Half Light

Half Light was a good movie. Not for those that dont like deep Dramas that can be said cause of Death (the Guilty dead) Not sure why Demi Moore after Ghost most of her roles are sad grief driven women. Half Light does keep you on your seat wondering wtf not sure whats going to happen next. Friend said "I want to cry at the start. but then I was happy the again sad" This movie does pull you from on side to the other. I like movies with good twist in them. This one has its twist changes you dont know how its going to end till the end.

You would be forgiven if you thought the only thing Demi Moore was famous for is as that older chick shacking up with that semi-retarded kid in the trucker hat who likes to punk celebrities. After all, she did take a major sabbatical from the acting game for quite some time, leaving behind a thriving career, only to return recently with a guest spot on the “Charlie’s Angels” sequel. Now Moore stars in “Half Light”, a ghost thriller from across the pond starring Moore as Rachel, a successful American writer living in London who, after her precocious tyke drowns himself, moves to a Scottish cabin in the middle of nowhere in order to drown in her sorrows.

Unfortunately for our American lass, the cabin, which hasn’t been lived in for years, is haunted by a ghostly spirit. Soon, writers block and grief isn’t the only thing Rachel has to worry about, as her dead son begins showing up at odd hours, beckoning her to “be with him”. But the good news is that Angus (Hans Matheson), the Scottish chap who runs the lighthouse nearby, is handsome and he’s interested. Rachel is hesitant at first, having just split up with her failed writer of a husband back in London, but the promise of burnt fish and disturbing daily visitations by her dead son makes up her mind for her. Can you blame the girl? It’s too bad for Rachel, then, that ol Angus has a little secret of his own…

Although billed as a thriller, “Half Light” is very much a supernatural ghost movie. It’s not “horror” in the genre sense, although there are ghosts and thrills aplenty. Written and directed by Aussie Craig Rosenberg (“After the Sunset”), there is a very noticeable European sensibility to the film’s pacing. Another oddity is that whenever ghosts aren’t involved, Rosenberg directs like he’s making a traveling brochure for Scotland’s Tourism Board. Which might not be such a bad idea if Scotland was ever in need of some good P.R., because the “Scotland” shown here (in actuality the LLandwyn Island of Isle of Anglesey in Wales), with its wide open beaches and tall grass bristling in the cool evening wind, is simply gorgeous to behold.

The beautiful scenery also makes for a stark contrast against the supernatural elements of the film. The cabin by the beach becomes the hub of ghost activity, as what seems like the spirit of Rachel’s dead son returns to haunt mom with a vengeance. And while Angus seems like a savior, he, too, turns out to be more than what he seems, making Rachel’s already fragile circumstance even less tenable. What’s a broken hearted novelist, already suffering from terrible guilt, to do when the one rock she thought she could lean on suddenly turns into mist?

“Half Light” doesn’t terrify as much as it creeps you out, especially the early scenes with Rachel’s dead son. Here, Rosenberg methodically introduces the film’s supernatural element a bit at a time, never offering up too much. It’s a tease, but an effective one. Rosenberg’s choice regarding the aesthetics of the Scottish locale makes the fear all the more intense when the scene shifts from the pleasant countryside to Rachel’s lonely and constricted cabin, or the towering, skeletal lighthouse nearby.

As the star, Demi Moore is in fine form, portraying the wounded mother who suddenly gets a burst of energy in her romance with Angus with equal believability. When further secrets about those around her are revealed, you can practically see every thought running through Rachel’s head as she tries to make sense of a situation that has already gone beyond her grasp. The rest of the cast doesn’t appear long enough to really make much of an impression, with the exception of Hans Matheson as the charming Angus. The rest of the townspeople are barely given names, save for a female outcast who also happens to be psychic and can, predictably, see the dead.

