DAYS OF WRATH

Days of Wrath

The Story:
Based out of Los Angeles, the plot follows the lives, drama, and consequences of LAs gangs and how the media exploits their stories. Character Bryan Gordon, (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is the owner of a news station, KIND, that is struggling to stay alive. He finds that reporting on gang activity is good for business. He is shocked when he receives some threats from gang boss Daniel "Danny Boy" Soto, (Wilmer Valderamma) and when he finds that his own son Mario is in a gang, (Jesse Garcia) is the leader of a LA gang

Starring:
Laurence Fishburne, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ricardo Chavira, Wilmer Valderrama
Ana Claudia Talancon, Taye Diggs, Amber Valletta, Lupe Ontiveros, David Banner, Rick Ross, Faizon Love, Kurupt, Slim Thug, Brandon T. Jackson and Melyssa Ford

Directed By:
Celia Fox

Release:
2008

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THE SIGNAL

THE SIGNAL

The Story:
It’s New Year’s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year’s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic signal that preys on the fears and desires of everyone in the city. Though Terminus was once a city defined by conformity, any semblance of order in this concrete jungle has now been replaced with screaming, bloody chaos.

David Bruckner's Transmission One:
Crazy In Love
Mya (Anessa Ramsey) is cheating on her husband Lewis (AJ Bowen) with a man named Ben (Justin Welborn). They plan to escape from the city of Terminus (the old name for Atlanta) on a train together that night, which is New Year's Eve. As Mya exits, Ben turns the TV on, showing a bizarre, psychedelic sequence of images. Mya begins to listen to a CD given to her by Ben, but is menaced by men who are acting strangely in a parking garage. When she reaches her apartment building, she finds people acting strangely in the halls as well.

Jacob Gentry's Transmission Two:
The Jealousy Monster
Once inside her apartment, Lewis and two friends, Jerry and Rod (Sahr Ngaujah) attempt to fix the TV, but Lewis, the first to react to the signal, beats one of them to death with a baseball bat. Mya escapes in panic, leaving Rod and Lewis in a struggle. After escaping, she finds the hall in chaos with people killing each other. Mya hides out in the apartment across the hall until morning. When she decides to leave and re-enter her home, she finds an unconsciouss Lewis, bound to a chair with duct-tape. He awakens only to see her leave him behind and exit into the hall listening to Ben's CD, only to be ripped away when she enocunters Rod once more. He then tells her of the night he spent trying to survive in the apartment complex, creating a possibility that Rod is also crazy, but has the better of his own judgement. Together, they escape, and attempt to drive to safety, but Rod turns on the radio, exposing himself to the signal, and goes insane. He attacks Mya, who crashes the car and Rod becoming incapacitated.

Dan Bush's Transmission Three:
Escape From Terminus
Ben, who finds the duct-taped Lewis and loosens his bonds. Lewis renders Ben unconscious and puts his body in the back of a pest control van. At a nearby apartment, Anna (Cheri Christian) is setting up for a new years party, when Clark (Scott Poythress) comes in. The two begin attempting to figure out what is happening, as Anna had to kill her husband, and Clark had decapitated Rod who was in the car with Mya. Eventually Lewis makes his way to the apartment as a pest exterminator and attempts to befriend the two. Together they wait, and Lewis kills a girl at the door. They meet up with another man, whom Lewis eventually also kills. Afterwards, Lewis attacks Anna, by spraying her with insecticide until she is blind, and once he realizes she knows nothing about Mya, forces her to ingest the poison. He then exposes Clark to the signal in order to get him to tell him where Mya is, as he had previously heard from Mya, that she was heading to the train station. Ben comes and attacks Lewis with the pesticide canister.

Ben and Clark try to escape, but Lewis follows them. After Ben convinces Clark that the signal is a lie, thus breaking the signal's effect on him, Clark informs Ben where Mya was headed. Ben and Clark get to the train station, to find Mya tied to a chair, being forced to watch the signal. Lewis appears and strangles Clark. Ben eventually convinces Lewis that he is Mya's husband, and reverses the signal's effects on him. Lewis then destroys a signal-broadcasting TV, electrocuting himself. The story ends ambiguously. A series of scenes showing Ben and Mya escaping with Clark, stocking up on supplies, then going their separate ways suggest they've succeeded. However it then shows Mya, seemingly lost due the prolonged exposure to the signal. Ben then places Mya's headphones on her and she closes her eyes, a tear then falling from her face. Whether this is a flashback from their departure or the final outcome is unclear, though the latter ending has been generally found less popular.

Starring:
A.J. Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, Scott Poythress, Sahr Ngaujah, Cheri Christian, Matt Stenton, Suehyla El-Attar, Christopher Thomas, Lindsey Garrett, Chadrian Morris.

Directed By:
David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush

Release:
2008

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THE RUINS

THE RUINS

The Story:
Based on the terrifying best-seller by Scott Smith, While on vacation in a resort in Mexico, the Americans Jeff (Jonathan Tucker), his girlfriend Amy (Jena Malone), her best friend Stacy (Laura Ramsey) and her boyfriend Eric (Shawn Ashmore) befriend the German Mathias (Joe Anderson) in the swimming pool.

Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri (Dimitri Baveas) in an archeological field where his brother Henrich (Jordan Patrick Smith) and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort.

They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolver, rifle and bow-and-arrow that kill Dimitri and do not allow the group to leave the place.

They climb a construction covered of creepers with red flowers, and remain under siege of the locals. When they hear a cell phone in the bottom of a well, Mathias decides to seek the apparatus using a rope that breaks and he has a serious accident breaking his back.

Amy and Stacy go to the bottom of the mine to rescue Mathias and they find many corpses covered by the climbing plants; further, they realize that they had been lured by the plants that are vibrating with the sound of a cell phone. When they are attacked by the carnivorous creeping plants, they understand the reaction of the Mayan villagers.

Starring:
Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson

Directed By:
Carter Smith

Release:
2008

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TAKING CHANCE

TAKING CHANCE

The Story:
Based on the real life events, It’s 2004 Marine Lt. Colonel Mike Strobl (Kevin Bacon), A veteran of the earlier and more successful Operation Desert Storm, Strobl suffers something akin to survivor guilt and when he spots a name on the list from his home region he volunteers to escort the body of a fallen Lance Corporal, Chance Phelps, back to his final resting place in Wyoming.

Strobl, a Gulf War vet, nevertheless carries guilt for not volunteering for Afghanistan or Iraq when his fellow officers did. Based on the journal Strobl kept as he escorted the body, the story carefully traces the exceptional care and concern for the dignity and honor of the fallen every step of the journey

Starring:
Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Art, Tom Aldredge, Guy Boyd

Directed By:
Ross Katz

Release:
2008

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IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS

IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS

The Story:
Broke and alone on New Year’s Eve, Wilson (Scoot McNairy) a twenty-nine-year old guy who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob (Brian McGuire), browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig’s List.

When Vivian (Sara Simmonds), a sexy, sarcastic, and seemingly blind-date-from-hell responds, the two strangers embark on an unexpected, chaotic, and hilariously awkward journey through the black-and-white streets of Los Angeles hoping to meet the right one before the stroke of midnight.

Starring:
Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian Matthew McGuire, Katy Luong, Bret Roberts

Directed By:
Alex Holdridge

Release:
2008

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ORGIES AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

ORGIES and the Meaning Of Life

The Story:
Baxter Goode (Brad T. Gottfred), a man trying to find an ending to his book (about a sex obsessed stick figure searching for a portal to the three dimensional world) even as his father, a best selling Christian author, tries to stop him. His life is further complicated by his search for the 'one', a woman he is sure will liberate him from his long addiction to orgy fantasies. Both of these pursuits are somehow connected to God, who may or may not be a stick figure, and Baxter's lesbian roommate, who may or may not be imaginary.

Starring:
Brad T. Gottfred, Lindsay Wray, Julie Hays, Lena Bookall, Remy Thorne

Directed By:
Brad T. Gottfred

Release:
2008

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HUNTER PREY

HUNTER PREY

The Story:
A group of elite intergalactic commandos that have crash-landed on a harsh and unknown planet while transporting an alien prisoner. Now they must track down and recapture the escaped creature, and their orders are to bring it in ALIVE.

The soldiers begin to question their orders while finding themselves at a severe disadvantage, not being able to harm the prisoner. The team starts getting picked off, one by one, by their dangerous adversary, until the odds become even.

With one soldier remaining, he's faced with a decision. Does he risk his life playing the creature's game or does he disobey his orders and kill it. The realization he comes to, after finding out why his superiors want the prisoner alive and why the alien is trying to escape, starts to change the way he thinks not only about his situation, but himself, as he finds out who's really hunting whom

Starring:
Isaac C. Singleton Jr, Clark Bartram, Damion Poitier, Simon Potter

Directed By:
Sandy Collora

Release:
2009

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INK

INK

The Story:
As the light fades and the city goes to sleep, two forces emerge. They are invisible to us except for the power they exert over us in our sleep. These two groups battle for our souls through our dreams. One force supports our hopes and gives us strength through good dreams, the other force leads us towards desperation through our nightmares.

The downward spiraling life of John Sullivan (Chris Kelly), and the adventure of his daughter Emma (Quinn Huncher), who has been kidnapped by a mysterious creature.
Enter Ink, a neophyte Incubus who is tasked with kidnapping the soul of young Emma to sacrifice to the leader of the Incubi [Satan] to join the ranks as a full-fledged Incubus. While Emma sleeps, Ink slips into her room and pulls her soul from her body, he then tries to take her, being caught by a Storyteller. A fight ensues, but Ink is able to steal the girl and get her into a portal despite the call of reinforcement Storytellers to chase him and retrieve her.

It becomes the mission of several Storytellers and a specialist, ironically titled the Pathfinder despite his being blind, to retrieve the girl before she is sacrificed. The Storytellers track Ink as he portal hops between locations and realities hunting for other needed items to earn his transformation into being an Incubus

Aspects of the dream world start to touch our reality and thefate of both the father and daughter are at stake.

Starring:
Chris Kelly, Jessica Duffy, Quinn Hunchar, Jeremy Make, Jennifer Batter

Director:
Jamin Winans

Release:
2008

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