13 Hours in a Warehouse - Alone in the Dark 2

13 HOURS IN A WAREHOUSE (2008) – Their lives were snuffed out… Now they’re back for vengeance! As five underworld heavies settle in for an all-night stay at an abandoned warehouse and former film studio, a series of bizarre and unsettling occurrences quickly lead them to believe they are not alone. It was supposed to be a simple night of babysitting a single hostage, but when a series of numbers began to appear on the walls things soon took a dark turn. Later, after the hostage escapes, the perplexed thugs not only learn that there is a rat in the ranks, but also discover the unsettling nature of the films that were shot in the warehouse. Now, as terror takes hold, the thieves are about to discover that they are being stalked from the shadows and that their odds of living to see daybreak are shrinking with each passing minute. After five guys pull off the perfect heist they end up in an abandoned warehouse waiting for their buyer to show up. But it isn’t the 13 hour wait that is upsetting; it’s the strange numbers that keep appearing everywhere and the feeling like they are being watched. When they finally figure out that they are not alone, it’s too late to get out alive. Five violent criminals have pulled off the perfect heist and are now holed up in an abandoned warehouse, waiting for their contact to show up as agreed. But they soon get uncomfortable feeling that they are under surveillance and before long, strange paranormal activities occur. The thieves realize with horror that their chances of ever seeing daylight again are diminishing with every minute that passes.

THE 13^TH ALLEY (2008) – Head games are a nightmare! A group of college kids go after-hours bowling. The fun is suddenly halted when abnormal things begin happening on the 13^th alley. Everyone runs to escape, but all exits have been boarded up! Who is out for revenge?

1920 (2008) – A love made in Heaven… A revenge made in Hell… The year is 1920 and the house isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years, everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died of mysterious circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own. After forsaking his family and religion, a husband finds his wife is demonically possessed. A devotee of Bhagwan Shri Hanuman, Arjun Singh Rathod is in love with Lisa, a Christian, who was sired by an Indian mother and Caucasian father, runs into problems with his father, who wants him to marry a Hindu. He decides to break all ties with his family, both turn atheist, get married and relocated to live in 1920s Bombay. The duo then relocates to renovate a mansion in Palampur. Shortly after their arrival Lisa suspects that there is something odd about a particular room in the mansion, but Arjun dismisses her. He will soon regret this, as well as forsaking their respective religions, after he finds Lisa possessed by what happens to be a demonic and seemingly invincible male entity.

Arjun marries Lisa much to the humiliation from his family as she belongs to another faith. Arjun disowns his family and faith when they try to burn Lisa alive. Arjun an architect along with Lisa goes to Palampur to take charge of a mansion which is to be raised into a hotel. The previous architect who ever tried to take charge died a mysterious death. Arjun takes charge of the mansion but is unaware of supernatural things happening around. Lisa experiences strange things and while Arjun is away Lisa takes the help of a local priest Father Thomas who tells her that there is a presence of strong supernatural power in the house. The head priest confirms that the spirit wants to attack Lisa and upon returning Arjun finds that the spirit has totally taken control over Lisa.

In the year 1920 in Palampur, India, an architect arrives at a large manor house. The manager of the mansion, MK, discusses how its owner wishes to have it torn down with a hotel constructed in its place. Later that night, the architect is killed by a mysterious force. It turns out the first architect who had become before him was also killed in a similar manner some time ago. Now the third architect who is brought in, Arjun Singh, is a religious, true devotee of lord Hanuman and devoted to his family; but he is also in love with Lisa. This meets strong disapproval form his family because Lisa (an Anglo-Indian; born of a British father and an Indian mother) is of mixed faith. Arjun decides to marry Lisa anyway. As he travels to Mumbai, his father and his brothers intercept his car, beat him up, and try to burn Lisa alive. Arjun fights back and decides to disavow his faith and his family for Lisa. He ultimately becomes an atheist.

The project of the manor house is handed to Arjun’s firm and Arjun and Lisa arrive at the house soon after. Arjun is unaware of the strange things happening such as objects moving by themselves, but Lisa senses a malevolent presence. She questions Balwant, the caretaker, but he feigns ignorance. Balwant privately pleads with MK to relieve Arjun and Lisa of the project for it will claim their lives just as it killed the others before them. The mansion does not wish to be destroyed and that is why it reacts to anyone who wants to tear it down, including MK. Balwant himself is unharmed because he is only acting on orders and does not carry an intent to destroy the house. MK is aware of the evil presence but silences Balwant with a bribe. Arjun leaves for Delhi on a business trip, leaving Lisa alone in the house. She experiences stronger supernatural events and confides in a local church priest, Father Thomas. The priest arrives at the mansion and immediately senses a strong evil presence. Later that evening, in his church rooms, he wakes up to find a Baphomet drawn in blood on a wall. He consults with the head priest and they quickly conclude that an evil spirit resides in the mansion and is specifically targeting Lisa. The priest returns to issue a stern warning for Lisa. Lisa is away and Balwant takes the message but does not mention it to Lisa.

