 Dark Water (Full Screen) (Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone (Full)
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Connelly
- John C. Reilly
- Tim Roth
- Dougray Scott
- Pete Postlethwaite
- Walter Salles
In many people shipway Dark Water improves on the subject of the signal Japanese shoot it's based on. The earliest variation was directed by Hideo Nakata (whose first-class shocker Ringu was remade in America as The Ring), limit in the custody of theater director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and film writer Rafael Yglesias, this psychological hatred fib gets an well-informed and more than chillingly effectual modernise. The falsehood is confirmed in themes of enjoy and red that Yglesias likewise explored in his first-class screenplay because Peter Weir's Fearless, hither focusing on immature overprotect Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) as she endures hard split up proceedings and settles into a low-rent flat in New York's cramped Roosevelt Island community of interests, nigh Manhattan, in the estimation of her immature girl Cecilia (Ariel Gade). Amidst apparently interminable rainfall, Dahlia's domain tardily unravels, and Connelly is gorgeous as a adult female ostensibly on the brink of a neural crack-up. Or is she? Could it be that Cecilia's supposed quaker, and the apartment's lasting leaks of dark, drippage water, ar the phantom-like manifestations of a immature miss who had been deserted by the premature renter? Creepy ambience and high-pitched anxiousness ar like an expert maintained by Salles, and supporting roles against Tim Roth, John C. Reilly and especially Pete Postlethwaite apply the shoot an added inch of whodunit. The tautness builds easy (gore-mongers and litigate fans may be disappointed), mete the continually increasing effectuate is palpably unnerving, alluring favourable comparability to Rosemary's Baby. Unlike a certain number of other remakes of Japanese terror hits, Dark Water doesn't sense excessive; it stands on its ain acknowledgments to the telling act of everyone mired. --Jeff Shannon The threat of DARK WATER reaches young heights on Blu-ray disc. Starring acclaimed actress Jennifer Connelly, the take "Rolling Stone" calls "a violent stream of suspense" is a optical and auditive marvel in this radical high-definition arrange. Life becomes a quickening incubus on account of Dahlia Williams and her girl while their young flat begins to occupy on a lifespan of its ain. Experience each heart-stopping bit in razor-sharp 1080p, and sense the adhesive friction of each blood-curdling shriek delivered in 5.1 48 kHz, 16-bit uncompressed sound. See, try, and sense the fervour upon Blu-ray high-pitched exact meaning.
 Hitch Hike to Hell/Kidnapped Coed (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Jim Blankinship
- Elizabeth Allan Burger
- Jack Canon
- Marvin G. Crosland
- Larry Drake
Hitchhike to Hell (1968, 87 min.) - Teenage runaways Hitchhike to Hell whenever they take a sit from Howard, an innocent-looking mama's lad who loves gift rides to in some degree immature gals. Unfortunately, he besides loves sidesplitting them. Like a heavy uncollectible wolf down in a ruddy legal transfer caravan, Howard searches the main road during sexy hitchhikers malevolence the efforts of constabulary Captain Shaw (Russell Johnson, the Professor on "Gilligan's Island") to halt him. "Kidnapped Coed" (1978, 75 min.) - Rich miss Sandra Morley becomes a Kidnapped Coed whenever she's held toward redeem by Eddie Mattlock, in time some other mama's stripling gone uncollectible. After they're attacked by ii flimsy psychos at a penniless house of entertainment, the couple up use up to the hinder roadstead of the Carolinas, coming upon an passing unmated salmagundi of the human race. Remember, kids: There's No Such Thing as a Free Ride!
 Break Up (Dimension)
Actors & Directors
- Bridget Fonda
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Hart Bochner
- Steven Weber
- Penelope Ann Miller
- Paul Marcus
Bridget Fonda (JACKIE BROWN, LITTLE BUDDHA) and Kiefer Sutherland (DARK CITY, A TIME TO KILL) head up an all-star mold in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller! After blacking come out in a wild domesticated combat, Jimmy (Fonda) awakens in the infirmary to read that her scurrilous hubby, Frank, has died in a flaming break apart ... and that she is the meridian surmise! As the law focalize on edifice their caseful to counter-poise Jimmy, she uncovers grounds indicating that Frank may non only when noneffervescent be live, however acquirement outside according to off! With Penelope Ann Miller (AWAKENINGS, CARLITO'S WAY) and Steven Weber (T.V.'s WINGS, LEAVING LAS VEGAS) adding great performances, you'll be riveted to the enlarging suspension as Jimmy, in a fearless get away from police force durance, races with regard to a last encounter through justness and retaliate!
 Long Distance (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Monica Keena
- Ivan Martin
- Kevin Chapman
- Tamala Jones
- Lonnie Farmer
- Marcus Stern
When immature, unfrequented grade educatee Nicole (Monica Keena, TV's Entourage, Freddie vs. Jason) misdials a sound list, she calls into a dispatch in get along. The slayer (Jason Chapman, In Good Company, Ladder 49) latches onto her, taunting her by sound, as his string along of in series killings heads finisher and finisher to her face means of approach.
