Friday, November 16, 2018

B Horror and Thriller Movies


B&B – They made their bed. Now they have to die in it. Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote Christian B&B. Events take a deadly turn when another guest arrives, who they think might have something more sinister in mind. Marc and Fred went to war when they were refused a double bed art a remote Christian guest house. They won in court and now they’re back to claim their conjugal rights. Triumph turns to terror when another guest arrives, who they think might have something sinister in mind. Their weekend of fun turns into a bloody battle for survival in this smart, brutally funny and dark thriller.
BABYSITTER’S BLACK BOOK – Inspired by true events. When her parents’ financial problems threaten Ashley’s dreams for college, the high school whiz kid takes matters into her own hands. She and her girlfriends turn their babysitting business into a wildly successful escort service for dads. But in this small suburban community, nothing stays secret for long, and the FBI descends on the organization. Inspired by true events. An ambitious high school senior (Spencer Locke) founds a nanny and tutoring agency with her best friends Rachel (Angeline Appel) and Janet (Lauren York) as a way to pay for college. But when she’s strapped for funds for college, she realizes the bored husbands of her mommy clients will pay for extra services from willing teenage girls. Her covert escort service makes a killing among the suburban discontents, but the FBI is starting to pay attention. Friends start a babysitting business to save up for college, but when the babysitting money just isn’t coming in, they start a prostitution business as well.
B.C. BUTCHERS – Prehistoric cavewomen battle a monster intent on destroying them after they kill one of their own for betraying them. The first prehistoric slasher film! In the year 1,000,000 B.C. a band of lusty young cavewomen do anything to survive the wilderness and procreate. But in addition to deadly tigers, killer bugs and boiling heat, these young survivors must also escape history’s first serial killer… the B.C. Butcher! The first slasher film to be set in prehistoric times! When a tribe of cavewomen imparts cruel justice on one of their own fate takes a turn for the worst. After discovering and falling in love with the corpse sacrificed by the girl-gang, a lone wandering giant of prehistoric myths is inspired to homicide. Consequently, the cavewomen are menaced by the heartbroken and bloodthirsty cave-brute with a grudge, and the prophetess among them is ignored when she predicts the tragic outcome.
BABY BLUES – When a young couple moves into a home, they find a mysterious doll that changes their lives forever. A mew home brings a fresh start to for Hao (Raymond Lam) and Tian Qing (Janelle Sing), a happily married couple who soon discover she’s pregnant with twin boys. But when a difficult delivery leaves the couple with only one son alive, Tian is consumed with grief and postpartum depression. These “Baby Blues” weave an obsessive attachment to a baby doll, presumably abandoned by the previous owner. Before long, mysterious accidents grow into violent episodes that threaten the entire family – and one neighbor’s warnings about a curse on their home becomes terrifyingly real.
BACHELOR GAMES – When five friends embark on a bachelor weekend in Argentina, everyone expects the usual hedonistic business. They do not expect to find themselves stranded, wounded and hunted through the Andes. But that’s just what happens when an elaborate scheme for revenge goes horribly awry. A group of friends on a stag weekend in the mountains of Argentina are picked off by a dark force called “The Hunter”, but all is not what it seems. The best man usually has a few tricks up his sleeve for the bachelor party, but in Bachelor Games, the groom has a deadly one of his own. Henry is getting married. So, he rallies together his best man Leon, and his buddies Terence and Roy to head deep into the mountains of Argentina for an epic bachelor party trip. At their hotel in a remote village, they are surprised when Max, one of Henry’s oldest friends, shows up unexpectedly. The guys drink heavily and get down to the usual bachelor party business. Everyone seems to be having a good time, except for a few nasty outbursts from Max, who seems a bit unhinged. The next day, despite warnings from locals about a spirit protecting the mountain, the guys set off hiking. Shortly into the hike that nobody but Henry really wants to be on, tempers fray, old feuds reemerge and Terence storms off. When the guys find his bloody shirt, they fear the worst. What actually happens is more terrifying than anyone – even Henry – could have imagined.
BACCHANALIA – You Drink… You Die! What seems like an innocent wine tasting weekend turns into a bizarre, wicked, sensually overheated debauchery, culminating in a murderous evening and fateful morning after. Not since Caligula has there been this level of drunken revelry. You Drink… You DIE!
BACK ROADS – A young man’s life spirals out of control when he has a dangerous affair with an older married woman in rural Pennsylvania. Actor Alex Pettyfer’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Town O’Dell’s 1999 novel of the same name. Pettyfer stars as a young man living in a Pennsylvania coal town, burdened with the responsibility of caring for his three younger sisters since his mother (Juliette Lewis) is in prison for killing his abusive father. His life is further complicated by a romantic relationship with an older married woman (Jennifer Morrison). A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface in this noir thriller. Back Roads centers on a young man stuck in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters after the shooting death of his abusive father and the arrest of his mother. Finally secrets and unspoken truths threaten to consume him. Harley Altmeyer has to care for his three sisters after his mother is placed in prison for killing his abusive father. Living in the coal town of Laurel Falls in the backwoods of Western Pennsylvania, Harley lusts after a mother of two who lives down the road. Harley’s life is further complicated when he becomes the lead suspect in a local murder mystery. Based on the novel Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell, a New York Times Bestseller and an Oprah Book Club Selection. After his mother (a gritty Juliette Lewis) goes to jail for shooting and killing his abusive father, Harley Altmyer (Alex Pettyfer) is left to care for his three younger sisters in a rural Pennsylvania town. The uneducated Harley works two dead-end jobs to preserve what’s left of his family, including the rebellious sexual 16-year-old Amber (Nicole Peltz). Angered and traumatized by his painful past, Harley finally begins to feel hope when he connects with an older, married woman (Jennifer Morrison) and they embark on an affair. When shocking family secrets emerge, Harley’s life begins to spiral downward, leading to a devastating conclusion that impacts the entire community.
BAD APPLES – Rotten To The Core. It’s Halloween night, and two “bad apples” decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.
BACKGAMMON – Backgammon is a psychological thriller that opens with Lucian, his girlfriend Elizabeth, and their friend Andrew-going to spend a weekend at a country mansion. They’re greeted by Miranda, Andrew’s older sister and Gerald, the weirdly annoying, Baudelaire-obsessed boyfriend she tries in van to control. Overwhelmed by Gerald’s antics, Andrew and Elizabeth split. But Lucian stays. He doesn’t like being cowed-and it doesn’t hurt that there’s a simmering sexual tension between him and the flighty, flirtatious Miranda. When Gerald, having goaded Lucian into an alcohol-fueled poker marathon, explodes after losing everything, Miranda finally gives him the boot. Or so she and young Lucian hope. But as they begin to dance around each other, their surroundings show increasingly threatening signs that Gerald may never have left. A couple spend a weekend at a friend’s mansion, but the presence of the host’s sister and her boyfriend creates a tense atmosphere for everyone. Things get even more complicated when a late-night, booze-filled game threatens to upend several of the relationships. When Lucian and Miranda are left alone in an isolated mansion for the weekend, their mutual attraction grows as their unease about the whereabouts of Miranda’s ex-boyfriend who may be hiding somewhere in the house.
BAD BEN – Tom Riley thought this home was a great deal… it turns out it was a nightmare. Tom Riley bought a house in a Sheriff’s Sale well below market value expecting to flip it for a significant profit. The night he moved in he returned to the house from dinner to find the front door open and the furniture moved. He attributed this to vandals breaking in. The house has 21 security cameras throughout that he activates with a monitoring company hoping to capture on film who is behind what’s going on. He soon realizes he’s dealing with something paranormal. He has put every cent he had into purchasing this home and is intent on staying put to rid the house of what’s possessing it so he can, in fact, sell it for a profit. Meant to be a horror, the comedic elements of this one-man show has earned rave reviews from fans of found footage horror films.
