Diary of the Dead 2007  R, 94 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
aka: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth, Philip Riccio, Chris Violette, Tatiana Maslany, Todd Schroeder, Daniel Kash, Laura DeCarteret, Martin Roach, Megan Park
Debra Moynihan (Michelle Morgan) narrates this saga of University of Pittsburgh filmmaker student Jason Creed (Joshua Close) who sets out with a group of students to shoot a low-budget horror film in the Pennsylvania woods. Suddenly, the media reports that the dead are rising from their graves, and Jason and his cohorts–Tracy (Amy Ciupak Lalonde), Gordo (Chris Violette), Tony (Shawn Roberts), and Professor Maxwell (Scott Wentworth)–load themselves and equipment into Mary's (Tatiana Maslany) van and prepare to report what is really happening. They use their camera to shoot and a laptop to edit the real story into a documentary that they title, "The Death of Death."
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 The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore, Joshua Close, Duncan Fraser, Kenneth Welsh, JR Bourne, Mary Beth Hurt, Henry Czerny, Shohreh Aghdashloo
When Catholic priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) performs an exorcism on 19-year-old Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), she dies, and Father Moore is arrested and charged with murder. The lawyer (Laura Linney) who defends him goes up against a cocky state's attorney (Campbell Scott) and the fight is on. Eerie flashbacks of Emily's possession provide horror scenes–interspersed with courtroom drama.
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Twist 2003  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacob Tierney
Cast: Nick Stahl, Joshua Close, Gary Farmer, Michele-Barbara Pelletier, Tygh Runyan, Stephen McHattie, Moti Yona, Brigid Tierney, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Andre Noble, James Gilpin, Josh Holliday
In this modernized version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," the orphaned Oliver (Joshua Close) has been relocated out of the orphanage and onto Toronto's streets where the artful "Dodge" (Nick Stahl) and Fagin (Gary Farmer) recruit Oliver as part of their team of thugs.
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| 1. Diary of the Dead (2007)
aka: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
2. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
3. Twist (2003)
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