Fabled 2002  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Ari Kirschenbaum
Cast: Desmond Askew, Katheryn Winnick, J. Richey Nash, Michael Panes, Coleen Sexton, Deven May, Theo Hausen, Doug Wert, William Ryall, Tony Cucci
Hard-drinking Joseph (Desmond Askew) suffers a multitude of anxieties based on real events in his life: his girlfriend (Katheryn Winnick) was cheating on him, his dog is missing, and he thinks his co-workers are plotting against him. Now he believes that someone is stalking him. Is he paranoid, or is there a basis for fact in Joseph's suspicions?
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Go 1999  R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Desmond Askew, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Taye Diggs, William Fichtner, J.E. Freeman, Timothy Olyphant, Nathan Bexton, Suzanne Krull, Robert Peters, Jodi Bianca Wise, Jimmy Shubert, Tony Denman
Three intertwined plots–all taking place during Christmas–begin with Ronna (Sarah Polley) filling in for her friend Simon (Desmond Askew) as a Los Angeles grocery clerk while he heads off on a trip to Las Vegas. When soap stars Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) approach Ronna for a drug deal, Ronna acts as a go-between for Simon and his drug dealer friend Todd (Timothy Olyphant) but is caught by DEA agent Burke (William Fichtner, and Adam and Zack are busted for possession. Meanwhile, Simon is having more than a few problems in Las Vegas. Now, back at the grocery store, it turns out that Adam and Zach are lovers and find themselves in a sting operation, and their relationship with Burke and his wife Irene (Jane Krakowski) takes a very strange turn. What makes the movie work is the telling of the story from three different points of view.
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 The Hills Have Eyes 2006  R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Ted Levine, Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy, Tom Bower, Billy Drago, Desmond Askew, Ezra Buzzington, Michael Bailey Smith, Laura Ortiz
In a remake of the 1977 film, Wes Craven produced this version of the Carter family's trip through the American Southwest. While on a road trip in their vintage Airstream trailer, the Carters find themselves stranded miles from nowhere. They soon realize that they are the prey of blood-thirsty, desert-dwelling atomic mutants that live in an abandoned nuclear testing site, and their days are numbered.
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Turistas 2006 R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Stockwell
Cast: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Agles Steib, Miguel Lunardi, Jorge So, Cristiani Aparecida, Lucy Ramos, Andrea Leal
Backpackers–Alex (Josh Duhamel), Bea (Olivia Wilde), and Amy (Beau Garrett)–are vacationing in Brazil when their bus careens off a cliff leaving them marooned along with Pru (Melissa George), Finn (Desmond Askew), and Liam (Max Brown) at a beach bar while they wait for the next bus. After a series of mishaps, the group is led into the jungle by a local boy, Kiko (Agles Steib), who leads the unwary tourists to a torture compound where his serial killer uncle, Doctor Zamora (Miguel Lunardi), lies in wait, ready to harvest their vital organs and donate them to a local hospital.
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| 1. Fabled (2002)
2. Go (1999)
3. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
4. Turistas (2006)
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