After.Life (2009)

AFTER.LIFE (2009) – Life is the symptom. Death is the cure. Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial. After a horrific car crash, a young teacher awakes on a mortuary slab. The funeral director convinces her she is not alive but transitioning into the spirit world. Is he telling the truth? Young couple Paul and Anna are toying with the prospect of marriage when they have a chance encounter with Eliot, a mysterious undertaker who claims he can speak with the dead. When Anna becomes caught in the otherworldly realm between life and death, she risks being buried alive. Will Eliot help her, or is he being driven by darker motivations? After a horrible car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late. Anna may have already begun to cross to the other side.

After.Life is a smart little horror-thriller with a pretty original hook: An undertaker who can talk to the recently deceased corpses on his slabs. But is he a malevolent force trying to doom people whose lives have yet to fully run their course, or does he just have a gift fir talking to departed souls, who trust him because they’re understandably terrified by their new circumstances? Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo smartly walks this line throughout, giving Liam Neeson’s character a sinister edge, but stopping short of defining him as an out-and-out villain. The story really has to do with the struggles of the protagonist, Anna (Christina Ricci), to determine what’s real and what isn’t – what parts of the funeral home in which she’s confined can she actually manipulate, and what parts are only in her imagination. Again, Wojtowics-Vosloo is reluctant to give concrete answers and she heightens the tension by getting excellent camerawork and editing from her team. The visuals in After.Life really pop and Ricci complements that aesthetic scheme. With her big, haunted eyes, her gaunt frame and her sallow complexion, it’s like she was born to play a corpse. This is by no means a backhanded compliment, because she gives the character true pathos and expertly dramatizes the panic and fear a body would feel in that kind of purgatory. Justin Long is also a good choice as her fiancée, sinking his teeth into some dramatic work that suits him well. Sine After.Life is all about mood and atmosphere, it’s worth mentioning another performer who contributes – namely, Celia Weston as Anna’s wheelchair -bound mother. She simply drips with a moribund contempt for Long’s character, believing he contributed to the premature end of her estranged daughter’s life. An underdog gem, After.Life announces Wojtowicz-Vosloo as a filmmaker to watch.

Eliot Deacon owns a funeral parlor and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial. Middle school teacher Anna Taylor attends the funeral of her piano teacher where she meets Eliot. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul at a restaurant. She drives off in a state of distress and has a traffic accident. She awakens on an exam table in the funeral parlor to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. He tells Anna he has a gift that he can hear the dead. Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he helped “make the transition”. Eliot injects Anna regularly with a fictional drug called hydronium brombide to “relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from settling in.” Paul asks to see Anna’s body but Eliot does not allow it on the grounds he is not family. Anna unsuccessfully attempts to escape several times. Eliot tells her she must let go of life as she had not really been living anyway. Eventually, Anna escapes and finds a room with a phone where she reaches Paul, who hangs up thinking it’s a prank. Anna comes to believe she has actually died when Eliot lets her see her corpse-like self in a mirror. One of Anna’s students sees her and alerts Paul, who begins to suspect she is still alive.

Anna’s student visits the funeral parlor and Eliot tells him that they share a gift, the same as Jesus, who raised Lazarus and he offers to teach the boy more. The boy accepts is seen burying a live chick in a box. During the final preparation for the funeral, Anna asks to see herself one last time. Eliot holds up a small mirror and while she stares at herself she notices her breath condensing on the glass and accuses Eliot of having lied to her about her being dead. Eliot injects her one last time and she slip into unconsciousness. At the funeral, Paul places the engagement ring he intended to give her the night of the crash on her finger. After the funeral, Paul drinks heavily and behaves aggressively with Eliot, who seems to taunt him and encourage him to see for himself that Anna is really dead, telling him there is not much time. Meanwhile, Anna is shown awakening to the sound of earth being shoveled onto her coffin. She cries out and desperately scratches the satin lining of her coffin lid. Driving under the influence of alcohol, Paul rushes to the cemetery. They are shown embracing and Anna tells Paul she has always loved him. Paul asks what the odd sound is that he hears and Anna explains it is the sound of Eliot’s gloves and scissors on the table as he prepares Paul’s body. A moment later, he finds himself in the funeral parlor with Eliot standing over him preparing his body as he did Anna’s. Eliot tells him that he never made it to the cemetery due to a car accident which killed him. Paul protests that he is alive until the moment Eliot inserts a trocar deep into his torso.

After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeing still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances she’s merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna’s forced to accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul can’t shake the suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be.

After a horrific car accident, Anna Taylor wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul Coleman still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Elliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over to the other side.

An Awakening

2012: AN AWAKENING (2009) – A galactic augment that occurs once every 26,000 years is just around the corner. The year 2012 is predicted to be one of the greatest changes in cultures spanning the globe. A 26,000 year alignment will occur on 21 December 2012, will it be the end of the world or the end of time as we know it? According to the Mayan calendar, the date of December 21, 2012, will witness an astronomical realignment that will produce transformative or cataclysmic change for the planet and humanity. This documentary explores the various theories surrounding the 2012 phenomenon and features interviews with prominent theorists David Icke, Patrick Geryl, Adrian Gilbert, Geoff Stray, Gregg Braden, Annabel Burton, Peter Taylor and John Major Jenkins.

2084 (2009) – By the law you must abide. Stay inside. Not much left since the world died. That’s what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos… on a global scale. This short film directed by Chris Marker examines trade unions in France. Survivors of a viral pandemic find a world enveloped in global chaos.

2:13 (2009) – Killers are not born… They are made. A police profiler has just returned from a psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer’s rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all- too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence. A haunted, hard-drinking criminal profiler tracks a masked serial killer intent on driving him insane in this gritty horror thriller featuring Kevin Pollak and Dwight Yoakam. When Russell Spivey was just a young boy, his mother committed suicide. Shortly thereafter, his father drank himself to death. Today, Russell battles alcoholism while getting into the minds of the sickest psychopaths around. But when the killer Russell is currently tracking decides to get personal, the determined investigator must confront his own demons in order to solve his most difficult case to date.

Despite suffering a traumatic past and battling a drinking problem, Russell Spivey is a successful police profiler. When he rejoins his team after a stint on psychiatric leave and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer, he must set aside his personal issues and do what he does best – delve into the mind of a murderer. But as Spivey gets closer to solving the case, it appears that the killer is now targeting him. Each victim is found with a mask – an all-too-familiar object of his childhood – and word games that leave him puzzled. Spivey must catch up with the Masked Murderer before he loses everyone he loves and his future becomes just as dark as his past.

22 WEEKS (2009) – Based on a true story. A young woman is locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby is born alive. A young woman is locked in the bathroom of a clinic after her aborted baby was born alive. A film about decisions, their effects and the echos they leave behind. Based on the shocking World Net Daily article by Ron Strom, on victim’s testimonies and real 911 calls about one of the most controversial subjects of our time, “22 Weeks” achieves to confront both sides of the spectrum and their perspective to the on going question: “What would you do?”

30 DAYS TO DIE (7 IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER) (2009) – Seven go in… Who comes out? A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13^th. When a masked serial killer terrorizes an all-girls rehabilitation camp, the troubled teens must return to their bad-girl ways in the hopes of escaping the camp-turned-torture-chamber. A young girl is sent to a new institution for troubled youth as an alternative to prison. At first, the cozy institution is a welcome change for Madison, but she soon realizes her and six other girls are trapped in a sadistic game being played by a host of mysterious guards in this horror thriller. When a masked serial killer begins to terrorize an all-girls rehabilitation camp, the troubled teens are forced into a hellish nightmare from which they cannot wake. As the killer brutalizes them for his own sadistic pleasure, they must return to their bad-girl ways in the hopes of escaping the camp-turned-torture-chamber Seven went in… but how many will come out? When young, hot nubile Madison agrees to spend the summer at the “Crystal Lake Retreat,” a new cozy institution for troubled young women instead of prison, she thinks her troubles are over. Girl fights and lecherous guards? No problem. However, for poor Madison that is when the real trouble begins as this summer marks the 30^th Anniversary of Jason’s murderous killing spree on Friday the 13^th. Now Madison is locked in with seven other women as they are hunted by a serial killer known only as “The President”, several guards who are pigs, one head honcho who is a hottie and a couple of yahoos for the law. Can she survive or will she become another victim?

