matty-m00's - Rented List
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A supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage as down-on-his-luck truck driver Joe who is haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. When Joe meets Julie (Franka Potente), a spiritually gifted woman who enlists him in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie (Penelope Mitchell). But the spirit of Joe's dead wife Mary (Lydia Hearst) proves stronger, possessing the young woman's body and determined to settle her unfinished business with the living. - Director:
- Maria Pulera
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente, Penelope Mitchell
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Dr. Carl Stoner (Strother Martin) sells a mysterious creature in a crate to a carnival owner, it is discovered that the creature is actually part-man/part-snake, the result of one of Stoner's bizarre experiments. College student David Blake (Dirk Benedict) is hired as an assistant by Stoner. Unbeknownst to David, Stoner is attempting to transform humans into reptiles that could survive ecological disasters that would wipe out humanity and is using David as a test subject. David's skin slowly starts to change and he goes into a coma, he wakes up to discover he is no longer a man but part-man part-snake! Can David and Stoner's daughter stop the hideous transformation or will Dr Stoner's fiendish plan give him the grotesque creature he has been trying to create for so long? - Director:
- Bernard L. Kowalski
- Cast:
- Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich
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Ryan Gosling directs an all-star cast in this gripping thriller about love, family and the fight fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned town of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks) a single mother of two, is swept into a dark and macabre underworld in a desperate quest to save her home and hold her family together. Meanwhile, her teenage son Bones (lain De Caestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of the town that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves. - Director:
- Ryan Gosling
- Cast:
- Ben Mendelsohn, Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan
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Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer (Talia Zucker) tragically drowns while swimming in the local dam. Her body is recovered, a verdict of accidental death returned, and she is laid to rest. In the days that follow her grieving family begins to experience a series of strange and inexplicable events. Profoundly unsettled they seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny (Steve Jodrell). In their search for answers they discover Alice had been living a disturbed life and hiding dark secrets. Something haunted their daughter and the terrifying truth awaits at Lake Mungo. - Director:
- Joel Anderson
- Cast:
- Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe
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Photo-journalist Steve Blake (Douglas Hodge) is the only witness to a horrific car accident in which the driver is incinerated in a gigantic fireball. Yet the next day, Blake finds the same man alive and well. Blake discovers that this is not the only case of apparent death and resurrection - all investigated by Chief Superintendent Philip Gates (Leslie Grantham) and all somehow linked to the drowned village of Sweethope. Blake becomes convinced that the Sweethope survivors are taking over the country in an invisible alien invasion. The tense drama races from intriguing mystery to gripping sci-fi thriller as Blake finds himself embroiled in a global conspiracy too terrible to consider and possibly too powerful to stop. - Director:
- Norman Stone
- Cast:
- Douglas Hodge, Leslie Grantham, Lia Williams
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A twisted and spine-tingling horror based on the ancient legend of the night hag demon 'Mara'. Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller (Olga Kurylenko) is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie (Mackenzie Imsand). As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep. - Director:
- Clive Tonge
- Cast:
- Olga Kurylenko, Craig Conway, Javier Botet
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When two young men arrive at a family-run guesthouse in rural France, their anticipation of a few days' peace and quiet is undermined by a variety of sinister occurrences. A small bird is found murdered, its neck in a tiny noose, a strangely sexualized stain appears on a wall, and a slug crawls across the breakfast tray. Are these all signs comprising a portent of truly cosmic significance, or merely bizarre coincidences? And is it any wonder that one of the visitors, Witold (piercing-eyed Jonathan Genet) has such difficulty writing his novel, or that his companion Fuchs (Johan Libereau) prefers to find solace in earthier pleasures? - Director:
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Cast:
- Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet
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On a remote mountaintop, a rebel group of commandos perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner (Julianne Nicholson) for a shadowy force known only as 'The Organization'. After a series of unexpected events drives them deep into the jungle, fracturing their intricate bond, their mission slowly begins to collapse. Set against a stunningly beautiful but dangerous landscape, Alejandro Landes' awe-inspiring film is a breathtakingly epic vision that will leave you both mesmerised and utterly gripped. - Director:
- Alejandro Landes
- Cast:
- Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
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The Trial (1962)Le Procès
One morning, Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is arrested without knowing the charges against him. Completely stunned, K. slowly finds himself trapped in a dehumanised nightmare and realizes he is the victim of a grotesque plot. He is accused by everyone, friends and enemies, until, worn down, he ends up doubting his own innocence... - Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli
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Gwen (2018)The Dark Outside
In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox), tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land, a growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family. - Director:
- William McGregor
- Cast:
- Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington, Eleanor Worthington-Cox
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This intense, twisty, provocative thriller unfolds in the darkest corners of a mind. Recently released from prison, mild-mannered Carl (Toby Jones) quietly attempts to move on with his life after leaving prison. Just as he embarks on his first date in 15 years, Carl's fresh start is shattered by the sudden reappearance of his domineering mother (Anne Reid) whose presence awakens a deep-seated trauma. What unfolds is a brain-warping puzzle as reality and illusion, past and present collide and explode in violence. - Director:
- Rupert Jones
- Cast:
- Anne Reid, Sinéad Matthews, Deborah Findlay
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In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama, the tension is palpable when Will (Logan Marshall-Green) shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and new husband David (Michiel Huisman). The estranged divorcees' tragic past haunts an equally eerie present; amid Eden's suspicious behavior and her mysterious house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended with a hidden agenda. Unfolding over one dark evening in the Hollywood Hills, 'The Invitation' blurs layers of mounting paranoia, mystery, and horror until both Will - and the audience - are unsure what threats are real or imagined. - Director:
- Karyn Kusama
- Cast:
- Michiel Huisman, Logan Marshall-Green, John Carroll Lynch
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Mimic 2 (2001)Mimic 2: Hardshell
Four years ago, a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City. Then, research biologists developed a species of "Judas" bugs engineered to "mimic" and overrun the diseased roaches in their grubby habitat. The plan worked until the creatures evolved to mimic their next prey...humans. They were all thought to be dead...but the mutated cockroaches have now undergone another unimaginable metamorphosis and are once again threatening to take over. - Director:
- Jean de Segonzac
- Cast:
- Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes
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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Florence Pugh, Linnea Larsdotter, Jack Reynor
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Shin Godzilla (2016)Shin Gojira
From the mind behind 'Evangelion' comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes. - Director:
- Hideaki Anno
- Cast:
- Christopher Bevins, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi
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