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Director : Nelson McCormick

Release Date : 11 April 2008 (USA)

Genre : Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Brittany Snow as Donna Keppel, Scott Porter as Bobby, Jessica Stroup as Claire, Dana Davis as Lisa Hines, Collins Pennie as Ronnie Heflin, Kelly Blatz as Michael, James Ransone as Detective Nash, Brianne Davis as Crissy Lynn, Kellan Lutz as Rick Leland, Mary Mara as Ms. Waters, Ming-Na as Dr. Elisha Crowe (as Ming Wen), Johnathon Schaech as Richard Fenton, Idris Elba as Detective Winn, Jessalyn Gilsig as Aunt Karen Turner, Linden Ashby as Uncle Jack Turner

Plot : Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Run Time : 88 min

Country : USA | Canada

MPAA : Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language.

Language : English | Italian

Filming Locations : Biltmore Hotel – 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : Alliance Films

Trivia :

Goofs : Factual errors: When Donna is reaching into her medicine cabinet to look at her bottle of pills, the label says “Klonapin” when the correct spelling for such is “Klonopin”

Tag Lines : A Party To Die For.
It’s Midnight Everyone’s Ready To Go Home…But Someone Has Other Plans.
A Night To Die For.
A night to die for
Ein Abend für den mancher morden würde. (Germany)
Es ist Mitternacht, jeder geht heim … doch jemand hat andere Pläne ! (Germany)

Plot Summary : Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night.

In Bridgeport, the deranged high school teacher Richard Fenton is obsessed by the teenager student Donna Keppel; she witnesses him murder her family to stay with her, but Richard is arrested and sent to prison for life. Three years later, the traumatized Donna is feeling better but is still under psychological treatment and taking pills. On her prom night, she goes with her boyfriend Bobby and two couples of friends to the Pacific Grad Hotel for the party. But the psychopath Richard has escaped from prison and is lodged in the same floor in the hotel chasing Donna, stabbing her friends and staff of the hotel that cross his path.

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Director : Carter Smith

Release Date : 4 April 2008 (USA)

Genre : Horror, Thriller

Cast : Jonathan Tucker as Jeff, Jena Malone as Amy, Laura Ramsey as Stacy, Shawn Ashmore as Eric, Joe Anderson as Mathias, Sergio Calderón as Lead Mayan, Jesse Ramirez as Mayan Bowman, Balder Moreno as Mayan Horseman, Dimitri Baveas as Dimitri, Patricio Almeida Rodriguez as Taxi Driver, Mario Jurado as Mayan Archer, Luis Antonio Ramos as Mayan Rifleman (as Luis Ramos), Walter Quispe as Mayan Rifleman, Pauline Whyman as Wailing Woman, Nathan Vega as Mayan Boy

Plot : A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Run Time : 93 min (unrated DVD version) | USA:91 min

Country : Australia | USA

MPAA : Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity.

Language : English | Maya | Spanish | German

Filming Locations : Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Company : DreamWorks SKG

Trivia :

Goofs : Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Stacy tells Eric that she beat Jeff at cards, they kiss. But you can hear Eric saying “I knew you could do it,” while kissing Stacy.

Tag Lines : Terror has evolved.

Plot Summary : While on vacation in a resort in Mexico, the Americans Jeff, his girlfriend Amy, her best friend Stacy and her boyfriend Eric befriend the German Mathias in the swimming pool. Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri in an archeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort. They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolver, rifle and bow-and-arrow that kill Dimitri and do not allow the group to leave the place. They climb a construction covered of creepers with red flowers, and remain under siege of the locals. When they hear a cell phone in the bottom of a well, Mathias decides to seek the apparatus using a rope that breaks and he has a serious accident breaking his back. Amy and Stacy go to the bottom of the mine to rescue Mathias and they find many corpses covered by the climbing plants; further, they realize that they had been lured by the plants that are vibrating with the sound of a cell phone. When they are attacked by the carnivorous creeping plants, they understand the reaction of the Mayan villagers.

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Director : Toby Wilkins

Release Date :

Genre : Horror

Cast : (Credited cast) , Shea Whigham as Dennis Farell, Paulo Costanzo as Seth Belzer, Jill Wagner as Polly Watt, Rachel Kerbs as Lacey Belisle rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Charles Baker as Blake Sherman Jr., Laurel Whitsett as Shaeriff Terri Frankel

Plot : Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror. |

Run Time : 82 min

Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for violence/gore and language.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Company : Indion Entertainment Group

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Tag Lines : It will get under your skin.