BACKGROUND TO DANGER – On the train from Baghdad to Istanbul, an American comes into possession of a package sought by both Nazi and Russian agents – something for which a beautiful woman has just been murdered- in Background to Danger. World War II: Turkey remains neutral, wedged between Russia and the Nazi-controlled Balkans. While the fate of one nation, and possibly the outcome of the war, hang in the balance, American Joe Barton (George Raft) agrees to hold an envelope for beautiful Ana Remzi (Osa Massen) until their train arrives in Ankara. But when Joe tries to return the envelope, he finds Ana dead. Now, with the Russian Zaleshoff (Peter Lorre, his beautiful sister Tamara (Brenda Marshall) and Nazi agent Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet) pursuing him, Joe realizes he is holding the secret Nazi blueprint for the invasion of Turkey. Eric Ambler’s intriguing novel Uncommon Danger is brought down to a Republic serial level in Warner Bros. Background to Danger. George Raft, who always seems miscast, plays an American undercover intelligence agent operating in Turkey. Sultry Osa Massen passes on some valuable secret papers to Raft just before she is killed. Our Hero then finds himself at the mercy of enemy agent Sidney Greenstreet, who knows that the papers contain Nazi plans to invade Turkey. Despite several brutal beatings, Raft and his cohorts Peter Lorre (a good guy for a change) and Brenda Marshall turn the tables on Greenstreet. Background to Danger was the first of many Warner Bros. follow-ups to the studio’s megahit Casablanca, it’s also the film wherein the prankish Peter Lorre stole Georg Raft’s hat between takes – an affront that ranked the touchy Raft to his dying day. A German spy ring plans to publicize a false rumor that Russia, who is fighting Germany, plans to invade neutral Turkey in order to alley them with the Nazis. Ankara in neutral Turkey: World War II. A town of intrigue and provocateurs. The Germans are planning to leak maps apparently proving that the Russians are about to invade the country. American Joe Barton is in the know and in the middle, along with Zaloshoff and his sister who may or may not be Russians. What is clear though is that odious Colonel Robinson is a full-blown Nazi.
BAD BLOOD – Her Fiancee’s Dark Side Is Alive. Vincent, a successful author, is harboring a dark secret from his past and is haunted by a mysterious and dangerous figure. Who’s following him? And what do they want? When his fiancée Carrie accents his invite for a romantic weekend away, cracks start appearing that threaten their happy and secure relationship. And maybe even their lives! When Carrie realizes something is terribly wrong, she tries to leave only to find herself trapped. In fear for her life, she escapes from the house into the surrounding forest. What she now discovers about Vincent turns everything on its head and hurls her into a one-sided battle against a psychopathic killer. A woman (Morgan Griffin) discovers that her beloved fiancée (Xavier Samuel) harbors a strange, dark secret that could split their relationship apart. Carrie is in love with her new fiancée Vincent, a handsome and successful author. Vincent is besotted with Carrie, she’s everything he’s ever dreamed of. However, he’s harboring a dark secret from his past and on top of that he’s experiencing a series of strange daily occurrences. It’s almost as if someone is following his every move. Who’s following him? And what do they want? When Vincent asks Carrie on a romantic weekend away to celebrate their engagement, cracks start appearing that threaten their happy and secure relationship. And maybe their lives.
BACKSTABBED – Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned. When a struggling housewife poses as a potential buyer to help her boss close real estate transactions, she discovers her boss will do anything to close a deal – even murder. A struggling housewife decides to become a real estate agent and inadvertently puts her life in danger when she takes a job with a corrupt broker who will do anything to land a deal.
BAD CHICKEN – All Norah ever wanted to be was a reality TV star. But her dream-come-true quickly turns into a nightmare when she allows a motley television crew of chickens, led by a sociopath, “Charlie Chicken” to invade her home, manipulate her emotions, and drag her and her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend into the desert on what is supposed to be a glamorous reality TV shoot. Deep in the surreal landscapes of the Joshua Tree desert, it becomes a battle of species. The hilarious antics of the oddball chicken crew, the blind faith of a reality TV star wannabe, and the cruel perversions of one really “bad chicken”, all spiral downward into an extremely unique Spaghetti Western.
BACKTRACK – Nothing Haunts Like The Past. Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right. Backtrack is a spine-chilling story from acclaimed writer-director, Michael Petroni. A psychologist grieving the death of his young daughter realizes that his current patients are all ghosts. His investigation into this haunting soon leads him to revisit a traumatic moment from his past. Sam Neill costars. Written and directed by Michael Petroni. Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers a strange secret about his patients. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right. But is the reward worth risking more than as single life? After losing his daughter hit by a truck, the troubled psychologist Peter Bower moves to Sidney with his wife Carol and his colleague and friend Dr. Duncan Stewart gets patients for him. When Dr. Bower discovers a secret about Dr. Stewart and his patients, he travels alone to his hometown False Creek to the house of his estranged father William Bower. Haunted by his past, Peter digs into his recollections and uncovers a hideous secret from his past.
BAD EXORCISTS – They’re Not Good. Charlie, Matt and Dana are about to finish high school with little fanfare. In a last-ditch effort to earn their classmates’ respect, the trio set out to make a horror film starring the dreamy, popular girl at school. Things go wrong when their attempt to film an exorcism scene results in the demonic possession of their lead actress. The boys are in for a raucous and hilarious weekend as they try to save the girl and somehow finish their film, all while navigating the treacherous world of high school. A trio of awkward teens intend to win a horror festival by making their own movie, but wind up getting their actress possessed in the process.
BAD BREAK – Bad Break is a story of two friends who spend one last night together. After a robbery gone wrong, George (played by Jason Roberts) gets in over his head with the wrong people.
BAD FRANK – Frank Pierce leads a seemingly normal life, but when a disturbing past reemerges and something precious is taken from him, his mask of sanity loosens and unearths the urge to be violent once again. Frank Pierce has a severe mental condition and lives a medicated, normal existence. His wife Gina is unaware that his tendencies can manifest themselves at any moment, with violent consequences. Regardless of his past troubles with the law and his family disowning him, Frank is doing his best to reclaim his life and trying to reconnect with his father, Charlie, a former cop turned alcoholic. When Frank’s friend Travis runs into trouble with a local gangster, Mickey Duro he turns to Frank for help, unaware of his condition, and past with Duro. Some stones are better left unturned, and an unfortunate meeting triggers Frank into a viscous and vengeful downward spiral involving his wife Gina, and his own sanity, to a mind-blowing ending that turns audiences on their head!
BAD COMPANY (1995) – Dynamic stars and edge-of-your-seat suspense electrify Bad Company, the sexy thriller that’s charged with red-hot erotic energy! Laurence Fishburne is Nelson Crowe, a deep-cover CIA operative with a deadly assignment: Infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams up with Margaret Wells a master spy and seductive manipulator, in a plot to overthrow the organization’s sinister president. It’s an explosive situation as this dangerous power play leads Crowe and Wells into a darkly mysterious web of intrigue – and shocking murder! Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe’s coworkers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe’s current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust?
BAD GIRL – Bad Girl Amy, 17, is given one last chance by her adoptive parents who believe Amy’s friendship with local girl, Chloe, is a step in the right direction. But when Amy discovers Chloe’s secret she finds herself fighting for her life, and for the future of the family she herself tried to destroy.
