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I Spit on Your Grave

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 11:34 am

I Spit on Your Grave

Praised by some as a feminist tract, reviled by others as exploitation, Meir Zarchi’s 1978 film I Spit on Your Grave was met with a firestorm of controversy that continues to this day. On October 8, 2010, Anchor Bay Films will release the Zarchi approved remake, and is poised to be as much a hot-button talking point as was the original.

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject Jennifer to a nightmare of degradation, rape and violence. Left for dead, she returns for vengeance. Trapping her male attackers one-by-one, she inflicts acts of physical torment upon them with a ferocity that surpasses her own ordeal. When the carnage clears, victim has become victor.

A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

I Spit on Your Grave

They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away.

As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn’t about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer’s sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her… only much, much worse.

Directed by: Steven R. Monroe
Starring: Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong sadistic brutal violence, rape and torture, nudity and language.
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Release Date: October 8th, 2010

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Buried

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 11:15 am

Buried

Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up 6 feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited. Poor reception, a rapidly draining battery, and a dwindling oxygen supply become his worst enemies in a tightly confined race against time- fighting panic, despair and delirium, Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued before his worst nightmare comes true.

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Samantha Mathis, Stephen Tobolowsky, José Luis García Pérez
Screenplay by: Chris Sparling
MPAA Rating: R for language and some violent content.
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: October 8th, 2010

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Stone

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 10:49 am

Milla Jovovich in Stone

As parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the case of Gerald “Stone” Creeson (Edward Norton), in prison for covering up the murder of his grandparents with a fire. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man’s decision have profound and unexpected effects on them both.

Stone skillfully weaves together the parallel journeys of two men grappling with dark impulses, as the line between lawman and lawbreaker becomes precariously thin. The film’s superb ensemble features Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element) as Lucetta, Stone’s sexy, casually amoral wife, and Golden Globe winner Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under) as Madylyn, Jack’s devout, long-suffering spouse.

Set against the quiet desperation of an economically ravaged community and the stifling brutality of a maximum security prison, this tale of passion, betrayal and corruption examines the fractured lives of two volatile men breaking from their troubled pasts to face uncertain futures.

Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and Oscar nominee Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections official and a scheming inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined in Stone, a thought-provoking drama directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don’t Live Here Anymore) and written by Angus McLachlan (Junebug).

Directed by: John Curran
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich, Frances Conroy, Enver Gjokaj
Screenplay by: Angus MacLachlan
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Overture Films
Release Date: October 8th, 2010

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Let Me In

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 10:26 am

Let Me In

An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in “Let Me In,” a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield”).

Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.

When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.

The gifted cast of “Let Me In” takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel “Lat den Ratte Komma In” (“Let the Right One In”) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name.

Directed by: Matt Reeves
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Jimmy Pinchak, Sasha Barrese, Cara Buono, Chris Browning
Screenplay by: Matt Reeves
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Overture Films
Release Date: October 1st, 2010

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Case 39

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 10:14 am

Case 39

In Case 39, family services social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) thinks she has seen it all… until she meets 10-year old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland) and the child’s cruel and dangerous parents. Her worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm Lily, their only daughter.

Frightened for her life, Emily enlists the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane) and takes Lily in while she continues the search for the perfect foster family. Just as it seems as though Lily is on her way to a more loving home, under the guidance of Emily and psychiatrist (Bradley Cooper), dark forces surrounding this young girl come to light and, little do they know, their attempts to protect her will only bring on greater horror…

Directed by: Christian Alvart
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Kerry O’Malley, Callum Keith Rennie
Screenplay by: Ray Wright
MPAA Rating: R for violence and terror, including disturbing images.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: October 1st, 2010

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Chain Letter

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 10:08 am

Chain LetterWhen high school senior Jessie Campbell (Nikki Reed) and her tight-knit group of friends begin to receive a series of foreboding email chain letters, they have no idea the terror that awaits them. With a warning that if they break the chain, they will lose a life, the seemingly harmless email turns deadly when one-by-one the friends that do not forward the chain letter are hunted down and gruesomely killed by horror’s newest villain, the Chain Man.

A terrifying horror film that will leave audiences wondering if modern technology is really as safe as we think it is, Chain Letter was directed by Deon Taylor and written by Taylor and Michael J. Pagan.

The film stars Nikki Reed (Twilight, New Moon, Thirteen), Michael J. Pagan (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Nite Tales), Noah Segan (Deadgirl), Matt Cohen (Boogeyman 2), Cody Kasch (Desperate Housewives), Betsy Russell (Saw III, Saw IV), Cherilyn Wilson (90210), Brad Dourif (Alien, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Keith David (Crash, Barbershop), with Michael Bailey Smith (The Hills Have Eyes) as the killer.

