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When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.



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2015 Directed by Paul Hyett

Synopsis

LAST TRAIN. FULL MOON. ALL CHANGE

When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

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Wolf Blood season 1

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Wolfblood is a British fantasy/supernatural drama television series aimed at teens.^[1] It is a co-production between CBBC and ZDF/ZDFE. So far three series have been aired. Debbie Moon confirmed a fourth series consisting twelve episodes had been commissioned, but could not confirm specific details
Plot

The start of the series sees Maddy Smith as she comes closer to her first transformation. She lives with her family in Stoneybridge, Northumbria. When new boy Rhydian arrives at Bradlington High, Maddy recognizes him as a wolfblood. Rhydian, who lives with his foster family, had only recently started to change into a wolf. However, he is unaware of wolfbloods before his move to Stoneybridge. The Smith family claimed him as a distant cousin, and helped him settle in and learn about being a wolfblood. Rhydian becomes friends with Maddy's best friends Tom and Shannon, who are unaware of their friends' secret. Series 1 deals with Maddy and Rhydian trying to balance their lives as wolfbloods and their human sides, all the while trying to keep their secret from being exposed. Rhydian is also visited by his biological family, his mother Ceri and his brother Brynn, who tries to bring him back to his wild wolfblood pack. Ultimately, when Ceri threatens them and Maddy transforms to save them, Shannon, feeling betrayed, threatens to post her photos as evidence online, but is convinced otherwise by Rhydian. Shannon gives all of her evidence to the Smiths, who abandon their plans to leave Stoneybridge, and makes up with Maddy. At the end of the series, Rhydian leaves with his mother and brother to go to the wild wolfblood pack.

Series 2 is set three months after the series 1 finale. Rhydian flees from the angry alpha of the wild wolfblood pack, Alric. He returns to the Smiths and Stoneybridge, having been driven away by Alric for having taken his daughter, Jana, to a human village. Jana moves to Stoneybridge also, claiming that she was exiled from the pack, although she is sent by Alric to bring Rhydian for punishment. Jana, however, begins to fall in love with the human world, and makes friends with Maddy, Rhydian, Shannon, and Tom. At the same time, it is seen that Shannon has not given up collecting evidence of the Smiths, though she does so in secret, stating that she wants to use the evidence to protect the wolfbloods. Tension is caused by the wolfbloods wanting Shannon to delete the evidence, but Shannon, not wanting to let go of something she had been dedicated to her whole life, assures it will not be used to expose the wolfbloods. However, realizing that she can not both keep research of the wolfbloods and protect their secret, she deletes her research. Eventually Rhydian's mother, Ceri, returns and calls Jana back to become the wild wolfblood pack's new leader, as Alric has been exiled. Jana leaves, but Rhydian stays, stating that his life is in the human world and with the people he loves. Rhydian also helps Alric make peace with his new status as a lone wolf. Meanwhile, a boy at Maddy's school, Liam, has become obsessed with werewolves, his ancestor having been a werewolf hunter. Through an underground tunnel that Maddy inadvertently helped him find, he breaks into the Smiths' house and steals a dog chew with the Smiths' DNA on it. He sends this to the researcher Dr. Whitewood, exposing the wolfblood secret. Despite Rhydian's attempts to recover the DNA and research, the Smiths realize that it is too late, and leave to join the wild wolfblood pack. At the final scene, Maddy wants Rhydian to come with them but he declines, because if he goes at the same time the Smiths do, the police will think the Smiths has kidnapped him. Before Maddy leaves with her parents to the wild wolfblood pack, Maddy and Rhydian confess their love and Maddy says goodbye to her friends.

