Archive for the ‘Horror’ Category

The Mist

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

All Genres:
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 126 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Stephen King's Legendary Tale of Terror

 

Cast: Thomas Jane … David Drayton
Marcia Gay Harden … Mrs. Carmody
Laurie Holden … Amanda Dunfrey
Andre Braugher … Brent Norton
Toby Jones … Ollie Weeks
William Sadler … Jim
Jeffrey DeMunn … Dan Miller
Frances Sternhagen … Irene Reppler
Nathan Gamble … Billy Drayton
Alexa Davalos … Sally
Chris Owen … Norm
Sam Witwer … Private Jessup
Robert C. Treveiler … Bud Brown (as Robert Treveiler)
David Jensen … Myron
Melissa Suzanne McBride … Woman With Kids at Home (as Melissa McBride)

 

Plot: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

 

Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations

P2

Friday, November 9th, 2007

All Genres:
Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: USA:98 min | Argentina:98 min

Languages: English | Portuguese | Spanish

Director:

Tagline: A new level of fear.

 

Writers: Alexandre Aja (story) & Grégory Levasseur (story) …

 

Cast: Wes Bentley … Thomas
Rachel Nichols … Angela
Simon Reynolds … Jim Harper
Philip Akin … Karl
Stephanie Moore … Lorraine (voice)
Miranda Edwards … Jody
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee … Man in Elevator
Grace Lynn Kung … Woman in Elevator
Bathsheba Garnett … Homeless Woman
Philip Williams … Cop #1
Arnold Pinnock … Cop #2
Franck Khalfoun … Newsman

 

Plot: A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.

House

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

All Genres:
Drama, Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 88 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: The only way out… is in.

 

Writers: Ted Dekker (novel) Rob Green (screenplay)

 

Cast: Michael Madsen … Tin Man / Officer
Reynaldo Rosales … Jack Singleton
Heidi Dippold … Stephanie Singleton
Julie Ann Emery … Leslie Taylor
J.P. Davis … Randy Messsarue
Lew Temple … Pete
Leslie Easterbrook … Betty
Bill Moseley … Stewart
Pawel Delag … Officer Lawdale
Weronika Rosati … Mrs. Lawdale
Allana Bale … Susan (as Alana Bale)
Mark Fierer … Randy's Father
Florentyna Synowiecka … Melissa
Andrew Gorzen … Leslie's Uncle
Albert Pietrzak … Young Randy

 

Plot: In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac (The Tin Man) bent on killing them…

Saw IV

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

All Genres:
Crime, Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA | Canada

Runtime: 93 min | 96 min (unrated director's cut)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: It's a Trap

 

Writers: Patrick Melton (screenplay) & Marcus Dunstan (screenplay) …

 

Cast: Tobin Bell … Jigsaw / John
Costas Mandylor … Hoffman
Scott Patterson … Agent Strahm
Betsy Russell … Jill
Lyriq Bent … Rigg
Athena Karkanis … Agent Perez
Justin Louis … Art
Simon Reynolds … Lamanna
Donnie Wahlberg … Eric Matthews
Angus Macfadyen … Jeff
Shawnee Smith … Amanda (archive footage)
Bahar Soomekh … Lynn
Dina Meyer … Kerry
Mike Realba … Fisk
Marty Adams … Ivan

 

Plot: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers…

 

Awards: 1 win & 5 nominations

Peur du noir

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

All Genres:
Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Release Year: 2007

Country: France

Runtime: 85 min

Languages: French

Director: Blutch

Charles Burns

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Tagline: Don't come alone! (UK)

 

Writers: Blutch (writer) Charles Burns (writer)

 

Cast: Gil Alma … (voice)
Aure Atika … Laura (voice)
François Creton … The teacher (voice)
Guillaume Depardieu … Eric (voice)
Sarah-Laure Estragnat … (voice)
Nicolas Feroumont … (voice)
Nicole Garcia … Narrator (voice)
Arthur H. … Narrator (voice)
Christian Hecq … The doctor / The samurai (voice)
Christian Hincker … (voice)
Lino Hincker … (voice)
Melaura Honnay … (voice)
Amélie Lerma … (voice)
Florence Maury … (voice)
Adriana Piasek-Wanski … (voice)
Louisa Pili … Sumako (voice)
Amaury Smets … (voice)
Brigitte Sy … (voice)
Laurent Van den Rest … (voice)
Charlotte Vermeil … (voice)
Andreas Vuillet … (voice)

 

Plot: Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark. add synopsis

 

Awards: 1 nomination

Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour

Friday, October 19th, 2007

All Genres:
Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: USA:81 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: What will happen between midnight and 1 AM?

