Posts Tagged ‘gothic’

Howling, The (1981)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wallace, Dee | Macnee, Patrick | Dugan, Dennis | Stone, Christopher | Balaski, Belinda | McCarthy, Kevin | Carradine, John | Pickens, Slim | Brooks, Elisabeth | Picardo, Robert | Impert, Margie | Willingham, Noble | Murtaugh, James | McKrell, Jim | Tobey, Kenneth
Directors: Dante, Joe
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There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at a Pussycat Theater, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn’t want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that’s where she decides to vacation with boyfriend Chris. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn’t want any interviews. Can Karen and Chris escape the village of the wolf?

Gabriel (2007)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: Australia
Actors: Whitfield, Andy | Stevenson, Dwaine | Noble, Samantha | Heynatz, Erika | Piccirilli, Michael | Pavlidis, Harry | Campbell, Jack | Copeland, Kevin | Clearkin, Brendan | Todd, Matt Hylton | Toro, Valentino del | Kleut, Goran D. | Mathews, Amy | Clark, Christian | Earl, Johan
Directors: Abbess, Shane
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GABRIEL tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city’s inhabitants.

Christine (1983)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gordon, Keith | Stockwell, John | Paul, Alexandra | Prosky, Robert | Stanton, Harry Dean | Belford, Christine | Blossom, Roberts | Ostrander, William | Spielberg, David | Danare, Malcolm | Tash, Steven | Charno, Stuart | Preston, Kelly | Poppel, Marc | Darnell, Robert
Directors: Carpenter, John
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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie’s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine’s previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Spacey, Kevin | Thompson, Jack | Hall, Irma P. | Law, Jude | Alison Eastwood | Hipp, Paul | Chablis, Lady | Loudon, Dorothy | Haney, Anne | Hunter, Kim | Lewis, Geoffrey | Herd, Richard | Rippy, Leon | Gunton, Bob
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.

Crow, The (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Brandon | Davis, Rochelle | Hudson, Ernie | Wincott, Michael | Bai, Ling | Shinas, Sofia | Levine, Anna | Kelly, David Patrick | David, Angel | Mason, Laurence | Massee, Michael | Todd, Tony | Polito, Jon | Raymond, Bill | Rodríguez, Marco
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Hauer, Rutger | Young, Sean | Olmos, Edward James | Walsh, M. Emmet | Hannah, Daryl | Sanderson, William | James, Brion | Turkel, Joe | Cassidy, Joanna | Hong, James | Paull, Morgan | Thompson, Kevin | Allen, John Edward | Pyke, Hy
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Dracula (1979)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Ryder, Winona | Hopkins, Anthony | Reeves, Keanu | Grant, Richard E. | Elwes, Cary | Campbell, Bill | Frost, Sadie | Waits, Tom | Bellucci, Monica | Bercu, Michaela | Kendrick, Florina | Robinson, Jay | Hobson, I.M. | Franks, Laurie
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy’s friend Mina, and her fiancé Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Music
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Aaliyah | Townsend, Stuart | Moreau, Marguerite | Perez, Vincent | McGann, Paul | Olin, Lena | Manon, Christian | Black, Claudia | Spence, Bruce | Newton, Matthew | Mora, Tiriel | Dorman, Megan | Devoy, Johnathan | Farnham, Robert | Standish, Conrad
Directors: Rymer, Michael
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After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king…

American Psycho (2000)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Theroux, Justin | Lucas, Josh | Sage, Bill | Sevigny, Chloë | Witherspoon, Reese | Mathis, Samantha | Ross, Matt | Leto, Jared | Dafoe, Willem | Seymour, Cara | Turner, Guinevere | Bogaert, Stephen | Meier, Monika | Cathey, Reg E.
Directors: Harron, Mary
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Neill, Sam | Keena, Monica | Davis, Viola | Bellows, Gil | Glover, Brian | Conrad, David | Brophy, Anthony | Cuka, Frances | Bauer, Chris | Allen, John Edward | Táborský, Miroslav | Tiernan, Andrew | Pringle, Bryan | Wyatt, Dale
Directors: Cohn, Michael
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers’ story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren’t dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.