Posts Tagged ‘black-magic’

The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Kim Cattrall | Dennis Dun | James Hong | Victor Wong | Kate Burton | Donald Li | Carter Wong | Peter Kwong | James Pax | Suzee Pai | Chao Li Chi | Jeff Imada | Rummel Mor | Craig Ng
Directors: John Carpenter
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Hayes | Warwick Davis | Val Kilmer | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Billy Barty
Directors: Ron Howard
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Christina Ricci | Miranda Richardson | Michael Gambon | Casper Van Dien | Jeffrey Jones | Christopher Lee | Richard Griffiths | Ian McDiarmid | Michael Gough | Marc Pickering | Lisa Marie | Steven Waddington | Christopher Walken | Claire Skinner
Directors: Tim Burton
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The classic story of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is brought to life by the gothic film maker Tim Burton. Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, and to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) he will have to brave the nearby woods, even though several decapitated bodies have been found. And then the legend of the axe wielding headless horsemen come together to make this movie.

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | James Earl Jones | Max von Sydow | Sandahl Bergman | Ben Davidson | Cassandra Gava | Gerry Lopez | Mako | Valérie Quennessen | William Smith | Luis Barboo | Franco Columbu | Leslie Foldvary | Gary Herman | Erik Holmey
Directors: John Milius
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A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Cher | Susan Sarandon | Michelle Pfeiffer | Veronica Cartwright | Richard Jenkins | Keith Jochim | Carel Struycken | Helen Lloyd Breed | Caroline Struzik | Michele Sincavage | Nicol Sincavage | Heather Coleman | Carolyn Ditmars | Cynthia Ditmars
Directors: George Miller
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Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England women left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Jason Isaacs | Miriam Margolyes | Kenneth Branagh | Alfie Enoch | Richard Harris | Robbie Coltrane | David Bradley | Sean Biggerstaff | Daniel Radcliffe | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Richard Griffiths | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Toby Jones | Jim Norton | Veronica Clifford | James Phelps | Oliver Phelps | Julie Walters | Bonnie Wright | Mark Williams | Chris Rankin
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin’s true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it’s him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for.

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Al Pacino | Charlize Theron | Jeffrey Jones | Judith Ivey | Connie Nielsen | Craig T. Nelson | Tamara Tunie | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Debra Monk | Vyto Ruginis | Laura Harrington | Pamela Gray | Heather Matarazzo | George Wyner
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

The Craft (1996)

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skeet Ulrich | Breckin Meyer | Nathaniel Marston | Cliff De Young | Arthur Senzy | Endre Hules | Mark Conlon | William Newman | Rod Britt | Brogan Roche | Tony Genaro | Jason Filardi | John Kapelos | Darin Mangan
Directors:
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Sarah Bailey, a sixteen year old troubled teenager with a painful past and a history of suicidal tendencies and hallucinations, moves to L.A. with her father and stepmother to start a new life - and is enrolled into a Catholic school. It is at school that she comes into contact with three unlikely friends, Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle, all who are socially outcast with various problems in their lives that they wish they could fix. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle dabble in occult practices, and when they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven. When Sarah joins, they soon realize that with a fourth witch in the coven they can begin to cast spells they couldn’t before, and begin to amend all the things wrong in their lives - but like everything else in life - things come with a price.

The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Gena Rowlands | John Hurt | Peter Sarsgaard | Joy Bryant | Maxine Barnett | Fahnlohnee R. Harris | Marion Zinser | Deneen Tyler | Ann Dalrymple | Trula M. Marcus | Tonya Staten | Thomas Uskali | Jen Apgar | Forrest Landis
Directors: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it’s different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.