Trailer of the Day: Insidious Chapter 2

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. – IMDb

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. – IMDb

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 38% (Critics) / 35% (Audience)
Directed By: Nicolás López
Written By: Nicolás López, Guillermo Amoedo and Eli Roth
Starring: Nicolás Martínez, Eli Roth, Ariel Levy and Andrea Osvárt
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Synopsis:In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare. (Source)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 78% (Audience)
Directed By: Dario Argento
Written By: Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo and Stefano Piani
Starring: Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer, Thomas Kretschmann and Marta Gastini
Studio: Les Films de l’Astre
Synopsis:A young librarian, Jonathan Harker, is welcomed at Castle Dracula by the Count and a young woman named Tania, who seems intent on seducing Harker. The Count prevents Tania from biting the young man, but Dracula attacks Harker himself, leaving him weak. Harker attempts to escape the castle, but is killed by a wolf. Harker’s wife, Mina, arrives in the village and stays at the home of her friend, Lucy Kisslinger. Worried about her husband, she visits the castle, and falls under the spell of the Count. It transpires that Dracula has engineered their meeting, because Mina is the reincarnation of his long-lost love, Dolinger. Lucy also becomes undead before the mysterious happenings in the village attract the attention of vampire expert Van Helsing, who prepares for final combat with his deadliest foe. (Source)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: April Mullen
Written By: Tim Doiron
Starring: Devon Bostick, Christopher Lloyd, Martha MacIsaac and Brandon Jay McLaren
Studio: Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment
Synopsis:A bunch of college kids accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka ZEMONS! (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 84% (Audience)
Directed By: John Luessenhop
Written By: Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, Kirsten Elms and Stephen Susco
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood, Tania Raymonde and Dan Yeager
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis:A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 25% (Audience)
Directed By: Johannes Roberts
Written By: Noel Clarke, Davie Fairbanks and Marc Small
Starring: Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Laura Haddock
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: In London, a military plane crashes leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware that the city is in lockdown, a group of people become trapped inside a storage facility with a highly unwelcome guest. (Source)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Alejandro Brugués
Written By: Alejandro Brugués
Starring: Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina, Andrea Duro, and Andros Perugorría
Studio: Outsider Pictures
Synopsis: A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government. (Source)
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Directed By: Eli Roth, Deran Sarafian and T.J. Scott
Written By: Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman and Daniel Paige
Starring: Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Freya Tingley
Studio: Netflix
Synopsis: A teenage girl is brutally murdered, sparking a hunt for her killer. But in a town where everyone hides a secret, will they find the monster among them? (Source)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 46% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: Rob Zombie
Written By: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Judy Geeson
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Synopsis: From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood. The Lords of Salem tells the tale of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ living in Salem, Massachusetts, who receives a strange wooden box containing a record, a “gift from the Lords.” Heidi listens, and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of the town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the “Lords of Salem” returning for revenge on modern-day Salem? (Source)
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A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades. – IMDb

DON’T MOVE drops the viewer in on what is basically the last 15 minutes of what looks to have been a really cool horror movie. A group of friends get together to have a few drinks and fool around with a Ouija board only to call forth a demon with the eyesight of Mr. Magoo which then kicks off the most high stakes game of freeze tag in the history of mankind.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 66% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Fede Alvarez
Written By: Fede Alvarez and Diablo Cody
Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas and Lou Taylor Pucci
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Synopsis: Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival. (Source)
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