4^th PERIOD MYSTERY (2009) –4^th Period murder Mystery. During fourth period, high schooler Da-Jeong finds her classmate Tae-Gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-Hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murder, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends. Jung-hoon is the best student at his school. His rival, Tae-gyu takes any and every opportunity to knock him down both verbally and physically and the two are known enemies amongst the other students. One afternoon Tae-gyu pushes Jung-hoon too far and the later threatens Tae-gyu with a knife, an act that’s witnessed by another student. Jung-hoon walks away from the situation, but shortly after the beginning of 4^th period class he returns to find Tae-gyu dead. The boy has been stabbed repeatedly and still in shock, Jung-hoon picks up the bloody knife off a nearby desk just as Da-jung shows up, catching him in a most incriminating position. Fortunately for him, shot not only believes his innocence, but offers to help him to solve the mystery and catch the real killer – a task made particularly urgent by the fact that in 40 minutes the rest of the class will return and the body will be discovered. The pair set out in search of the murderer and soon discover that just about everyone’s a suspect and even more unsettling, the murderer is now after them as well.

Jung-hoon is every mother’s dream son who is smart and handsome and whose grades are always at the top nationwide. One day, he is alone in the classroom during 4^th period P.E. when he discovers the body of his rival Tae-gyu. Considering the circumstances, witnesses and motive, Jung-hoon is the only likely suspect for the murder. Da-jeong is a mystery buff who has no friends and is referred to as the “curtain witch”. She is the one who comes into the classroom during P.E. in the 4^th period an finds a panicking Jung-hoon with blood on his clothes standing before the gruesome body of Tae-gyu. Everything points to Jung-hoon being the killer. Da-jeong begins following the trail of clues to find either the real killer or proof that Jung-hoon is the one who did it. There is only 40 minutes left until the bell rings and someone else finds the body. The killer is still inside the school. Da-jeong musters up all the skills that she had been working on as a girl with dreams of becoming a private investigator while Jung-hoon finds crucial clues to analyze the murder. When best friend Do-il joins them, things speed up considerably. Just as the final 40 minutes are almost up, the details of the crime that seemed incomprehensible start to unravel…

High school guys must find the killer of their classmate before the next class starts in 40 minutes. When a student is stabbed at school, Jung Hoon is discovered at the scene of the crime by Da Jung. As a result these two form a team to uncover the murderer, but they must do this before the end of fourth period. Jung Hoon is a diligent and hardworking student. Meanwhile Ja Jung, often referred to as curtain witch is often immersed in crime novels. Two weeks prior during class, a student starts frothing from the mouth and collapses. As the class rushes forward to aid him Da Jung is seen taking photos of the crime. It is later shown through gossiping that the student passed away. Tae Gyu is Jung Hoon’s rival, when the he takes a photo of a girl without the girl’s permission, a fight ensues between him and Jung Hoon leaving them to serve detention. When the rest of the class gets to P.E., the two are left alone. Jung Hoon leaves to go to the bathroom but as he returns he finds the body of Tae Gyu who has been repeatedly stabbed in the stomach. It is here that Da Jung finds him. As a result the two band together to discover the murderer before the end of fourth period, before everyone returns to find the body. But soon they may discover that the murderer is willing to kill again to prevent being discovered.

6.66 DEATH HAPPENS (DEATH HAPPEN) (2009) – Crime reporter Dao has to uncover strange and unexplainable incidents in the next 24 hours, She received news from the hospital that her father has been miraculously resurrected from the death after being dead for more than 15 consecutive years since the departure of her mother. A crime reporter for a Bangkok newspaper teams up with a cop to investigate a series of strange supernatural events that seems to be somehow linked to her father’s death (and also to his inexplicable resurrection).

THE SEVENTH DIMENSION (BEACON77) (2009) – Two young women arrive at a curious penthouse apartment, led by one’s crush on her tutor. However, her love interest doesn’t live alone. He’s part of a trio of computer hackers about to embark on the ultimate job on the world’s most mysterious mainframe. Whilst doing so, they unlock more than they bargain for with supernatural and ultimately fatal results. Can this seemingly insignificant chain of events, which have thrown this group together, be constructed as fate? Can the beacon provide a signal of hope or is it a web of manipulation, paranoia and ultimately… murder? Ever wanted to predict the future? Ever believed in a conspiracy? The members of Beacon 77, a dedicated group of computer hackers, do and now they have been hacked in, they cannot get back out… Taking on the Vatican’s secrets with their computers, these hackers are now faced with the puzzles of the Bible Code, a code that if cracked would give anyone who uncovers it ultimate knowledge and unlimited power. But, once Beacon 77 discover the world’s conspiracies, who is left to trust? Never before has the battle between science and religion been so serious as never before has the future of the universe been in so much danger. Who will win: The unprepared hackers or a power that is far greater than any computer?

THE 7^TH HUNT (2009) – 5 killers. 5 victims. One aim… TO Survive. For Gothic Callie, her deaf sister Ariel, computer nerd Chris, popular Sarah and misogynist Ricky, their evening plans are about to be rewritten. Taken to an abandoned military training school, they find themselves the target of 5 sadistic killers, each with their own unique and different style of killing. They fight for their lives against sociopaths who know their environment intimately, becoming increasingly outnumbered as their friends are killed. A group of friends are kidnapped by sociopaths and forced to undergo a grueling night of torture and death with little hope for escape, especially as their numbers dwindle. Directed by JD Cohen. The victims of the 7^th hunt never knew that they were being stalked, photographed and profiled. How could they have known that files were built on their eligibility TO DIE? For the gothic Callie, her deaf sister Arie, the beautiful Sarah, nerd Chris and misogynist Ricky, their evening plans are about to be rewritten. They are about to discover who they really are. Kidnapped and taken to an abandoned military training school, they find themselves the targets of five sadists, each with their own style of killing: the Knife, the Inquisitor, the Hand, the Sniper and the Hacker. They fight for their lives against these vicious sociopaths, becoming increasingly outnumbered as their friends are killed off… one by one. The 7^th Hunt serves up a classic terror in the tradition of SAW and HOSTEL shot in style of SIN CITY.

Gruesome, edge-of-your-seat terror, in the style of Hostel and Saw. The five victims of the 7^th Hunt didn’t know they were being stalked and profiled, on their eligibility to die. Kidnapped by a sadistic organization that arranges torture games in an abandoned military base, they face unspeakable horrors at the hands of their abductors, each of whom has a different style of killing. As the brutal night draws on and secrets and tensions start to be revealed, there’s no telling who will win this evil game. Five victims, five killers, one aim… to survive.

AA INTLO (2009) – Pavan moves into his new house with his wife and two kids. When strange and unnatural events begin to occur in the house, he approaches a tantric, who makes a shocking discovery.

THE ABDUCTED (MATCH.DEAD) (2009) – Before you date online… Think again. After arranging a meeting with a stranger from an online dating site, Valora falls victim to an abusive psychopath. But rather than trying to flee she decides to play his game and ultimately turns the tables on him, with the hunter becoming the hunted. After a woman meets a man through an online dating service, he kidnaps and tortures her. A woman falls prey to a sadistic psychopath she met through an online dating site and proves that not all females are willing to play the victim in this taut independent shocker. When Valora met Ridley, she was looking for love, he was looking for another victim. After getting to know her in the safety of a public place, Ridley abducts Valora and reveals his true intentions. When Ridley gives Valora the option to run, she instead chooses to stay and face her grim fate head on. But the moment Ridley lets his guard down, his would-be victim gains the upper hand and vows to make him endure all of the suffering he planned to inflict on her and a little bit more. Valora was just your average, all American girl; looking for love in an online world. Then she met Ridley. He was strong, good looking and best of all, he listened. So, she agreed to meet him. It was a public place after all. What could happen? Ridley was just your average, all American psychopath; looking for love in an online world. Then he met Valora. She was strong, good looking, and best of all, she listened. So, he arranged to meet her. It would be a public place after all; he was careful. Shortly after meeting, Ridley kidnaps Valora and takes her on a date of a lifetime. She can stay and talk or she can run; her choice. He likes when they run. It becomes sport. Valora chooses not to run and the courtship begins. Over the next few days Valora is tortured, physically and mentally, but Ridley, oddly remains always the gentleman. In his own perverse way, he’ trying to woo her. With nothing left to lose, Valora puts her plan in motion to turn the tables. The hunted becomes the hunter. The victim becomes the victor, but only after putting Ridley through everything that he put her thr0ugh first.

