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2008

True Blood


 Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: True Blood
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
     Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Vampires
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Monsters, Sex, Drama, Magic
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.


    Reviews:
  • Truly Madly Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion (Book)
  • True Blood - Season 1 (DVD / Blu-ray)
  • True Blood: Strange Love (TV)

  • Interviews:
  • Barr, Nathan (True Blood, The Last Exorcism)

  • News:
    First Look at True Blood Season Five Crawls Out of the Grave
    True Blood Cast Expands Again with Giles Matthey as the Fairy Claude
    New Vampire Ready to Put the Bite on in HBO's True Blood; Ryan Kwanten Promises More Controversy in Season Five
    True Blood Wants to Make Sure Your New Year Sucks
    The Horrors of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
    Confirmed - Chris Meloni to Join HBO's True Blood
    Horror at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards
    Chris Meloni in Talks to Join HBO's True Blood
    Ryan Kwanten Offers True Blood Tidbits and Talks Joe Lynch's Knights of Badassdom
    Two More Werewolves Join the Pack for True Blood Season 5

    Gallery:

    http://www.hbo.com/true-blood/index.html


    Dead Snow


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: Norway
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     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Tommy Wirkola
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Survival
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Zombies
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The story of a group of snowboarders who run afoul of some long-frozen Nazis who awaken in an even worse mood than they died in.


    Reviews:
  • Dead Snow (Blu-ray / DVD)
  • Dead Snow (2009)

  • Interviews:
  • Stroemstad, Terje (Dead Snow)

  • News:
    DVD Releases: Feb. 23, 2010: Leave The Caretaker in The Box Along Sorority Row
    DVD and Blu-ray Art and Details: Dead Snow
    Horror Coming Home: Zombie's Halloween II and Dead Snow
    IFC's Midnight Movie Summer of Horrors!
    Dead Snow - New UK Trailer
    US Trailer for Dead Snow
    Dead Snow Getting Limited Theatrical in June
    IFC Nabs Dead Snow, Objective Release Set
    Badass Dead Snow Poster
    Two Clips from Dead Snow!

    Gallery:

    http://www.dodsno.no/


    Donkey Punch


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: UK
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     99 min
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
     Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Revenge
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Choas
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    Plot Synopsis:

    After meeting at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort, seven young adults decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies in a freak accident, the others argue about what to do, which leads to a ruthless fight for survival.


    Reviews:
  • Donkey Punch (DVD)

  • Interviews:
  • Blackburn, Olly (Donkey Punch)

  • News:
    DVD Releases: April 7, 2009: Take a Shuttle to the House of Donkey Punches
    Exclusive Clip From Donkey Punch!
    Official U.S. Donkey Punch Poster and Unrated Trailer
    U.S. Poster for Donkey Punch
    Magnet Unleashes Six Shooter Films
    New Site for Punching Donkeys!
    Who Wants a Donkey Punch?
    Two Clips from Donkey Punch
    Magnolia Takes a Donkey Punch
    The Horrors of Sundance

    Gallery:

    http://donkeypunchmovie.co.uk/


    House


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Robby Henson
  •  Writer(s)
  • Writer: Rob Green
  •  Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Adaptation
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Survival
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    Plot Synopsis:

    On a deserted back road in Alabama , Jack and Stephanie find themselves driving fast and running late. Their world suddenly changes when a strange accident leaves them stranded with no car, no cell phone coverage, and no help in sight. They have no choice except to continue on foot. As darkness approaches, they round a bend and see a small sign at the top of a long gravel driveway: The Wayside Inn.


    Reviews:
  • House (DVD)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    Motion Picture Purgatory: Hausu (House)
    DVD Releases: April 7, 2009: Take a Shuttle to the House of Donkey Punches
    Excusive Clip - House
    House DVD Art & Date
    Exclusive Clip from House!
    New Imagery from House!
    Exclusive Pics from House!
    Trailer for Religious Horror House

    Gallery:



    Alphabet Killer, The


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Rob Schmidt
  •  Writer(s)
  • Writer: Tom Malloy
  •  Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Supernatural
  •  Keywords
     Themes
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Rochester, NY, Megan Paige (Dushku) is a driven police investigator whose commitment to the job borders on obsession. Her fiance, Kenneth Shine (Elwes), is also a lieutenant with the Rochester PD. They're currently working on one of their worst cases yet, the murder and rape of a 10-year-old girl named Carla Castillo. When Megan puts it together that she was murdered in Churchville, she is convinced they are dealing with a serial killer. She becomes so caught up she begins to have hallucinations... and a bloody Carla begins to haunt her regularly.


