Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O’Rourke
Poltergeist took the haunted house and family in film into a whole new era. Brought to you by the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Steven Spielberg, it shows the quick evolution from excitement to fear as the young Freeling family discovers their shiny new home in Cuesta Verde comes with a bad case of the evil spirits. Basically, the first in the Poltergeist series eviscerates middle class America in the 1980s by attacking them where it counts, their planned housing communities, with the technology of the time. Trust us, a television has never been so scary.
Welcome to your worst nightmare.
After spending an afternoon lost in an Amsterdam haze, three ugly American backpackers wonder if this is all the hedonism that Europe has to offer. The three meet a Slovak who points them towards a small town deep in Slovakia famous for its parties and beautiful women. The three hop the next train out of town and check into a local hostel where the welcoming staff gets them settled in for a night of decadence. Unfortunately for them, it’s not the sort of decadence they had in mind, as they soon discover that they’ve been lured to an underground club where the rich get their kicks torturing travellers for a price.
The dead rise and stupid humans are still stuck fighting over money and power in George A. Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD.
Years after the undead dominated the planet in Romero’s Day of the Dead, humanity still thrives in the heart of Pennsylvania… Sort of. Protected by rivers and an electrified fence, the remains of Pittsburgh now exists as a rigid feudal society. Orchestrated by evil haircut-and-a-suit Dennis Hopper, the poor live on the streets in squalor, enjoying zombie pit fights and scavenged food, while the wealthy live a relatively normal life of luxury in a plush high rise. To supply the city, a vigilante group pilots a tricked out, zombie bashin’ bus out into the Pennsylvania wilderness, where they start to notice that the zombies aren’t acting quite as stupid as usual. With the smarty-pants zombies closing in, an all out class war breaks out in the city as factions tear their sanctuary apart in a hopeless fight over cash, comfort and survival.
Starring: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Rosalind Cash, David Alan Grier
A classic style horror anthology with an inner city twist, Tales from the Hood spins four spooky tales of revenge and comeuppance, tackling issues that still plague us over twenty years on: police brutality, child abuse, gang violence, and racism. Told by an oddball funeral director, the stories right social wrongs with a wicked grin: killer dolls take down a racist senator; a victim of murder by police returns for revenge, and gang members and drug pushers get a hard lesson in who they’re really working for.
Steven Spielberg brings future of crime prevention to the present with an eerily familiar in MINORITY REPORT.
John Anderton is a top “Precrime” cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they’re committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Can Anderton find a glitch in the system and prove his innocence before it’s too late?
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
Shudder presents a special screening of the new gothic horror film, SWEET, SWEET LONELY GIRL.
Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is a gothic horror film that chronicles the experience of Adele as she goes to live as a caregiver for her aging aunt Dora. Soon after moving in, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele’s moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path. Set against the social security crisis of the 1980 Reagan-Carter election, Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is an innovative play on genre, striking a bold intersection between the apparitions of a ghost story and the moralist lessons of the after school special. A Shudder Exclusive.
First there was an opportunity……then there was a betrayal.
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
A hitman hired to kill individuals sent from the future learns that his next target is his own future self in LOOPER.
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe’s future self for assassination.
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past in TIMECOP.
When mankind perfects time travel, the government establishes the Time Enforcement Commission to thwart criminal attempts to alter the timeline. Police officer Walker is recruited by TEC Cmdr. Matuzak, but soon finds his investigation of Senator Aaron McComb being thwarted by elements within the government. When Walker’s wife, Melissa, is attacked, he must travel across time to rescue her and save the future.