ABOVE US LIVES EVIL (THEY CAME FROM THE ATTIC) 2009 – When an accidental death takes the life of a young boy, the family moves to a country home for a fresh start only to discover there is something much worse than their memories and guilt dwelling within the house. The attic harbors an ancient evil so strong it confronts the family’s deepest fears. When an accident takes the life of their young boy, his family moves and finds a picturesque location seemingly ideal for a new beginning. Little do they know that something is amiss in their new neighborhood as creepy neighbors and strange occurrences begin to distract their daily life. Slowly they realize that there is something much worse than their memories and guilt dwelling within the house. The attic harbors an ancient evil so strong it confronts the family’s deepest fears and drives them against one another and the new dream home soon becomes a house of unspeakable horrors. A family moves to the country for a fresh start after a young boy dies. They soon discover that something worse than guilt and bad memories live in the attic. A family comprised of Richard Hooper, his wife, Susan, their teenage daughter, Jen and young son, Ben try to deal with the tragic death of their son Todd with a move to a picturesque yet mysterious farmhouse in Montana. Jen Hooper blames herself for the accident which took the life of her young brother and is not only guilt ridden but overly protective of Ben. Jen quickly becomes convinced that something is not right with the house after peculiar occurrences with young Ben. Ben can’t articulate what he’s seen since he stopped speaking when his brother died and Jen’s story is met with skepticism by her parents. The creepy neighbors next door only add to Jen’s suspicion that her father’s “dream house” is turning into a nightmare. Mayhem ensues when the parents leave Jen alone to babysit young Ben. The creatures from the attic attack and Jen isn’t about to lose her only remaining brother. Now the guilt and shame that has haunted her is the only thing keeping her and her brother alive.

ALL NIGHT LONG: ANYONE WOULD HAVE DONE (ALL NIGHT LONG) (2009) – A knife-wielding sexual deviant targets two beautiful sisters. He begins a frantic night of abuse and humiliation with the older one after she get gets back home. The innocent older sister doesn’t know that he had broken into their apartment and had confined the younger one.

AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 3: THE FINAL CHAPTER – (2009) – Humiliation. Rape. Murder. The boy next door is back. An up-and-coming actress (Regan Reece) is picked up off the streets by a young serial killer and a night that appears to begin with a good Samaritan’s act quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in a field. Brandon is back and he has one last order of business as the Amateur Porn Star trilogy winds towards its shocking conclusion. Offered a ride by a handsome and kindly stranger, an aspiring actress (real life porn star Regan Reese) hops into the passenger seat of his car with no clue as to the horrors that await her. As darkness falls and the car pulls into an empty field at the edge of a small town, it doesn’t take Brandon long to reveal his murderous true intentions. With nowhere to run and a madman on her heels, the desperate girl is quickly caught up in a bloody game of cat and mouse. Villainous voyeur Brandon wreaks havoc and pure sexual violence on a poor young girl, Nikki. Rather than lure her in like the first film or gain her trust as a friend in the second, he’s just taken her hostage. Seemingly out of options this time around, Brandon and his camera have kidnapped a horrified young woman and brings her to a deserted landscape where he proceeds to pretty much sexually abuse and rape the crying woman as she can do nothing but cry and endure his punishment.

ANACONDAS: TRAIL OF BLOOD (2009) – Bigger. Faster. Hungrier. A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid. Picking up immediately where Anaconda 3 left off, herpetologist Amanda Hayes finally learns her employer Murdoch’s true colors when he hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids to experiment with the regenerative nectar on a baby snake in order to seek treatment for his own terminal illness. Amanda is forced to secretly bring together another team of scientists whom face off against a heavily armed squad of Murdoch’s men to steal the coveted orchids before the killer Anaconda hunts both parties down. A dying mogul wages one last, desperate bid to extend his life, in the process pitting a beautiful herpetologist against the very slithering horror that she helped toe create. Murdoch is convinced that he can cheat death by drawing on the regeneration power of the elusive blood orchid. But when Murdoch’s doctor tests the experimental serum on a baby snake, the tiny serpent grows into an unstoppable monster overnight, devouring the doctor whole breaking free from the lab and embarking on a gruesome rampage. Now, it’s up to fearless herpetologist Amanda and her team of scientists to collect the coveted orchids while avoiding both Murdoch’s gang of heavily armed thugs and the giant abomination that will prey on anything or anyone who crosses its path.

One of the slithering, genetically enhanced Anaconda offspring has regenerated to live on in this next action-packed chapter of the Anaconda series. The dying mogul, Murdoch hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids and experiment with the regeneration nectar on a baby snake. Overnight, the offspring grows monstrous enough in size and appetite to devour the good doctor whole, before slithering free on a regenerative rampage. The beautiful herpetologist, Amanda, dedicated to destroying the vicious beasts she helped create, leads a team of young scientists against a ruthless pack of Murdoch’s armed thugs to get the coveted orchids before the snake hunts both factions down. The bloodthirsty offspring is seemingly invincible, sliding through explosions and gunfire only to regenerate and prey insatiably on anything in its path.

ANG DARLING KONG ASWANG (2009) – Victor is a single father who falls in love with Elisa who turns out to be an Aswang. But even so, Victor loves Elisa so much that he accepts who she is and even lives with her as his second wife. But the problem comes when the leader of the Aswang clan finds out that Elisa and her mother are not eating humans anymore. She sends out other Aswangs to hunt down Elisa and her mother and also for Victor and his family. Victor then will face the leader of the Aswang clan to save his beloved Elisa. Elisa is the kind of Aswang who is reluctant in eating human flesh. When Joaquin, a wicked Aswang pressures her into marrying him or she and her mother Ida will face tragic consequences, Elisa escapes to the city where a widower named Victor lives. Victor keeps his distance from women, focusing only on his two daughters, but this changes when he meets Elisa. They eventually become sweethearts. Elisa also tells Victor about her true identity, but this does not stop Victor from marrying her. Their bliss, however, is short-lived as Joaquin has captured Ida, forcing Elisa to leave Victor to save her mother. But Victor discovers something about himself, which could help bring Elisa back to him.

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ARE YOU SCARED? (2006)

After waking up in an abandoned factory, six kidnapped teens realize they are contestants on a reality show called “Are You Scared?” Six teens who didn’t take life seriously are forced to participate in a game in which death can come at any time in director Andy Hurst’s tense horror thriller. Awakening from drug-induced stupors to find that they have been imprisoned by a sadistic psychopath, these six teenagers who are under close observations discover that they have become pawns in a particularly deadly game in which their only hope for survival is to play by the rules and pray for their life. The reality show is called “Are You Scared?” and its unfortunate contestants are kidnapped when they’re cast. After being knocked unconscious and transported to an abandoned factory, six teenagers discover that they’ve been unwittingly enrolled in a sadistic game show on which the biggest prize is surviving. Goaded by the voice of an unseen captor, the terrified young people are forced to face their biggest fears by performing grotesque tasks – or die trying.

KILL THEORY (2009)

Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive. Feast producer Chris Moore makes his feature directorial debut with this shocker concerning a group of vacationing college graduates who become the unwilling participants in a sadistic game of kill or be killed. Having just completed their finals and received their diplomas, a small group of recent college graduates decide to celebrate their accomplishment by taking a trip to a secluded cabin in the woods. Just as they’re settling in for the time of their lives, however, a violent psychopath arrives to inform them that they are now all contestants on a vicious game of survival. The rules are simple: Kill all of your friends and the last person left standing is the winner. As the reality of their grim situation slowly sinks in, the tensions ramps up and relationships between old friends start to buckle under the weight of fear. A group of college friends visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate their upcoming graduation. The fun doesn’t last long when a sadistic psychopath forces them to participate in his deadly contest. The rules are simple – in order to survive they must kill each other. As tension builds and relationships begin to crumble, they realize that only one can make it out alive. Could you trust your boyfriend? Your girlfriend? Your best friend? Only one can go home. So, who will be the last man or woman standing?

Are you capable of the unthinkable? That’s the question seven college students face when they visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate graduation. Trapped in a deadly game, they’re forced to kill one another in order to survive. Friends and couples test their trust and as the clock ticks away: Alliances form, tension escalates and hope begins to fade. Some will fight for love, others to survive, but all will change. Because deep down – we’re all killers.

An unnamed man is sitting in a psychiatrist’s office, being released from an insane asylum. His doctor, Dr. Karl Truftin recaps how the man sacrificed his three friends during a mountain climbing expedition, cutting their climbing ropes in order to save himself. Although the man insists that anyone in his situation would have made the decision to kill to survive, the doctor explains that due to good behavior and evident remorse over causing the deaths, the man is to be set free with regular psychiatric evaluations. Meanwhile, Brent is traveling to his father’s lake house with his girlfriend Amber, other couples Michael and Jennifer, Carlos and Nicole, as well as their friend Freddy. Upon arriving they are surprised to find Brent’s stepsister Alex has been living there. Brent and Alex argue, however the others convince Brent to let her stay. After settling in, Amber refers to an unspecified event that implies she and Michael were intimate at one point, however Michael brushes off the topic quickly. The group party and drink into the night until everyone goes to bed. Carlos and Nicole decide to sleep outside on the porch. Carlos, being heavily intoxicated, passes out immediately. When Nicole goes into the kitchen to get a drink, she is attacked by an unknown man.

