IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994)

Directed by: John Carpenter

Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, Charlton Heston, John Glover, Bernie Casey, Kali Rocha, Peter Jason, Frances Bay, Wilhelm von Homburg, Hayden Christensen, Sean Roberge, Kieran Sells, Kevin Zegers, Katie Zegers

95 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:

With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems.

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NO GOOD DEED (2014)

Directed by: Sam Miller

Produced by: Will Packer, Lee Clay

Starring: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons, Mark Smith, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Mirage Moonschein

84 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta, when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

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THE GUILTY (2021)

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Vidal, Adrian Martinez (voices) Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Eli Goree, Ethan Hawke, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Christiana Montoya, David Castaneda, Beau Knapp, Edi Patterson, Paul Dano, Gillian Zinser, Bill Burr, Dillon Lane, Aileen Burdock, Marlene Forte

90 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Troubled LAPD officer Joe Baylor is working the night shift at a 911 call center while he awaits a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. He answers a call from a woman named Emily Lighton who reveals she has been abducted. Joe learns that she and her abductor are traveling in a white van, but Emily is forced to hang up before she can provide more details. Joe relays the information to the California Highway Patrol, but they are unable to locate the van without a license plate number. Joe will try everything he can to find Emily.

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THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD (1995)

Directed by: Frank Oz

Based on the novel by: Lynne Reid Banks

Screenplay by: Melissa Mathison

Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Jane Startz

Starring: Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins, Rishi Bhat, Steve Coogan, David Keith, Sakina Jaffrey, Vincent Kartheiser, Nestor Serrano, Ryan Olson, Michael Papajohn, Frank Welker, Lucas Tejwani, Leon Tejwani

96 minutes

(PG - mild language)

PLOT:

Omri, a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of presents for his birthday: a wooden cupboard from his older brother, a set of antique keys from his mother, Jane, and a plastic Indian from his best friend, Patrick. Putting them all together, Omri locks the Indian in the cupboard, only to be awoken by a strange sound in the middle of the night. He opens the cupboard to discover that the Indian has come to life; it seems that he's called Little Bear, and he claims to have learned English from settlers in 1761. Omri hides this remarkable discovery from Jane but shares it with Patrick as an experiment. Patrick locks a plastic cowboy in the cupboard, and soon Little Bear has a companion named Boone, though predictably, they don't get along well at first. Omri comes to the realizations that his living and breathing playthings are also people with lives of their own, and he begins to wonder how much control he should really have over their lives.

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DOWN A DARK HALL (2018)

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes

Based on the novel by: Lois Duncan

Starring: Uma Thurman, AnnaSophia Robb, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Isabelle Fuhrman, Taylor Russell, Rosie Day, Rebecca Front, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Kirsty Mitchell, Jim Sturgeon, David Elliot, Brian Bovell, Ramiro Blas, Josep Linuesa, Julia Stressen-Reuter

96 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, scenes of terror)

PLOT:

Since her father's death when she was a child, Kit Gordy has grown into a troubled teen to the disgust of her mother Ginny and her stepfather Dave Dabrowski, called to the principal's office of her high school and accused of a failed attempt to burn it, she is expelled, but Dr. Heather Sinclair, member of the staff of the Blackwood Boarding School, appears to offer her a place in the next school year. Ginny enlists Kit against her will in an attempt to reform her daughter, and Kit travel to Blackwood, an isolated, dark old mansion in the middle of a forest outside the city. There she meets her companions: nice Izzy, shy Ashley, reluctant Sierra, and borderline Veronica, teens as troubled as herself. During dinner, Kit and the others meet Blackwood's headmistress, Madame Duret, and the rest of the staff: Professor Farley (math); Jules Duret (music); Heather Sinclair (arts); and Mrs. Olonsky, Madame Duret's rude right-hand peacekeeper. Locked in a place without Internet, cell phones, or any other trace of modern technology, Kit watches as everyone changes in strange ways: Izzy develops an extreme obsession for mathematics, Sierra for painting, Ashley for writing, and herself for piano; meanwhile, Veronica seems immune to obsession. Trapped between strange memory gaps and her love interest in Madame Duret's son Jules, Kit asks Veronica's to discover the reason for their different changes. They investigate the forbidden, ruined wing of Blackwood and discover that all of them--Izzy, Ashley, Sierra, Veronica, and Kit--have one secret in common, and that previous students suffered a horrible fate caused by Blackwood's supernatural forces, and it will be their fate as well unless they find a way to avoid it.

