Tag Archives: splatter

A Nightmare on Elm Street

IMDB Rating: 7.30
25389 votes

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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp) and a group of her friends including Tina Gray (Wyss), Rod Lane (Garcia) and Glen Lantz (Depp) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger (Englund). Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?
Actors
Lt. ThompsonJohn Saxon
Marge ThompsonRonee Blakley
Nancy ThompsonHeather Langenkamp
Also posted in 1984, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Ghost in the Shell

IMDB Rating: 7.80
17459 votes

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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.
Actors
Major Motoko KusanagiAtsuko Tanaka
BatôAkio Ôtsuka
Section 9 Department Chief AramakiTamio Ôki
Also posted in 1995, Action, Animation, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scream 2

IMDB Rating: 5.80
33600 votes

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It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scream

IMDB Rating: 7.10
64281 votes

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A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell's mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell's boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.
Actors
Deputy Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 1996, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fargo

IMDB Rating: 8.20
105357 votes

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Fargo is based on true events that occurred in Minnesota in 1987 with the names changed to protect the victims. Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the blood shed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.
Actors
Jerry LundegaardWilliam H. Macy
Carl ShowalterSteve Buscemi
Gaear GrimsrudPeter Stormare
Also posted in 1996, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

Akira

IMDB Rating: 7.80
25735 votes

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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Actors
Shôtarô KanedaMitsuo Iwata
Tetsuo ShimaNozomu Sasaki
KeiMami Koyama
Also posted in 1988, Action, Adventure, Animation, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Event Horizon

IMDB Rating: 5.90
23098 votes

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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.
Actors
Captain MillerLaurence Fishburne
Dr. William WeirSam Neill
Peters, Med TechKathleen Quinlan
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

Thir13en Ghosts

IMDB Rating: 4.90
13008 votes

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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Actors
Arthur KriticosTony Shalhoub
Kalina OretziaEmbeth Davidtz
Dennis RafkinMatthew Lillard
Also posted in 2001, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Turistas

IMDB Rating: 3.90
3960 votes

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American college student Alex (Josh Duhamel), his younger teenage sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) along with their close friend Amy (Beau Garrett) are backpacking through Brazil. They meet up with similar companions: wild and crazy British mates Finn (Desmons Askew) and Liam (Max Brown), together with Australian traveler Pru (Melissa George), on a cross country bus. They barely survive after it crashes off a cliff. Further mishaps occur due to becoming stranded on a beach by so-called "friendly locals", some of whom have deprived them of all their processions! Searching for any sympathetic police, they meet familiar face Kiko (Agels Steib), who offers to lead them to sanctuary that being a house deep in the jungle. But upon finally reaching this supposed safe haven Amy soon vanishes, and it is only then that they discover (way too late) that their "saviors" offering them shelter are operators of a black market specializing in running human organs, who are seeking unwilling foreign donors (foreign tourist) to benefit their unfortunate countrymen. In their captors' eyes, foreigners have come into Brazil, raping their precious lands of its rubber, sugar, gold—even using its people as throwaway sexual playthings. For this exploitation of their country, our backpackers are now set to go under the surgeon's scalpel, courtesy of the captors twisted ringleader Dr. Zamora (Miguel Lunardi); Brazil's answer to 'Dr. Giggles'.
Actors
Alex TrubituanJosh Duhamel
Pru StaglerMelissa George
Bea TrubituanOlivia Wilde
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Saw III

IMDB Rating: 6.40
21884 votes

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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who's now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them...
Actors
Jigsaw/JohnTobin Bell
AmandaShawnee Smith
Jeff DenlonAngus Macfadyen
Also posted in 2006, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (5)