Sometime later, Nicole’s body is thrown through a window onto Freddy who alerts the others with his screams. The group panics before noticing the word “TV” cut into Nicole’s stomach. After turning on the TV, the group views a video of Nicole being handed a loaded gun and told to shoot Carlos in order to survive. Nicole refuses and instead turns the gun on her attacker who overpowers her and slits her throat. The unseen man then explains to the group through a Walkie-Talkie that come 6am, only one member of the group should be alive they will all die. The man also explains that Nicole was given the same option as they are, kill to survive, however she failed. Collectively the group decides to barricade themselves into the house, realizing their phones do not work. Carlos decides to make a run towards the boat to retrieve a gun placed in the key box. Brent follows him and they find the boat has been sunk, but Brent is able to retrieve the gun anyway. Noticing a nearby axe, Carlos runs to get it, but is caught in a giant bear trap. Brent begins to help him, however after hearing someone approach from the trees nearby he leaves Carlos and returns to the house, telling the others that Carlos has been killed.

While Freddy begins to become hysterical over their situation, bandaged up Carlos makes it to the house. Although barely conscious, is able to tell Jennifer that Brent had left him. Jennifer manages to knock the gun out of Brent’s hand and gives it to Michael, no longer trusting Brent. The group decides they have to try and leave in the van in order to get Carlos to a hospital despite Brent’s protests and expectation that the van will be rigged to explode. Alex leaves the house and successfully brings the van to the front of the house, allowing everyone to get in. However, while driving away from the house, road spikes blow all of the tires. The unnamed man quickly shoots rigged balloons of gasoline which spill over the van before telling the group that there is no escape and they need to sacrifice one person in the next 60 seconds or they will all be burned alive. Brent pushes the wounded Carlos out of the van where he is shot in the head.

The group panics. Brent deserts Amber by running into the forest, leaving her to return to the house with Michael, Jennifer and Freddy. Alex attempts to escape on her motorbike however is nearly shot when attempting to do so, instead fleeing towards the lake. While Brent runs through the forest he is attacked by the killer, only spared due to his promise to kill someone else. Brent then attacks Alex, drowning her in the lake. He quickly returns to the house and convinces Freddy to get the gun off of Michael by lying to him saying that they could both escape on the boat. Freddy retrieves the gun from Michael but eventually shoots Brent after realizing he was lying about the boat and was going to shoot everyone. Freddy then forces Amber to leave the house before attempting to do the same to Michael and Jennifer. Michael tries to reason with the hysterical Freddy, but Brent soon stabs Freddy through the head with a fire poker, having survived being shot. Michael and Jennifer run into the basement but are then cornered by Brent. As Brent prepares to shoot them both, Amber returns and bludgeons him to death with a spade. Michael and Jennifer go back upstairs, leaving Amber in shock in the basement. Eventually she finds a gun planted by the killer in her bag and reluctantly draws it on Jennifer who has the other gun. The two girls get into an argument over Michael, with Amber confessing her love for him. Jennifer shoots Amber in the stomach, much to Michael’s shock.

Realizing it is nearly 6am and the killer is approaching the house, Michael and Jennifer escape into the basement with an unconscious Amber. In the basement they hide out and attempt to shoot the killer when he comes downstairs, however it is revealed to be Alex, having survived her attack from Brent earlier. Alex quickly dies from the gunshot wound before Jennifer turns on Michael in desperation, stabbing him in the stomach. Michael tells Jennifer he would have died for her, but before she can kill him Amber attacks Jennifer and strangles her to death. Amber crawls next to Michael, intent on staying with him until the end. As the clock chimes six and the man approaches, Michael kills himself in order to save Amber. As the man passes, Amber says she’ll never like him and though he expresses skepticism, he leaves her alive and departs from the house. The killer leaves a voice mail at the psychiatrist’s office, saying he’s proved his theory that desperate people would resort to murder and the camera pans along a photograph to reveal Brent was the doctor’s son. The killer laughs and says he’s now found closure.

B13 (YAVARUM NALAM) (2009)

Fear has a new address. Manohar, an upwardly mobile middle-class Indian moves into a new apartment – 13B on the 13^th floor with his family. From the first day in their new home, the women are hooked on to a new TV show “Sab Khairiyat”. The show is about a family eerily similar to theirs who have also just moved into a new house. As t he TV show unfolds, all the incidents that happen in the show start happening to them. Director Vikram explores the possibilities for terror when the television becomes aware of the power it holds over the average family and decides that it’s time to take control. In a world that never sleeps, the only source of relaxation for many is the household television. Previously just another appliance like the refrigerator or oven, the television of the 21^st Century is thought by many to reveal the hierarchy of the family; whoever controls the television remote controls the family. But what happens when the television becomes sentient and decides that it’s time for a change? This is what happens to Manohar and his family upon moving into their new home at 13B. Realizing to his horror that their television has stopped showing them the facts and has started showing them the things that it wants them to see. Manohar must race to save his family from becoming unfortunate victims of the digital age.

Manohar (R. Madhavan) moves into a new apartment, 13B, on the 13^th floor with his family, fulfilling his life’s biggest dream. But they encounter a series of small but strange incidents (such as milk getting spoiled), which are regarded as inauspicious by his family but shrugged off by an excited Manohar. The elevator in the apartment works for everyone in the building except Manohar, which bothers him. The women in the family get hooked onto a new TV show Yavarum Nalam (Everyone Is Well or Sab Khairiyat in Hindi). The show is about a family eerily similar to Manohar’s who have also just moved into a new house as they have. As the serial unfolds, Manohar notices that the incidents that happen in the serial are a reflection of what is happening to his family. One day Manohar finds the blind man’s dog trying to find something in the sand, Manohar stops the dog and takes it to its owner He also notices that his camera takes distorted pictures of him while he is in the apartment, but not while he is outside the apartment. Things like his sister graduating, his wife getting pregnant and later suffering a miscarriage are all also shown in the serial. Priya is saved by their longtime family friend and doctor, Dr. Balu. The rest of the family remains oblivious to the similarities and Manohar prefers it that way to avoid panic.

Things start taking a turn for the worse in the serial and Manohar becomes terrified that the same might happen to his family. He now wants to know who is behind the making of the TV show. Later that night he asks his wife about the latest episode of the serial, she reveals the same story to him. On this, Manohar digs the ground on a rainy evening and finds a diary. He then unravels a terrifying secret: The apartment they live in shared their address with a house where a family of eight (similar to Manohar’s family) was butchered back in 1977. It was the family of a TV news anchor named Chitra. On the day of Chitra’s engagement, an ardent fan (Shriram Shinde in the 13B version) of Chitra wanted to stop the engagement and failed in doing so. Disheartened, he committed suicide. Subsequently, all members of Chitra’s family were murdered with a hammer in a single day. The blame rested on the lunatic brother in the family, as he had been seen with the hammer last. The police officer investigating the case also committed suicide by hanging himself in the same house. Manohar and his policeman friend Shiva meet the madman brother Senthil, who apparently goes crazy after seeing a TV show in an asylum. They then meet Chitra’s former fiancée Ramchandar, who tried to plead for Senthil’s innocence because he got covered in blood while he hugged the bodies of his family. After researching one night, Manohar has a nightmare of the 13B murderer climbing the stairs to kill his family. When Manohar tries to climb the stairs, he always ends up on the 2^nd floor. He goes to the hall and witnesses the climax of Yavarum Nalam when they are showing the murderer’s identity: Manohar’s face is shown as the killer.

What follows is the climax: The 13B murderer is Dr. Balu (Sachin Khedekar), who sees the family members’ faces as the serial family members. It was he who killed them in the 1970s on behalf of his brother, the spurned fan and also killed the police officer who caught him red-handed. Manohar kills Dr. Balu. The story ends with Manohar living a normal life with a new dog in the family; the milk is not getting spoiled anymore. They bring Senthil home and the lift in the apartment finally works for Manohar. The next day, when Manohar uses the lift, he receives a call from Dr. Balu, who says that while the 13B family haunts the TV, he haunts Manohar’s phone. The lift falls down quickly, ending the movie.

In today’s world, the major source of relief, information and entertainment is the TV. So much so, that it has moved up from its modest position of being just another “household appliance” to actually determining the power equation in a family. It is easy to identify the hierarchy in the family depending on who controls the remote control. So, what happens when the TV realizes this power and begins to take control? What happens when instead of showing you the facts, the TV, begins to show you what it wants you to see? What happens when Manohar, to his great horror, realizes that this is exactly what is happening with his wonderful family, who has just moved into their sweet new home at 13B. Manohar’s dream condominium transforms into a house of horrors when a show on his brand new television starts depicting his demise. A series of strange events plagues Manohar’s family with a remote control hell bent on being just that – in control.