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NOW AND FOREVER (1983)

Directed by: Adrian Carr

Based on the novel by: Danielle Steel

Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Robert Coleby, Carmen Duncan, Christine Amor, Aileen Britton, Alex Scott, Kris McQuade, John Allen, Rod Mullinar, Kevin Healy, Michael Long, Tim Burns, Henri Szeps, Redmond Phillips, Amanda Ma, Sarah De Teliga, Ray Marshall, Paul Bertram, Alan Tobin, Reg Gillam

89 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations)

PLOT:

A couple's seemingly "perfect" marriage is shaken when the husband is charged with rape.

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HE'S OUT THERE (2018)

 

Directed by: Dennis Iliadis (Quinn Lasher)

Starring: Yvonne Strahovski, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Ryan McDonald, Justin Bruening, Julian Bailey

89 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

SCROOGED (1988)

Directed by: Richard Donner

Based on the novella "A Christmas Carol" by: Charles Dickens

Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, Alfre Woodard, John Glover, David Johansen, Nicholas Phillips, Mary Ellen Trainor, Mabel King, John Murray, Wendie Malick, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lisa Mende, Maria Riva, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Kathy Kinney, Robert Hammond, Lee Majors, Miles Davis, Paul Shaffer, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, John Houseman, Robert Goulet, Buddy Hackett, Mary Lou Retton, Jamie Farr, Pat McCormick, Chaz Conner Jr, Anne Ramsey, Logan Ramsey

100 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Francis Xavier Cross is a cynical, mean-spirited television executive, he treats his loyal assistant with contempt. He just sacked a member of staff on Christmas Eve for simply disagreeing with him, and he's alienated himself from his brother who still insists on inviting Frank to Christmas dinner despite him refusing to go every year. However, Frank is forced to learn the true meaning of Christmas when he's visited by three ghosts.

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MORTUARY (2005)

Directed by: Tobe Hooper

Starring: Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Denise Crosby, Courtney Peldon, Bug Hall, Stephanie Patton, Tarah Paige, Rocky Marquette, Michael Shamus Wiles, Greg Travis, Price Carson, Adam Gierasch, Lee Garlington

94 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, some nudity, drug use)

PLOT:

The widow Leslie Doyle has just lost her husband and moves with her teenage son Jonathan and her young daughter Jamie to a mortuary in a small town in California that she has bought with the intention of starting a new business, practicing her knowledge as mortician. When they arrive, Leslie realizes that she was lured by the former owner, Elliot, and that the decrepit Fowler Brothers Funeral Home was completely abandoned and with problem with the septic sewer. While Leslie tries to improve and clean the place and start embalming corpses, Jonathan is informed about the legend of Bobby Fowler, the deformed son of the Fowlers. Meanwhile a weird substance attacks people, transforming them in zombies.

 

'NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES (1934)

Directed by: Harry L. Fraser

Starring: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwell, Yakima Canutt, Jay Wilsey, Philip Kieffer, Earl Dwire, Harry L. Fraser

53 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Sam Black, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes.

