The Uninvited

💎💎UNINVITED💎💎 – After spending time in a psychiatric facility, young Anna (Emily Browning) finds significant changes in store at home. Her widowed father (David Strathairn) is now engage to her mother’s former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). One night, the ghost of Anna’s mother appears, screaming for revenge and accusing Rachel of murder. Anna and her sister, Alex (Arielle Kebbel), start to investigate, but they may be unprepared for the lethal battle of wills that ensues. From the producers of The Ring and Disturbia comes a nail-biting thriller, THE UNINVITED. Following the suspicious death of their mother, sisters Anna and Alex become entangled in a deadly battle of wills when their father becomes engaged to Rachell their mother’s former caretaker. As the two sisters investigate Rachel’s questionable past, they are confronted with ghostly visions, terrifying nightmares and deadly consequences. All leading to an ending so shocking it will send chills down your spine! Based on Kim Jee-Woon’s 2003 Korean horror film, “Changhwa Hongryon”, “The Uninvited” revolves around Anna, who returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother’s former nurse, Rachel. That night, Anna is visited by her mother’s ghost, who warns her of Rachel’s intentions. Together, Anna and her sister try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.

Filmmaking duo Thomas and Charles Guard make their feature directorial debuts as the codirectors of this remake of Kim Jee-Woon’s 2003 Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters. Produced by Asian horror remake king Roy Lee, The Uninvited tells the story of a young girl named Anna (Emily Browning), who was admitted into a menta hospital following the death of her biological mother. Returning home some time later, Anna is shocked to discover that her father (David Strathaim) has recently gotten engaged to Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), her mother’s former nurse. Anna’s suspicions about Rachel are soon confirmed when her mother reaches out from beyond to deliver a stark warning, prompting the young girl and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) to try and convince their father that Rachel is not who she appears to be. As the situation in the once-peaceful household rapidly begins to deteriorate, Rachel’s true colors finally begin boiling to the surface. In The Uninvited, a young girl and her audience find that there’s no more life left in the Asian horror retreads. Creepy figures in the night, quick yet bland scares – it’s all the same in teen fright-land. The original, by The Good, the Bad, the Weirds Lom Jee-woon, was a stylish chiller hearkening back to both Ringu and The Sixth Sense. Yet while that director imbued a cold calculated dread in the complicated proceedings, Charles and Thomas Guard’s rehash establishes itself right away as a lifeless vehicle ripe for crowds that flock to this kind of redundant spook-house fare. The only interesting bit is how the directorial duo handles the intertwining plot at the core of the flick – and how obviously they decide to present it. Insert yawns here, because those who invite this sucker into their viewing schedule deserve what they get. There’s something not right in Anna’s (Emily Browning) household. Upon being released from a mental institution, she returns home to find her dead mother’s nurse (Elizabeth Banks) shacked up with her father (David Strathaim) and an older sister (Arielle Kebble) who’s hardly acknowledged within the family unit. Memories of the accident and took her mother’s life haunt her, as do visions of a trio of ghostly children. Anna soon finds out that there’s something more dastardly going on here than she could ever imagine as she delves into the mystery surrounding her family’s tragedy and a local child killer who could be posing as her new mother-to-be. One thing the Guard Brothers know is how to exact cheap scares. In fact, there are more than a few jolts in the feature, but it’s mostly due to loud sound FX and lightning strikes rather than anything that would get under your skin. In the plot department, the decision to ramp up Banks’s moustache-twirling stepmom-from-hell is old, tired and downright laughable at times. And the relationship between the sisters, which the original hinged so heavily upon, is resigned to just a few simple scenes of interaction that basically undo much of the reveal at the end. It’s obvious that none of the picture’s target audience will be that familiar with the original, so it’s possible they might still get some bit of a surprise when the rug is pulled out from under them. That said, the paying customers will most likely find the proceedings flat and uninspiring. It’s best to tine The Uninvited right up on the soon-to-be-forgotten shelves next to the now third-generation Asian remakes and wait for the next effective foreign genre fare for Hollywood to butcher and rehash. Review by Jeremy Wheeler

Anna has been in a psychiatric institution for ten months, following her suicide attempt after her terminally ill mother died in a boathouse fire. Now, she is being discharged and has no memory of the actual fire, though she is frequently plagued by nightmares from that night. She is picked up by her father, Steven, a writer who has dedicated his latest book to Anna and her sister Alex. At home, Anna reunites with Alex, with whom she is close. The sisters stand against Steven’s girlfriend Rachel, who had been their mother’s live-in nurse. Alex criticizes Steven for sleeping with Rachel while the girls’ mother was still alive and sick in bed. Anna describes to Alex how scenes from her dreams have started happening while she is awake. The sisters become convinced that the hallucinations are messages from their mother, telling them that she was murdered by Rachel so Rachel could be with their father. Anna catches up with her old boyfriend Matt, who tells her he saw what happened the night of her mother’s death. The two secretly plan to meet that night, but he fails to show up and she returns home. In her room, she has a ghastly hallucination of him and the next morning, his dead body is pulled out of the water, his back broken just the way Anna saw it in her vision. The police state he fell and drowned. After the sisters are unable to find a record of Rachel with the State Nursing Association, they conclude she is actually Mildred Kemp, a nanny who killed three children she was paid to care for because she was obsessed with their widowed father. They try to warn Steven, but he ignores their concerns. The girls try to gather evidence against Rachel to show the police, but Rachel catches them and sedates Alex. Anna escapes and goes to the local police station, but they do not believe her and call Rachel to take her home.

As Rachel puts Anna to bed, Anna sees Alex in the doorway with a knife before passing out. When she wakes up, she finds that Alex has killed Rachel and thrown her body in the dumpster. When their father arrives home, Anna explains that Rachel tried to murder them, but Alex saved them by killing her. Confused and in panic, Steven tells Anna that Alex died in the fire along with their mother. Anna looks down to find that she is holding the bloody knife rather than her sister’s hand. Anna finally remembers what happened on the night of the fire: After catching her father and Rachel having sex, Anna filled a watering can from a gasoline tank in the boathouse and carried it towards the house, intending to burn it down. However, she spilled a trail of gasoline that ignited when a candle fell over. Her mother was killed in the resulting explosion, as was Alex. It is revealed that Anna has symptoms of both severe Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Flashbacks reveal that Anna had bene hallucinating Alex since she left the institution: This is why none of the characters had ever responded to Alex’s presence; only Anna’s. She remembers killing Matt (who did show up at their planned meeting) by letting him fall off the cliff because he saw what Anna had done. She also remembers killing Rachel, who was actually a kind person; Anna had imagined her callousness. The next morning, as police arrest Anna for murder, the question Steven who reveals that Rachel changed her last name to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend. At the mental institution, Anna is welcomed back by the patient across from her, whose name plate says “Mildred Kemp.”

Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her cruel stepmother and ghastly visions of her dead mother. After the death of her ill mother in a fire, teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital for treatment. 10 months later, she still can’t remember what happened the night her mother died, but her psychiatrist, Dr. Silberling, discharges her, telling her that she has resolved her issues. Her father Steven, a successful author, brings her back home to their isolated mansion near the coast, where Anna finds that her mother’s former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna is happier to see her beloved sister Alex, who is swimming in the sea. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel murdered their mother, as they investigate the fire in the boathouse, Anna returns home after being institutionalized and tries to adapt to her new home situations. Her father Steven is now living with her late mother’s nurse, Rachel Summers, whom Anna and her older sister Alex believe was responsible for their mother’s death in a boathouse fire the previous year. Soon after her arrival, Anna begins to receive warnings from her late mother and three children who are always silent but point her to a tragedy that occurred years before in a nearby county. The evidence she and Alex gather all points to Rachel having a secret past and now living under an assumed identity. Just when she thinks she has all the evidence she needs against Rachel new information emerges that puts earlier events in a different light. Anna returns home after being institutionalized because she attempted suicide after her mother died in a fire at their own boathouse. After 10 months, Anna’s psychiatrist believes that she is ready to be discharged. At home, Anna joyfully greets her beloved sister Alex and discovers that their father Steven, a successful author, is now with their mother’s former nurse, Rachel. Believing that Rachel was involved in their mother’s death, the sisters search for evidence that will prove this. Freshly released from the psychiatric clinic after her mother’s tragi death, troubled and partially-amnesiac Anna finally returns home, but her homecoming is blemished by Rachel, her late mother’s live-in nurse, who has become her recently-bereaved father’s girlfriend. As Anna and her sister Alex search for answers, haunting apparitions of the restless dead demand appeasement. Who knows what truly happened that fateful night at the boathouse?

