Features 2007
Last updated September 20, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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9 Lives of Mara
Twelve-year-old Robin is in turmoil following the death of his mother. As he struggles with his grief and new role, their home is invaded by an amorous intruder. This darkly sexual, mysterious woman intent on becoming the children's stepmother. After reading the ancient tome on the history of witchcraft, The Malleus Maleficarium, Robin begins to notice Maria's strange habits are in terrifying step with those of a witch. His fear for himself and his family is overwhelming as he becomes dangerously obsessed with ridding his home of the evil threatening it. But there is more to his wise-cracking best friend Larry and to Maria than meets the eye. 9 Lives of Mara embraces this journey into insanity, while answering the call for more literate, supernatural horror. Eschewing the predictable, the film plunges inside the human psyche to uncover how dangerously close it teeters to near absolute oblivion. http://www.9livesofmara.com |
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Chill
In this classic retro horror chiller, Sam (Thomas Calabro, "Melrose Place"), an aspiring writer, gets a job as a clerk in an inner city grocery mart owned by a mysterious Dr. Munoz (Shaun Kurtz), a former research scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition that forces him to live in sub-freezing temperatures. But it's what Sam doesn't know that might prove more fatal. His newfound employment is just a cover for a darker, more disturbing secret that lives behind the walls of the grocery mart. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story of the macabre, "Cool Air". http://www.chillmovie.com/ |
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Cthulhu
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance. http://cthulhuthemovie.com/ |
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In the Mouth of Madness
Private investigator John Trent, played by Sam Neill, is called in by his client to investigate the disappearance of a phenomenally popular horror novelist named Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow). Cane has supposedly vanished as his most recent novel is nearing its deadline and his publisher (played by Charlton Heston) wants to retrieve his company's property. Trent thinks the whole thing is a publicity stunt for the new novel but eventually tracks the writer down to the remote New England town of Hobbs End (a nod to Quatermass and the Pit) which previously was thought to only exist in Cane's stories. It soon becomes clear that the wall between fantasy and reality is blurring. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/ |
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The Last Winter
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear. http://www.thelastwinter.net/ |
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Nobody
Part myth, part mystery, NOBODY is a film noir nightmare set in the 1950s on a cold winter night that never seems to end. A black-faced assassin is consigned to commit a murder at the behest of mob boss Rolo Toles. The assassin returns to Rolo claiming success, but the paranoid mobster needs more proof than the killer can provide. The assassin returns to the scene of the crime, a deep grave nestled in a snowy park. The grave is empty. From this moment, time folds in on itself. As the two ends of the circle close in, the assassin gears up for a fateful confrontation, and his fate is revealed with the answer to the old crone's riddle: "To those who see, I cease to be. Who am I?" |
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John Carpenter's The Thing
Based on the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell which was heavily influenced by Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. This is one of the best cosmic horror films out there. http://imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ |
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Wishbaby
WISHBABY is a savage fairytale set in a contemporary urban landscape. A troubled young black teenager MAXINE rescues an eccentric old lady EVE from an unhappy slap by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a WISHBABY. With Eve's help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, inadvertently releasing Eve's dead GOVERNESS from her astral prison and unleashing a storm of supernatural activity. http://www.wishbaby.com |
Total Running Time: 751 minutes