BAD DAY FOR THE CUT – A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
BAD FAITH – On her way home from work, Mona finds the victim of a serial killer. She is shocked and scared but the experience triggers something within her. Mona’s fascination becomes an obsession and when the police refuse to believe her, she drops everything to find the killer on her own. Her hunt leads to violent confrontation, not only with the killer but also with herself. Mona has just moved to a new town and a new job, when she witnesses a grisly murder. She’s shocked but also fascinated, and when the police won’t listen, she starts her own investigations. A disturbed woman and a violent lunatic walk the same path in this thriller from Swedish director Kristian Petri. Mona (Sonja Richter) is a businesswoman who has been hired to work for a large corporation based in Gothenburg. One evening, while having drinks with her colleagues, Mona steps outside for some air and she happens upon a man who has been brutally stabbed by a serial killer on the loose. Mona, who feels a curious emotional distance from the world around her, isn’t sure what to make of this incident at first, but she can’t get the violent image out of her mind, and over the next several days she keeps stumbling upon victims of the killer’s handiwork. No one finds any of this remarkable besides her friend Frank (Jonas Karlsson), but in time she begins crossing paths with a curious man (Kristoffer Joyner) who seems to appear at the same crime scenes she observes. Ond Tro (A.K.A. Bad Faith) was an official selection at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. BADLANDS OF KAIN – Shannon and Kris used to be best friends, but life got in the way. In order to rekindle their friendship, the girls decide to take an epic cross-country road trip together for the summer. Car packed, the girls set off from Los Angeles with high hopes. Just outside Flagstaff, AZ, Shannon swerves, narrowly avoiding an accident and crashes her car into a tree. A kind tow truck driver named Terry picks the girls up and brings them to Kain, the nearest town to stay for the night while their car is being patched up. As the girls prepare to settle in for the night, they begin to realize that everything is not right in the small town – or with its inhabitants. As Kris and Shannon wait to resume their trip, they find they aren’t just fighting to saving their relationship – they are fighting the clock to escape from Kain… and the fate that awaits them there. Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained relationship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.
BAD GENIUS – Genius Students With One Mission… Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by “Lynn”, a straight-A student who gets the idea for her business after helping “Grace” and “Pat”. Grace is a prominent school activist who can’t get the grades she needs and Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn’s business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers. One day, Lynn is offered the opportunity to make millions of Baht. It is Pat and Grace who devise a plan for her to take the STIC test, an international standardized test for students wanting to enroll in the world’s leading universities. The test is scheduled to take place on the same date and same time at locations all over the world. Although it will be extremely difficult to pull off, their plan is for Lynn to fly to a country in a time zone that’s ahead of Thailand and then send the answers back to her customers. The only setback is that they need another genius scholar to help them pass on the answers in Thailand and the only person that fits the profile is “Bank”, Lynn’s scholarship-student rival, who staunchly detests cheating of any kind. What will Lynn do to convince Bank to overcome his moral dilemma and help them? How BAD will this GENIUS become? Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot in Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC (SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.
BAG BOY LOVER BOY – Bag Boy Lover Boy follows the lowly life of Albert, an oddball hotdog vendor who is shocked to find himself becoming the bizarre muse of enigmatic NYC photographer Ivan. But shocks come his way even more so when, amidst his role in Ivan’s disturbing photographs for which he poses, Albert finds out just how difficult it is to succeed in the art world, leading him to take some disturbing photographs of his own that suit his very unique – and very limited – skill set.
BAD MEAT – Ordered to a delinquent camp by their exasperated parents, a group of wayward teens fall afoul of a deadly virus that infects the guards and turns them into flesh-eating monsters! Gristle and gore are on the menu – as are the kids in this Brat Camp slaughterhouse massacre. Six troubled teens at a secluded camp for juvenile delinquents must fight for their lives after a mysterious virus transforms the guards into cannibalistic mutants. Dave Franco, Elisabeth Harnois and Mark Pellegrino star.
BAGHEAD – Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens their story idea, a horror flick about a group of friends tormented by a villain with a bag over his head starts to come true? While the Duplass Brothers were shooting their fast feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew member raised the question “What’s the scariest thing you can think of?” Someone immediately said “a guy with a bag on his head staring into your window.” Some agreed, but some thought it was downright ridiculous and, if anything, funny (but definitely not scary). Thus, Baghead was born, an attempt to take the absurdly low-concept idea of a “guy with a bag on his head” and make a funny, truthful, endearing film that, maybe, just maybe, was a little bit scary, too. The Puffy Chair filmmaking duo Jay and Mark Duplass return to the realm of cinema with this tale of a man, a bag, and the strangeness that occurs when the two independently inconsequential factors come together. BAD MOON – Full, crescent, quarter… each is a Bad Moon for Ted Harrison. By day, he’s a photojournalist visiting family in the Pacific Northwest. By night, he transfigures into a horrific half-human – a werewolf. Dead men tell no tales, so Ted’s sure he alone knows about his vile double life. The secret, however, may be out. The family dog, Thor, devoted to defending the household, has his suspicions. Writer/Director Eric Red delivers a new infusion of thrills with this red-blooded shocker. Michael Pare portrays Ted, hiding his accursed condition from his sister. What better way to hide it than to create suspicion that the local killings are the work of another – especially if that other is the family’s all-too-wise German Shepard! While on assignment in the jungles of Nepal, photojournalist Ted Harrison (Michael Pare) and his girlfriend are savagely attacked by a hideous beast which tears the woman to shreds and leaves Ted badly mauled. He later returns to the States to live near his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway), nephew Brett (Mason Gamble) and their German Shepherd Thor, hoping the presence of family will dispel the horrific memories… until the inevitable effects of a werewolf curse begin to surface. As his humanity begins slipping away, only the family dog begins to suspect something is wrong – but poor Thor ends up being the chief suspect in a string of recent mutilation murders. One man’s struggle to contain the curse he hides within… and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of his family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family’s survival… and the end to his Werewolf curse.
BALLET OF BLOOD – Death is the final dance. Two ballerinas plan a gruesome attack on the ballet school that mistreated them. After a ballet school’s prima ballerina (Mindy Robinson) gets shot at by beautifully psychotic fellow dancer, Nisa (Sydney Raye), the whole company’s on edge. Classes continue, shrouded in fear, while Nisa remains at large. Her ditsy ballerina friend, Ria (Jessica Knopf) is being held in a solitary confinement, for suspicion of being involved. But Rai breaks out of the asylum and after getting willingly drugged by Nisa, Ria is coerced into assisting her on a new mission, the ultimate assault (with a Samurai Sword and UZI machine gun from her father’s secret room). All those who contributed to the many years of emotional and physical abuse and body shaming will be in harm’s way. Meanwhile, a nerdy ballerina, Maren (Maria Martinez) starts writing a novel based on the events that transpired, deeply offending some for turning such sensitive material into a book, for young audiences. Soon, her and her sister, Saren (Rubi Garcia), realize every word being typed on Maren’s typewriter is somehow altering real life. Will this strange and psychedelic paralleling fantasy carry the sisters, along with anyone else, to a merciless blood-splattered doom?
BAD SISTER – How Long Has It Been Since Your Last Confession? From the first time Zoe met her new teacher at St. Adeline’s Catholic School she knew something wasn’t right with Sister Sophia. Was it the red lipstick and refusal to recite the Morning Prayer? Or the way she eyed her brother Jason… like he was dessert? As Zoe’s suspicions grow so does the creepy bond between the “good” sister and her brother – a bond bordering on seduction. But who will believe her? After all, Sister Sophia is a woman of the cloth. Or is she? A student at a Catholic school has suspicions when one of the nuns begins acting creepily towards her brother. But she can’t tell anyone, because who would believe that a woman of God would do such a thing?
BALLY MASTER – Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the Bally stage of Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore. Watch Scott as he performs his most outrageous sideshow routines and talks in depth about his life and the sideshow. The film also features fellow Coney Island sideshow performers as well as Coney Island personalities. Explicit.
