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Fantasia 2009


 Year  Country
 2009  Various
 Run Time   MPAA Rating
   
 Category  Color
 Feature | Short  N/A
 Director
 Various
 Writer(s)
 Various
 Starring
 Various
 Sub Genre
 
 Keywords
 Asian | Festival | Foreign | Indie
 Themes
 Film Festival
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Average: 5 (1 vote)
Plot Synopsis:

Fantasia is the largest film festival in North America, a three-week long event that features premieres of films from all over the world. Their goal is not to find the most shocking or most brutal, but the most interesting horror, fantasy, sci-fi and undefinable films they can, and the crowd loves them for it.

We will feature on-going news, reviews and hopefully interviews from the festival as it goes down, so check back often!


Reviews:
  • Best Worst Movie (2009)
  • House of the Devil, The (2009)
  • Children, The (Fantasia 2009)
  • Deadgirl (Fantasia 2009)
  • Embodiment of Evil (Fantasia 2009)
  • Smash Cut (2009)
  • Horseman, The (2009)
  • Mutants (2009)
  • Dread (2009)
  • Book of Blood (2009)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    Fantasia 2009: The Wrap-up with Mitch Davis
    Motion Picture Purgatory: Graphic Sexual Horror
    Fantasia: Days 16 Through 18
    Fantasia: Days 12 Through 15
    Motion Picture Purgatory: Embodiment of Evil
    Fantasia: Days 8 Through 11
    Motion Picture Purgatory Volume 2: Preview
    Fantasia: Days 5 Through 7
    Motion Picture Purgatory: Combat Shock
    Cell Gets Better Reception as a Miniseries

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    http://www.fantasiafest.com


    Crazies, The (Remake)


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Breck Eisner
     Writer(s)
     Scott Kosar
     Starring
     Joe Anderson | Joe Reagan | Radha Mitchell | Timothy Olyphant
     Sub Genre
     Remake
     Keywords
     Disease | Government | Kansas | Outbreak | Quarantine
     Themes
     Infection
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The military attempts to contain a killer man-made virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Radha Mitchell Shows Her Crazy Side
    Romero's The Crazies Heading to Blu-ray
    The Crazies Trailer Debuts
    New Teaser Poster for The Crazies Remake
    Exclusive: Rob Hall Talks Effects on Remake of The Crazies
    Extensive Synopsis for The Crazies Remake
    First Footage from The Crazies Remake
    Crazies Twitter Tease
    The Crazies Gets Pushed to 2010
    Set Visit: The Crazies

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    REC 2


     Year  Country
     2009  Spain
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Jaume Balguero | Paco Plaza
     Writer(s)
     Jaume Blaguero | Paco Plaza
     Starring
     
     Sub Genre
     Sequels
     Keywords
     Cinéma vérité | Creatures | Monsters | Rabbies | Religious | Zombies
     Themes
     Infection
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Nothing solid yet, only that it takes place a few hours after the end of the first film...


    Reviews:
  • REC 2 (2009)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    AFM Wrap-Up! The Sights! The Sounds! The Scares!
    Duncan Jones' Moon Shines Brightly at Sitges
    Third REC Coming Soon?
    REC 2 Official Trailer with English Subbys
    TIFF 09: Sony Acquires REC 2
    TIFF '09: Midnight Madness Day Six
    Horror Fills Out Fantastic Fest Line-Up: Paranormal Activity, REC 2, and More!
    Final REC 2 Trailer Packs New Footage
    Bloody New REC 2 Stills
    New One-Sheet and Stills: Rec 2

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    Shortcut, The


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Nicholaus Goossen
     Writer(s)
     Dan Hannon | Scott Sandler
     Starring
     Andrew Seeley | Dave Franco | Katrina Bowden | Shannon Marie Woodward
     Sub Genre
     Thriller
     Keywords
     Driving | High School | Kids | Old Man | Spooky | Woods. Legend
     Themes
     Mystery
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A new teenager in town learns of an old unused shortcut through the woods and discovers the horrific truth behind the reason no one dares to take it.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Adam Sandler's Shortcut DVD Art and Date
    Trailer for Sandler's Spooky Shortcut
    Update on Happy Madison's Shortcut
    Sandler Takes a Shortcut to Horror

    Gallery:



    Triangle


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Christopher Smith
     Writer(s)
     Christopher Smith
     Starring
     Emma Lung | Liam Hemsworth | Melissa George | Rachel Carpani
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Bermuda | Girls | Hidden | Lost | Mysterious | Secrets
     Themes
     Supernatural
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    Plot Synopsis:

    The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.


