Posts Tagged ‘alter-ego’

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: March, Fredric | Hopkins, Miriam | Hobart, Rose | Herbert, Holmes | Hobbes, Halliwell | Norton, Edgar | Pigott, Tempe | Harris, Sam | London, Tom | Lucy, Arnold | MacQuarrie, Murdock | McDonnell, G.L. | Rogers, John | Walton, Douglas
Directors: Mamoulian, Rouben
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Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late…

Dark Half, The (1993)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Timothy | Madigan, Amy | Rooker, Michael | Harris, Julie | Joy, Robert | Broadhurst, Kent | Grant, Beth | Alda, Rutanya | Mardirosian, Tom | Meyers, Larry John | Brannan, Patrick | Dano, Royal | Colerider, Glenn | Parker, Sarah
Directors: Romero, George A.
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Novelist Thad Beaumount has buried his alter ego George Stark, a pseudonym he used when writing fiction of a darker nature than he would write using his real name. He even stages a mock burial of George for the benefit of the press. When a local man is killed, evidence leads Sheriff Alan Pangborn to George’s grave, and he begins to suspect Thad. Meanwhile Thad is beginning to have visions of sparrows flying, something that hasn’t occurred for twenty-three years since he had brain surgery. As the string of gruesome murders continue, someone claiming to be George Stark starts calling Thad on the phone. Thad fears for his family’s safety, and Pangborn can’t decide whether or not Thad is the murderer.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Judge, Mike | Willis, Bruce | Robert Stack | Bogosian, Eric | Brown, Kristofor | Darling, Tony | Doman, John | Dumaurier, Francis | Flaherty, Jim | Guinee, Tim | Letterman, David | Huss, Toby | Johnson, Sam | Linklater, Richard | Nayyar, Harsh
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler’s wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing “Lesbian Seagull”, a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let’s hope so!

Slipstream (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Arroyave, Stella | Pepper, Lisa | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Generally, Dana | Grant, Saginaw | Grazer, Gavin | Lawford, Christopher | Littlefield, John | Lucking, William | McCarthy, Kevin | Millen, Ken | Putnam, Richard F. | Reed, Thell | Robinson, Michael R.
Directors: Hopkins, Anthony
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“Slipstream” is a noir-comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The film will be a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Moore, Demi | Cook, Dane | Hurt, William | Helgenberger, Marg | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Panabaker, Danielle | Aisha Hinds | Crouse, Lindsay | Lewis, Jason | Aylesworth, Reiko | Schulze, Matt | Delawari, Yasmine | Dinwiddie, Traci | Cole, Michael
Directors: Evans, Bruce A.
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Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland’s Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Fingerprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her.

Fight Club (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Pitt, Brad | Bonham Carter, Helena | Meat Loaf | Grenier, Zach | Arquette, Richmond | Andrews, David | Maguire, George | Bondurant, Eugenie | Cabot, Christina | Colston, Sydney 'Big Dawg' | Singer, Rachel | Cronenweth, Christie | De Zarn, Tim | Buzzington, Ezra
Directors: Fincher, David
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You’re young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there’s nothing wrong with you until they’re hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.