Anna (Emily Browning) has been in a psychiatric institution for ten months, following her suicide attempt after her terminally-ill mother died in a boathouse fire. Now she is being discharged and has no memory of the fire, only dreams about it that involve three strange children. While packing, Anna is startled by a talkative patient. She is finally able to leave with her father, Steven (David Strathairn). At home, Anna reunites with her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel). The sisters ae very close and they are united against Steven’s girlfriend Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), who was their mother’s live-in nurse. Alex criticizes Steven for sleeping with Rachel while the girls’ mother was still alive, but he ignores her. Anna describes to Alex how scenes from her dreams have started happening while she is awake. The sisters become convinced that their mother is sending a message: The fire was murder and Rachel is the killer. Anna sees her old boyfriend Matt (Jesse Moss) and kisses him. He tells her that he saw everything at the fire and the two secretly plan to meet, but he doesn’t show up.

Later, she awakens from another dream to find him climbing into her window. He says she needs to know the truth; he had a warning from her mother. His body warps, his back breaking. Anna runs from the room and suddenly it is morning and Matt’s dead body is pulled out of the water, his back broken just the way Anna saw it. The sisters are unable to find a record of Rachel with the State Nursing Association. Finally, they learn she is actually Mildred Kemp, a nanny who killed the three children from Anna’s dreams because she was obsessed with their widowed father. They try to warn Steven, but he gets upset and leaves for work. The girls try to gather evidence, but they are confronted by Rachel who drugs Alex. Anna escapes and goes to the police. Skeptical, they call Rachel to sedate Anna and drive her home. Rachel carries Anna to bed. Anna sees Alex in the doorway with a knife and passes out. Later, Anna wakes and finds a large blood trail leading to the dumpster and Rachel’s body inside. Alex is nearby with the knife. The girls comfort each other and Steven comes home. Ann explains that Rachel attacked them and Alex saved her.

Confused, Steven says that Alex died in the fire. Anna sees she’s not holding Alex’s hand like she thought, but the blood knife Anna finally remembers the fire. After catching her father and Rachel together, Anna filled a watering can from a large gasoline take in the boathouse and carried to towards the house, intending to burn it down. She left a trail that ignited when a candle fell over; Alex and her mother were killed in the resulting explosion. She remembers meeting Matt as planned and killing him. Flashbacks reveal that whenever it appeared as if the two sisters were together, Anna had always been alone. Anna realizes that Steven was not ignoring Alex earlier; her sister was never there. She sees that she had the knife used to kill Rachel all along. Steven tells the police that Rachel changed her name because of an abusive boyfriend as Anna is arrested and taken back to the institution. The police ask why Anna would make up the Mildred story, but Steven has no answers. Anna is welcomed back by the patient that scared her earlier; the name plate on the door says “Mildred Kemp.”

💎💎JANGHWA HONGRYEON JEON💎💎- Janghwa Hongryeon Jeon (literally The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon) is a Joseon-era Korean folktale. Once upon a time, there was a man named Muryong whose wife had a dream where an angel gave her a beautiful flower. Nine months later, she gave birth to a pretty baby girl, who the couple named “Janghwa” (“Rose Flower”). Two years later, they had another pretty girl and named her “Hongryeon” (“Red Lotus”). Unfortunately, the mother died when Hongryeon was 5 years old; and soon thereafter, the father remarried to continue his line. The new stepmother was both ugly and cruel. She hated her stepdaughters, but hid those feelings, only to reveal them once she had three sons in a row, which gave her a good deal of power and she abused the girls in every possible way. But Janghwa and Hongryeon never told their father about any of it.

When Janghwa came of age and got engaged, Father told his second wife to help Janghwa plan a wedding ceremony. Stepmother became angry, not wanting to spend a penny of “her family’s money” or “her sons’ future fortune” on Janghwa. So, she came up with a dirty plan: One night when Janghwa was sleeping, Stepmother had her eldest son put a dead skinned rat in Janghwa’s bed. Early the next morning, she brought Father to Janghwa’s room, telling him she’s had a bad dream about her elder stepdaughter. When she pulled back the covers on Janghwa’s bed, something that looked like a very bloody miscarriage shocked everybody in the room. Stepmother accused Janghwa of unchaste behavior, having an out-of-wedlock child. Father believed this. Janghwa did not know what to do so she ran out of the house to a small pond in the nearby woods. Stepmother ordered her eldest son to follow Janghwa and push her into the pond. As Janghwa drowned, suddenly came a huge tiger who attacked Stepmother’s eldest son, taking one leg and one arm from him. Stepmother got what she wanted – Janghwa’s death – but at the cost of her own son’s health. She turned her anger upon Hongryeon, hating and abusing this remaining stepdaughter more than ever. Unable to bear this treatment on top of the loss of her beloved sister, Hongryeon soon followed Janghwa; her body was found in the same pond in which Janghwa had drowned. After that, whenever a new Mayor came to the village, he was found dead a day after his arrival. As this kept happening, mysterious rumors spread through the village, but no one knew for sure what had happened to the men or for what reason.

A brave young man came to the village as a new Mayor. He was aware of the deaths of predecessors, but he was not afraid for his own life. When night came, he was sitting in his room when his candle was suddenly blown out and gruesome noises filled the air. The door opened to reveal no one, at first, but then the new Mayor saw two young female ghosts. He asked them who they were and why they had killed the previous Mayors. Weeping, the elder sister explained that all they wanted was to let people know the truth: The elder girl had not been an unchaste girl who committed suicide in shame. She had been framed by her stepmother and murdered by her eldest half-brother. The Mayor asked the ghost of Janghwa for any evidence of this. Janghwa told him to examine the miscarried fetus that Stepmother had shown to the villagers.

The next morning, the new Mayor did what the sisters’ ghosts had asked him to do. He summoned Father, Stepmother and the eldest son and examined the fetus that Stepmother insisted had come from Janghwa’s body. When he split it with a knife, it was revealed to be a rat. Stepmother and her eldest son were sentenced to death. Father, however, was set free because the Mayor thought Father had known nothing of Stepmother’s evil plan and in fact was just another victim. Years later, Father married again. On the night of this third wedding, he saw his two daughters in a dream. They said that since things were as they should be, they wanted to come back to him. Nine months later, Father’s third wife delivered twin girls. Father named these twins “Janghwa” and Hongryeon” and loved them very much. The new family lived happily ever after.

The story has been adapted to film a number of times and formed the basis of the 2003 Kim Jee-Woon film A Tale of Two Sisters and the 2009 American remake The Uninvited.

💎💎KONGJWI AND PATJWI💎💎- Kongji and Patzzi (Hangul: Also romanized as “Kongjwi and Patjwi”) is a traditional Korean romance story from the Joseon Dynasty. It is the story of humble Kongji’s triumph over adversity. The moral of the story is that virtuous people who think positively and work diligently will be happy, encapsulating the Western Proverb “Heaven helps those who help themselves.”

A childless couple was granted with a very beautiful baby girl whom they named Kongji. Her mother died when Kongji was 100 days old. She grew up with her father. The man remarried again when Kongji was fourteen years old. To replace his wife, he found a cruel widow who had a very ugly daughter named Patzzi. Her father died eventually. From that time onwards, the stepmother and Patzzi treated Kongji very unfairly. They starved her, dressed her in rags and forced her to do all the dirtiest work in the house. One day, the stepmother forced Kongji to plow a field with a wooden hoe. The hoe soon broke, leaving Kongji in tears, for fear that her stepmother would beat her again. A cow appeared and comforted her. He plowed the field in her place and sent Kongji home with a basket of apples, a gift from the cow. Her stepmother accused her of stealing the apples, gave the entire basket to Patzzi and refused to give Kongji her supper. The next day, the stepmother gave Kongji an enormous pot with a hole in the bottom and told her she must fill it with water before she and Patzzi returned home from town. Kongji kept bringing baskets of water but the pot was never filled. The water leaked out from the hole. A turtle appeared and blocked the hole for her. With his help, Kongji filled the pot with water. The stepmother was even angrier. She spanked Kongji black and blue.

After a time, the town leader announced that he was looking for a wife. A dance would be given in his honor and every maiden was to attend. Kongji and Patzzi were invited. The stepmother was hopeful that Patzzi would be the lucky one, but afraid that Kongji would spoil her own daughter’s chance. Before they left, the stepmother gave Kongji a huge sack of rice to hull, which she had to accomplish before they returned from the dance. Kongji asked for help from the heavens and a flock of sparrows appeared and hulled the rice. A fairy came down from heaven and dressed Kongji in a beautiful gown and a delicate pair of colorful shoes. She was transported to the palace by four men in a magnificent palanquin. Kongji hurried towards the dance. Everyone admired her because of her beauty. The town leader went to her to ask her name. But when Kongji saw her stepmother and stepsister among the guests, she fled with terror. Patzzi remarked to her mother that the strange girl looked like Kongji. As Kongji crossed a bridge, she tripped. One of her shoes fell into the stream. The town leader found the shoe and vowed to marry the woman it belonged to. Servants tried the shoe on every woman in the land, until they arrived in Kongji’s village. It fit no one except Kongji. She was the last to try the shoe. Then, she produced her clothes and the other pair of her shoes. The town leader and Kongji were married.

