SEXYKILLER

SEXYKILLER, MORIRAS POR ELLA (Spanish)

The Story:
Barbara (Macarena Gómez) is a medical student in an exclusive Spanish university. She is young, beautiful and attractive, surrounded by the best and brightest that her country has to offer. Barbara adores fashion, compulsively consumes Cosmo, and is a man-eater par excellence. She is, in essence, the culmination of the American dream: beautiful, sexy and with nowhere to go but up. But Barbara also has a dark side. When not in classes or out shopping she is a brutally violent serial killer carving her way through the university population, students and faculty alike. But her search for the perfect boy is about as successful as the authorities’ search for the Campus Killer.

That is, until she meets Tomás (César Camino), a fellow med student assigned to morgue duty. However, Tómas’ real passion lies in developing a secret device to decode brainwaves in hopes of curing migraines. Instead, under the right conditions, his machine visualizes any cadaver’s final image before death. And while his invention could bring the Campus Killer to justice, it might just put a nasty damper on his steamy love life with Bárbara.

Starring:
Macarena Gomez, Alejo Sauras, Paco Leon, Ramon Langa, Ángel de Andrés Lópz, Javier Botet, Fernando Ramallo, Jimmy Barnat, Lanau Maria, Juan Carlos Vello, Luciano Federico, Juan Diaz, Eloi Yebra, Carolina Bona, Pablo Pinedo, Javier Ambrossi, César Camino, Andreu Castro, Diego Garcia Romaña, Nadia Casado

Directed By:
Miguel Martí.

Release:
2008

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CLEANER

CLEANER

The Story:
Tom Cutler (Samuel L. Jackson),who is an ex-cop that now specializes in cleaning up bloody scenes after the deceased are taken away by the police. Besides running the company named Steri-Clean, is also a widower raising his teenage daughter Rose (Keke Palmer). After finishing up a job at upscale home with no one around, Tom forgets to leave the key to the house under a plant as instruction by the job request paperwork. However, when he arrives back at the house, the owner Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes) has no idea of who he is and Tom learns that her husband has mysteriously disappeared. Tom smells a setup and looks to the assist of his old partner, Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris) and Detective Wallace (Luis Guzman) for assistance. As the impatient Ann continues to ask questions, Tom begins to pinpoint clue after clue as to what happens as he learns he is in a lot more than he first anticipated.

Starring:
Samuel L Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes, Keke Palmer, Luis Gizman

Directed By:
Renny Harlin

Release:
2009

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THE ECHO

THE ECHO

The Story:
Bobby (Jesse Bradford), a man who’s just been released from prison after serving an untold amount of years for involuntary manslaughter.


He moves into his mother’s apartment in New York, his mother having passed away while he was inside, and starts trying to rebuild his life. Bobby is able to find a job, working for Hector (Carlos Leon) as a mechanic, though he's on a short leash there. He's isolated most of the time, though - none of his old friends talk to him other than his ex Alyssa (Amelia Warner), and she's as wary as you might expect.


Unfortunately this new life is constantly interrupted the family next door, a cop Walter (Kevin Durand) who likes to abuse his wife Gina (Iza Calzado) and young daughter Carly (Jamie Bloch). The husband is a very violent man, given to bouts of rage at the drop of a hat, and he doesn’t like to be interfered with.

When they’re not fighting, Bobby’s hearing strange noises at all hours of the night. Scraping sounds, whispering, the padding of feet on a bare floor; it’s all very disconcerting for him since he’s trying so hard to be “normal” but nothing around him is allowing it to happen. Is it the solitude that’s getting to him? Perhaps he was inside too long and can’t deal with the real world anymore? The more Bobby learns about his mother’s last days, the more he realizes he’s seeing exactly what she saw, which drove her to stay locked in her apartment for weeks.

It’s up to him to get to the bottom of what’s going on with the sounds he’s hearing and how the people next door are connected to them, but as he learns the truth, he finds himself even more divorced for anything resembling a normal reality.

Starring:
Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Kevin Durand, Carlos Leon, Iza Calzado, Jamie Bloch

Release:
2008

Directed By:
Yam Laranas

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PASSENGERS

PASSENGERS

The Story:
Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway), a grief counselor who is called in the middle of the night by her boss Perry (Andre Braugher). There’s been a big plane crash, and Claire’s services are needed for the handful of survivors. Claire responds at once.

She starts a group therapy sessions for the survivors, who include Shannon (Clea DuVall), Dean (Ryan Robbins), and Eric (Patrick Wilson). The survivors all have different recollections of what happened prior to and during the crash, and Claire is determined to help them work out their memories to get everything straight. The task is made more difficult, however, by the near-constant presence of Arkin (David Morse), an ominous looking representative of the airline. He’s determined to write the crash off as pilot error, which Claire and the survivors think is merely a ploy to try to save the airline from a massive lawsuit.

