls to the school for a very specific reason and is seen conjuring them to a pentagram on the third floor, after which Connie appears to be possessed. Connie attempts to drown Leah and the demon passes into her while Connie falls dead. The possessed Leah (who can now pass through doors) goes to confront Father Drake, at which time the name of the demon is revealed: Legion. They argue, Father Drake attempts to exorcise her and Leah uses her newfound demon powers to stab him with gold crucifixes. Alex, Mara and Cecilia have been reading Elizabeth’s journal, which appeared after Connie’s possession, and have learned enough about Legion to know that they need to escape. They split up to search for the others, Mara finding Father Drake, Alex finding Connie and Cecilia running into the demon.

After a prolonged fight where Cecilia is severely bloodied and Leah’s head is smashed in with a book, Legion moves on to Cecilia and grants her “first sight”. Terrified, Mara and Alex try to flee, but Ms. Pearce locks them in and breaks Mara’s healing hand. It is revealed that Miss Pearce is Elizabeth’s sister, and is trying to save her from Legion. Mara and Alex the hole up in the bedroom and use Connie’s spell book to create a protective circle. Cecilia/Legion finds them and while she cannot initially penetrate the circle uses her own blood to cover over the lines and then possesses Mara.

Miss Pearce is in another part of the building, chanting. Elizabeth’s body slowly begins to appear before vanishing again. Mara is chasing Alex, who gets stabbed in the stomach. Miss Pearce begs Legion to let Elizabeth go, but is told that they only have four girls and the deal was for five. Alex then uses her own powers of telekinesis to force Legion out of Mara and into Miss Pearce before ramming the demon’s head through a crucifix. Mara and Alex collapse and presumably several hours later, Mara awakes and heals herself, but is unable to heal Alex in time. She begins to leave and encounters Virgil (a man in monkish robes, who appears to be a type of groundskeeper and is seen briefly throughout the movie). Elizabeth comes running down the stairs, whole and alive and greets him as father (cue Mara’s exit). He is happy and excited, until a bloody Miss Pearce grabs him by the throat and transfers Legion to him. Elizabeth screams and cries as the film ends.

7 Days – To avenge the murder of his young daughter a man forces the killer to undergo unspeakable punishments, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno’s darkened mind. He plans to capture the “monster” and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task is accomplished, he will then give himself up.

The ordinary life of surgeon Bruno Hamel is destroyed when his daughter Jasmine is raped and murdered in a park. Upon learning that the police apprehended the prime suspect, laborer Anthony Lemaire, Hamel plans to take revenge. He abducts Lemaire while he is being brought to his trial by drugging the officer driving the transport vehicle and brings him to a secluded cabin. Using a remote-controlled computer to conceal his location, Hamel calls the police to inform them that he plans to murder Lemaire in seven days, the seventh day being Jasmine’s birthday. After killing him, Hamel will give himself up to the police. Police detective Mercure leads the investigation to discover Hamel’s whereabouts. Mercure himself suffered a personal tragedy when his wife was killed during a grocery store robbery. Though Mercure acknowledges that the imprisonment of his wife’s killer has not made his life more bearable, he becomes determined to stop Hamel before he commits murder. Over the course of seven days, Hamel brutally tortures Lemaire. Initially frightened and in incredible pain, Lemaire starts to accept his fate and mocks Hamel for not enjoying himself as he inflicts painful injuries on him. Lemaire eventually admits to raping and murdering Jasmine, along with three other girls. Hamel contacts a news station to have the families of Lemaire’s victims informed about his captive’s confession. When the mother of one of Lemaire’s victims disapproves of his actions, Hamel kidnaps her and forces her to see Lemaire. By the seventh day, the police locate Hamel’s cabin. Hamel gives himself up and lets Lemaire live. As the police lead him away, a reporter asks him if he still believes vengeance is right. Hamel responds with a “No.” However, when asked if he regrets what has done, he gives the same answer. 

