Posts Tagged ‘hit-by-truck’

Femme Fatale

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Romijn, Rebecca | Banderas, Antonio | Coyote, Peter | Ebouaney, Eriq | Edouard Montoute | Rasmussen, Rie | Frémont, Thierry | Henry, Gregg | Curzon, Fiona | Milgram, Daniel | Minéo, Jean-Marc | Chatel, Jean | Petit, Stéphane | Follet, Olivier | Eva Darlan
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Ghost Rider

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Long, Matt | Alessi, Raquel | Cullen, Brett | Fonda, Peter | Cage, Nicolas | Logue, Donal | Ghosthawk, Tony | Sexton, Hugh | Jones, Marcus | Norman, Matt | Steele, Lawrence Cameron | Bentley, Wes | Baroo, Eddie | Napier, Jessica | Breuls, Laurence
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny’s path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny’s soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles’s nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

Death Proof (from Grindhouse)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Andrews, Naveen | Arnett, Will | Bacall, Lauren | Biehn, Michael | Brolin, Josh | Cage, Nicolas | Castanon, Leroy | Doom, Omar | Douglas, Jason | Fahey, Jeff | Gallardo, Carlos | Hernandez, Jay | Ingram, Doran | Isaacs, Jason | Katt, Nicky
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. “Grindhouse” (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino’s film, “Death Proof,” is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film “Planet Terror” shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the ’50s exploitation drive-in classics.

Highwaymen

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Caviezel, James | Mitra, Rhona | Faison, Frankie | Feore, Colm | Currie, Gordon | Roth, Andrea | Jenkins, Noam | Proctor, Toby | Kee, James | St-Onge, Guylaine | Pingue, Joe | Roach, Martin | Bell, Ron | Rutledge, Paul | Jones, Kelly
Directors: Harmon, Robert
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down ‘68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging ‘72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown.

Groundhog Day

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Actors: Murray, Bill | MacDowell, Andie | Elliott, Chris | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Geraghty, Marita | Paton, Angela | Ducommun, Rick | Overton, Rick | Duke, Robin | Bivins, Carol | Garson, Willie | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Podewell, Les | Sell, Rod
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

K-19: The Widowmaker

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Spruell, Sam | Stebbings, Peter | Camargo, Christian | Podhora, Roman | Redford, Sam | Nicolson, Steve | Neeson, Liam | Issyanov, Ravil | Woodward, Tim | Shrapnel, Lex | Benson, Shaun | Holden-Reid, Kristen | Chepovetsky, Dmitry | Redman, Christopher | Runyan, Tygh
Directors: Bigelow, Kathryn
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The story of USSR’s first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine’s crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.

Joy Ride

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Zahn, Steve | Walker, Paul | Sobieski, Leelee | Bowman, Jessica | Stone, Stuart | Wallace, Basil | Leckner, Brian | Wickliffe, Mary | Satterthwaite, McKenzie | Yount, Dell | White, Kenneth | Cortés, Luis | McCleery, Michael | Beaver, Jim | Singer, Rachel
Directors: Dahl, John
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The plot concerns Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a young man who decides to go cross-country to pick up his high school sweetheart, Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), from college. On his way there, he bails his brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. Fuller, looking for a good time, decides to ride with Lewis. During their trip to pick up Venna, Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a cruel joke, through their CB radio, on a truck driver, known only as ‘Rusty Nail’ (voiced by Ted Levine). When the joke takes a deadly turn, Lewis, Venna, and Fuller find themselves being relentlessly stalked by the psychotic truck driver who is looking for more than an apology.

Devil’s Rejects, The

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Haig, Sid | Moseley, Bill | Moon, Sheri | Forsythe, William | Foree, Ken | McGrory, Matthew | Easterbrook, Leslie | Lewis, Geoffrey | Barnes, Priscilla | Sheridan, Dave | Norby, Kate | Temple, Lew | Trejo, Danny | Page, Dallas | Posehn, Brian
Directors: Zombie, Rob
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Sequel to ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby’s father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in ‘House of…’) who’s obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding’s half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.