Rosenberg’s direction is slow and purposeful, offering up a drama early on, before slowly easing into the supernatural by introducing ghost elements through the son. The director then makes a smart decision and lowers the tension so much that we think everything might turn out okay after all. Rachel’s romance with Angus, near the middle, practically evaporates any sense of dread the film had developed up to that point. But near the hour mark, the film once again knocks the audience over by cranking the tension way up. All of this makes for an effective and scary film, the kind that elects to slowly introduce the scares rather than rely on silly, out-of-dark-corner boo moments. The film’s middle, in particular, will give you goose bumps and make you look over your shoulder.

Of course the film is far from perfect. For one, an intelligent woman like Rachel seems a bit clueless as to the right course of action to take, even if she is currently locked in a haze of grief and mental confusion. Despite suffering from one ghostly encounter after another at the cabin, she continues to remain there, defying all logic and common sense. Later, when warned that if she should return to the cabin she will surely die, Rachel decides to return for her things anyway. The film also has a plot twist in its last act that threatens to torpedo most of what’s come before, not to mention lowering the scare factor tremendously. As well, the twist relies on a plot contrivance involving an elusive photo that is a little hard to swallow, especially in this day and age.

Until it’s all-too conventional last act, “Half Light” is a surprisingly good ghost story. It’s no surprise that the highlights all come in the middle portions, where Rosenberg concentrates solely on making the audience uncomfortable, pulling out one good scare after another. What makes “Half Light’s” supernatural element works so well is that Rosenberg doesn’t hurry, and sometimes there isn’t even a payoff to the long build up, not that you’ll notice as the anticipation alone will have been worth it. As such, one can’t help but wish Rosenberg had carried the spooks all the way to the very end. Alas, nothing good lasts forever, and for about 40 minutes in the middle of “Half Light”, it was indeed very good.

review from BeyondHollywood.com

The movie can be seen here on Utube
and one Xmovie8

The Gift

This movie was made a 13 years ago but I liked it has many stars. (Keanu Reeves does Redneck very well.

Katie Holmes plays a town slut. Cate Blanchett is a good actress she does add the Dramatic moods in The Gift very well from the thriller and mystery Dramatic all of the above.

In THE GIFT, Cate Blanchett plays Annie Wilson, a widow from rural Georgia who has the gift of second sight. She supports her three sons by doing readings with cards, so she hears a lot of problems and secrets. Her clients include Valerie Barksdale (Hilary Swank), a battered wife and Buddy Cole (Giovanni Ribisi), a troubled garage mechanic. The local belle, Jessica King (Katie Holmes), disappears, and her father, her fiancé, and the police ask Annie if she can help them find her. Annie sees nothing at first, but later she is able to lead them to a pond on the property of Valerie's abusive husband, Donnie (Keanu Reeves). Annie's testimony helps to convict Donnie, but then she begins to get visions that lead her to believe that Donnie was not the killer.

Trailer
Full Movie on Xmovie8

chosen

Chosen is a very good mystery action Dramatic show.Now it does have the shock value to it you not sure what will happen next. Milo Ventimiglia does a good acting in hes role in Heroes now on Crackles network. So you can watch it free online. Crackle, the multi-platform entertainment network, announced the Los Angeles-based production of its new original series “Chosen,” starring Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”). Ventimiglia will executive produce along with creators Ben Ketai (30 Days of Night: Dark Days) and Ryan Lewis (High School, Fat Kid Rules the World). Ketai also wrote and will direct the series which is slated to premiere this winter across all Crackle platforms. Additional talent attached to the action thriller include Diedrich Bader (Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass,“Scrubs”), and Brett Davern (“Awkward”) among others.

“Chosen” follows Ian Mitchell (Ventimiglia), a husband, father and lawyer who awakens one morning to discover a mysterious box on his doorstep containing a loaded gun – and a photo of a stranger he is instructed to kill within the next three days. “Chosen” is comprised of six half-hour episodes, packed with non-stop action and shocking plot twists.

“Chosen” joins Crackle’s acclaimed portfolio of original content that includes the long-form anthology series “The Unknown” created by Chris Collins and starring Dominic Monaghan; Jerry Seinfeld’s new comedy series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee;” and the Webby Award-winning drama “Urban Wolf.”