Slasher Films: A

Slasher Films

Absurd – The plot involves a near invincible man known as Mikos, a Greek Italian citizen who was given a healing factor and driven insane by church-sanctioned scientific experimentation. A priest pursues Mikos to a town in America, and attempts to destroy him by impaling him on a set of railings which disembowels him, but he is revived later in a local hospital. The madman escapes after brutally murdering a nurse, and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to “destroy the cerebal mass”. While attacking a motorcyclist after escaping from the hospital, Mikos is struck by a hit-and-run driver. The driver of the car, Mr. Bennett and his wife are going to a friend’s house to watch a football game, leaving their two children at home with a babysitter. Their daughter Katia is confined to her bed because of a problem with her spine, while her younger brother believes that the “Boogeyman” is coming to get him. Mikos makes his way to the Bennetts’ home and begins to murder everyone there. Peggy, a family helper is stabbed in the head with a pickaxe, and the babysitter has her head forced into a lit oven and is stabbed in the throat with a pair of scissors, but not before sending the brother off to get help. Katia struggles from her bed to take on the killer herself. Mikos breaks into Katia’s room and attacks her, but she manages to stab him in the eyes with a set of drawing compasses. She then stumbles down the hallway as the blinded killer staggers after her. He stalks her through the house, but Katia manages to elude him. The priest arrives and struggles with Mikos, and Katia grabs an axe from a decorative suit of armor and decapitates Mikos with it. The police and the rest of the family arrive to discover Katia standing in the doorway, covered in blood holding Mikos’s severed head.

Adam & Evil – A killer stalks a group of teenagers at a secluded campground. The Horror Channel summarizes the plot as “In the darkest depths of secluded woodlands, a young group of friends head out for fun and frolics. Instead they find themselves embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse.” After Dave and Maureen have sex in the woods, Dave proposes to Maureen, and she says yes. During the night, Dave walks out of his tent and finds Maureen’s severed finger next to the fire. Dave is then attacked by a person in a mask. However, it is revealed that it was actually Maureen, who was pranking Dave. However, then, a real masked killer appears and beheads Dave with a machete before impaling Maureen. The next day, a group of friends consisting of Adam, Billy, Earl, Evelyn, Matt, Rachel, Rob, Seth, Shane, Stacey and Yvonne, head deep into the woods for a night of partying and drinking. The group has a blast while Shane and Rachel get into a fight and break up. Shane makes out with Yvonne, while Rachel hooks up with Seth. When Adam and Stacey step away from the campsite to kiss, they discover a threatening note. Back at camp, the others find more. Adam, Stacey, Rachel, Matt and Shane want to leave, but their votes are overturned by Billy, Clint, Earl, Evelyn, Rob, Seth and Yvonne. However, soon, the killer kills Seth and Rachel while they are having sex. The others find their bodies and panic, fleeing in different directions. Billy, Yvonne and Stacey meet up in a clearing, but the killer hangs Billy while the girls hide. Stacey is found by Adam, and the two embrace. However, when Rob discovers Yvonne, she mistakenly kills him. Adam, Stacey and Yvonne are stalked by the killer and hide from him. While they are running, Adam and Stacey witness the killer ripping out Yvonne’s throat. Due to the deaths of Seth and Rachel, Clint and Earl decide that Shane is the killer and they corner him. Shane claims not to be the murderer, but Clint and Earl stab him anyway. Clint and Earl are then attacked by the real killer, who dismembers Earl before chasing Clint through the forest. Clint makes it to a cliff, where he calls out to Adam and Stacey before the killer decapitates him. When Adam and Stacey find the bodies of Seth, Rachel, Rob, Evelyn, and Earl, as well as a still-living Shane in a cave, they deduce that Matt is the killer, as he is the only one they did not see. Adam, Stacey and Shane then flee the cave. They wander the woods for hours before finally finding the group’s truck. However, they then encounter Matt. Stacey threatens Matt with a knife, despite his claims that he is innocent. Shane, who sympathizes with Matt, tries to convince the others to believe him. They then automatically assume this position when the killer shoots Matt and Shane, killing them. The killer is then revealed as Yvonne, and her death was just a hallucination by Adam and Stacey due to them being drugged by Yvonne. It was actually Evelyn whose throat was ripped out, Adam and Stacey battle Yvonne, and their fight culminates in them running over Yvonne until she is dead. As morning breaks, Adam and Stacey leave the campsite and drive back towards civilization. They at first believe they are safe, but Stacey soon realizes that Yvonne could not have killed Billy because she was with her when he died. The shot then changes to show Seth standing over Yvonne’s body and musing that her death “is such a shame.” Seth then take’s Maureen’s ring out of his pocket, revealing that it was him who killed her, Billy and Dave (and presumably Rachel) and places it on her finger. He then picks up his machete and mask and begins walking back towards the city. 

