Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.
Step into a virtual reality nightmare. Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny takes a job supervising children at a learning center for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game. This future shock brain-bender is a creepy kids thriller for our tech-addicted culture.
Three years after ushering in the incredibly complex yet relentlessly scintillating The Bullet Vanishes, Hong Kong helmer Lo Chi-leung has upped the ante with yet another detective thriller revolving around the investigation of a string of mysterious murders in the 1930s. Technically competent, visually ravishing and politically fiery, the merits of the noir-infused The Vanished Murderer sadly disappear under the weight of an overcooked narrative and painfully contrived analogies with real-life political developments in Hong Kong and China.
Thrust into a citywide manhunt for a duo of cop killers, NYPD detective Andre Davis begins to uncover a massive conspiracy that links his fellow police officers to a criminal empire and must decide who he is hunting and who is actually hunting him. During the manhunt, Manhattan is completely locked down for the first time in its history – no exit or entry to the island including all 21 bridges.
A couple’s jovial cab driver diverts them to a remote, haunted road, revealing disturbing motives and his true intentions.
In 1909, when John Fain’s gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles’ grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.
A special forces soldier who has given up country, religion, and even hope, must return to the field of battle to track down his niece, a reporter, caught in the middle of an illegal private contracting operation that went dead wrong.
During a weekend a group of friends, holed up in an isolated house in the countryside, are attacked by a swarm of killer mosquitos that fest on human flesh like piranhas. They soon find out that the only deterrent against these insects is THC, the main active ingredient in cannabis. Their only hope of survival is to confront them when stoned. With all the possible consequences…
Charlie is an unmotivated man in his mid 20s still living at home with his mother and stepfather who falls for a young woman who has a serious boyfriend.
When conspiracy theorists raid the famous military base Area 51, no one gets in but someone gets out. Sheera, a sexy alien warrior uses a power glitch to escape from captivity at Area 51. Her escape, using a portal gun, sets off an energy signature which attracts the attention of her arch rival Sklarr. Now she must elude Jill, an Area 51 scientist and Sklarr to rescue Kyra, her fellow warrior, and find her way home.
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
