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Horror

My Amityville Horror

Edited, Written, & Directed by Eric Walter Produced by Andrea Adams, John R. Blythe & Walter Released by IFC Midnight USA. 98 min. Not rated At its heart, My Amityville Horror is about what happens to a normal person put through extraordinary, horrifying, and traumatic experiences, and how he comes out on the other side. […]

The ABCs of Death

Directed by Kaare Andrews, Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett, Angela Bettis, Adrián García Bogliano, Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet, Jason Eisener, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Xavier Gens, Jorge Michel Grau, Lee Hardcastle, Noburo Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Simon Rumley, Nacho […]

War Witch

Written & Directed by Kim Nguyen Produced by Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin & Item 7 Released by Tribeca Film Canada. 90 min. Not rated French & Lingala with English subtitles With Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien, Mizinga Mwinga & Ralph Prosper Imagine a devastated world where starving children are brutally pitted against each other […]

Stoker

Directed by Park Chan-wook Written by Wentworth Miller Produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bergen Swanson & Michael Costigan Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 98 min. Rated R With Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver, Phyllis Somerville & Harmony Korine Stoker starts right off steeped in tragedy—an upper-middle class woman, Evelyn Stoker (Nicole […]

Sleep Tight

Directed by Jaume Balagueró Produced by Julio Fernández Written by Alberto Maurini Released by Dark Sky Films/MPI Media Group Spain. 102 min. Not rated With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martinez, Iris Almeida, and Carlos Lasuarte César (Luis Tosar) works at the front desk as the concierge of a small Barcelona apartment […]

Hitchcock

Directed by Sacha Gervasi Produced by Alan Barnette, Joe Medjuck, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman & Tom Thayer Written by John G. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, […]

The Awakening

Directed by Nick Murphy Written by Murphy & Stephen Volk Produced by David M. Thompson, Julia Stannard & Sarah Curtis Released by Cohen Media Group UK. 102 min. Rated R With Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Cal Macaninch, Isaac Hempstead-Wright & Joseph Mawle Florence Cathcart isn’t a believer in ghosts. […]

Compliance

Written & Directed by Craig Zobel Produced by Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, Tyler Davidson, Theo Sena & Zobel Released by Magnolia Pictures. USA. 90 min. Rated R With Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger & James McCaffrey Go see Compliance. Why? Because I told you to. If you still think that […]

The Pact

Written & Directed by Nicholas McCarthy Produced by Ross Dinerstein Released by IFC Films USA. 90 min. Rated R. With Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner & Haley Hudson Okay, let’s get the plot out of the way. After her mother passes away, Annie (Caity Lotz) returns to the family home where she was […]