Archive for the 'Thriller' Category
Number 23, The
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.
Number 23, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.20 out of 10 (10562 votes)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Arthur, Mark Pellegrino, Paul Butcher, David Stifel, Corey Stoll, Ed Lauter, Troy Kotsur, Walter Soo Hoo, Patricia Belcher,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, animal-control-worker, attempted-suicide, blood, blood-splatter, book, bookstore, corpse, death, detective, dogcatcher, driven-mad, enigmatic, fall-from-height, fantasy-sequence, femme-fatale, framed, husband-wife-relationship, insanity, knife, mental-institution, murder, nightmare, number-in-title, numerology, obsessive, paranoid, premarital-sex, psycho-thriller, reading, shot-in-the-head, skeleton, slit-throat, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-to-death, suicide, teacher-student-relationship, tense, throat-slitting, twist-in-the-end, woods, wrongfully-imprisoned
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Grindhouse
An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s. In “Death Proof,” a psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks and kills beautiful women with his car. In “Planet Terror,” a small-town sheriffs’ department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called “sickos.” A gun-legged woman named Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her martial arts-wielding partner (Freddy Rodriguez) take on the zombie army. The two films will be fused together by fake movie trailers.
Grindhouse DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (27473 votes)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Naveen Andrews, Will Arnett, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, Josh Brolin, Nicolas Cage, Leroy Castanon, Omar Doom, Jason Douglas, Jeff Fahey, Carlos Gallardo, Jay Hernandez, Doran Ingram, Jason Isaacs, Nicky Katt,
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, accidental-death, accidental-suicide, actress, amputation, animal-killing, anthology, apology, assassination, assault, assault-rifle, attempted-rape, austin-texas, b-movie, babysitter, bar, beach, beaten-to-death, black-comedy, bridge, broken-neck, brother-brother-relationship, cannibalism, car-accident, car-chase, car-trouble, castration, chemical-weapons, child-with-gun, cook, cut-into-pieces, death, death-of-child, decapitation, deformity, diner, directed-by-several-directors, disc-jockey, disfigurement, dismemberment, doctor, double-cross, double-feature, drugs, eaten-alive, elevator, escape, exotic-dancer, exploding-body, exploding-car, exploding-head, exploitation, extramarital-affair, fall-from-height, father-daughter-relationship, film-break, film-in-film, fire, flirting, foot-fetish, friendship, gatling-gun, gore, grenade-launcher, grindhouse, gunshot-wound, head-blown-off, helicopter, hit-by-car, hit-by-truck, hospital, infection, jealousy, jukebox, lesbian, loss-of-child, loss-of-loved-one, loss-of-son, machete, machine-gun, mad-scientist, makeup-artist, marijuana, marriage-proposal, melting-man, mexico, military-base, morgue, mother-son-relationship, motorcycle, multiple-cameos, murder, nazi, nurse, old-flame, oral-sex, parade, person-on-fire, police-officer-killed, premarital-sex, priest, racial-slur, retro, revenge, ring, ripped-in-half, ruins, saxophone, scar, scientist, severed-arm, severed-finger, severed-head, severed-leg, sex, sheriff, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, siege, single-mother, soldier, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-eye, stabbed-in-the-hand, stabbed-in-the-neck, stabbed-to-death, stabbing, strip-club, stuntman, syringe, tattoo, tennessee, testicle, texas, text-messaging, thanksgiving, thermometer, title-spoken-by-character, tongue, topless, trampoline, truck-driver, unwed-pregnancy, vulgarity, werewolf, wooden-leg, zombie
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Perfect Stranger
A journalist (Berry) goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill (Willis) as her best friend’s killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Perfect Stranger DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.80 out of 10 (2575 votes)
Director: James Foley
Actors: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow, Gary Dourdan, Florencia Lozano, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Kathleen Chalfant, Gordon MacDonald, Daniella Van Graas, Paula Miranda, Patti D’Arbanville, Clea Lewis, Tamara Feldman, Gerry Becker,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, adultery, advertising-executive, amateur, assumed-identity, beautiful-woman, deception, erotic-thriller, female-nudity, femme-fatale, grim, internet, lurid, murder, murder-investigation, new-york-city, nudity, obsessive, paranoid, philanderer, psychological-drama, psychological-thriller, secret, seduction, surprise-ending, tense, undercover
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Hills Have Eyes II, The
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.
