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Man has split the atom and ushered in a new era. But how could he know he would also create Them!? A landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age and boasts remarkable Academy Award - nominated special effects. Starring James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn, Them! begins in New Mexico with a child wondering in shock, a ransacked general store - and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. It ends with an epic struggle in the 700 miles of storm drains under Los Angeles, where the insect hordes are beaten. But they're not conquered because they spawned a generation of films about radioactive creatures. Some approximate the terror but few have equaled the artistry of Them! - Director:
- Gordon Douglas
- Cast:
- James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
When multiple residents of a small Californian town begin to suffer from identical frenzied delusions, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) suspects the community is in the grip of a new kind of epidemic. But his investigations soon reveal the terrifying truth - uncovering not a medical emergency, but a hidden extraterrestrial invasion that threatens mankind's very existence. - Director:
- Don Siegel
- Cast:
- Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
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Legendary Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) has risen from a decades-long slumber and reinvented himself as the closest thing to God on Earth: a Rock Star. The intoxicating lure of his music has snaked its way around the globe, awakening the 6,000 year old Egyptian vampire, Akasha, the Queen of all Vampires (Aaliyah). Resting for centuries, Akasha has been waiting for the right time to rise again and seize domination over the world. Lestat's music is the revelation she has been awaiting for, and she desires that he rule beside her. But can Akasha be stopped? After all, she is used to getting everything she wants... and all she wants is Hell on Earth. - Director:
- Michael Rymer
- Cast:
- Aaliyah, Rashad Haughton, Stuart Townsend
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Tremors 3 (2001)Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
Those morphing, man-eating monsters are shaking things up again in the dusty little town of Perfection, Nevada - and survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is the only solution to the latest in evolution! Aided by a couple of young local entrepreneurs (Shawn Christian and Susan Chuang), Burt pits his impressive knowledge of weaponry against the newest and deadliest generation of Graboids. If Burt and his new partners can't find a way to stop them, then the creatures that put Perfection on the map will wipe it right off the face of the earth. - Director:
- Brent Maddock
- Cast:
- Michael Gross, Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang
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Returning home from a concert a group of friends are involved in an accident. Before help can be a called a strange ambulance arrives on the scene and takes them to hospital. Hurt and frightened the friends search the hospital for their friend - but this is no ordinary hospital and they soon find themselves in a terrifying race to find their injured buddy and escape from the building...before it’s too late. - Director:
- Adam Gierasch
- Cast:
- Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes
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Abandoned on the steps of a rural village temple shortly after his birth, Ting (Tony Jaa) grows up to become a master of Muay Thai and a hero to his people. Protected by a sacred power, he lives in peace with the only family he has ever known. Untill, one day, a single act of betrayal robs his village of its greatest treasure: an ancient and mysterious Buddha statue that brings health and prosperity to all who respect power. Now, with the future of his people lost to fear, Ting must sacrifice all he believes, and, single-handedly, overcome the might of a ruthless criminal empire, to win back their greatest treasure. - Director:
- Prachya Pinkaew
- Cast:
- Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol
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Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind in flesh-devouring zombies despite being scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. As they join forces with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies. - Director:
- Ruben Fleischer
- Cast:
- Jesse Eisenberg, Ashley Lambert, Emma Stone
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It's not hearts that melt when New York's tramps fall in love with beverage called Viper, it's whole bodies in this the gore-drenched shocker that does for alcohol what The Driller Killer did for power tools! An unscrupulous liquor store owner steadily wipes out his city's homeless with lethal booze that melts anyone who consumes it into oblivion! Can a dedicated cop uncover the truth before a seemingly unavoidable hobo holocaust? - Director:
- James M. Muro
- Cast:
- Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Vic Noto
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Arriving in the drought-ridden Namibian town of Bethany, a shape-shifting hitchhiker begins to dismember its residents one by one, choosing for his victims the lonely and unloved, those who have lost everything but life itself. Local policeman Ben Mukurob enlists the help of a shaman in his search for the serial killer residents have named the 'Dust Devil'. Will Mukurob, be able to stop him before he completes his grizzly mission? Based on the legend of the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Dust Devil is a visually striking, atmospheric horror film which depicts a nightmarish world of mysticism and ritual slaughter. - Director:
- Richard Stanley
- Cast:
- Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae
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What could be better? A footballer's wedding, a week in the sun, a luxury villa in historic Transylvania. It's the trip of a lifetime for Coronation Street's favourite café owners Roy and Hayley Cropper, until the brash Glen and Verity appear... Opposites don't attract in this chaotic comic caper as the unlikely foursome embark on an adventure neither couple will ever forget. And when Weatherfield hell-raiser Becky McDonald jets in from her honeymoon, the stage is set for mountain mayhem deep in the heart of Dracula Country. - Director:
- Ian Bevitt
- Cast:
- David Neilson, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Katherine Kelly
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Tremors 2 (1996)Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Earl Bassett (Fred Ward)'s celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil. With the help of a scientist (Helen Shaver) and a new sidekick (Christopher Gartin) - not to mention the return of his gun-toting survivalist pal Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) - Earl is about to learn the Graboids have evolved and are deadlier than ever! - Director:
- S.S. Wilson
- Cast:
- Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver
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Tremors (1990)Beneath Perfection
Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star as two country handymen who lead a cast of zany characters to safety in this exciting sci-fi creature comedy. Just as Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Basset (Fred Ward) decide to leave Perfection, Nevada, strange rumblings prevent their departure. With the help of a shapely seismology student (Finn Carter), they discover their desolate town is infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground. The race is on to overcome these slimy subterraneans and find a way to higher ground. - Director:
- Ron Underwood
- Cast:
- Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter
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The Federation needs you for a desperate do-or-die mission in 'Starship Troopers', the ultimate sci-fi action thriller from the director of 'Total Recall'... hailed for its mind-blowing special effects and amazing futuristic settings! The new millenium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all...an intelligent race of alien bugs, some thirty feet tall, some that fly and all capable of destroying every living thing on Earth! That's where brave young freedom fighter Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) comes in. While Johnny trains in an elite infantry unit, his stunning girlfriend Carmen (Denise Richards) becomes a top starship pilot - but is seduced by a suave flight instructor! - Director:
- Paul Verhoeven
- Cast:
- Casper Van Dien, John Cunningham, Denise Richards
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In this collection, award-winning presenter Louis Theroux steps out for some of his most dangerous and illuminating documentaries yet. Through intense, personal and revealing interviews, Louis gets to the heart of the issues of the times, patrolling an American city besieged by crime in Law and Disorder in Philadelphia; meeting the South African private police units in Law and Disorder in Johannesburg; spending time with sex offenders and therapists in A Place for Paedophiles and visiting California’s Central Valley, to explore a community ravaged by the highly addictive Crystal Meth. - Director:
- Geoffrey O'Connor
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- Louis Theroux
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For a decade, Texas Ranger Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper) has sought to avenge the brutal murder of his kin by the cannibalistic Sawyer family - Leatherface, Chop - Top, Cook and Grandpa. With the help of a radio DJ who's also bent on putting an end to the terror, Lefty finds his way to the Sawyers' underground butcher shop, where a battle of epic proportions soon rages...and the line between good and evil gets chopped to bits! - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow
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