Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

11-11-11 (Hell's Gate)

Following the tragic death of his wife, Sarah, and son, Cole, in a fire caused by an insane fan, famed American best-selling author Joseph Crone is suffering severe depression that prevents him from writing.

While attending psychological support sessions, he meets Sadie, a young woman who has suffered a similar tragedy. One day, after a heart-warming conversation with Sadie, Joseph suffers a horrible car accident but comes out of it miraculously unscathed.

The accident occurs at exactly 11:11 AM.

Soon Joseph will discover that 11 is a number that was somehow important in his past life, and is doomed to appear more and more often in his daily existence.

Trailer

Starring: Timothy Gibbs, Wendy Glenn, Denis Rafter, Michael Landes
Directed by:
Darren Lynn Bousman
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running Time: 90 min.

MPAA Rating: PG 13 for for violence/terror, some disturbing images and thematic material
Yahoo! Users: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 4.1/10 (4,636 votes)
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Monday, October 17, 2011

The Thing

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.

When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter, to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.

Trailer

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Directed by:
Matthijs Van Heijningen
Genres: Adaptation, Suspense/Horror and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

MPAA Rating: R for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.8/10 (995 votes)
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Friday, October 7, 2011

Fright Night

Senior Charlie Brewster finally has it all -- he's running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. In fact, he's so cool he's even dissing his best friend Ed. But trouble arrives when an intriguing stranger Jerry moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there's something not quite right -- and everyone, including Charlie's mom, doesn't notice. After witnessing some very unusual activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on his neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone that he's telling the truth, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself.

Trailer

Starring: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant, Imogen Poots
Directed by:
Craig Gillespie
Genres: Comedy, Suspense/Horror and Remake
Running Time: 2 hrs.

MPAA Rating: R for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references
Yahoo! Critics: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.9/10 (8,667 votes)
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Final Destination 5

A group of co-workers on a corporate retreat escape the collapse of a suspension bridge because of a fellow worker's premonition of the disaster,and then are hunted by an invisible force that seems to be Death itself, coming to collect its due.











Trailer

Starring:
Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood
Directed by:
Steven Quale
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min.
MPAARating: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, and some language
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.4/10 (8,016 votes)

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Monday, August 29, 2011

The Invasion

The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington, DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll, learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic: it attacks its victims while they sleep, leaving them physically unchanged but strangely unfeeling and inhuman. As the infection spreads, more and more people are altered and it becomes impossible to know who can be trusted. Now Carol's only hope is to stay awake long enough to find her young son, who may hold the key to stopping the devastating invasion.

Trailer

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright
Directed by:
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror, Thriller, Adaptation and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and terror
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.0/10 (32,980 votes)
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Priest

A legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on an obsessive quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend, a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.

Trailer

Starring: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins
Directed by:
Scott Charles Stewart
Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller, Western and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 27 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, disturbing images and brief strong violence
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 5.7/10 (22,384 votes)
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Red Riding Hood

For decades, the people of the village of Daggerhorn have maintained an uneasy truce with the werewolf, who prowls at every full moon, by offering the beast a monthly animal sacrifice to quench its appetite. But under a blood red moon, the wolf changes the stakes by taking the life of one of their own.

The victim is the older sister of Valerie, a beautiful, young woman, who has just found out that her parents have arranged for her to marry Henry, the scion of the town's wealthiest family. But Valerie wants only Peter, the poor woodcutter she has loved all her life. Unwilling to be parted, the couple was planning to run away together, but, in a horrifying instant, the wolf changes everything.

As the townspeople hunger for revenge, famed werewolf hunter Father Solomon is summoned to Daggerhorn to kill the beast once and for all. But Solomon's arrival brings only more turmoil as he warns everyone that the werewolf takes human form by day and could be any one of them. No one is above suspicion. Panic grips the town as the death toll rises with each red moon, tearing apart the once close-knit village. But it is Valerie who discovers she has a unique connection to the wolf that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect... and bait.

Trailer

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman
Directed by:
Catherine Hardwicke
Genres: Romance, Suspense/Horror and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and creature terror, and some sensuality
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 5.0/10 (18,000 votes)
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Splice

Clive and Elsa are a pair of brilliant scientists whose cutting-edge experiments in genetic engineering make them superstars in their field. As devoted to their careers as they are to one another, they start conducting unauthorized experiments with new animal species that show great promise. Drunk with their god-like powers, they introduce human DNA into one of their creations, producing a creature that is greater than the sum of its parts: a rapidly developing animal/human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. While this female creature inspires maternal feelings in Elsa, she evokes something far-from-paternal in Clive, something that poses a threat to them all. Then, when this seemingly perfect organism makes a final, shocking metamorphosis, it is mankind itself that is threatened.