    Reviews:
  • Alphabet Killer, The (DVD)

  • Interviews:
  • Malloy, Tom & Terlecki, Russell (The Alphabet Killer) Audio

  • News:
    DVD Releases: Dec. 8, 2009: Run Bitch Run from The Lights of the InAlienable Cyclops
    Anchor Bay Announces Alphabet Killer DVD Specs
    The Alphabet Killer Finds Limited Theatrical Release
    Alphabet Killer & Pontypool Trailers
    Exclusive Alphabet Killer Poster
    Anchor Bay Catches The Alphabet Killer
    Alphabet Killer Caught?
    The Alphabet Killer's Big Trailer
    Dushku After a Killer
    Schmidt on Masters, Killers

    Gallery:

    http://www.alphabetkiller.com/


    Able


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Marc Robert
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Survival
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Disease
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Terrified Berliners struggle to survive each other and their own failing bodies during a sudden epidemic of progressive paralysis


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Update on and Clips from Able
    Virus Film Able to Premiere at Sitges

    Gallery:

    http://www.stotlerrobertfilm.com/able_story.html


    Satanic Panic


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
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     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Marc Selz
  •  Writer(s)
  • Writer: Marc Selz
  •  Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Survival
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Satanism
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Depicting the titular affliction which overtook our country and reached its peak in the mid-80's before tapering off. Seems that the Satanists are still going about kidnapping, abusing and killing innocents, but they're far less conspicuous now...


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Satanic Panic - New Stills and Trailer
    Satanic Panic Scores Distro! New Stills!
    New Satanic Panic Stills Surface
    Satanic Panic Mask Scores Distro!
    Satanic Panic Premiere Set
    Satanic Panic Wraps, New Pics!
    Panic For a Satanic Trailer
    Selz Panics With Satan

    Gallery:

    http://www.satanicpanicthemovie.com/


    Mother of Tears


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: Italy
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     102 min
  • Rating: R
  •  Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Dario Argento
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Sequel
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Witchcraft
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A young American art student, Sarah, unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the Mother of Tears before her evil conquers the world.


    Reviews:
  • Mother of Tears (DVD)
  • Mother of Tears (2007)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    Dinner for Fiends: Two Years of Dread!
    Three Discs of Halloween, Plus Mothers & Feast DVD News
    Three Mother of Tears Clips
    Zine Review: Rue Morgue #78
    Complete Mother of Tears Theater List!
    Mother of Tears U.S. Site Opens
    Mother of Tears in Theatres Soon!
    Argento, Friday Box Sets?
    U.S. Mother of Tears Trailer!
    Mother of Tears Poster, Trailer

    Gallery:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001AR0D6I/evilshopnet


    I Sell the Dead

    Echo Game, The


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Briany Feeney
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Survival
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Psychic
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The Echo Game revolves around April Reilly (Seaton), who receives a letter from her former lover Rachel (Landis), who was believed to have died ten years earlier. The letter and its urgent warning spark a chain of events that sends April’s life spiraling out of control.


    Reviews:
  • Echo Game, The (2009)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    DVD Cover Art and New Stills from The Echo Game
    The Echo Game: New Stills, Trailer, and Film Fest/Distro Info
    Behind-the-Scenes Video --The Echo Game
    Director Talks The Echo Game: EXCL: Trailer, Promo-Art, and Stills
    Exclusive FX Shots & Comments on The Echo Game!
    Exclusive Echo Game Shots
    Exclusive Look at The Echo Game

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    Acolytes


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
  • Rating: R
  •  Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Jon Hewitt
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Revenge
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Blackmail
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The story of three young teenagers named Mark (Gregory), James (Payne) and Chasely (Lawrence) who stumble upon a serial killer’s hunting ground. Instead of going straight to the police with the evidence they’ve uncovered, Mark and James decide to blackmail the serial killer into killing the man (Dorman) who committed a horrible crime against the two boys years ago. Needless to say, all does not go as planned.


