Posts Tagged ‘homicide’

Twisted (2004)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ashley Judd | Samuel L. Jackson | Andy Garcia | David Strathairn | Russell Wong | Camryn Manheim | Mark Pellegrino | Titus Welliver | D.W. Moffett | Richard T. Jones | Leland Orser | James Oliver Bullock | William Hall | Joe Duer | Jim Hechim
Directors: Philip Kaufman
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Jessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco’s esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica’s late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. Not to mention a new partner named Mike Delmarco, who might be Jessica’s next closest thing to a confidant. However, a man has been found dead and the two officers are brought into the investigation. What they find is a surprise when the dead in question was a man Jessica slept with, he being part of a list of one night stands that Jessica has engaged in. Now under suspicion and a terrible drinking problem gnawing at her, Jessica will have to prove to her superiors and to her skeptical partner that she’s not the one behind the murders and Mills is one of the few people standing behind her. This is a story about a woman trying to find the perpetrator of these horrible crimes, before she herself might end as one of them.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Straw Dogs Movie (1971)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Susan George | Peter Vaughan | T.P. McKenna | Del Henney | Jim Norton | Donald Webster | Ken Hutchison | Len Jones | Sally Thomsett | Robert Keegan | Peter Arne | Cherina Schaer | Colin Welland | Michael Mundell
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
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Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Biel | Mike Vogel | Eric Balfour | Andrew Bryniarski | Erica Leerhsen | Lauren German | Terrence Evans | Marietta Marich | Heather Kafka | Kathy Lamkin | Brad Leland | Mamie Meek
Directors: Marcus Nispel
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A group of college kids, on their way back from scoring drugs in Mexico, run into a hitchhiker who has just survived a horrific massacre from the night before. They try to help the girl, but in the process end up falling prey to her mysterious fear. It happens to be wielding a chainsaw…

Scream (1996)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: David Arquette | Neve Campbell | Courteney Cox | Skeet Ulrich | Rose McGowan | Matthew Lillard | Jamie Kennedy | W. Earl Brown | Drew Barrymore | Joseph Whipp | Lawrence Hecht | Roger Jackson | David Booth | Liev Schreiber | Kevin Patrick Walls
Directors: Wes Craven
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A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell’s mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell’s boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Stanford | Kathleen Quinlan | Vinessa Shaw | Emilie de Ravin | Dan Byrd | Tom Bower | Billy Drago | Robert Joy | Ted Levine | Desmond Askew | Ezra Buzzington | Michael Bailey Smith | Laura Ortiz | Gregory Nicotero | Maisie Camilleri Preziosi
Directors: Alexandre Aja
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Dark Reprieve (2008)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Liam Card | John Cronk | Shawn Storer | Ian Wisniewski | Janelle Bartosek | Sarah Jackson
Directors: Richard Boddington
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Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter several terrors as they look for an exit. These terrors include a wolf beast that terrorizes Kate, a hideous monster that hunts them both, a “zombie” surgeon who operates on people whilst you’re still alive, the executioner who gives Kate a ride in his electric chair and finally executes her with the guillotine. But Kate just wakes up again in the prison and the nightmare continues. Also in the prison Matt and Kate encounter a strange number that pops up a regular basis, first the number is being printed over and over again on a printer gone crazy, next the number appears painted on a wall in blood. Kate finds a room containing a vacuum tube machine for sending messages between rooms, when she pushes the operation button it comes alive and a cylinder appears. Inside the cylinder are the pictures of five people, Kate has no idea who these five people are. Later in the movie Matt and Kate explore the basement in the search for an exit and discover five pairs of shoes all neatly arranged on a shelf. As Matt and Kate endure these horrors, the beautiful fashion model Raquel Lake is being interrogated by the police about a series of homicides. Raquel is arrogant and diabolical, she also has a very high IQ and proves more than a match for the professional police interrogator. Strangely many of the subjects in the police interview correlate with the events transpiring in the prison. For instance, Raquel is shown a series of pictures of five dead people, and when Raquel is informed by the detective that they are “looking for a cold blooded predator.” Raquel’s response is….”like the wolf?” What is the connection between the two people trapped in the prison and the interrogation of Raquel Lake?

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Musical | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Helena Bonham Carter | Alan Rickman | Timothy Spall | Sacha Baron Cohen | Jayne Wisener | Jamie Campbell Bower | Laura Michelle Kelly | Ed Sanders | Anthony Head | Peter Bowles | Ian Burford | Michael N. Harbour
Directors: Tim Burton
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Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie Shop were she sells “the worst pies in London.” With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin’s ward.

Helter Skelter (2004)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Clea DuVall | Allison Smith | Eric Dane | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michael Weston | Hal Ozsan | Rick Gomez | Robert Joy | Graham Beckel | Chris Ellis | Isabella Hofmann | Robert Costanzo | Yvonne Delarosa | Crystal Rivers
Directors: John Gray
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A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.

The Last Supper (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cameron Diaz | Ron Eldard | Annabeth Gish | Jonathan Penner | Courtney B. Vance | Bill Paxton | Nora Dunn | Ron Perlman | Dan Rosen | Amber Taylor | Matt Cooper | Charles Durning | Mark Harmon | Gil Segel | Rachel Chagall
Directors: Stacy Title
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When Pete (Eldard), one of five friends who share an Iowa house, invites Zack (Paxton), a man who gave him a lift home in for supper, the night turns suddenly sour when Zack irrationally attacks Pete, but is killed by the other friends. After this episode, the friends suggest that, having ridden the world of one bad person, they should continue to do the same thing every Sunday night at supper.