Lifetime Movies - Accused At 17

Lifetime Movies

Accused At 17 – A woman (Cynthia Gibb) must save her teenage daughter (Nicole Gale Anderson) when the girl’s best friend frames her for murder. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Miller (Nicole Gale Anderson) has just found out that her boyfriend cheated on her with Dory Holland. Her friends Fallyn Werner (Janet Montgomery) and Sarah Patterson (Stella Maeve) suggest that the three of them teach Dory a lesson. Fallyn and Sarah go to Dory’s house and claim that they want to take her to a party with college boys and she agrees to come with them. However, the girls drive Dory to a remote location, where she and Bianca get into a fight. Later on, Bianca gets in her car and leaves. Fallyn and Sarah threaten Dory by saying they will make her life a living hell if she tells anyone what they did. As they are walking away from her, Dory throws a rock that hits Fallyn’s back. Enraged, Fallyn leaps at Dory and attacks her, killing her in the process by smashing her head with a rock. Horrified, Sarah tries to call 911 but Fallyn stops her, saying she will take care of it and that everything will be okay.

The next day Dory is absent at school. Fallyn convinces Sarah to keep the murder a secret and not to tell Bianca what happened. Others, including Bianca, start worrying about Dory’s disappearance. Two hikers eventually find her dead body. Bianca’s mother, Jacqui (Cynthia Gibb) hears a news report on her car radio about Dory’s body being found and comes home and reveals to Bianca that Dory is dead. Bianca is horrified and wants to go to the police. She fells Jacqui the details of the prank, but Jacqui refuses to believe that Bianca had anything to do with Dory’s death. Jacqui and Fallyn meet with Fallyn and her parents, Claire (Barbara Niven) and Michael (William R. Morris), saying that the girls need to go to the police and confess to the prank. Claire lies and says that Fallyn and Sarah were with her at home the day of the murder. It is assumed that Fallyn got her mother to lie for her, to help Fallyn cover the whole thing up. When Bianca calls her a liar, Claire demands that they leave. When Bianca turns to Sarah, Sarah also denies involvement and says she was at Fallyn’s and hangs up on Bianca.

Fallyn is afraid that if Bianca goes to the police, she will be implicated in the murder of Dory. Fallyn chooses to frame Bianca by planting Dory’s hairclip in Bianca’s car. Police arrive at Jacqui’s home with a search warrant. During their search they locate the hairclip in the back seat of Bianca’s car, and Bianca is arrested. Claire has told Sarah’s mother, Rita that Jacqui and Bianca had accused Fallyn for Dory’s murder and that they will accuse Sarah, as well. When Jacqui tries speaking to Sarah about what really happened, Rita forbids her from contacting Sarah. Jacqui leaves a note in Sarah’s car with her phone number urging Sarah to call her. Fallyn, who is supposed to be on her way to tennis practice, sees Sarah when she finds and reads the note. Sarah drives home, unaware that Fallyn is following her. When Sarah arrives home, she calls Jacqui and they talk, with Sarah eventually admitting that Fallyn murdered Dory and that Bianca wasn’t involved. Sarah gets cut off when Fallyn appears behind her and so Sarah screams in shock and horror. Fallyn then angrily accuses Sarah of dooming them both. She demands that Sarah tell her what she told Jacqui but Sarah refuses. She chases Sarah around the house until Sarah suffers from an asthma attack before she collapses in the yard from exhaustion. Sarah pulls out her inhaler, but Fallyn prevents her from using it, by pumping the medication out of it, and putting it way out Sarah’s reach.

