So, You've Downloaded a Demon (2007)

"So, You've Downloaded a Demon"(2007)
Director: Todd Livingston
Writers: Nicholas Capetanakis & Todd Livingston
Release Date: 2007 (USA)
Genre: Comedy - Horror
Runtime: 01:28:35


* PLot:

Four college students stumble across an occult website and accidentally release a demon that is imprisoned there. Hilarity ensues.


* Cast:

Casidee Riley ... Miranda
Sommer Fain ... Cat
Zak Kreiter ... Dave Partridge
Daniel Paul Schafer ... Brian
Todd Livingston ... Dr. Malcolm
Xenia Seeberg ... Noel
Nicholas Capetanakis ... Dr. Wicker
Vint Lavinder ... Priest
Buddy MacKinder ... Fred Diamond, Ventriloquist
Kathy Damson ... Tanya

Laser Mission (1989)

Laser Mission (1989)
Director: BJ Davis
Writers: David A. Frank (story); Phillip Gutteridge (writer).
Release Date: 1990 (Japan)
Genre: Action - Adventure - Sci-Fi
Runtime: 01:24:00


* Plot:

Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to construct a laser cannon which could bring power over the whole world. Who will succeed: CIA or KGB - or none of them?


* Cast:

Brandon Lee ... Michael Gold
Debi A. Monahan ... Alissa (as Debi Monahan)
Ernest Borgnine ... Prof. Braun
Graham Clarke ... Col. Kalishnakov
Werner Pochath ... Eckhardt
Pierre Knoessen ... Mañuel
Maureen Lahoud ... Sgt. Roberta

1st Bite (2006)

1st Bite (2006)
Director: Hunt Hoe
Writer: Hunt Hoe
Release Date: 2006 (Canada)
Genre: Comedy - Drama - Fantasy - Horror - Romance
Runtime: 01:58:00


* Plot:

Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.


* Cast:

David La Haye ... Gus
Christine Lan ... Waitress
Napakpapha Nakprasitte ... Lake
Mohan Agashe ... Guru
Michael Ironside ... Theo
Tetchena Bellange ... Singing model
Marcello Bezina ... Cookie
Leah Pinsent ... Rose

36 Crazy Fists (1977)

36 Crazy Fists (1977)
Director: Chi-Hwa Chen
Writer: On Szeto (screenplay)
Genre: Action - Drama - Comedy
Runtime: 01:29:00


* Plot:

Directed and choreographed by the legendary Jackie Chan, This martial arts classic is a tale of revenge, respect, and the long, hard path to kung fu mastery. No Jackie Chan collection is complete without this directorial debut


* Cast:

Siu Hung ... Wong Tai-Kwang (as Hsiung Kuang)
Michelle Mee

Lau Chan
Chok Chow Cheung
Cheng Chiang
Paul Chun ... Chu Shan Feng
Hark-On Fung (as Ke-An Fung)
Ti Hsieh
Feng Ku ... Master Hsi Tak
Benny Lai
Kar-Yung Lau
Chia Chang Liu ... Shung Ho-Kong (as Jimmy Liu)

Devil's Gate (2003)

Devil's Gate (2003)
Director: Stuart St. Paul
Writers: Stuart St. Paul & Trevor Todd
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 01:37:00


* Plot:

Rachael is called to travel home by ex-boyfriend Rafe, to a small bleak island in the North sea that she ran away from some 5 years ago to find her wayward mother. The pretense is that her father Jake is dying. Matt, a city boy, island hopping to take in the festival of fire, hears that she has been tricked, for Jake is not dying. Matt hangs around to ensure her safety. A love triangle forms, with Rachael, the least interested and keen to leave, but clues to her mothers whereabouts appear, as do her own problems which both Rafe and Matt wish to help with. Nothing is what it seems, and no one will be the same again, as the truth begins to surface in very dangerous circumstances. There will be a burning.


* Cast:

Laura Fraser ... Rachael
Callum Blue ... Rafe
Luke Aikman ... Matt
Tom Bell ... Jake
Roger Ashton-Griffiths ... Eagle
Jean Heard ... Betty
Lynda Bellingham ... Marlene

Patrick Gordon ... Clem
James Kristian ... Bob

Born of Hope (Full Movie)

Born of Hope is an independent feature film inspired by the Lord of the Rings and produced by Actors at Work Productions in the UK.


A scattered people, the descendents of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son.


