Posts Tagged ‘child-in-peril’

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lucy Liu | Josh Hartnett | Bruce Willis | Morgan Freeman | Ben Kingsley | Mykelti Williamson
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

The Gate (1987)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Stephen Dorff | Christa Denton | Louis Tripp | Kelly Rowan | Jennifer Irwin | Deborah Grover | Scot Denton | Ingrid Veninger | Sean Fagan | Linda Goranson | Carl Kraines | Andrew Gunn | Mic Nuggette
Directors: Tibor Takács
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The boy Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his best fried Terry (Louis Tripp) accidentally open a gate to hell when a rotten tree is removed from the backyard of Glen’s house. When his dog die and a friend of Glen’s sister, the teenager Alexandra (Christa Denton), buries the animal in the hole, demons from an ancient civilization are released, seeking for two human sacrifices to dominate the world. Glen, Al and Terry, who are spending the weekend alone in the house, fight to save their lives and close the hole.

Tremors (1990)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Fred Ward | Finn Carter | Michael Gross | Reba McEntire | Robert Jayne | Charlotte Stewart | Tony Genaro | Ariana Richards | Richard Marcus | Victor Wong | Sunshine Parker | Michael Dan Wagner | Conrad Bachmann | Bibi Besch
Directors: Ron Underwood
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Ernest Borgnine | Robert Ryan | Edmond O'Brien | Warren Oates | Jaime Sánchez | Ben Johnson | Emilio Fernández | Strother Martin | L. Q. Jones | Albert Dekker | Bo Hopkins | Dub Taylor | Paul Harper | Jorge Russek
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Commando (1985)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Rae Dawn Chong | Dan Hedaya | Vernon Wells | James Olson | David Patrick Kelly | Alyssa Milano | Bill Duke | Drew Snyder | Sharon Wyatt | Michael Delano | Bob Minor | Michael Adams | Gary Cervantes | Lenny Juliano
Directors: Mark L. Lester
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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

Poltergeist (1982)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Craig T. Nelson | JoBeth Williams | Beatrice Straight | Dominique Dunne | Oliver Robins | Heather O'Rourke | Michael McManus | Virginia Kiser | Martin Casella | Richard Lawson | Zelda Rubinstein | Lou Perryman | Clair E. Leucart | James Karen | Dirk Blocker
Directors: Tobe Hooper
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While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.

The Untouchables (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia | Robert De Niro | Richard Bradford | Jack Kehoe | Brad Sullivan | Billy Drago | Patricia Clarkson | Vito D'Ambrosio | Steven Goldstein | Peter Aylward | Don Harvey | Robert Swan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Watchers (1988)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada
Actors: Michael Ironside | Christopher Cary | Graeme Campbell | Dan O'Dowd | Lala Sloatman | Corey Haim | Dale Wilson | Blu Mankuma | Colleen Winton | Duncan Fraser | Barbara Williams | Lou Bollo | Jason Priestley | Matt Hill | Andrew Morkey
Directors: Jon Hess
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Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.

The Omen (1976)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Leo McKern | Gregory Peck | Lee Remick | David Warner | Billy Whitelaw | Harvey Stevens | Patrick Troughton | Martin Benson | Robert Rietty | Tommy Duggan | John Stride | Anthony Nicholls | Holly Palance | Roy Boyd | Freda Dowie | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Richard Donner
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard | Jeff Bridges | Gwyneth Paltrow | Leslie Bibb | Shaun Toub | Faran Tahir | Sayed Badreya | Bill Smitrovich | Clark Gregg | Tim Guinee | Will Lyman | Marco Khan | Kevin Foster | Garret Noel
Directors: Jon Favreau
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.