 The Messengers 2007  PG-13, 84 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan&Theodore Turner, William B. Davis, Brent Briscoe, Dustin Milligan, Jodelle Ferland, Michael Daingerfield, Tatiana Maslany, Shirley McQueen, Anna Hagan, Blaine Hart
The Solomon family has left a troubled lifestyle in Chicago and has hopes of a better life on a secluded farm in North Dakota where father Roy (Dylan McDermott) and mother Denise (Penelope Ann Miller) plan to raise sunflowers. They also hope to straighten out teenage daughter Jess (Kristen Stewart) whose drinking resulted in her three-year-old brother, Ben (Evan and Theodore Turner), being hurt in a car accident that has left him mute. But plans to raise those sunflowers are beset by a big problem: Jess and Ben are seeing ghosts in their farmhouse. To make matters even more complicated, those ghosts are invisible to all but Jess and Ben, and no one believes Jess when she complains that the house is haunted.
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 Silent Hill 2006  R, 127 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Christophe Gans
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland, Colleen Williams, Eve Crawford
Rose Da Silva's (Radha Mitchell) adopted daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is suffering from a fatal disease, and Rose flees from her home and husband Christopher (Sean Bean) with Sharon in tow in search of a faith healer. They arrive in the eerily foggy town of Silent Hill, which Sharon seems to remember from her past, and Sharon disappears following a car accident leaving Rose to follow what she believes is Sharon's silhouette. Accompanied by police officer Cybil Bennett ((Laurie Holden), Rose searches the dark town for Sharon while demons and zombies rise from the ground, and Rose soon realizes she is only a pawn in a very dangerous game.
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Tideland 2006  R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges, Dylan Taylor, Wendy Anderson, Sally Crooks, Amy Matysio, Alden Adair, Harry Gilliam
Following her heroin-addicted mother's (Jennifer Tilly) death, city-girl Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) begins a new life with her father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), at her deceased grandmother's home in the country. But Noah also is a junkie, and soon after the move he overdoses and dies. Now Jeliza-Rose is left in a house with her father's decaying body, and she starts communicating with her four Barbie dolls' heads and her young, mentally challenged neighbor Dickens (Brendan Fletcher). They are watched over by Dickens' sister Dell (Janet McTeer), a veiled taxidermist with her own plans for Noah's carcass.
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| 1. The Messengers (2007)
2. Silent Hill (2006)
3. Tideland (2006)
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