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Jake Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a college history professor who is somewhat dissatisfied with his life. One day when watching a movie he spots a bit-part actor who looks exactly like him and begins investigating who this doppelganger is.

Becoming increasingly obsessed, Adam decides he must meet with this mysterious person, but when he does he unearths more than he'd bargained for.

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Come in - if you dare. The opening-night gala for a new exhibit at Chicago's Natural History Museum is under way. But be advised: something terrifying wants to make sure no one ever leaves.

Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt and James Whitmore star in this effects-packed shocker that gives haunted-house movies a terrific new setting. And the non-human star (brought to head-ripping life by Jurassic Park Oscar winner Stan Winston) is something no creature fan can let slip by.

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We're constantly connected through our phones, laptops and the Web every moment of every day. But while we look at our screens, who's looking at us? Meet Emma, a beautiful young grad student who has just moved from the Midwest to New York, excited to be on her own in the big city.

But when a stalker hacks into her devices, he destroys Emma's illusions of privacy and she discovers just how fragile our sense of security can be. Ashley Benson stars in the groundbreaking psychological thriller that explores a world where the cameras are always on and someone's always watching.

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30 years after a strange shark hybrid escapes out to sea from an island Naval Research Station Simon Chase (Craig T. Nelson), a Marine Biologist, his ex-wife Amanda (Kim Cattrall) and their teenage son Max (Matthew Carey) are working in that same facility.

They then experience shark-like attacks against their boat and on the island but the only one who'll believe their story is an unbalanced drunk called Werewolf. Together they explore the old naval buildings and discover a hidden cavern where they encounter a shark-like creature that stands on two-legs! Barely managing to escape its deadly jaws, Amanda and Simon dig up the old research notes and make a horrifying discovery: the creature is made from human DNA and Werewolf is directly implicated!

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In a time lost to history, when the Gods still walked among us, they sent a warrior to reclaim the mystic gold that had plunged the world into endless battle and bloodshed. But when dark forces eager to possess that prize thwart his destiny, a curse is unleashed that may destroy a kingdom.

This is the story of Siegfried the dragon-slayer (Benno Furmann), his quest for the glory of the gods, and the women he is torn between - the warrior Queen of Iceland (Kristanna Loken) and the beautiful Princess of Burgund (Alicia Witt).

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When an ill-advised prank misfires, summer camp caretaker Cropsy (Lou David) is committed to hospital with hideous burns. Released after five years, hospital officials warn him not to blame the young campers who caused his disfigurement.

But no sooner is Cropsy back on the streets than he's headed back to camp with a rusty pair of shears in hand, determined to exact his bloody revenge.

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Stricken and suffering with a terminal disease, multimillionaire Steve Battier (Rutger Hauer) is desperate to be young again. Prepared to risk all, Battier approaches RPG: a biotechnological company with the ability to displace age, pain and reality.

Submerging the rich in an extreme, revitalizing experience, a ten-hour game ensues. The players awake in unfamiliar territory and transformed physiques. Faced with the reminder of their old-age holograms, the deadliness of the rules are quickly established and play begins. In the body of a 23-year-old, Battier soon realizes that to be the sole survivor means a guarantee of eternal youth and as the clock ticks and the game darkens, the players must find out the price they are truly willing to pay...

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Inspired by the classic Universal film, The Wolfman stars Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman who returns to his family estate after his brother's fiancee, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), begs him to help find her missing love.

Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers that a beast with an insatiable bloodlust has been killing villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, Talbot discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Bob (Dwayne Johnson), a once-bullied geek, grows up to be a lethal CIA agent and reaches out to former 'big man on campus' Calvin ((Kevin Hart) as their high school reunion approaches. The subsequent world of shoot-outs and espionage into which Bob drags Calvin could get them both killed.

Director James Wan returns to his roots with this new original horror thriller. A woman is paralysed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.

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After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9-plus earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter.

But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it's just getting started.

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Chilling to the core and dripping with tension, this compelling film explores the dark side of meddling with nature. At the end of a desolate road in rural Ireland lies the dilapidated Reilly's farm. But amongst the mud, rotting wood and rusted metal hides a terrifying secret.

Desperate to make ends meet, Farmer Dan Reilly allows a local biogenetics research firm to perform experiments on his pregnant cattle for much needed cash. But when the birth of one of the test cattle goes horribly wrong, his quick money making scheme turns to a desperation of a different kind as an unearthly and terrifying horror is unleashed into the rural idyll. Literally bursting with equal amounts of blood, gore an edge-of-your-sent tension, Isolation is hugely atmospheric, original and shocking and will keep you gripped 'til the final reel.

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From Oscar-Nominated producer Ridley Scott and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast including Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie.

Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists is working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment's subject - a genetically designed "human" (Anya Taylor-Joy) - triggers a terrifying event, those involved must decide if the promise of infinite potential outweighs the incalculable danger.

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Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Lust. Envy. Wrath. Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) guides the action - physical mental and spiritual - with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

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Desperate to win the contract to clean up the abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital, the boss of an asbestos removal company promises a fast completion.

The crew have their own personal history and tensions run high, but the derelict building has its own past and they are about to uncover the dark secrets hidden within ifs walls.