Archive for the 'Horror movies' Category
They Wait
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| Taglines: | 1: They wait… to ensure the past is not forgotten. |
| Plot Summary: | A couple (King and Chen) returns to North America for a family funeral, having lived in Shanghai, China for the previous six years. Soon after they arrive, their son Jamie (Oey) begins to see ghosts and suffer possession by one of the living dead, and it all ties in with the Chinese festival of Ghost Month, when the doors of hell supposedly open and angry spirits are given the chance to terrorize the living. |
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Bubba Ho-tep
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| Taglines: | 1: The King vs. The King of the Dead 2: You know the legends… Now learn the truth. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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| Plot Summary: | In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. |
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Near Dark
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| Taglines: | 1: …pray for daylight. 2: Blood is our life, Darkness, our feeding ground and sunlight, our eternal damnation. 3: In one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life. 4: Killing you would be easy, they’d rather terrify you…forever. 5: Vampires can only kill you once, but they can terrify you forever. |
| Plot Summary: | A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar. |
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Fingerprints
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| Plot Summary: | Haunted railroad tracks lead a troubled teenager to discover the horrifying truth hidden in a small Texas town. |
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28 Days Later…
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| Taglines: | 1: Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing… 2: Day 1: Exposure - Day 3: Infection - Day 8: Epidemic - Day 15: Evacuation - Day 20: Devastation 3: His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn’t. 4: The Days Are Numbered |
| Plot Summary: | A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them. |
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April Fool’s Day
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| Plot Summary: | The new “April Fool’s” revolves around a party given by two rich siblings, played by Taylor Cole (”Supernatural”) and Josh Henderson (”Desperate Housewives”), for their friend (Scout Taylor-Compton of “Halloween”). Tragedy strikes when a friend falls over a balcony and dies. One year later, the teens responsible for the accident become the targets of a twisted killer who begins hunting them down one by one. |
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
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| Taglines: | 1: The hunters will become the hunted. |
| Plot Summary: | In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger. |
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Ghost and the Darkness, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Control Your Fear 2: Only the most incredible parts are true. 3: Prey For The Hunters |
| Plot Summary: | In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda’s Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson’s boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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Host, The
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| Taglines: | 1: It is Lurking Behind You 2: Man has made his newest predator 3: Monsters are real. |
| Plot Summary: | The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong’s elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du’s daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her. |
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