Jacqui arrives at Sarah’s house to check on her and finds Sarah lying on the patio. At the hospital, it is revealed that Sarah has died and Rita blames Jacqui for her daughter’s death. Jacqui later voices her suspicions about Fallyn to Chad, Bianca’s boyfriend and Coach Tennyson’s assistant, when she stops by to ask him if Fallyn showed up at tennis practice the day before. Chad tells her that Fallyn never showed. Jacqui goes home and calls Fallyn’s father Michael and voices her suspicions about Fallyn to him as well. Michael agrees with Jacqui and begins to suspect his daughter. Fallyn and Claire then enter the house and confront Michael about letting Jacqui in their home. Fallyn asks Claire, “what’s going on?” but Claire tells her she’ll take care of it. Fallyn angrily accuses Michael of plotting against her, suggesting to him that Jacqui murdered Sarah because she was the one who found her. However, Jacqui sets a trap and Fallyn falls into it, she hadn’t to Fallyn that she had found Sarah on the patio.

Thus, Fallyn is revealed as the murderer of both Dory and Sarah, much to both Michael and Claire’ shock. Michael calls the cops, but at that point Fallyn reaches for a gun, and threatens to shoot him, stating that her own father wants her to go to jail. Eventually, she breaks down and cries in Michael’s arms. Admitting that she murdered both Dory and Sarah. Fallyn is arrested and Bianca is freed. Fallyn has most likely been sent to juvie to serve time for both murders. The movie ends with a somewhat happy ending, when Jacqui drives Bianca home from juvie, amongst Bianca being freed. Bianca accepts Trevor as Jacqui’s boyfriend and Bianca goes upstairs to her room and puts on the new star fish earrings that Trevor gave her as a gift.

Murder in Paradise: Season #1 and 2

Murder in Paradise

Vacation in paradise, or is it? Murder in Paradise is a mystery series where dream getaways are torn apart by a horrific murder. Were victims the random targets of a brutal stranger or the focused objects of a premeditated evil?

Season #1

Episode #1: Charmed to Death – Julie Scully leaves her family in New Jersey for a passionate affair in Greece, but goes missing a month later. When local police fail to investigate her disappearance, Julie’s friends struggle to uncover the events leading to her grisly murder.

Episode #2: Brazilian Knockout – Boxing champ Arturo Gatti is found dead by his wife in their hotel room. Tagging it a crime of passion, police arrest her for murder. But a stunning reversal by Brazilian authorities leaves his family to fight for the truth about his death.

Episode #3: Spies, Lies & Alibis – A private eye disappears during a romantic day trip to Baja, and the ensuing investigation uncovers a bizarre cast of characters responsible for a disturbing chain of events.

Episode #4: Hook, Lines & Murder – The crew of a luxury charter yacht falls prey to a fugitive’s cold-blooded escape plan en route to Bimini, a remote Bahamian paradise in the Bermuda Triangle.

Episode #5: Student Body - A promising University of Kansas Biology student, Shannon Martin, is mysteriously stabbed to death while conducting fieldwork in the lush, tropical seaside town of Golfito, Costa Rica.

Episode #6: French Kiss of Death – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, a rich aristocrat, is enjoying a hedonistic life in Cannes, France, until he suddenly disappears. As tabloids clamor for every lurid detail, police suspect his former high-class escort ex-wife and her homicidal brother.

Season #2

Episode #1: Murder Isle – Free-spirited 20-something Brittany Royal of California is pregnant, in love and living in paradise. That is, until her lifeless body is found floating in the waters off Hawaii’s Big Island, and her lover is nowhere to be found.

Episode #2: Shallow Grave – A haven for ex-pats off the coast of Panama turns into a place of horror when American Cher Hughes’ disappearance ultimately reveals a cold-blooded killer with a deadly past and a ruthless penchant for real estate.

Episode #3: Clear Red Skies – On a beautiful sunny morning in Puerto Rico, 36-year-old Sarah Kuszak heads out for her daily run. But just minutes later, she is kidnapped and frantically calls her fiancée from the trunk of a moving car.

Episode #4: Dead Set on Vacation – The bodies of an Ohio dairy farmer and her two teenage daughters are found floating in the waters of Tampa Bay, Florida. With no witnesses and no real crime scene, it looks like the perfect murder.

Episode #5: Fear Island – The bodies of two women are found on a path leading to a beach in the Bahamas. And with rumors of a serial killer on the prowl, local authorities call in agents from Scotland Yard and FBI.

Episode #6: Stranger Danger – While on summer vacation in Bermuda, 17-year-old Canadian Becky Middleton is raped, tortured and left for dead. Local authorities vow to find her killers, but an unbelievable turn of events may allow them to get away with murder.