Posts Tagged ‘knife’

Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Morita, Pat | Trejo, Danny | Fitzpatrick, Gabrielle | Drake, Larry | Schiavelli, Vincent | Fralick, David 'Shark' | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Avildsen, Jonathan | Pressly, Jaime | Erwin, Bill | Rainey, Ford | West, Kevin | Pointer, Priscilla | Symonds, Robert
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.

April Fool’s Day (1986)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Blamy, Dave | Child, Samuel | Egender, Joe | Harris, R. Keith | Headen, Mark D. | Henderson, Josh | Hollenbeck, Eric | Lowe, David | McKelheer, Joseph | Peroulas, George | Pineiro, Robert | Robinson, Edd | Rose, Mark Alton | Scarboro, Mark | Schifter, David
Directors: Altieri, Mitchell
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A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool’s jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what’s going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing?

Phenomena (1985)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Nicolodi, Daria | Fiore Argento | Dalila Di Lazzaro | Bauchau, Patrick | Mastroianni, Federica | Pleasence, Donald | Tessari, Fiorenza | Donatone, Mario | Ottaviani, Francesca | Soavi, Michele | Trevisi, Franco | Avelli, Fausta | Biuso, Marta | Thomas, Geraldine
Directors: Argento, Dario
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Jennifer Corvino, the daughter of a famous actor, has had trouble with sleepwalking for some time. Her doctor said that it can develop a split personality. She discovers her alternate personality when she stays at a boarding school that was once the home a Richard Wagner. But someone has been killing the students, and it relates only indirectly to the criminal sanitorium nearby. So it’s up to “the two greatest detectives the world has ever known, or should I say, unknown”

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kennedy, George | Kellin, Mike | Lemmon, Chris | Henry, Gregg | Benson, Deborah | Seymour, Ralph | Powell, Katie | Hunsaker, John | Bartlett, Charles | Rose, Jamie | Oslund, Hap | Spencer, Barbara
Directors: Lieberman, Jeff
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Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there’s a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through…

Bad Dreams (1988)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rubin, Jennifer | Abbott, Bruce | Lynch, Richard | Cameron, Dean | Yulin, Harris | Barnes, Susan | Clough, John Scott | Daily, Elizabeth | Freeman, Damita Jo | Giambalvo, Louis | Ruttan, Susan | Richardson, Sy | Francis, Missy | Scott-Wilkenson, Sheila | Kronen, Ben
Directors: Fleming, Andrew
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In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?

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.

Client, The (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sarandon, Susan | Jones, Tommy Lee | Parker, Mary-Louise | LaPaglia, Anthony | Walsh, J.T. | Edwards, Anthony | Renfro, Brad | Patton, Will | Whitford, Bradley | Heald, Anthony | Coates, Kim | Scott, Kimberly | Speck, David | Macy, William H. | Davis, Ossie
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry ‘The Blade’ Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyette is buried. Mark escapes, and Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says. Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but Mark isn’t talking…

Sliver (1993)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stone, Sharon | Baldwin, William | Berenger, Tom | Walker, Polly | Camp, Colleen | Foreman, Amanda | Landau, Martin | Pounder, CCH | Foch, Nina | Curtis, Keene | Pryor, Nicholas | Betancourt, Anne | Peck, Tony | Turner, Frantz | Kinder, Dr. Melvyn
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Young publishing executive Carly takes an apartment in an exclusive “sliver” building in New York, only to learn that the previous tenant, who bore a great resemblance to Carly, died in a mysterious fall from the apartment balcony. When other tenants of the building begin to die likewise mysteriously, Carly begins to suspect that a killer may be inhabiting the building and that it may be either Zeke, the voyeuristic building owner with whom she’s become involved romantically, or Jack, a mystery writer with a suspicious quality.

From Hell (2001)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Graham, Heather | Holm, Ian | Coltrane, Robbie | Richardson, Ian | Flemyng, Jason | Cartlidge, Katrin | Harvey, Terence | Lynch, Susan | Rhys, Paul | Sharp, Lesley | Skornik, Estelle | McGaughey, Nicholas | Apsion, Annabelle | Page, Joanna
Directors: Hughes, Albert
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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when “chasing the dragon” he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them “unfortunates”, being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Sizemore, Tom | Beals, Jennifer | Cheadle, Don | Chaykin, Maury | Kinney, Terry | Winkler, Mel | Hall, Albert | Carson, Lisa Nicole | Burks, Jernard | Wolos-Fonteno, David | Roselius, John | Starr, Beau | Randazzo, Steven | Lincoln, Scott
Directors: Franklin, Carl
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend’s bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA’s Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancĂ©e of a wealthy “blue blood,” Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city’s mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright’s offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque “who-done-it” with an African-American theme.