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE – Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have last shot at redemption… before everything goes to hell. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson and Cynthia Erivo lead an all-star cast in Bad Times at the El Royale. Seven strangers, each with their own dark past and secrets to hide, converge on the El Royale, a mysterious hotel sitting at the junction of California and Nevada. As the night progresses, the strangers – which include a vacuum salesman (John Hamm), a priest (Jeff Bridges), a struggling former singer (Cynthia Erivo) and a Southern gangster (Dakota Johnson and a charismatic leader (Chris Hemsworth) find out that the hotel is not what it seems. Now they must survive one fateful night and find the redemption they so desperately seek – or die trying. Written and directed by Drew Goddard. Circa 1968, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors – before everything goes to hell. In the late 1960s, an aging priest suffering from early onset dementia, a struggling African American female singer, a talkative salesman on vacation and an unfriendly young woman who may or may not be a hippie, arrive by chance on the same day at Lake Tahoe’s “El Royale”, a once glitzy but now rundown roadside hotel lying on the very border between California and Nevada, and operated by a single troubled staff member who holds many dark secrets. Throughout the day, it becomes increasingly clear that almost no one there is exactly who they seem, but things really go from bad to worse in the evening when heavy rain hits and someone much worse than those inside arrives to find “a friend” and bring hell to all those unlucky enough to be there at the time. In 1969, Catholic priest Daniel Flynn, singer Darlene Sweet, salesman Laramie Seymour Sullivan, and sarcastic Emily Summerspring arrive at the El Royale, where they meet the hotel’s only employee, Miles Miller. Upon checking into the honeymoon suite, Sullivan (in reality an FBI agent named Dwight Broadbeck, sent to investigate the hotel and remove evidence of their operations) discovers a passageway leading into a corridor looking onto one-way mirrors in each of the hotel’s rooms, as well as a 16mm camera setup. Broadbeck witnesses an apparent kidnapping in progress in Emily’s room; he is instructed not to interfere with the kidnapping and to sabotage the guests’ vehicles to prevent any of them from escaping. Meanwhile, Flynn invites Sweet to join him for dinner. She sees him drugging her drink and knocks him unconscious with a bottle, running out of the hotel to escape. Miles finds Flynn and reveals to him the secret passageway, afterwards explaining that “management” has instructed him to film the guests and send the footage to them. However, he chose to hold back one particularly incriminating film reel of a recently deceased public figure. Against orders, Broadbeck attempts to rescue Emily’s hostage, who is revealed to be her younger sister, Rose. Emily opens fire on Broadbeck, killing him and accidentally injuring Miles who was watching from behind the mirror. Sweet attempts to escape in her car after witnessing the murder, but Flynn arrives. He reveals that he is really a criminal named Donald O’Kelly, who was imprisoned after a botched robbery ten years earlier. Recently freed on parole, O’Kelly has returned to the El Royale in priest garb to retrieve the money which his brother Felix had hidden there before being killed in a double cross ten years earlier – but owing to his failing memory he can’t recall which room it was in. He had attempted to drug Sweet to gain access to her room, believing the cash to be buried there. The two agree to split the cash amongst themselves. In the lobby, Emily and Rose, having discovered the corridor, interrogate Miles about the surveillance operation. It is revealed that Emily has forcibly removed her sister from a cult led by Billy Lee, a charismatic and sadistic figure responsible for a string of murders in Malibu. However, Rose reveals that she has already called Billy about their location. As O’Kelly and Sweet attempt to leave with the money, Billy Lee and his cultists arrive and hold them hostage along with Emily and Miles. While interrogating and terrorizing the group, Lee learns of the money and the film, which he realizes is worth much more than the money. In a sadistic game of roulette, Lee kills Emily. Using a brief power outage to his advantage, O’Kelly attacks Lee as the hotel lounge catches fire. During the chaos, Miles reveals that he served as a sniper in Vietnam who killed 123 people. At Sweet’s insistence, he picks up a gun and kills Lee and the other cultists. A distraught Rose stabs Miles but is shot by O’Kelly afterwards. Before Miles passes, Sweet tells O’Kelly to absolve him of his guilt over his actions in Vietnam, which he does. O’Kelly and Sweet retrieve the money and Sweet tosses the film into the fire before the pair flee the hotel. Not long after, Sweet performs at a show in Reno for the crowd, as O’Kelly proudly looks on.







 

D Thriller and Horror Movies


DARK FLOORS – Concerned for his autistic daughter’s health, a father sees her removal from the hospital by force as the only option. An elevator break-down prevents a smooth exit and renders them trapped with others. Yet the incident is only the beginning of the nightmare. As the doors open the hospital appears mysteriously deserted. When mutilated bodies are found, creatures from a dark world start a frightening attack. It soon becomes clear that the survival of the group may rest solely on the little girl.
DARK HOUSE – A real estate agent finds himself trapped in a haunted house with a mysterious squatter and must learn to conquer his fear to escape.
DARK MOUNTAIN – Somewhere deep within Arizona’s Superstition Mountains lies the most famous lost gold mine in the world – the Lost Dutchman Mine. Its estimated worth is around 200 million dollars. Since the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of people have scoured the mountains in search of it, hundreds have lost their lives in the process, but not one has returned with an ounce of gold. Legend has it the mine is cursed. In March of 2011, three Los Angeles filmmakers set out to find the mine and document their entire search. They never made it out of the Superstitions. Eight months later, their camera and cell phones were recovered along the western edge of LaBarge Canyon. No sign of the filmmakers themselves has been found to date. Dark Mountain is the chilling reconstruction from their footage of what are believed to be their last days. Inspired by actual events. They went looking for gold. They found something evil. This found footage horror film purports to show “lost” footage captured by three filmmakers who vanished while searching for a lost gold mine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman Mine. Their bodies were never found… but their camera was. Three documentary filmmakers set out on a journey into Arizona’s Superstition Mountains to uncover the truth about the most famous lost gold mine in the world – the Lost Dutchman Mine, purportedly the home to a treasure worth 200 million dollars. After they mysteriously disappeared, their camera was found… were they victims of the Dutchman’s curse?
DARK NIGHT – A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture, Tim Sutton’s third feature is loosely based around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado that took place during a multiplex screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Employing a mesmerizing documentary-style technique and a cast of non-professional actors, Dark Night follows the activities of sic strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, the shooter among them. Shot in Sarasota, Florida and lensed by veteran French DP Helene Louvart, the dream-like visual articulate both Sutton’s carefully crafted landscapes and the characters’ sense of alienation and suburban malaise. Winner of the Lanterna Magica Award at the Venice Film Festival following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Dark Night is essential viewing, not only for art-house filmgoers, but for anyone invested in the debate over gun violence in America as well. The lives of various suburban Americans intersect when the film premiere they’re attending becomes the site of a mass shooting. Tim Sutton directed this heartbreaking, ripped-from-the-headline drama. The lives of six strangers intersect at a suburban Cineplex where a massacre occurs.
DARK PASSENGER (LANDERS) – Some things will never be forgotten. Beware the truth. Four years after the death of a young girl, Ivan receives a phone call from the one person he thought he’d never speak to again, her brother Matt. Matt invites Ivan on a hiking trip to the desert to talk about the night of her death. Along their journey, they pick up an alien hitchhiker named Vince who becomes determined to tag along with the two. When the car breaks down, they end up at a mechanic’s house in the middle of the desert where Ivan finds himself in a labyrinth of deception and murder.
DARK PASSENGER (2011) – It is a twisted horror story of a therapist desperately trying to understand the psyche of her clearly disturbed patient. As she gets deeper into his mind, she begins to realize that he is not what he seems. A therapist is trying to understand her patient PRO who is an artist struggling with his sanity, and in doing so is discovering the grim details of his past. Although he seems perfectly sane, she is slowly unraveling the serial murder horror that is his everyday life. As they begin breaking down his crimes and victims, she is still fearlessly intrigued to pin point the source of his disconnection with reality. What she discovers changes everything.
