What Lies Beneath (2000)

What Lies Beneath (2000)

Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) is happily married to Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford).  She lives in an ideal old house on a lake.  But things may not be perfect.  Emotionally unstable, she can’t deal with her daughter leaving for college.  She also was injured in an automobile accident a year ago, still mourns her first husband,

Whispering Corridors {Yeogo Goedam} (1998)

Whispering Corridors {Yeogo Goedam} (1998)

Eun-young (Mi-yeon Lee) returns as an instructor to the draconian high school she attended.  Her own cruel homeroom teacher was recently murdered by a ghost, and Eun-young sees a connection to the death of her friend many years ago in the school.  Four students seem somehow caught up in the horrific events: the nearly catatonic

Whispering Corridors 2 {Yeogo Goedam II} (1999)

Whispering Corridors 2 {Yeogo Goedam II} (1999)

At a repressive girls school, Min-ah (Min-sun Kim) finds the joint diary of Hyo-shi (Yeh-jin Park) and Shi-eun (Young-jin Lee), two schoolmates who had an affair but now are seldom together.  Min-ah becomes obsessed with the book and the two girls’ lives.  After Hyo-shi plummets from the roof to her death, Min-ah believes she’s being

Whispering Corridors  3: Wishing Stairs (2003)

Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs (2003)

At a fine-arts girls’ high school, anyone who walks a set of 28 steps and finds a 29th may make a wish, or so says the legend.  Ji-seong (Ji-hyo Song) makes such a wish: that she will be the school’s choice for the ballet competition.  The obvious selectee would have been the beautiful, popular, and

White Skin  (2004)

White Skin (2004)

Thierry (Marc Paquett), a white college student prejudiced against red-heads, and Henri (Frederic Pierre), his black roommate, visit a brothel where Henri is attacked by a red-headed prostitute.  Later, Thierry falls for Claire (Marianne Farley), a red-headed musician with strange habits and a stranger family. The complications mount: Claire has cancer, the prostitute is her

Wicked Stepmother (1987)

Wicked Stepmother (1987)

A husband and wife (David Rasche, Colleen Camp) return from vacation to discover that her father has married a controlling woman (Bette Davis) who happens to be a witch. The old witch shares her body with a beautiful young witch (Barbara Carrera) and both work to destroy the family, and get rich. Quick Review: Bette Davis

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wicker Man (1973)

Devout police sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a private, remote, Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a schoolgirl.  He is disgusted to find a colony of pagans, practicing nude rituals and public sex, who are hiding the truth of the missing girl. Sergeant Howie (played with appropriate frustration by Woodward) is unpleasant from

Wild, Wild Planet (1966)

Wild, Wild Planet (1966)

Mutant males with black raincoats and women with beehives are kidnapping Earth’s best and brightest. Meanwhile, the devious Mr. Nurmi (Massimo Serato) is carrying out experiments with human organs. It looks like a job for Space Commander Mike Halstead (Tony Russel) and his sidekick Jack (Franco Nero). Wild, Wild Planet takes us to the mod future

Willard (2003)

Willard (2003)

Willard (Crispin Glover), an anti-social loser, finds relief from his bleak life by training rats, numbered in the thousands, to do whatever he commands.  But his lack of personality, along with a relationship triangle between Willard and the rats Socrates and Ben, leads to tragedy. A horror film completely devoid of horror, Willard has many

Wolf (1994)

Wolf (1994)

Depressed and aging editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is bitten by a wolf on a snowy Vermont road.  Returning to the office, he finds himself demoted by wealthy publisher Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer), and replaced by his traitorous protégé, Stewart Swinton (James Spader). But Randall starts to feel powerful, aggressive, and in control. He also starts a

The Wolf Man (1941)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) is called back to his ancestral home by his father (Claude Rains) after the accidental death of his brother. They’ve had a strained relationship, but now as the heir to the estate he tries to fit in to the conservative setting, but his playboy ways leads him to ask out

Wolfen (1981)

Wolfen (1981)

When a rich industrialist and his wife are murdered, psychologically unstable police detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) and coroner’s assistant Whittington (Gregory Hines) find that wolves are involved. Dewey’s only lead is an ex-con, Indian activist (Edward James Olmos). In a year where traditional werewolves were making a big comeback, Wolfen took a different route. For those