First Born

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• Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her see things in a different light. A creepy babysitter doesn't make things any better. She begins seeing things, trusts no one, as she goes into self-destruct mode.
  - Written by BryanD EQT

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A woman who wanted nothing more in life than to become a mother finds her sanity slipping after the birth of her child in a terrifying look at the horrors of parenthood starring Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue. The only thing that seems to be missing from Laura (Shue)'s otherwise perfect life is a child, and when Laura and her husband discover that she has become pregnant it seems that all the pair's dreams are finally coming true. Motherhood is far from the simple and instinctual task that Laura imagined it would be, however, and soon after the birth of her child the confused new parent finds herself struggling with the pains of post-partum depression. Despite her determination to protect her baby at all costs, Laura begins to question her abilities as a parent after moving into a large and isolated new home. Now, as a plague of rats flood into the basement of the home, a mysterious diary is pulled from inside the decrepit walls of the home, and a new nanny is hired to help the distressed mother care for her newborn child, the situation soon descends into a harrowing battle for sanity as the fate of a young child hangs in the balance.

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The Occupants

IMDLucy has a new husband, a new home and a new baby, but old ghosts won't let her be. She tries to help the tortured souls break free of their torment and move on, but soon finds these ghosts don't want her help.


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When looking at the genre of horror, it’s easily the most diverse genre in cinema. With the multiply sub genre’s, anything from the monsters of the 30’s and 40’s to the slashers of the 80’s up to the present day paranormal trend. This can sometimes make placing a movie into a single sub category a little difficult, and then when you take out the undead monsters and make the people the real monsters, it gets even more complicated. That’s how The Occupants makes you feel. Is it a horror movie, a thriller, or a mystery?

The film starts us out meeting the two main characters, Lucy (Cristin Milioti) and her husband Wade (Michael Rady); they have just had a baby and moved into a new house. We find out that Wade works in construction, and Lucy is an abuse consoler, and working with her old boyfriend and therapist Glen (James Urbaniak). It feels like Glen is still holding a grudge against Wade for taking Lucy from him and every time in the movie that Lucy and Glen take to one another, Glen tries to undermined and belittle him.

Then Lucy starts to hearing and seeing strange things in the house. At first it’s just a hammering noise, but then she starts seeing people, dead people. After discussing this with her husband and overly religious babysitter Ruth (even though the character doesn’t come off in this manner), they come to the conclusion that these people are really demons (because ghost don’t really exist).

One night Lucy is reading on the couch, when she starts to see the demon family, she gets Wade out of bed, and together they watch a scene at the dinner table play out in front of them. The father (Toby Huss) starts screaming at his daughter asking where her sister is. Their baby starts crying and Lucy and Wade are discovered spying on the family from the top of the steps. The father gives chase but disappears. Wade wants to pack up and leave the house, but Lucy decides that if she can find the sister then she can “break the cycle”. This is a universal term used in abuse cases and used a lot in this movie.

Lucy starts to look for the girl but keeps coming to dead ends. When on the phone with her sister the painting over the fireplace falls revealing a face hammered into the wall. This is the last straw so she hires a psychic to come get rid of the bad spirits in the house. The psychic doesn’t feel any evil presence at all leaving Lucy even more confused as to what’s happening. Ruth gets in touch with Lucy telling her that it’s the work of one of the oldest demons, Ahab, who is there to break up her family. After hearing this, once again Wade, being the voice of reason, wants to leave the house, but Lucy is determined to fix everything.

Over the next few nights Lucy finds Wade acting weird, walking at night in the backyard, sitting up in bed awake but is unresponsive to her. This gets makes Lucy very suspicious of him and starts to distrust him. She decides to finally go to Glen to receive a hypnosis session, hoping that it will help her trust her husband again. This all leads up to the final battle between Lucy and the demons.

I can honestly say that I hadn’t figured out all of the details to the end of this movie half way though, it is well written and has more twists at the end then the ones that you figure out early. With that said, this is one of those movies that would make more sense when watched a second time. Some of the characters actions would be better understood and some of the more annoying parts would make better sense. Another thing that they might have done on purpose, or just subconsciously is making the father wear clothes oddly similar to those worn by Jack Nicholson in The Shining. This is a great homage to one of the greatest crazy dads to every try and kill his family.

The biggest thing that bothers me about this film happens in the opening credits, and I mean when they are going over the production companies. The name Fangoria comes up and I couldn’t find what one of the biggest horror magazine companies had to do with this movie. I tried to do some research on this and still came up with nothing. It doesn’t come up as Fangoria Productions, and even though I can’t find a distributor for this film, I don’t think it has to do with that either. There is also no mention in the end credits about them.

