Friday, August 31, 2007

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)


Director :
Joe Lynch

Cast :
Erica Leerhsen
Henry Rollins
Texas Batt
Daniella Alonso


Movie Synopsis
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!

The Descent

DIRECTOR :

Movie Synopsis
On a daredevil caving holiday, six women friends are unexpectedly trapped underground when a rock fall blocks their exit. Searching the maze of tunnels for a way out, they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless, hungry predators, once humanoid but now monstrously adapted to live in the dark…As the others battle for their lives, Sarah (Macdonald), still recovering from a mental collapse brought on by the recent deaths of her family, is fighting for her sanity. When old secrets are revealed, the friends turn on one another, causing the group to implode. Betrayed and desperate, Sarah realizes that to make it back to the surface, she must become as savage as the creatures themselves.


Dog Soldiers

Directed by : Neil Marshall

Cast :
Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham

Movie Synopsis
Something evil lurks in the wilds of Scotland, and this unfortunate troop of soldiers are about to stumble upon it. A routine exercise takes an unexpected turn when the troop discovers a ravaged bunch of dead soldiers out in the woods. With dusk quickly turning to night, and an ominous full-moon lighting up the sky, the soldiers decide to hide-out in an abandoned farmhouse.
With their supplies and morale both in short supply, the soldiers become trapped in the farmhouse by a pack of hungry werewolves who seem hellbent on enjoying the soldiers for dinner. Can anything stop them?


Right At Your Door

Director :
Chris Gorak

Cast:
Mary McCormack
Rory Cochrane

Movie Synopsis
A dirty bomb has detonated in Los Angeles and a terrified husband decides to seal himself up in his suburban home and await the return of his working wife in first time director Chris Gorak's tense and topical drama. As the sun rises on another day in Los Angeles, Brad (Rory Cochrane) sends his wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) off to work with a kiss and a smile. When the media begins reporting on the detonation of a bomb within the city limits and a potentially toxic cloud covers the L.A. basin in ash, Brad enlists the aid of nearby handyman Alvaro (Tony Perez) in making his home as airtight as possible while worriedly awaiting the return of his wife. With roads closed, telephone lines jammed, and reports of multiple explosions pouring in from the media, the panic and isolation of the tragedy begins to take its toll on the horrified community. Though announcements over public airwaves ensure that authorities are doing their best to ensure the arrival of help to those in immediate danger, Brad and the rest of the citizens of L.A. soon discover that the explosions were only the beginning of their horrific ordeal.

The Zombie Diaries


Director : Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates




Movie Synopsis
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest rural communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon, the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of The Zombie Diaries.


Slither



Director: James Gunn

Cast: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker


Movie Synopsis
The sleepy town of Wheelsy could be any small town in America - somewhat quaint and gentle, peopled with friendly folks who mind their own business. But just beneath the surface charm, something unnamed and evil has arrived...and is growing. No one seems to notice as telephone poles become clogged with missing pet flyers, or when one of the town’s richest citizens, Grant (Michael Rooker), begins to act strangely.

But when farmers’ livestock turn up horribly mutilated and a young woman goes missing, Sheriff Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion) and his team, aided by Grant’s wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks), uncover the dark force laying siege to their town...and come face-to-face with an older-than-time organism intent on absorbing and devouring all life on Earth.



Thursday, August 30, 2007

Black Sheep

Movie Synopsis
Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister) returns to his family's farm to sell out to his older brother Angus (Peter Feeney), unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program.

When a pair of inept environmental activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker (Tammy Davis) and greenie girl Experience (Danielle Mason), Henry finds himself stranded deep on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life.

Battling their way to safety the intrepid trio discover there's worse to come: one bite from an infected sheep seems to have alarming effect on those bitten...

With Angus acting suspiciously sheepish, a delegation of international investors gathering at the homestead and a ravenous flock descending from the hills, Henry must find the farmer within to wrest control of the farm from his monstrous brother, defeat an ovine invasion and save New Zealand's pastures green.



