From Hell [2001]

"Only the legend will survive. "

Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Writers: Alan Moore (graphic novel), Eddie Campbell (graphic novel) 

Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Ian Holm

Storyline

It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love...

Gone Baby Gone [2007]

"Everyone Wants The Truth... Until They Find It."

Director: Ben Affleck
Writers: Ben Affleck (screenplay), Aaron Stockard (screenplay) 

Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Casey Affleck

Storyline

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detective freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough Boston neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve their case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that could tear them apart.

Hot Fuzz [2007]

"In a town where nothing much goes on, a whole lot is about to go down"

Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
  Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman

Storyline

Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents".

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Trilogy (3) [*updated]

Paranormal Activity [2007]

"Don't See It Alone"

 

Director: Oren Peli

Writers: Oren Peli

Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and Mark Fredrichs

 

Storyline

 

After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

  


 

Paranormal Activity 2 [2010]

"Demand it!"

Director: Tod Williams

Writers: Michael R. Perry (screenplay), Christopher B. Landon (screenplay)

Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and Molly Ephraim

 

Storyline

 

Daniel Rey along with his wife, Kristi; daughter, Ali; toddler son, Hunter, and their dog, move to Carlsbad, California. A few days later their residence is broken into, however, nothing appears to be missing. In order to prevent re-occurrences, they install a number of security cameras that will record everything on a DVR. After they hire a Spanish-speaking nanny to look after Hunter, she informs them that there is something wrong in their house and performs prayers, much to the chagrin of Daniel, who lets her go. He will subsequently regret this decision as more inexplicable and strange incidents occur, with Ali concluding, after a research, that their house may be possessed by a demonic entity.







 

 Paranormal Activity 3 [2011]

"It Runs In The Family"

Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Writers: Christopher Landon, Oren Peli (based on the film by) 

Stars: Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown and Christopher Nicholas Smith

Storyline

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Gothika [2003]

"Dr. Miranda Grey Is An Expert At Knowing What Is Rational, What Is Logical, What Is Sane... Until The Day She Woke Up On The Other Side."

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Writers: Sebastian Gutierrez

Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr.

Storyline

A criminal psychologist awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Unbreakable [2000]

"Some things are only revealed by accident"

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan 

Stars: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and Robin Wright

Storyline

This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn't have a scratch on him. Elijah Price is an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all.

The Sixth Sense [1999]

"I see dead people"

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan 

Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette

Storyline

Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems. Crowe is the boy's only hope.

The Faculty [1998]

"Take me to your teacher."

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writers: David Wechter (story), Bruce Kimmel (story) 

Stars: Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek, Usher Raymond, Elijah Wood, Robert Patrick, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall and Laura Harris

Storyline

A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.

The Devil's Advocate [1997]

"The newest attorney at the world's most powerful law firm has never lost a case. But he's about to lose his soul."

Director: Taylor Hackford
Writers: Andrew Neiderman (novel), Jonathan Lemkin (screenplay) 

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron

Storyline

Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

The Arrival [1996]

"The greatest danger facing our world has been the planet's best kept secret...until now."

Director: David Twohy
Writers: David Twohy 

Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse and Richard Schiff

Storyline

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

The Village [2004]

"Their Days Of Peace Are Over"

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan 

Stars: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt and Joaquin Phoenix

Storyline

In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more.

The Ninth Gate [1999]

"The only thing more terrifying than searching for the Devil... is finding him."

Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (novel), John Brownjohn (screenplay) 

Stars: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella and Lena Olin

Storyline

Dean Corso, a rare book dealer, is appointed by a renowned book collector, Balkan, to verify the authenticity of one of his books. According to sources, only three copies of that book exist, and in three different places. After losing his friend who has been killed for that book, he leaves on the mission. He wants to verify Balkan's book but finds something else! During his dramatic travels through Paris and Madrid, too many things beyond his expectations are revealed!

Sleepy Hollow [1999]

"Heads Will Roll."

Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Washington Irving (story), Kevin Yagher (screen story)  

Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Miranda Richardson

Storyline

The curse of the headless horseman is the legacy of the small town of Sleepy Hollow. Spearheaded by the eager Constable Ichabod Crane and his new world ways into the quagmire of secrets and murder, secrets once laid to rest, best forgotten and now reawakened, and he too, holding a dark secret of a past once gone.  

Shelter [2010]

"The sheltering has begun."

Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Writers: Michael Cooney
Stars: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jeffrey DeMunn

Storyline

In Missouri, the forensic psychiatrist Cara Jessup rejects the theory of dissociated or multiple personalities and the prisoner of the death row Joseph Kinkirk has no remission from the governor and is sent to lethal injection. Cara is a widow that raises her daughter Sammy with the support of her brother, Stephen Harding, and Catholic that believes in God. Her father, Dr. Harding, invites Cara to interview the patient David Bernburg, who is a sweet man. Out of the blue, David impersonates the aggressive personality of Adam Saber. Cara is intrigued with the mystery and visits David's mother Mrs. Bernburg (Frances Conroy), who tells her that David had passed away a long time ago. Cara invites Mrs. Bernburg to visit Sam in the hospital and they are surprised with the knowledge of the patient about David's private life. When Sam shifts his personality to Wesley, Cara decides to go further in her investigation and sooner she learns that each personality is actually a dead person...

Contact [1997]

"A message from deep space. Who will be the first to go? A journey to the heart of the universe."

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Carl Sagan  

Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Skerritt

Storyline

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her NSF superior David Drumlin, as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin...

V For Vendetta [2006]

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Director: James McTeigue 
Writers: Andy Wachowski (screenplay), Lana Wachowski (screenplay)
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman and Rupert Graves

Storyline

The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally. 

The Prestige [2006]

"Are You Watching Closely?"

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan (screenplay)

Stars: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson

 Storyline

In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. 

Unknown [2011]

" Take back your life."

 

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers:  Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell (screenplay),

Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones

 

Storyline

 

Dr. Martin Harris, an American Bio-technologist, arrives in Berlin with his ravishing wife-Elizabeth, to attend a biotechnology submit. On reaching the hotel, he finds some part of the luggage missing. He takes a cab back to the airport in order to locate the missing luggage, but before he could inform his wife the cab meets an accident and falls off a bridge into the river. The female driver of the cab, after rescuing him, flees from the scene. Dr. Harris is taken to a medical facility where he finally regains his conscious after spending four days in comma. He seems to have suffered from a bout temporary amnesia, but soon remembers of his wife and the purpose of the visit to Berlin. He is suddenly overcome by a desperate urge to unite with his wife and he leaves the hospital immediately. On arriving at the hotel, he confronts the security to arrange for a meeting with his wife. To his dismay...

Donnie Darko [2001]

"What would you do if you knew the future?"

Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Mary McDonnell

Storyline

 

Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank - a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Paranormal Entity [2009]

"Decide The Truth For Yourself."

Director: Steve Barker
Writers: Rae Brunton (screenplay), Kieran Parker (story)
Stars: Shane Van Dyke, Erin Marie Hogan and Fia Perera

Storyline

 

Prepare to see the actual footage of the supernatural events leading to the 2008 "murder" of Samantha Finley. Released against the wishes of the authorities, this DVD proves that nothing human caused Samantha's death and therefore the suicide of his mother and the arrest and suicide of his brother.