Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Alien: Covenant (2017)


"The path to paradise begins in hell."


Directed by Ridley Scott
Produced by Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, David Giler, Walter Hill
Screenplay by John Logan, Dante Harper
Story by Jack Paglen, Michael Green
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Carmen Ejogo, Demián Bichir
Music by Jed Kurzel
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Edited by Pietro Scalia
Production companies: 20th Century Fox, Scott Free Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: May 19, 2017 (United States)
Running time: 123 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $97 million


"Alien: Covenant" is a science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper. It's the sequel to "Prometheus" and the sixth installment overall in the "Alien" film series. The story is about the crew of a colony ship heading for a remote planet, which looks so perfect that a threat is impossible to spot immediately.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Victor Frankenstein (2015)


"Discover the origin of the monster and his creation."


Directed by Paul McGuigan
Produced by John Davis
Written by Max Landis
Based on "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Charles Dance
Music by Craig Armstrong
Cinematography: Fabian Wagner
Edited by Andrew Hulme
Production companies: Davis Entertainment Company, TSG Entertainment
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: 25 November 2015 (United States)

Running time: 110 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $34.1 million


"Victor Frankenstein" is a science fiction horror drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis, based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. The story is told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Crimson Peak (2015)


"Beware"


Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Produced by Guillermo del Toro, Callum Greene, Jon Jashni, Thomas Tull
Written by Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver
Music by Fernando Velázquez
Cinematography: Dan Laustsen
Edited by Bernat Vilaplana
Production companies: Legendary Pictures, DDY
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 14 October 2015 (France)
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: United States, Canada
Budget: $55 million

Box office: $74.7 million

"Crimson Peak" is a romantic fantasy drama film directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro. The story is about a young author falling in love with a mysterious stranger whose past and present are connected with a big secret of Crimson Peak.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Warm Bodies (2013)


"He's still dead but he's getting warmer"


Directed by Jonathan Levine
Produced by David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Bruna Papandrea
Screenplay by Jonathan Levine
Based on "Warm Bodies" by Isaac Marion
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, Cory Hardrict, John Malkovich
Music by Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Cinematography: Javier Aguirresarobe
Edited by Nancy Richardson
Production company: Mandeville Films
Distributed by Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate
Release date: February 1, 2013 (United States)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $35 million
Box office: $116.9 million


"Warm Bodies" is a horror romantic comedy film directed and written by Jonathan Levine and based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name. The story focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie, a young woman, and "R", a zombie, and how their eventual romance develops throughout.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)


"It will take what you love most."


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli
Screenplay by Leigh Whannell
Story by James Wan, Leigh Whannell
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti
Edited by Kirk Morri
Production companies: IM Global, Entertainment One, Blumhouse Productions
Distributed by FilmDistrictб Stage 6 Films
Release date: 13 September 2013 (Canada)
Running time: 105 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $5 million
Box office: $161.9 million

"Insidious: Chapter 2" is a horror thriller film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. This picture is a sequel to "Insidious". The story is about Josh and Renai Lambert who seek to uncover the secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)


"Never Forget. Never Forgive."


Directed by Tim Burton
Produced by Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, John Logan, Richard D. Zanuck
Screenplay by John Logan
Based on "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Edited by Chris Lebenzon
Production companies: Parkes/MacDonald Productions, The Zanuck Company, Neal Street Productions
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Release date: 21 December 2007 (Canada)
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $50 million
Box office: $152.5 million

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is a musical horror drama film directed by Tim Burton and adapted from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical of the same name. It tells the story of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)



Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Produced by Jeremy Thomas, Reinhard Brundig
Written by Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi, John Hurt
Music by Jozef van Wissem
Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves
Production company: Recorded Picture Company, Pandora Film
Distributed by Soda Pictures (United Kingdom), Pandora Film Verleih (Germany)
Release date: 12 December 2013 (Croatia)
Running time: 123 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Morocco

Budget: $7 million
Box office: $7.6 million


"Only Lovers Left Alive" is a romantic horror drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The story is about a musician Adam and mysterious Eve whose love has already endured several centuries. But everything changes with the arrival of uncontrollable younger sister, Ava.

Friday, March 13, 2015

Eden Lake (2008)


"A weekend by the lake, with views to die for."


Directed by James Watkins
Produced by Christian Colson, Richard Holmes
Written by James Watkins
Starring: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell, Finn Atkins
Music by David Julyan
Cinematography: Christopher Ross
Edited by Jon Harris
Production company: Rollercoaster Films, Aramid Entertainment Fund
Distributed by Optimum Releasing (UK), The Weinstein Company (US)
Release date: 12 September 2008 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 91 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Box office: $3,983,997


"Eden Lake" is a horror thriller film written and directed by James Watkins. The story is about Jenny and Steve who decides to escape their everyday life to an idyllic remote lake in the green English countryside. But they even can't imagine how their weekends will end...