The Hills Have Eyes 2


Directed By : Martin Weisz

Produced By : Wes Craven

Cast : Jessica Stroup, Michael McMillian


Movie Synopsis
A team of trainees of the National Guard brings supply to the New Mexico Desert for a group of soldiers and scientists that are installing a monitoring system in Sector 16. They do not find anybody in the camp, and they receive a blurred distress signal from the hills. Their sergeant gathers a rescue team, and they are attacked and trapped by deformed cannibals, having to fight to survive.

Freddy Vs Jason


Directed By:Ronny Yu

Cast : Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger)
Ken Kirzinger (Jason Voorhees)

Movie Synopsis

Four years after being killed by his daughter, Freddy Krueger rests in Hell. He depends on the dreams of those in Springwood to fuel his existence. But when the town covers up his existence in an attempt to make people forget, Freddy is left powerless. In a last ditch effort he springs Jason Voorhees from his own personal Hell and sends him to Elm Street, determined to strike fear in the hearts of Springwood teens. But when Jason won't stop killing Freddy's "children," Krueger decides it's time to take Voorhees out. Caught in the cross-fire are Lori and Will, both of whom feature a history with Freddy.

I Know Who Killed Me


Director : Chris Sivertson
Starring : Lindsay Lohan

Movie Synopsis
Aubrey Fleming is a regular high school student with friends and family. One night, she unexpectedly disappears. Two weeks later she is found unconscious in the middle of the woods. When spoken to, her loved ones realize she has forgotten her identity and the personality living in her body is Dakota Moss, a character that Aubrey created in one of her stories for an English assignment. Dakota denies ever being Aubrey knowing that they look identical. Now, Dakota must try to unravel the mystery of how her and Aubrey co-exist and find out who abducted Aubrey that night.

Hatchet

In theaters Friday, September 7th 2007,

Directed By : Adam Green

Movie Synopsis
Once there was a boy named Victor Crowley. He was born hideously deformed, and sadly, folks weren’t too kind to him. So he spent most of his life hidden in his Daddy’s house out in the bayou.
One Halloween night, the local children came throwing firecrackers at the house to tease and scare him. And the old Crowley house caught fire. When Victor’s Daddy arrived home, the house was in flames. He went to the barn, grabbed himself a hatchet, and started chopping down the front door. But what he didn’t know was that Victor was pressed up against the other side, trying to get out. He hit him square in the face with that hatchet... and poor Victor Crowley died. The old man went into mourning and became a recluse after that. Never left the house. Never spoke to anyone. He finally passed away about ten years later. And that's when the stories started. They say people tend to disappear in that swamp. And if you get close enough to the old Crowley house at night you can still hear Victor Crowley. Still roaming in the woods. Still crying for his Daddy.


Saw IV

Release Date : October 26, 2007
Directed By : Darren Lynn Bousman

Movie Synopsis
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grizzly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.



Halloween (2007)

Release Date : 31 August 2007 (USA)
Directed By : Rob Zombie

Movie Synopsis
After young Michael Myers killed his older sister one Halloween night he was committed for 15 years to a mental institution were he soon broke out and is in search for his little sister Laurie Strode as he returns back to his home town Haddonfield and finds his sister she and hers friends must put up a battle to survive as Michael Myers tries to kill them.


Resident Evil Extinction


RELEASE DATE
September 21, 2007


Movie Synopsis
Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice (MILLA JOVOVICH) is on her own knowing that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation lead by the sinister Albert Wesker (JASON O'MARA) and head researcher Dr. Issacs (IAN GLEN). Meanwhile traveling through the Nevada Desert and through the ruins of Las Vegas Carlos Olivera, (ODED FEHR) L.J., (MIKE EPPS) and new survivors K-Mart, (SPENCER LOCKE) Claire Redfield,(ALI LARTER) and Nurse Betty (ASHANTI) must fight to survive extinction against hoards of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions.