Arjun returns as Lisa becomes ill, refuses food and water and takes to bed. Arjun spots her eating a dead anima that night but is unable to make sense of it. The priest attempts to place a cross on Lisa, who turns violent and attacks the priest. Arjun engages a doctor but it turns out to be fruitless as Lisa’s evil outbursts and telekinetic attacks simply overwhelm the hospital staff. Now convinced of a supernatural presence, Arjun storms into MKs office and demands the truth. MK reveals the name of the previous owner of the mansion, Radhama and Arjun visits her in Nawanagar. Radhama reveals that it started in 1857, during the Revolt of 1857, when she was a servant at the mansion. The owner had gone to fight the British and she was left alone in the large mansion with her mother and the owner’s daughter, Gayatri. A wounded mutineer, Mohan Kant, sought cover at the mansion but turned out to be a spy for the British forces. He killed Radhama’s mother which was later discovered by her. Gayatri sent Radhama with a letter to where her father was. Gayatri seduced Mohan Kant to buy time until her father who was also a freedom fighter arrived. Her father and his men hanged him. He died looking Gayatri in the eyes and vowing revenge. His soul has remained in the mansion ever since. Gayatri died on 18 November 1896 and Lisa was born the same day.

At the mansion, the soul of the treasonous soldier has now completely possessed Lisa’s body. The priest decides to perform an exorcism. The ritual begins well, but the evil soul is too powerful for the inexperienced priest and the priest and Balwant are both killed. The evil spirit impels Lisa to slit her wrists, so as to die and eject her soul from her body so he can carry her soul with him to Hell. Unable to physically restrain Lisa, Arjun is forced to reexamine his lost faith. Lisa, empowered by the evil soul, beats Arjun badly and emotionally tortures him. Soon Arjun feels that only God can save Lisa. Arun limps towards Lisa, embraces her with all his might and begins reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, torturing the evil spirit. He tries to run but Arjun holds Lisa’s body tightly. After some time, the spirit is in pain from the words and is finally expelled from Lisa’s body and destroyed. Finally, Arjun and Lisa embrace each other happily and Gayatri’s portrait is removed and sent away from the mansion. Arjun is shown saying that the three, Arjun, Gayatri and Lisa, have completed their task which God gave them.

2012 DOOMSDAY (2008) – An ancient prophecy foretold. A scientific discovery revealed. On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday. Four strangers on a journey of faith to Mexico find themselves drawn toward an ancient temple that may hold the key to humanity’s continued existence. The final day on the Mayan calendar finds four faithful strangers convening at an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico in this apocalyptic thriller starring Cliff De Young and Dale Midkiff. Centuries ago, the Mayans set a date for the end of time. December 21, 2012. Now that date is upon us and NASA scientists have noted that a catastrophic polar shift is about to occur. Could it be that an ancient Mayan temple holds the key to unlocking the secret that could protect humankind from total extinction?

40 DAYS OF SHROUDED GHOST RESURRECTION (40 HARI BANGKITUYA POCONG) (2008) – Jessi, who works as a technician in a computer store, is assigned to do a repair at Kevin’s house. Kevin has a strange aunt named Alice. When she returns home, Jessi starts being haunted by horrible ghosts. But love starts to grow between Kevin and Jessi. Nino, her ex-boyfriend is also terrorized by a “pocong” (a corpse wrapped in a death shroudo0,) “kuntilanak” and a half-body ghost.

4BIA (2009) – Face your fears. The first segment, “Happiness” is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovers something strange about this new stranger that she is attracted to. “Tit For Tat” spins a tale of black magic and vengeance for a school kid that had bene bullied by a school gang. “In the Middle” – a group of friends faces one of their worst camping trips after a water kayaking accident. The final segment “Last Fright” takes horror to new heights with a psychological thriller that involves a stewardess flying solo in a cabin with a dead body. Four horror tales revolve around an accident victim, a bullied youth, ghost stories and a deceased princess. The biggest talents in Thai horror come together to craft a four part anthology film designed to give viewers the fright of their lives by offering an unusual twist on the familiar Asian ghost story in the first tale; a recovering car accident victim strikes up an unusual relationship through a series of intriguing text messages. The second story involves a bullied youth who resorts to black magic in order to seek vengeance against his tormentors and the third revolves around four friends attempting to scare each other with ghost stories while camping in the jungle. The film draws to a close with the story of an airline stewardess charged with watching over the corpse of a deceased princess as it is being shipped back to her native soil for burial.

First Segment: Happiness – Plot: “Loneliness” can really influence someone into doing stupid things. This woman is unemployed, broken-hearted and desperate for companionship. So, when she receives an anonymous SMS from a possible male suitor she doesn’t think twice being that “life can’t get any worse”. But life can get much worse when she encounters something she will regret for the rest of her life. Second Segment: Tit for Tat – What kind of terrible things could happen if a group of youths stumbled upon a cursed Manuscript? A foolish teenage gang gets into trouble resulting in expulsion from school. What they don’t realize is that their careless and carefree ways have earned them a diploma of death when one of their victims decides to take revenge by putting a curse on what looks like ordinary pieces of paper. By the time they come to the dreadful realization that the paper is cursed… It’s Too Late! Third Segment: In the Middle – Four best friends go camping in the middle of the jungle, sharing ghost stories along the way. Later at night they argue over who gets to sleep in the middle of the tent. They have scared one another into believing that a ghost will haunt whoever sleeps on the end. One of the boys foolishly answers, “If I die, I’ll come back and haunt whoever sleeps in the middle first.” He drowns 20 hours later while water rafting. The night before their final trek out of the jungle the remaining three friends have trouble sleeping being that nobody dares to sleep in the middle of the tent. Before the break of dawn, they are startled by the sounds of footsteps walking towards them! Fourth Segment: Last Fright – Pim is a flight attendant assigned to fly solo on a charter flight with the Princess of Khurkistan. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragically more turbulent when the princess dies due to an allergic reaction to something she ate. The royal house of Khurkistan requests that her body be sent back immediately for royal cremation. The airline reschedules Pim to be on duty on what is known in the flying industry as a quick turn flight. Now Pin must endure the passenger less flight alone with the dead body of the princess. But is she really alone?

