Posts Tagged ‘sacrifice’

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Davidtz, Embeth | Lillard, Matthew | Elizabeth, Shannon | Roberts, Alec | Bourne, JR | Rah Digga | Abraham, F. Murray | Harrison, Matthew | Rupp, Jacob | Crestejo, Mike | Culp, Aubrey | Andre, Charles | Speidel, Mikhael | Wesley, Daniel
Directors: Beck, Steve
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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby’s Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine “designed by the devil and powered by the dead” to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Wicker Man, The (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Burstyn, Ellen | Beahan, Kate | Conroy, Frances | Parker, Molly | Sobieski, Leelee | Delano, Diane | Wiseman, Michael | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Campbell, Christa | Holmes, Emily | Gosling, Zemphira | Walker, Matthew | Black, Mary | Willes, Christine
Directors: LaBute, Neil
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While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter. Along his investigation with the hostile and unhelpful dwellers, Edward discloses that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals to improve their harvest, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. When he locates the girl, he finds also the dark truth about the wicker man.

Reaping, The (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Swank, Hilary | Morrissey, David | Elba, Idris | Robb, AnnaSophia | Rea, Stephen | Ragsdale, William | McConnell, John | Jensen, David | Landry, Yvonne | Garland, Samuel | Cleveland, Myles | Frankle, Andrea | Lynch, Mark | Greer, Stuart | Grice, Lara
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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The death of a child in mysterious circumstances; sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in of all places a town called *Haven* located deep in the bowels of bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate.

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Jones, James Earl | von Sydow, Max | Bergman, Sandahl | Davidson, Ben | Gava, Cassandra | Lopez, Gerry | Mako | Quennessen, Valérie | Smith, William | Barboo, Luis | Columbu, Franco | Foldvary, Leslie | Herman, Gary | Holmey, Erik
Directors: Milius, John
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A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Romano, Ray | Leguizamo, John | Leary, Denis | Scott, Seann William | Peck, Josh | Latifah, Queen | Arnett, Will | Leno, Jay | Wedge, Chris | Ackerman, Peter | Anderson, Caitlin Rose | Anderson, Connor | Bologna, Joseph | Crocicchia, Jack | DeSève, Peter
Directors: Saldanha, Carlos
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Manny (Ray Ramono), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. When a waterpark begins to form, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a wall that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have 3 days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum brothers Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck). As they begin to travel together, Manny learns, with help from Diego and Sid, that having this new mammoth with them, may not be as bad as Manny makes it out to be while they try to escape the oncoming and continually threatening flood. During their journey, Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel has his own hilarious adventures that eventually leads to something else entirely.

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane, Thomas | Burrows, Saffron | LL Cool J | Rapaport, Michael | Skarsgård, Stellan | Jackson, Samuel L. | McKenzie, Jacqueline | Turturro, Aida | Cristos | Rey, Daniel | Rodriguez, Valente | Roam, Brent | Podell, Eyal | Bartlett, Erinn | Thiel, Dan
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Samual L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight brain cancer. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically embiggen shark brains, so that cancer-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don’t much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea…

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cumming, Alan | Shaw, Vinessa | Serbedzija, Rade | Sobieski, Leelee | Masterson, Fay | Cruise, Tom | Kidman, Nicole | Eginton, Madison | Sawiris, Jackie | Pollack, Sydney | Lowe, Leslie | Benson, Peter | Field, Todd | Doven, Michael | Dumont, Sky | Taylor, Louise J. | Thorndike, Stewart | Paul, Randall | Davis, Julienne | Leone, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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Sexual jolts disrupt Manhattan physician Bill Harford’s equilibrium. At an elegant Christmas party, two “models” hit on him, he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife, he aids a woman sprawled naked in a bathroom after an overdose. The next night, his wife reveals sexual fantasies with a stranger; a dead patient’s daughter throws herself at him; as he walks, brooding, six teen boys hurl homophobic insults at him; a streetwalker takes him to her flat; he interrupts men having a sex party with a girl barely in her teens. His odyssey, which next takes him into a world of wealthy sex play at a masked ball of hedonism, threatens his life, his self-respect, and his marriage.

Vertical Limit (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: O'Donnell, Chris | Tunney, Robin | Glenn, Scott | Scorupco, Izabella | Paxton, Bill | Lea, Nicholas | Siddig, Alexander | Taylor, Robert | Morrison, Temuera | Wilson, Stuart | Davis, Augie | Le Marquand, Steve | Mendelsohn, Ben | Seth, Roshan | Valdes-Rochin, Alejandro
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett (Chris O’Donnell), who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world’s second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature’s uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), to ascend the chilling might of the world’s most feared peak to save her.

Silent Hill (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Mitchell, Radha | Bean, Sean | Holden, Laurie | Unger, Deborah Kara | Coates, Kim | Allen, Tanya | Krige, Alice | Ferland, Jodelle | Williams, Colleen | Gabriel, Ron | Crawford, Eve | Ritschel, Derek | Hiebert, Amanda | Dumont, Maxine | Britton, Christopher
Directors: Gans, Christophe
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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.

Independence Day (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | McDonnell, Mary | Goldblum, Jeff | Hirsch, Judd | Colin, Margaret | Smith, Will | Fox, Vivica A. | Quaid, Randy | Loggia, Robert | Rebhorn, James | Fierstein, Harvey | Baldwin, Adam | Spiner, Brent | Duval, James | Jakub, Lisa
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day…