    Reviews:
  • Acolytes (2008)

  • Interviews:
  • Hewitt, Jon (Acolytes)

  • News:
    Full Film Lineup for Screamfest 2008!
    Acolytes Bully a Trailer

    Gallery:



    Igor


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
  • Rating: PG
  •  Category  Color
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Anthony Leondis
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Comedy
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Monsters
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Igor is a playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.


    Reviews:
  • Igor (2008)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    DVD Releases: You Won't Believe How it Ends
    Igor Coming Home This January
    Exclusive Igor Clip!
    Igor Game & Toy News
    Video Dread Exclusive: Igor Writer & Director
    Switch Thrown on Igor Trailer
    Igor Invents a One Sheet
    Toy Fair 08: Master Replicas' Igor & Halo
    Igor and His Toys
    Igor Gets Game

    Gallery:

    http://igor-movie.com/


    Bryan Loves You


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     92 min
  • Rating: R
  •  Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Seth Landau
  •  Writer(s)
  • Writer: Seth Landau
  •  Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Mystery
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Cults
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    Plot Synopsis:

    In the early ‘90s, a 32-year-old psychotherapist (writer/producer/director Seth Landau) began to suspect that his small Arizona community was being taken over by a homicidal religious cult known as ‘The Bryans’. His entire ordeal was captured on camcorder footage and security tapes. They are the video musings of a highly disturbed young man. This is what was recovered.


    Reviews:
  • Bryan Loves You (DVD)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    UPDATE: Bryan Loves Dark Delicacies
    Bryan Loves You, Contests and Distribution
    New Bryan Loves You Teaser!
    Bryan Makers Told to Stop
    Bryan Loves Updates!
    This Trailer Loves You
    Wendt and Todd Find the Love

    Gallery:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001AYWY8Q/evilshopnet http://www.grassrootstheory.org/bryan.htm


    Splinter


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Toby Wilkins
  •  Writer(s)
     Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Survival
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Isolation
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Trapped in an isolated gas station by a veracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.


    Reviews:
  • Splinter (DVD / Blu-ray)
  • Splinter (2008)

  • Interviews:
  • Wilkins, Toby (Splinter)

  • News:
    DVD Releases: April 14, 2009: Fear the Repossessed Splinter in the Forest of Death
    Splinter DVD Delay a Good Thing?
    See Splinter on the Big Screen in Cleveland
    Splinter Soundtrack Now Available
    Final Art for Toby Wilkins' Splinter
    Date & Specs for Splinter DVD
    See Toby Wilkins' Splinter in Theatres Now!
    Screamfest 2008 Award Winners!
    Fifth Splinter Podcast is Live!
    Free Splinter Screening this October!

    Gallery:

    http://www.splinterfilm.com/


    Plaguers


     Year  Country
  • Year: 2008
  • Country: USA
  •  Run Time   MPAA Rating
     
     Category  Color
  • Category: Feature
  • Color type: Color
  •  Director
  • Director: Brade Sykes
  •  Writer(s)
  • Writer: Brad Sykes
  •  Starring
     Sub Genre
  • Sub Genre: Sci Fi
  •  Keywords
     Themes
  • Themes: Aliens
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    Plot Synopsis:

    When a band of sexy space pirates hijack a fuel-transport vessel bound for Earth, an alien virus known only as "Thanatos" is accidentally released. The contagion mutates its victims, transforming them one after another into ravenous, demonic creatures. Pirates and crew must join together to destroy the undead Plaguers as the ship nears Earth, threatening to infect the entire planet.


    Reviews:
  • Plaguers (2008)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    Plaguers DVD Art and Specs
    AFM: New Plaguers Poster!
    Exclusive Behind the Scenes Clip, Dates for Plaguers
    Plaguers Awarded, North American Premiere Set
    Exclusive Pics & Update on Sykes' Plaguers
    First News & Pic From Plaguers

    Gallery:

    http://www.plaguers.com/