jarf's - Rented List

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Adopted as a baby and taken to England, Daniel Meeks (Danny) returns to the town of his birth in search of his real family. He finds himself embroiled in a fight for the ownership of the town and to free the soul of the late Lucius Meeks, Danny's great great grandfather.

Lucius is regarded by the town as an evil gun-slinger who had an affair with the fiancee of the town's owner, Joshua Carter, and who shot them both dead in the street, in an argument over land rights. Danny adapts quickly to 'life out West' and goes on to discover the truth about his discrediting gun-slinging relative (who died more than a century earlier) picking up clues along the way, which help him track down his real mother too. This action-packed story ends in a thrilling finale, with Danny forced to choose between family loyalty, (to clear the name of Lucius and allow him to rest in peace) and his love for Kate Carter, descendant of the man Lucius killed all those years ago...

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Featuring an all-star cast led by acrobatic genius Yuen Biao, 'Zu Warriors' depicts the adventures of a young soldier (Dik Mingkei) caught in a war between two rival carmies.

To escape certain death he takes sanctuary in a cave within the ominous Zu Mountain, where he becomes entangled in a battle with all-powerful supernatural forces threatening to destroy the World. Guided by a mysterious swordsman (Adam Cheng), Dik Mingkei must harness the power of two mystical swords; the only weapons on Earth capable of defeating his omnipotent enemy.

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Cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano's dazzling new film is a thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure set in 19th Century Japan. Zatoichi is a blind wanderer whose humble facade disguises his prodigious skills as a master swordsman, gifted with a lightning fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision.

Arriving in a remote mountain town, he finds its people terrorised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano), who mercilessly dispose of all who get in their way. With his legendary cane sword at his side, Zatoichi's path is destined for many violent confrontations...

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On Halloween night a group of party-hearty teens seek refuge in an empty funeral home, after a shooting incident at a liquor store results (they mistakenly believe) in the death of a police officer, and the near fatal wounding of one of their own.

While arguing about their next move, they discover that the remote Hull House has a mysterious resident - Angela, a beautiful young woman with a 'split' personality. Angela (Amelia Kinkade) welcomes the group warmly to her humble abode and then diabolically plants the seed of dissension amongst the friends. Although some insist they should leave and get their dying friend to a hospital, others, let their lusty libidos call the shots, allowing Angela, waiting like a cunning hunter, ample opportunity to transform her "guests" into her bloodthirsty minions. Who will survive this nightmare and live to see the next morning's sunrise?

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At the height of the terror of WW1, the few survivors of an English regiment, trapped behind enemy lines, take refuge in a deserted German trench, waiting to be rescued. But when no help arrives, one by one they begin to suffer mysterious and gruesome fates.

Slowly, a terror beyond all human understanding is unleashed. Is the trench possessed by something even more terrible than the war that surrounds them or does some other unknown evil wait to claim them all?

Using brain-implant technology, corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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David (Andrew Keegan) is frustrated with the repressive laws of his cave-dwelling tribe. Restless, stubborn and defiant, his attitude problem turns deadly when he is forced to kill the tribe leader, his father, to protect his girlfriend.

Now, banished to the dangerous and unexplored zone outside their cave, he and five of his teenage friends quickly discover that the "old" world they only dreamed about has evolved without them - into a complex, seductive and ultimately terrifying nightmare beyond their wildest imagination!

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Angus (Rufus Sewell) and Lily (Carla Gugino) are traveling the Irish countryside with their carnival sideshow when they befriend a wealthy old sailor. After giving him a ride to his castle, he shows them his deadly prize: a real, live mermaid held captive in a tank.

Eager for fame and fortune, Angus and his crew steal the sea creature and make plans to set sail for America. After loading their cargo and boarding a boat, they soon learn that the animal they possess is as dangerous as it is beautiful. But nothing can prepare them for the horror that awaits them as their boat drifts further and further out to sea. Get ready for an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that will scare you to the bone!

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How to make a monster takes horror films boldly into the computer age! starring Steven Culp (Thirteen Days, Nurse Betty), Clea DuVall (Girl Interrupted, Ghosts Of Mars), and Tyler Mane (X-Men, Joe Dirt), this cyper-thriller from the director of swimming with sharks features mind-blowing monster

effects by 4 time Academy Award winner Stan Winston (Jurassic Park, Planet Of the Apes) and the talents of sexy B-movie queen Julie Strain. Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game - Evilution. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power-surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming team find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.

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He's No Angel, He's Just a Biker From Hell! The naked body of a schoolgirl leads the police to a teenage prostitution ring as vice and corruption explode onto the Italian streets in a blaze of machete-wielding fury.

When suspects in the case are killed by a mysterious stranger clad in motorbike leathers, the police realise that the trail of corruption goes all the way to the top, and set their sights on busting the case wide open. But as the body count rises, the crash-helmet-wearing motor-psycho colours the mean streets red in a bid to stop them.

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Quentin (Devon Gummersall) is a nerdy comic book fanatic that spends his days working as a security guard at a biotech research lab and his nights at home dreaming of superheroes. When thugs ambush the lab, his partner is killed in the shootout.

Overcome by grief, he knowingly injects himself with a top-secret drug made from the blood of a laboratory spider. Slowly, the effects of the injection change his body - and as Quentin becomes more like a spider and less like a human he develops a hunger that will not be ignored.

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Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Kinski) is a New York City therapist who takes a job as an elementary school psychiatrist in the rural town of Sierra Vista, Nevada.

Her presence is greeted with a collective cold shoulder and it soon becomes clear that this backward little town has a deep, dark secret that its inhabitants are determined to keep buried. When she befriends an odd and gifted young boy, Dr. Stillman finds herself in the middle of a battle between a vengeful and horrifying monster and the unspeakable evil at the heart of the town itself.

When an English couple holidaying in Spain travel to a small, apparently deserted island, soon the hideous truth reveals itself: all the adults have been killed by the child population, and are far from finished...

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Billy Hughes (Marina Sudina) is a mute special effects artistworking on a low budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia. Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film.

Having borne witness to their victim's final moments, Billy desperately flees-but this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and herfriends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow police...and a mysterious crime kingpin known as "The Reaper" (Alec Guinness).

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Adapted from the award-winning children's novels written by Gillian Cross, it ran for three series from 1996 to 1998. Good versus evil at St.

Champions School, as the Demon Headmaster (Terrence Hardiman) plans to take over the world using otherworldly hypnotic powers! However, he does not count on the resistance of his unruly pupils, who together form a crack-taskforce, SPLAT (Society for the Protection of our Lives Against Them). As term progresses SPLAT realise their adversary is a wily and dangerous enemy. Who will come out on top? The future of St. Champions School and the universe is at stake...!

Episode Comprise:
4. The Demon Headmaster Takes Over