 

Writers: John Comrie (screenplay) John Comrie (story)

 

Cast: Kurt Braun … Hank
Triston Coleman … Young David
Brian Comrie … David Baker
Dan Comrie … Matt Baker
Rick Comrie … Johnny Woods
Alessandra Daniele … Young Sarah
Nicole Des Coteaux … Mary Ann Baker
Patricia Dimeo … Vera Waters
Sylvia Enrique … Frida
Joe Momma Ernst … Male House Shopper
Ronda Ernst … Female House Shopper
Michael A. Evans … Lee Baker
Geof Gibson … Phil
Kevin Guild … Mechanic
Rusty Hanes … Ben Woods
Jane Harris … Thelma Shaw
Butch Hillman … Chester Miles
Laura Hiltz … Mrs. Van Camp
Dakota Jade … Young Megan
Dave Lindley … Ron
Kendell Lindley … Justin Van Camp
Olivia Novrit … Yolanda Lopez
Wendy Perkins … Sarah's Mother
Jack Pine-Rusk … Young Matt
Michael Silva … Carlos
Rissa Walters … Sarah Landon

 

Plot: A 17-year-old girl has mysterious encounters with paranormal activity in the small town of Pine Valley.

Paranormal Activity

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

All Genres:
Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 86 min | 99 min (extended version)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: What Happens When You Sleep?

 

Cast: Katie Featherston … Katie
Micah Sloat … Micah
Mark Fredrichs … The Psychic
Amber Armstrong … Amber
Ashley Palmer … Diane – Girl on Internet

 

Plot: After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

 

Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations

Frontière

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: France | Switzerland

Runtime: 108 min

Languages: French | German

Director:

Tagline: What are your boundaries?

 

Cast: Karina Testa … Yasmine
Samuel Le Bihan … Goetz
Estelle Lefébure … Gilberte
Aurélien Wiik … Alex
David Saracino … Tom
Chems Dahmani … Farid
Maud Forget … Eva
Amélie Daure … Klaudia
Rosine Favey … La mere
Adel Bencherif … Sami
Joël Lefrançois … Hans
Patrick Ligardes … Karl
Jean-Pierre Jorris … Von Geisler
Stéphane Jacquot … Policeman
Christine Culerier … Nurse

 

Plot: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis. add synopsis

 

Awards: 1 nomination

El orfanato

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

All Genres:
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: Mexico | Spain

Runtime: 105 min

Languages: Spanish

Director:

Tagline: Un cuento de amor. Una historia de terror (A tale of love. A story of horror)

 

Cast: Belén Rueda … Laura
Fernando Cayo … Carlos
Roger Príncep … Simón
Mabel Rivera … Pilar
Montserrat Carulla … Benigna
Andrés Gertrúdix … Enrique
Edgar Vivar … Prof. Leo Bálaban
Óscar Casas … Tomás
Mireia Renau … Laura niña
Georgina Avellaneda … Rita
Carla Gordillo … Martín
Alejandro Camps … Víctor
Carmen López … Alicia
Óscar Lara … Guillermo
Geraldine Chaplin … Aurora

 

Plot: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

 

Awards: 31 wins & 34 nominations

Dead Silence

Friday, March 16th, 2007

All Genres:
Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 89 min | 92 min (unrated version)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: You scream. You die.

 

Writers: Leigh Whannell (screenplay) James Wan (story) …

 

Cast: Ryan Kwanten … Jamie Ashen
Amber Valletta … Ella Ashen
Donnie Wahlberg … Det. Lipton
Michael Fairman … Henry Walker
Joan Heney … Marion Walker
Bob Gunton … Edward Ashen
Laura Regan … Lisa Ashen
Dmitry Chepovetsky … Richard Walker
Judith Roberts … Mary Shaw
Keir Gilchrist … Young Henry
Steven Taylor … Michael Ashen
David Talbot … Priest
Steve Adams … 1941 Detective
Shelley Peterson … Lisa’s Mom
Enn Reitel … Billy (voice)

 

Plot: A widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife’s murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist.

The Signal

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

All Genres:
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 103 min

Languages: English

Director: David Bruckner

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Tagline: Do you have the crazy?

 

Writers: David Bruckner (screenplay) & Jacob Gentry (screenplay) …

 

Cast: Anessa Ramsey … Mya Denton
Sahr Ngaujah … Rod (as Sahr)
AJ Bowen … Lewis Denton
Matthew Stanton … Jerry (as Matt Stanton)
Suehyla El-Attar … Janice
Justin Welborn … Ben Capstone
Cheri Christian … Anna
Scott Poythress … Clark
Christopher Thomas … Ken
Lindsey Garrett … Laura
Chad McKnight … Jim Parsons (as Chadrian McKnight)
Claire Bronson … Sightless Woman
David Bruckner … Screaming Man (as Dave Bruckner)
Dan Bush … Screaming Man
John Clifton … Maintenance Man

 

Plot: A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

 

Awards: 2 nominations

Teeth

Friday, January 19th, 2007

All Genres:
Comedy, Horror

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 94 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Every rose has its thorns.