Series 3 is set a couple of months after Maddy and her family left Stoneybridge. Friendships are tested to the limit and lessons are learned about trust, leadership, and responsibility. Rhydian confronts new challenges, great danger, as well as a mysterious conspiracy. Rhydian becomes heartbroken after the departure of Maddy and her family and his discovery about what happened to them. Jana returns from the wild wolf pack in dire need of help, bringing with her new allies. Together with his friends, Tom, Shannon, and Jana, Rhydian must focus on life beyond school and Stoneybridge. Dr. Whitewood also reappears, still desperate to find evidence of wolfbloods. Rhydian discovers that new allies may not be what they seem and old enemies make their presence felt. As the series accelerates towards a climax, Rhydian must unite his pack or their species will face extinction.

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Three teenagers can trust no one as it could reveal their secret.

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Late Phases

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Crescent Bay is not the ideal place to spend one's golden years, especially since the once-idyllic retirement community has been beset by a series of deadly animal attacks from the ominous forest surrounding it. When grizzled war veteran Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is forced into moving there by his yuppie son Will (Ethan Embry), the residents immediately take offense to Ambrose's abrasive personality. But that take-no-prisoners attitude may be just what Ambrose needs to survive as it becomes clear that the attacks are being caused by creatures that are neither animal nor man, and that the tight-knit community of Crescent Bay is hiding something truly sinister in its midst... Following the release of his Here Comes The Devil, as well as his scene-stealing segment "B is For Bigfoot" in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death, Adriån Garcîa Bogliano cements his status as one of the top horror filmmakers coming out of Spain with LATE PHASES. In a bookend of sorts to his performance in the cult hit Stake Land, Nick Damici commands the screen here, coming on the heels of last year's Sundance vigilante thriller Cold In July and the critically acclaimed cannibal drama, We Are What We Are.(C) Dark Sky Films

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It’s hard not to make a “Twilight” joke in a review of a film about a man in the later years of his life confronted with werewolves in suburbia, but I’ll try and avoid it. Adrián García Bogliano’s “Late Phases” tells just such a story, sketching a horror-comedy about a grizzled Vietnam vet named Ambrose (Nick Damici), who moves to a community that seems to run into trouble every 30 or so days with each full moon. Bogliano can’t quite manage the tones of the film, resulting in a frustrating piece of work overall, but Damici gives his memorable protagonist enough life to hold it together more often that it would have otherwise. He’s great here. The movie around him, not so much.

Writing a horror film with a blind, elderly Vietnam vet as its protagonist is a risky proposition, but Damici rises to the challenge as Ambrose, a man we meet moving to a new community with his dog Shadow and the help of his son Will (Ethan Embry). As he’s feeling the wall of his new abode, Ambrose pulls a massive claw from the wall. Something’s not right behind these picket fences. The local older women initially take to Ambrose’s rugged persona, but he soon rubs them the wrong way with his tendency to say what’s on his mind and brandish a loaded weapon. Ambrose doesn’t make friends easily. And he doesn’t seem to care. He just wants to live out his final days with his dog and his peace and quiet.

Of course, that’s interrupted the first night he’s there by an attack on the kind woman living next door. Ambrose hears the fight, in which we see a man-sized wolf tear an old woman apart—those turned off by gore might want to stay away—and he’s quickly a part of the attack when Shadow gets involved, and ends up dead. One night in his new community, and Ambrose has to bury his only remaining companion. Naturally, he’s pissed. And he’s going to get to the bottom of the “animal attacks” in his new community. The cops don’t care. The suburban sprawl has extended near the forest and they’re eager to write off the concerns of the older residents as animal attacks. Ambrose knows more is going on, and tries to figure out who may be a creature of the night when the moon turns full. Could it be the kindly Priest (Tom Noonan)? Time to get some silver bullets, build a cross, and find out.

The way that society discards its elderly, represented by Embry’s distant son and the dismissive authorities in this community, adds an interesting subtext to Bogliano’s film. And Ambrose’s background does some of the same, painting this battle with the supernatural as one last trip in the country for the veteran. He may be blind, he may be old, and he may have regrets, but this thing killed his dog and he’s going to do what's right, goddammit. Damici finds just the right energy for the role, never overplaying Ambrose's potentially scenery-chewing traits. In fact, it’s how seriously Damici plays the part that allows it to work. He never winks at the camera as a lot of other actors would have. He takes Ambrose’s plight seriously.