Even though it might be hard to figure out exactly what sub genre this movie fits into, fitting into the thriller, mystery and horror genre’s, it is one that is worth a watch, or maybe even two

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X-men

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Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.


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One of the most popular superhero teams in comic bookhistory finally comes to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world against a race of genetically mutated humans known as Homo Sapiens Superior. However, Magneto (Ian McKellen), a mutant with a powerful magnetic charge, has also begun to organize a team to strike first against what he believes to be a threat from humanity. When he kidnaps Rogue (Anna Paquin) from the X-Men's compound, Xavier and his forces must rescue her, even as they continue to vie with Magneto for the fearsomely strong mutant battler Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Both Xavier and Magneto also have to contend with Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), a heartless political leader who wants a final solution against mutants on both sides. Fighting for the forces of virtue with the X-Men are Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Halle Berry as Storm, and James Marsden as Cyclops; Rebecca Romjin-Stamos as Mystique, Ray Park as the Toad, and Tyler Mane as Sabretooth are the minions of Magneto. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Satan's School For Girls 1973

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A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a satanic cult.


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The film opens with a mysterious person chasing a student, Martha Sayers (Terry Lumley). The same day, the police and her sister Elizabeth (Pamela Franklin) find her hanged in her room. The police rule her death as an unmotivated suicide, but Elizabeth refuses to believe this and investigates further. She decides to visit the exclusive academy that Martha attended, The Salem Academy for Women, despite warnings from Martha's roommate, Lucy Dembrow (Gwynne Gilford). Under the assumed name of Elizabeth Morgan, she enrolls at the college, where she is welcomed by her classmates Roberta Lockhart (Kate Jackson), Debbie Jones (Jamie Smith Jackson) and Jody Keller (Cheryl Ladd).

Elizabeth notes several strange occurrences, but postpones further investigation. Debbie has an outburst in class. The feared headmistress, Mrs. Jessica Williams (Jo Van Fleet), is worried about the influence of "the new girl". When Lucy commits suicide, Elizabeth resumes her investigation. She becomes intrigued with a painting of Martha in a dungeon-like room. Debbie, who painted it, is terrified of the painting and claims she invented the background, but Elizabeth finds an identical setting in a cellar on campus. When she is accosted by a man with a sharp weapon, Elizabeth flees.

The next night, Elizabeth returns to the cellar with Roberta, who is now suspicious as well. They locate a hidden room in which they find the dead body of Debbie, who earlier that evening had tried to leave the campus. Elizabeth suspects that Professor Delacroix (Lloyd Bochner) is responsible, considering his odd and mildly sadistic behavior. Elizabeth bursts into his office, finding him in a deranged state with a gun in his hand. He fears something supernatural is stalking him, and he jumps through the window. After running for some time, he ends up mired in a swamp, where he is beaten with sticks by several students including Jody.

Meanwhile, the otherwise popular Dr. Joseph Clampett (Roy Thinnes) reveals to Williams that he is responsible for all the murders. He orders the headmistress to evacuate the school. Elizabeth and Roberta are unaware of the evacuation. They discover the body of Delacroix, who has been brutally murdered. Elizabeth and Roberta turn to Williams for help, but she has gone insane.

When they are unsuccessful in calling the police, Elizabeth and Roberta go to the cellar to find a gun. Instead they find Clampett leading a satanic cult. His followers (including Jody) believe that he is Satan incarnate, and Roberta reveals herself as his loyal servant. Elizabeth is able to escape when Clampett sets the school on fire, and she takes Williams with her. The other girls, however, stay behind to sacrifice themselves to their leader. Clampett, who is actually supernatural, survives the fire and is seen outdoors, where he mysteriously vanishes.

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House on haunted Hill 1999 Remake

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A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.


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In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple enough, but when those stories about ghosts haunting the mansion turn out to be true, the guests may no longer opt to stick around. In this version, Steven is played by Geoffrey Rush, and his guests include Jeffrey Combs, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson; Famke Janssen plays Evelyn Price. Sadly, this remake does not feature the original's memorable special-effects gimmick, "Emergo," an inflatable plastic skeleton that rolled on wires through the theater during showings.

