Posts Tagged ‘transformation’

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Kris Kristofferson | Dominic Purcell | Jessica Biel | Ryan Reynolds | Parker Posey | Mark Berry | John Michael Higgins | Callum Keith Rennie | Paul Levesque | Paul Anthony | Françoise Yip | Michael Rawlins | James Remar | Natasha Lyonne
Directors: David S. Goyer
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The storyline for the third film finds Blade joining forces with two vampire hunters, part of a group called the Nightstalkers, as they tackle the powerful and ruthless villain Danica Talos. After harvesting the superior blood of the ancestor of all modern vampires, Talos has resurrected the man now known as “Drake” (notice the modernization of the Dracula name) from a century-long sleep in the hopes of finally getting world control for all vampires. Blade, along with the Nightstalkers must unleash a virus that will kill all vamps— but only are given one chance to make it work.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin | Ryûnosuke Kamiki | Mitsunori Isaki | Yo Oizumi | Akio Ôtsuka | Daijiro Harada | Haruko Kato | Jean Simmons | Christian Bale | Lauren Bacall | Blythe Danner | Emily Mortimer
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: George Kennedy | Mike Kellin | Chris Lemmon | Gregg Henry | Deborah Benson | Ralph Seymour | Katie Powell | John Hunsaker | Charles Bartlett | Jamie Rose | Hap Oslund | Barbara Spencer
Directors: Jeff Lieberman
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Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there’s a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Fredric March | Miriam Hopkins | Rose Hobart | Holmes Herbert | Halliwell Hobbes | Edgar Norton | Tempe Pigott | Sam Harris | Tom London | Arnold Lucy | Murdock MacQuarrie | G.L. McDonnell | John Rogers | Douglas Walton
Directors: Rouben Mamoulian
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Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late…

Labyrinth (1986)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: David Bowie | Jennifer Connelly | Toby Froud | Shelley Thompson | Christopher Malcolm | Natalie Finland | Shari Weiser | Brian Henson | Ron Mueck | Rob Mills | Dave Goelz
Directors: Jim Henson
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Sarah, a teen, summons the goblins from her fave book, the Labyrinth, to steal her baby 1/2 bro Toby. When they actually do, she must solve the Goblin King’s (Bowie) Labyrinth in 13 hours or else Toby will become a goblin.

Swamp Devil (2008)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada
Actors: Bruce Dern | Cindy Sampson | Nicolas Wright | Robert Higden | James Kidnie | Kwasi Songui | Mari-Pier Gaudet | Allison Graham | Bronwen Mantel
Directors: David Winning
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A young lady returns to her southern hometown to learn that her estranged father is in hiding, accused of murder in the swamps. But when the real culprit emerges, an inhuman, killing mass of mud and vines, more surprises emerge from the bog those of a town healer, of a secret buried years ago, and of the true identity of the vengeful Swamp Devil.

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Curtis | Sidney Poitier | Theodore Bikel | Charles McGraw | Lon Chaney Jr. | King Donovan | Claude Akins | Lawrence Dobkin | Whit Bissell | Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | Kevin Coughlin | Cara Williams | Harold Jacob Smith | Nedrick Young
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

Society (1989)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Warlock | Connie Danese | Ben Slack | Evan Richards | Patrice Jennings | Tim Bartell | Charles Lucia | Heidi Kozak | Brian Bremer | Ben Meyerson | Devin DeVasquez | Maria Claire | Conan Yuzna | Jason Williams | Pamela Matheson
Directors: Brian Yuzna
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The teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) feels misfit with his parents and his sister Jenny Whitney (Patrice Jennings). When his sister’s boyfriend David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) bugs his family, he shows the disturbing tapes to Bill showing incest and a weird society. When Blanchard dies in a car accident, Bill decides to investigate his family and find a scary truth.

Cat People (1982)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nastassja Kinski | Malcolm McDowell | John Heard | Annette O'Toole | Ruby Dee | Ed Begley Jr. | Scott Paulin | Frankie Faison | Ron Diamond | Lynn Lowry | John Larroquette | Tessa Richarde | Patricia Perkins | Berry Berenson | Fausto Barajas
Directors: Paul Schrader
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In this erotic remake of the 1942 classic, a young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | Albert Brooks | Vic Morrow | Doug McGrath | Charles Hallahan | Rainer Peets | Kai Wulff | Sue Dugan | Debby Porter | Steven Williams | Annette Claudier | Joseph Hieu | Al Leong | Stephen Bishop
Directors: Joe Dante
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.