Archive for the 'Mystery movies' Category
Knight Moves
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| Taglines: | 1: In a game of life and death… one wrong move could be his last… 2: It started as a game. It turned into a battle. Then, it went out of control. 3: When genius becomes twisted…Murder becomes the ultimate game [uk video cover] |
| Plot Summary: | A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster’s innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. |
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K-PAX
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| Taglines: | 1: Change the way you look at the world. |
| Plot Summary: | Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
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8MM 2
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| Taglines: | 1: From The Last Kiss To The Last Breath… 2: From The Last Kiss To The Last Breath… From The First Kiss To The Last Breath… 3: Her sexual appetites could get a man killed. |
| Plot Summary: | David Huxley is an American politician living in Hungary whom gets blackmailed by an unknown party after being videotaped having sex with his fianc’ee Tish and a local supermodel. Desperate to find the extortionists, David goes into the sordid Red Light district of Eastern Europe, only to end up kidnapped, leaving Tish to try to come up with a $5 million ransom on her own. |
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Candyman
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| Taglines: | 1: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman… Don’t Say Again! 2: From The Chilling Imagination Of Clive Barker. 3: We Dare You To Say His Name Five Times! 4: You don’t have to believe… just beware. |
| Plot Summary: | Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client’s daughter. Robitaille’s right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word “Candyman” five times in a mirror, he’ll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn’t believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he’s begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else? |
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Living Hell
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| Taglines: | 1: Some Things Shouldn’t Be Disturbed 2: Terror Takes Root |
| Plot Summary: | All his life schoolteacher Frank Sears (Johnathon Schaech) has carried with him a strange scar given to him by his mother before she committed suicide. The markings lead Frank to a top secret Cold War military project where an unstoppable, malignant organism is unleashed. Unaware that the creature feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, the army prepares to deploy its most sinister of all weapons - a nuclear bomb. Facing certain global catastrophe, Frank discovers his father had a diabolical connection to the creature’s origin. With a ticking nuclear clock, Frank, along with the help of a hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn (Erica Leerhsen), must confront the grim reality that only he is capable of stopping this living hell. |
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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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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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Like Mother, Like Daughter
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| Plot Summary: | When a successful business woman (Michelle Stafford)finds out her college-aged daughter (Dani Kind) has gone missing, she elicits help from her friend and daughter’s college professor (Billy Moses) unaware that she is seeking assistance from the very man who kidnapped her. |
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Game, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Are you ready to play? 2: John 9;25: “I was blind, but now I see.” 3: Players Wanted. 4: The object of the game is to discover the object of…. The Game 5: What do you get for the man who has everything? 6: You don’t play it, it plays you |
| Plot Summary: | Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him. |
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At Bertram’s Hotel
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| Plot Summary: | Miss Jane Marple is staying at an elegant hotel from her childhood compliments of her nephew Raymond. Also there is international adventurer Bess Sedgwick and Lady Selena Hazy (Joan Greenwood in her next to last performance). A doorman working at the hotel turns out to be from Bess’ past, and when he is killed, she is the prime suspect. But what does his murder have to do with the disappearance of an elderly vicar staying at the hotel, and a string of robberies over the last few months? Miss Marple must find out before the murderer strikes again!!! |
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