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Wyvern

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• The residents of a small Alaskan town find themselves under attack by a flying reptile known in medieval mythology as a Wyvern. It has thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming.
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A wyvern is a cunning dragon of Nordic mythology. It doesn’t breathe fire but is extremely deadly regardless. It loves to swoop down, snatch someone up, and drop what remains of them after its done chowing down. Thanks to rising temperatures, a wyvern has thawed out and taken to making the small hick town of Beaver Mills, Alaska its new feeding ground. You just don’t come across too many Alaskan dragon movies. Regardless, Wyvern is easily the best movie ever made about a dragon attacking Alaska.

Thanks to the near theatrical quality computer effects used to bring it to life, the wyvern ranks as one of the most impressive CGI monsters to ever appear in a Sci-Fi Channel movie. Top notch special effects for a Sci-Fi Channel flick. The rest of the movie isn’t too shabby, either.

Wyvern proves to be a completely unremarkable yet rather well-made straightforward monster movie. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table, outside of a somewhat unique means by which to kill a flying dragon, but it does entertain in a Saturday matinee sort of way without insulting your intelligence the way too many Sci-Fi Channel original movies tend to when they try to be a little too cheeky for their own good. The plot is very reminiscent of Tremors and in that effect, very reminiscent of any number of 1950’s science fiction B-movies. If you like old fashioned monster movies then you’ll probably like this one, too.

A small isolated town filled with average folk and a few colorful bumpkins get cut-off from the outside world thanks to the appearance of a ravaging dragon that procedes to pick-off a few townsfolk before making its way to the heart of the small burg where the remaining townsfolk have to make a stand. The script even takes a page from Jaws by having a local festival those in charge don’t want called off despite the sudden rise in missing citizens and rambling reports of something monstrous on the prowl. Thankfully, the script doesn’t dwell too much on the festival aspect.

The two main characters are where I had my biggest beef with this dragon tale. No complaints about the actors’ performances; I just found their characters to be a bit too bland and stuffy compared to the folksy charm of most of the supporting players around them. Nick Chinlund (remember him as the bad guy from Ultraviolet? If so, try not to hold it against him) stars as your typical B-movie working class hero who’s contemplating moving away with only his love for a local woman of the generic female lead variety holding him back. Chinlund has a surprisingly serious scene in the third act where he tearfully talks of his guilt regarding his involvement in the incident that claimed his brother’s life. It’s a fairly lengthy scene so heavily dramatic it felt out of place considering mere minutes later we’re going to be watching the same guy in a big rig hauling monster eggs being chased down the street by an angry dragon.

The rest of the cast manages to show just enough personality to make them colorful without going overboard. Well, maybe not Don S. Davis; his performance as a gun-toting kook – this film’s version of Michael Gross’ Tremors character – comes very close to cartoonish buffoonery. The late Davis (in his final role) plays a retired military town crank running around screaming about reptilian invaders just like the ones he helped coverup at Roswell after he spots the wyvern depositing a half eaten moose in his swimming pool.

In what can only be called stunt casting, Barry Corbin of the defunct Alaskan-based drama “Northern Exposure” does his best Wilford Brimley impersonation as an elderly gruff hunter who just happens to be well versed in Nordic monster lore thanks to his Norwegian heritage. I got the impression that somebody on the creative end of Wyvern is a big fan of that series.

Wyvern is more or less Tremors meets “Northern Exposure” but with a flying monster threat, more gore, and less fun. Still, it’ll keep you entertained so long as you go in with no other expectations than to watch a workmanlike creature feature for an hour and a half. Not bad. Not bad at all. Worth a look on a rainy day.

Wyvern also marks the latest chapter in the Sci-Fi Channel’s continuing efforts to make an original movie based over every single monster of myth and legend. They appear to be working their way down the list so if you have a spec script sitting around about an axe-wielding centaur that goes berserk at the Kentucky Derby you might want to contact the Sci-Fi Channel immediately.

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Prince of Darkness

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A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.



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Proving that you can never guess what you'll find when you clean out the basement, a man of the cloth discovers that ultimate evil has made a hiding place in his cellar in this tale of terror. Father Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is a priest who discovers a strange object in a church basement -- a canister filled with a swirling and volatile green substance. With the help of Professor Birack (Victor Wong), Loomis discovers the startling truth about his find -- it seems that Satan, who is actually an alien life form, had a son, and the essence of the devil's spawn is trapped inside the canister. The evil spirit has been guarded by a group calling themselves "The Brotherhood of Sleep," but the spirit has the ability to free itself whenever it decides the time is right...and it seems that time is just around the corner. Prince of Darkness was directed by horror master John Carpenter; he also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Martin Quatermass.

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