Posts Tagged ‘witchcraft’

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

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.

Blair Witch Project, The (1999)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: | | Bob Griffith | Leonard, Joshua | Williams, Michael C.
Directors: Myrick, Daniel
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Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend… The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

Craft, The (1996)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ulrich, Skeet | Meyer, Breckin | Marston, Nathaniel | De Young, Cliff | Senzy, Arthur | Hules, Endre | Conlon, Mark | Newman, William | Britt, Rod | Roche, Brogan | Genaro, Tony | Filardi, Jason | Kapelos, John | Mangan, Darin
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Sarah Bailey, a sixteen year old troubled teenager with a painful past and a history of suicidal tendencies and hallucinations, moves to L.A. with her father and stepmother to start a new life - and is enrolled into a Catholic school. It is at school that she comes into contact with three unlikely friends, Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle, all who are socially outcast with various problems in their lives that they wish they could fix. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle dabble in occult practices, and when they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven. When Sarah joins, they soon realize that with a fourth witch in the coven they can begin to cast spells they couldn’t before, and begin to amend all the things wrong in their lives - but like everything else in life - things come with a price.

Covenant, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Strait, Steven | Stan, Sebastian | Kitsch, Taylor | Crawford, Chace | Hemingway, Toby | Schmid, Kyle | McHattie, Stephen | Welsh, Kenneth | Baril, Christian | Burns, Rob | Crooks, Robert | Crowder, Steven | Day, Larry | DeFilippo, Vito | Deveau, Jonathan
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In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families of powerful witches commit to a covenant of silence to protect themselves against the witch hunters, but one of the families transgress their pact and is banished from their lands. Along the centuries, the power and the covenant are transmitted through their descendants and when the eldest son is eighteen years old, he ascends to a higher power. However, the use of magic addicts and if used in excess, ages the warlock. In the present days, four wizards teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers is close to his eighteenth birthday and consequently to ascend. He has just met Sarah Wenham and they are dating, when the appearance of darkling and supernatural dreams haunt the group. Sooner they find an evil warlock, descendant of the fifth ancient family that wants to strip Caleb’s power.

Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Argento, Asia | Solimeno, Cristian | James, Adam | Atias, Moran | Cavalli, Valeria | Leroy, Philippe | Nicolodi, Daria | Cataldi-Tassoni, Coralina | Kier, Udo | Madison, Robert | Ichikawa, Jun | Banfi, Tommaso | Leo, Franco | Riche, Clive | Sarchielli, Massimo
Directors: Argento, Dario
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The final installment of Dario Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who “unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world’s most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the ‘Mother of Tears’ before her evil conquers the world.”

Ninth Gate, The (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Langella, Frank | Olin, Lena | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Jefford, Barbara | Taylor, Jack | López Rodero, José | Amoni, Tony | Russo, James | Holt, Willy | Garfield, Allen | Dacqmine, Jacques | Sheridan, Joe | Pauly, Rebecca | Benguigui, Catherine
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

Witches, The (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Huston, Anjelica | Zetterling, Mai | Fisher, Jasen | Horrocks, Jane | Lambton, Anne | Atkinson, Rowan | Paterson, Bill | Blethyn, Brenda | Potter, Charlie | Smith, Sukie | English, Rose | Runacre, Jenny | Brooks, Annabel | Relph, Emma | Connolly, Nora
Directors: Roeg, Nicolas
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costa, Mary | Shirley, Bill | Audley, Eleanor | Felton, Verna | Luddy, Barbara | Allen, Barbara Jo | Holmes, Taylor | Thompson, Bill | Amsbery, Bill | Candido, Candy | Colvig, Pinto | McKennon, Dal | Miller, Marvin | Ravenscroft, Thurl
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan’s - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan’s castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cox, Charlie | Danes, Claire | De Niro, Robert | Miller, Sienna | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Flemyng, Jason | Barnes, Ben | Burns, Mark | Buxton, Adam | Cavill, Henry | Curran, Jake | David, Elwin 'Chopper' | Ellis, Frank | Everett, Rupert | Fletcher, Dexter
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…