Patzzi was jealous of Kongji’s marriage and drowned her in a river. Patzzi disguised herself as Kongji to live with the town leader. Kongji’s spirit would haunt anyone in the river. A brave man confronted her ghost and she told him everything. The man reported this to the town leader and the town leader went into the river. Instead of a dead body, he retrieved a golden lotus. He kissed the lotus and it was changed back into Kongji. The town leader sentenced Patzzi to death and had the servants make sauce from her body. They sent it to the stepmother. The stepmother ate the sauce greedily, mistaking it as a gift from her daughter. A cook revealed everything to her. When she learned of Patzzi’s death, Kongji’s stepmother fell into a faint from which she never awoke.

The legend of Kongji and Patzzi was passed down orally for many generations before it was first recorded, producing numerous regional variations. For example, some versions of the story cast a frog in place of the turtle as Kongji’s helper, while others have been reduced to the Cinderella-esque first portion. Although the first part of the story shares elements with the Western fairy tale Cinderella, the traditional Korean belief of kwon seon jing ak, the importance of encouraging virtue and punishing vice, similar to the older Chinese legend of Ye Xian, pervades the traditional tale coming to fruition with the deserved deaths of Kongji’s stepmother and stepsister in the second part of the story.

Although the story itself contains fantastic elements, its setting is believed to be the real-life village of Dunsan, Keumgu Township, Gimje-si. Both Dunsan village and the village in which the novel Kongji and Patzzi is set are shaped like a cow. The turtle which blocked the hole in Kongji’s pot is associated with Dunsan’s turtle rock. People say that Kongji dropped her shoes in Duwol brook outside Dunsan.

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💎💎UNHINGED💎💎 – The Nightmare Begins When You Wake Up. College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm… only to crash their car, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid they come across a house occupied by a man-hating mother and her daughter… our trio soon wishes they hadn’t. The film appeared on the list of the United Kingdom’s 72 “video nasties,” which led to an expanded role for the British Board of Film Classification. A remake was made in England and released in 2017. The film follows three young women who are taken in by a mysterious family at their rural mansion after getting into a car accident. Three female college students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria, embark for a music festival in rural Oregon. A sudden storm causes Nancy to accidentally crash the car, rendering all three unconscious. Terry awakens to find her and her friends alive, sheltered in a large mansion in the middle of nowhere, owned by the Penroses: The middle-aged Marion, her mother and their groundskeeper, Norman. Gloria is the only one with serious injuries, so Marion suggests they spend the night until Gloria is able to leave. Terry and Nancy are invited to dinner with Marion and her embittered and elderly crippled mother. Throughout dinner, Marion’s mother rants and raves about her disgust towards men and how her husband left her for another woman. She also recurrently accuses Marion of bringing men into the home. Later, in a music room, a mysterious man looks menacingly into the windows at the women. Later that night, Terry finds a human booth under her bed and later awakes to hear a man breathing heavily upstairs, as though he is masturbating. The next morning, Terry and Nancy take a shower, while someone watches through a peephole in the wall. That morning, Nancy sets off through the woods to reach the town. When she arrives at a rural country road, she is attacked by an unknown figure with a long scythe, who slashes her to death. That evening at dinner, Mrs. Penrose’s divulges her views on me and her daughter, while Terry worries about Nancy’s disappearance. That night, Terry once again hears the breathing and goes to investigate. She uncovers the attic, where she finds black and white pictures of two children and an old tool belt with a dusty gun and machete. She goes back downstairs and sees the man staring in at her through the window and runs screaming through the house. Marion calms her down and reveals to her that the man is Carl, her developmentally-disabled younger brother. She insists that he is harmless and Terry goes back to bed. The next day, Terry goes outside to talk to Norman and asks he has seen Nancy. Norman reveals that he never spoke with her and instead tells her a confusing story about two girls disappearing in the woods. At nightfall, Gloria regains consciousness and Terry tells her she feels the two need to leave as soon as possible. Terry leaves the room and an unseen figure attacks Gloria, plunging an axe through her head. Later in the evening, Terry finds Gloria’s room empty and asks Marion where she is. Marion suggests she may have gone outside for a breath of fresh air. As she steps outside, Terry is attacked and chased by Carl. She hides in a shed, where she discovers the dead bodies of her friends along with several other dismembered corpses. Carl breaks through the window and tries to grab her, but she manages to escape from the shed and runs back to the house as Carl chases after her.

Hurrying into the attic, Terry takes out the gun and shoots Carl in the head, killing him. Marion rushes upstairs after hearing the noises and chastises Terry for killing her brother. Terry responds by ordering Marion to look at the bodies in the shed. After a moment of silence, Marion, speaking with in a deep, masculine register, tells her that Carl had nothing to do with what happened in the shed. Terry looks in confusion at Marion, who pulls out a machete. Marion reveals that he is actually Mrs. Penrose’s secondary son and Carl’s younger brother, who dresses and presents as a woman. Terry attempts to flee, but Marion knocks her to the ground and manically stabs her to death whilst raving about the pressures of pretending to be a woman and taking care of his brother and mother. As Terry bleeds to death on the floor, Mrs. Penrose calls for Marion form downstairs, asking if there is a man up there. Marion, covered in blood, responds in his feminine voice, “No, mother.”

Three young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate. College students, Three beautiful college girls are on their way to a music festival, but they accidentally drive their car into a ditch during a storm. They regain consciousness in a dark mansion and are introduced to a crazy old lady and her homely daughter. Unfortunately, the house is in the middle of nowhere so the girls must stay for a while. Although, somebody is beginning to kill the girls one by one, it is up to one girl to find out what’s going on, before she too is murdered…

The film opens to three college girls, Terry, Nancy and Gloria all getting ready to leave for a Jazz concert. After Terry unsuccessfully tells her mother about the trip the trio friends leave driving through the pretty wilderness that surrounds their little town. A thunderstorm begins to appear when Nancy, speeding down the road, runs over a log, plummeting the car into a steep ravine. Terry awakes to find her and her friends alive but sheltered in an old mansion in the middle of nowhere owned by the Penrose’s, Marion and her mother and their groundskeeper/doctor friend, Norman. Gloria is the only one with serious injuries so Marion suggests that they spend the night until Gloria is able to leave with them. Terry and Nancy are then invited to dinner with Marion and her old, crippled mother who berates Marion at every chance she gets, calling her a slut and a whore. Mrs. Penrose ruins dinner for everyone after going on a tirade of how horrible men are (specifically her ex-husband).  The four then make their way to the living room and listen to Marion play the piano while outside a dirtied, grubby man appears, roaming around and looking menacingly into the shadows.

That night Terry and Nancy begin to discuss how weird the family is at the house and Terry finds a booth under her bed. Nancy then decides to go through the woods and get help while later that night Terry awakes to hear a man masturbating. The next morning someone watches Nancy and Terry take a shower through a peephole in the bathroom wall. At breakfast the two tell Marion they’re plan and Marion says it’s a good idea, telling Terry to go get firewood. Nancy then sets off through the woods while Terry is frightened away from the shed out back by Marion because it’s full of loose timbers. Nancy makes it through the thick forest, only to be gorily slashed or death by a figure with a long scythe. That night Terry finds that Nancy has not returned and becomes worried but Mrs. Penrose and Marion assure she’s probably okay as once again, dinner is ruined by Mrs. Penrose’s views on men and her daughter. That night Terry once again hears the breathing and goes to see who it is finding an abandoned little kids’ room with black and white pictures of two little kids and an old tool belt with a dusty gun and machete. She goes back to her room only to see the dirty, grubby man outside her window and runs screaming down the stairs into Marion’s arms. Marin then calms her down and tells her that the man is her brother Carl who has the fundamental mind of a five-year-old and who their mother abandoned when she gave up on men. She insists that he is harmless and Terry admits to overreacting and goes back to bed.

The next day Terry is once again worried about where Nany is and Marion assures her that she’s probably in town right then. Terry then goes up to see Gloria, who is now conscious and the two begin to discuss ways to get out of the house while same person watches through another peep hole in the wall. Terry then goes outside to talk to Norman and asks if he’s seen Nancy, telling him that she went through the woods only to have Norman freak out and warn her about a couple of girls disappearing in the woods around there. Night comes and someone sneaks into Gloria’s room and splits her head open with an axe. Terry goes upstairs and finds Gloria’s room empty and asks Marion where she is. Marion tells her she may have went outside for a breath of fresh air so Terry searches for her outside. She calls for Gloria but finds Carl ready to attack her. After Carl chases her to the shed, Terry finds the dead bodies of her friends along with several other dismembered corpses. Carl breaks through the window and tries to grab her but she fights back and runs back to the house. After running back to the house and upstairs into the kid’s room she takes out the dusty gun and shoots Carl in the head while an alarmed Marion comes running upstairs to find her brother dead with Terry recuperating in front of his corpse. When Marion questions her frantically about killing her brother Terry tells her go look in the shed to which Marion tells her (in a deep masculine voice) that Carl had nothing to do with what happened in the shed. Terry looks at Marion in shock as Marion pulls out the machete. She realizes that Marion is actually Mrs. Penrose’s other son after glimpsing at his chest hair. Marion brutally hacks a screaming Terry to death with the machete as he raves about having to pretend to be a girl, having to take care of Carl and how he had to kill all of the girls in the scary deep voice. Once Terry is dead, Mrs. Penrose calls for Marion downstairs asking if they had a man up there. Marion, covered in blood, denies being with a man in the feminine voice.