Hills Have Eyes II, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.90 out of 10 (2809 votes)
Director: Martin Weisz
Actors: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Eric Edelstein, Flex Alexander, Reshad Strik, Michael Bailey Smith, David Reynolds, Derek Mears, Tyrell Kemlo, Jason Oettle, Gáspár Szabó,
Tags: Horror, Romance, Thriller, gay-slur, remake, sequel, sequel-to-remake, suicide
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Smokin’ Aces
An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).
Smokin’ Aces DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (15982 votes)
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Ben Affleck, Zach Cumer, Jason Bateman, Common, Joseph Ruskin, Andy Garcia, Alex Rocco, Wayne Newton, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Peter Berg, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Henderson, Christopher Michael Holley,
Tags: Crime, Thriller, Action, 1950s, bail-bondsman, bathtub-scene, betrayal, black-comedy, blood-splatter, blow-torch, bodyguard, card-trick, chainsaw, cocaine, contact-lens, corpse, crime-boss, death-of-friend, diner, disguise, drugs, electrocution, elevator, ensemble-cast, erection, eye-patch, faking-own-death, father-son-relationship, fbi, fbi-agent, flashback-sequence, gay-slur, gore, grandmother, gun-in-mouth, helicopter, hitman, hospital, hotel, impersonation, lake, lake-tahoe-nevada, las-vegas-nevada, lawyer, lesbian, los-angeles-california, mafia, magician, male-nudity, mask, mob-hit, murder, name-change, neo-nazi, one-day, organized-crime, penthouse, police-officer-killed, pool-hall, presumed-dead, prologue, prostitute, rabbit-suit, racial-slur, rifle, ritalin, security-guard, self-mutilation, severed-finger, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, sniper, stabbing, stairwell, stakeout, suicidal, surgeon, theatrical-agent, topless, torture, video-surveillance, vulgarity, wheelchair, witness-protection
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88 Minutes
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon’s execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same “modus-operandi” and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of his former wife and associated Shelly Barnes, the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.
88 Minutes DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (2141 votes)
Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, William Forsythe, Neal McDonough, Stephen Moyer, Michael Eklund, Michal Yannai, Brendan Fletcher, Carrie Genzel, Dexter Bell, Paul Campbell,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, death-threat, fbi, female-nudity, number-in-title, professor, real-time, time-for-title
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Next
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling “winnings.” But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
Next DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.80 out of 10 (2835 votes)
Director: Lee Tamahori
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tory Kittles, José Zúñiga, Jim Beaver, Jason Butler Harner, Michael Trucco, Enzo Cilenti, Laetitia Danielle, Nicolas Pajon, Sergej Trifunovic, Charles Chun, Patricia Prata,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, based-on-short-story, bomb, bullet-dodging, car-chase, car-hit-by-train, casino, chase, chase-scene, clairvoyant, counter-terrorism, diner, explosion, fbi, fbi-agent, future, gambling, grand-canyon, helicopter, kidnapping, las-vegas, los-angeles, los-angeles-california, magician, motel, murder, newscaster, nuclear-attack, nuclear-bomb, nuclear-explosion, pickup-line, precognition, prediction, psychic, pursuit, robbery, shootout, sniper, soothsayer, teacher, terrorism, terrorist, theft, thief, title-spoken-by-character, voice-over-narration, wristwatch
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Pathfinder
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Pathfinder DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.90 out of 10 (1944 votes)
Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Karl Urban, Russell Means, Moon Bloodgood, Jay Tavare, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Kevin Loring, Wayne Charles Baker, Burkely Duffield, Ray G. Thunderchild, Duane Howard, Brandon Oakes, Alain Hudon, Cyler Point,
Tags: War, Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Action, 9th-century, archer, avalanche, based-on-comic, bear, bloodlust, booby-trap, bow-and-arrow, captive, character-name-in-title, death, decapitation, fall-from-height, frozen-lake, hand-to-hand-combat, helmet, heroism, impalement, little-boy, man-against-nature, marauder, mass-murder, massacre, native, native-american, north-america, pathfinder, rural-life, savagery, self-sacrifice, severed-hand, snow, sword-fight, title-spoken-by-character, torture, underwater-scenes, viking, viking-ship, violence, winter
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