Eric refuses to come to group sessions, so Claire decides to follow up with him on her own. She thinks that he’s exhibiting classic symptoms of PTSD, but he won’t listen to her, insisting that everything is fine. Eric also flirts constantly, and Claire eventually finds herself giving in and crossing that ethical line that exists between all counselors and their patients. But Eric is not really a patient, he reminds her, so they do indeed get it on.

Meanwhile, some of the survivors start disappearing from the group sessions without a trace. Perry thinks they probably just don’t want to come anymore, but Claire believes something more nefarious is going on. She thinks the airline is getting rid of the survivors in an effort to keep them quiet about the crash. She’s therefore determined to get to the bottom of what’s going on before anyone else disappears.

Starring:
Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Clea DuVall, David Morse,Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, William B. Davis, Ryan Robbins

Directed By:
Rodrigo García

Release:
2008

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DYING BREED

DYING BREED

The Story:

On their quest to find a rare tiger, four adventurers in Tasmania enter an isolated township named Sarah, once a hideout for an infamous cannibal called The Pieman. The four hunters suddenly become the hunted as they discover that the township still upholds its cannibalistic heritage - and need fresh to breed.

Nina (Mirrah Foulkes), a zoology student who sets up a team that includes her partner Matt (Leigh Whannell), his old friend Jack (Nathan Phillips) and his girlfriend Rebecca (Melanie Vallejo), to breach Tasmanias dense and dangerous forests, for getting the proof of the existence of the Tasmanian tiger. However, Nina and her team are unaware of a small settlement made up of the descendents of the Pieman roaming in the forests in search of human meat to keep their bloodline strong.

Starring :

Mirrah Foulkes, Leigh Whannell, Nathan Phillips, Melanie Vallejo, Bille Brown, Peter Docker, Brendan Donoghue, Elaine Hudson, Sally McDonald

Directed By :

Jody Dwyer

Release:

2008

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THE DISAPPEARED

THE DISAPPEARED

The Story:
Matthew’s (Harry Treadaway), life is devastated after the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom (Lewis Lemperuer Palmer). Matthew’s father had left him to look after Tom and now Matthew feels responsible. His father is trying to hold back the anger and the blame but the cracks are beginning to show.

One day Matthew is looking through a box of press clippings and video tapes about Tom’s disappearance. Suddenly he hears a ghostly voice on one of the video tapes telling him “you never came for me!”. It’s the voice of his missing brother. He shows the tape to his father, Jake (Greg Wise). This time there’s no voice and Jake flies into a rage as the wound is reopened.
Matthew tells his best friend Simon (Tom Felton) about the voices on the tape. Is he losing his mind, is Tom alive or dead?

At home, Matthew plays the tape and hears Tom’s voice again, desperately pleading for help. Then Matthew sees Tom at the window, gaunt and haggard. He rushes out to Tom but no one is there…

Matthew strikes up a friendship with next-door neighbour Amy (Ros Leeming), who is beautiful but troubled. He talks to her about Tom and she suggests he visits a local medium. Matthew is unsure but he is again haunted by nightmarish visions of Tom. When he tries to sleep he has recurring nightmares that he is being buried alive.

In desperation he goes to visit Melissa, Shelley (Nikki Amuka-Bird) the medium, who tells him that the area has been cursed through the ages. Her daughter gives Matthew a present, the drawing of a young girl. The following day Matthew is shocked when he finds out that Simon’s sister, Sophie (Georgia Groome), has been abducted. Matthew realises that the drawing by the medium’s daughter is of Sophie.

The hauntings escalate, Matthew’s state of mind deteriorates. Only Amy seems to believe him, as a tentative romance grows between them.

Matthew knows that he needs to get to the bottom of Tom’s disappearance if he is ever going to save Sophie. There is no going back as he hurtles towards the stark, chilling truth…

Starring:
Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Tom Felton, Ros Leeming, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Bronson Webb, Georgia Groome

Directed By:
Johnny Kervorkian

Release:
2008

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THE CHASER

THE CHASER - (Chugyeogja) (South Korea)

The Story:

Jung-ho (Kim Yun-seok) used to be a detective himself before he started pimping, a line of work where casual brutality comes in handy more often than not. Annoyed that a number of his girls have vanished in recent weeks, Jung-ho sends one of his lovelier assets, single mom Mi-jin (Seo Young-hee), to service regular client Young-min (Ha Jung-woo) one night, only afterward deducing that the latter may be responsible for the girls' disappearances.

Even still, Jung-ho doesn't suspect murder. For auds, however, Young-min is outed as a total psycho pretty early on, in a squirm-inducing torture-chamber sequence that leaves Mi-jin grievously wounded. But before Young-min can finish the job, he's called away outside, only to run into Jung-ho, who beats him savagely before they're both arrested.

At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho’s hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in a place nobody knows.

Starring :

Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Seo Yong-hie, Jung In-gi, Park Hyo-ju

Directed By:

Na Hong-jin

Release:

2008

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