Stalker Movies

INNOCENT THING – Joon-ki was once a former rugby athlete and is currently a popular Physical Education teacher at an all-girls’ high school. His pregnant wife Seo-Yeon is due to give birth to their first child imminently. Although he’s used to playful advances from pubescent students, things take a dangerous turn when Young-eun falls hard for her teacher and daringly confesses her feelings for him. Amid growing rumors, he is soon consumed with guilt and attempts to end the relationship. However Young-eun’s pure crush slowly turns to obsession. She starts to regard everyone related with Joon-ki as obstacles and the farther he keeps her away, the bolder her obsession and madness grows. A high school student develops a crush on her gym teacher. Former physical athlete and father-to-be Joon-Ki works as a PE teacher at an all-girls high school, where many of the students find him to be an attractive man. Young-Eun is a particular outgoing and brash young girl whom is very straight forward and is creative in finding ways to interact with Joon-Ki, whom is the center of her crush. During one fateful rainy day, Joon-Ki is alone in the classroom with Young-Eun and things go too far. Joon-Ki tries very heard to correct the errors of his ways and wants to put it behind him, but the smitten Young-Eun’s obsession with him seems to know no limit. And soon Joon-Ki finds himself with a shattered marriage.

L’ASSASSINO E ANCORA TRA NOI – A couple drives to a secluded lovers’ lane on the outskirts of Florence to have sex and is gunned down by a gloved prowler, who uses a knife and a tree branch to sexually mutilate the body of the female victim. The double homicide is the latest in a series of them, the work of a serial killer dubbed “II Mostro” who Christiana Marelli, a Criminology student, is researching for her thesis, to the dismay of her professor, the local police and her doctor boyfriend, Alex. As Christiana investigates II Mostro, she begins receiving strange telephone calls and finds herself being shadowed by a stalker, who at one point attempts to break into her apartment whiles she is home alone. A bartender who had offered to meet with Christiana to provide to provide her with information is later found hanged and Christiana begins to suspect that her boyfriend is II Mostro due to a combination of mounting circumstantial evidence, Alex’s conspicuous absences during all of the murders, and the fact that she had told him about her planned rendezvous with the barkeep shortly before the man was found dead. After a couple whom she knew personally is murdered by II Mostro, Christiana attends a séance in the hope that it can summon the victims’ spirit and shed light on the identity of II Mostro. During the ceremony, the medium has a vision of II Mostro butchering a pair of camping lovers and spontaneously develops a wound similar to one that II Mostro had inflicted upon one of the new victims. Christiana leaves the séance and races to the theater that she had last seen Alex at, she finds him there, which seemingly puts to rest her suspicions of him being II Mostro. The film ends with Christiana making her way to the seat next to Alex (at one point muttering “excuse me” to the viewer) before settling in to watch L’assassino e ancora tra noi.

THE CABLE GUY – After a failed marriage proposal to his girlfriend Robin Harris, Steven M. Kovacs moves into his own apartment. Taking advice from his friend Rick, Steven bribes cable guy, Ernie “Chip” Douglas, to give him free movie channels. Chip gets Steven to hang out with him the next day and makes him one of his “preferred customers.” Chip takes Steven to the satellite dish responsible for sending out television signals. Steven tells his problems with Robin to Chip, who advises him to admit his faults to Robin and invite her over to watch Sleepless in Seattle. Chip begins acting more suspiciously, running into Steven and his friends at the gym and leaving several messages on Steven’s answering machine. When Robin comes over to watch the movie, the cable is out, due to Chip, who intentionally sabotaged Steven’s cable. Chip fixes the cable under the condition that they hang out again, to which Steven reluctantly agrees. Chip takes Steven to Medieval Times, where Chip arranges for them to battle in the arena, referencing the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”. Chip behaves aggressively, nearly killing Steven, who eventually beats him in combat. When they arrive at Steven’s home, Chip reveals that he’s installed an expensive home theater system in the living room, which includes a television and a karaoke machine. Chip later hosts a party attended by Chip’s “preferred customers”. Steven decides to enjoy the party and with Chip’s help, Steven sleeps with a young party guest named Heather, who later Chip reveals is a prostitute, to which Steven responds by throwing him out. Chip tracks down Robin, who is on a date with another man. When the man goes to the bathroom, Chip severely beats him and tells him to stay away from Robin. He later upgrades Robin’s cable, saying that it is on Steven. Robin decides to get back together with Steven as a result. However, Steven tells Chip that they cannot be friends, which sets a hurt Chip on a series of vengeful acts. He gets Steven arrested for possession of stolen property at the moment that Steven makes a big business deal. During his time in jail, he is visited by his parents and Chip, who mocks him through a prison visitation window. Steven tries to alert a guard about Chip, but the guard is one of Chip’s “preferred customers” and thus does not react. After a weekend of humiliation, Steven is released on bail. During a dinner with his family and Robin, Steven is horrified to see Chip in attendance. Steven privately tells him to leave, but Chip tells him to play along or he will show everyone a picture of Steven with the prostitute. The evening goes from bad to worse when Chip manipulates the family, tells several bad jokes and eventually pushes Steven too far by playing a sexualized version of the game show Password with the rest of the family. Steven files into a rant about Chip’s true intentions but nobody believes him. Chip whispers something disturbing about Robin into Steven’s ear, which results in Steven punching Chip in the face, shocking everyone else. Chip complies and leaves, feigning depression. Steven is fired from his job the next day when Chip sends out a video of Steven insulting his boss that was recorded on a hidden camera in his apartment. Steven has a nightmare about Chip breaking down and chasing him out of the window in the middle of the night with eerie green eyes. After doing some investigating, Rick tells Steven that Chip has been fired from the cable company for stalking customers and uses the names of television characters as aliases such as Chip Douglas from My Three Sons and Larry Tate from Bewitched. Chip calls Steven that night, telling him he is paying Robin a visit. After visiting Robin’s empty apartment, Steven tracks them down to the satellite dish, where Chip holds Robin hostage in a rainstorm. After a physical altercation and a chase, Steven is able to save Robin. As the police arrive, Chip goes into a speech on how he was raised by television and apologizes to Steven for being a bad friend. Chip dives backwards from the top of a ladder above the satellite dish, falling onto it and knocking out the television signal to the entire town. Chip survives the fall and avoids the satellite’s middle spike, much to his dismay and injures his back. As Steven and Robin reunite, Steven forgives Chip and asks for his real name. Chip jokingly replies “Ricky Ricardo”. Chip is taken to the hospital in a helicopter. When one of the paramedics addresses him as “buddy”, Chip asks the paramedic if he is truly his buddy, to which the paramedic replies, “Yeah, sure you are,” causing Chip to smile deviously.'
CAPE FEAR (1962) – Now he had only one weapon left – Murder! To prevent an even more shocking game! After spending eight years in prison for rape, Max Cady is released. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden a lawyer whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Sam interrupted his attack and testified against him. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden’s family. He kills the Bowden family dog, though Sam cannot prove Cady did it. A friend of Bowden’s, Police Chief Mark Dutton attempts to intervene on Bowden’s behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any crime. Bowden hires Private Detective Charlie Slevers. Cady brutally rapes a promiscuous young woman named Diane Taylor when he brings her home, but neither the private eye nor Bowden cam persuade her to testify. Bowden hires three men to beat up Cady and persuade him to leave town, but the plan backfires when Cady gets the better of all three. Cady’s lawyer vows to have Bowden disbarred. Afraid for his wife Peggy and 14-year-old daughter Nancy, Bowden takes them to their houseboat in Cape Fear. In an attempt to trick Cady, Bowden makes it seem as though he gone to a completely different location. He fully expects Cady to follow his wife and daughter and he plans on killing Cady to end the battle. Bowden and local Deputy Kersek hide nearby, but Cady realizes Kersek is there and kills him. Eluding Bowden, Cady first attacks Mrs. Bowden on the boat, causing Bowden to go to her rescue. Meanwhile, Cady swims back to shore to attack Nancy. Bowden realizes what has happened and also swims ashore. The two men engage in a final violent fight on the riverbank. Bowden overpowers Cady, but decides not to kill him, preferring to let him spend the rest of his life in jail. The film concludes with the Bowden family sitting together on a boat the nest morning. A lawyer’s family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. A man enters a courthouse and asks for Sam Bowden. He watches Sam in a trial, then follows him to his car, reintroducing himself as Max Cady. Max makes vaguely threatening comments as Sam drives off. Later, Max watches Sam and his family bowling and makes a pass at the waitress. Sam calls Police Chief Dutton and tells him that Max is being creepy. He explains that Max is an ex-convict who may have a grudge against Sam and that Sam’s family may be at risk. Dutton calls his Deputies and tells them t pick up Max for vagrancy. Max cooperates and obviously knows the law, so they release him. The next day, Sam finds their dog poisoned. Sam suspects Max but cannot prove it. His wife Peggy and daughter Nancy are distraught and Sam explains about Max. Max hires a fiery lawyer, Dave Grafton who accuses the police of harassing Max. Dutton tells Sam he cannot do anything until Max commits a crime, but advises Sam to hire private detective Charles Sievers. Sievers starts following Max. He calls the police to have Max picked up for lewd vagrancy, but by the time they arrive Max is gone and the woman he was with is beaten up. She refuses to help them and leaves town fearful of Max’s revenge. Sievers suggests Sam hire a dock thug, but he refuses. The next day, Sam catches Max leering at his daughter and takes a swing at him. Max doesn’t punch back. Coming out from school, Nancy sees Max and flees, eventually running in front of a car. She’s ok, but anger builds in Sam and he gets a gun. Peggy convinces him not to go after Max. Sam meets Max in a bar and tries to pay him off. Max says he prefers “death by a thousand cuts” and turns him down. Sam hires the thugs to beat up Max, but he fights them off. Max calls Sam and tells him that he has the law on his side. Sam and Peggy discuss a plan to use Nancy as bait. Sam tells Dutton that he will “hide” his family in a boat on the Cape Fear River, then asks for a Deputy to help him catch Max. Sam and Deputy Kersek stake out the boat. Max arrives and sneaks up on Kersek, killing him. He sets the boat with Peggy on it adrift and Sam chases after. Nancy calls the Sheriff from the dock. Max attacks Peggy, but leaves for Nancy when Sam arrives. Sam and Max fight; Sam shoots Max and Max begs Sam to finish him off. Sam declines, saying Max will rot in jail. The family leaves together. 

D Horror Movies

DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS – Spike Lee’s stylized thriller Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a new kind of love story. Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society. A doctor develops a voracious thirst for blood after an art curator gives him a cursed artifact. Subsequently transformed by his inexplicable craving, the doctor falls into a treacherous affair with the curator’s alluring wife.

DAGON – In this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft novella, two couples are sailing off the coast of Spain when a storm forces them to seek shelter in a small fishing village. As night falls the vacationers begin to mysteriously vanish, leaving one of the group left to encounter the horrifying true nature of the town that’s claimed him… The nightmare of Paul Marsh, a successful businessman, are haunted by a mermaid that neither he nor his beautiful girlfriend, Barbara can figure out. While on a fishing vacation off the Spanish shore, a sudden storm sends their sailboat crashing into the rocks, causing Paul and Barbara to paddle to the nearby fishing village for help. But the village is inhabited by a race of people who are half-human/half-fish and the time has come for them to sacrifice humans to their monstrous leader, Dagon. Not only that, but Paul’s nightmare becomes horrifying reality when he encounters beautiful and passionate Uxia the mermaid of his visions and boy does she have a surprise for him besides the double tentacles under her skirt.

DAN CURTIS’ DRACULA – Academy Award Winner Jack Palance stars in this terrifying adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire legend written for the screen by Sci-Fi/Horror master Richard Matheson and produced by the legendary Dan Curtis. Palance is Count Dracula, whose centuries-old existence is threatened after he attacks the lovely Lucy Westenra and her fiancée calls in famed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing to investigate. Filmed on location in England and Yugolsavia Dan Curtis’ Dracula has been transferred and restored in 2K High Definition from the original 35mm camera negative and presented here in HD for the first time! Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife. Bistritz, Hungary, May 1897. Natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula on business. Jonathan shows up and finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. He reacts very strongly to a photograph of Harker’s fiancée Mina and her best friend Lucy. After rescuing Harker from his three Brides, the Count forces Harker to write a letter saying that he will be staying Transylvania for a month. Harker climbs down the castle wall and finds Dracula’s coffin, but is attacked and knocked out by one of Dracula’s gypsy servants before he can stake Dracula. They later throw him in the lower levels of the crypt, where the Brides attack Harker. Some months later, the freighter Demeter runs aground on the southern English coast, carrying only Dracula and the dead captain lashed to the wheel. Soon after, Lucy begins to fall ill. Her fiancée, Arthur Holmwood, is perplexed and calls in Dr. Van Helsing. The doctor begins to recognize what might be happening, especially after Lucy walks out of her home at Hillingham and is found, drained, under a tree the next morning. Dracula meanwhile, has flashbacks about a time when he was alive, when his wife (who is also the dead image of Lucy) lay dead in her bed and men had to restrain Dracula in his grief and rage. Lucy’s mother is in the room with Mina when Dracula comes calling the last time, a wolf shattering the window. Lucy soon rises from the dead and comes to the window of Arthur’s home, begging to be let in. Arthur does so, delighted and amazed that she’s alive. This very nearly gets him bitten, but Van Helsing interrupts with a cross causing her to flee. They go to Lucy’s grave and drive a wooden stake into her heart. When Dracula comes to the tomb later and beckons to her, he goes berserk upon finding that she’s truly dead. Mina tells Van Helsing about the news story about the Demeter and the boxes of earth and about Jonathan going to meet Dracula to sell him a house. From these clues, Van Helsing and Holmwood go about finding all but one of Dracula’s “boxes of earth” (containing his native soil, in which a vampire must rest). But back at the hotel, the vampire hunters discover Dracula is there, out for revenge. He has bitten Mina and before their eyes forces her to drink blood from a self-inflicted gash in his chest. All that they love, all that is theirs, he will take. The tracking of Dracula back to his home commences with Van Helsing hypnotizing Mina. Via the bond of blood, she sees through Dracula’s eyes and discovers where he is headed. At the Castle, Van Helsing and Holmwood find and stake the Brides. Jonathan now a vampire, rabid and bloodthirsty attacks Arthur and Van Helsing, but in the struggle is knocked by Arthur into a pit of spikes and is staked. The final confrontation with Dracula takes place in what looks like a grand ballroom. The crosses wielded by the two men are something Dracula doesn’t seem to want to look upon. Dracula gets the better of them, ridding them of their crosses. But one of them manages to pull down curtains from the windows, so sunlight pours in. Dracula is weakened, finally going dormant long enough for Van Helsing to pierce his heart with a long spear. They leave him there. Before the portrait of a living warrior Dracula, with Lucy’s lookalike in the background, a text scrolls across the screen, about a warlord who lived in the area of Hungary known as Transylvania and how it was said he had found a way to conquer death a legend no one has ever disproven. The lord’s name is DRACULA.

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES – Cassie flees an abusive relationship and falls victim to a moon-worshipping 600-year-okd Romanian Countess; a troubled paranormal investigator of Native American heritage finds himself in a deadly love triangle with a battered-woman werewolf. A master female werewolf is driven from a provincial German village in 1941. In present day Los Angeles, Dr. Jay Nightraven, a paranormal investigator of Seminole Indian heritage, seeks to unravel the mystery of a series of “Full Moon Murders” in an effort to determine the veracity of his Medicine Man grandfather’s beliefs. A conflicted young woman named Cassie flees an abusive relationship and ends up in the City of Angels, Desperate and downtrodden, she soon falls under the influence of an enigmatic woman called Darcy… in reality, Daciana Calinescu, a regal and imposing Romanian Countess whose beauty belies her 600 years as a moon-worshipping werewolf… the same one driven from Germany in 1941. Darcy puts the love bite on Cassie and she becomes part of her new werewolf pack. When Jay and Cassie cross paths, Jay’s assistant and live-in-girlfriend, Lydia, finds her loyalty pushed to the limits as his investigation takes a deeply personal turn. Is the good Doctor falling in love with a battered-woman werewolf? “Dances with Werewolves” features the final role for horror icon Angus Scrimm.