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Release Date : 13 February 2008 (Belgium)

Genre : Animation, Horror, Mystery

Cast : (Credited cast) , Gil Alma, Aure Atika as Sheila, François Creton, Guillaume Depardieu as Carl, Sarah-Laure Estragnat, Nicolas Feroumont, Nicole Garcia as Narrator, Arthur H., Christian Hecq, Christian Hincker, Lino Hincker, Melaura Honnay, Amélie Lerma, Florence Maury, Adriana Piasek-Wanski, Louisa Pili, Amaury Smets, Brigitte Sy, Laurent Van den Rest, Charlotte Vermeil, Andreas Vuillet

Plot : Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.

Run Time : 85 min

Country : France

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Language : French

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Company : Prima Linéa Productions

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Plot Summary : Different black-and-white animation techniques tell several scary stories. There’s a story of a teenage boy who meets the wrong girl. Another tale deals with a small community where people disappear and are never seen again. Then there’s the narrative of a little Japanese girl who suffers from horrible nightmares followed by a tale where a man doesn’t get the rest he hoped for in an old not-so-abandoned house. These stories are connected by the story about a man with a devilish smile and four enormous dogs from hell and by a woman’s monologue about her fears.

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Director : Tomas Alfredson

Release Date : 24 October 2008 (Norway)

Genre : Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller

Cast : Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar, Lina Leandersson as Eli, Per Ragnar as Håkan, Henrik Dahl as Erik, Karin Bergquist as Yvonne, Peter Carlberg as Lacke, Ika Nord as Virginia, Mikael Rahm as Jocke, Karl-Robert Lindgren as Gösta (as Karl Robert Lindgren), Anders T. Peedu as Morgan (as Anders Peedu), Pale Olofsson as Larry (as Paul Olofsson), Cayetano Ruiz as Magister Avila, Patrik Rydmark as Conny, Johan Sömnes as Andreas, Mikael Erhardsson as Martin

Plot : Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can’t… more |

Run Time : Sweden:114 min | Australia:110 min

Country : Sweden

MPAA : Rated R for some bloody violence including disturbing images, brief nudity and language.

Language : Swedish

Filming Locations : Boden, Norrbottens län, Sweden

Company : EFTI

Trivia : The title of the film (as well as the novel upon which it was based) refers to the Morrissey song “Let the Right One Slip In”.

Goofs : Continuity: When Oskar goes to visit his father, the his cheek appears untainted, despite the scar and bandage on from before. Later, the bandage is back on and even later, the scar appears.

Tag Lines : Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

Plot Summary : Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can’t stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he’s faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Let The Right One In is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982.

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Director : Rodrigo García

Release Date : 26 September 2008 (Spain)

Genre : Horror, Thriller

Cast : Anne Hathaway as Claire Summers, Patrick Wilson as Eric, Andre Braugher as Perry, Dianne Wiest as Toni, David Morse as Arkin, William B. Davis as Jack, Ryan Robbins as Dean, Clea DuVall as Shannon, Don Thompson as Norman, Andrew Wheeler as Blonde Man, Chelah Horsdal as Janice, Karen Austin as Hospital Receptionist, Elzanne Fourie as Young Emma, Stacy Grant as Emma, Conner Dwelly as Young Claire

Plot : A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

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Country : USA

MPAA : Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including some scary images, and sensuality.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Gastown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company : TriStar Pictures

Trivia : The license plates used in the film feature the slogan “Beautiful Evergreen State”, a combination of the license plate slogan of British Columbia (“Beautiful British Columbia”, where the movie was filmed), and the state nickname of Washington State (The Evergreen State).

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Tag Lines : The Truth Can’t Hide Forever

Plot Summary : After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight’s five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident — which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened — Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire’s professional relationship with Eric — despite her better judgment — blossoms into a romance, the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers and becomes determined to uncover the truth, no matter the consequences.

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Director : David Hackl

Release Date : 24 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Crime, Horror, Thriller

Cast : Tobin Bell as Jigsaw / John, Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman, Scott Patterson as Agent Strahm, Betsy Russell as Jill, Julie Benz as Brit, Meagan Good as Luba, Mark Rolston as Dan Erickson, Carlo Rota as Charles, Greg Bryk as Mallick, Laura Gordon as Ashley, Joris Jarsky as Seth, Mike Butters as Paul, Al Sapienza as Chief of Police, Mike Realba as Detective Fisk, Lyriq Bent as Rigg

Plot : Detective Hoffman and Agent Strahm clash as they each investigate the apparent continuation of the Jigsaw murders. |

Run Time : 92 min

Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, language and brief nudity.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company : Twisted Pictures

Trivia : The owner of ice hockey team Tampa Bay Lightning is Oren Koules, the producer of the Saw series. Lightning goalies Olie Kolzig and Mike Smith wore Saw themed masks for two weeks when the movie opened. The masks were then be auctioned off.

