griggs's - Horror Films (Available on Cinema Paradiso) Everyone Should Watch Once List

During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. But what starts out innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.

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John Russell (George C. Scott) has been haunted by the horrific death of his wife and child for months. A change of lifestyle and a move to Seattle may be the only way to escape the visions that torment him.

With the help of a woman, Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), a local historian, he moves into an old mansion and begins a new job. But before his life can completely heal, John Russell is plagued by a peculiar string of events, leading him to the discovery of a hidden attic room and a troubled presence that lies within. Consumed with a need to discover the truth of the hidden room, John must right an injustice from long ago.

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An abandoned boat in New York Harbour unleashes a deadly flesh crazed Zombie cargo...A young American woman and a journalist investigate a tropical island where a deadly disease is making the dead walk...

Soon, thoughts of getting to the bottom of the murderous curse will be forgotten, as Fulci's walking corpses overwhelm the living and reports come in that the Big Apple is swarming with the living dead...

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Deep in the basement of an abandoned church, once run by a sinister religious sect, lies a strange bottle of green liquid being investigated by a group of local theoretic physics students.

But as the night draws in the students soon realise that the strange relic holds a dark and powerful force beyond their control. A force that could well be the essence of pure evil: the remains of Satan himself.

On a daredevil caving holiday six girls are trapped underground when an unexpected rock fall blocks their exit. Searching the maze of tunnels for a way out, they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless, hungry predators, once humanoid but now monstrously adapted to live in the dark.

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Country living doesn't turn out quite like this dysfunctional family had hoped for in this riotous black comedy from director Kim Ji-woon. When a family opens a mountain lodge, their ambitions for establishing a haven of calm are soon dashed by the death of their first guest.

The family decides to bury the body to avoid damaging the hotel's reputation but before long they're welcoming more guests ...in the form of a suicidal couple. Burying them seems the obvious course of action until the local council starts work on their long-awaited road through the families makeshift burial ground. Events spiral out of control until eventually one of the fatal guests happen to be a policeman and the full force of the law lands in the Korean countryside.

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Dastardly aliens are invading our planet making the dead rise from their graves to feed on the flesh of the living!!! When wannabe rocker, Ace unwittingly saves his rock'n'roll superstar heroes, Guitar Wolf, from a backstage shootout with the maniacal Captain, he has the honour of becoming their

blood brother. Which is lucky because with a town full of voracious zombies and the Captain on the lookout for revenge, Ace Needs All The Help He Can Get!!! Answering Ace's distress call from a special whistle, the super group charge in with guns and guitars ablazing! With help from Yamazaki, a sexy arms dealer, and Tobio, a girl who is more than she appears, the ground is soon awash with blood and guts as the Rock'n'Roll Haley's Comet explodes into action!!!

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Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from.

Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.

Following the death of her father, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) meets her charismatic uncle (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed. When he moves in to comfort India and her mother (Nicole Kidman), the two find that the newest member of their family might actually be their worst nightmare.

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Deep in a forest near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion used as a special psychiatric hospital for the military. Those who know of its existence and the nature of project Freud refer to it as 'Center Eighteen'.

Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns, which are unaccountable by their services experiences. Determined to establish the true nature and origin of the men's mental illness, the Pentagon enlist Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacey Keach), a brilliant, yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist. Typical of the patients is Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who aborted a space probe. He is convinced that God is a fraud. His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments - they fear the evil within themselves and are afraid that, with a Godless universe, man leads a purposeless existence. Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man, Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic facade of the inmates and of Captain Cutshaw in particular. But as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity and madness assumes an increasingly vague definition, so much so that Kane's colleagues pose with real urgency the question of who is therapist to whom.

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As mysterious deaths plague a small prairie town, eight-year-old Seth (Jeremy Cooper) comes to believe that the reclusive widow living next door (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire.

Seth's worst nightmare comes true when his brother Cameron (Viggo Mortensen) returns home and falls in love with the widow - will he be next? The truth is more shocking than Seth could imagine.

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Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), an art restorer, is commissioned on the recommendation of a friend to work on a bizarre, ghoulish fresco of San Sebastian hanging in the church of a sleepy village.

The disturbing image was painted by a deranged local artist famed for his habit of depicting his subjects in the last throes of death. As time passes in the rural outback the strangeness of the locals and a building sense of dread begin to haunt Stefano, who nevertheless embarks on an affair with the supply teacher at the local school. Although the village folk are friendly enough on the surface, things are not entirely as they appear and Stefano feels a rising sense of unease as tales of murder and savage behaviour begin to emerge.

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Imagine if you could make anyone love you, look more beautiful, or punish your enemies just by casting a spell...Sarah (Robin Tunney) is a a 17-year-old with a troubled past. Uprooted by her parents and moved to L.A. where she begins the final year at St.

Benedict's Academy, Sarah is a lonely stranger - until she meets a brigade of black lipstick and nails: Nancy (Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (Neve Campbell) and Rochelle (Rachel True). These girls may never be in with the in-crowd - they're barely in with each other, but recently they have been dabbling in the strange world of witchcraft and the occult. With the addition of Sarah, their union is finally powerful enough to make their wishes come true...and dangerous enough to make their enemies very sorry!

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"The Exorcist 3" sees writer William Peter Blatty return to direct this 'first true sequel' to the original film, based on his own novel. Fifteen years have passed since Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) died exorcising Regan MacNeil. Now his best friend Lt. Kinderman (George C.

Scott) is troubled by a series of mysterious murders which are strangely reminiscent of those committed by the Gemini killer - who was executed on the night Karras died. Does the killer's spirit live on, and if so in whom? Kinderman's investigation leads him to an amnesiac in a mental hospital who has recently awoken from a fifteen-year coma, can describe the Gemini killings in detail, and bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Karras.

Using brain-implant technology, corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.