The 411: A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Phil Joanou
Written By: Robert Ben Garant
Starring: Jessica Alba, Lily Rabe, Shannon Woodward and Thomas Jane
Studio: Blumhouse Productions
Synopsis: Twenty-five years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77% (Critics) / 39% (Audience)
Directed By: Carol Morley
Written By: Carol Morley
Starring: Maisie Williams, Joe Cole, Florence Pugh and Greta Scacchi
Studio: Cinedigm
Synopsis: It’s 1969 at a strict English girls’ school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 16% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Breck Eisner
Written By: Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless
Starring: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood and Michael Caine
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Synopsis: The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96% (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Written By: Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Jonny Brugh
Studio: Paladin Pictures
Synopsis: Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane – like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. – (Source)
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Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares – and darkest secrets – over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway. – Source
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% (Critics) / 24% (Audience)
Directed By: Benni Diez
Written By: Adam Aresty
Starring: Matt O’Leary, Clifton Collins Jr., Jessica Cook and Lance Henriksen
Studio: IFC Films
Synopsis: A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 22% (Audience)
Directed By: Alec Gillis
Written By: Alec Gillis
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston, Camille Balsamo
Studio: Taggart Productions
Synopsis: A group of grad students have booked passage on the crabbing boat Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Belugas in the Bering Sea. When the ship’s crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren’t about to give up the warmth of human companionship. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione
Written By: Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione
Starring: Julie Benz, Carter Jenkins, Jordi Vilasuso and Carter Jenkins
Studio: Taggart Productions
Synopsis: Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live. – (Source)
Waking up from a car accident, a young woman finds herself in the basement of a man who says he’s saved her life from a chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable. – Source
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee
Starring: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett
Studio: LionsGate Entertainment
Synopsis: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. – (Source)
Ah, the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. It is something that stirs angry feelings of resentment and revulsion in diehard Star Wars fans while to others it is just a reminder of how the TV landscape in the 1970s was a truly kooky time where anyone and everything seemed to be ripe to be given a variety show. And while I certainly do admit that the special was a horror show with some truly terrible parts (like the fact that the Life Day ceremony looked like a Glamour Shots photo), I also have some pretty fond memories of certain things that I actually enjoyed (for any number of reasons from thinking it was unintentionally hilarious to my own innate love of kitsch and camp). And it is with the holiday spirit in mind and a desire to be nice and not naughty that I compiled this little list of the 5 things I love about the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL.
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