Sadly, I can’t quite say the same about Bogliano. He never quite convinced me that he figured what kind of film he was trying to make. A lot of the creature design is misguided (exaggerated and goofy more than scary), and some of the tonal jumps are jarring. The film goes from character-driven drama with Ambrose and his new religious exploration late in life to remarkably gory horror to something that plays more like a horror-comedy with one-liners that would have worked in “Bubba Ho-Tep.” I think the various tones in Eric Stolze’s script proved more of a challenge than Bogliano expected. Balancing horror, comedy and drama in a way that makes all three effective is incredibly difficult. All three typically end up getting less attention than they need.

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Bitten Season 2

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A supernatural thriller about the lone female werewolf in existence whose perfect life as a photographer is disrupted when a series of murders draw her back into the wolf pack she was trying to escape.

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SYFY PICKS UP BITTEN FOR A SEASON 2

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The Canadian werewolf series, starring Laura Vandervoort, will continue to air in the U.S.

BY MATT FOWLERSyfy today announced that it has acquired the popular supernatural thriller Bitten for a second season, consisting of 10 all-new episodes. The series, from leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), will return to Syfy in 2015.
Bitten, a Canadian series, had already been officially renewed for a Season 2 by Space, who airs the show in Canada. This news confirms that the werewolf drama - which is based on the Women of the Otherworld novels by Kelley Armstrong and stars Laura Vandervoort - will continue to air on Syfy in the U.S.

Greyston Holt and Laura Vandervoort in Bitten.

Said Chris Regina, Senior Vice President, Programming, Syfy: “Bitten is a fast-paced and edgy series which has found a growing and passionate fan base on our channel. We’re delighted to bring the series back to Syfy next year.”
Said Prentiss Fraser, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Acquisitions, eOne Television International: “We’re absolutely thrilled with the tremendous support and enthusiasm from fans across social media since the debut of Bitten. We look forward to working with the talented cast and crew on another compelling season and continuing our partnership with Syfy in bringing the series back to viewers in the U.S. next year.”
Production on Season 2 will begin this summer in Toronto. 

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Bitten season 1

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A supernatural thriller about the lone female werewolf in existence whose perfect life as a photographer is disrupted when a series of murders draw her back into the wolf pack she was trying to escape.


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Elena, a werewolf trying to live a normal life, is summoned home by Jeremy the leader of her Pack when they come under attack by an unknown enemy. But returning to Stonehaven means facing Clayton Danvers, the only man Elena has ever loved, and the one who betrayed her by changing her into a werewolf.


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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

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Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.


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A monstrous creature terrorizes a 19th Century European village by moonlight and a young man struggles to protect his loved ones from an unspeakable scourge in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, Universal Studios' all-new addition to its time-honored legacy of classic monsters. During his studies with the local doctor (Stephen Rea), Daniel (Guy Wilson) witnesses the horrific consequences of werewolf attacks. Watching as the beast's fearsome reputation draws bounty hunters, thrill seekers and charlatans to the tiny town, Daniel dreams of destroying the ruthless predator. So when a mysterious stranger (Ed Quinn) and his team of skilled werewolf hunters (Stephen Bauer, Adam Croasdell) arrive to pursue the monster, he offers to join them, despite his mother's (Nia Peeples) protests. But it soon becomes clear that this creature is stronger, smarter and more dangerous than anything they have faced before. As casualties mount and villagers see their neighbors transformed into ravening monsters, the townsfolk take up arms against each other to find the true identity of the werewolf. Amid the hysteria, Daniel begins to suspect he's closer to his target than he ever 

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Wolves

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A boy is trying to find out about his family history and stumbles upon a town of lycans.


