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Last updated September 10, 2025
Habit
1995 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this stark vampire film, the near-alcoholic Sam (Larry Fessenden) meets the hauntingly beautiful Anna (Meredith Snaider) at a costume party -- and then she promptly disappears. Sam becomes obsessed with the woman, abandoning his friends when they need him the most. Most notably among those friends is his pal Larry (Jesse Hartman), who had a fling with a similarly mysterious girl and now appears sickly and pale.
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Noise
2005 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsDivorcée Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff) moves to New York City to reinvent herself. Things go smoothly at first but start to sour when neighbor Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy) exacts a heavy toll on Joyce's nerves; Charlotte's late hours and callous indifference to other tenants aren't exactly the lynchpins of friendship. Ultimately, Joyce realizes that only drastic measures will stifle Charlotte in director Tony Spiridakis' indie thriller.
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Grimm Love
2006 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this shocking thriller based on a true tale, graduate student Katie Armstrong's research into killer and cannibal Oliver Hartwin and his willing victim, Simon Grombeck, leads to a dark journey into the men's twisted deed and tortured psyches.
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Clear Lake, WI
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsFifteen years after the government permanently evacuated their town to stop a strange disease from spreading, old friends return home, dredge up suppressed memories, struggle to exorcize personal demons and fall under attack by an unknown assailant. This intense thriller co-stars Michael Madsen as a fiery preacher determined to punish all sinners and Shi Ne Nielson as a documentary filmmaker searching for the truth.
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Macbeth
2006 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSomething wicked this way comes as discontented mobster Macbeth (Sam Worthington) plots a coup d'état of his Melbourne crime family in this sleek and riveting retelling of Shakespeare's classic story of murder and revenge. When witches prophesize Macbeth's rise to power, he kills mob boss Duncan (Gary Sweet) and assumes control. But Macbeth's rule is soon opposed, and the bloodletting rages out of control. Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme also star.
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Suburban Mayhem
2006 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsNineteen-year-old single mother Katrina (Emily Barclay) is, by all accounts, a bad seed. Now, her brother (Laurence Breuls) needs money to appeal his murder conviction, and Katrina thinks she has the answer: killing her father (Robert Morgan) so she can inherit his house and sell it. A collage of flashbacks -- from the police and Katrina's fiancé, ex-boyfriends, family and friends -- describe Katrina's scheme and how such a nice suburban girl went so bad.
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Karzzzz
2008 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen mysterious flashbacks reveal that he is the reincarnation of a wealthy man murdered by his greedy wife, rock star Monty Oberoi sets out to get revenge for the decades-old crime. But he discovers that the killer is already a key part of his life.
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Cold Weather
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsAfter things go south for former forensic science major Doug (Cris Lankenau), he leaves Chicago and returns home to Oregon to live with his sister, Gail (Trieste Kelly Dunn) -- and soon finds himself entangled in an unexpected situation that calls on his investigative mind. Together with Gail and his friend Carlos, Doug uses his forensic skills and the techniques he's learned as a detective fiction enthusiast to unravel the mystery he encounters.
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We Are What We Are
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his father unexpectedly drops dead, teenage Alfredo (Francisco Barreiro) reluctantly steps up to provide for his mother and siblings in the way that Dad always did: by luring unsuspecting victims home to be ritually killed and eaten. But as a detective (Jorge Zárate) closes in on the cannibal clan, Alfredo finds that he may not have the stomach to fill his father's shoes in this genre-melding tale directed by Jorge Michel Grau.
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Darkness
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWanting to escape from city life and devote himself to painting, successful musician Marek (Ivan Franek) returns to his rural childhood home -- but once he settles in, he's tormented by increasingly disturbing memories and visions in this spine-chilling thriller. As a relationship with local woman Lucia (Lenka Krobotová) grows, Marek must face the truth about his dark past and the horrible tragedies that took place in the house.
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Magic Man
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSpurred on by her mother's onstage death while working as a magician's assistant, Tatiana sets out to meet Las Vegas illusionist Krell Darius and determine whether her loss was truly an accident. But Tatiana soon gets drawn into Darius's web.
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Blind Alley
2011 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsRosa finds herself trapped by serial killers in a deserted launderette hidden down a dark alley. After hours of a sadistic game of cat and mouse, she discovers something even more disturbing about her aggressors.
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Entrance
2012 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsAfter mysteriously losing her dog one evening, a Los Angeles barista questions her commitment to living in the city and decides to get out. But when her going-away party takes an odd turn, she finds that the city just might not let her go so easily.
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Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
1996 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsRamanbhai, the don of Mumbai, lords over most of the underworld criminal activity in the city. But when he attempts to woo a woman, he's met with opposition from her boyfriend, Aditya. Aware of the danger he's in, Aditya must avoid capture.
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The Undeserved
2004 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsThanks to good grades and inspiring teachers, Charlie Velasquez (James Martinez) has a college scholarship and a promising future ahead of him -- that is, until he and his friends (Paul Sado and Autumn Dornfeld) uncover a small-town secret that's forced its way to the surface. Director Brad Coley marks his feature-film debut with this sobering, mainly improvised tale of cause, effect and affected adolescence.
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No Telling
1991 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsIn this eerie sci-fi thriller, artist Lillian and her scientist husband, Geoffrey, retreat to the country to mend their faltering marriage, but the researcher's backyard lab experiments take a frightening turn when he begins working on wild beasts.
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Happy Here and Now
2002 | NR | 2.2 out of 5 StarsWhen her emotionally distant sibling disappears without a trace, a worried sister combs New Orleans to track her down and bring her home. Unfortunately, the only clues to her whereabouts are an abandoned computer with a hard drive that's been erased and a mysterious resident of cyberspace. Can a computer-savvy detective help uncover the data needed to recover the missing woman? David Arquette, Ally Sheedy and Gloria Reuben ("ER") co-star.
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