This 70 minute original drama is set in the time before the War of the Ring and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King. Inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings we follow Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people's history.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Director: George A. Romero
Writers: John A. Russo (screenplay) and George A. Romero (screenplay)
Release Date: 1 October 1968 (USA) more
Genre: Horror - Sci-Fi - Thriller


* Synopsis:


Bickering siblings Johnny and Barbra are traveling by car to a rural cemetery, where they visit their father's grave. They are approached by a pale-faced who man who stumbles toward them and attacks Barbra. Johnny pulls the man off of Barbra and struggles with him, but is knocked unconscious and possibly dead after tripping and hitting his head violently on the edge of a gravestone. The man then pursues Barbra back to the car, but Barbra cannot start it because the keys are in Johnny's pocket. She takes the car out of gear and it begins to drift away on its own, but she accidentally steers it into a tree. She abandons the car and runs down a roadway to a nearby farmhouse, with the man still pursuing her. She discovers the house seemingly deserted, and the phone is out of order. Her attacker stumbles around the outside of the house looking for her, and is joined by several others. They all seem to be in a kind of trance, behaving in an animalistic way. Exploring the house further, Barbra makes a gruesome find at the top of the stairs: a human body that seems to have been partially devoured by something.


In a panic and attempting to flee the house, Barbra is intercepted by Ben, who arrives in a pickup truck and attacks the mysterious figures with a tire iron. Barbra is further driven into hysteria when she sees Ben violently smashing the skulls of the strange men who keep trying to get into the house. Ben urges her into action and the two of them begin boarding up the doors and windows from the inside with dismantled furniture and scraps of wood. They awkwardly trade their stories; Ben seems to be a drifter who was passing through the area when suddenly a wave of unexplained violence began unfolding. He tells Barbra about a scene of mayhem that he encountered at a diner, and Barbra tells him about the incident with Johnny in the cemetery. When Barbra becomes hysterical and wants to go out after Johnny, she strikes Ben and Ben hits her in the face. Barbra passes out in shock.


Ben goes upstairs and finds a rifle and a radio as Barbra lies incapacitated on a couch in the living room listening to the radio report. Emergency broadcasters tell stories of widespread violence and mayhem being committed by people who seem to be in a 'trance'. Suddenly, Barbra is startled when the cellar door opens and people emerge from the basement. Ben is attracted by her screams and they confront the newcomers. An older man introduces himself as Harry Cooper, and the younger man is named Tom. Harry says that he has his wife, Helen, and his daughter, Karen, in the basement as well. Karen has been hurt and cannot be moved. Tom has a girlfriend named Judy, also in the cellar hiding.


Immediately the group begins bickering. Ben is furious with Tom and Harry for not coming out earlier to help him barricade the house. Harry is an irrational man who insists that they all barricade themselves in the cellar and wait for help. Ben refuses, saying that if their attackers ever got into the cellar, it would be the end of all of them, as there is only one entrance. Harry angrily retreats to the cellar with Helen and Karen, and Judy comes upstairs to be with the rest of the group.


Radio reports explain that an epidemic of mass murder is sweeping across the eastern seaboard of the United States. Later, Ben discovers a television and the emergency broadcaster reveals that the murderers are recently dead human beings who have returned to life and who are consuming their victims' flesh. Experts including scientists and military generals are not sure of the cause of the reanimation, but one scientist is certain that it is the result of radiation emanating from a Venus space probe that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere. A final report instructs that a gunshot or heavy blow to the head will stop the "ghouls" and that posses of armed men are patrolling the countryside to restore order.


The broadcast provides a constantly scrolling list of local towns that contain "rescue stations" to provide citizens with protection and necessities. Ben notices a nearby town called Willard and devises a plan to escape using his truck, but it needs refueling. He exits the house armed with the rifle and a torch. Tom and Judy offer assistance, but when they arrive at a fuel pump near the house, Tom carelessly splashes gasoline on the torch, starting a grass fire that quickly spreads to cover the truck. The truck explodes with Tom and Judy inside. Ben runs back to the house to find that Harry locked him out. He kicks the door open and forces his way inside, and after Harry helps him board up the door again, he punches Harry repeatedly. Some of the living dead begin eating Tom and Judy's charred remains, while others try to break through the doors and windows of the house. Ben manages to hold them back, but drops his rifle. Harry seizes the fallen rifle and turns it on Ben, who wrests it away from Harry and then shoots him. Harry stumbles into the cellar and dies.


Shortly after, Helen discovers that her daughter has been transformed into one of the living dead and is consuming her father's corpse. Karen stabs her mother repeatedly with a cement trowel, killing her, before going upstairs. Meanwhile, the undead finally break into the house and Barbra sees her brother Johnny among them. The resultant shock causes her to lower her defenses and she is carried away into the zombie horde. Ben retreats into the cellar, locking the door behind him (which, ironically, was Harry's plan all along). He shoots the reanimated Harry and Helen Cooper.


In the morning, a posse approaches the house and proceeds to kill the remaining zombies. Hearing the commotion, Ben ambles up the cellar stairs into the living room and is shot in the head by a posse member who mistakes him for a zombie. His body is carried from the house and burned with the zombie corpses.