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"Wolves" is the kind of pleasantly eccentric werewolf coming-of-age story that should be seen as the third-billed title in a horror movie marathon. When viewed on its own, one can't help but wonder who "Wolves"' was made for. Writer/director David Hayter, most famous as the voice-actor who plays Solid Snake in the "Metal Gear Solid" video game series, typically errs on the side of caution, and only tentatively lets his id run roughshod over his corny, Stephen King-like story. "Wolves" is consequently too violent to be a "Twilight" knockoff, and too cuddly to be an effectively freaky tale of a boy who, to paraphrase "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," becomes a man while also becoming a wolf.

Hayter's quasi-adult family drama is set in a world defined by tacky, pseudo-archetypal heartland Americana (ie: corn fields and roadhouses). All of the film's principal characters are werewolves, a creative decision that suggests Hayter took at least a page or two out of Stephenie Meyer's domesticated-monster playbook. 

"Wolves" is set in a world where the status quo is maintained absolutely by werewolves, making it difficult to see Cayden Richards (Lucas Till), the film's pubescent lead protagonist, as a real outsider. Cayden suffers a serious identity crisis when he transforms into a hairy, hormonal monster shortly before he discovers his parents' corpses. Cayden is a teen-wolf, as one-eyed bar fly and fellow lycanthrope Wild Joe (John Pyper-Ferguson) explains to Cayden. Joe then directs Cayden to Lupine Ridge, where he promises Cayden will find more answers. While there, Cayden gets guidance from paternal werewolf-rancher John Tollerman (Stephen McHattie), falls in love with self-sufficient teen-wolfette Angelina (Merritt Patterson), and makes enemies with local were-bully Connor (Jason Momoa).

Of Cayden 's new relationships, his tentative bond with Joe, the one werewolf who doesn't want to live in Lupine Ridge, is the most interesting. But Joe disappears right after he sets Cayden on his way to Every-Werewolfton, USA. Cayden's relationship with Angelina is the next-most interesting since she's supposed to come off as a savvy, salt-of-the-earth type with problems and passions of her own. Sadly, while Angelina's fraught relationship with drunk mother Gail (Melanie Scrofano) is theoretically interesting, there are no emotional stakes to their mother/daughter bond. Angelina knows that her mom's a screw-up, but there is no mess Gail can make that Angelina won't either begrudgingly clean up or turn a blind eye to.

But while Alison is a semi-dutiful daughter, she also happens to have a healthy carnal interest in Cayden, as we see in the scene where Angelina takes control, and mounts him. The schizoid disconnect between the two sides of Angelina's personality are never reconciled, though it's easier to believe Angelina as a tough-loving daughter than a mini-sexpot since the scene where she and Cayden fool around is as fetishized as any of Michael Bay's PG-13 leering shots of Megan Fox's hindquarters. You see her push him down, toss her hair over her shoulder, andstraddle him in a medium close-up that highlights the form-fitting under-garments that negligibly cover Patterson's assets. Angelina is only as empowered as a Maxim pin-up model.

Angelina's split personality is emblematic of the weird cute-but-"adult" tone Hayter strives for throughout "Wolves." At least Momoa is allowed to ham it up in one scene where his character triumphantly boasts about how he plans on deflowering Angelina. For a fleeting moment, Momoa is allowed to release his inner character, and he accordingly bugs out like Michael Keaton in "Beetlejuice."

Unfortunately, that appreciably goofy and supremely confident performance doesn't jibe with the rest of "Wolves," an uneasy coming-of-age-story for people who want to improve "Twilight," but wrongfully assume that the worst thing about "Twilight" was its lack of explicitly violent and sexual overtones. "Wolves"' over-the-top gore, and its teasing libidinal urges make no sense within the context of the film's generic coming-of-age fantasy plot. Here, boy meets girl, boy learns he has to fight for girl despite her supposed autonomy, then boys fights for girl with the unexpected help of some other boys. If you must see "Wolves," go in with high hopes, and low expectations.

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