Saturday, May 31, 2008

Shadowplay (2007)

Shadowplay is a psychological thriller about three individuals who wake up imprisoned in a metal cell with no memory of who they are or how they got there. As fear and confusion threaten to tear this trio apart they are presented with a clue: a metal box, immovably heavy and as solid as the walls that imprison them.It is clear they must work together to solve the boxs riddle, but as the trio struggles to open it they begin to remember things about their own pasts, things that make it difficult - and dangerous - for them to trust each other.Nor are they certain that opening the box is even such a good idea! [imdb]


Red Room (Akai misshitsu [heya]: Kindan no ôsama geemu) (1999)

How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags! [imdb]


Alien Autopsy (2006)

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947. [imdb]


Silent Hill (2006)

Sharon is a little girl who sleepwalks and has seizures; lately they've been getting worse. She keeps mentioning the same thing in her trances: Silent Hill. Over the protests of her husband, Sharon's mother (Rose) flees with her child. She ends up driving and crashes. She wakes up in the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill. Sharon is gone. It's soon clear the town is not like any place she's ever been. It's inhabited by a variety of creatures and a living darkness that descends and literally transforms everything it touches. The human inhabitants - the ones who are left - are trapped and fighting a losing battle against the Darkness. Joined by a cop named Cybil, who was pulled in with her, Rose searches for her little girl while learning the history of Silent Hill. [imdb]


Dead Man's Hand (2007)

Horror icons Sid Haig and Michael Berryman team up in Charles Band's creepy haunted house tale as the ghosts of a Vegas mobster and his henchman who terrorize a group of friends staying at a run-down gaming hall. [imdb]


The Last Winter (2006)

The American oil company KIC Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Artic National Wildlife Refuge seeking energy independence. Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack in a sort of agreement with the government, approving procedures and sending reports of the operation. When one insane team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that sour gases may have been accidentally released in the spot provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. After a second fatal incident, he convinces Ed to travel with the team to a hospital for examination. However, weird events happen trapping the group in the base. [imdb]


Days of Darkness (2007)

Humanity Makes Its Last Stand. 2 Billion Zombies. 11 Humans. Get Ready To Rumble. [imdb]


Straightheads (2007)

This taut and truly violent thriller sees a middle-class woman and a security man who after ravaging in an explosive night of passion head off to a posh party in the highlands, however on the way they encounter a connection of violent gun holders who beat him and horrifically gang-rape her. After surviving this terrifying encounter, the traumatized couple decide to take revenge on the mob. After coming to terms with what happened, the couple manage to get hold of a rifle, and as the sun goes down a truly harrowing blood bath unfolds as the revenge stricken pair unleash their deadly revenge. [imdb]