Alphabet Killer 2008  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton, Tom Malloy, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley, Brian Scannell, Carl Lumbly, Jack McGee, Larry Hankin, Meltem Cumbul, Melissa Leo, Tom Noonan, Rocco Sisto, Andrew Fiscella
Loosely based on murders in Rochester, New York, during the late 1980s, this story centers on a police officer, Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku), who develops schizophrenia while investigating the case. She is placed in a psychiatric hospital but is released later and is back at the police station when another murder is committed. Megan sees a connection between the murders because the victims' first and last names start with the same letters. Now, the question is whether or not Megan can hang onto her sanity long enough to solve the crimes.
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The Blackout 1997  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Beatrice Dalle, Sarah Lassez, Steven Bauer, Laura Bailey, Nancy Ferrara, Andrew Fiscella, Nicholas De Cegli, Vincent Lamberti, Victoria Duffy
Sex, drugs, alcoholism, violence–Director Ferrara's trademarks– are back in the character of Matty (Matthew Modine), an actor whose life is falling apart. Much of Matty's activities take place at a club owned by Mickey (Dennis Hopper), who is always taking videos of what goes on.
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The Final Destination 2009 R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: David R. Ellis
Cast: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Justin Welborn, Mykelti Williamson, Stephanie Honore, Lara Grice, Jackson Walker, Phil Austin, Juan Kincaid, Dane Rhodes, Laurie Lee
In this fourth offering of "The Final Destination" series, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of events that lead to NASCAR car race crashes that kill Nick and his friends in the stands. Nick persuades his friends to leave just before his premonition becomes a reality, and cars crash into the stands. But, Nick's premonitions continue, and the "survivors" are killed in brutal ways leaving Nick struggling to cheat his own "final destination."
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Quarantine 2008  R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez, Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short, Rade Serbedzija, Greg Germann, Dania Ramirez, Joey King, Andrew Fiscella, Bernard White, Elaine Kagan, Marin Hinkle, Sharon Ferguson, Jermaine Jackson
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her crew follow L.A. firefighters for an overnight shoot. Early in the A.M., the firefighters are called to an apartment complex where they find police on the scene responding to a call because some of the residents are infected by a rare strain of rabies that turns them into infected cannibals. The government cordons off the building, and now without cell phones, TVs, internet, and telephones, Angela fights to stay alive in the midst of the hysterical residents who are being attacked–one after the other.
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 Vacancy 2007 R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Nimrod Antal
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, Scott G. Anderson, Mark Casella, David Doty, Norm Compton, Caryn Mower, Meegan Godfrey, Kym Stys, Andrew Fiscella
Although divorce is in the near future for Amy (Kate Beckinsale) and David (Luke Wilson), they do attend Amy's parents' anniversary celebration. Problems develop on the trip home when David gets lost, they argue, their BMW breaks down, and they rent a shabby room from night manager Mason (Frank Whaley) at the Pinewood Motel. To relieve the tension, David plays an unmarked videocassette that he finds in the motel room. There is a problem with the cassette: the video appears to have been filmed in David and Amy's motel room and involves frightened guests being tortured and murdered. David and Amy realize that they, too, are being filmed by hidden cameras and that, if they cannot find a means of escape, they are doomed to be the next victims.
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| 1. Alphabet Killer (2008)
2. The Blackout (1997)
3. The Final Destination (2009)
4. Quarantine (2008)
5. Vacancy (2007)
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