Loneliness – Pin, a young woman stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complains to her boyfriend, Puak, who went on a camping trip in Chiang Mai, that she feels so lonely. Every night, Pin exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asks to befriend her and seems friendly enough. The stranger says that he is in somewhere “cramped” for 100 days and is oddly only able to be contacted at night. After sending the mysterious stranger her photo, Pin asks for one in return and is sent the same photo. When she questions him, he says he is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to Pin’s smiling face. As she researches recent deaths, Pin discovers that the son of Princess Sophia of Virnistan died and was buried with a cell phone so he can communicate with Princess Sophia – his mother, or to connect to someone else whenever he feels lonely. Pin then gets a text from the stranger, saying that he will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and Pin cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. A scene from the past shows the Prince receiving a text message from his girlfriend ending the relationship which causes him to commit suicide by walking in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, the same accident that was the cause of Pin’s broken leg as she was inside the cab.

DEADLY CHARM – A nerdy student named Ngid sees his school friends take some drugs and is beaten to death. One of the ganga’s members, Pink, is worried but fails to stop her friends from bullying Ngid. Unfortunately, when he is beaten, he curses his friends with a deadly charm, which requires a photo of a dead person with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Ngid’s soul and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Pink did not beat him, Ngid’s soul decides not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not done anything to help him. In the end, a police officer comes by to warn her not to go inside and is shocked to see Pink laughing after having gouged her own eyes, because the curse requires the victim to see Ngid, he cannot harm her anymore now that she has gotten rid of her ability to see. It is revealed that the person in the photo Ngid used to practice the charm is Pin, the disabled young woman in the first story who died with her eyes open.

THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE – Four rafting-lovers, Aey, Ter, Shin and Phuak are rafting in a lonely jungle in Chiang Mai. At night in the camp, Aey tells his friends that if he dies, the person who sleeps in the middle will be the next to die with him. The next day, when they go swimming in the river, Aey drowns and cannot be located. The rest are scared but decide to stay and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Aey’s story). That night, Aey comes back, but strange events start happening afterwards that make his friends suspicious. Shin then finds Aey’s body. Frightened, they go running into the woods but are shocked to find their own dead bodies. It is revealed that all of them had died when the raft crumpled over, but only Aey accepted his death, while the rest continued to ignore the fact that they had died. At the end, the four become ghosts together.

FLIGHT 244 – Flight attendant Pin is secretly having an affair with Prince Albert of Virnistan. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Princess Sophia, the wife of the Prince. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, is unable to attend the flight as her brother Ter has been found drowned in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the Princess forms an allergic reaction to Pin’s lunch as it contains shrimp to which the Princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Virnistan requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pin is required to remain on the plane and escort the body – the only passenger – for the return flight. As the Princess tries to get out of her shroud. Pin’s worst nightmare begins. When the plane lands, Pin’s body is found lying on the floor, under the feet of the intact enshrouded corpse of Princess Sophia.

4 DAYS (2008) -11 members of an Internet suicide site gathered in an abandoned school. They include a former baseball player who retired because of his injuries, a cancer patient whose death was declared, and a high school girl being pessimistic of her school score. While having the last supper after completely preparing the equipment and method for their suicide, they listen to each other’s stories.

9+1 (Nine Plus One) (2008) – Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became a case. A year later, the remaining nine women each received a mysterious letter.

THE 9^TH CIRCLE (2008) – A woman is abducted by a sinister stranger on Halloween night for a fate worse than death. The ninth circle of Hell is where things can’t get worse, the center of treachery. On Halloween at about four in the afternoon, a young woman enters the waiting room of the Realmsville train station, pulls a book from her backpack and starts to read. She’s alone. A clown enters, honks a toy horn and begins to bother her. He offers her a plastic flower, and as we hear the noise of her train pulling into the station, her nightmare begins. Can she escape?

ABRO NE BAYIE (2008) – Brother Vincent is a successful young Christian man. He seems to have everything going for him with a deep involvement in church, a gorgeous young fiancée and a flashy new car at his disposal. Unknown to him, his mom Dufie is involved with spirits from the dark underworld and she has promised to deliver them her son’s soul. However, penetrating Vincent’s faith and succeeding with her evil deeds turns out to be much harder than she thought. It seems as though the only way to get to Vincent is to make him break up with his fiancée and get him involved with an evil spirit in human shape. With her son dating the evil attractive Natasha, will he fall to Dufie and her spirit companions? His father and the local priest bravely put up a fight to save his soul.