THE DARK PASSENGER (2011) – Following the death of Ashley’s mother, Ashley and her friend Crystal are stalked by a ruthless killer who won’t stop till both of their hearts have. A modern twist on a classic urban legend.
DARK PASSAGE (1947) – Bogey’s on the lam and Bacall’s at his side in Dark Passage, Delmer Daves’ stylish film-noir thriller that’s the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen, Vincent’s lone ally. In a supporting role, Agnes Moorehead portrays Madge, a venomous harpy who finds pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The chemistry of the leads is undeniable, and they augment it here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional, too, are the atmospheric San Francisco locations and the imaginative camera work that shows Vincent’s point of view – but not his face – until the bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas, the post-surgery Vincent tells her: “Don’t change yours. I like it just as it is.” So, do we. Robert Montgomery’s 1946 film Lady in the Lake attempted to tell the entire story with a “subjective camera” shooting the film from the point of view of the main character, with the camera acting as his “eyes”. The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing – and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery’s film. Humphrey Bogart heads the cast as an escaped convict, wrongfully accused of his wife’s murder. After being forced to beat up a man, from whom he’s hitched a ride, Bogart hides out in the apartment of Lauren Bacall, while recovering from plastic surgery, and tries to set about locating the actual murderer. A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well-known and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from Bogart’s eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he’s really after is revenge. A convicted murderer, Vincent Parry (played by Humphrey Bogart), breaks out of prison. He had been wrongfully convicted of the murder of his wife. Along the way he is helped by a young woman, Irene Jansen (played by Lauren Bacall), who is convinced of his innocence. Soon he has to make a decision between leaving the city or staying around to find out who the real murderer is. And his troubles are just beginning…
DARK REMAINS – Pain never dies. When the daughter Emma of the technical writer Allen Pyke and the photographer Julie is found dead slashed in the throat and wrists in their locked apartment, the couple decides to move to an isolated cabin in the mountains in Kingspike. Julie is very depressed and blames Allen for the death of Emma. Once in the new home, Julie sees the spirit of Emma in a photo she took in a nearby abandoned prison and she becomes obsessed shooting pictures of poltergeists. Allen is advised to move from the place by the local Jim Payne and on May 21st, Allen finds that the former dwellers of the cabin have committed suicide and he investigates the death in the spot and finds that many people died around May 22nd. He decides to move with Julie to a hotel, but she does not want to give up on Emma. Brian Avenet-Bradley’s horror film Dark Remains concerns a young couple who attempt to get over the grief they feel after their daughter is killed by moving to a secluded home in the mountains. Soon the two are beset by forces of supernatural evil.
DARK PORTALS: THE CHRONICLES OF VIDOCQ – The underworld has surfaced. Paris, 1830: When the infamous detective Vidocq disappears in the middle of a busy city, nobody can explain the abduction. His archenemy, the Alchemist, who the assassin Vidocq has been tracking, is the prime suspect. However, as the police continue to come up empty handed, Vidocq’s assistant Etienne, his biographer, takes the case into his own hands and delves into the underworld of Paris to find the missing detective. Vidocq (1775-1857) was a noted French detective who was one of the great trailblazers of modern criminal investigation; he’s been credited with establishing the first private investigation firm and pioneered a number of scientific techniques that are still being used today. Vidocq was also a master of disguise and former thief with no small sense of adventure, and his exploits have been fodder for a number of novels, plays and motion pictures in France; Vidocq is a high-tech retooling of his legend that employs cutting-edge digital technology to bring a new visual dazzle to his story. Vidocq (Gerald Depardieu) dies an unexpected death while battling his arch-nemesis the Alchemist and Boisset (Guilluame Canet), an opportunistic journalist, sets out to write his life story, convincing Nimier (Moussa Maaskri), Vidcq’s partner, that he had made arrangements with the great mean himself to collaborate on such a book before his death. Boisset begins interviewing Vidocq’s cohorts, but it seems someone is following the reporter, as the interview subjects have a habit of dying sudden and violent deaths shortly after their stories. As it turns out, the deaths are tied into a case Vidocq investigated in which a number of people were killed by lightning – lightning that was conjured up by none other than the Alchemist. Shot on high-definition digital video equipment to allow special effects artists greater latitude to manipulate the images, Vidocq also features Ines Sastre, Andre Dossollier and Edith Scob. Paris, 1830: In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappeared as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to have revenge on Vidocqu’s death and takes the investigation on… In 19th century Paris, the famed detective Vidocq disappears while pursuing a murderer called the Alchemist. Etienne Boisset a young biographer of Vidocqu’s follows in his footsteps and progressively uncovers Vidocqu’s investigations. He learns how Vidocq was first called in to investigate a series of assassinations by lightning, which led him to pursue the Alchemist. Etienne discovers that the Alchemist is a wizard of sorts who wears a mirrored mask and kills virgins to maintain eternal youth. Even the sex of the Alchemist is a mystery, because it sometimes utters mocking feminine sighs during combat with Vidocq. Etienne probes deeper into Vidocqu’s investigations and eventually comes to learn that the Alchemist uses virgin blood to make magical mirrors that consume human souls. At last, Etienne comes to the end of his trail and discovers Vidocq alive and in hiding. Etienne dons a mirrored mask and reveals himself to be the Alchemist. Vidocq has known all along, however, and is ready to fight his nemesis. During their final confrontation, Vidocq defeats the Alchemist, but the end of the film suggests that the Alchemist survives.  

Thursday, November 8, 2018

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HABIT – Manchester, the present, Michael divides his home between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter message parlor called Cloud 9. Lee introduces Michael to a bizarre subculture hidden behind locked doors and down shadow filled alleyways. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn’t understand but is irresistibly drawn to. Lee, Ian and the other girls at the massage parlor offer him excitement, intrigue and a family of sorts but slowly and surely without his realization, Michael is being groomed. His new family have a dark secret, a shared addiction that they intend Michael to share with them. When Michael finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, his life will never be the same again.
HACK HOUSE – A government witness is locked inside a halfway house with six violent criminals. With no way out, their safe haven soon becomes a bloody slaughter house of violence. In a retro 80;’s low budget slasher style, these rejects of society must all band together to survive the night,
HALLOWEED – Stoner Trent, son of the Bridgeport Killer, and his best bud move to a small town to escape an evil legacy. But soon after they roll up, everything goes to pot as the bodies pile high and they must weed out suspects to smoke out the killer. A man and his stepbrother try to escape their past and their family’s history by moving to a small stoner town, but it isn’t long before the family name catches up to them. A comedic blend of murder, mystery and marijuana. Trying to escape the infamy of a serial killer father, Trent Modine and his goo-ball stepbrother Joey, both seeking a new start, find refuge in the small town of Mooseheart. Joey, a complete stoner in a town known for tis good weed and stories of the Candy Corn Killer, is a disaster waiting to happen. As you can imagine, it doesn’t take long before the family name catches up. Trent and Joey must figure out how to sort through a string of cliché murders that so happen starts right as they arrive.
