Posts Tagged ‘wilderness’

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.

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…

Lake Placid (1999)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Bridget Fonda | Oliver Platt | Brendan Gleeson | Betty White | David Lewis | Tim Dixon | Natassia Malthe | Mariska Hargitay | Meredith Salenger | Jed Rees | Richard Leacock | Jake T. Roberts | Warren Takeuchi | Ty Olsson
Directors: Steve Miner
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Lake Placid - Well it would be, but; “somebody said that name was taken.” At least according to the local Sheriff. When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden (Pullman) teams up with a paleontologist (Fonda) from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for “Crocs” (Platt), and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals…and people!

Razorback (1984)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Gregory Harrison | Arkie Whiteley | Bill Kerr | Chris Haywood | David Argue | Judy Morris | John Howard | John Ewart | Don Smith | Mervyn Drake | Redmond Phillips | Alan Becher | Peter Schwarz | Beth Child | Rick Kennedy
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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A wild, vicious pig terrorizes the Australian outback. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child’s granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but aquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist. Her husband Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won’t really help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female farmer to find the beast.

Humboldt County Movie (2008)

Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fairuza Balk | Peter Bogdanovich | Frances Conroy | Madison Davenport | Brad Dourif | Chris Messina | Jeremy Strong | Danny Jacobs | Elayn Taylor | Roy Marin | Jabari Morgan | Julia Oliveira | Bethany Therese | Nathan Pierce
Directors: Darren Grodsky
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A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

Balto (1995)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Bob Hoskins | Bridget Fonda | Jim Cummings | Phil Collins | Jack Angel | Danny Mann | Robbie Rist | Juliette Brewer | Sandra Dickinson | Miriam Margolyes | Lola Bates-Campbell | Donald Sinden
Directors: Simon Wells
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A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.

The Vanguard (2008)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Jack Bailey | Ray Bullock Jr. | Terry Cole | Rob Cooper | Bahi Ghubril | Shiv Grewal | Christopher Hatherall | Martin Hobbs | Farhan Khan | Steve Weston | Simon Whyman | Karen Admiraal | Emma Choy
Directors: Matthew Hope
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This gore-laden horror film imagines a terrifying future in which overpopulation and war have left the world a crozzled hull, beset by ragtag bands of human wreckage struggling for survival. If that weren’t bleak enough, there’s a cannibalistic twist to this dystopian scenario—zombies. THE VANGUARD follows a solitary man, pursued by both the living and the dead, as he fights to stay alive.

The Edge (1997)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Alec Baldwin | Elle Macpherson | Harold Perrineau | Bart the Bear | L. Q. Jones | Kathleen Wilhoite | David Lindstedt | Mark Kiely | Eli Gabay | Larry Musser | Brian Arnold | Bob Boyd | Kelsa Kinsly | Gordon Tootoosis
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife.

Dead Man (1995)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Iggy Pop | Johnny Depp | Crispin Glover | Gibby Haynes | Richard Boes | George Duckworth | John Hurt | John North | Robert Mitchum | Mili Avital | Peter Schrum | Gabriel Byrne | Gary Farmer | Lance Henriksen | Michael Wincott | Eugene Byrd
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named “Nobody,” who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody’s help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

The Jungle Book (1994)

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Scott Lee | Cary Elwes | Lena Headey | Sam Neill | John Cleese | Jason Flemyng | Stefan Kalipha | Ron Donachie | Anirudh Agarwal | Faran Tahir | Sean Naegeli | Joanna Wolff | Liza Walker | Rachel Robertson | Natalie Morse
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the “civilization” of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are.