ACADEMY OF DOOM (2008) – Academy of Doom is set on the campus of the famous Mil Mascaras Wrestling Women’s Academy. The Academy finds itself the focus of seemingly disparate events involving the villainous Luctor; an eccentric Baron; and a series of bizarre murders. The most famous figure at the Academy, La Torcha, joins forces with Mil Mascaras to unravel the mystery and ensure that justice prevails. Academy of Doom is a 2008 Mexican-American lucha libre film directed by Chip Gubera and starring the legendary Mexican wrestler and film star Mil Mascaras. Mysterious deaths coincide with the arrival of a mysterious Baron from Salinia who wishes to enroll his daughter into the Mil Mascara Wrestling Women Academy. The Baron makes a financial donation to the Academy that thwarts a takeover attempt by the villainous Luctor. After cadets at the Academy are nearly killed by a mini assassin, La Torcha calls in her friend Mil Mascaras to assist with the investigation. They discover that Luctor orchestrated The Baron’s visit and has plans to kill anyone who stands in the way of his efforts to take over the Academy Luctor is killed when The Baron discovers that he (Luctor) has been manipulating him and his daughter. The Baron is mortally wounded in the conflict and gives a dying confession to Mil Mascaras and La Torcha.

Academy of Doom is set on the campus of the famous Mil Mascaras Wrestling Women’s Academy. The Academy finds itself the focus of seemingly disparate events involving the villainous Luctor; an eccentric Baron and a series of bizarre murders. The most famous figure at the Academy, La Torcha, joins forces with Mil Mascaras to unravel the mystery and ensure that justice prevails. Academy of Doom weaves a complex storyline involving mysterious characters and stolen brains. Shot in the psychotropic style of the no-budget Mexican “lucha” films of the early 1970s, the film tells the story of a series of bizarre murders at a famous wrestling women’s academy. Featuring: Mil Mascaras, La Torcha and Luctor.

ACOLYTES (2008) – Nothing stays buried forever. Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully. A tension-soaked stalk and chase thriller. In their senior year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being the victim, they’re going to kill their nemesis… That is when they stumble upon the serial killer who will do the killing for them. The chase of their lives begins into graves of the killer’s victims… Three teens (Sebastian Gregory, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Joshua Payne) blackmail a serial killer (Joel Edgerton) into helping them get rid of a violent bully (Michael Dorman). Three teenagers find their longtime friendship crumbling after enlisting the aid of a ruthless serial killer in ridding themselves of a relentless bully in this dark thriller from Redball director Jon Hewitt. High school has been a living hell for shy teens Mark and James, classroom bully  Gary Parker has made it his life’s mission to ensure that their suffering doesn’t end until they graduate and its obvious he relishes his work. Now that gradation day is drawing near, Mark and James begin making plans to strike back at Gary with a vengeance. Then, shortly after the disappearance of a female classmate, Mark discovers a fresh grave in the woods near his quiet suburban neighborhood and witnesses a SUV speeding away from the scene. Returning to the site later that day with James and his girlfriend, Chasely, Mark decides to grab a shovel and go to work. No one expected to find anything more incriminating than a dead family pet, so when the earth splits open to reveal the corpse of a Canadian backpacker, the trio makes it their mission to track down the killer and blackmail him into exacting violent revenge on their old nemesis Gary. But this is one killer who doesn’t play by the rules and by the time he turns tables on Mark, Gary and Chasely, the three teens realize that their only hope for escape is to confront their darkest fears head-on.

New Wave French horror meets stylized Australian exploitation in Acolytes, an unpredictable and effective thriller elevated by some exceptional cinematography and a clever script. Tantalizingly deliberate and unapologetically grim, it begins like a typical teen serial killer flick and gradually morphs into something far more insidious. Take three disaffected teens, a volatile bully and a serial killer, throw them together in the Australian suburbs and something nasty is bound to happen. James (Joshua Payne), Chasely (Hanna Mangan Lawrence) and Mark (Sebastian Gregory) are your typical bored teenagers. They’ve got an ongoing feud with heavily tattooed hooligan Gary (Michael Dorman) and that already-strained relationship takes a particularly ominous turn when the three teens discover the identity of a local serial killer and attempt to blackmail him into killing their tormentor. But Ian (Joel Edgerton) isn’t the kind of killer you want to mess with – even if you think you’ve got the upper hand – and before long, their little game has taken on a malevolent life of its own.

From the gorgeous opening shot of a girl silhouetted in sunlight, it’s obvious that there’s some real talent working behind the scenes here. Fortunately for thriller fans, that talent extends beyond cinematographer Mark Pugh to include screenwriters Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause as well. Armstrong and Krause know the tropes of the genre inside and out, which allows them to effortlessly invest them and create something truly unique. While at times this has the effect of making the film seem somewhat convoluted, Acolytes requires a certain amount of patience and trust on behalf of the viewer. Those willing to put their faith in the filmmakers are rewarded with a vicious little story that skillfully skirts the line between thriller and horror. Clever editing and a chilling performance by Edgerton (looking like the clammy-skinned love child of Bryan Cranston and Jeffrey Dahmer) help to maintain some dark momentum during the occasional lull, making Acolytes the kind of deeply sinister, blackly cynical indie thriller that gingerly works its way under your skin while creeping toward a deliciously desolate climax.

