Posts Tagged ‘hit-in-the-head’

Shining, The (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Duvall, Shelley | Lloyd, Danny | Crothers, Scatman | Nelson, Barry | Stone, Philip | Turkel, Joe | Jackson, Anne | Burton, Tony | Beldam, Lia | Gibson, Billie | Dennen, Barry | Baxt, David | Redwood, Manning | Burns, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Choke (2008)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Kathryn | Bello, Teodorina | Blumberg, Kate | Bobo, Jonah | Burke, Willi | Burns, Heather | Wolos-Fonteno, David | Gerald, Matt | Grey, Joel | Harris, Viola | Henke, Brad William | de la Huerta, Paz
Directors: Gregg, Clark
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

Dead & Buried (1981)

Friday, April 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Farentino, James | Anderson, Melody | Albertson, Jack | Redfield, Dennis | Locke, Nancy | Blount, Lisa | Englund, Robert | Quinn, Bill | Currie, Michael | Allport, Christopher | Medalis, Joseph G. | McCalman, Macon | Marie, Lisa
Directors: Sherman, Gary
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Potters Bluff, Rhode Island. may seem to be a sleepy little town. At least for the casual visitor and the local sheriff, Daniel Gillis. However, all of a sudden, there are a lot of strange murders where strangers or people passing through are killed by mobs of townspeople. Only Sheriff Gillis has no clue to what’s going on. Fortunately, the town has an excellent undertaker, William G. Dobbs, who is happy to take care of this sudden death-wave which is good for his business. Gillis soon discovers clues that lead to many of the local inhabitants involved in the killings, including his own wife Janet.

Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Westmoreland, James | Frank, Ben | Gerrish, Flo | Worth, Nicholas | Galik, Denise | Haze, Stan | Allen, Gary | Castle, Michael D. | Bryant, Pamela Jean | Chapman, Ted | Wallace, Chris | Kalberg, Dale | Land, Deborah Leah | Lasswell, Tom | Levine, Mike
Directors: Hammer, Robert
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A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.

RocknRolla (2008)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime
Countries: UK
Actors: Anozie, Nonso | Bark-Jones, David | Bell, Geoff | Botes, Morne | Butler, Gerard | Campbell Bower, Jamie | Elba, Idris | Hardy, Tom | Homewood, Ben | Kebbell, Toby | King, Matt | Leon, David | Linden, Andy | Ludacris | Manookian, Roland
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city’s scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city’s seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player - a drugged out rock ‘n’ roller presumed to be dead but very much alive - has a multi-million dollar prize fall into his hands.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Addiss, Jeffrey | Alfieri, Joseph | Allen, Tim | Barcellos, Douglas | Bator, Craig Collington | Cable, Matt | Canfield, Ryan Everett | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Couture, Randy | DeCastro, Steve | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Fair, Justin | Farrell, Scott | Fitzgerald, Hugh | Goldberg, Mike
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.