Posts Tagged ‘able-to-see-the-dead’

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jon Finch | Francesca Annis | Martin Shaw | Terence Bayler | John Stride | Nicholas Selby | Stephan Chase | Paul Shelley | Maisie MacFarquhar | Elsie Taylor | Noelle Rimmington | Noel Davis | Sydney Bromley | Richard Pearson | Patricia Mason
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Haley Joel Osment | Toni Collette | Olivia Williams | Mischa Barton | Donnie Wahlberg | Peter Anthony Tambakis | Jeffrey Zubernis | Bruce Norris | Glenn Fitzgerald | Greg Wood | Trevor Morgan | Angelica Torn | Lisa Summerour | Firdous Bamji
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy “sees dead people”. Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole’s mom is at her wit’s end with what to do about her son’s increasing problems. Crowe is the boy’s only hope.

The Others (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Fionnula Flanagan | Christopher Eccleston | Alakina Mann | James Bentley | Eric Sykes | Elaine Cassidy | Ren?e Asherson | Gordon Reid | Keith Allen | Michelle Fairley | Alexander Vince | Ricardo L?pez | Aldo Grilo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.