James and Mark are teenagers in their final year of school and victims of Gary Parker, who raped them when they were younger. They still live in fear of him after he is released from prison for this crime. A brain damaged teenaged girl named Tanya who has gone missing is run down by a car and killed while walking in a pine forest. Later, wandering alone in the forest, Mark secretly witnesses a man burying a body. The two friends decide to go dig up the grave to see what was buried, bringing along James’ girlfriend Chasely. To their horror, they partly uncover the body of a young girl and beside her is a small Canadian flag, implying she is a Canadian backpacker. After an aborted attempt at reporting the body to the police, they search for the presumed killer from Mark’s knowledge of the vehicle he saw driving away from the forest. They place the Canadian flag on his four-wheel drive and then the two boys secretly enter his house. They find out his name is Ian Wright and see a picture of him with a woman and baby, presumably his wife and child. They later phone him and try to blackmail him into killing Gary Parker.

Ian finds Gary and sees him going into a club, as he’s leaving he is bashed by two men who tell Ian it was “for what he did.” Ian helps him back into his car and holds a gun to his head and asks him to explain about “the kids” who want him dead. He forces Gary to find the teenagers and hunt them with his dog and crossbow. Ian follows them and shoots Gary’s barking dog. Mark is shot with the crossbow, but eventually manages to beat Gary to death with a rock. Just as Ian is about to shoot Mark, Chasely comes up behind him and hits him in the back with a pole, allowing the three to escape. They go back home and treat Mark’s wound. James goes out on his own and is captured by Ian. Later, Mark wakes up to see that Chasely has gone to find James. Mark receives a call from Ian to meet up with him and sees he is accompanied by Petra, a female backpacker from Norway. The killer taunts Petra and calls Mark his acolyte but Mark refuses to participate. A terrified Petra is let go from the car on the deserted forest road. Ian tells Mark that he didn’t kill the missing teenager, that it was Gary who accidentally killed her and found Tanya buried in “his territory.” He takes Mark back to his house where it is revealed that James is dead, wrapped in plastic in the bath. Mark then finds Chasely chained to a wall in the basement. Ian holds a gun to her head and makes Mark confess that it was in fact he who brutalized Tanya, but he didn’t intend to kill her. As she was running away from him, Gary had accidentally hit her with his car. Gary and Mark had apparently decided to keep it a secret and bury her body.

Ian’s deaf wife is Kay revealed to be a willing accomplice with Ian and promptly stabs Mark in the stomach. She takes out her hearing aids and disappears back upstairs. Ian bends down to taunt Mark, but Mark stabs him with a blade he had taken from the garage, allowing Chasely to uncuff herself with Ian’s keys. However, once she gets to the front door she finds it is deadlocked and must return to the basement. She goes back down and is nearly strangled by Ian, but she pulls the knife out of his side and stabs him until he dies. Mark dies from his wounds. She then grabs the keys and makes her way out. The scene cuts to Ian’s wife bottle-feeding their baby and ends with Chasely staggering up the night road into the path of a halting car.

James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They’re going to kill Gary. Wandering alone around an isolated forest – the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl – 17-year-old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It’s suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they bring shovels to exhume what will probably be rotting garbage or someone’s dead pet – or so they tell themselves. They find the ghostly white body of a woman. She’s a tourist – a Canadian backpacker. The “trench” is a grave. The “adult male” is her killer. And they’ve got him by the balls. Responding to Mark’s intimations James floats an idea to seek out “the sicko”. It’ll be a bit of fun. He’s confident the guy lives in their suburb; Mark saw his car parked on a trail; Mark knows what the car looks like; Mark knows what he looks like. It can be done. Chasely goes along with it. No surprise. James has done all her thinking since they started a relationship. Mark agrees, but mostly Mark agrees because he carries a culpable secret. They find the car and the killer 24 hours later. He’s got the same house as everyone else and a kid and a wife. Jeez, it’s anticlimactic. Then, in Chasely’s bedroom, as the girl cleans up the latest damage done to Mark’s face by an animal called Gary Parker, James floats another idea. What if the killer were contacted and told the name of the guy that they’d like to see dropped in a hole of his own? He’s their secret, isn’t he? They kind of own him, don’t they? If he thinks they might let him go he’d do anything, wouldn’t he? What could go wrong? James, Mark and Chasley are about to cross a line of no return as serial killer Ian Wright lures the vulnerable teenagers into his violent world.

AFFLICTION (YANGGAW) (2008) – A young girl develops an unknown infection that causes her to evolve into a horrifying monster.

AKANBO SHOJO (TANAMI: THE BABY’S CURSE) (2008) – A beautiful girl, Yoko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake. Tanami: The Baby’s Curse is a 2008 Japanese horror movie based on a Kazuo Umezu manga directed by Yudai Yamaguchi. This Japanese horror film based on the subversive and terrifying manga by Kazuo Umezu tells the story of Yoko, a fifteen-year-old girl who’s just discovered that despite the fact that she’s grown up as an orphan, her parents are, in fact alive – and they want her to come home. She reunites with her long-lost family, but soon it becomes apparent that she was better off alone. Her mother is a vengeful ghoul, her father is a half-sane professor and an evil baby lives in the attic, crazed with the mind of a vicious adult serial killer. With healthy loads of blood, gore and campiness, this scary movie is directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, who’s best known for wry, over-the-top comedies like Cromartie High.

