December 2007

Left for Dead

Left for Dead “Saw meets the spaghetti western in this heart thumping, adrenalin pumping joy ride” in a unique action horror film set in turn of the century Mexico. Albert Pyun teams with producer Michael Najjar to create the second film in his high-octane mayhem trilogy, which began with his cult classic, Mean Guns.

In Mean Guns: Left For Dead a desperate criminal and deadly posse find themselves trapped in the ghost town of Amnesty by a vengeful demon.

Oh, yes…the Mayhem is very good.

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Nefes

Nefes poster Nefes (Breath) is the story of a 40 men team commanded by a Captain. It tells the pains, happinesses and life struggle, of 40 soldiers who have been assigned to defend a relay station at the 2365 meter altitude Karabal hill, as they perform their duties.

The movie is based on a book called Guneydogu’dan Oykuler by H.Evrensel (Stories from the South East), which is a collection of stories based on memoirs of the people who have been affected by the terror problem in the South East region of Turkey.

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The Bank Job

The Bank Job poster In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London’s Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press.

This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.

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9 Lives of Mara

9 Lives of Mara poster Twelve-year-old Robin is in turmoil following the death of his mother. This is when she appears, an amorous intruder threatening to invade his home and bewitch his dad. This darkly sexual and mysterious woman appears hell-bent on becoming the children’s stepmother — something young Robin refuses to accept.

Encouraging him all the way is his best friend Larry, a foul-mouthed Iago to Robin’s Othello. Larry’s always on hand with a scary comic book or urban legend to further goad Robin in his murderous beliefs. But there is far more to both Larry and the intruder than meets the eye. Thus begins Robin’s inextricable path toward insanity and murder.

Using innovative visual techniques, director Balaji K. Kumar keeps us guessing with this slick and haunting Oedipal tale, 9 Lives of Mara, which speaks to our darkest fears of madness and malevolence.

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Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Wild West Comedy Show poster Vince Vaughn, star of the hit comedies The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Old School and Swingers, hosts a night of improvisation, stand-up comedy, and live performances by special guest stars.

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show features stand-up comedy by national comedians hailing from the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and improvisation and sketch comedy featuring Vaughn and special guest stars. Hand picked by Vaughn to perform in the show are comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco.

In the fall of 2005, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights, Hollywood to the Heartland traveled over 6,000 miles across the country, performing 30 shows in 30 days. The entire tour, including performances, behind-the-scenes action, and interviews with Vince, the comedians and special guests, was captured on film. The film premiered to wide acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival. PictureHouse will be releasing the film in February 2008.

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Ulak

Ulak poster They were 6
One betrayed
5 were left
5 were killed
And became nothing
And one day
A messenger came from the old times
They were in deep than the deepest well.
Darker than the darkest heart.
There was no hope
And one day he came from far with secrets in his bag.
Told them the story of love, belief and courage.
The believers waited as there was one more (messenger) to come.

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Anamorph

Anamorph poster Detective Stan Aubray is brought back into investigative work to solve a series of murders similar in style to those of a serial killer he thought he put away in the past.. Shaping each crime scene and its victim to resemble a unique painting technique, where images are reflected and reversed, the killer taunts Aubray, evoking memories from the earlier case. As the elusive killer peels away the layers of Aubray’s life, an alternate version of the detective’s own history is eerily revealed, and doubts surface as to what really happened years earlier.

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Winter Tree

Winter Tree still Winter Tree is a dark fairytale telling the story of a twisted, ice-cold young man obssessed with the girl who lives in the woods. His obssession manifests itself in the form of a monsterous creature that emerges from the trees to devour the girl.

Using various animation techniques, Winter Tree combines stop-motion puppets with hand-drawn and digitally painted backgrounds.

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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Poughkeepsie Tapes poster In 2001, police in Poughkeepsie New York made a shocking discovery—ten bodies buried in the backyard of a residential house. Astonishingly, that was only the beginning.
Inside the home, police uncovered over 800 neatly organized videotapes detailing the exploits of one man’s decade-long crime spree. The most disturbing part of the find, was that the killer had filmed all of the footage himself—from his first moments stalking his victims to their last seconds alive.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes examines the homicides—incorporating interviews from criminal experts, testimony from the only victim ever rescued alive, and chilling footage shot from the killer’s own camera. All of which document the twisted path of a serial killer as never before.

Beginning in 1988, a wave of missing person reports and unsolved murders from New York to Pennsylvania, began to alarm law enforcement officials. Many of the strange disappearances and dead victims held similarities. Soon the authorities realized they were dealing with a serial killer. The hunt to identify and capture the killer was layered with troubling facts and haunting events, eventually ending at the house where the tapes were found. Unfortunately, the discovery left more questions than answers. Did the killer leave the tapes intentionally? Do the tapes hold hidden clues? Is he still active?

This film dares to show what has never been presented to the public before—the evidence, the puzzle, and the footage of The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

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The Sick House

Poster for The Sick House Anna is an ambitious young archaeologist who desperately needs the kudos of an important find, but her work is ruined when the authorities suddenly shut down the old hospital in which she is working. Plague spores contaminate its medieval foundations.

Anna is convinced that this ancient plague site holds an even darker secret. In her research she has stumbled on a murderous pattern of unexplained child deaths. This is a very cold case; the children disappeared in 1665, the year of the great plague. The ’suits’ at her museum don’t buy her theories and they give the go-ahead for the hospital’s imminent demolition. That night Anna risks everything, and breaks back into the hospital to prove her suspicions.

Reaching for a mysterious ancient artifact, she slips and falls. Meanwhile, Nick’s 21st birthday celebrations are culminating in chaos. He just wanted a good night out with girlfriend Joozs, best mate Steve, and Steve’s younger brother, Clive. But a little innocent joy-riding goes badly wrong. After a fatal hit-and-run the teenagers hide out in the hospital and their fates become intertwined with Anna’s.

With luckless synchronicity, two worlds collide and the ancient force that has snared the young people starts to play out its cruel game. Anna has unwittingly resurrected the malevolent spirit of a hideous medieval plague doctor John Lebar, and one by one they will all encounter his evil reincarnation - their fates mirroring the cruel deaths of his victims 350 years ago. History is repeating itself.

Anna works against the clock to unlock the secrets of the murderous plague doctor. In a twisted version of Alice Through The Looking Glass, the young people find themselves fighting for their lives - and souls - in a long-forgotten medieval underworld. The only way out is for Anna to confront the plague doctor.

Can she destroy him, and stop his evil spreading like a plague epidemic, into today’s world? A shocking mystery that began centuries ago needs solving but even Anna cannot see that she herself is the final piece of the puzzle. Time is her enemy and death is only the beginning…

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