💎💎 THE ENDLESS💎💎- Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t find as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult. The Endless may be interpreted as a partial sequel to Benson and Moorhead’s 2012 film Resolution, as it appears to share the same universe and some plot points. Costarring Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple and James Jordan, the film tells the story of two brothers (Benson and Moorhead) who visit an alleged cult they formerly belonged to. Brothers Justin and Aaron receive a video cassette in the mail made by Camp Arcadia, a group they belonged to as young adults. Justin and Aaron’s recollection of events differ; Justin says the group was a UFO death cult, but Aaron recalls them as a harmless and friendly commune. Aaron points out that the video cassette proves the members are still alive. Justin, however, is worried that talk of “ascension” may be a code for some future mass suicide. Fed up with their inability to make friends or find good jobs since leaving Camp Arcadia, Aaron convinces Justin to return for just one day.

Justin and Aaron receive a friendly welcome at Camp Arcadia. None of the members seem to have aged in the decade since the brothers left. Anna and Lizzy take an interest in Aaron and Justin, respectively. Although Aaron welcomes the attention, Justin stays aloof from everyone but his brother. One of the members, Hal, excitedly shows Justin a Physics equation he has been working on. He says that he cannot explain what it represents, as it would be akin to describing an impossible color. However, he hopes that Justin will eventually accept the group’s beliefs now that he is older. As they partake in various activities, Aaron grows increasingly fond of his time at Camp Arcadia and he convinces Justin to stay an additional day. During one activity, members attempt to win a tug-of-war against a rope that ascends into the dark night sky. Justin says it is held by a member on a ladder but cannot explain how he loses when everyone else is present. The brothers separately notice increasingly weird occurrences. While exploring the woods, Justin becomes convinced an invisible entity is observing him and it leaves him a photograph of a buoy. When Justin presses Hall for answers, Hal admits that he knows no more than anyone else. His Physics equation is his interpretation of what is happening and he encourages Justin to find his own answers by following the entity’s clues. He advises Justin to search the bottom of the lake under the buoy in the photograph. Two mons rise in the sky. Hal tells Justin to come to a conclusion before a third rises.

Justin and Aaron go fishing. When Justin sees the buoy from the photograph, he dives into the water. He returns with a toolbox and says that something tried to hold him under. When they open the toolbox, they find a tape. Freaked out by the strange events and ostentatious clues, Justin insists they leave immediately. At the camp, Hal and Justin get into an argument after Hal plays the tape, which is a recording of Justin and Aaron misrepresenting Camp Arcadia to outsiders. Justin calls Hal a cult leader, and Hal says Justin made up lurid stories to tell the press about Camp Arcadia. Outraged that Justin was misleading him, too, Aaron refuses to leave. Justin’s car does not start and he leaves to find help. Justin encounters several people stuck in time loops, most of whom repeatedly experience their own violent deaths for the amusement of the entity. They explain that the entity has trapped them and that he will also become trapped once the third moon rises. Justin finds Aaron, who has come looking for him. Justin explains their danger, but Aaron still wants to stay behind, as he cannot stand to return to his old life. Aaron reasons that experiencing death at the hands of entity, which is considered a sacred ritual by the cult, would be better than menial jobs and not having friends. When Justin admits he was wrong to force Aaron into this lifestyle, Aaron becomes hopeful that their life can improve and agrees to leave. The brothers barely escape as the entity destroys the camp. Justin advises Aaron to refill the gas tank and Aaron says that the car’s gas tank gauge has already read empty.

Island Movies- Movies from the Hawaiian Islands

Island Movies – Movies from the Hawaiian Islands

💎💎FINAL EXAMINATION💎💎- A group of sorority girls enjoy a party time in Hawaii, but a homicidal maniac wants to put a brutal end to their naughty frivolities. A burned out L.A. detective moves to Hawaii, where he stumbles upon a murder at a college sorority reunion. Stereotypical college students (Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, Ralph Brown) are stalked on campus by a slasher/strangler. A secluded tropical hideaway becomes a serial killer’s site for revenge when four beautiful girls arrive for their five-star college reunion of sorority sisters and succumb to gruesome murders, one by one. Now, it is up to two local police detectives to track down the killer before the next victim is killed and they must figure out what dark secret ties the victims together.

A police officer fails in capturing a drug dealer in Los Angeles, so his boss High Janus transfers him to Hawaii for disciplinary reasons. On the island some former female students are just gathering in a luxury hotel. The young ladies once belonged to the sorority “Omega Kappa Omega” and are now invited to an erotic photo shoot which is organized by Derek Simmons, the editor of the Cavalier Magazine. Shortly after their arrival, Terri Walker, one of the former students, is strangled in the pool while her friend William Culp is absent for some minutes. Detective Newman begins to investigate the murder together with his new colleague Julie Seska and the coroner Ferguson. Next to Terri’s corpse they find a document which resembles a final examination certificate and has the imprint “Failed” on it. William tells them to observe Derek Simmons very closely. In the following night, the next student dies. Amanda Calvin is lured outside to the pool by a phone call and falls victim to the unknown murderer. Later the cops find William in the hotel room of the student Megan Davidson, who also belongs to the group. They just had sex and now they are questioned. The cops get to know the background of the series of murders. Five years ago, Rachel Kincaid committed suicide by falling from a bridge in her car. At that time, she was the favorite for the election of the sorority’s speaker, but she was mobbed by her competitor Kristen Neal, who is also present in Hawaii now.

After Newman and Seska ha clarified these connections, William wants to inform them about something. But before Newman meets him, the young man is killed by the murderer and can only indicate that there is some problem with Rachel. Newman again gets in contact with his colleague Rita in Los Angeles, who had already provided him with the file about Rachel and asks for Simmons. Rita figures out that the editor of the magazine is actually a man named James Derek Kincaid and that he is Rachel’s brother. He has gathered the students in the hotel to get revenge for his sister’s death.

Megan and Kristen, who are the only surviving people among the invited students, meet at the hotel room. It is the fifth anniversary of Rachel’s suicide. Kristen suspects Megan and threatens her with a pistol. Suddenly the lights go out and she forces Megan to go into the hallway where she runs across the murderer. Kristen is about to expel the killer, but accidentally shoots at Seska. Newman arrives in time stop the killer who really proves to be Simmons alias Kincaid. With the help of a photo, the detective realizes that the case is not yet complete. As he had been intimate with the photographer Tayler Cameron before he recognizes her necklace. She is a sister of Rachel and Derek. Now she overwhelms Kristen and threatens to strangle her. When Newman intervenes, she escapes to a rock over the pool. She stabs a knife in her body and falls down into the water. The cop just wants to announce the next corpse, but she attacks him. Newman shoots Tayler in self-defense. At the same time his colleagues in Los Angeles arrest Professor Andrews, who was not only Rachel’s study advisor, but also impregnated his student before she died. When they arrive at the police station, the cop Sam reveals to be another brother of Rachel’s. He shoots the professor.

💎💎A VERY BRADY SEQUEL💎💎- A Very Brady Sequel is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Arlene Sanford (in her feature film directorial debut) with a screenplay by Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, James Berg and Stan Zimmerman and starring Shelley Long, Gary Cole and Tim Matheson. It is the sequel to The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), it followed its predecessor by placing the 1970s Brady Bunch family in a contemporary 1990s setting, where much of the humor is derived from the resulting culture clash and the utter lack of awareness they show toward their relatively unusual lifestyle. A man impersonating Carol Brady’s first husband schemes to get his hands on a priceless family heirloom. Questions then arise about the legality of Mike and Carol’s marriage and the relationship between the Brady brothers and sisters. As Carol is torn between her two “husbands”, Mike struggles to hold the family together and Alice cooks more meatloaf. Like its lively predecessor, The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), this mild comic send-up takes its characters and situations from the popular family sitcom of the 1970s, The Brady Bunch .Set in the ‘90s, it is filled with in-joke references to American pop culture. However, one need not to be familiar with the original series in order to enjoy this film. Bad guy Trevor Thomas (Tim Matheson) is posing as supermom Carol Brady’s long-dead first husband Roy Martin. He claims to have been amnesiac and made unrecognizable by plastic surgery after suffering disfiguring injuries, but in truth, he is on the hunt for a very valuable artifact, an ancient Chinese horse carving which Roy sent to his family from the field. Because of the family’s sheer niceness, they could never imagine such deception and husband Mike Brady (Gary Cole) welcomes him into their midst. This causes Roy no end of frustration, as not only must he live with this incredibly sweet and cheerful family while he searches for the carving, but he must endure having his ill-tempered sarcastic jibes go completely unrecognized. When Carol (Shelley Long) is kidnapped, the whole family goes a-hunting. The Brady’s are surprised when a man claiming to be Carol’s long-lost first husband shows up at their home. Before long, his strange actions cause the unconventional family to question his motives. A man claiming to be Carol Brady’s long-lost husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An imposter, the man is actually determined to steal the Brady’s familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.