DANTE’S COVE: PART 1 IN THE BEGINNING – Fleeing an unhappy home life, Kevin Foster is excited about moving in with his college lover, Toby, at a beachside apartment complex, the Hotel Dante. However, the young tenants of the old converted hotel soon suspect that the hotel’s supernatural and sinister past may be alive and well in the person of the mysterious and evil Ambrosius, whom Kevin inadvertently releases from a long bondage. Lesbian goth Van, bisexual party girl Amber and slacker Cory are among those who attempt to solve the mystery as the door has now been opened for a malevolent world of evil forces that wreak havoc in the hip beach town. Enter Grace, a woman scorned, who continues an age-old feud with Ambrosius and soon the past and present collide and life at the Hotel Dante will never be the same. In 1840 Dante’s Cove, an island resort in the Caribbean, Grace is a powerful witch who catches her fiancée Ambrosius Vallin cheating on her with a man, upon which she imprisons him the basement of their house, cursing him to spend eternity in bondage. Present Day: College dropout Kevin Archer follows his lover, Toby to the island paradise of Dante’s Cove to get away from living with his abusive and homophobic mother and stepfather. Kevin wants to start a new life at Hotel Dante, a local hotel for the gab/lesbian community and the current site of the Vallin household which is now reputed to be haunted. While deciding what to do with his life, Kevin becomes acquainted with the residents of the hotel whom include Toby’s best friend Van, an artist who struggles to pay her bills and date her girlfriend Tina. Corey is the long-term resident and outgoing gay guy. Amber is the party girl who has eyes for the local DJ Chrissy. Adam is the broken straight guy at odds with everyone and Josh is the bisexual guy whose current girlfriend is at odds with him. But Kevin and Toby’s newfound romance takes a turn when Kevin finds a trap door in the cellar and inadvertently releases Ambrosius’s evil spirit who, with a kiss from Kevin, becomes corporeal again as a warlock and all hell is about to break lose in Dante’s Cove. In 1840, Ambrosius Vallin is engaged to marry Grace Neville in the island town of Dante’s Cove. When she discovers Ambrosius being buggered by his valet, she uses her powers as the Avatar, or High Priestess, of one sect of the mystical religion called Tresum to kill the valet. Grace imprisons Ambrosius in the sub-basement of her home, cursing him with advanced age. The only way he can win his freedom is through the kiss of a handsome young man. Present Day: Kevin moves to Dante’s Cove to be with his boyfriend Toby, after moving out of his abusive household whom includes his homophobic mother and stepfather. He moves in with Toby in Grace’s old house, now the Hotel Dante, along with Toby’s lesbian artist friend Van. Adam, Toby’s childhood friend who’s a straight “trust fund brat”. Kevin begins seeing visions and hearing voices calling him by name. During a party, Kevin is drawn to the sub-basement and finds the aged Ambrosius. Ambrosius kisses him, regaining his youth and freedom. Ambrosius uses his own Tresum powers, learned while he was in captivity to force Kevin to cut his own wrist, landing Kevin in the hospital.

DANTE’S COVE: PART 2: THEN THERE WAS DARKNESS – In part two of Dante’s Cove, we continue on our journey with the residents of the mysterious Hotel Dante. Ambrosius is doing all he can to influence Kevin and lure him to the dark side. He enlists the help of Cory to assist him as a minion to do his bidding. Meanwhile, Grace has bene trying to work her way between Ambrosius and his menacing hold on the town. Van and Toby continue to work together to research the history of the Cove while trying to break the spell that seems to have a hold on Kevin. Will they be able to overpower Ambrosius before it’s too late? Having been freed from his imprisoned cell, the evil sorcerer Ambrosius Vallin retains corporeal existence from Kevin’s blood and sets up a lair underneath the Dante’s Cove lighthouse where he continues to use his powers to call upon Kevin. But when Ambrosius’ former fiancée, Grace, too enters corporeal existence, she attempts to break up the union with her own black magic. When Grace uses magic to kill Kevin while h’s recovering in the hospital, Ambrosius retaliates by imprisoning her in the bowels beneath Hotel Dante and uses the darkest magic to resurrect Kevin to make him his companion for all eternity. Meanwhile, Toby and Van try to find out what is going on due to the weirdness of Kevin’s death and mysterious resurrection and try to find leads to which Ambrosius tries to prevent them from finding out his connection to Kevin. At the same time, Ambrosius uses his powers to take control of Corby as his slave to have him keep Toby and Kevin apart as he prepares his grand plan, while Grace tries to escape from her dungeon. But in the final battle between the evil Ambrosius and the MORE evil Grace, no matter who will win… all of us still lose.

DANTE’S INFERNO: AN ANIMATED EPIC – Based on EA’s must-have game, the animated feature Dante’s Inferno follows Dante on a stunning journey through the nine circles of Hell. Watch as he travels through the limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery in search of his true love, Beatrice. Starring Mark Hamill, Victoria Branch, Graham McTavish and more.

DARK – A troubled model finds herself abandoned in her girlfriend’s New York City loft during the massive blackout of 2003 and is plagued by fear that she is being hunted. In a city on the brink of chaos, a single woman must confront her deepest fears to survive the night in New York City during the worst blackout in US history. A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout. During the New York City blackout if 2003, Kate, a struggling 30-something model with a troubled past, has just moved into her girlfriend Leah’s Brooklyn loft, but already doubts about their relationship have begun to loom. When Leah leaves for the weekend, Kate unexpectedly finds herself alone in the apartment in the middle of the worst blackout in North American history. As darkness falls over the city, Kate’s paranoia grows and she begins to believe someone in the building is stalking her. With no one to help her and escape out of reach, Kate is forced to confront her deepest fears as she fights to survive through the night. A young female couple set up home in a bleak NY apartment block. Leah is a fashion photographer; Kate is a troubled former model. Leah fears that Kate is losing feelings for her and agonizes when she takes a few days away to visit her family. While Kate is alone, NY suffers a prolonged black out. ‘Dark’ echoes Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ in parts – a beautiful blonde tormented by her paranoid and unbalanced state of mind. Kate’s decline is gradual and with her increased self-loathing, isolation and promiscuity, the film chain smokes its way to a relatively quiet climax.

DARK COUNTRY – Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading each character to an inescapable fate. A newly married couple takes a honeymoon hell-ride through the Nevada desert after hitting a mysterious car crash survivor under a starlit sky. When their injured passenger sudden turns on them, the couple instinctively fights back with lethal force and attempts to cover up their crime from the local police. But there’s no escaping fate and with every move they make the pair only manages to wind ever deeper down a darkened path. Actor Jane makes his directorial debut with this paranormal-tinged thriller also starring Ron Perlman. Newlyweds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost and to stick to the Interstate. Shortly afterward, the couple realize they are heading the wrong way and turn off the highway onto another road. Dick turns off the car headlights to drive by starlight and Gina masturbates herself to orgasm as they head across the desert. Eventually Dick turns the lights back on, immediately swerving to avoid a figure in the middle of the road. Investigating, they find a man severely injured from a car accident. Unable to get a phone signal, they decide to drive him to a hospital themselves, only for the road to come to a sudden end a few miles ahead. During the drive, the couple argue and the injured man awakens with a scream. He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash. Gina stops the car and the two men tumble out, continuing to fight until Dick beats the stranger to death with a rock. Dick convinces his wife they need to dispose of the body and together they bury it in a shallow grave. While she fills the hole, Dick finds a revolver in her handbag. Soon after, they arrive at a rest area where several cars are parked. They tidy themselves up and argue until Dick discovers he lost his watch while they were burying the stranger. Refusing to go back, Gina waits at the rest stop with the gun while Dick returns to find his watch. Arriving at the site where they hid the body, Dick finds the grave empty. Gunshots ring out across the desert and Dick races back to the rest stop to find Gina is missing. Nearby he stumbles onto a woman’s grave and realizes that the other cars are rusted and covered with dust. In a panic, he flees, almost colliding head-on with a Deputy Sheriff. In the back of the police car, he rides with the Deputy to the scene, where police are excavating murder victims from a mass grave surrounded by abandoned vehicles. The Deputy explains that this was where the rest area had been 30 years before. Dick recognizes the spot as the location where he buried the stranger. As he watches on from the back of the police car, a Deputy exhumes Gina’s body and finds Dick’s watch. Kick kicks his way out of the patrol car and escapes in one of the nearby vehicles, leading the squad of police in a chase across the desert. Driving with the lights off, he loses them, but a short while later he finds a swarm of insects, losing control and rolling the car. Thrown clear of the wreck, he is then almost run down by another car before he passes out. Some time later, Dick wakes to find himself in the back of his own car, listening to himself and Gina argue and realizes that he was the mysterious stranger that he fought with and murdered earlier in the evening, screaming at this.

DARK COVE – Five friends go camping on the wild coast of Vancouver Island. After a physical confrontation with two Australian surfers the night quickly spirals into a violent nightmare as the campers are forced to fight against man and nature to survive. Produced for only $25,000 the film’s impressive look raises the bar for micro budget filmmaking. Five friends go camping on the rugged coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Things start to go seriously wrong while partying with two Australian surfers.

DARK HIGHLANDS – Not everyone in Scotland is friendly. A Japanese artist visiting the Highlands of Scotland, is about to find out that one wrong word can get you into a lot of trouble. Especially when not everyone in Scotland is friendly. When THE ARTIST crosses paths with the disgusting GAMEKEEPER-only one of them will leave the Highlands alive. Starring the multi-award-winning Japanese actor, Junichi Kajioka, Johnny English , Dark Highlands is a thrilling-cat-and-mouse chase across the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Scotland. A Japanese artist visits the Highlands of Scotland to paint, but becomes the target of a sadistic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.

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.

