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A group of inner-city children are taken to the countryside to see what life outside the ghetto is like. Unfortunately, the illegal use of some pesticides has mutated a breed of insect into a vampire-like creature with an insatiable lust for human flesh.

As they swarm over the country they are looking for human hosts to lay their eggs of evil in. Yuck.

In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who's driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind.

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After a family tragedy, siblings Andy (Billy Barrett) and Piper (Sora Wong) move in with their new foster mother, Laura (Sally Hawkins). But her strange behavior soon reveals a dark secret. Trapped in a house steeped in occult horror, they must confront their past to survive.

From the Philippou brothers (Talk to Me) comes a chilling descent into madness.

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After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment.

Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.

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When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a seeret rather than face the consequences.

A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer...and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.

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David Graham (Michael Redgrave) is an alcoholic father who arrives in London after his release from an American sanatorium. His son has been sentenced to hang the next morning for murder, and Graham's lawyer, (Peter Cushing), stresses that they have just twenty-four hours to save him.

Convinced of his innocence, Graham tries to unravel the twisted connections that his son had with the Stanford family and the murdered girl. But Graham's unwelcome interference drives the Stanfords apart and Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) forbids his wife (Ann Todd) from helping. As time ticks away and a last minute reprieve fails, Graham must battle his alcoholism, Robert Stanford and the entire British legal system if he is to save his son from the gallows.

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Charlie's back, and she's just burning for revenge! In 1984, Stephen King's Firestarter became a horror film hit, with its frightening tale of a young couple whose involvement in a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child.

The child is now a woman Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) has spent the last 10 years on the run from the unscrupulous government agents who created her. Now she's through with running and has decided to reclaim her life. A showdown is inevitable, and Charlie's only chance for survival lies in a turncoat government agent and a half-mad professor named Richardson (Dennis Hopper).

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An elaborate game of mind control begins when the son of government agent Peter (Kirk Douglas) is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him, the father hires a girl (Amy Irving) with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S.

agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments - and programmed for elimination.

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Days away from his coronation, a secret meeting with the woman he loves turns into a life and death fight for survival for the future King of England, Richard the Lionheart (Stuart Brennan).

Ambushed by hired mercenaries, and with the identity of the man who ordered his murder a mystery, Richard is left with no allies he can trust. Standing alone as civil war looms, with his kingdom on the brink of chaos, the young prince is forced to face not only his enemies but the harsh responsibilities of leadership. Will he choose to fight for his crown, or love?

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Delving into the eerie underbelly of a seemingly idyllic 1974 Florida town, this creepy suspense thriller - inspired by a young girl's unimaginable ordeal with a serial killer - follows the harrowing experience of Annie Williams (Madison Wolfe), a spirited girl whose carefree existence is turned

upside down as she becomes stalked by an ominous man in a white van. Known for her wild imagination, her parents dismiss her fears, plunging Annie into a terrifying Halloween nightmare that shatters her world.

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The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.

Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

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Washed ashore in Scotland on a blood stained rowing boat, a young woman (Bella Dayne) suffering from severe memory loss appears to be the sole survivor of a doomed trans-Atlantic World Record attempt.

With all of her crew mates missing, presumed dead, she must try and piece together her fractured memories of the ordeal in order to prove her innocence. As a local DCI (Tam Dean Burn) attempts to uncover what really happened on board the doomed vessel, a captivating story unravels. Suspicion is pointed towards a mysterious last minute crew member, whilst other clues indicate that the boat was being deliberately sabotaged. The twisted tale that comes together is one of paranoia, sleep deprivation, inescapable pressure, and a breakdown of trust, as the team battle for survival not just against the unforgiving ocean, but against one another.

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Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis), a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives.

Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.

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Outrageous MTV star Tom Green blows away the boundaries of good taste again - violating so many sacred cows (not to mention horses, elephants and deers), it makes 'Freddy Got Fingered' a must-see comedy.

Anything goes when wannabe animator Gord Brody leaves the safety of his parents' basement to make it big in Hollywood and meet the paraplegic nymphomaniac of his dreams.

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After an intense confrontation with a serial killer, news anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) is left traumatised and suffering from amnesia. In need of recovery, Karen takes refuge within "The Colony", a country retreat organised by her psychiatrist Dr. Waggner (Patrick Macnee).

But things at "The Colony" aren't as idyllic as they originally seemed and as blood curdling screams break the midnight silence, Karen's memories slowly begin to come into focus.