30 Days Of Night




Release Date : 19 October 2007 (USA)

Movie Synopsis

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Hostel Part II






Movie Synopsis


Three female college students take a detour from their partying, enticed by a beautiful European woman who promises seclusion, safety and maybe even romance. What they get is a living hell where they are sold to the highest bidder who's fondest wish is to kill them slowly. Hostel 2 also follows 2 American men who, on the flip side of the coin, are willing to pay to join an exclusive club where a life will end at their hands...any way they like. It's a story of human monsters and the almighty dollar as only Eli Roth could tell it.


Captivity











Movie Synopsis

A young model is drugged, kidnapped and subject to harrowing torture in a cell of horrors in this spine chilling horror thriller. Jennifer is young, beautiful and famous. Everybody knows her name and her popularity brings her everything she wants in life- but one mans jealousy lures Jennifer to a dimension in torture when she finds herself drugged, captured and held in an underground maze of terror. Taken against her will and subject to psychological punishment, Jennifer soon questions her sanity as her watchful tormentor pits her in numerous twisted traps. After struggling to keep her mind, she meets with Gary, another prisoner in the sick games and together they try their wits to escape from the cells and defeat the madman behind the sick games- but are they already too late when they are bound, gagged and thrust into a world of pain?


SAW 3





Movie Synopsis

After eluding the cops, psychopathic killer Jigsaw turns an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town into a gruesome torture chamber in this third installment of the horror series. Jigsaw's new protégée Amanda kidnaps a doctor who's forced to keep the evil master alive. Barely clinging to life, Jigsaw begins to carry out his gruesome plans for the lady doc and another helpless victim.

Flight of the Living Dead : Outbreak On A Plane



























Movie Synopsis

Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane is a special effects packed
Movie Synopsis
Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane is a special effects packed
sci-fi/horror/action thriller about a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris on which a renegade scientist is on the run from the CIA. He has smuggled aboard a secret coffin that contains the corpse of a fellow scientist that is infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus.
The 747 jumbo jet collides with two massive thunderstorms at once. The plane is pulled into the eye of the inescapable storm, where the constant turbulence releases the infected flesh eating scientist from the cargo hold. Spreading the virus all over the plane, the zombie scientist turns many unsuspecting passengers into the undead.
The uninfected survivors must now fight for survival aboard the flight they wish they had missed. No government will allow the infected airliner a place to land, leaving the survivors stranded in the sky with their ravenous tormentors.








Grindhouse









Grindhouse
is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. The film is a double feature consisting of two feature-length segments bookended by fictional trailers for upcoming attractions, advertisements, and in-theater announcements. The film's title derives from the U.S. film industry term "grindhouse," which refers to a movie theater specializing in B movies, often exploitation films, shown in a multiple-feature format. The film's cast includes Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, stuntwoman Zoë Bell, and Vanessa Ferlito.

Planet Terror Synopsis

In a rural town in Texas, go-go dancer 'Cherry Darling' (Rose McGowan) decides to quit her low-paying job and find another use for her numerous 'useless' talents. As she meets her ex-boyfriend El Wray (Freddy Rodriguez) at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by JT Hague (Jeff Fahey), a group of military officials, led by the demented Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis), are making a business transaction with a scientist named Abby (Naveen Andrews) for mass quantities of a deadly biochemical agent known as DC2 (codename "Project Terror"), but when Muldoon learns Abby has an extra supply on hand, he attempts to take Abby hostage and as he does, Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town area and turns its residents into deformed bloodthirsty psychopaths, mockingly referred to as "sickos" by the surviving humans. The infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block (Josh Brolin) and his abused, neglected anesthesiologist wife Dakota (Marley Shelton) at a local hospital.