LANDERS (DARK PASSENGER) – Some things will never be forgotten. Be aware. 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 REMAINS – After their daughter dies, Julie and Allen move to a rural location. When Julie begins taking photographs of the area, she sees images of her dead daughter in them and she begins to believe that her daughter may be attempting to communicate with them. 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. When the daughter of Emma of the technical writer Allen Pyke and the photographer Julie is found 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 with shooting pictures of poltergeists. Allen is advised to move from the place by the local Jim Payne and on May 22^nd, Allen finds 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.

DARK SISTER – Cassie learns her visions of murder are real and sets out to find the child-like killer to keep sanity intact. Troubled artist Cassie suffers from reoccurring visions of murder, which she copes with by committing the violent acts to canvas. But when her visions begin to manifest in real life, her friends and family begin to turn up dead. Realizing her visions actually provide a direct link to the killer, Cassie must now confront her own past in order to stop the murders and save herself.

DARK NATURE – A mother and daughter arrive at a remote community for a relaxing holiday, only to realize to their horror that they may never make it back home alive. A family holiday turns into a fight for survival in the inhospitable wilderness of remote Scotland. Jane and her family travel to Scotland to spend time with Jane’s mother. Unbeknownst to Jane and her family, their relatives have been murdered by a sinister force and that dark and unnatural something remains, waiting for them. Despite her best efforts, the already established tensions with her daughter Chole only manage to escalate while her son and her lover have troubles of their own.

DARK SUMMER – A teenager placed under house arrest is haunted by the suicide victim he once obsessed over. A 17-year-old is on house arrest for the summer while his mother is away on business. A horrifying incident occurs leaving an ominous presence in the house. Dark Summer combines the supernatural terror of classic horrors The Shining and Poltergeist, with the tension and modern cool of Disturbia. Summer is a time to relax, unwind, take a vacation, and be free. But 17-year-old Daniel Austin gets none of that because his obsessive online stalking of his classmate and crush, Mona Wilson, got him put on house arrest for the whole summer. So, no cell phone, no Internet, no leaving the property, and especially no Mona. Then Daniel’s single mother has to go on a long business trip and Daniel has the place to himself. Daniel figures out a way to piggyback onto his neighbor’s; wireless signal and believing he’s surfing off the grid, uses his time to check in on his friends and Mona. But when Daniel didn’t expect is for Mona to check up on him. And what she does next shakes him to the very core. And then things start to happen. Daniel receives mysterious packages in the mail, hears phantom noises, sees inanimate objects move and feels a strange presence in the house. Dark Summer is highly original twist on the supernatural summer season terror. Daniel Austin, 17, has been placed under house arrest for stalking classmate Mona Wilson and hacking into all of her accounts and social media. Under the terms of his house arrest, he is not allowed visits from unaccompanied minors nor is he allowed access to his computer (which has been confiscated by the authorities) or the Internet. His I.P. address has been tagged so as to alert authorities if he attempts to access any social media. As his mother is away on business, he alone in the house. Daniel’s parole officer, Stokes explains that Daniel’s monitoring tag will go off if he goes past the edge of the front lawn. If he does not retreat within five seconds, he will be arrested. Daniel mentions hearing of someone under house arrest who cut off their foot to get the monitoring tag off so they could flee to Mexico. Despite the restrictions placed on Daniel, his friends Abby Feller and Kevin Dowdle visit and bring him a tablet so that he can access a neighbor’s Internet connection and Skype his mother. As the three converse by the pool, it is rather clear that Abby has a crush om her friend Daniel. Daniel explains that he wasn’t interested in Mona but then developed an obsession – virtually overnight. When he is about to Skype his mother, Abby contacts him instead. After a brief conversation, he receives an incoming Skype call from Mona Wilson, who kills herself on camera. Following this incident, Daniel becomes more and more paranoid and keeps seeing Mona in the house. Daniel and his friends attempt a séance to contact the spirit of Mona. The idea is that by each holding pens, Mona will communicate with them. Instead, Daniel and Kevin stab Abby through the hand with their pens. She is then lifted up and dragged across the wall. Afterwards, we see the blood from her injured hand spells out “Daniel” on the wall. After more supernatural events, Abby and Kevin head over to the dead girl’s house. They are looking for a personal item of Mona’s they can use as part of a ritual to help her move on to the afterlife. When they arrive at the house, they find it empty. They break in and guided by Daniel who has a blueprint of the house, they head to Mona’s room which is bare apart from a blood-stained mattress (from Mona shooting herself). They realize with Daniel’s help, that there is a false wall at the back of a closet which leads to a secret room which contains a number of strange artifacts and a large number of photos of Daniel. Mona was stalking Daniel, not the other way around. One of the items they find has a strange symbol embossed on it. Daniel finds out what it is and uses the name of the symbol as the password to Mona’s cloud account. There he finds a folder called “Daniel” which contains a spell. It turns out that Mona secretly had a crush on Daniel and had been obsessively stalking him for a long time. She put a spell om Daniel to make him fall in love with her. It worked, but he was too shy to contact her, so Mona used a second spell so that her spirit could enter into Daniel’s body alongside his own spirit so they would be together. There are five steps to the spell, the first of which was Mona’s suicide. They realize that if all the steps are not completed by Daniel, the spell will fail. Abby therefore takes the last step, hoping that this will break the spell. However, Abby has already unwittingly carried out the previous steps of the spell so performing the last step brings Mona’s spirit into her body. While they are cleaning up after the failed séance, Abby kills Kevin and then cuts off Daniels leg so she can remove his house arrest monitor and abduct him without notice. When Stokes visits, he sees the severed leg on the floor and just thinks Daniel has absconded, as he described when he was first fitted with the tag. In a post-credits scene, Abby still possessed by Mona’s spirit, is seen driving Daniel out of town while he lets out muffled screams.

DARK EXORCISM – Some things should never come to light… A skeptical grad student and a renowned paranormal specialist investigate a potentially haunted home and the troubled woman inside whose affliction may be beyond the capacity of either of them.

DARK TOURIST – A disturbed and troubled man whose fascination with serial killers leads him and the audience on a horrific and menacing journey through his obsessive and twisted mind as he retraces their footsteps. A man obsessed with serial killers starts to lose his grip on reality while retracing the footsteps of a notorious psycho who once stalked the streets of New Orleans. Michael Cudlitz. Melanie Griffith and Pruitt Taylor Vince star. A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man’s dark hobby and his even darker mind. Jim Tahana doesn’t have much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you’ll sense his hunger – the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul – always scanning to devour something – anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: Grief tourism – the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This year’s obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murderer from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim’s rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Dark Tourist to its brutal and shocking finale. Jim Tahna, a quiet and solitary man, explains in voice-over narration his hatred of society and his employers, though he enjoys his work as security guard, as it allows him long periods of solitude. On his vacation time, he engages in dark tourism, the visitation of murder sites. His current subject is Carl Marznap, a mass murderer and arsonist. He leaves Yonkers, New York, to visit Carl’s home in California. His neighbor at the cheap motel in which he stays, Iris, turns out to be a prostitute. Nervous, Jim fumbles in conversation with her, then states in voice-over how much he hates prostitutes. At a local restaurant, he meets Betsy, a friendly waitress. Jim introduces himself to her as Carl and falsely claims that his sister has been diagnosed with cancer. Betsy and Jim draw closer over their difficult lives and she invites him to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. On his tour of Marznap’s home and crime scenes, Jim becomes increasingly disturbed by hallucinations and vague flashbacks. Eventually, Jim hallucinates Marznap himself, who urges him to teach the world what it feels like to be a victim. Once tortured and gang-raped in juvenile detention, Marznap explains he sought revenge by burning down a church, as he blamed those people for doing nothing to help him while his father abused him. After the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim and Betsy bond further and Betsy invites him to dinner at her house. Betsy offers him marijuana and he reluctantly accepts. When she tries to kiss him, he becomes agitated and demands that they have sex without any affection. When she asks him to slow down, he berates her and leaves. Marznap encourages him to visit Iris. A transwoman, Iris has anal sex with Jim and he flashbacks to a childhood gang rape. Jim and Carl discuss their shared experiences and Jim expresses his belief that he is broken beyond repair. The next day, at the restaurant, Betsy apologizes to him and he calls her disgusting. She runs away crying and Jim returns to his motel. Jim breaks into Iris’ room, scares off her client and beats her savagely. After he berates Iris, God and the kids who raped him, he takes Iris to the church where he strangles her. Marznap and Jim then discuss what to do next: Marznap counsels him to commit suicide and Jim slits his own throat. In the epilogue, the police reveal that Jim had killed six trans-women prostitutes on his various dark tourism trips and a young man visits Jim’s house as part of his own dark tourism. Around a hole in the wall in Jim’s house, a message reads “From this void, no one returns!”