HALLOWEEN (2007) DIRECTOR’S CUT) – After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10-year-old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger. The residents of Haddonfield don’t know it yet… but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten-year-old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael’s doctor and the only one who knows Michael’s true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home… is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him? Michael Myers, a ten-year-old boy living in Haddonfield, IL, is bullied at school and his family life is little better. His mother Deborah dances at the local strip club and constantly fights with her boyfriend, Ronnie. Full of rage, Michael hides behind a Halloween clown mask and tortures and kills pets. He shows tenderness only to his infant sister. After Michael has an encounter with a bully at school on Halloween, Dr. Sam Loomis presents to Deborah evidence of Michael’s abuse of animals and informs her that her son displays warning sings of sociopathology. Michael runs from school, follows the bully into the woods and beats him to death with a branch. That night, Judith refuses to take Michael trick or treating so she can stay home to have sex with her boyfriend when Deborah goes to work. Left to his own devices, Michael savagely kills Ronnie, Judith and her boyfriend. After he is done, he tenderly cradles his infant sister in his arms. Michael is convicted of first-degree murder and incarcerated in the Smith’s Grove mental hospital under the care of Dr. Loomis. Deborah visits him weekly. Michael claims not to remember the killings and begs to go home. After several months of fruitless treatment, Michael snaps and kills a nurse. Distraught, Deborah commits suicide. Michael grows into a hulking adult male and remains locked in the sanitarium for the next fifteen years, speaking to no one and spending the time making masks. Dr. Loomis gives up on treating him and instead writes a best-selling book describing him as irredeemable evil. On October 30th, Michael is sitting in his cell making masks. Two orderlies at the asylum, who happen to be cousins, are on duty and are taking advantage of a new female inmate. They decide to have some fun in Michael’s room. Michael is making a mask, once he finishes he slaughters the two guards and takes the keys, then escapes into the night. At a truck stop, he kills a driver in the bathroom and steals his overalls. By the next morning, Halloween, he has returned to his family home in Haddonfield, which has remained abandoned since his mother’s suicide. There he retrieves the butcher knife he used to kill Ronnie and one of the masks he wore that night, which he had hidden beneath the floorboards. Laurie Strode is a good-girl student and daughter in Haddonfield. Her father is a real estate agent trying to sell the old Myers home, which local legend has is haunted. As a favor for him, Laurie drops some paperwork off at the Myers house. Michael sees her and is intrigued. He follows her to high school and watches her. Laurie’s more outgoing friends Lynda and Annie are more sexually attractive than the boyfriend-less and frustrated Laurie, who spends her Halloweens babysitting ten-year-old Tommy. Annie persuades Laurie to babysit her own charge on Halloween night, Lindsey, so she and her boyfriend can fool around instead. Lynda, meanwhile, goes to the old Myers house with her boyfriend to party. After they have sex, Michael kills them. He then proceeds to the Strode house and as soon as Laurie leaves for her babysitting assignment, he kills her parents. After Annie drops Lindsey off with Laurie and Tommy, she and her boyfriend begin to have sex at Lindsey’s house. Michael enters and kills the boyfriend but leaves Annie alive after brutalizing her. A few hours later, Laurie walks Lindsey home and finds Annie naked and trembling and her boyfriend’s corpse hanging from the ceiling. Laurie sends Lindsey back to Tommy’s and then calls the police. Michael attacks Laurie but she manages to escape back to Tommy’s as well. Michael follows her, kills the police who have arrived and abducts Laurie. Dr. Loomis has been informed of Michael’s escape. After buying two high-powered handguns, he travels to Haddonfield and pleads with Sheriff Brackett to believe that Michael Myers has returned. Only after his call to the Strodes goes unanswered does Brackett fear the worst. He reveals to Loomis that Laurie Strode is Michael’s sister, adopted by the Strodes after Deborah committed suicide. Loomis realizes Michael senses this truth but doesn’t know what Michael will do about it. Loomis and Brackett go to Lindsey’s house. There Brackett finds the sobbing Annie, who is his daughter. Meanwhile, Loomis gets to Myer’s house. Michael has taken Laurie there. Michael gives Laurie a photograph of them as children and drops his knife. Laurie stabs him and escapes into the backyard. Michael pursues her and corners her in the empty swimming pool. As he advances into the pool to retrieve her, Loomis appears and pleads with him to stop repeatedly, after this fails he shoots Michael in the back several times. Loomis and Laurie try to escape, but Michael rips Laurie from the car before they can. Loomis pleads with Michel to stop and tells him to give Laurie to him. Finally, Michael gives in and releases Laurie to Loomis. As Dr. Loomis and Laurie walk away Michael drops the knife and the police that have arrived on the scene led by Sheriff Brackett, open fire on Michael repeatedly until he falls. Loomis pleads with them to stop as Laurie cries. The scene fades black as it replays the sounds of a taped session between Michael and Dr. Loomis.
H8RZ – In the aftermath of a mysterious High School “incident”, the school’s attorney questions the only witness, a student, in hopes of protecting the school from any lawsuits. But as this student weaves his tale, it becomes clear that there is much more to this story than meets the eye. H8RZ has the intrigue of a crime thriller, while cleverly dealing with issues of H8RZ bullying, school corruption, and the darker side of teen interactions. A group of teens team up to hatch a dubious plot to erase the records and their poor grades, leading to tragedy and a complex investigation. A lawyer discovers that there is much more to a recent high school “accident” than meets the eye while questioning a student about the bullying that went on in secret. When they are caught cheating a on a test, a group of high school students join forces in a complicated scheme to expunge their failing grades. But when they are blackmailed, supposedly by a fellow student who has recently committed suicide, they find themselves obeying orders from beyond the grave as they try to summate who, exactly, is tormenting them and why. But their efforts lead inexorably to disaster and bloody mayhem.
THE DEN (HACKED) – After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as THE DEN, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the Internet. And eventually Elizabeth finds herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her oved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
HACKED – Time for a total reboot. A young programmer joins forces with a group of renegade hackers to stop an artificial intelligence from reaching the outside world. After losing his job to a state-of-the-art supercomputer with cutting edge artificial intelligence capabilities, a disgruntled computer technician decides to put his successor to the test. Meanwhile, a group of hacker thieves infiltrate the building, intent on stealing the new artificial life form. Amidst the chaos, the supercomputer becomes self-aware and proceeds to lockdown the facility with everyone trapped inside. Now, everyone must work together to prevent the artificial intelligence from breaching the facility and wreaking havoc on the outside world.
HACKER’S GAME – Hacker’s Game is a love story between two hackers, Soyan and Loise. Like many other hackers, Soyan works for a company he previously hacked. This online security firm runs covert activities for high-profile clients around the world. Loise is a cyber-detective who investigates war crimes for a human rights organization. Obsessed with the truth, she also has spent years searching for an unknown person. The two hackers meet on a rooftop and bond together through a virtual chess game. But Soyan’s employer, Russell Belial, has asked him to protect the same arms-dealer that Loise is determined to help capture. Who will call the game now? What is Soyan’s real goal? The pair embarks upon an intense but dangerous romance, playing an elaborate game of deception. After being in a virtual world, will Soyan and Loise risk everything for true love? A love story between two computer hackers, played by Chris Schellenger and Pom Klementieff, who work for companies that they previously hacked in to. Their fast-paced lives lead to a wild relationship on the run.