Crackle continues to expand its brand across multiple platforms and services. In late August, the award-winning app, with over 11 million mobile downloads since its launch in the Spring of 2011, was made available on Windows Phones and Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet devices, and as of August 21 on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Prior successful launches include the Xbox LIVE service, Sony and other manufacturers’ Android phones and tablets, the iPhone, iPad and iPod, among others.

Crackle, Inc.

Trailer

Crackle, Inc. is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures’ vast library of television series and feature films in addition to the libraries of other studios. Crackle is one of the fastest growing entertainment destinations on the Internet, mobile and over-the-top devices, offering audiences high-quality programming in a variety of genres, including comedy, action, sci-fi, horror and music. Crackle reaches an impressive audience through its diverse online and mobile distribution network.


Full movie on HDmovie14

Grave Encounters

If you like sy fy's Ghost hunters. You would like Grave Encounters. The movie has its thriller ghost story and ghost hunters/busters theme. It was boring start but then after you learn the characters. The story gets interesting and some gets on the edge of there seats. I like the fact you do not get the usual Hollywood story in Grave Encounters.

Grave Encounters is a 2011 Canadian-American supernatural horror film shot in found footage. The footage follows the crew of l paranormal reality television program who lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital in search of evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode. Written and directed by The Vicious Brothers (Collin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz), the footage premiered on April 22, 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival to favorable reviews. The film was released on August 25, 2011 in select theaters using the Eventful Demand It and Video On Demand via Comcast. The footage premiered internationally in Italy via distributor Eagle Pictures under the title ESP Fenomeni Paranormalion June 1, 2011. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the footage has received a cult following^[1] and spawned a sequel in 2012. This movie is taken in a real life like scenario, but is mostly fictional. The name of the hospital is based on Collingwood Stockade, a mental institute in Australia. Review from Wikipedia

Trailer


Full Movie on FFilms
and Movie2kto
and IwannaWatch

The Messengers

I got to watch the movie Free on Crackle!

I like this movie. I kinda MST3000ed it A ghost has family issuses killed everyone but a little boy. So the house is for sell outsiders Years later buy the house not knowing its dark story of the past. A teenager gets to be a teenager and is in trouble like all teenagers she see stuff and her parents wont listen or believe her. Her little brother can see ghosts and is not scared of them. Her little brother has not talked in a year or so. That cuts him from helping her. The acting was good Kristen Stewart as  Jess Solomon did a good teenager in trouble. She did not run screaming ghost ahhh. She told her little brother Ben she wont let them hurt him. It was funny The Crows were always around well "it cant rain all the time"

Heres the Review from Wikipeadia

  

A terrified mother tells her son he has to be strong and that everything will be okay. As she packs a suitcase, she hears something coming towards the door and makes her son hide under the bed. The door bursts open and something throws the woman against the wall, killing her instantly. The son, terrified, runs out of the room and into his equally scared sister. She grabs him and runs down the stairs. The boy hides under a table, but his sister is caught and pushed over the stair railingsand is obviously injured. She crawls to the boy and tells him to run, but is dragged to the cellar, her nails clawing the floor. The boy runs into the kitchen and hides in a cabinet. It is dark except for a sliver of light down his face. The cabinet dooropens and a hand yanks him out.

Five years later, the Solomon family from Chicago move into the house, hoping to start a sunflower farm. The teenaged daughter, Jess (Kristen Stewart), is upset about moving away from her friends. She had once driven drunk with her younger brother, Ben, a toddler at the time, in the car. She got into an accident, seriously injuring Ben. He recovered, but has does not speak. Jess' father, Roy, and mother, Denise, have a hard time trusting their daughter. Roy, who grew up in the next county and has previous farming experience, moved his family to the farm believing it will help heal the family.