One evening, a man claiming to be Carol’s long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence. The Bradys believe his story about suffering from amnesia and having plastic surgery after being injured. Mike has been planning a second wedding/renewal of vows for himself and Carol, for an anniversary present without her knowing, although Roy’s arrival throws a monkey wrench into things. Throughout Roy’s stay, he is openly hostile to them, his sarcasm and insults completely going over their heads. Peter, who is trying to decide what career path to choose from, starts idolizing and emulating Roy, which frequently gets him in trouble at the architect firm where Mike works. Greg and Marcia both want to move out of their shared rooms and when neither wants to back down, they have to share the attic together. When Roy’s arrival suggests that Carol and Mike might not be married. Greg and Marcia believe that they are technically not related. This leads them to realize they are in love with each other but try to hide it from one another throughout the movie. Eventually both cave in and they share a kiss at the end of the movie, but Marcia agrees to let Greg have the attic to himself until he goes to college. Bobby and Cindy start a “Detective Agency” hunting down her missing doll and stumble upon Roy’s true intentions. He is actually a con man named Trevor Thomas and is there to steal a familiar horse statue that is actually a $20 million -dollar ancient artifact. When they reveal his plans, he kidnaps Carol and takes her and the artifact to Dr. Whitehead, a buyer in Hawaii. The remaining Brady family travels to Hawaii to save her and foil his plans. Trevor is revealed to have been responsible for the boating accident that led to the disappearance of Dr. Whitehead’s son Gilligan and Carol’s first husband, a professor and in Dr. Whitehead’s words “The Minnow is lost.” Trevor attempts to hold Dr. Whitehead and Carol at gunpoint but Mike arrives just in time to intervene and Trevor is arrested and taken to jail. Jan, who made up a pretend boyfriend named George Glass in order to make herself seem more popular, meets a real boy named George Glass during the family’s trip to Hawaii and they become a couple. As Mike and Carol renew their vows in a ceremony held at their home, a genie named Jeannie appears, claiming to be Mike’s wife.

Thriller and Island Movies

💎💎THE SHALLOWS💎💎- A mere 200 yards from shore, Nancy is attacked by a great white shark with short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. In the taunt thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy’s ingenuity, resourcefulness and fortitude. Shortly after the death of her mother, the medical student and young surfer Nancy (Bake Lively) travels to a secluded beach in Baja California in search of a secret spot that her mother had discovered years earlier. While paddling out into the waves along with two other friendly locals, she is hunted by a great white shark and stranded on an embankment away from the shoreline. Alone and wounded, she attempts to survive the attack and get ashore. Still unable to come to terms with a personal tragedy, Nancy, a medical student dropout and athletic surfer, seeks solace in her late’ mother’s secret surfing spot in sun-drenched Baja California. Indeed, this is the perfect hideaway –and as Nancy rides the glorious waves, one after another – a silent and sudden attack from below throws the gravely wounded holidaymaker into the water, reminding her that this is the realm of a feared apex-predator: The slate-grey great white shark. Now atop a small rock protrusion, a mere 180 meters from the shore – it’s woman against nature, in a desperate battle of survival under the scorching sun and the cold starry sky. However, has anyone escaped from the powerful and razor-sharp jaws of the blood-thirsty leviathan?

Shortly after the death of her mother due to cancer, medical student Nancy Adams travels to a secluded beach in Mexico, the same beach her mother visited while she was pregnant with Nancy. Carlos, a friendly local resident, gives Nancy a ride and drops her off at the beach, while a friend of hers who came along with her is staying back at a hotel after partying too much. Nancy joins two other locals and the three surf for several hours. Taking a break from surfing, Nancy video-chats with her younger sister Chloe. When she talks to her father in an emotional and strained conversation, it is revealed that mother’s death caused Nancy to consider dropping out of medical school. While surfing one last time for the day, Nancy notices a carcass of a large Humpback Whale nearby. As she rides the last wave back to the beach, a large Great White Shark knocks her off her surfboard and bites her leg. Nancy climbs onto the whale carcass, but the shark rams it from underneath, forcing her to swim to an isolated rock. She uses her surfboard strap to slow the bleeding from her leg. Later she uses her jewelry to put rudimentary stitches in place to hold her torn flesh together. Nancy is left alone when the unaware locals leave the beach and she spends the night on the rock with a wounded red-billed gull, which was also injured by the shark and names him Steven Seagull. The next morning, a drunk local man on the beach steals Nancy’s belongings. While wading out into the shallow water to steal Nancy’s surfboard, however, he is killed by the shark. Several hours later, the two locals Nancy had surfed with the day before return. They get into the water before Nancy can warn them away and are also killed by the shark. One of the local surfers was wearing a GoPro camera on his helmet. When he was attacked by the shark, his helmet had come off and floated to the surface. Nancy later sees the helmet in the water. After some struggle, she is able to retrieve it and notices in the footage of the attack, the shark has a large hook stuck in its mouth after a possible encounter with fishermen. Nancy uses the GoPro to leave messages for her sister and father as well as information about the shark attack and her location. With high tide approaching, Nancy realizes the rock will be submerged soon. After sending Steven Seagull towards shore on a piece of the surfboard and timing the shark’s circles from the whale carcass to the rock, Nancy swims to a nearby buoy, narrowly avoiding the shark by swimming through a group of jellyfish, which sting both the shark and her. Nancy finds a flare gun on the buoy. She shoots one flare to draw the attention of a faraway cargo ship, but the ship has already turned away and does not see her. She then fires another flare at the shark, setting the oil from the whale carcass alight and angering it, but otherwise having no effect. The shark then ferociously attacks the buoy and rips out the chains securing it to the ocean bed. Nancy straps herself to the last remaining chain and as it is ripped from the buoy, she is pulled down to the ocean floor, pursued by the shark. At the last moment, Nancy pulls out of the dive and the shark impales itself on some rebar from the buoy’s anchor. Later, a boy named Miguel (from the opening of the film at the beach) finds the action camera and informs his father, then revealed to be Carlos. Carlos finds Nancy floating close to shore and revives her. Nancy briefly sees a hallucination of her mother. As she looks around the beach, she sees that Steven Seagull has made it to the shore. One year later, a healed Nancy (now a doctor) and her sister Chloe go surfing in Galveston, Texas, as their father tells Nancy that her mother would have been proud.

Nancy Adams (Blake Lively) is a college medical student head toward a beach for a personal vacation. The beach was a favorite spot of her mother’s, who recently passed away from cancer. Nancy is driven there by a man named Carlos (Oscar Jaenada). She is supposed to be there with her friend, Anna, but she claims to have gotten sick, leaving Nancy to take the trip alone. She offers him some cash for his services, but he declines. Nancy gets into her surf gear and hits the waves on her board. She comes across two other surfers who know she is a visitor. Nancy joins the two of them as the waves get nicer. Later, Nancy has a video chat with her sister Chloe (Sedona Legge) to tell her all about the beach and how their mother was right about how it’s like paradise. Nancy then talks to her father (Brett Cullen), who knows she is taking the trip for her mother. He expresses concern to Nancy over her grief and actions. Nancy swims out past the shallows of the ocean to catch some more waves. As she gets further from the shore, she sees a whale carcass floating on top. Sensing trouble, Nancy tries to head back to the shore on a wave, but as she rides it, a large Great White shark slams into her and knocks her off the board. Nancy climbs back on and tries to paddle back, but the shark bites deep into her left leg, spilling a lot of blood into the water. Nancy struggles to escape and swims to a rock where the shark can’t catch her. She takes her ankle strap from her board and uses it as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Nancy sees the other two surfers and tries calling to them for help, but they don’t appear to hear or see her. She wraps her wetsuit around her leg. It starts getting darker as Nancy tries to get an opening away from the shark. Her only companion is a seagull with an injured wing. Nancy tries to eat a tiny crawling creature, but she quickly barfs it up.

