Posts Tagged ‘back-from-the-dead’

Spawn (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Jai White | John Leguizamo | Martin Sheen | Theresa Randle | Nicol Williamson | D.B. Sweeney | Melinda Clarke | Miko Hughes | Sydni Beaudoin | Michael Papajohn | Frank Welker | Robia LaMorte | John Cothran Jr. | Caroline Gibson | Tony Haney
Directors: Mark A.Z. Dippé
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The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia - the Devil himself - offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of “energy”, but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him… His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York’s alleys…

End of Days (1999)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Gabriel Byrne | Robin Tunney | Kevin Pollak | CCH Pounder | Derrick O'Connor | David Weisenberg | Rainer Judd | Miriam Margolyes | Udo Kier | Victor Varnado | Michael O'Hagan | Mark Margolis
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In 1979, an innocent newborn girl is secretly patronized by Satanists. Twenty years later, she has developed into a young woman, who is haunted by dreams about one strange man. Meanwhile, private security guard Jericho takes down an old and homeless priest, who tried to shoot Jericho’s customer, a successful Wall Street Banker. What Jericho does not know is that Satan himself roams the Streets of New York in order to mate with the chosen girl. If he fails to do so in the last hour before the next millennium, his only chance to get out of his eternal prison is gone and he has to wait another thousand years. Now it is up to atheist Jericho to find the girl before Satan does and protect her from harm. But Jericho does not have a clue who he’s up against…

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Merritt Butrick | Phil Morris | Scott McGinnis | Robert Hooks | Robin Curtis | Carl Steven | Vadia Potenza
Directors:
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Admiral Kirk’s defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is, seemingly inexplicably, being driven insane. Then an unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock’s father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock’s living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet’s Genesis quarantine. But the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous.

Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Mark Frost | Isabel Brook | Jennifer Rope | Jeffrey Combs | Mònica Van Campen | Fermí Reixach | Leslie Charles | Junix Inocian | Robert Paterson | Marc Martínez | Andrew Divoff | Clare Leach | Francisco Maestre | Ronny Svensson
Directors: Brian Yuzna
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An artist, John Jaspers (Mark frost) sells his soul to the mysterious “M” (Andrew Divoff)in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant Lizard-like monster onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin…

The Wraith (1986)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlie Sheen | Nick Cassavetes | Sherilyn Fenn | Randy Quaid | Matthew Barry | David Sherrill | Jamie Bozian | Clint Howard | Griffin O'Neal | Chris Nash | Vickie Benson | Peder Melhuse | Jeffrey Sudzin | Michael Hungerford
Directors: Mike Marvin
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A small desert town has been harassed for months by a gang of drag racers, but so far no one has done anything to stop them. One day, a ghostly black car shows up, challenging members of the group to race, then killing them one by one. Neither the gang nor the police can catch the car or its driver, but some investigating into the gang’s past may reveal just who’s behind all this.

The Miracle Maker (2000)

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama
Countries: Russia | UK
Actors: Ralph Fiennes | Michael Bryant | Julie Christie | Rebecca Callard | James Frain | Richard E. Grant | Ian Holm | William Hurt | Anton Lesser | Daniel Massey | Tim McInnerny | Alfred Molina | Bob Peck | Miranda Richardson
Directors: Derek W. Hayes
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This animated feature-length life of Jesus boasts a stellar pedigree. Originally a BBC Wales production, it showcases the voices of some of Britain’s finest actors in any medium: Ralph Fiennes as a brooding and humble Jesus, Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene, Richard E. Grant as John the Baptist and David Thewlis as Judas. The lovely, flute-heavy score is by Oscar-winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty). And clearly a lot of expense has gone into the Claymation-like animation. But while it’s hard to find fault with the rendering of this familiar story—it is respectful and definitely done, you might say, by the Book—it would have been nice if there had been a tad more joy, if it walked a bit lighter in its sandals. As it is, all the characters seem consistently subdued, whether they are expressing angst, rage, terror or bliss—none of which is helped by the figures’ blank-eyed stares (if animators are becoming ever more sophisticated, why can’t they get rid of those creepy blank gazes once and for all?). Still, the weight of having such formidable actors play these familiar roles lends the production a certain credibility, and parents looking for good religious videos that won’t insult their kids’ intelligence will be thrilled.

The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Yuji Okumoto | Marcus Chong | Tito Ortiz | Tara Reid | David Boreanaz | Rosemberg Salgado | Edward Furlong | Emmanuelle Chriqui | Danny Trejo | Dave Baez | David Lea | Richard Cumba
Directors: Lance Mungia
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Set in the Southwest, “Prayer” tells the story of ex-con Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Chriqui), who are murdered by Luc Crash (Boreanaz) and his satanic gang Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as part of a ritual for Crash to become an immortal demon.

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Karen Allen | John Forsythe | John Glover | Bob Goldthwait | David Johansen | Carol Kane | Robert Mitchum | Nicholas Phillips | Michael J. Pollard | Alfre Woodard | Mabel King | Joel Murray | Jamie Farr | Robert Goulet
Directors: Richard Donner
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

Creepshow III (2006)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephanie Pettee | Roy Abramsohn | Susan Schramm | Bunny Gibson | Matt Fromm | Nathan Kirkland | Selma Pinkard | Kalena Knox | Brian Jacobs | Leonardo Mill?n | Magi Avila | Margarita Lugo | Robert Gonzales | Simon Burzynski | Rami Rank
Directors: Ana Clavell
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

The Crow (1994)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brandon Lee | Rochelle Davis | Ernie Hudson | Michael Wincott | Ling Bai | Sofia Shinas | Anna Levine | David Patrick Kelly | Angel David | Laurence Mason | Michael Massee | Tony Todd | Jon Polito | Bill Raymond | Marco Rodríguez
Directors: Alex Proyas
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fianc?e are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.