Ominous events start occurring. The house always has crows flying around it. Some even attack Roy, but are driven off by a drifter named John Burwell, whom Roy hires to work on the farm. Ben sees the ghosts of the mother and children in the house, though they do not seem to frighten him. Jess is also aware of their presence but is unable to see them until they attempt to drag her into the cellar. The adults have no perception of the ghosts at all. One ghost, the sister, attempts to drag Jess into the cellar. Afterward, Jess calls 9-1-1 and the police arrive, but find nothing. They consider it a false alarm, and Jess' parents do not believe her either. While Ben witnessed what happened, still being very young and mute he is unable to confirm her story. Only Bobby, a teenage boy from town whom Jess befriends, supports her.

Jess and Ben have more encounters with the ghosts haunting the house. One attack occurs when she went into the cellar herself, she starts seeing mud coming out of the floor, scared she runs back up but gets grabbed by the ankle, and starts seeing a flashback of the girl ghost alive getting pulled down the stairs, when Jess starts to fall into the mud where the girl ghost was, everything reverts back to normal and she runs back up. Another occurs in the barn, resulting in Jess acquiring cuts and bruises. Jess sees a little boy inside the barn, arms wrapped around his legs, his back toward Jess. When she tries to ask him if he is okay, he does not reply. She moves closer to the boy. The boy turns and reveals his face, his eyes white, his skin pale and with grey cuts on his face. He suddenly jumps and attacks Jess. Later, Jess is rushed to the hospital. Her parents think her wounds are self-inflicted because she wants to leave the house and return to the city, and they will not believe that ghosts are haunting it. Because her parents do not believe her, tensions rise and Jess becomes determined to prove her claims to Roy and Denise. When Jess left to find proof, she tells Bobby about what happened and he says to her that people make mistakes.

Jess later discovers more details about the Rollins family, the house's previous owners, by Bobby. According to the locals, the Rollins lived in the house, but left suddenly five or six years ago. However, at a local store Jess sees a picture of the family, with the father revealed to be none other than John Burwell, who has always been kind to her. As it turns out, John Burwell is actually John Rollins, the head of the Rollins family and the man who, in a fit of madness, killed his family. Frightened and anxious, Jess takes Bobby back to the house to warn her family before it is too late.

Back at home, Jess' mother, Denise, is putting Ben to sleep when she notices a blood spot on the wall coming back even though she has already cleaned it. This is where the mother, Mary Rollins, was thrown against the wall. Suddenly Denise sees the mother's ghost emerging from the bloodstain. Realizing that Jess had been right, a terrified Denise becomes determined to leave. She starts packing suitcases and places them on the front porch. John, after being attacked by crows, becomes confused and believes Denise is his wife Mary, trying to leave him in the same way Mary had, years before. He runs to the house to attack Denise, believing that she is his wife. Denise grabs Ben and runs into the cellar to hide from their attacker.

Bobby and Jess arrive, and Jess calls for her mother and father. John attacks them from behind with a pitchfork, knocking Bobby out in the process. Jess runs into the cellar and bolts the door. While John is looking for some way to get into the cellar, Jess finds Denise and Ben, telling her that she is sorry for not believing her since she saw one of the ghosts, and then Jess further barricades the door, blocks all the windows and breaks the light bulb so that they can stay hidden in darkness. John is able to get into the cellar and looks around for the three, still believing that Denise is his wife Mary, that Jess is his daughter Lindsay, and that Ben is his son Michael. Roy arrives to help his family, but is stabbed by John with the pitchfork. However, John's ghostly family arise from their graves beneath the cellar in dirty mud which Jess notices, when John asked Jess, still thinking she is Lindsay, if they are still family, Jess kicks John into the mud saying that she and her family are not his. As his family vengefully pulls him to join them underground, memories of their deaths were shown until he was pulled down. Hoping to save himself from sinking, John grabs Jess' leg which pulled her toward the mud. Jess' parents work together to save their daughter by pulling her free from John's grip before he sinks beneath the cellar with his family.