HAILEYMYSTERY: DEADLY ESTATE – In the city of Atlanta (Kelli Martin) is a bright, disciplined and acutely observant former prosecutor who has found a new way to help others when she becomes a licensed therapist. When Hailey’s friend Pam (Michelle Harrison) suddenly loses both parents, Hailey comforts and helps her through her grief. Later, Hailey is with her when meeting Doris Keating (Gwynyth Walsh), a woman in her 50’s hired by Pam to hold an estate sale for items in her parents home. During the meeting, the doorbell rings and Hailey meets Ryan Jim Thorburn), handsome and impeccably dressed – recently moving to Atlanta – introduced as Pam’s realtor to sell her parents’ house and whom Hailey quickly realizes is Pam’s newest boyfriend. Meanwhile, during a date with Jonas McClellan (Matthew MacCaull),  a County Medical Examiner, Hailey is haunted again by old flashbacks, bringing her back to a younger time when she walked with her fiancée Will as he was shot and killed in front of her. She can’t seem to shake these nightmares, and as a result, is having a hard time moving on from Will. On the morning Pam is scheduled to fly to Aruba on a spontaneous trip with Ryan, Hailey learns Pam writes Ryan a note, apologizing saying she can’t go with him after all. Hailey suspects foul play after getting a cell phone call, showing a Hawaiian number, from Pam robotically reassuring Hailey – with loud clanging noises in the background – not to worry and she is “ok”. Hailey isn’t convinced this is the case and brings her suspicions to Detective Danny Morgan (Giacomo Baessato), and that night, she heads to Pam’s house with Jonas to collect potential evidence, finding blood on a vase. Cell phone records ultimately indicate Pam isn’t in Hawaii, and Hailey realizes she’s disappeared and could be in real danger. Later, Hailey learns Ryan has hit a white pick up truck, but she doubt’s its an accident at all and becomes more and more suspicious of Pan’s past boyfriends. DNA evidence points to Pam’s blood on the vase and Hailey learns the police are narrowing in on Pam’s former flame, Lance Hunter, identified by Ryan in a line-up as the man who hit him with the truck. The mystery deepens and Jonas is poisoned, clinging to life and Hailey’s flashback repeats, but this time Jonas takes the place of Will, and it’s Jonas that is shot instead. Hailey finally rules out Lance learning Pam’s parents’ home sold and closed in less than a week – and only someone in a rush does that – and whoever took Pam had access, opportunity and three million bucks worth of motive to make Pam disappear. Hailey is told of many other women with sudden inheritances that have disappeared and are presumed dead and Hailey finds herself seeking justice, discovering there is much more to the mystery behind Pam’s kidnapping than it appears. After Hailey Dean agrees to help Pam dispose of her parent’s estate, her friend disappears without a word. Pam’s boyfriend suffers a serious accident, and Hailey’s boyfriend contracts a serious illness. Hailey must use skills she developed as a former prosecutor to determine if these events are connected.
HAILEY DEAN MYSTERY: MURDER, WITH LOVE – A former prosecutor and now a nationally famous legal analyst and advocate for victim’s rights, we meet Hailey Dean. A former prosecutor with a stellar record, Hailey has now embraced a career as a therapist. One of Hailey’s patients and her bother lose their mother, a respected doctor, to an overdose and then drowning. Shortly after the funeral service, their father is killed in car that explodes and burns after crashing off a bridge. During the ensuing investigation the siblings become the prime suspects in what might be murders rather than accidents. When their personal fortune and all the working capital in their family trucking business disappears from their bank accounts, the investigation takes a new direction. Hailey works with her former colleagues in the police department to figure out what is really going on. A woman loses her parents in two fatal accidents within one week and faces questions by police, so her therapist (who used to be a prosecutor) steps in to help clear her name and find the true killer.
HALCYON – Your past will surface. Two former Navy submariners, Robert and Daniel, working as civilians quickly jump at the opportunity to make a year’s salary in a quick sixty days. They are assigned to an underwater research station called “Halcyon” where their mission is to study the seismic activity on the ocean floor that is believed to be the cause of a string of earthquakes plaguing the Pacific Coast. Daniel, a playful family man with a wife and two children accompanies his best friend and former Navy Officer, Robert on this seemingly easy mission. Daniel, the more playful of the two records their day-to-day life on his home move camera and relays the videos home through their only connection to the surface. After a minor earthquake rattles the station, the two men begin to get serious about their mission. Before they are able to get any real data they are struck again and this time the earthquake cripples the station beyond repair. Daniel, badly injured, fights to stay alive while Robert battles the demons from his past and the truth about what happened to his wife, Sylvia. With only days to go until rescue arrives, the two are forced to fight the battle of their lives in a 450 square foot station at the bottom of the ocean. Two men assigned aboard a deep sea research station become trapped inside and isolated from the outside world after a seismic event cripples the station. The event leaves one of the men mortally wounded, while the other struggles to cope with the reality.
HALFWAY – A recently released convict finds himself trapped between his urban criminal past and his new life on probation as the only black man in a conservative while Wisconsin farming town.  

Friday, November 2, 2018

S Thriller Movies


SYMPATHY, SAID THE SHARK – When a young couple reluctantly answers their door during a storm, in rushes their estranged friend, soaked, bloodied and insistent that someone is trying to kill him. The night is soon set off the rails, as all three must confront their own darkest secrets – and each other – in the face of a powerful threat that comes knocking. The story is told with innovative camera work, shifting from the explicit first-person point-of-view of each of its three protagonists. Each time the POV shifts, there is an overlap of time when where see or hear something that the previously character missed, forcing the viewer (and the characters) to reconsider who’s good, who’s bad, and what’s really going on.
SWORD OF VENGEANCE – From the creator of Hammer of the Gods, starring Stanley Weber and Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle) comes the story of a Norman Prince, freed from slavery, who seeks revenge on his father’s murderer and ruthless uncle, Earl Durant (Karel Roden). Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his quest to satisfy his code of honor. Will the Prince sacrifice everything and everyone to quench his thirst for bloody retribution? After years of being in slavery, a Prince returns to his homeland to seek revenge against his father’s murderer. The target for revenge is his ruthless uncle, who has controlled his farmers with impunity.
SWOON – Was it a crime of passion? Or a passion for crime? The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men. Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films – Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks, immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body up a culvert. The motive for the crime was simply that they wanted to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The previous film versions downplayed Leopold and Loeb’s homosexuality, but Kalin’s version plays it up into a psychosexual motif. Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) is the calculating intellectual, while Leopold (Craig Chester), the amateur ornithologist, is the emotional and weak one. In love with Loeb, Leopold is willing to do anything for him and when Loeb uses the withholding of sex as a prompt, Leopold is even willing to commit murder to have his sexual desires satisfied by Loeb.
SWEET, SWEET LONELY GIRL – Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is a gothic horror film that chronicles the experience of Adele as she goes to live as a caregiver for her aging Aunt Dora. Soon after moving in, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious who tests the limits of Adele’s moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path. Set against the social security crisis of the 1980 Reagan-Carter election, Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is an innovative play on genre, striking a bold intersection between the apparitions of a ghost story and the moralist of the after school special. Soon after moving in with her aging Aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele’s moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.
SWIMFAN – His biggest fan has just become his worst nightmare. Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) has everything going for him: He is the school’s star swimmer, he has just earned a swimming scholarship to Stanford, and he has a beautiful girlfriend, Amy (Roswell’s Shiri Appleby). One slipup with Madison, the new girl in town, sends his life into a downward spiral. In the same vein as Fatal Attraction, Swimfan is a cautionary tale about deadly obsession. A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences. Ben Cronin has it all: The admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and an appointment with swim scouts from Stanford. It’s not easy; Ben must train for countless hours in the pool for a critical swim meet, work at the local hospital and find quality time with high school sweetheart, Amy. His wonderful life is disrupted by the arrival of Madison Bell. The new girl in town quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the seductive Madison wants more. New Jersey high school senior Ben Cronin is a former juvenile delinquent, whose past criminal behavior was fueled by and for drug use. He credits the support of his now long-time girlfriend Amy Miller and getting into competitive swimming as the primary reasons for turning his life around, which includes working part-time at the hospital where his single mother works. He has become the star swimmer of his high school team, so much so that scouts from Stanford University are coming in a week’s time to watch Ben swim. Ben has a new swim fan in Madison Bell, a recent transfer student to Ben’s high school. Despite Ben making it clear that he is in a committed relationship, Madison seduces him, the seduction to which he succumbs. They agree afterward that their encounter was a onetime only event, but Ben slowly comes to the realization that despite Madison’s assertions to the contrary, she has more in mind with him. He feels her constant unspoken threats to expose their tryst and ultimately when he rebuffs her totally, unspoken threats to ruin his life in whatever means possible. Ben quickly learns to what extremes Madison is willing to go, especially when he finds out about her past. He has to figure out how to regain his life back from his known stalker, which is aided by the reason Madison is New Jersey in the first place.