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THREE AMIGOS! (1986)

Directed by: John Landis

Screenplay by: Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman

Starring: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Patrice Martinez, Joe Mantegna, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Tino Insana, Loyda Ramos, Phillip Gordon, Kai Wulff, Fred Asparagus, Norbert Weisser, Brian Thompson, Randy Newman, Rebecca Underwood

103 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

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When silent film stars Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander get fired, they take a job offer from Mexico: Doing a show with El Guapo, supposedly the most famous actor there. Traveling there in hope of getting good money, they arrive only to learn soon that El Guapo is not an actor, but a cruel gang leader suppressing people. He abducts the mayor's beautiful daughter Carmen (to be his wife) in revenge for the people's cry for help. Now, all hopes of the village folks rest on the weak shoulders of three minor-talented actors, who can't just walk off the set this time.

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THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983)

 

Directed by: Douglas McKeown

Starring: Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler, Karen Tighe, James Brewster, Elissa Neil, Ethel Michelson, John Schmerling

78 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:

Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.

POWERS OF TEN (1977)

Directed by: Charles Eames, Ray Eames

Based on the scientific book "Cosmic View" by: Kees Boeke

Narrated by: Philip Morrison

9 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.

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MY YOUNG AUNTIE (1981)

Directed by: Lau Kar-leung

Starring: Lau Kar-leung, Kara Hui, Gordon Liu, Wang Lung Wei, Hsiao Ho

100 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, martial arts violence)
Country of origin: China

PLOT:

Cheng Tai-Nan is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. Tai-Nan is young enough to be his granddaughter, but still agrees to marry her master so that all of his wealth will be lawfully safe with her so she can then transfer it to Ching-Chuen, her new husband/master's favorite nephew. This angers the hateful Yung-Sheng greatly, who sends multiple thugs after Tai-Nan, but she is a highly skilled martial artist who is not easily defeated. Amazingly, things become even more complicated when Ching-Chuen's son, Yu Tao, arrives home from a university in Hong Kong and discovers a mysterious woman in his house and attacks her, not realizing she is actually his new great aunt, Tai-Nan. Complicating things even more is the uncomfortable sexual tension between Yu Tao and Tai-Nan. Next Yung-Sheng finally manages to steal all the paperwork, titles, and deeds to Ching-Chuen's wealth. Left with no choice but to lead an all-out attack against Yung-Sheng at his booby-trapped mansion, Tai-Nan decides to get Ching-Chuen and his older brothers back into fighting shape.

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WOLVES AT THE DOOR (2016)

Directed by: John R. Leonetti

Starring: Katie Cassidy, Elizabeth Henstridge, Adam Campbell, Miles Fisher, Spencer Daniels, Lucas Adams, Chris Mulkey, Arlen Escarpeta, Jane Kaczmarek, Eric Ladin, Alizabeth R. Blackburn, Matt Dority, Nina Boyer, Ashley Leilani

73 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, drug use)

PLOT:

Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror. The intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be an attack by a Manson Family type group.

 

SOMEONE MARRY BARRY (2014)

Directed by: Rob Pearlstein

Starring: Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr, Lucy Punch, Hayes MacArthur, Thomas Middleditch, Frankie Shaw, Ed Helms, Ginger Gonzaga, Amanda Lund, Jerry Minor, Greg Germann, Brett Gelman, Joe Lo Truglio

87 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, mild violence, nudity, drug use)

PLOT:

Three friends plot to get rid of their socially inappropriate friend by finding him a wife, but when he meets a woman just like him, their problems double.

 

INVADERS FROM MARS (1986)

Directed by: Tobe Hooper

Screenplay by: Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby

Starring: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, Bud Cort, Louise Fletcher, Eric Pierpoint, Christopher Allport, Donald Hotton, Kenneth Kimmins, Charlie Dell, Jimmy Hunt, Virginia Keehne, Chris Hebert, Mason Nupuf, William Frankfather, Eric Norris, Debra Berger, Dale Dye, Scott Leva, Joseph Anthony Cox

100 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

One night, a young boy sees a spaceship landing near his house. He tells his father to investigate and vanishes. Soon, more people disappear, only to reappear and act unusual. He learns that aliens are controlling the earthlings with the intent of invasion, but no one believes him.

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