As a teenager, Yoko discovers that she is not really an orphan when her wealthy but very strange family welcomes her home to a mansion that many claim is haunted. Beware of babies! Based on Umezu Kazuos well-known manga Tanami: The Baby’s Curse (A.K.A. Akanbo Shojo) from director Yamaguchi Yudai has all the blood and guts that any J-horror lover looks for. Newcomer Mizusawa Nako plays a teenaged orphan girl Yoko who suddenly learns she’s actually not an orphan and will be moving back in with her birth family. But the happy reunion she hopes for may not be in the cards. Waiting for her in a mansion that all the townsfolk think is haunted, is an insane mother and an evil housekeeper. Although she is welcomed by the father that has searched for her for many years, even his love can’t protect her from what lives in the attic!

THE ALCHEMIST’S BOOK (DAS BUCH DES ALCHEMISTEN) (2008) – A book, that attacks the reader’s sanity – Severin’s long-forgotten childhood angst. One night, all his fears resurface when he gets his hands on the dreaded pages and every line seems to confirm his most powerful fears. Severin dares to read the book and delves into the alchemist’s spell.

THE ALPHABET KILLER (2008)- Based on a true story. Former cop Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) investigates a murder similar to one that drove her crazy. Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten-yea-old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective whose devotion to her job often crosses the border into obsession. Her fiancée, Kenneth Shine (Elwes) is a Lieutenant with the Rochester Police Department and as both jockey for the same promotion, the cracks in their relationship begin to show. Later when Megan becomes haunted by visions of Carla and fails to solve the case, a concerned Captain Gullikson (Tom Noonan) takes her off the case. Suffering a nervous breakdown shortly thereafter, Megan is diagnosed with adult onset of paranoid schizophrenia and placed in a psychiatric hospital, where she promptly breaks off her engagement to Kenneth. Two years later, Megan has returned to the precinct as a records clerk and Kenneth is now the head of the department. Over time, Megan begins developing a friendship with wheelchair-bound Richard Ledge (Hutton). When a local girl named Wendy Walsh is abducted, raped and murdered in Webster, Megan convinces Kenneth to let her ride along with Detective Steven Harper (Tom Malloy) as an advisor to the case. But the gruesome nature of the case once again prompts strange visions for Megan. Now she is haunted by two murder victims and to make matters worse, she’s beginning to develop embarrassing involuntary ticks and stops taking her medication. As the hallucinations get worse and the case starts to run cold, Megan struggles to find the one piece of evidence that will lead them to the killer before her dark side takes over once again.

A ten-year-old girl is found brutally murdered outside the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York and obsessed police officer detective Megan Paige suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. But when the child-killings resume two years later, Megan’s return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations. Even if she can prove a “double initial” connection to the slayings, will she hang onto her sanity long enough to catch a psychopath?

Megan Paige an investigator for the Rochester Police Department, is investigating the murder of a young girl named Carla Castillo. Her body was found in the nearby village of Churchville, New York, along with traces of white cat hair. Opposing her colleagues and boyfriend Kenneth Shine Megan insists that the murder is the work of a serial killer. Despite Megan’s considerable efforts, she fails to catch the killer. Stress and obsession over the investigation causes Megan to hallucinate the victim’s image. She ultimately has a nervous breakdown after being kicked off the case and unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide. Following two years of medical treatment and attending a support group headed by a wheelchair-bound man named Richard Ledge, Megan rejoins the police department in an office job. Following a similar murder of another young girl, Wendy Walsh, whose body is found in Webster along with some white cat hair, Megan successfully lobbies to join the investigation. Partnered with Steven Harper, they try to find links between the victims.

Then another girl, Melissa Maestro, is killed in Macedon. They find a number of commonalities between Wendy and Melissa but fail to connect these to the first victim. The Webster Police Department, who has jurisdiction over the latest murder are uncooperative, receive a call from 19-year-0ld Elizabeth Eckers who tells them she is being held hostage in a house. Megan is convinced the suspect is not the Alphabet Killer and breaks procedure to preempt a police raid. Megan almost defuses the situation but an officer shoots the suspect through a window and kills him. Webster police declare that the Alphabet Killer is dead and announce the discovery of white cat hair in the house. Megan spirals into another nervous breakdown. Certain that the Webster police planted the evidence in order to justify killing an innocent, Megan continues the investigation on her own. Megan discovers that all three girls attended St. Michael’s Church in Rochester. Still suffering from hallucinations of the victims, Megan visits the church and tries to question the Pastor but suffers another breakdown and is hospitalized.

Megan escapes the hospital and takes refuge in Ledge’s home. There, she finds out that he used to work as the Math teacher for St. Michael’s Church, which finally reveals that he is the Alphabet Killer. Before she can act, he leaps from his wheelchair – having only pretended to be disabled – and attacks her. Ledge knocks her unconscious and drives to a remote spot near the Genesee River to drown her. Before Ledge can inject her with a sedative and dump her into the river, Megan breaks free and after a struggle, shoots him in the foot with his own gun. Ledge falls into the river just past a large waterfall, though it’s unclear if he is dead or not. Unsure whether Ledge is dead and confused by her surroundings, Megan is driven by the intense situation to another, longer breakdown.