 

Cast: Jess Weixler … Dawn O'Keefe
John Hensley … Brad
Josh Pais … Dr. Godfrey
Hale Appleman … Tobey
Lenny von Dohlen … Bill
Vivienne Benesch … Kim
Ashley Springer … Ryan
Julia Garro … Gwen
Nicole Swahn … Melanie
Adam Wagner … Phil
Hunter Ulvog … Little Brad
Ava Ryen Plumb … Little Dawn
Trent Moore … Mr. Vincent
Mike Yager … Elliot
Nathan Parsons … Soda Spritzer

 

Plot: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

 

Awards: 3 wins & 3 nominations

Thr3e

Friday, December 1st, 2006

All Genres:
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2006

Country: Poland | USA

Runtime: USA:101 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Cast: Marc Blucas … Kevin Parson
Justine Waddell … Jennifer Peters
Laura Jordan … Samantha
Max Ryan … Milton
Bill Moseley … Slater
Sherman Augustus … Detective Bill
Priscilla Barnes … Balinda Parson
Tom Bower … Uncle Eugene Parson
Philip Dunbar … Doctor Francis
Jeffrey Lee Hollis … Bobby Parson
Kevin Downes … Henry
Jack Ryan … Slater – young
Kai Schoenhals … Hot Dog Vendor
Bruno Jasienski … Young Kevin Parson
Allana Bale … Young Samantha

 

Plot: Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.

The Last Winter

Monday, September 11th, 2006

All Genres:
Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2006

Country: USA | Iceland

Runtime: 101 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: What if mankind only had one season left on Earth?

 

Writers: Larry Fessenden (writer) Robert Leaver (writer)

 

Cast: Ron Perlman … Ed Pollack
James LeGros … James Hoffman
Connie Britton … Abby Sellers
Zach Gilford … Maxwell McKinder
Kevin Corrigan … Motor
Jamie Harrold … Elliot Jenkins
Pato Hoffmann … Lee Means
Joanne Shenandoah … Dawn Russell
Larry Fessenden … Charles Foster
Oscar Miller … Simon Marshowitz
Hálfdán Theodórsson … Gary
Eggert Ketilsson … Frozen Trucker
Jack Fessenden … Young Hoffman
John Speredakos … Weatherman
Halfdan Pedersen … Doctor Pedersen (as Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen)

 

Plot: The American oil company KIC Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic… add synopsis

 

Awards: 1 nomination

Bug

Friday, May 19th, 2006

All Genres:
Drama, Horror, Thriller

Release Year: 2006

Country: USA

Runtime: 102 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: First they send in their drone… then they find their queen.

 

Cast: Ashley Judd … Agnes White
Michael Shannon … Peter Evans
Harry Connick Jr. … Jerry Goss
Lynn Collins … R.C.
Brian F. O'Byrne … Dr. Sweet
Neil Bergeron … Man in Grocery Store
Bob Neill … Pizza Harris (voice)

 

Plot: An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.

 

Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations

Saw II

Friday, October 28th, 2005

All Genres:
Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2005

Country: USA | Canada

Runtime: 93 min | 95 min (unrated version)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: We Dare You Again…

 

Writers: Leigh Whannell (written by) and Darren Lynn Bousman (written by)

 

Cast: Tobin Bell … Jigsaw / John
Shawnee Smith … Amanda
Donnie Wahlberg … Eric Matthews
Erik Knudsen … Daniel Matthews
Franky G … Xavier
Glenn Plummer … Jonas
Emmanuelle Vaugier … Addison
Beverley Mitchell … Laura
Tim Burd … Obi (as Timothy Burd)
Dina Meyer … Kerry
Lyriq Bent … Rigg
Noam Jenkins … Michael
Tony Nappo … Gus
Kelly Jones … SWAT Member Pete
Vincent Rother … SWAT Member Joe

 

Plot: Jigsaw locks a few unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.

 

Awards: 1 win & 6 nominations

Darkness

Thursday, October 3rd, 2002

All Genres:
Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2002

Country: USA | Spain

Runtime: 102 min | USA:88 min (PG-13 version)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Some secrets should never come to light

 

Writers: Jaume Balagueró (written by) and Fernando de Felipe (written by) …

 

Cast: Anna Paquin … Regina
Lena Olin … Maria
Iain Glen … Mark
Giancarlo Giannini … Albert Rua
Fele Martínez … Carlos
Stephan Enquist … Paul
Fermí Reixach … Villalobos (as Fermi Reixach)
Francesc Pagés … Driver Traffic Jam
Craig Stevenson … Electrician
Paula Fernández … Girl 1
Gemma Lozano … Girl 2
Xavier Allepuz … Boy 3
Joseph Roberts … Boy 4
Marc Ferrando … Boy 5
Josh Gaeta … Boy 6

 

Plot: A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.

 

Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations

Jaws

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 1970

Runtime: 44

Language: English

Director: Steven Spielberg

Plot: Spielberg’s box office sensation about a man-eating shark that terrorizes a New England resort. Great direction and performances turn a simple story into a truly suspenseful production!