    Reviews:
  • Triangle (2009)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    First Look Taking Us to the Triangle
    New Clip from Chris Smith's Triangle
    Review Blow Out - Night of the Demons, Case 39, Triangle, Hills Run Red, It's Alive, Coffin Rock, The Descent Part II, & More!
    Choose the Triangle Poster
    Bitchin' New Triangle Quad Poster
    Triangle Trailer Surfaces
    First Images from Triangle
    First Images from Triangle
    Trailer for Christopher Smith's Triangle
    Triangle Next for Severance Helmer

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    Objective, The


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Colo
     Director
     Daniel Myrick
     Writer(s)
     Daniel Myrick
     Starring
     Jon Huertas | Jonas Ball | Matthew Anderson | Michael C. Williams
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Afganistan | Desert | Fear | Ghosts | Isolated | Paranoia | Ruins
     Themes
     War
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A group of Special Ops Reservists on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil.


    Reviews:
  • Objective, The (2008)

  • Interviews:
  • Myrick, Dan (The Objective)

  • News:
    DVD Releases: Oct. 13, 2009: The Stepfather Has an Oral Fixation to Drag Me to Hell
    IFC Films Horror Trailer Blow-out
    Reach Your Objective on IFC
    Trailer, Poster & Stills for The Objective
    IFC Nabs Dead Snow, Objective Release Set
    Full NYC Horror Fest Schedule!
    Fantasia 2008: The First Week
    Tribeca Horrors 2008: The Objective
    Daniel Myrick Plans The Objective

    Gallery:

    http://www.objectivethemovie.com/


    Knowing


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       PG-13
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Alex Proyas
     Writer(s)
     Alex Proyas
     Starring
     Chandler Canterbury | Nicholas Cage | Rose Byrne
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Catastrophe | Future | Prediction | Time Capsule
     Themes
     Sci Fi
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A teacher (Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.


    Reviews:
  • Knowing (Blu-ray / DVD)
  • Knowing (2009)

  • Interviews:

    News:
    Motion Picture Purgatory: Knowing
    DVD Release List: July 7, 2009: The Unborn is Knowingly Smoking the King Bong
    Knowing DVD / Blu-ray News
    Dinner for Fiends: Knowing about the Haunting
    Knowing Duo talk Poltergeist, Birds Remakes
    Alex Proyas Talks Knowing with MTV
    MPAA Rates Friday, Superbeasto & More
    New Pics From Sorority Row, Knowing
    New Pics From Sorority Row, Knowing
    First Look at Proyas' Knowing
    First Look at Proyas' Knowing
    Teaser Poster & Synopsis for Proyas' Knowing
    Teaser Poster & Synopsis for Proyas' Knowing

    Gallery:

    http://www.knowing-themovie.com/


    Terminator Salvation


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       PG-13
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     McG
     Writer(s)
     Anthony Zuiker | Jonathan Nolan | Paul Haggis | Shawn Ryan
     Starring
     Anton Yelchin | Bryce Dallas Howard | Christian Bale | Moon Bloodgood | Sam Worthington
     Sub Genre
     Adventure
     Keywords
     Apocalypse | Fight | Future | Guns | Robots | Sequels | War
     Themes
     Sci-Fi
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    NYCC: Terminator Collectible Blow-out!
    New Shots of Terminator: Salvation Toys
    First Look at Terminator: Salvation Comic Prequel
    New Terminator Salvation Trailer!
    Animated Terminator Salvation Poster
    Official Terminator Salvation Poster!
    IDW's Horrific Future
    SDCC 08: Terminator Salvation Report!
    SDCC 08: Hills Run Poster, Feast 2 Bust & More!
    Terminator Salvation: The Teases Begin