Goofs : Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the film, Erickson is constantly wearing a BlueTooth headset. When Hoffman calls him from Strahm’s mobile phone, he answers the phone as normal, not using the headset. He appears to repeat this when he tries to track Strahm’s mobile phone.

Tag Lines : You won’t believe how it ends.

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Director : John Erick Dowdle

Release Date : 10 October 2008 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Jennifer Carpenter as Angela Vidal, Steve Harris as Scott Percival, Jay Hernandez as Jake, Johnathon Schaech as George Fletcher, Columbus Short as Danny Wilensky, Andrew Fiscella as James McCreedy, Rade Serbedzija as Yuri Ivanov, Greg Germann as Lawrence, Bernard White as Bernard, Dania Ramirez as Sadie, Elaine Kagan as Wanda Marimon, Marin Hinkle as Kathy, Joey King as Briana, Jermaine Jackson as Nadif, Sharon Ferguson as Jwahir

Plot : A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Run Time : 89 min

Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for bloody violent and disturbing content, terror and language.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : Andale Pictures

Trivia : Was not screened for US critics.

Goofs : Factual errors: When the bio-suited CDC doctors enter the building, we hear the sounds of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA). However, the doctors are wearing standard gas masks with NBC filters, which don’t use an external air supply and are almost silent.

Tag Lines : On March 11 2008, the government sealed off an apartment complex in Los Angeles. The residents were never seen again. No details. No witnesses. No evidence. Until now.

Plot Summary : Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew

Director : Alexandre Aja

Release Date : 15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre : Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson, Paula Patton as Amy Carson, Cameron Boyce as Michael Carson, Erica Gluck as Daisy Carson, Amy Smart as Angela Carson, Mary Beth Peil as Anna Esseker, John Shrapnel as Lorenzo Sapelli, Jason Flemyng as Larry Byrne, Tim Ahern as Dr. Morris, Julian Glover as Robert Esseker, Josh Cole as Gary Lewis, Ezra Buzzington as Terrence Berry, Aida Doina as Rosa (as Doina Aida Stan), Ioana Abur as Front Desk Sister, Darren Kent as Jimmy Esseker

Plot : An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. |

Run Time : 110 min

Country : USA | Romania

MPAA : Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania

Company : Castel Film Romania

Trivia : An apparent homage to Geoul sokeuro (2003), in the final shot as Ben approaches the mirrored building, a little Korean girl dressed in white with a bright pink sweater and her mother – identical to those original film’s final scene – pass by the window.

Goofs : Continuity: To continue from the point about Ben’s cut hand, he dusts himself down after the fire scene and rubs his shirt down to check he isn’t burned. If he was rubbing a clean white shirt, with a bleeding hand (which isn’t bandaged yet) then surely he’d wipe blood all over his shirt, but he doesn’t.

Tag Lines : There Is Evil……..On The Other Side

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Director : Ryûhei Kitamura

Release Date : 7 August 2008 (Russia)

Genre : Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Bradley Cooper as Leon, Leslie Bibb as Maya, Brooke Shields as Susan Hoff, Vinnie Jones as Mahogany, Roger Bart as Jurgis, Tony Curran as Driver, Barbara Eve Harris as Detective Lynn Hadley, Peter Jacobson as Otto, Stephanie Mace as Leigh Cooper, Ted Raimi as Randle Cooper, Nora as Erika Sakaki, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as Guardian Angel, Dan Callahan as Troy Taleveski, Don Smith as Station Cop, Earl Carroll as Jack Franks

Plot : A New York photographer hunts down a serial killer. |

Run Time : 98 min | USA:100 min

Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for sequences of strong bloody gruesome violence, grisly images involving nudity, sexual content and language.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Burbank, California, USA

Company : GreeneStreet Films

Trivia : On its official North American release to cinemas, the film opened in 102 discount theatres, also called “dollar theatres” for their very low admission prices, rather than at regular first-run cinemas with normal ticket prices, which was a factor in its poor opening weekend box-office earnings.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: Throughout the entire film, the main character shoots nighttime photography without once using any sort of flash. In reality doing this would get nothing but opaque pictures or very blurry and unclear images.

Tag Lines : The most terrifying ride you’ll ever take

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