On the shore, she sees a drunk man passed out in the sand. She calls out to him and manages to get his attention. Nancy points towards her bag for her to call for help. The man just steals her phone and wallet. He sees her board floating in the shallows and he walks into the water to get it. Nancy yells to him to get away from the shark. She then sees the shark attack the man as he heads back to the shore. The shark tears the man in half and the top half tries crawling away until he dies. Nancy gets colder as the night falls. She puts her suit back on to keep warm. She also loosens the tourniquet to allow blood flow to the leg. Nancy then tries to stich herself up using her earrings and necklace chain, but it’s too painful for her. In the morning, the other two surfers return to the ocean. Nancy calls to them as they ride their boards into the water. She warns them about the shark, but one surfer assures her there isn’t one. He’s proven wrong when the shark jumps up and eats him. The other surfer rushes towards the rock but the shark pulls him down. He resurfaces quickly by the rock where Nancy tries to pull him up. The shark pulls him down, leaving only his helmet with a camera on top, which captures him getting eaten. Nancy observes the shark’s movements as it circles the rock, estimating that it swims about 12 seconds around another rock, which leaves her with time to swim and reach the helmet. She takes that chance and makes it to the little rock, but she misses the helmet before the shark returns. As she goes back to the bigger rock, she sees the helmet again. Nancy reaches for it as the shark lunges toward her. The shark hurts itself as it scrapes against the coral. Nancy manages to get the helmet. She makes a video for anyone that finds the helmet. She shows how bad her leg has gotten, with gangrene setting in and she leaves a message for Chloe and their father. Nancy then tosses the helmet towards the shore. Nancy pops the seagull’s wing back into place and then lets it float away on a broken piece of surfboard.

Nancy sees a buoy several feet away. She makes her plan to reach it and try to bring attention to herself. As she prepares herself, the shark swim towards her. A school of Jellyfish rises up. Nancy thinks the shark can’t harm her if it runs into something that can hurt it. Nancy jumps into the water and swims toward the buoy and the shark follows closely. She gets stung on her shoulder, while the shark eats some Jellyfish and gets stung too. Nancy reaches the buoy and finds a flare gun. She grabs the flare gun and shoots a few fires in the air as she spots a boat in the distance. Unfortunately, the boat is already turned away and it never sees her. The shark starts to circle the buoy. Nancy fires a flare directly at the shark. Now pissed off, the shark starts slamming into the buoy, breaking the chains that keep it up. It manages to loosen the buoy and starts chomping into it. Nancy struggles to keep herself at a distance and to hold onto the buoy. While underwater, she notices the chain holding the buoy to a spiked base on the floor of the bay. At the right moment, Nancy gets the chain on a hook stuck in the shark’s side. This pulls her down toward the base as the shark chases her. She pulls out at the right moment, causing the shark to swim directly onto the base it gets impaled. On the shore, a little boy finds the helmet camera and sees Nancy’s video. He runs to get his father who is Carlos. The two find Nancy washed up on the shore, dehydrated and weak. They run to help her. Nancy sees the seagull standing close to her. Before she passes out, Nancy sees a vision of her mother smiling down on her. Nancy simply says, “I’m okay.” One year later, Nancy is doing better, albeit with a big scar on her leg. She returns to the beach with Chloe and their father. Nancy brings Chloe into the water to teach her how to surf.

British Psychological Thriller Films

💎💎LE GRANDE BOUFFE💎💎- Four successful middle-aged men Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive; Ugo, a chef; and Phillippe, a judge go to Phillippe’s villa to eat themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello insists that women should join them. Three prostitutes make it through a day or two; Andrea, a local schoolteacher, stays to the end. The villa, the food and a Bugati roadster are essential props. A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death. Four middle-aged friends and members of the professional bourgeoise, Ugo, a Chef and restaurant owner, Marcello, an incorrigible womanizer and Alitalia pilot, Michel, a delicate television producer and Phillippe, a venerable magistrate, gather for a debaucherous weekend at the latter’s Parisian villa. There, as the four men prepare for a Romanesque feast, truckloads of fine food and wine arrive, accompanied by three elegant and lithe prostitutes. Without a doubt, the rapacious and degraded hedonists are determined to eat themselves to death, one elaborate morsel after another, nevertheless, for what reason? Four successful middle-aged men, Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive; Ugo, a Chef; and Phillippe, a judge go to Phillippe’s villa to eat themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello insists that women should join them. Three prostitutes make it through a day or two; Andrea, a local schoolteacher, stays to the end. The villa, the food and a Bugati roadster are essential props.

The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French for “eating” (the Italian abbuffata means “great eating”). The first protagonist is Ugo, owner and Chef of a restaurant, “The Biscuit Shop”. The second is Phillippe, a somewhat important magistrate who still lives with his childhood nanny, Nicole, who is overprotective of him to the point of trying to prevent him from having relationships with other women and who fulfills her own sexual needs with him. The third character is Marcello, an Alitalia pilot and womanizer. The fourth and final main character is Michel, who is an effeminate television producer. The four come together by car to the beautifully furnished but unused villa owned by Phillippe. There they find the old caretaker, Hector, who has innocently prepared everything for the great feast and a Chinese visitor is there to offer a job to the magistrate in faraway China, which Phillippe politely rejects with the phrase “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” (“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”) quoting Virgil. Once alone, the four begin their binge. In once scene, Marcello and Ugo race each other to see who can eat oysters faster. They discuss organizing a little “feminine presence” and decide to invite three prostitutes to come to the house the following evening (not four, because Phillippe does not want to participate). Their breakfast the next day is interrupted by the arrival of a school class who would like to visit the garden of the villa to see the famous “lime-tree of Boileau”, under which the French poet used to sit while looking for inspiration. The four willingly invite the class not only into the garden, but also to view the old Bugatti in the garage and to a magnificent lunch in the kitchen. Above all, they get to know Andrea, the young and buxom teacher, whom they spontaneously invite to dinner that evening. Phillippe is dismayed at the notion of the schoolteacher being in the same company as three prostitutes; he warns her, but she appears not to be perturbed. The prostitutes arrive in due course and the atmosphere becomes frivolous and sexually charged, with each of the men howling throughout the film when they are overjoyed. Andrea arrives and embraces the spirit of the party. She is attracted to Phillippe, who proposes to marry her.

The eating continues unabated. Ugo is responsible for the preparation of the food. Michel, who seems to have been brought up strictly not to break wind, suffering from indigestion. His friends encourage him to let out whatever wind is trapped. Frightened and disgusted by the turn of events, the prostitutes flee at dawn and leave only Andrea. She seems to sense the purpose of the protagonists and decides to help them in their efforts, establishing a tacit agreement and remaining with them until the death of all four. She indulges in sex with all the men after the departure of the prostitutes, while joining them in their in their binge as well,.

💎💎DRESSED TO KILL💎💎- Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American neo-noir slasher film written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Michael Cain, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon. A New York housewife is brutally stabbed to death in an elevator and the film subsequently follows her psychiatrist, her teenage son and a prostitute who witnessed her murder. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film contains several direct references to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1060 film Psycho, such as a man dressing as a woman to commit murders, the significant shower scenes in both films and the murder of the female lead very early in the picture. After wife and mother, Kate Miller discusses her sexual frustrations with her psychiatrist, she goes to meet her husband at a museum. At the museum, she meets a strange man who she follows to a cab and then has sex with him at his apartment. After the affair, Kate is brutally murdered in the elevator by a blonde woman with a razor. A blonde prostitute named Liz caught a brief glimpse of the killer, but when she comes forward with this information, she becomes the prime suspect to the police and the next victim to the murderer. Liz teams up with Kate’s son Peter to find the real killer.

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist’s patients and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder. While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband’s pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she’s forgotten her wedding ring. When elevator doors open, she’s brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderer’s next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate’s son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother’s killer as Detective Marino, who’s; in charge of the case, is uncooperative in the investigation.

Kate Miller is a sexually frustrated housewife who is in therapy with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott. During an appointment, Kate attempts to seduce him, but Elliott rejects her advances. Kate goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she has an unexpected flirtation with a mysterious stranger, Kate and the stranger stalk each other through the museum until they finally wind up outside, where Kate joins him in a taxi. They begin to have sex and continue at his apartment. Hours later, Kate awakens and decides to discreetly leave while the man, Warren Lockman, is asleep. Kate sits at his desk to leave him a note and finds a document indicating that Warren has contracted a sexually transmitted disease. Mortified, she leaves the apartment, In her haste, she forgets her wedding ring on the nightstand and she returns to retrieve it The elevator doors open on the figure of a tall, blonde woman in dark sunglasses wielding a straight razor. Kate is violently stabbed to death in the elevator. A high-priced call girl, Liz Blake happens upon the body. She catches a glimpse of the killer in the elevator’s convex mirror and subsequently becomes both the prime suspect and the killer’s next target. Dr. Elliott receives a bizarre message on his answering machine from “Bobbi”, a transgender patient. Bobbi taunts the psychiatrist for breaking off their therapy sessions, apparently because Elliott refuses to sign the necessary papers for Bobbi to get sex reassignment surgery. Elliott tries to convince Dr. Levy, the patient’s new doctor, that Bobbi is a herself and others. Police Detective Marino (Dennis Franz) is skeptical about Liz’s story, partly because of her profession, so Liz joins forces with Kate’s revenge-minded son Peter (Keith Gordon) to find the killer. Peter, an inventor, uses a series of homemade listening devices and time-lapse cameras to track patients leaving Elliott’s office. They catch Bobbi on camera and soon Liz is being stalked by a tall blonde in sunglasses. Several attempts are subsequently made on Liz’s life. One, in the New York City Subway, is thwarted by Peter, who sprays Bobbi with homemade Mace.

