Patty Duke ("The Patty Duke Show," The Miracle Worker) and Richard Crenna ("The Real McCoys," First Blood) star in the edge-of-the-seat thriller Nightmare. When Howard Faloon (Crenna) witnesses a murder and is unable to convince police the killer lives in the courtyard across from his apartment, he tries to investigate himself, only to realize he is the sniper's next victim. The 1974 made-for-television movie from director William Hale ("The Streets of San Francisco") also features Vic Morrow...
In this engaging melodrama, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The Great Stanton," star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all his notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him.
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts from their bodies. Years later, the count remarries and the new wife experiences nightmares and hauntings. The ghosts of the slain return to exact their bloody revenge, until their hearts are destroyed. Nightmare Castle (Italian title:Gli Amanti d'oltretomba) is an Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Caino. The film stars Barbara Steele in dual lead roles, and its music was composed by...
Muriel and David are caught in an adulterous affair by her sadistic husband Stephen, who subjects the couple to horrific tortures in his laboratory. He viciously executes them, but they are far from being disposed of. The unholy lovers return from the grave to wreak horrifying revenge on the scheming doctor and Muriel's psychotic twin sister, Jenny. Originally released as Amanti d'Oltretomba, this incessantly gruesome film draws high praise from fright-fest connoisseurs.
Nightmare Code is an independent sci-fi thriller about behavior recognition technology, behavior modification, 24/7 surveillance and artificial intelligence. Brett Desmond, brilliant young programmer with a troubled past, is brought to a tech start-up where the previous lead programmer went on a workplace murder/suicide rampage. With just a month to finish ROPER, the highly advanced behavior recognition program, and only a small testing crew remaining, Brett works and sleeps in the...
Newlyweds David and Jill Webb (Dack Rambo and Rebecca Dianna Smith) want nothing more than to consummate their marriage in New Orleans. But on their way to "The Big Easy," they witness a murder. And when the sadistic killer (John Beck) realizes he's been caught in the act, he knocks David unconscious and rapes Jill. Eventually, David learns the story of his wife's assault, and sets out on a relentless vendetta to find the rapist and his partner and bring them to justice. Also starring Pat...
Nightmare In Red (1955, B&W): The shocking true story of the bloody rise of Communism is graphically presented through archival newsreels, stills, propaganda and clips from classic Russian historical cinema in this sobering but riveting documentary. The brutal slaughter of the Czar and his family, the rise of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, the horrific civil wars, the total struggle for survival against the Nazi hordes and the political oppression that claimed over ten million lives, are all...
The most acclaimed and shocking films ever to emerge from the Philadelphia underground!Award-winning creative artist and filmmaker Ted Knighton has produced a series of extremely disturbing short films that transform the commonplace into indelible images of horror. Knighton's productions have shaken up underground filmmaking in Philadelphia for over 30 years. Finally available, these films unsettle the viewer, and throw a dark twist into the perception of reality.IN (2009): A woman is obsessed...
Some of the world's deadliest creatures are easiest to miss. They are small, they hide in plain sight and they strike without warning. In Brazil, a barber sweeping his shop fails to notice the poisonous, wandering spider climbing up his broomstick and onto his arm. At night, on the paths of a Tunisian village, residents track down a lethal adversary with the help of ultraviolet light. As many as 100 glowing scorpions can be captured in a single evening. In Texas, a homeowner mowing his lawn...
At the rock hovel home of Abner Tasupi (George Clutesi), a 92-year-old high priest of the Masakai, tribal deputy Youngman Duran (Nick Mancuso) finds the old man trying to bring the world to an end by summoning Yewah, the monster god of the Masakai who guards the gates of life and death. Called to the Mamoa ranch, Duran is puzzling over the strange razor-sharp wounds and smell of ammonia coming from a dead horse when a helicopter soon arrives bearing Walker Chee (Stephen Macht), a...
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other's lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize that their differences could be their greatest advantage.
Against the dreary backdrop of Southeast London's concrete housing estates, the lives of three underclass Brits come crashing down. Gary Oldman's conversational, improvisatory script follows his characters wretched lives in crowded council flats, tawdry Piccadilly strip joints, with truly outstanding acting and honesty.
Nina's Heavenly Delights is a surprising love story and a young woman who must take over her father's Indian restaurant and compete in The Best of the West Curry Competition. When Nina then falls in love with the beautiful Lisa, she begins to question a world that has been thrown into sudden turmoil. Can her feelings ever be reciprocated? And, if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family? What ensues is a comical and touching exploration of what it means to be true to yourself and...
Will (Winston Duke) spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on Earth. Soon, several candidates -- unborn souls -- arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma (Zazie Beetz), a candidate who is not like the...
A group of drug runners/freedom fighters has kidnapped a busload of tourists in the Philippines and is threatening to kill them all if one of their partners is not released from prison and the government doesn't halt its anti-drug policies. To stop the criminals, a trio of specialist soldiers are called in. Even with all their training, will they be able to stop the terrorists when they begin killing hostages and turning loose their squads of attack midgets?
Based on the acclaimed play "Complications" by Michael Kearns, Nine Lives is an explosive exploration into the lives of nine strangers whose passions suddenly intersect in ways none of them imagined. What results is a sexually charged, provocative yet surprising story of eight gay men dealing with the intricacies of intimacy and love. Led by Dennis Christopher (Chariots of Fire, Breaking Away), Debra Wilson ("Mad TV") and award-winning stage actor Michael Kerns, Nine Lives encompasses the...
By summer's end 1970, in a forgotten corner of the first televised war, 25 journalists covering the Cambodian chapter of the Vietnam War went missing or were confirmed killed. This is the story of a few of them. On May 31, nine members of a CBS/NBC news team went looking for a story. What they found was execution--their own! What cameraman Kurt Volkert found was a mission. Volkert felt he should have been with the team that day, and spent the next 20 years fighting to bring his dead friends...
When an accident kills her twin brother, a teenager refuses to believe he's dead. As the 'Nine Night' - a Caribbean mourning ritual begins, her descent into paranoia unleashes long-buried secrets, which threatens to destroy her family.
Hold onto your egg rolls for the acclaimed ninja adventure filled with bullets, blades and hot babes! The Ninja VIP Super Club is doing a slow drag across the American Midwest, culminating in female sacrifice. When they kidnap a super hot babe that local scumbag Rex (acclaimed filmmaker Ryan Harrison) has his eyes on - it's up to him to become the ninja badass to steal her back. Then she can have his babies! "Perfect midnight movie" - Emilie Black, Cinema Crazed.
A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten badly. Months later she is hunting down the three men by posing as a drug dealer while her Interpol agent husband is doing some tracking of his own.
Set in the majestic South African coastal lands, adolescent Krotoa is sent from her tribe to live with Dutch colonialists. Trapped amidst often-violent conflicts between two cultures, she becomes the translator and a skilled mediator, but Krotoa is eventually charged with being a traitor by both sides. Though hope for this tragic heroine fades, her troubled life journey leads to the birth of a nation, ultimately unifying what was once torn apart by ethos.
Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopordize Tiger's prostitution ring.