Megan is again hospitalized and kept under intensive psychiatric care. The final scene of the film shows Megan heavily sedated and strapped to a bed in a psychiatric ward. There is no one else in the room, but in her state, she envisions the spirits waiting for her to return and seek justice for them. The final scenes of Megan are intercut with scenes of a survived Ledge altering his appearance. He is shown in church, receiving Communion and exchanging glances with a potential victim. It is unclear if these scenes of Ledge are actually occurring or are part of Megan’s psychosis. A title card announces: “In 2006, police exhumed a fireman’s body and posthumously cleared him as a suspect. To date, the Alphabet Killer has not been found.”

In Rochester, a preteen girl abducted, raped and murdered. Detective Megan Paige investigates: She works long hours obsessively and soon she’s seeing visions of the dead girl. The FBI profiles the killer as a spontaneous drifter, lucky not to get caught; Megan thinks he’s a local and a methodical planner. She notes that the victim’s first and last names and the place the body was left start with “C.”. When a second murder follows the same pattern, Megan is vindicated, but her obsessions get the best of her and her mental state impedes her work. With the help of medication, therapy and a friend, can she regain her equilibrium and catch the Alphabet Killer?

ALIEN RAIDERS (2008) – It’s the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and takes everyone hostage. It’s the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, an idyllic family grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But the normal monotony of rounding up shopping carts and settling out the cash drawers is broken at 11:07pm, just before closing when a group of masked and armed-to the-teeth militants invades the store, immediately kill several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage. Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists, they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to this store on this night and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost. A group of scientists takes over a supermarket to root out an alien infestation.

A small-town supermarket serves as the setting for this suspenseful Sci-Fi Thriller about a malevolent alien seeking to take over the human race. Nothing unusual ever happens at Hastings Market, so when a heavily armed gang enters the store guns blazing at closing time, the terrified shoppers and employees at first assume they’re the victims of a violent robbery. But appearances can be deceptive, as they’re about to find out. Something inhuman has gotten loose inside Hastings Market – something that, if allowed to escape, could bring about the downfall of humanity. Now, as the police surround the building, a mysterious man begins scanning everyone inside in an attempt to root out the alien invader. Within one of these people dwells an extraterrestrial with the power to claim our planet as its own. But the worst is yet to come, because when an off-duty cop attempts to play hero, he inadvertently destroys any chance of determining which one of the hostages is serving as host to the alien. Now, the only way to ensure the survival of our species is to kill everyone in sight or die trying. One quiet night at Hastings Supermarket in idyllic Buck Lake, Arizona, will rapidly spiral into a terrifying battle between humans and Alien Raiders! At 11:07pm, just before closing, a group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades the store, immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and taking the rest hostage. But this is no ordinary robbery – the masked men are a cadre of rogue scientists tracking an alien infestation. In this family grocery store, on this night, the deadly gang of alien hunters is determined to unmask the extraterrestrials and end the alien invasion – at any cost.

Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether “he” is among the hostages. When he identifies a woman as one of “them”, she tries to escape but is shot down. Meanwhile, a police officer, who was also inside the store, manages to kill one of the masked men. He then calls for backup and shoots Spooky, who hasn’t managed to check all hostages yet. The cop is then killed too. As the police arrive, the group argues whether or not to leave, but their leader, a man named Ritter, tells them that they need to finish their job. They release the hostages. Spooky already managed to clear and move the rest to the back of the store. As they inspect one of the corpses, it becomes clear that the person was infected with an organism that breeds inside the person. With Spooky dead, the group resorts to a different method for checking whether the rest of the people are infected or not. One by one, the hostages are taken to another room and have one of their fingers cut off, which Sterling, the doctor of the group, uses to verify if they are infected or not. Outside the store a policeman named Seth, whose stepdaughter Whitney works as cashier at the store, takes charge of the police operation. They discover that Ritter used to work as a rocket scientist and that the group hunts people that are infected with an alien parasite that came to Earth inside meteorite, which the cops don’t believe. Trying to negotiate with Ritter, they come to the agreement that Ritter will release one of the hostages if the police bring them a woman named Charlotte, who used to be part of the group and possesses the same ability as Spooky did.

The group soon discovers another woman is infected and kill her. They are then attacked by the revived body of the cop, who manages to kill two of the captors and three of the hostages. Ritter then explains to the remaining hostages what they were after: The parasites are divided into two groups, several females and one king. Without the king, the parasites would eventually go extinct They knew that one of the persons inside the store was the host of the king, which is why they took the whole store hostage. Seth and Charlotte then come inside. With Charlotte’s help, the group lures the infected cop into a trap, while Seth leads the stepdaughter and the store clerk Benny, who volunteered to have his finger cut off to spare Whitney the ordeal, outside. Ritter manages to cut the living parasite out of the cop but is subsequently gunned down by the police who try to kill it. Just as Sterling is arrested by Seth, Charlotte realizes that the killed parasite was not the king. Inside a police car, Benny overhears Seth calling the other cops, telling them that Benny must be the king. Benny realizes that it must actually be Whitney, since she was the only one who is still alive and wasn’t checked by the captors. As he aims a gun at her, her eyes and veins change to a darker color and the screen fades to black, while Benny is heard screaming.

