Thursday, November 8, 2018

H Thriller Movies


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.  

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