Cold Creek Manor 2003  R, 118 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Wilson, Dana Eskelson, Christopher Plummer, Simon Reynolds, Kathleen Duborg, Paula Brancati, Aidan Devine
Fed up with life in the city, the Tilson family (Dennnis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, and Ryan Wilson) moves into Cold Creek Manor, a remote country home. It doesn't take long for the Tilsons to discover that the former owner–menacing Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff)–is not ready to relinquish his home, and horrors ensue.
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Family Pictures 1993  TV, 185 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Saville
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick, Dermot Mulroney, Jamie Harrold, Torri Higginson, Simon Reynolds, David Fox, Corey Sevier, Michael Rhoades, Sean Ryan, Gordon Michael Woolvett
On a trip home to visit her now-divorced parents (Anjelica Huston and Sam Neill), Nina (Kyra Sedgwick) looks at family photographs and, through flashbacks, remembers events concerning her brother's autism and how his illness drove apart the family.
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Flash of Genius 2008  PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Jake Abel, Daniel Roebuck, Tim Kelleher, Bill Smitrovich, Alan Alda, Josette Halpert, Andrew Gilles, Mitch Pileggi, Chuck Shamata, Kate Parr, Kristian Truelsen, Simon Reynolds
In the 1960s, Detroit's Wayne State University Electrical Engineering professor, Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear), has invented the intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns and his friend Gil Previck (Dermot Mulroney) take the prototype to the Ford motor company, but the company says they are not interested. Just a few years later, Ford proceeds to install the wipers on their new models. Kearns sues the company, and the litigation goes on for years. Finally, Kearns is awarded $30 million, but he loses his mind and his wife Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and family in the process.
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The Gate II: Trespassers 1990  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Tibor Takacs
Cast: Louis Tripp, Simon Reynolds, James Villemaire, Pamela Adlon, Neil Munro, James Kidnie, Irene Pauzer, Larry O'Brey, Elva Mai Hoover, Gerry Mendicino, Mark Saunders, Todd Waite, Layne Coleman, Anita Olanick, Edward Leefe
It's been five years since the gates of Hell were opened and shut, and Terry (Louis Tripp) is the only one of the original protagonists left in town. But things aren't going well for Terry–or his father. So, Terry decides to try to re-open the gates by going through a ritual and try to make a deal with the demons. It works, and one of the small demons appears. At first, things are great as wishes are granted, but things go sour and Terry must again fight the creatures while trying to re-close the gate.
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Hostile Intent 1997 R, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jonathan Heap
Cast: Rob Lowe, Sofia Shinas, James Kidnie, John Savage, Saul Rubinek, Louis Del Grande, Ronn Sarosiak, Rino Romano, Christopher Kennedy, Gerry Quigley, Jody Racicot, Simon Reynolds
Mike Cleary (Rob Lowe) and his team are working on a computer chip that will make a computer hack-proof in response to a government computer that can get into any computer. When Mike's team participates in a weekend paintball competition, government assassins are on the scene using real bullets. A dull, anti-government film that went direct to video
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Losing Chase 1996 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Bacon
Cast: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges, Michael Yarmush, Lucas Denton, Elva Mai Hoover, Nancy Beatty, Rino Romano, Simon Reynolds, Ron Gabriel
In Kevin Bacon's directorial debut, he presents this story of Chase Philips (Helen Mirren) who returns home to Martha's Vineyard to recover from her nervous breakdown. The story centers on Chase's growing relationship with Elizabeth Cole (Kyra Sedgwick), a younger woman hired to take care of the Philips children.
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P2 2007 R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Cast: Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols, Simon Reynolds, Grace Lynn Kung, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
It is Christmas Eve, and Angela (Rachel Nichols) has stayed late working at the office. When she finally heads for level P2, where her car is parked in the building's parking garage, Angela runs into problems. Her car won't start, and parking attendant Thomas (Wes Bentley) offers to help. But, Thomas' form of help involves chloroform, and Angela awakens chained to a chair. Now the cat-and-mouse game begins as Angela tries to escape from her captor.
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio 2005  PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jane Anderson
Cast: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Trevor Morgan, Ellary Porterfield, Simon Reynolds, Monte Gagne, Robert Clark, Michael Seater, Erik Knudsen
1950s' parents–Evelyn and Kelly (Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson)–are trying to raise 10 children but just cannot seem to make financial ends meet–until Evelyn starts writing advertising jingles that pay for the family's needs.
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 Saw IV 2007 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Athena Karkanis, Justin Louis, Simon Reynolds, Donnie Wahlberg, Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer, Mike Realba
Serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) was killed at the end of "Saw III," but his autopsy reveals that before he was killed he swallowed a cassette tape. The tape shows Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) and Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) caught in a death trap. Now, a new puzzle presents itself giving Detective Rigg (Lyriq Bent) just 90 minutes to evade interconnected traps, including moral dilemmas, in his quest to find Hoffman and Matthews.
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Skulls II 2002 R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joe Chappelle
Cast: Robin Dunne, Lindy Booth, Ashley Cafagna-Tesoro, Nathan West, Aaron Ashmore, Christopher Ralph, James Gallanders, Andrew Gillies, Stephen Young, Simon Reynolds, Ardon Bess, Sandi Ross, Margo Gagnon, R.D. Reid, Patric Masurkevitch
This direct-to-video/DVD release finds our secret society still at the college. Ryan (Robin Dunne) is inducted as a member and later sees a member (apparently) kill a woman. Now what? Should he break the Skulls' rules and investigate or report the incident?
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| 1. Cold Creek Manor (2003)
2. Family Pictures (1993)
3. Flash of Genius (2008)
4. The Gate II: Trespassers (1990)
5. Hostile Intent (1997)
6. Losing Chase (1996)
7. P2 (2007)
8. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
9. Saw IV (2007)
10. Skulls II (2002)
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