tjc's - Rented List

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Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are two gorgeous, filthy rich, manipulative stepsiblings from Manhattan's upper east side.

Bored of the girls he has so easily seduced in the past, Sebastian has set his sights on the ultimate challenge - the beautiful, virginal, headmaster's daughter Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). Kathryn sees the perfect opportunity for a wager. If Sebastian fails to lure Annette into his bed, he will have to surrender his priceless vintage Jaguar; if he succeeds, he will win the most tempting prize of all - Kathryn. Sparks fly in this wickedly sexy tale of seduction as Kathryn and Sebastian play a dangerous game of sex and betrayal...

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Five seemingly ordinary people become trapped in a skyscraper elevator. Each has a dirty secret, a tainted past. All seems well until the lights go out... and the screaming begins. With no way to escape, the horrific truth dawns that one of them is the Devil...

and only then they realise that very bad things happen for very good reasons.

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A secret government experiment has produced unexpected results and now the last remaining victim and his young daughter are on the run. Their only defence is the psychic powers granted them by the experiment.

The father has limited mind-control powers but his daughter (Drew Barrymore), whose mother was also psychic, has tremendous power over fire.

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The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most infamous witch trials in English history. Still to this day, locals will not venture out alone at night for the evil witch Demdike never sleeps.

Unfortunately for Matilda (Lowri Watts-Joyce), her historian father (Mark Topping) has disappeared on the haunted hill and she must venture into the woods, face the dark spirits and rescue him before it's too late.

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Kill the fiends... or become one of them! Skewering vampires isn't easy when the bloodsucking monsters know every martial-arts move ever tried by the living and the undead! Van Helsing goes to China to learn the truth about haemoglobbing ghouls terrorizing a village and enslaving their victims.

The vampirologist and his elite warrior band (David Chiang) don't search long. Dracula himself arrives to oversee his henchmen's reign of death!

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Meg (Hiftu Quasem) attends an old friend Lizzie's (Lauren Lyle) dream destination wedding in the Caribbean with her ex-partner Kayla (Natalie Mitson) and friends Ruth (Ellouise Shakespeare-Hart) and Cam (Nicole Rieko Setsuko).

However, when a boat trip goes horribly wrong, the five friends soon find themselves fighting for their lives as well their relationships as they brave the shark-infested waters.

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"The Breakfast Club", an iconic portrait of 1980's American high school life...

When Saturday detention started, they were simply the Jock (Emilio Estevez), the Princess (Molly Ringwald), the Brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the Criminal (Judd Nelson) and the Basket Case (Ally Sheedy), but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined.

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Have an ice day! It's a parched future, and water, the galaxy's only valuable commodity, is controlled by the evil Templars. Their only foes: a handful of daring Ice Pirates.

Spoofy-goofy comedy, otherworldy special effects, spectacular space creatures, bedraggled 'bots and bicep-rippling swashbuckling highlight this cult fave. Robert Urich (Vegas), Mary Crosby (Dallas), Anjelica Huston (The Addams Family) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy) romp through a storyline involving a determined princess, the search for her missing father and a lost planet awash in sweet water. The main concluding time-warp battle is just ice-ing on the intergalactic cake. Dig in!

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Sting is inspired by one of humanity's greatest fears, arachnophobia, made more monstrous than ever before. A strange little spider falls from the sky and is discovered by Charlotte (Alyla Browne), a rebellious 12-year-old girl.

She names it Sting and as Charlotte's fascination with Sting increases, so does its size. Growing at a monstrous rate, Sting's appetite for blood becomes insatiable. Neighbours' pets start to go missing, and then the neighbours themselves. Soon Charlotte's family and the eccentric characters of the building realise that they are all trapped, hunted by a ravenous supersized arachnid with a taste for human flesh.

From writer and director Ben Wheatley, 'In the Earth' is the story of a scientist and park scout who venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.

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Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz), a sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner.

That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends - but Greta's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta's life is what it seems...

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Jacob (George MacKay) believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, a real-life condition known as species dysphoria. In a clinic for treatment, he meets the other patients who all self-identify as another species.

Together they undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper (Paddy Considine). The only respite to this ever-growing restlessness is the enigmatic Wildcat (Lily-Rose Depp) with whom he roams the clinic in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation, but can he renounce his true self for love, and will he ever be able to deny the being inside?

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Welcome to Ogden Marsh, Iowa: the friendliest place on earth. A picture perfect town where your neighbours are your friends and your friends are your neighbours...Until they want to kill you.

A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the George A. Romero horror classic. Sheriff David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), find themselves trapped in the once-idyllic town they can no longer recognise. On the run from infected neighbours, loved ones and friends, targeted by the ruthless military and terrified of getting sick, they are forced to band together with other survivors in a desperate struggle for survival.

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Professor Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) seemingly has it all - a great job, the envy of his colleagues, the perfect wife and a healthy skepticism when it comes to all things supernatural.

However, over the course of a weekend, Taylor discovers that his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) is a witch and that she has been practicing witchcraft ever since their honeymoon - apparently in an effort to protect him from jealous colleagues and assist his rise within the department. Despite her anguished protestations and warnings, he insists on destroying all the magic paraphernalia in the house and tries to carry on as normal, turning a blind eye to the possibility that his wife and her black magic could in some way have been behind his success. That is until the very next day when things in his life start going badly wrong...

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Boy (Bill Skarsgard) is left orphaned, deaf, and voiceless when his family is brutally murdered in front of him. Driven by his inner voice, taken from his favourite childhood video game (the legendary H.

Jon Benjamin), Boy escapes to the jungle where he encounters a mysterious shaman (The Raid's Yayan Ruhian) who trains him to become an instrument of death. Seeking revenge Boy embarks on a mission against the corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty headed by the deranged matriarch Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), unleashing carnage, delirious violence and martial arts mayhem on his road to retribution.