Tag: Horror

HELL FEST (2018)

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Directed By: Gregory Plotkin
Written By: Seth M. Sherwood, Blair Butler & Akela Cooper
Story: Chris Sey & William Penick
Cinematography: Jose David Montero
Editor: David Egan & Gregory Plotkin 


Cast: Amy Forsyth, Tony Todd, Cynthia Mercado, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Christian James, Matt Mercurio, Roby Attal 


A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

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MANIAC (1980)

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Directed By: William Lustig
Written By: Joe Spinell & C.A. Rosenberg
Story By: Joe Spinell
Cinematography: Robert Lindsay
Editor: Larry Marinelli
Special Make-up & Effects By: Tom Savini 


Cast: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munroe, Tom Savini, Kelly Piper, Rita Monotone, Sharon Mitchell, Frank Pesce 


Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D’Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?

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SUSPIRIA (2018)

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Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Written By: David Kajganich
Based On Characters Created By: Dario Argento & Daria Nicolodi
Cinematography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editor: Walter Fasano
Music By: Thom Yorke 


Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Alek Wek, Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper 

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

 

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ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE (2018)

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Directed By: John McPhail
Written By: Alan MacDonald & Ryan McHenry
Cinematography: Sara Deane
Editor: Mark Hermida 


Cast: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Ben Wiggins, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, Ella Jarvis 


When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them. Teaming up with her best friend John, Anna has to fight her way through zombified snowmen, Santas, elves and Christmas shoppers to get across town to the high school, where they’ll be safe. But they soon discover that being a teenager is just as difficult as staying alive, even at the end of the world.

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (2018)

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Written & Directed By: Lars Von Trier
Story By: Lars Von Trier & Jenle Hallund
Cinematography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Editor: Jacob Secher Schulsinger & Molly Marlene Stensgaard 


Cast: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, Siobahn Fallon Hogan, Jeremy Davies, Sofie Grabol, Ed Speleers 


The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.

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CLIMAX (2019)

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Written & Directed By: Gaspar Noe
Cinematography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Denis Bedlow & Gaspar Noe 

Cast: Sofia Boutella, Sarah Belala, Romain Guillermic, Souhelia Yacoub 


In the mid 90’s 20 French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it’s soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.

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CARRIE (2013)

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Directed By: Kimberly Pierce
Written By: Lawrence D.Cohen & Roberto Aguire-Sacasa
Based on the Book By: Stephen King
Cinematography By: Steve Yedlin
Editor: Lee Percy & Nancy Richardson
Music By: Marco Beltrami 


 Cast: Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore, Portia Doubleday, Judy Greer, Ansel Elgort, Gabriella Wilde, Zoe Belkin, Barry Shabaka Henley, Demetrius Joyette, Evan Gilchrist, Alex Russell

A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

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31 (2016)

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Written & Directed By: Rob Zombie
Cinematography By: David Daniel
Editor: Glenn Garland 


Cast: Sherri Moon Zombie, Jeff Daniels Phillips, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Meg Foster, Lew Temple, Malcolm McDowell, Judy Geeson, Elizabeth Daily, Ginger Lynn, Jane Carr, Torsten Voges, Ricahrd Brake, Daniel Roebuck, Tracy Walter, Esperanza America, Andrea Dora 


The day before Halloween, five carnival employees are kidnapped & held hostage in an isolated compound known as “Murderworld”. On Halloween, they are thrown into a sadistic game called “31” where they must survive 12 hours against a gang of maniacs dressed like clowns. It’s time to play 31.

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