tjc's - Rented List

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Originally intended to be a 68-minute student film, 'Dark Star' was the creation of University of Southern California film students John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon.

It is the twenty-first century story of four bored astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late commander Powell is stored in deep freeze, where he is still able to offer advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a "smart bomb" who thinks it is God.

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At the height of the terror of WW1, the few survivors of an English regiment, trapped behind enemy lines, take refuge in a deserted German trench, waiting to be rescued. But when no help arrives, one by one they begin to suffer mysterious and gruesome fates.

Slowly, a terror beyond all human understanding is unleashed. Is the trench possessed by something even more terrible than the war that surrounds them or does some other unknown evil wait to claim them all?

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"No Way Up" is a high concept combination of disaster movie and survival thriller, as characters from very different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocearn.

The stricken airliner comes to rest perilously close to the edge of a bottomless ravine with the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an air pocket.

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The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland, 'In Fabric' is a delirious retail nightmare that blends Euro-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect.

Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows the journey of a cursed artery-red dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences.

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Every house is identical. Every house is empty. Except for yours. Welcome to YONDER. Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) are a young couple looking to take the next step in their relationship and own their first home.

Sold on the prospect of an ideal suburban lifestyle at the newly opened YONDER, they drive out with enigmatic estate agent Martin (Jonathan Aris) to take a look, and the trap is sprung. In YONDER, the food they're given has no taste, identical homes line identical streets tesselating toward the horizon underneath a sky dotted by uniform clouds, and every road leads right back to the new home that has become their prison. The idyllic dream of 'suburban bliss' has given way to a recursive nightmare, and the only hope for Gemma and Tom's escape lies within a mysterious box and the infant inside it.

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Children of a broken marriage, Richard (Clive Owen) and his sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves), meet up after years apart and embark on a forbidden and illicit affair.

Against the backdrop of a glorious British Summer, their relation-ship intensifies as they struggle to accept the aftermath of their actions. Richard becomes gripped with infatuation for his sister and matters come to a head when Natalie's husband Sinclair (Alan Rickman) suspects that his wife is having an affair, little knowing that the lover he is so jealous of is his wife's own brother.

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Three desperate souls must fight their way out of a dead-end world in this bracing, gut-punching glimpse into America's dark underbelly. Earl (Jamie Bell) is a struggling ex-marine and father determined to make a better life for his family - no matter what it takes.

Angus (Frank Grillo) is a violent, unhinged drug dealer, who leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake. And Delia (Margaret Qualley), is a haunted woman who will do anything to escape a life of crime she can no longer bear. In their kill-or-be-killed world, all roads lead to the Donnybrook: an illicit backwoods cage match where bare-knuckled fighters brawl for a shot at a $100,000 prize. Blending an unflinching and brutal vision of life on the extreme margins.

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Step into a magical world with superstars Olivia Newton-John (Grease) and Gene Kelly (Singin' in the Rain) as they take you through one of the most extraordinary musicals in the beloved film, 'Xanadu'! A beautiful muse is sent from up above to inspire a struggling artist and help motivate him to

open a roller-disco. The dazzling soundtrack includes the hit songs "Magic", "I'm Alive", "All Over the World", "Suddenly" and the title song "Xanadu". Throw on your roller-skates, turn up the volume and enjoy this sparkling out-of-this world fantasy!

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The open highway becomes a terrifying battleground of blood, metal, fear and murder when a young couple Grace and Jim (Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton) hit the road and encounter the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean) during a violent storm.

The initial encounters with Ryder escalate rapidly as he transforms into a deadly, racing psychopath, and the stakes are raised further when he frames Grace and Jim for a horrific slaying that makes them fugitives from the law. As the carnage mounts and the action pushes you to the edge of your seat, Grace and Jim must fight for their lives and face their fears head-on.

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After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorises Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays...or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

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While watching two children on Halloween night, a babysitter finds an old VHS tape in the kids' trick or treat bag. The tape features three tales of terror, all linked together by a murderous clown. As the night goes on strange things begin to occur in the house.

It isn't long before the babysitter learns the horrifying truth... the maniacal clown is slowly working his way into her reality.

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Duane Bradley (Kevin VanHentenryck / Sean McCabe) seems like a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed creature who lives in a wicker basket.

Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at a seedy hotel, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation.

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It's Full Scream Ahead...in the big apple as one killer mouse turns a late-night ferry ride into a bloodbath.

Prepare for carnage as David Howard Thornton ('Art the Clown' in Terrifier) wages war on unsuspecting passengers as Willie the mouse takes creative license on an incredibly inventive killing spree. In some cases, size matters. For Willie it's all about what you do with it that counts.

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A bawdy look at life in Britain's conscript army of the '50s, and how our 'virgin soldiers' spent two years defending King and country.

Take Private Brigg (Hywel Bennett), for example, when he's not filling in forms or engaging the Malaysian bandits, he's out on manoeuvres with a Chinese dance-hall girl named Juicy Lucy (Tsai Chin). She is supposed to be a lady of easy virtue but, to Brigg's delight, she proves to be a lady of no virtue at all. Brigg also sets out on that most dangerous of all military operations - an affair with the Sergeant Major's daughter.

It's Alex's (Sophie McIntosh)'s 21st Birthday, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse (Simon Phillips) decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.