Directed by: Deon Taylor
Starring: Nikki Reed, Brad Dourif, Keith David, Michael Pagan, Betsy Russell, Ling Bai, Cherilyn Wilson
Screenplay by: Diana Erwin, Michael J. Pagan, Deon Taylor
MPAA Rating: R for strong, bloody, sadistic violence throughout, language and brief nudity.
Studio: Twisted Pictures
Release Date: October 1st, 2010

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The Experiment

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 9:48 am

The Experiment

The film is a remake of the German psychological thriller Das Experiment directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, which centered on a group of ordinary men recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study and examined how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affected the participants.

Brody portrays the de facto leader of the prisoners while Whitaker plays a guard who’s corrupted by the power he’s given.

Directed by: Paul Scheuring
Starring: Adrien Brody, Fisher Stevens, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr.
Screenplay by: Mario Giordano, Paul Scheuring
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Release Date: September 24th, 2010

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Devil

Posted by  on 22 August 2010, 3:53 pm

Devil

A group of people, including a formerly alcoholic homicide detective (Messina), trapped in an elevator discover that one of them is the devil. Written and produced by M. Night Shyamalan.

Directed by: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle
Btarring: Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Caroline Dhavernas, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven
Screenplay by: Brian Nelson, M. Night Shyamalan
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and disturbing images, thematic material and some language including sexual references.
Release Date: September 17th, 2010
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Basement

Posted by  on 15 August 2010, 6:02 am

Basement

Five diverse people inadvertently enter an underground base. They run into a nightmare scenario. Through a series of flashbacks we get clues and hints to why they are there and we realize that all have an important connection to each other and the place. But they soon learn that this situation is far bigger than them alone; it affects us all.

Returning from an anti-war demo, the chaos of horror ensues when stoner Gary (Danny Dyer – Severance), quiet and insular Sarah (Kierston Wareing – Fish Tank), vain Saffron (Lois Winstone – Beyond The Rave), posh Pru (Emily Beecham – 28 Weeks Later) and Pru’s arrogant boyfriend Derek (Jimi Mistry – RocknRolla) stop in the country.

When Derek and the flirtatious Saffron find an unexplained metal hatch in the middle of the forest, curiosity wins and they decide to explore inside. Searching for their missing friends, Gary, Pru and Sarah are forced to follow but the hatch locks behind them, and the shadows that lurk in the darkness force the whole group to run for their lives… In this fight of good versus evil – only the most evil will survive.

Directed by: Asham Kamboj
Starring: Danny Dyer, Jimi Mistry, Emily Beecham, Kierston Wareing, Christopher Ellison
Screenplay by: Ewen Glass, Asham Kamboj
MPAA Rating: Not Rated.
Release Date: August 20th, 2010
Studio: Revolver Entertainment

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The Last Exorcism

Posted by  on 6 August 2010, 9:52 pm

The Last Exorcism

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.

Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late.

Directed by: Daniel Stamm
Starring: Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Ashley Bell, Jamie Alyson Caudle
Screenplay by: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing violent content and terror, some sexual references and thematic material.
Release Date: August 27th, 2010
Studio: Lionsgate Films

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

Posted by  on 31 July 2010, 1:40 am

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Two journalists on the verge of exposing their story in Millennium about an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden are brutally murdered. Lisbeth Salander’s prints are on the weapon.

Mikael Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings which will implicate highly placed members of Swedish society, business and government. Knowing Salander to be fierce when fearful, he is desperate to get to her before she is cornered and alone but she is nowhere to be found. Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander’s past life. Committed to psychiatric care at aged 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, she is the product of an unjust and corrupt system.

Meanwhile, the elusive Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past.

Novelist Stieg Larsson died suddenly in 2004 and left behind three unpublished novels known as the Millennium trilogy. Since his first novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was published in Sweden in 2005, the trilogy has become a major international sensation with an estimated 40 million copies of all of Larsson’s books sold worldwide. To say it is unusual for a posthumous work in translation to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list is an understatement. To see a posthumous work in translation reach number one around the world is unprecedented.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the third novel in the trilogy will be published in the U.S. on May 25. The film adaptation will be released by Music Box Films in theatres on October 15.

Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Peter Andersson
Screenplay by: Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson
MPAA Rating: R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Release Date: July 9th, 2010
Studio: Music Box Films

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Piranha 3D

Posted by  on 31 July 2010, 12:48 am

Piranha 3D

Jaws… lots and lots of jaws. From acclaimed director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller PIRANHA 3D, in the latest eye-popping 3D technology. A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on beautiful Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents. But our heroine (Elisabeth Shue) is seriously outnumbered, and with only one chance to save the lake and her family from totally being devoured, she must risk everything to destroy the aquatic carnivores herself.

From director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller Piranha. Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break; a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there’s something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.

Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O’Connell, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss
MPAA Rating: None.
Release Date: August 20th, 2010
Studio: Dimension Films

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