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Description:
POLTERGEIST (1982):
110 minutes
They're here." And they seem almost whimsical at first, playing stack-the-chair games in the kitchen of the Freeling's suburban home. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks, little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. And as her family confronts a chain reaction of horrors and fights to bring the youngster back, something else is here too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories. Producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and director
Tobe Hooper head the elite scream team of this spooktacular whose nerve-jangling effects include floating phantasms, the fiercest monster ever to pop out of a closet and an entire house collapsing into nothingness. Welcome to Home Sweet Haunted Home.
COPYCAT (1995):
123 mintues
One of the best-reviewed thrillers of recent years is COPYCAT, an adrenaline pumper about the desperate hunt for a mass murderer who copies serial killers of the recent past. An ambitious San Francisco homicide detective (
Holly Hunter) and a noted criminal psychologist (
Sigourney Weaver) piece together a jigsaw puzzle of crime as they close in on a fiend with a knack for staying a step ahead.and leaving a body behind.
Jon Amiel (Sommersby) directs and Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick, Jr. and Will Patton co-star in "the smartest and most gripping thriller since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" (Jack Mathews, NEWSDAY)
FALLEN (1998):
119 minutes
Homicide detective John Hobbs (
Denzel Washington) pursues a killer down a bustling sidewalk. There she is: a small middle-aged woman. No- wait: the killer is the timid man beside her. Now it's someone else. It's all and none of them. Because the murderer Hobbes seeks is a demon passing from one human host to another with the brush of an overcoat or touch of a hand. Hobbes stalks a seemingly immortal foe in Fallen- an intense thriller co-starring John Goodman and
Donald Sutherland, written by Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune) and directed by
Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear). An ages-old evil faces a shattering showdown with one clever, tenacious man.