As Cherry and El Wray are attacked by the sickos, Doc Block learns of his wife's plans to abandon him and reunite with her lesbian lover, Tammy (Stacy Ferguson), who was brutally killed by the sickos earlier. Doc Block attacks Dakota with her own anesthetic hypodermic needles, inflicting multiple puncture wounds on her hands as she tries to defend herself. He then locks her in a closet before returning to the overwhelming amount of infected patients, including Cherry who has lost her right leg in a sicko attack. El Wray is detained by Sheriff Hague (Michael Biehn) based on past encounters between the two men. As the patients transform into sickos, El Wray escapes the police station and arrives at the hospital, attaching a wooden table leg to Cherry's stump. As El Wray and Cherry fight their way out of the hospital, Dakota escapes to her car but in trying to open its door with her numbed hands, accidentally breaks her wrist. Meanwhile, Doc Block becomes infected by one of the first sickos, Joe (Nicky Katt), and the others take refuge at the Bone Shack.

The rebels imprisoned by renegade soldiers led by Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis)
The rebels imprisoned by renegade soldiers led by Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis)

Dakota rescues her son Tony and takes him to her father, Earl McGraw (Michael Parks). Tony, who had been given a handgun and was told by his mother to shoot "anyone who isn't me" shoots himself, after being told to be careful where he pointed the gun. Panicking, due to Tony's death and approaching sickos, she pounds on the door and Earl lets her in. Meanwhile, the survivors, including Cherry, El Wray and some of the police, hole up in The Bone Shack. Cherry and El Wray make love in J.T.'s bedroom, and the film catches fire and skips to the next part. After the missing scene, Sheriff Hague has been shot in the neck, sickos have amassed outside and The Bone Shack is burning to the ground. Also, El Wray's past has presumably been told to the sheriff, who has much more respect for him. Dakota, Earl, and Tony's crazed babysitter twins (Electra and Elise Avellan) arrive at the Bone Shack. With Sheriff Hague critically injured, the group decides to flee to the Mexican border, before being stopped by a large mob of sickos. Muldoon's men arrive, and kill the sickos before arresting the rebels. They learn from Abby that the officials are stealing Abby's supply of the gas because they are infected with it and the only treatment is by constant inhalation of the gas, which delays the effects. They also learn that a small percentage of the population is immune to the gas, suggesting a possible treatment, which is why Muldoon quarantined the survivors.

As Cherry and Dakota are taken away by two soldiers who intend to rape them, the others defeat the security guards, with JT receiving a fatal gunshot wound in the process, and search for Muldoon. Discovered by El Wray and Abby, Muldoon explains that he killed Osama bin Laden before he and his men were infected with DC2 and were ordered to protect the area. After killing a mutating Muldoon, El Wray and Abby arrive and save Cherry and Dakota, ultimately replacing Cherry's wooden leg with a custom-made M4A1 carbine assault rifle/M203 grenade launcher,(after stabbing one of the rapists in the eye and dakota who shoots him with her trademark needels which she promptly uses to defeat the rest of Muldoon's men. In the final battle, Sheriff Hague dies of his injuries as JT sacrifices himself to eliminate the sickos, shortly before Abby is killed in combat. Doc Block then arrives and is killed by Earl, shortly before the survivors use a nearby helicopter to defeat the remaining sickos. However, while saving Cherry from a sicko, El Wray is shot to death, and the remaining survivors flee. In epilouge, Cherry (now sporting a Gatling gun prosthetic leg) leads the group to Tulum, Mexico, where they start a new society. In the final moments of the film it is revealed that Cherry Darling has given birth to El Wray's daughter.


