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 21^st, 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 22^nd. 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 19^th 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.