Liz and Peter scheme to learn Bobbi’s birthname by getting inside Dr. Elliott’s office Liz baits the therapist by stripping to lingerie and coming on to him, distracting him long enough to make a brief exit and leaf through his appointment book. Peter is watching through the window when a blonde pulls him away. When Liz returns, a blonde with a razor confronts her; the blonde outside shoots and wounds the blonde inside, the wig falls off and it is Dr. Elliott, revealing that he is also Bobbi. The blonde who shot Bobbi is actually a female police officer, revealing herself to be the blonde who has been trailing Liz. Elliott is arrested and placed in an insane asylum. Dr. Levy explains later to Liz that Elliott wanted to be a woman, but his male side would not allow him to go through with the operation. Whenever a woman sexually aroused Elliott, Bobbi, representing the unstable, female side of the doctor’s personality, became threatened to the point that it finally became murderous. When Dr. Levy realized this through his last conversation with Elliott, he called the police on the spot, who then, with his help, did their duty. In a final sequence, Elliott escapes from the asylum and slashes Liz’s throat in a bloody act of vengeance. She wakes up screaming, Peter rushing to her side, realizing that it was just a nightmare (similar to the ending of Carrie).

Sensual images of a couple, a man and a woman, making love in the shower. He (Robbie L. McDermott) suddenly attacks her. Cut to a couple making love in bed. It looks like she was the woman who was remembering the shower scene. When he finishes, she doesn’t seem to be much satisfied. The radio is on. The woman is named Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson). She tells off her son Peter “Pete” Miller (Keith Gordon) because he doesn’t want to go to the museum with her: He prefers to stay home working on an improved computer which can count binary numbers up to 20 digits. It looks like Kate’s partner, Mike (Fred Weber) is not Pete’s father. Kate leaves home to see her psychiatrist, Doctor Robert Elliott (Michael Caine), who has to perform the duties of receptionist as Mary is on a holiday. Kate complains about the “surprise” visit of her mother from Florida due to her approaching birthday. She also complains about Mike’s “specialties” She is fed up with her husband and mother, but she doesn’t say anything to the right person. Elliott tells her not get angry with him but with Mike and tell him that he’s bad in bed. She questions Elliott whether he finds her attractive or not. He admits that he finds her attractive, but he also says that he’s married and doesn’t want to put his marriage in danger. Kate say she isn’t sure whether putting her own marriage with Mike at risk would be worthwhile,

Later, Kate is at the museum. A man sits next to her. She leaves a glove for him. They follow each other around the museum. She loses his sight, so she has an expression which says “obviously, he wasn’t serious about me,” but when she turns around he’s there staring at him. She seems to panic for a second and then is happy that he’s not there. But he appears again, on her back, touching her with her own glove. When she realizes she’s lost it, she tries to find it and then she realizes he’s got it. Music is innuendo while she tries to find him. When she leaves the museum, she sees his hand showing the glove from a yellow cab. She smiles and tells him politely, “thank you for retrieving my missing glove”, but he pulls her inside. They make love while the taxi driver (Sean O’Rinn) looks at them through the inside mirror. She has a noisy orgasm. They arrive to his destination, his apartment. She stays with him through the afternoon. When she is about to leave, she finds papers stating that he’s suffering from a sexually-transmitted disease and that she will have probably caught it. She leaves. When she is in the lift, she is so nervous that she caresses her hands one against the other. Then she realizes that she’s forgotten her wedding ring in the apartment of the man. She has to go to the flat again, but when she gets to the right floor, another blonde woman – probably using a wing – with dark sunglasses stabs her with a straight razor. Kate is left for dead, all bloodied. Another couple of people has called the lift: They are discussing the convenience of buying the shares of a particular company. He runs away, but Elizabeth “Liz” Blake (Nancy Allen) stares at him. When she looks inside the lift Kate is still alive. They try to reach out for each other’s hand, while the doors of the lift are slowly closing down. In the last second, Liz stares up and in the reflection of the mirror she sees the blonde-wigged woman who is about to cut her hand as well. She backs up. A cleaning lady (Amalie Collier) appears and she shouts when she looks at Liz with the razor menacingly held by her hand.

Dr. Elliott finds an answering machine message left by a man (William Finlay) saying that there’s a woman trying to get out of his body He’s worried, because the man has also committed to stealing a straight razor from the cabinet of his office. Detective Marino (Dennis Franz) questions Elliott, who gets very defensive but doesn’t mention the answer machine message. Meanwhile, Liz is waiting to be questioned as well and Pete is listening to the whole conversation. Marino mentions that the man, Warren Lockman (Ken Baker) was recognized by the taxi driver. Mike picks Pete up. Marino questions Liz about what she was doing in the building. She says she was with a married man. She is a prostitute. Marino suspects her: Nobody saw the blonde woman and her fingerprints are on the weapon. The man, Ted (Norman Evans), is from out of the city and Marino tells Liz that she is the only interested person in finding Ted. When Liz leaves, Pete is also stuck with a man he doesn’t love at all – his true father died during the “Nam war He tries to investigate the case as well. In his blue moped, he follows Liz all over the city. He arranges a camera to be hidden inside the box at the back of the bike. When he watches Liz, the mysterious man has phoned Dr. Elliott again. Threatening her. Liz tries to stay home, but she needs the money to invest in the company which Ted had recommended, so she asks for $500 to meet a client, Cleveland Sam (Brandon Maggartp in Room 331. She leaves a bit distraught. She jumps into a taxi but realizes that somebody is following her. She asks the young taxi driver (Bill Randolph) to lose the follower. The taxi driver wants to meet her for dinner. The taxi driver tries to help Liz: She opens the door of the taxi when the blonde lady is following Liz. Liz runs to the underground, but when she tries to leave another blonde transsexual or travesty scares her off. Liz approaches some black men (Robert Lee Rush, Anthony Boyd Scriven, Robert McDuffie and Frederik Sanders) who are listening to the radio, but one of them, called Sonny, threatens her as the train arrives.

Liz tells the police officer (Samm-Art Williams), who ends up thinking she is making it all up, because he can’t see any gang threatening to “cut her up” and Liz’s claims that a blonde is following her leave the officer even more convinced that she’s mad. At the next station, the police officer leaves. When the doors close, the gang appears again, just causing a nuisance to all passengers. Liz runs from them and closes one door behind. At that moment, the blonde woman puts a razor on her mouth and wants to slash her with another straight razor. Fortunately, Pete saves Liz using an anti-rape spray of his invention. Liz invites him over. Pete sleeps at Liz’s and she promises that she won’t tell anyone that he’s not studying French at his friend Paul’s. Liz tells him that she knows that the blonde woman left the doctor’s office, but she can’t explain who she knows it. As Marino can’t get a register order like that, he suggests to her to enter Dr. Elliott’s office and check the doctor’s agenda. Dr. Levy (David Margulies) tells Dr. Elliott that one of his patient’s Bobby/Bobbi (William Finlay) has stopped seeing him because he won’t approve of his sex change. Dr. Elliott tells Levy that Bobbi must be the murderer of the lady in the lift and they also comment on the missing razor. Later, Liz pretends to be a new patient of Dr. Elliott. She tells him about an erotic dream of hers, but also admits that she’s a prostitute, although she sometimes makes love to men for pleasure. She gets naked trying to seduce him. During all this time Pete is watching with some lens. Liz checks the address book of Dr. Elliott and she thinks that the name she’s looking for is Chris Clemens. Pete tries to tell her that the blonde woman is inside the office – he’s seen it – but a blonde woman has attacked him, so when he finally can cry out to Liz the blonde woman is already prepared to slash her with a straight razor.