Death Proof Synopsis


Three friends – Arlene (Vanessa Ferlito), Shanna (Jordan Ladd) and radio disc jockey Jungle Julia Lucai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) – are driving down Colorado St in Austin, Texas to celebrate Jungle Julia's birthday, unknowingly followed by a man in a souped-up 1970 Chevy Nova. While drinking at Güero's Taco Bar, Jungle Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement earlier that morning, offering a free lap dance from Arlene to anyone who calls her Butterfly, buys her a drink and recites a segment of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," much to the chagrin of Arlene. As the night goes on, and the girls meet up with some boys at the Texas Chili Parlor, they run into Pam (Rose McGowan), a childhood enemy of Jungle Julia's, who is being studied by Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), a scarred, charming stunt double for Hollywood action films. He spends the night wooing the women, working his way up to Arlene, who realizes that he’s been following them all day, but gives in to his charm. After receiving the free lap dance, Mike offers Pam a ride in his car, assuring her that it’s “death proof”. In the car, he is revealed to be a psychopathic serial killer who takes pleasure in murdering young women on the road. After taunting Pam by telling her that the car is only death proof for the driver and brutally murdering her by slamming his boot to the brake, causing her to smash her face in on the dashboard, Mike chases after the girls and, with his lights off, causes a high-speed head-on collision with the other girls' car, violently killing the three women (Shanna being launched from the front window and smashing into both Mike's windshield and the pavement, dismembering Jungle Julia's leg, and Arlene's face torn off by the front wheels) and also their driver, Jungle Julia’s pot dealer, Lanna Frank (Monica Staggs). Mike suffers only minor injuries and, because the girls were driving while intoxicated and Mike had not drunk any alcohol, he is cleared of all criminal charges, much to the chagrin of Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks), who knows Stuntman Mike's guilty.

Fourteen months later, Lee (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Abernathy (Rosario Dawson), Kim (Tracie Thoms), and Zoë (Zoë Bell), a group of women working below the line in Hollywood travel through Tennessee. Zoë, a stunt driver, has lusted after the 1970 Dodge Challenger car model, and they visit a man who has one for sale. They pretend to take a test drive prior to purchasing, but just want to fulfill Zoë's desire to drive the car, and drive it at high speed as it was driven in the film Vanishing Point—a favorite of hers. Kim, against her will, and Zoë have decided to play a dangerous game called "Ship's Mast", and therefore prefer Abernathy not to come with them, but she insists. On the insistence of Abernathy, Lee is left behind as a guarantee that they do not steal the car. Zoë, holding on to two belts attached to the car, rides on the hood as Kim speeds faster and faster down the road. During this game, Mike targets them with his 1969 Dodge Charger repeatedly crashing into them, and eventually Zoë is thrown from the hood. Kim, who carries a gun for protection, shoots Mike in the arm, causing him to flee. Abernathy and Kim look at the fields, dazed by both fear and the loss of Zoë. However, Zoë, unharmed except for a "bruise on her bum," emerges from the brush, where she had been thrown. The three girls decide to take brutal revenge against their sadistic attacker, with Abernathy being the one who decides they should "kill that bastard." Zoë grabs an abandoned length of galvanized fence pipe and jumps into the car as it speeds off.

Stuntman Mike's injury causes him stop the car and attempt to tend to his wound. As he tends to himself, his true personality is revealed: he is nothing more than a bullying coward who hides behind his cars to feel safe. In doing so, he releases his safety harness. The women find him, violently crash into the back of the Charger, and attack him brutally, and Mike flees again without refastening his harness — nullifying much of the 'death proof' aspect of his stunt car. An extended chase scene follows, which includes multiple collisions. Previously uninvolved vehicles are struck by both cars as the women pursue the frightened stuntman. Just as he becomes convinced that he has escaped, the pursuing vehicle blindsides him and he crashes to a stop. Screaming in pain, he is hauled out of the car and the three women brutally punch him dozens of times. Stuntman Mike is knocked to the ground, and the women leap in celebration, caught in a midair freeze-frame as the film ends. As the film credits roll, we cut back to the girls who are still celebrating. Abernathy raises her leg and, with an ax kick, smashes in Stuntman Mike’s skull with her boot heel, officially killing him right before it goes back to the credits.