Posts Tagged ‘urban-legend’

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Haig, Sid | Moseley, Bill | Zombie, Sheri Moon | Black, Karen | Hardwick, Chris | Daniels, Erin | Jostyn, Jennifer | Wilson, Rainn | Goggins, Walton | Towles, Tom | McGrory, Matthew | Mukes, Robert Allen | Fimple, Dennis | Young, Harrison | Bassett, William
Directors: Zombie, Rob
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Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. When the four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from, they pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. This is where the two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. As the family attacks the unsuspecting couples, Jerry and his friends try to survive the house of 1000 corpses and it’s dark secrets.

Accepted (2006)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Long, Justin | Hill, Jonah | Herschman, Adam | Short, Columbus | Thayer, Maria | Black, Lewis | Lively, Blake | Derwin, Mark | Cusack, Ann | Marks, Hannah | Taylor, Robin | Baird, Diora | Hursley, Joe | Howard, Jeremy | Heald, Anthony
Directors: Pink, Steve
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the charign of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were also all but dashed). However, his parents want to see the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his other friend Sherman (who has been accepted to the prestigious Harmon College) build a web page, they lease out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman’s uncle Ben (played to perfection by comedian Lewis Black) to be the dean. Problem solved? Not quite. The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned down by other colleges. Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed with turning South Harmon into a real college, and sets about figuring out what to teach and how to teach it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law student and head of the KBE fraternity (which Sherman is trying to become a member of), to discuss building a gateway for Harmon using land presently being used by South Harmon. He tries finding the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Monica, catches him cheating on her, and a big party at South Harmon lures a chunk of Harmon’s students away, including Monica into the arms of Bartleby. Now Hoyt uses Sherman, knowing he has been bouncing between the two schools, in an attempt to bring South Harmon down for good. However, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of Education to prove South Harmon’s worthiness. Can he legally bring the South Harmon Institute of Technology to life and win the love of Monica?

Candyman (1992)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Virginia | Todd, Tony | Berkeley, Xander | Lemmons, Kasi | Williams, Vanessa | Guy, DeJuan | Lowery, Carolyn | Alston, Barbara | Grant, Sarina C. | Culkin, Michael | DeSantis, Stanley | Elliott, Marianna | Raimi, Ted | Pavia, Ria | Daniels, Mark
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client’s daughter. Robitaille’s right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word “Candyman” five times in a mirror, he’ll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn’t believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he’s begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else?

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stringer, Kimberly | Dominguez, Chazz | Hall, Shari | Parnell, R.J. | Kaff, David | Hendra, Tony | McKean, Michael | Guest, Christopher | Shearer, Harry | Kirby, Bruno | Cromie, Jean | Maher, Patrick | Begley Jr., Ed | Kortchmar, Danny
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nevin, Brooke | Paetkau, David | DeVitto, Torrey | Easter, Ben | Packard, Seth | Clyde, K.C. | Taylor, Clayton | Flynn, Michael | Leary, Britt | LaPoint, Star | Richard, Junior | Whitlock, Levy | Chiniquey, Chad | Slack, Manny | Jamison, James
Directors: White, Sylvain
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The latest installment in the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchise focuses on a seemingly harmless Fourth of July prank that ends in the unexpected death of a friend of four teens from a small Colorado town who make a pact to keep the death a secret (despite one’s desperate protest). Over the course of the following year, the four teens find their friendships all horribly strained and all but terminated completely from the trauma. Come the next Fourth of July, just before the town’s annual carnival, the four teens all find themselves being victimized by a mysterious menace when they begin to receive intimidating calling cards indicating someone is aware of what happened before. The group suspect the cousin of the dead friend, only to discover they are very much on the wrong track. Can the friends survive and figure out the identity of their tormentor before they end up dead themselves?

Magnolia (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Healy, Pat | Zweig, Genevieve | Moore, Julianne | Macy, William H. | Flannagan, Mark | Flynn, Neil | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | McLachlan, Rod | Walters, Melora | Graf, Allan | Hall, Philip Baker | Oswalt, Patton | Blackman, Jeremy | Gonzales, Raymond 'Big Guy'
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show “What Do Kids Know?”(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced “WDKK” when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl’s trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her… The host of “WDKK”, Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia’s house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away… Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on “WDKK”, who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He’s been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness…

Daredevil (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Garner, Jennifer | Farrell, Colin | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Favreau, Jon | Terra, Scott | Pompeo, Ellen | Pantoliano, Joe | Orser, Leland | Loftin, Lennie | Avari, Erick
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

Gangs of New York (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | History
Countries: Germany | Italy | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Diaz, Cameron | Broadbent, Jim | Thomas, Henry | Neeson, Liam | Gleeson, Brendan | Reilly, John C. | Lewis, Gary | Graham, Stephen | Marsan, Eddie | McCowen, Alec | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Seymour, Cara | Hemmings, David
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan’s Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!