Trailer

Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, Simona Maicanescu, David Hewlett
Directed by: Vincenzo Natali
Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.

MPAA Rating: R for disturbing elements including strong sexuality, nudity, sci-fi violence and language
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb Users Rating: 6.1/10 (26,499 votes)
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Scream 4

Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.




Trailer

Starring: David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Mary McDonnell, Rory Culkin, Marley Shelton
Directed by:
Wes Craven
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.

MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language and some teen drinking
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 7.5/10 (9,192 votes)
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

I Spit On Your Grave

Writer Jennifer Hills takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away. As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn't about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her... only much, much worse.

Trailer

Starring: Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman, Andrew Howard, Jeff Branson
Directed by:
Steven R. Monroe
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.

MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Yahoo! Users Rating: B+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.3/10 (6,119 votes)
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Season of the Witch

A medieval knight undertakes a mission pitting him against a devious witch and making him the last hope for the world against an ancient and dark force. His faith broken by years of battle as a crusader, Behmen returns to central Europe to find his homeland decimated by the Black Plague. While searching for food and supplies at the Palace at Marburg, Behmen and his trusted companion, Felson are apprehended and ordered by the dying Cardinal to deliver a young peasant girl - believed to be the witch responsible for the Plague - to a remote abbey where her powers can be destroyed. Behmen agrees to the assignment but only if the peasant girl is granted a fair trial. As he and five others set off on this dangerous journey, they realize with mounting dread that the cunning girl is no ordinary human, and that their mission will pit them against an evil that even in these dark times they never could have imagined.

Trailer

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen
Directed by:
Dominic Sena
Genres: Drama and Suspense/Horror
Running Time: 1 hrs. 35 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content
Yahoo! Critics: D
IMDb Users Rating: 5.7/10 (1,477 votes)
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Saw 3D

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror...











Trailer

Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Dean Armstrong, Chad E. Donella
Directed by:
Kevin Greutert
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Sequel
Running Time: 91 min.

MPAA Rating: R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language
Yahoo! Users Rating: B
IMDb User Rating: 5.8/10 (9,265 votes)
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Last Exorcism

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus' own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell - and themselves - before it is too late.

Trailer

Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones
Directed by:
Daniel Stamm
Genres: Drama and Suspense/Horror
Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing violent content and terror, some sexual references and thematic material
Yahoo! Critics: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 5.9/10 (4,392 votes)
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Devil

On one ordinary day, a group of people is trapped in a elevator of an office building. What it seems to be an accident turns out to be happening for a reason as they are threatened by the devil in disguise. Becoming suspicious to each other, they try to come out of the elevator.









Trailer

Starring: Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, Bokeem Woodbine
Directed by:
John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running time: 80 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and disturbing images, thematic material and some language including sexual references
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Piranha

Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.

Trailer

Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss
Directed by:
Alexandre Aja
Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 29 min.

MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use
Yahoo! Users Rating: B
IMDb User Rating: 6.8/10 (6,451 votes)
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice, continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.


Trailer

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Directed by:
Paul W.S. Anderson
Genres: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 36 min.

MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong violence and language
Yahoo! Users Rating: B+
IMDb User Rating: 7.4/10 (3,694 votes)
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Box

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.

Trailer

Starring: James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne
Directed by:
Richard Kelly
Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 56 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb User Rating: 5.9/10 (20,533 votes)
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Daybreakers

Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.




Trailer

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and Sam Neill
Directed by: Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Suspense/ Horror and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language and brief nudity
Yahoo! Users Rating: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.6/10 (23,378 votes)
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Legion

An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael.








Trailer

Starring:
Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton
Directed by:
Scott Charles Stewart
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.

MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, and language
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 5.0/10 (15,326 votes)
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Monday, March 8, 2010

The Wolfman

Lawrence Talbot is a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself...one he never imagined existed.

Trailer

Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Art Malik, Hugo Weaving
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 2 hrs. 5 min.
MPAA Rating: R for bloody horror, violence and gore
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 6.3/10 (12,467 votes)
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