SWIFT CURRENT – This riveting documentary exploring former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy’s journey from a young hockey player sexually abused by his junior hockey coach, Graham James, to Kennedy’s work today as a crusader for victims of abuse in Canada and worldwide. During a speaking engagement in Ontario, Canada Shelton meets two university students who disclose the sexual abuse they suffered and ask him for help. The film tells the story of these three victims of child sexual abuse and challenges they face while attempting to recover from the horrific trauma they suffered as children. Swift Current tells the story of former NHL Hockey Player Sheldon Kennedy who was sexually abused by his junior hockey coach and has gone on to become one of the world’s leading advocates for victims of child abuse. During a speaking engagement at a University in Ontario, Canada, Sheldon met two students, a young woman and a young man, who disclosed the sexual abuse they had suffered as children to Sheldon and 200 members of the student body and faculty. In addition to Sheldon’s journey, the film follows the early recovery of two students, Mikki and Graham, ultimately providing a never before seen look at the long-lasting effects of trauma from sexual abuse.
SWEET SIXTEEN (2016) – Based on an extremely popular Chinese Internet novel, Sweet Sixteen (Xia You Qiao Mu) stars Kris Wu, Han Geng and Joo Won as three men troubled by their own pasts; intertwined among the men is each’s specific relationship with Shu Yawang. She is a rock in their past, present and future and her life is influenced by the trials and tribulations of these three wandering souls. Xia Mu is a troubled child whose salvation comes in the form of Shu Yawang. When something terrible happens to her, he seeks revenge. Nothing is the same in their lives after that. Three young men looking for their place in life and are forever changed after meeting Shu Ya Wang. When a terrible fate befalls her, one of her admirers seeks revenge on her tormenters. Based on the popular Internet novel Xia You Qiao Mu Wang Tian Tang by Yue Xi.
SWEET SIXTEEN (1983) – What terrors are released when a girl turns sweet sixteen. Big city girl Melissa Morgan (Aleisa Shirley) tries to make new friends in the small Texas town she just moved to. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with ends up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she’s the last person who has seen her boyfriend’s alive. Teenager Melissa moves into a small town filled with racial prejudice and bullying and each time she meets up with one of the boys in town, they end up murdered – but who is the killer? A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she’s currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she’s the last person who has seen her boy friends alive. This standard slasher film from director Dimitri Sotirakis (using the pseudonym “Jom Sotos”) is notable only for its fascinating cast. The story is a rather predictable affair as young Melissa (Aleisa Shirley) sees all of her friends being murdered after their 16th birthdays. Her mother (Susan Strasberg) worries, and Sheriff Dan (Bo Hopkins) is convinced that the local Indians led by Greyfeather (Henry Wilcoxon) are to blame, but when the “shock” ending finally comes, it is no surprise, Patrick Macnee, Don Stroud, Larry Storch and Sharon Farrell lead the familiar cast, which also includes such genre favorites as Michael Pataki, Steve Antin and Dana Kimmell, who starred in Friday the 13th: Part III the same year.
SEPTIMO – In this suspenseful thriller, Ricardo Darin and Belen Rueda star as a troubled couple who find themselves in a desperate search to track down their children after they vanish racing down the stairs of their 7th floor apartment building. No one knows anything. No one’s seem anything. From there they instigate their own frantic investigation, where everything and everyone they know is a suspect. When a man’s children suddenly disappear, he begins to suspect his wife, from whom he’s separated, may be behind it. A father gets into a desperate search to find his children who disappeared while going down stairs from their apartment in the seventh floor. Secrets about Mammy Sebastian is a successful lawyer in Buenos Aires and is in the middle of an important case. He is divorced from Delia and they have two children, Luca and Luna. Delia wants to move to Spain to live with her father and wants full custody of the children, but Sebastian is reluctant. Sebastian goes to Delia’s apartment on the seventh floor of an old building to take Luca and Luna to school and Delia leaves the place. The siblings ask to go down playing on the stairs while Sebastian takes the elevator. When he arrives in the lobby, he realizes that the children have vanished. Sebastian needs to be in court for an important case but he seeks them out with the janitor and his neighbor Rosales, who is a police detective. He calls Delia who returns to the building and suspects everyone until a woman calls him asking for a one hundred thousand-dollar ransom in two hours. How can the desperate Sebastian raise this amount in a short time period and who might have kidnapped his children?
SWIMMING POOL – Dive into the mind-bending thriller that’s soaked with raw sensuality! A murder-mystery author’s search for inspiration takes a wicked turn when she meets a sexy and provocative young woman with an explosive past, in the movie Interview calls “A thrilling film! Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier sizzle!” Francois Ozon’s psychological thriller Swimming Pool stars Charlotte Rampling as a mystery writer. When Sarah (Rampling) is offered the use of her publisher’s vacation home, she accepts the offer. The conservative, repressed Sarah clashes with the house’s other inhabitant, Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), the uninhibited daughter of the publisher. Julie’s promiscuous sex life intrigues Sarah and starts to lead to the thawing of the emotional deep-freeze between the two. The death of one of Julie’s nightly assignations complicates their lives. Swimming Pool was screened in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off season and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her – until late one night, when John’s indolent and insouciant French daughter Julie unexpectedly arrives. Sarah’s prim and steely English reserve is jarred by Julie’s reckless, sexually charged lifestyle. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series of events, as Sarah’s creative process and a possible real-life murder begin to blend dangerously together. A British mystery author visits her publisher’s home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics. Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her – until late one night, when John’s indolent and insouciant French daughter Julie unexpectedly arrives. Sarah’s prim and steely English reserve is jarred by Julie’s, sexually charged lifestyle. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series of events as Sarah’s creative process and a possible real-life murder begin to blend dangerously together. Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author, who has written a successful series of novels featuring a single detective, is having writer’s block that is impeding her next book. Sarah’s publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country house near Lacoste, France for some rest and relaxation. After becoming comfortable with the run of the house, Sarah’s quietude is disrupted by a young woman claiming to be the publisher’s daughter, Julie. She shows up one night claiming to be taking time off from work herself. She also claims that her mother used to be Bosload’s mistress, but that he would not leave his family. Julie’s sex life consists of one-night stands with various oafish men, and a competition of personalities develops between the two women. At first Sarah regards Julie as a distraction from her writing. She uses earplugs to allow her to sleep during Julie’s noisy nighttime adventures, although she nonetheless has a voyeuristic fascination with them. Later she abandons the earplugs during one of Julie’s trysts, beginning to envy Julie’s lifestyle. The competition comes to the fore when a local waiter, Franck is involved. Julie wants him but he appears to prefer the more mature Sarah, having struck up a relationship with her during her frequent lunches at the bistro. An unexpected tragedy occurs after a night of flirting among the three. After swimming together in the pool, Franck refuses to allow Julie to continue performing oral sex on him, once Sarah, who watches them from the balcony, throws a rock into the water. Franck feels frightened and tells Julie he is leaving. The next day, Franck is missing. While investigating Franck’s disappearance, Sarah learns that Julie’s mother has been dead for some time, though Julie had claimed that she was still alive. She returns to the villa, where a confused Julie thinks that Sarah is her mother and has a breakdown. She eventually recovers and confesses that Franck is dead because Julie repeatedly hit him over the head with a rock as he tried to leave her at the pool. His body is in one of the sheds. When Marcel becomes suspicious of the mound of fresh soil where the body is buried, Sarah seduces the elderly gardener to distract him. Julie leaves, thanking Sarah for her help and leaving her the manuscript of an unpublished novel written by her late mother, which she had previously claimed that John made her burn. Sarah returns to England and visits her publisher’s office with her new novel. His daughter also shows up just as Sarah is leaving, but is revealed to be a completely different girl than the one Sarah spent the weekend with.