Posts Tagged ‘burnt-body’

30 Days of Night (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Danny Huston | Melissa George | Ben Foster | Mark Boone Junior | Mark Rendall | Amber Sainsbury | Manu Bennett | Megan Franich | Joel Tobeck | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Nathaniel Lees | Craig Hall | Chic Littlewood | Peter Feeney
Directors: David Slade
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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town’s husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Sunshine (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cliff Curtis | Chris Evans | Troy Garity | Archie Macdonald | Cillian Murphy | Hiroyuki Sanada | Mark Strong | Benedict Wong | Paloma Baeza | Rose Byrne | Sylvia Macdonald | Michelle Yeoh
Directors: Danny Boyle
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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth’s last hope.

Unknown (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Caviezel | Greg Kinnear | Bridget Moynahan | Joe Pantoliano | Barry Pepper | Jeremy Sisto | Peter Stormare | Chris Mulkey | Clayne Crawford | Kevin Chapman | Mark Boone Junior | Wilmer Calderon | David Selby | Adam Rodriguez | Jeffrey Daniel Phillips
Directors: Simon Brand
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Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

Point of Origin (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Liotta | John Leguizamo | Colm Feore | Cliff Curtis | Ling Bai | Illeana Douglas | Ronny Cox | Trent Gill | Ingrid Rubio | Ryan B. Adams | Graham Beckel | Mike Camello | Joe Colligan | Shashawnee Hall | Marshall Manesh
Directors: Newton Thomas Sigel
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Based on a true story, this twisting psychological thriller focuses on a serial arsonist whose terrifying six-year crime spree is juxtaposed with the increasingly desperate efforts of investigators to bring him to justice. Charged with investigating many of these fires is Captain John Orr (Ray Liotta), a legendary figure in the Glendale Fire Department, possessed with an uncanny ability to pinpoint the origins of a fire, as well as the devices by which an arsonist may have carried out the crime. Through a fingerprint left at the scene of one crime and a series of surprise revelations focusing on arsons set in several towns, the task force is able to close in on an unlikely suspect. . . and ultimately crack the case.

Jarhead (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal | Scott MacDonald | Lo Ming | Kevin Foster | Peter Sarsgaard | Damion Poitier | Riad Galayini | Craig Coyne | Katherine Randolph | Rini Bell | Dendrie Taylor | James Morrison | Arman Zajic | Brianne Davis | Jamie Foxx
Directors: Sam Mendes
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

Silent Hill (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Radha Mitchell | Sean Bean | Laurie Holden | Deborah Kara Unger | Kim Coates | Tanya Allen | Alice Krige | Jodelle Ferland | Colleen Williams | Ron Gabriel | Eve Crawford | Derek Ritschel | Amanda Hiebert | Maxine Dumont | Christopher Britton
Directors: Christophe Gans
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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.

Batman Returns (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Michael Keaton | Danny DeVito | Michelle Pfeiffer | Christopher Walken | Michael Gough | Michael Murphy | Cristi Conaway | Andrew Bryniarski | Pat Hingle | Vincent Schiavelli | Jan Hooks | Steve Witting | John Strong | Rick Zumwalt | Anna Katarina
Directors: Tim Burton
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Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Simon Baker | John Leguizamo | Dennis Hopper | Asia Argento | Robert Joy | Eugene Clark | Joanne Boland | Tony Nappo | Jennifer Baxter | Boyd Banks | Jasmin Geljo | Max McCabe | Tony Munch | Shawn Roberts | Pedro Miguel Arce
Directors: George A. Romero
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The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Stephen Baldwin | Gabriel Byrne | Benicio Del Toro | Kevin Pollak | Kevin Spacey | Chazz Palminteri | Pete Postlethwaite | Giancarlo Esposito | Dan Hedaya | Suzy Amis | Paul Bartel | Carl Bressler | Phillip Simon | Jack Shearer | Christine Estabrook
Directors: Bryan Singer
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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.