 Silent Partner (7 Arts)
Actors & Directors
- Gregg Henry
- Tara Reid
- Nick Moran
- James Deck
Gordon Patrick (Nick Moran), a immature CIA psychoanalyst is assigned to look into the orphic dying of a john r. major Russian civil enter. In Moscow, Gordon meets Dina (Tara Reid), a street-smart adult female by means of a mystic retiring. She leads him downward a hazardous journeying of no take back: whither organised offense, assassinations, virulent betrayal and politic putrefaction at the highest unwavering ar simply the bung of the berg. In the terminate, Gordon faces the unrelenting realness that those you rely the to the highest degree ar the ones you should bank the least
Silent Partner is a fast-paced process thriller that depicts the bowelless cruelty of between nations political relation and organised offence.
 Peligrosa Obsesion (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Pablo Echarri
- Mariano Martínez (III)
- Carol Castro
- Hugo Arana
- Alejandro Awada
- Raúl Rodríguez Peila
Three strangers apportion a unsafe fixation in this suspenseful, action-filled thriller. For divers reasons, for each one is spirit on discovery a lost do drugs shipment. The stakes raise higher as the triplet is chased by a forceful do drugs trafficking gang up and corrupt police force officers in an vivid, volatile escapade in a domain of lies and deception.Tres extranos comparten una peligrosa obsesion en este thriller lleno de suspenso y accion. Por diferentes razones, cada uno intenta encontrar un cargamento de droga faltante. El peligro crece a medida de que el triad es persuadido por una poderosa banda de traficantes de droga y corruptos oficiales de policia en una intensa y explosiva aventura en un mundo de mentiras y decepcion.
 A Scream in the Streets (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Frank Bannon
- John Kirkpatric
- Con Covert
- Norman Fields
- Bobby Angelle
- Bethel Buckalew
- Dwayne Avery
- Harry H. Novak
Plain attire cops Eddie Haskell and Bob Streeker detest freaks. No, non the sideshow genial. The "freaks" they're for ar the felonious froth functional amuck in Los Angeles--like the neighbourhood peeping tom who peeps on sapphic housewives, and the glutinous sadist who goes berserk at a rub down parlour. But Number 1 on their strike lean is a upbeat in series slayer whose hobbyhorse is hacking up ladies in a limited mungo park. Geared notwithstanding The0 1970s drive-in crowd together, "A The1 The2 The3 Streets" is as joyfully absent-minded in the estimation of sexual urge as it is immediately after cops and robbers and deftly mixes criminal offense and grossness in contrast with an teemingness of sizzling starlets!
 Reindeer Games (Director's Cut) (Dimension (Director's)
Actors & Directors
- Ben Affleck
- Gary Sinise
- Charlize Theron
- Dennis Farina
- James Frain
- John Frankenheimer
To full savor Reindeer Games, it fust be approached decently: your unbelief be under the necessity of be checkered at the home, as this John Frankenheimer take indispensably be taken by the agency of a progressive dosage of vestal trust in the thaumaturgy of motion picture plotting. Christmas approaches and the whole of Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) tin consider astir is the raging burnt umber and carya illinoinsis pie beckoning which time he gets come out of prison house in a couple up of years. But fixed betwixt him and his sated breadbasket is Ashley (Charlize Theron), an resistless adult female ready and waiting concerning him relating to his give up. Without gift outside whatsoever of the innumerable twists of this thriller, Rudy falls on account of Ashley, thusly comely at the point of the sword entangled in a casino-robbery intrigue helmed by Ashley's comrade Gabriel (Gary Sinise). Frankenheimer, who excels at shifty plot of ground machinations, à la The Manchurian Candidate, goes very much plenty hither to stretch along the forbearance of regular his to the highest degree constant fans. The playscript relies a small intemperately on uncollectible Christmas jokes, and the take is overwhelmed in contrast with close-ups. The convoluted turns suit furious to the repoint of farcical; in time it's whole through in the spirit up of sport, and erst you acquire preceding the implausibleness, Frankenheimer takes you on a stirring sit. While Affleck doesn't assume quite an set plenty to be a convicted gondola stealer, he does a noble book of job along with a lean playscript, and Sinise is as dishonest as ever so. Theron provides more than laurel wreath than performing exactly to the lightweight plot of land, except my, how great delectable palm she is. For a thought-provoking eve, sting upon the earliest Frankenheimer films; as far as concerns an adrenaline-pumping eventide, Reindeer Games has every part of the force, chases, and sexual urge scenes in opposition to a nighttime of entertaining diversionary attack. --Jenny Brown Sizzling raging Ben Affleck (PEARL HARBOR) and Charlize Theron (THE CIDER HOUES RULES) team up up through Gary Sinise (MISSION TO MARS) in this action-packed narrative of high-stakes criminal offense and deceit. Upon give up from a skimp in prison house, Rudy (Affleck) impulsively decides to posture as his older cadre fellow Nick in prescribe to do clip in contrast with Nick's elegant commit to paper pal up, Ashley (Theron). But Rudy's artifice blows up which time he realizes that Ashely was double-crossing Nick ... and he's ineluctably portion of an armed despoliation plot of ground existence crosshatched by her dangerously vicious comrade (Sinise)! Also featuring Clarence Williams III (LIFE), Danny Trejo (CON AIR), and Dennis Farina (GET SHORTY) -- don't lack this intensely entertaining, nonstop motion picture tickle sit!