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

As Above, So Below (2014)


"The only way out is down."



Directed by John Erick Dowdle
Produced by Patrick Aiello, Alec Hedlund
Written by Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle
Starring: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert, Ali Marhyar
Music by Max Richter
Cinematography: Léo Hinstin
Edited by Elliot Greenberg
Production company: Legendary Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 19 August 2014 (Cambodia)
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: United States, France
Budget: $5 million
Box office: $40.2 million



"As Above, So Below" is a mystery thriller horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and written by Dowdle and his brother Drew. It tells the story of Scarlett Marlowe, a young alchemy scholar, continuing her dead father's work searching for the philosopher's stone, a legendary alchemical substance said to be capable of turning base metals such as lead into gold and granting eternal life, discovered by Nicolas Flamel. But this pursuit will take more from her than she expects.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Conjuring (2013)


"Based on the true case files of the Warrens"


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran, Rob Cowan
Written by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti
Edited by Kirk M. Morri
Production company: New Line Cinema, The Safran Company, Evergreen Media Group
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 18 July 2013 (Australia)
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $20.000.000
Box office: $318.000.141

"The Conjuring" is a horror film directed by James Wan. It tells the story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. One of them leads the Warrens to the Perron family, who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Insidious (2011)


"The further you travel, the darker it gets."


Directed by James Wan
Produced by Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Oren Peli
Written by Leigh Whannell
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: John R. Leonetti, David M. Brewer
Edited by James Wan, Kirk Morri
Production company: Alliance Films, IM Global, Stage 6 Films, Blumhouse Productions
Distributed by FilmDistrict, Momentum Pictures
Release date: 31 March 2011 (Belarus)
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $1.500.000
Box office: $150.009.150

"Insidious" is a mystery horror drama film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. The story is about the Lamberts who move into a new home. A short time later, one of theirs sons, Dalton, falls from a ladder when he sees something in the shadows. Hearing his terrified screams, Renai and Josh rush to his aid and declare the attic "off limits" to the children. The next day, Dalton falls into an inexplicable coma. But is it a coma in fact?

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Annabelle (2014)



Directed by John R. Leonetti
Produced by Peter Safran, James Wan
Written by Gary Dauberman
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography: James Kniest
Edited by Tom Elkins
Production company: New Line Cinema, RatPac Entertainment, Atomic Monster, The Safran Company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 1 October 2014 (Hong Kong)
Running time: 99 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $6.500.000
Box office: $231.800.000


"Annabelle" is a horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, It's both a prequel to and spin-off of "The Conjuring". The film tells the story of the doll Annabelle more particularly. In 1969, John and Mia Form live in Santa Monica and are expecting their first child. John gives her a doll that she has been trying to find. Mia loves it and puts it with the rest of her doll collection, saying that she "fits right in". At night, Mia hears a murder occurring at their neighbours, the Higgins'. When Mia returns home and call the police as her husband told her to do, she is attacked by a woman holding the doll and a male accomplice. John and the police arrive and kill the man while the woman kills herself. She leaves a bloody symbol drawn on the wall and a drop of her blood falls on the face of the doll in her arms.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Byzantium (2012)


"Irresistible. Immoral. Immortal."


Directed by Neil Jordan
Produced by Sam Englebardt, William D. Johnson, Elizabeth Karlsen, Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley
Written by Moira Buffini
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller
Music by Javier Navarrete
Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt
Edited by Tony Lawson
Distributed by StudioCanal
Release date: 31 May 2013 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Budget: £8,000,000
Box office: $85,252 (US only)

"Byzantium" is a drama fantasy horror film, which is directed by Neil Jordan. The story is about two girls, Clara and Eleanor, which people find quite strange sisters. Because of their big secret they should often remove. So once Clara and Eleanor seek sanctuary in a dilapidated coastal resort. There, Clara notices a lonely man, Noel, who has just inherited the Byzantium Hotel and let them settle down. But does he know who are these girls in fact? The answer is hidden in the nineteenth century...

Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Woman in Black (2012)


"She'll never let go."


Directed by James Watkins
Produced by Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes, Brian Oliver
Screenplay by Jane Goldman
Based on "The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Liz White
Music by Marco Beltrami
Cinematography: Tim Maurice-Jones
Edited by Jon Harris
Distributed by Momentum Pictures, CBS Films, Alliance Films
Release date: 3 February 2012 (United States)
Running time: 95 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Sweden

"The Woman in Black" is a drama horror thriller film directed by James Watkins and is based on Susan Hill's novel of the same name. A widowed lawyer, Arthur Kipps, goes to a village as he has to sell Eel Marsh House, which is situated on an island. So he visits this place to examine the papers left by dead owner - Alice Drablow. While Arthur is staying here, he's distracted by odd noises, and subsequently, the appearance of a spectral entity in funerary garb. Upon his return to the village, the locals blame the death of their children on Arthur because he saw the alleged "Woman in Black".