A group of twenty-something dance-clubbers decide to play with a makeshift Ouija board, summoning a djinn that possess one of them. The fire spirit is soon killing them, one by one. Well, it’s British. That’s about the only thing that makes the randomly titled Long Time Dead stand out. In this standard, slow, talky, Teen Slasher, the deaths
Thirteen years ago, Philip Swann (Kevin J. O’Connor) and three other members of a cult killed their leader, Nix (Daniel von Bargen), and buried him with a mask to contain his powers. In the present, Swan is a Las Vegas illusionist, hiding his real magic. But he is scared. Swan’s wife, Dorothea (Famke Janssen), hires
A divorced mother (Dianne Wiest) and her two sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to the coastal town of Santa Carla, the murder capital of the country. Michael quickly becomes mixed up with a beautiful girl and a gang, led by David (Kiefer Sutherland), all of whom have strange abilities. Sam meets Edgar
In 1972, the SS Corona Queen vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it Aaron Roberts’ parents. Now, the ship has returned, a derelict. Roberts (Judd Nelson), now a paranormal investigator, and three TV tabloid reporters catch a ride to the ship with salvage agent David Shaw (Lance Henriksen) and two employees (Jeff Kober, Mark Sheppard). Of course,
Hoping to help her destitute family and dying brother, young, innocent, Filipino Rosa (Alessandra De Rossi) has taken a job as a maid in Singapore with the Teo family. They are kind, though Mr. Teo is distant and Mrs. Teo is domineering. Their twenty-year-old son, Ah Soon (Benny Soh) is mentally retarded and likes Rosa a bit
Obnoxious American CEO, William Cole (Bruce Campbell), travels to Bulgaria to invest in a subway. When he is murdered, along with his ex-KGB cab driver, Yegor, a mad scientist (Stacy Keach) and his assistant (Ted Raimi) resurrect him, using parts of the cab driver’s brain to repair Cole’s. When Cole’s wife is also murdered, the
FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen) tracks a serial killer with the help of the insights from the dangerous psychopath, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox). Quick Review: Novelist Thomas Harris wrote essentially the same story twice. In both Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, a brilliant but flawed FBI agent must find an insane killer. The
American journalist Larry Stanford (Peter Dyneley), on assignment in Tokyo, is given an experimental injection by obsessed, amoral scientist Dr. Robert Suzuki (Tetsu Nakamura). The drug brings out Standford’s baser instincts, and he abandons his wife (Jane Hylton) and takes to excessive drinking and sleeping with local prostitutes that Suzuki supplies. Suzuki sends his mistress
When Sir Borotyn’s body is found, drained of all it’s blood, superstitious Dr. Doskil (Donald Meek) declares the cause of death to be a vampire attack, and the townspeople agree. Skeptical Police Inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) calls in Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore) who agrees with the doctor. Zelen fears that the new residents of the
Picked up in the arctic by an exploration ship, Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh) tells his tragic story—how he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), how his mother died a bloody death during childbirth, how he went to school to become a doctor, and how, in his quest to end death, he
Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens), a renowned concert pianist, befriends failed musician Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda). While Clarkson bathes in the attention, the ailing Duncan and his daughter (Barbara Parkins) carry out a ritual that allows Duncan to possess Myles’s body when he dies. Afterward, Myles’s wife, Paula (Jacqueline Bisset), begins to notice changes in her
Sleazy promoter Max O’Hara (Robert Armstrong) travels to a stage-bound Africa in search of special acts for his new nightclub. He finds Mighty Joe Young, a giant gorilla, and his teenaged human friend, Jill Young (Terry Moore). With a little fancy talking, he persuades Jill to come to America where he uses her and Joe