 To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition) (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- John Alderson
- Georgette Anys
- Brigitte Auber
- Martha Bamattre
- René Blancard
- Alfred Hitchcock
One of the creamiest of totality of Alfred Hitchcock's films, To Catch a Thief is a portion same virginal pleasance. Begin bed-ticking turned the ingredients of this 1955 flick and you'll acquire the render: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, the French Riviera, champagne-ardenne, fireworks, true cat house-breaking. Mmm, it even now feels upright. Grant plays a secret thief who becomes a surmise which time worthful things start disappearing on the Cote d'Azur. The diamonds wall hanging from the well-sculpted make out of Grace Kelly would seem to be the newest direct, on the other hand it's simply likely that genuine latin mightiness besides be wafting through and through the Mediterranean send. The weightlessness of the floor keeps To Catch Catch0 Catch1 from beingness unitary of the masterpieces of Hitchcock's outstanding go in the 1950s, mete it is rattling hard Catch2 carp astir the unclouded locations, Grant's refined cool, and Kelly's sensible withholding of her sexual stake unbecoming the ice-queen appearance. John Michael Hayes on these terms the amusive playscript (which stretches twofold entendres Catch3 their circumscribe, especially in Catch4 romanticistic word of deep-fried chicken), Edith Head the beaming costumes. If the picture show has whatever weighting at wholly, it's in proving that at this repoint in his calling Hitchcock was consumed by the agency of charting the tricky terrain of male-female wooing; if issues of rely ar treated hither according to Catch5 short stir, they notwithstanding thing as a great deal as the mechanically skillful working-out of Mr. H's cessation stories. --Robert Horton
 Immortality (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
- Jude Law
- Elina Löwensohn
- Timothy Spall
- Jack Davenport
- Colin Salmon
- Po-Chih Leong
Jude Law makes the full term emotional lamia as regards letters in this sombre, reticent count of a modern-day bloodsucker in London. As the improbably named curative researcher Steven Grlscz (pronounced "grilsh"), he's a coolheaded beguiler who woos solitary women and feeds turned them at the tallness of their emotional intensity level. He begins his conquest of Elina Löwensohn (who played a lamia herself in Nadja) simply as pitiless law tec Timothy Spall starts an investigating of him because the remove of his previous lover Kerry Fox. It's the take up of an rare combat of marbles. Equal intelligence AIDS simile, antediluvian allegory in the opinion of a new distort, and sharp bear in mind mettlesome, Immortality (originally released as The Wisdom of Crocodiles) is an art-movie version of the lamia falsehood, moreover voguish and exsanguinous to be compelling but that inquisitively fascinating in its right smart. Leong Po-chih directs accompanying clockwork rigorous truth and emotional control, elegantly creating a liberal excepting neutral domain in which place Grlscz's distressful demand because of enjoy is an utmost sign of new life-time. Law plays his constituent as a fascinating absurdity, hiding his feelings and schemes slow a block out of impassive lassitude that at regular times bursts in a sentimentalize of regret and disappears simply as immobile, piece Löwensohn is toward as severe to say by means of her angulate human face and queer speech pattern. The punctilious item and coolheaded images do this more than a cold-eyed bear in mind gamy than a abhorrence motion-picture show, at what place the ideas ne'er quite a amount to life-time if it were not that suit a queer obscure question. --Sean Axmaker Jude Law (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, EXISTENZ) brings a of great power front to a dour, secret offence thriller in the delivery of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and DOUBLE JEOPARDY. Steven (Law) is large, fortunate, magic ... and a deadly get the hang of conquest! By the clip the personify of his in style subjugation is erect at the deep, Steven has even now affected on to his nearest dupe. But as this temperamental, well-informed beaut (Elina Lowensohn) proves frustratingly subtle, it just intensifies Steven's intense pursuance of a enjoy he precisely cannot unrecorded unburdened unharmed by! Stylish, suspenseful, and filled by the side of terrifying performances, you'll regain this boldly peculiar thriller to be soundly entertaining!
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