Thanks to Bobby, the police and paramedics arrive shortly after the attack. Denise tells the police about the ghosts, Roy is loaded into the ambulance and he too apologizes to Jess, and promises to never doubt her again. As the film ends, things return to normal. The crows no longer attack, the ghosts stop appearing and Ben starts talking again. The family appears to be normal once more and the house and land look better than ever.

Dylan McDermott as Roy Solomon

does she need a hand?  you tell me

The Trailer here

Full Movie on Solar movies

WALKING DEAD SEASON 1

the first series begins with sheriff's deputy^[2] Rick Grimes waking up from a coma in an abandoned and badly damaged hospital. Leaving the hospital, Rick discovers a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies (or "walkers," as they are often referred to in-show). Rick also discovers his wife and son are missing. Acting on a rumor from a fellow survivor, he arms himself and begins a perilous journey to Atlanta, Georgia, where the CDC is said to have set up a quarantined safe-zone in the city. Upon reaching Atlanta, he soon discovers that the city is instead overrun by the walkers.

A few miles outside the city, Rick's wife Lori and son Carl have been hiding from the walkers with Shane Walsh, Rick's partner and best friend, who has fallen in love with Lori. They have established a camp with a small group of fellow survivors. After being rescued from Atlanta by members of the group and reunited with Lori and Carl, Rick assumes command with Shane. A band of walkers eventually attack the camp and kill several people. The remainder flee to seek aid from the CDC.

In the CDC, all but one staff member, Dr. Edwin Jenner, have either fled or killed themselves. Dr. Jenner explains that his research into the infection has not yielded a cure, and that he has not been in contact with anyone for a long while. Lack of fuel for the emergency generators soon initiates the building's safety protocols, which will trigger an explosion designed to destroy the facility and prevent the escape of deadly diseases. Jenner and Jacqui, a member of Rick's group, decide to stay and end their struggle. Dr. Jenner whispers something into Rick's ear, and the group escapes just as the CDC is incinerated in the explosion.

Taking Lives

The Trailer
I love Angelina Jolie movies cause. Most of them Girl With power and knowing how to use it good not saying in good ways. With Ethan Hawke I personally like him as well his looks and he is a Talented actor.

A Dutch teenager, Martin Arkenhout, and an American college student, Seth Goodman, strike up a conversation on a bus in Florida, and on a whim they rent a car to better explore the rural area. But then the car breaks down and Goodman, trying to summon help on the roadside, is struck by a passing car and left critically injured. Arkenhout bludgeons Goodman with a rock, switches their wallets and papers, and continues Goodman's journey to college in New York. Arkenhout soon must give up the identity when Goodman's suspicious parents demand he comes home for Christmas. He has by now developed a taste for wealth and luxury, and so begins befriending and killing rich people, stealing their identities and living their comfortable lives for as long as he can before moving on.

The novel soon shifts over to first narration James Costa, a museum curator who will track Arkenhout down and become his next victim. He wrestles with his troubled but passionate marriage, and is disturbed by his father's sudden decision to leave England and return to the family's former village in Portugal.

When Costa and Arkenhout, still posing as Professor Hart, cross paths, Arkenhout is unaware that the real Hart had stolen rare manuscripts from a British museum. Costa, representing the museum, pursues the man he believes to be Hart as far as Portugal hoping to regain the missing manuscripts. As fate would have it, Arkenhout takes a vacation villa near the village where Costa's father had only just died.

While settling family business and attempting to negotiate for the manuscripts, Costa makes increasingly unnerving discoveries about the identities of Hart and Arkenhout, and about his own father's involvement in political oppression during World War II.

The book culminates with a blazing fire and an intriguing and an unanticipated plot twist.

The novel was loosely adapted into a 2004 film starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. The film story was set in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and rural Pennsylvania in the United States. Several plot points are removed, however, such as the subplot with Costa's father, while the setting is moved to Canada.


Full Movie on MovieSub