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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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia 2000  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser, James DeBello, Jeffrey Wright, Blake Shields, Conchata Ferrell, Marshall R. Teague, Lucinda Jenney
Based very loosely on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, this story is about a popular high-school cheerleader, Roseanne (Monica Keena), who decides she has suffered enough abuse from her stepfather and sets out to avenge herself. Roseanne's method of revenge: kill him.
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Saturn 1999  R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Speed of Life
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Scott Caan, Leo Burmester, Mia Kirshner, Richard Miccucci, Anthony Ruivivar, Geoffrey Cantor, Sally Stewart, Cesar L. Aramburu, Mtume Gant, Erol Mars, Peggy Gormley, Matt Servitto
College student Drew (Scott Caan) wants to become an engineer, but there are temptations and family responsibilities that interfere with his dream. While he has caregiving responsibility for his father (Leo Burmester), who has advanced Alzheimer's Syndrome, he is also tempted by money involved with drug dealing and by a dangerous, sexual affair.
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 Wrong Turn 2003  R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers, Lindy Booth, Julian Richings, Garry Robbins, Ted Clark, Yvonne Gaudry, Joel Harris, David Huband
Chris (Desmond Harrington) makes a wrong choice when he avoids a traffic jam by taking a West Virginia mountain road. He comes across a disabled SUV carrying five teens on a camping trip. But a barbed-wire barrier had been placed across the road, and all tires are flat. Chris, Jessie (Eliza Dushku), and two of her friends head out to find help while two stay behind. What they find is a filthy cabin with human remains. What they don't know is that three deformed (from generations of inbreeding) mountain men are on their way home to the cabin.
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| 1. Alphabet Killer (2008)
2. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
3. Saturn (1999)
aka: Speed of Life
4. Wrong Turn (2003)
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