Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Over the Hedge (2006)

From IMDB: Tagline: Ring Leader Plot Outline: A mischievous raccoon and his sensitive best-buddy turtle along with other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations of encroaching suburbia. Click for poster:

Over the Hedge (2006)

From IMDB: Tagline: Ring Leader Plot Outline: A mischievous raccoon and his sensitive best-buddy turtle along with other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations of encroaching suburbia. Click for poster:

An American Haunting (2005)

From IMDB: Tagline: Possession Knows No Bounds Plot Outline: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Wu Ji (2005)

This is the standard trailer. Short. From IMDB: Plot Outline: Empowered by the love of a slave (Dong-kun), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision. This is an 11-minute trailer. It gives a better idea of how breathtaking and well choreographed the movie really is.

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

From IMDB: Tagline: America is living in spin. Plot Outline: Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son. Click for poster:

Apocalypto (2006)

From IMDB: Tagline: When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go Plot Outline: As the Maya kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young man chosen for sacrifice, flees the kingdom to avoid his fate.

Friday, March 24, 2006

The Dying Gaul (2005)

From IMDB: Plot Outline: A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

From IMDB: Tagline: A New Dimension In Terror... Plot Outline: Having escaped in the last episode, Jason is back, hockey mask and all, to continue his murderous rampage across Crystal Lake. Click for poster:

Edge of Sanity (1989)

From IMDB: Tagline: Double the terror, double the fun! Plot Summary: When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind. Click for poster:

Darkness Falls (2003)

From IMDB: Tagline: Every Legend Has Its Dark Side. Plot Outline: A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before. Click for poster:

Cameron's Closet (1989)

From IMDB: Tagline: A new place to look for terror. Plot Summary: A young and lonely boy named Cameron has telekenetic powers which his father experiments with. The young boy's loneliness is the cause of a strange spell to be cast. A demon from hell is unleashed and tries to take over the boy's soul. A delusional police officer and his new girlfriend psychiatrist are the only one's able to help the child after his father and mother's boyfriend are killed. The demon lives in the boy's closet and in a part of the mind that can only be reached by entering it. Click for poster:

Bad Taste (1987)

From IMDB: Tagline: Watch out Aliens... ... here comes Derek! Plot Outline: The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain. Click for poster:

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Escape to Canada (2005)

ESCAPE TO CANADA (Albert Nerenberg, CANADA, 2005) Called ‘an altogether winning portrait of a country’ by Variety and a ‘fantastic drama’ by the Montreal Mirror, Escape to Canada is a comical, hot-blooded voyage across Canada’s freedom adventure. The film spotlights the ‘Summer of Legalization’, when same-sex marriage spread from province to province and marijuana cafes opened across the land. Suddenly Canada is a refuge for a AWOL soldiers fleeing the war in IRAQ, gay couples fleeing Bush’s America and ‘reefer refugees’. ‘Albert Nerenberg director of the hit Stupidity along with a team of videographers tell it with blazing cinematography and comic absurdity.’ With Conservatives in power and many of its character’s now in peril, Escape to Canada is the ‘Battle for Canada’ revealed. Escape is a weird kind of party movie, stoned or not, Escape to Canada will give you a patriotic rush. A National Film Board of Canada and Elevator Films co-production for Canal D, Documentary Channel and Movie Central. Produced by Shannon Brown. 84 Minutes

Bad Moon (1996)

From IMDB: Tagline: Half man. Half wolf. Total terror. Plot Summary: One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is loosing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse. Click for poster:

The Calling (2000)

From IMDB: Plot Outline: On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist!

The Dark (1979)

From IMDB: Tagline: A Chilling Tale of Alien Terror Plot Outline: Los Angeles is being stalked by a seven-foot alien that decapitates its victims and shoots laser beams from its eyes. William Devane is the father of its first victim, and teams up with a TV reporter, a rival detective and a psychic to track "The Mangler" down before it claims its next victim.

Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)

From IMDB: Tagline: A family reunion with some minor complications. Plot Outline: Ed misses his mother who has been dead for a year. He has lived almost his whole life with his mother, so when a stranger appears one day from a company called "Happy People Ltd." and claims that they can bring his mother back for 1 000$, he doesn't think long before he agrees. But everything doesn't go as it should go. For a while everything is fine and Ed's mother bakes cakes and takes care of him, exactly as before. But then she starts to act more and more strangely. Pealing potatoes in the fridge, repainting the kitchen over night, chasing dogs for meals, jumping over fences and other things that ordinary old mothers usually don't do. And when Rob (who was sent to jail by Ed's mother) appears, things really start to get out of hand.

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

From IMDB: Tagline: The body count continues... Plot Outline: Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the imfamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhee's son Jason who didn't drown in the lake some 30 years before? Click for poster:

Gargoyles (1972)

From IMDB: Tagline: They're coming for you! Plot Outline: An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles who in the end only want to be left alone.

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

From IMDB: Tagline: The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen. Plot Outline: Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. When the four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from, they pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. This is where the two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. As the family attacks the unsuspecting couples, Jerry and his friends try to survive the house of 1000 corpses and it's dark secrets. Click for poster: