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The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland, 'In Fabric' is a delirious retail nightmare that blends Euro-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect. Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows the journey of a cursed artery-red dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Peter Strickland
- Cast:
- Gwendoline Christie, Sidse babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz
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Monkey Shines (1988)Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear / Ella
Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is a bitter, angry and vengeful man ever since an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He's fed up with himself and everyone around him. All that changes when he's given Ella, a monkey trained to meet his every need. But when Ella begins anticipating Allan's thoughts, strange and deadly things start happening. And as she stalks and wreaks havoc on Allan's fair-weather girlfriend (Janine Turner), incompetent doctor and meddling mother, Allan realizes he must stop the cunning maniacal creature... before she fully takes over his mind. - Director:
- George A. Romero
- Cast:
- Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil
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Written and directed by Jonah Hill, 'Mid 90's' follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a 13 year-old in '90's LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. This movie follows a teenager named Stevie growing up in Los Angeles. He's struggling with his family, including his co-dependent single mom and his abusive older brother, and at school, where his richer friends seem to overlook him. When Stevie befriends a crew of skateboarders, he learns some tough lessons about class, race, and privilege. - Director:
- Jonah Hill
- Cast:
- Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges
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Presented by genre master Quentin Tarantino and written and directed by Eli Roth, "Hostel" is a dark, bloody exploration of torture and evil. The film centres on two young Americans backpacking through Europe who find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business. Graphic and deeply disturbing, 'Hostel' is one of the most brutal films ever made! - Director:
- Eli Roth
- Cast:
- Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson
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An isolated country mansion promises to be the perfect hideaway for an unsuspecting family on a summer vacation, but the peace and quiet of the country is abruptly shattered by an unspeakable horror. High in the house awaits an evil presence that promises only a vacation of terror from which there is no return. 'Burnt Offerings' is a gothic tale that holds you in the grip of a family's nightmare as they confront the nameless evil of a possessed house. Oliver Reed and Karen Black star as a vacationing college professor and his wife who are besieged by the malevolent force, while Bette Davis is the tenant's aunt. - Director:
- Dan Curtis
- Cast:
- Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith
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Powerful, compelling and deeply shocking, 'Kids' spends twenty-four frenetic hours with a group of New York teenagers. Skateboarders Telly and Casper hang out, shoplift, do drugs and seduce girls. Jennie (Chloe Sevigny) follows the pair across the city, desperate to confront them with a terrible truth. - Director:
- Larry Clark
- Cast:
- Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny
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A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, The Age Of Innocence chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1880's. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an upstanding lawyer who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Engaged to the lovely but ordinary socialite May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland resigns himself to a life of quiet complacency. But when May's unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) returns to New York amid social and sexual scandal, Newland becomes captivated by her mysterious authority and outstanding beauty. Now he must choose between May and the world he knows, and Ellen and the world he dreams of having. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Joanne Woodward, Michelle Pfeiffer
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Cabin Fever (2003)Cabin Fever 1
There's a killer in the woods…one you can't hear…one you can't see…one you can't escape. Fresh out of college, Jeff (Joey Kern), Karen (Jordan Ladd), Paul (Rider Strong), Marcy (Cerina Vincent) and Bert (James DeBello) head up to a remote cabin for a weekend of alcohol drenched sex and sunbathing. When Karen gets sick, they grow paranoid that they have become infected with a flesh-eating virus. The struggle against the repulsive killer turns into a battle against friends, as fear drives them to turn on each other in the fight for survival. - Director:
- Eli Roth
- Cast:
- Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello
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Young David Gardner (Hunter Carson) lives with his parents in a rural area near the Marine Corps facility where his father works as a NASA research scientist. During a violent thunderstorm, David is startled awake by a blinding flash of light. From out his bedroom window he observes a flying saucer landing behind the nearby hill. Frightened, David runs to tell his mother, Ellen (Laraine Newman), and father, George (Timothy Bottoms) and his father reluctantly agrees to investigate. Arriving back at the house, George reports that nothing is there. But his manner seems changed - cold and remote. The boy also notices a small bloody mark, much like an "X", at the back of his father's neck. George later takes his wife up the hillside and she too returns changed. With the help of the school nurse (Karen Black) and the U.S Marines they must fight to save Davis parents and the village from being controlled by Martians. - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms
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Daughters of Darkness (1971)Les lèvres rouges
A recently eloped, troubled young couple book into a luxurious but desolate hotel. Valerie is young, naive and curious, whereas Stefan's sadistic tendencies are slowly bubbling to the surface. When a mysterious, exotic countess arrives at the hotel with her voluptuous assistant, things take a turn for the bizarre. As the night draws in, the newlyweds are slowly seduced into an erotically charged, supernatural world of uncontrollable lust and murder. Can they resist the lure of fevered temptation or must they submit to their darkest fantasies? - Director:
- Harry Kümel
- Cast:
- Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet
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Frank Carveth is afraid, afraid of his ex-wife's sanity, fearful for the effects of her influence on their six-year-old daughter, and ultimately, fearful for his own life. His daughter's teacher Ruth is attacked by two misshapen children in her kindergarten class, leading Carveth to unravel the connections between a series of murders, his relationship with his ex-wife, a radical psychotherapy cult, and the mysterious Dr. Raskin (Oliver Reed). As the menace of the terrifying, dangerous child-like creatures comes close to home, Carveth must uncover their true nature before both he and his daughter become their victims. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem... - Director:
- Samuel Fuller
- Cast:
- Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
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Tokyo Gore Police (2008)Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu
Set in a future Tokyo where the police have been privatized, mad scientist Key Man has created a rampaging virus that mutates unsuspecting humans into nightmarish abominations of nature. To deal with these monstrosities, the Tokyo police have created a special squad. Chief of them is Ruka (Eihi Shiina), a sword-wielding fighter with a special knack for dispatching with Key Man's hideous creations. Despite being on opposite sides of the law, Key Man and Ruka have one common goal: seeking vengeance against the cops who killed both of their fathers many years ago. - Director:
- Yoshihiro Nishimura
- Cast:
- Eihi Shiina, Bob Buchholz, Itsuji Itao
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Never before have music and movie magic been blended to create such an exhilarating sight and sound experience. The special wonder of Mickey Mouse as the mischievous Sorcerer s Apprentice, the breathtaking beauty of mythical lady centaurs, winged fairies and cascading snowflakes, the pure fun of hippos in tutus performing the most hilarious ballet ever! These images, familiar and beloved by generations of moviegoers all over the world, can now be enjoyed again and again in this timeless original. See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Walt Disney's innovative Fantasia! - Director:
- Wilfred Jackson
- Cast:
- Leopold Stokowski, Corey Burton, Walt Disney
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Godzilla (1954): Gojira
Made in 1954, 'Godzilla' was Japan's first foray into big budget sci fi - costing ten times the budget of the average Japanese feature and twice as much as Seven Samurai - released the same year. The film created a monster that would enter the lexicon of popular culture, spawn fifty years of sequels and inspire a new genre: the kaiju eiga or Japanese monster movie. Directed by Ishiro Honda, a friend and collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, and starring Takashi Shimura as the revered paleontologist who uncovers the horrible secret at the heart of the monster (Godzilla is a long dormant Jurassic beast awoken by the atom bomb), the original Godzilla is a fierce indictment of the atomic age. Sold to an American distributor, the film was cut, dubbed into English, re-titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters! and new scenes were added starring Raymond Burr as an American reporter observing the monsters rampage from the sidelines. All trace of the anti-nuclear message was excised in the American version. Now regarded as one of the great classics of cinema and still rated amongst the top twenty Japanese movies of all time, the original Godzilla is perhaps the definitive monster movie - both a bold metaphor for the atomic age and a thrilling tour de force of pioneering special effects. - Director:
- Ishirô Honda
- Cast:
- Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
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