The film begins with a group of men preparing weapons for a fire fight. Among them, an argument sparks regarding whether or not a certain person will be at their destination, a local grocery store. Upon arrival, they find a group of people. The guys from the car take over the store and appear to be looking for someone and it seems one of them is “scanning” people by staring into their eyes. The cop who evaded the raiders, shoots one and calls for backup. He continues to elude the raiders for a few more seconds and shoots Spooky, the guy who was scanning everyone. The cop is shot and the dead are moved back to the freezers where one of the raiders shoot up the dead bodies. The cleared hostages are sent out when the police arrive and the uncleared are all cordoned off in the back and forced to drink milk. The raiders then reveal that they are a group of scientists that are tracking an unknown contagion to this town and to the supermarket. Since Spooky died, they must use an alternate method to find out who is infected. They take the first of the uncleared people, the boss of the store and begin to ask questions. This is all to distract him from cutting off one of his fingers. He protests and tries to escape showing them he has stolen money from the store. Meanwhile the hostages begin to plan an escape. As one of the hostages goes into the freezer to get a gun to escape he is killed by some person. Later, in the movie it is revealed that the person who killed the hostage is an alien king. In the end they realize that the person they killed is not the king and a girl already released is the real king.

ALIVE OR DEAD (2008) – While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds herself hidden and trapped with the girl as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre medieval castle nestled in the desert. While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “HELP ME” in one of the windows and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. As the killer reappears, Maria finds herself now hidden and trapped as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre location in the desert, where they quickly learn their enemy is no who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust, if even each other, if they hope to return home, alive or dead. A woman (Ann Henson) tries to escape from a compound populated by deranged cannibals.

A woman traveling down a long and lonely road happens across a deserted school bus that leads her down a trail of terror in this backwoods shocker from director Stephen Goetsch. Maria is driving through the country when she happens across an apparently empty school bus with the words “Help Me” hastily scrawled on one of the windows. Just as she steps into the bus to investigate further, a madman steps aboard and starts the engine. But the school bus wasn’t empty, because there was a young girl hiding inside. When Maria and her terrified passenger arrive at an unknown destination deep in the desert, they quickly discover that everything they thought they knew was wrong. But who can Maria and the girl trust and what will become of them if they make one false move? On a desolate road, an abandoned school bus with the worlds “HELP ME” written on a window, Maria stops to check it out. A killer has left his bloody crime scene in the back. The killer comes back and takes Maria for a ride to a desert location. But is the killer really her enemy or is it someone, or something else?

A young woman is traveling down an isolated country road when her car gets two flat tires. She sees an old bus with the words “Help Me” apparently written onto the window with blood. She gets onto it to investigate it and finds a lady chained to a seat with a mask around her head. Before she can get off it a man drags another body onto the bus and drives off with her still on it. She winds up the next day at this castle in the middle of nowhere and spends the rest o the movie trying to escape the cannibals who live there. While driving down a dark country road, on her way to a night alone in a cabin with her boyfriend, Maria spots what appears to be an abandoned black bus on the roadside. After looking at it more closely she sees the words “Help Me” written in a dark red substance on the rear window. As she is about to leave, her front tires go flat. Curious, alone and terrified, Maria goes aboard the bus. As she looks around, she finds a masked woman chained in the back of the bus, but a man boards the bus dragging a body before she can depart. After falling asleep on board, she wakes up to find that the bus has driven into the middle of the desert, towards a castle full of hungry people and she discovers that she and the other people (both alive and dead) aboard the bus are inhabitants intended meal.

ALONE IN THE DARK 2 (2008) – Evil returns. When the night falls and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby. A witch who’s lived for hundreds of years sets her sights on the soul of a young woman named Natalie. Natalie’s father Dexter realizes what’s afoot, but he’ll need some help if he’s to prevent the witch from stealing his daughter’s soul. Dexter teams with Edward Carnby and Abner Lundberg both of whom have previously tangled with witches and together they set out to rid the world of the witch’s brand of black magic. Former witch hunter Abner Lundberg is forced to come back to fight his old nemesis, a century-old dangerous witch out on the prowl again. This time, Lundberg joins forces with Edward Carnby and they attempt to track down the dangerous witch Elizabeth Dexter.

When the night falls and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby. One of the most popular characters in video game history, Edward Carnby returns for a second mission. It is Christmas of 1924, three months after Alone in the Dark. Supernatural Private Eye Edward Carnby and his partner Ted Stryker are investigating the kidnapping of young Grace Saunders. The trail of clues leads to an old mansion named “Hell’s Kitchen” – the home of an infamous gangster boss and his gang. Edward decides to pick up the trail when he learns of Ted’s disappearance in the mansion. Unfortunately, Edward soon finds out that Ted has been murdered. Carnby eventually finds out that the mobsters are the corporeal forms of the spirits of pirates that plundered the sea hundreds of years ago, the lot having sold their souls in exchange for eternal life through Voodoo magic. Fighting his way into the house and ultimately onto a pirate ship hidden in the cliff on which Jack’s house is built, Edward must survive, discover the world of the pirates’ apparent immortality, rescue little Grace and find out why the pirates are so interested in her.