    Gallery:

    http://www.terminatorsalvation.com/


    Dark Woods


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Michael Escobedo
     Writer(s)
     John Muscarnero
     Starring
     James Russo | John Muscarnero | Mary Kate Wiles | Tracy Coogan
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Death | Infidelity | Kids | Married | Seclusion | Terminal
     Themes
     Supernatural
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A young married couple moves to a secluded area to cope with the wife's terminal illness. As the wife's condition gets worse, the husband's growing detachment from her forces him into a tumultuous relationship with a local teenage girl whom he rescues from a sexual assault.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Exclusive Clip - Dark Woods
    New Poster and Stills: Dark Woods
    First Dark Woods One-Sheet
    Dark Woods Trailer Now Live
    Stills From Dark Woods
    First Look Behind Dark Woods
    Coogan Enters the Dark Woods

    Gallery:



    Born


     Year  Country
     2009  UK
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Daniel Simpson
     Writer(s)
     Daniel Simpson | Paul Kaye
     Starring
     Jennifer Connelly | Paul Bettany
     Sub Genre
     Thriller
     Keywords
     Babies | Creations | Kids | Married | Monsters | Stop Motion
     Themes
     Children
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    Plot Synopsis:

    Joe and Vanessa thought they had everything. They've settled in an idyllic English town that will be perfect for both raising their unborn child and for Joe to build his dream claymation workshop. From the local hospitality to the rich red molding clay found in the town quarry, it would seem they've settled in paradise. But something isn't quite right. The locals are almost too friendly, and while using the clay Joe begins to have eerie visions of a young girl's murder.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    DVD Release List: June 16, 2009: Nobody Born Should Miss Friday the 13th
    June DVDs Bring Maniacs, Demons, Fishmen, Italians, and Robots!
    No Living Clay for del Toro
    Stillborn for Jennifer Connelly
    Born Poster Found
    Amazing Cast & Crew for Born!

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    After.Life


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
     Writer(s)
     Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo | Paul Vosloo
     Starring
     Christina Ricci | Josh Charles | Justin Long | Liam Neeson
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Alive | Burial | Coroner | Death | Purgatory | Ressurection | Spirit
     Themes
     Death
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    Average: 5 (1 vote)
    Plot Synopsis:

    A young woman caught between life and death and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Neeson Talks After.Life
    Ricci & Neeson Head to After.Life
    Directing the After.Life

    Gallery:



    Carnies


     Year  Country
     2009  USA
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Brian Corder
     Writer(s)
     Brian Corder
     Starring
     Chris Staviski | David Markham | Dough Jones | Lee Perkins | Reggie Bannister
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     Freaks | Mayhem | Murder | Mystery | Oddities | Period | Seclusion | Sideshow
     Themes
     Freaks
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    Plot Synopsis:

    There are a thousand sideshows playing thousands of small towns in 1936 when the Knuckles Brothers Show rolls into yet another town, ready to delight and dazzle the town folk with amazing acts and puzzling oddities. As they set up their tents they could not know that within days several of them would be dead, ripped savagely apart by a seemingly inhuman force, their souls stolen from their limp and bloody bodies.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:

    News:
    Carnies is a Wrap!
    Lee Perkins' Massive Indie Slate
    Carnies Trailer Lives!
    A Visit to the Set of Carnies!
    Exclusive New Carnies Pics!

    Gallery:

    http://carniesmovie.com/


    Last House on the Left, The

    Knife Edge


     Year  Country
     2009  UK
     Run Time   MPAA Rating
       
     Category  Color
     Feature  Color
     Director
     Anthony Hickox
     Writer(s)
     Anthony Hickox | Fiona Combe | Robb Squire
     Starring
     Hugh Bonneville | Joan Plowright | Nathalie Press | Tamsin Egerton
     Sub Genre
     Mystery
     Keywords
     children | Isolation | Kids | Moving | Murder | Trading | Waxwork
     Themes
     Haunting
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    Plot Synopsis:

    A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.


    Reviews:

    Interviews:
  • Hickox, Anthony (Knife Edge)

  • News:
    Trailer for Hickox's Knife Edge!
    New Art for Hickox's Knife Edge!
    Meet the Prisoners of the Sun
    Knife Edge Teaser Art, More Plot
    Hickox Takes Horror to the Edge

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