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Horror movies
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The final installment of Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who "unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world." |
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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette. |
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A married couple sail the Pacific Ocean to forget a tragic accident. After a month at sea, they sight a mysterious yacht and are boarded by its lone surviving crew member. When the husband discovers the yacht's terrible secret, the crewman goes wild, kidnapping his wife and taking his ship. Terror on the high seas is center stage as the husband fights to keep the mystery yacht afloat and his wife battles the psychotic who's assumed control of their ship. |
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The sequel to the House of 1000 Corpses is also filmed by Rob Zombie. A family of violent lunatics turns everything upside down and kills everybody on their way. County Sheriff John Wydell slowly loses his mind wishing hardly to take revenge for his slaughtered brother. He asks for help of two bounty hunters and tracks the band down their way to a frontier town whorehouse. Mad company commits countless murders, which will lead them to the final meat-grinder showdown. |
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The mind-bending thriller focuses on Ian Stone (Mike Vogel), an average kind of guy who has the bad luck to stumble across a cadaver near the railroad tracks. He shouldn't have investigated his macabre discovery as the dead body turns out a sinister creature that attacks and pushes him into the path of an oncoming train. After the gruesome incident Ian inexplicably finds himself resurrected into a new different life. However, he is forced to die a new death every day and awaken to live a new life. Soon enough, he discovers that he is hunted by the Harvesters, supernatural shape-shifters that can't be killed and feed on human fear. Ian will be thrown into the grips of the gruesome death again and again until he can unlock the secrets of his own life. |
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake. |
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There was once a guy named Blade (Wesley Snipes) who had been born of an African-American mother bitten by a vampire during pregnancy. Therefore he was granted vampire’s power and man’s soul, and furthermore, he wasn’t afraid of sunlight. As a 13-year-old boy, he was adopted by Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who helped him to cope with his bloodlust by giving him a special serum and raised him as a vampire hunter. Their nemesis was Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an ambitious vampire leader who saw humans as nothing more than cattle and was bent on summoning the Blood God in order to enslave them. Willing to rid the earth of the undead, Blade and Whistler, armed with an arsenal of garlic-spiked and silver bullets, started a seemingly never ending battle against Frost and La Magra.
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In this comedy-horror movie a newly-divorced mother, Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest), and her two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to the sleepy California town of Santa Carla to live with her dad (Barnard Hughes). Little do they know that half of the population is comprised of vampires. Lucy soon begins dating video store owner Max (Edward Herrmann), unaware that he is the leader of the vampire gang. Meanwhile, her oldest son becomes enamoured of a beautiful vampire, Star (Jami Gertz). Lucy's younger son, his buddies and his brave grandpa are the only ones who manage to recognize the classic signs of vampirism and set out to destroy the treacherous bloodsuckers. |
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Two fugitive brothers at gunpoint get an ex-minister and his two children to take them accross the border into Mexico. They drive to a Mexican biker bar to rendevous with other crooks. While at the bar, a few unusual things happen. |
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Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive. |
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Based on a true story, the horror drama revolves around Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), a 19-year-old ordinary college freshman who begins to feel as though someone else has inhabited her body. The student becomes tormented by terrifying visions and ghostly voices. She can't separate the reality from the nightmare. Doctors give her a diagnosis of a strange mental disease but are unable to cure her. So Emily desperately seeks help from her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). It's obvious to him that the hapless girl is possessed by demons. He believes that the only hope to save Emily's soul is to perform the forbidden and extremely dangerous ritual of exorcism on her... |
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Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop--a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.' |
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Based on Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Empty House," this gripping detective drama centers on Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone), a brilliant sleuth famous for his skillful use of deductive reasoning and astute observation, and his faithful associate Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), who are assigned by Scotland Yard to crack the bizarre case of the "Finger Murders". Four young beautiful women are found murdered, all with their right forefingers severed. The trail of evidence leads to the fiendish Professor Moriarty (Henry Daniell) who, with the help of his glamorous accomplice Lydia Marlowe (Hillary Brooke), sends Holmes into a trance from which he may never awake. |
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When a weapons multi-national Palisade Defence reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge. |
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The boogeyman is a nocturnal ghostlike creature, tales of whom are used to scare misbehaving kids. This bone-chilling thriller centers on a young woman named Laura Porter (Danielle Savre) who is haunted by ghastly visions of a monstrous boogeyman that lives in her closet and tries to attack her every night. Determined to quit herself of fear, the woman voluntarily goes to mental hospital to receive treatment under the care of Dr. Jessica Ryan (Renée O'Connor). |
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Five American teenagers are enamoured with the idea of their old college buddy Jake (Jack Huston) who suggests that they go on a memorable camping trip in Ireland. Inspired by this idea, young travelers, charming Tara (Lindsey Haun), courageous Bluto (Robert Hoffman), inveterate tourist Lisa (Maya Hazen), hippie Troy (Max Kasch) and his girlfriend Holly (Alice Greczyn), go to Ireland to have thrilling adventures. Upon their arrival the travelers set up a camp, and Jake warns his buddies about the mushrooms they mustn't eat. A person who will eat a death cap will die or gain superpower which will allow him to communicate with the dead and foresee the future. However, Jake is late with his cautions. Tara has already ingested a poisonous mushroom. The girl is lucky: she managed to survive but from now on she gets haunted by terrific premonitions of Bluto's death. Yet, she doesn't dare reveal the truth to her friends... |
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Young kids form a club that is devoted to monsters, but soon get more than they bargained for when Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way. |
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It was the night before Christmas when an outwardly problem-free family was making their annual Christmas journey to the in-laws’ house. There was a long road to travel, so the patriarch of the family, Frank Harrington (Ray Wise), decided to take a shortcut lest he be in the arms of Morpheus while driving. However, Frank began to doze... If he had only known that danger was in store for them! A spectral woman in white wandering through the forest and a horrifying black driverless hearse will make anyone tremble with fear... |
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins. |
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Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this. |
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