At that moment the blonde woman who is holding Pete down shoots Bobbi. The wig falls off. The blonde woman is a wounded man. It’s Dr. Robert Elliott. Sometime later, Levy, Marino, Pete and Liz are setting down. Levy explains that Dr. Elliott had a double personality: He was the masculine doctor but he was also a patient who wanted to have a sex change performed and giving Bobbi as his name, he visited Dr. Levy. Levy says that Elliott represents Bobbi, but that when Bobbi decided to go for the sex change surgery, that pushed him to act. Levy said that every time that Dr. Elliott felt attracted to a woman her alter-ego killed that woman. That blonde woman who attacked Pete was police officer Betty Luke (Susanne Clemm), who was in charge of following Liz. Marino pushed her to enter Dr. Elliott’s address book because he didn’t have any proofs against him. Liz explains to Pete how a sex change operation takes place. He replies, sitting comfortably at a restaurant with her, he may change the subject of his investigation and use himself as the subject of that sex change, instead of investigating about computers. Meanwhile, back at a madhouse, a nurse (Anneka di Lorenzo) walks in to give Dr. Elliott the medicine he must take. He looks defenseless and sleepy, but he jumps and strangles her. All the loose madmen cheer. Pete invites Liz to sleep at his home, saying that his stepfather won’t mind. Naked in the shower, Liz feels some danger. Somebody dressed as a nurse approaches and she knows it. She doesn’t have anything to defend herself in the bathroom, except for something in the medicine cabinet. However, suddenly, the razor is at Liz’s neck. The same blonde woman cuts Liz’s neck. Terrified, Liz wakes up in a bedroom at Pete’s. He tries to calm her down. Fade to black.

💎💎 ALTAR💎💎- Altar (also known as The Haunting of Radcliffe House) is a 2014 British horror thriller film directed by Nick Willing from his original screenplay. It is about a British family who moves into a dilapidated old manor on the Yorkshire Moors, only to discover that it has a dark past. The film stars Olivia Williams as Meg Hamilton, Matthew Modine as Alec Hamilton, Antonia Clarke as Penny and Adam Thomas Wright as Harper. The Hamilton family moves into a large country house on the Yorkshire Moors to supervise the restoration from a dilapidated B&B to the original Victorian grandeur. When Meg Hamilton, wife, mother and renovation expert loses her London renovation team after an accident, then a local Yorkshire team too superstitious to continue, she’s forced to carry on alone. The discovery of a secret attic room, a Rosicrucian mosaic, a bricked up root cellar and many other unexplained events gradually convince Meg, her husband Alec and children Penny and Harper, that they’re not only restoring the house, but also its original Victorian owners who died 150 years ago. But before they can escape, the house – and its former occupants – force them to spend one last, terrifying night under its roof. Artist Alec Hamilton, his wife Meg and their children Penny and Harper move into the bleak and isolated Radcliffe Hall in Yorkshire, which Meg is refurbishing for an American client. Penny believes she sees a ghost in one of Meg’s photos of the house and later clams that a ghostly young woman tried to get into bed with her. Uncovering what they believe is a Satanic altar on which Radcliff allegedly killed his wife in 1845 before drowning himself causes the workmen to quit and Penny brings in psychic Nigel Lean, who tells them that Radcliffe’s presence is very strong in the house. Meg is skeptical until she too sees a ghost and sees that Alec, who cut his hand which now bleeds for no reason, is being taken over by the ghost of Radcliffe. As night falls she prepares to take the children and flee but first must overcome Alec, who seems determined that history should repeat itself with Meg being sacrificed on the altar.

💎💎BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING💎💎- American single mother Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People’s Garden Preschool to collect her daughter Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting Ann but claims never to have seen the missing child. Ann and her brother Steven (Keir Dullea) search the school and find a sinister woman living upstairs, who claims she collects children’s nightmares. In desperation, the Lakes call the police and Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) arrives on the scene. Everyone becomes a suspect and Superintendent Newhouse is steadfast, diligently following every lead. The police and Newhouse decide to visit the Lakes’ new residence. They find that all of Bunny’s possessions have been removed from the Lakes’ home. Ann cannot understand why anyone would do this and reacts emotionally. Superintendent Newhouse begins to suspect that Bunny Lake does not exist after he learns that “Bunny” was the name of Ann’s imaginary childhood friend. Ann’s landlord (Noel Coward), an aging actor, attempts to seduce her. Newhouse decides to become better acquainted with Ann to learn more about Bunny. He takes her to a local pub where he plies her with brandy and soda.

On her return home, Ann discovers she still has the claim ticket for Bunny’s doll, which was taken to a doll hospital for repairs. Regarding the doll as proof of Bunny’s existence, she frantically rushes to the doll hospital late at night and retrieves the doll. Steven arrives later and when Ann shows him the doll, Steven knocks Ann unconscious and burns the doll, trying to destroy it. He takes Ann to a hospital and tells the desk nurse that Ann has been hallucinating about a missing girl who does not exist. Ann is sedated and put under observation. Ann wakes and escapes from the hospital. She discovers Steven burying Bunny’s possessions; he has sedated the child and hidden her in the boot (trunk) of his car. Steven implies an incestuous interest with his sister and complains that Bunny has always come between them; because he believes Ann loves Bunny more than him, the child threatens Steven’s dream of a future with Ann. Realizing that her brother is insane, Ann plays childhood games with him to distract him. Newhouse, having discovered that Steven had lied to the police about the ship that brought the Lakes to England, arrives in time to rescue Ann and Bunny and apprehend Steven.

Ann Lake arrives in London from America to join her brother Steven, a journalist. She hurriedly enrolls her illegitimate 4-year-old child, Bunny, in a nursery school and sees only the waiting room and the school cook. When Ann returns to the school to collect Bunny, the child is missing – none of the staff has seen her and the cook has walked out on her job. Police Inspector Newhouse is called in and attempts to put some clues together. He finds that he is not quite sure that Bunny even exists. Steven seems more concerned about Ann’s mind than about the child; nobody at the school has ever heard of Bunny; all of Bunny’s possessions that Ann claims were in the new house are missing; and Ann once had an imaginary playmate named Bunny. Nearly in shock, Ann finds a repair stub for one of Bunny’s dolls that leads her to a doll repair shop. Before she can take the evidence to the police, she is knocked unconscious by Steven, who steals the doll and burns it. Ann is taken to the hospital, but she escapes in time to see Steven take Bunny, drugged, from his car trunk. He is about to strangle her when Ann diverts his attention and suggests to him moments from their childhood when he, possessive of his sister, tried to destroy her imaginary playmate. She keeps Steven occupied with children’s games until the police, at last aware of the truth, arrive to take him away.

Young Ann Lake has just moved to England from America with her successful but controlling brother Steven. The two are extremely close, with Steven doting upon Ann. In a hurry the day she enrolls her child, Bunny, in a private school, Ann leaves her with the school’s female German cook, then runs off to do errands. That late afternoon, Ann returns to the school to pick up Bunny. To her increasing dismay, however, no one at the school seems to know where Bunny is or even who she is. Ann interrogates one of the school’s staff, Elvira, who hasn’t a clue. When the arrogant Steven arrives, he badgers Elvira further. Soon, Superintendent Newhouse, an unflappable British police officer, arrives, looking into the matter. He talks with all parties involved including Ada Ford one of the school’s elderly founders. The eccentric Ada resides in an upstairs room, where she’s currently compiling a tome about childhood nightmares. Newhouse continues his investigation, tolerating the threats and barbs from Ann’s increasingly accusatory brother, Steven. But as Newhouse puts together Ann’s profile, he begins to doubt her story in subtle ways. After all, since no one saw the child (the Cook has quit and has disappeared) he has to wonder if Ann even has a child. Is she delusional, perhaps?

The insinuation infuriates Steven, but he seems to back it up with references to Ann having had an imaginary playmate named Bunny as a child. Ann must now try to find clues that her child really exists. She must also fend off her creepy new landlord, Wilson, an aging homosexual actor who’s always drunk and carting about his little dog. The Police interrogate him, as well. When Steven comes across Newhouse talking to Ann in a pub, he blows up at the officer, threatening him and accusing him. As police attempt to locate the Cook, Ann’s nightmare intensifies. Desperate for evidence that will prove the existence of her child, she suddenly remembers the claim check for a store that’s repairing Bunny’s doll. In spite of the late hour, Ann goes off in a cab after telling Steven where she’s going. In the meantime, Newhouse and his men look into travel records that brought Ann and Steven to England. Ann finds the doll shop, which although closed, has an unlocked door. She gets the doll from the proprietor. Steven has followed her, however and Ann presents him with the doll and goes off to deal with the Proprietor, Steven gets a crazed look in his eye and sets the doll afire. Ann is horrified. Ann follows Steven to a remote location where he has Bunny hidden. Steven is the kidnapper! Indeed, Steven is so close to his sister Ann he found Bunny an intrusion in their relationship. Steven has now lapsed into another identity – a more murderous one and likely an extension of their imaginary selves as children. He’s now intent upon killing the child, so as to have sole access to his sister again. Ann tricks Bunny away from the demented Steven by engaging him in a series of childlike games. Steven chases Ann and Bunny, but Newhouse and Police soon arrive, arresting the demented young brother. They finally found the evidence they needed of the child’s existence by way of travel records.