Released July 26th in the US.
Filmed in Italy, France, and the UK.
The story: The Griswold family finds themselves on yet another vacation trip after being the winners of a trip to Europe thanks to a game show.
They have high hopes that the trip will be the time of their lives.
Although everything seems to fall through for them and they find themselves in one dilemma after another, the family still sticks together and sees their vacation trough to its end.
Stars Chevy Chase , Beverly D'Angelo , Dana Hill , Jason Lively , Sheila Kennedy , John Astin , Tricia Lange , Paul Bartel , Cynthia Szigeti , Malcolm Danare , Kevi Kendall , Wendy Goldman , Angus MacKay , Julie Wooldridge , Peter Hugo , Jeannette Charles , Mel Smith , Gwen Nelson , Robbie Coltrane , Maureen Lipman , Paul McDowell , Ballard Berkeley , Eric Idle , David Gersh , Elizabeth Arlen , Philippe Sturbelle , Alice Sapritch , Isa Carol Horio , IDidier Painsabelle Massaro , Sylvie Badalati , Victor Lanoux , Massimo Sarchielli , Moon Unit Zappa , Gloria Charles
Directed by Amy Heckerling
Rated PG13
SEQUEL/COMEDY
Released February 6th of 1998 in the US.
Filmed in North Carolina.
The story: It seems that during the night time, at various different small airports, brutal murders have become the new norm.
A tabloid reporter is assigned the job of finding out as much about the murderer as possible.
Although the reporter is warned by the murderer to stop any further investigation, the reporter selfishly proceeds - knowing that when he gets his story he will be at the top of the reporting business once again.
But the reporter gets too close to the killer for his own good.
Stars Richard K. Olsen , Rob Wilds , Elizabeth McCormick , Beverly Skinner , J.R. Rodriguez , John Bennes , Robert Casey , Michael H. Moss , Ashton Stewart , Dan Monahan , William Neely , Miguel Ferrer , Windy Wenderlich , Julie Entwisle , General Fermon Judd Jr.
Directed by Mark Pavia
Rated R
HORROR
Released July 25th in the US.
Filmed entirely in California.
The story: Brennan is a grown man living with his single mother.
Dale is also a grown man living with his single father.
When Brennan's mom and Dales dad get together, fall in love and get married - Brennan and Dale find themselves living in the same house, unwillingly having to share a bedroom.
At first, all hell breaks loose between the two men, as they both don't see the fact that they act like young boys.
But when their lives as they know it fall apart, they are forced to finally grow up and take care of themselves so everyone will be truly happy.
Stars Will Ferrell , Mary Steenburgen , John C. Reilly , Richard Jenkins , Wayne Federman , Adam Scott , Kathryn Hahn , Lurie Poston , Elizabeth Yozamp , Logan Manus , Travis T. Flory , Lili Rose McKay , Seth Morris , Shira Piven , Andrea Savage
Directed by (and story partly written) Adam McKay
Rated R
COMEDY/DRAMA
This is based on truth....which has said to be the inspiration for the films 'Psycho'(1960) and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'(1974).
Released May 4th of 2001 in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story: Ed is a middle-aged man who was brought up fairly dysfunctional, living in the small town of Plainfield and is believed to be known by many.
Although a bunch of the townspeople that know him see him as harmless, others see him as purely out-of-the-ordinary strange and guilty of something.
Although Ed lives a pretty peculiar and reclusive lifestyle, he soon begins seeing visions of his deceased mother whom he adores.
She orders him to perform some brutal murders for what seems like legitimate reasons to Ed...and so he carries out his mothers' orders.
Stars Steve Railsback , Carrie Snodgress , Bill Cross , Brian Evers , Carol Mansell , Austin James Peck , Ryan Thomas Brockington , Luke Rowland , Sally Champlin , Steve Blackwood , Nancy Linehan Charles , Travis McKenna , Jan Hoag , Pat Skipper , Craig Zimmerman , Nicholas Stojanovich , Dylan Kasch , Tish Hicks , Lee McLaughlin
Directed by Chuck Parello
Not Rated
BIO/DRAMA/HORROR.HISTORY
Based on a true story, taken from the transcripts of the court case in 1966.
Being released in a few film festivals before being shown on television, May 10th of 2008.
Filmed entirely in California.
The story: Sylvia and Jenny are two young sisters who believe they live a good life with their carny mother and father.
Although their parents seem to think that traveling around with their daughters from fair to fair is not the best thing.
One day at church the sisters befriend a few girls their age and are invited back to their home to play.
When the girls' father finds out where they are, he visits the friends' mother - a single mother of six trying hard to make ends meet while she battles sickness with a few medications.
The mother agrees to take in the two young sisters and care for them while their parents travel, as long as the parents pay her a weekly salary.
But soon, things get really weird and extreme in this household, focusing on defenseless Sylvia.
Stars Ellen Page , Hayley McFarland , Nick Searcy , Romy Rosemont , Ari Graynor , Scout Taylor-Compton , Tristan Jarred , Hannah Leigh Dworkin , Carlie Westerman Bradley Whitford , Michael O'Keefe , Catherine Keener , Patricia Place , Calvin Keet , Michelle Benes , Brian Geraghty , Jeremy Sumpter , James Franco , Michael Welch , Evan Peters
Directed by (and story partly written) Tommy O'Haver
Rated R
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/HISTORY
Released February 29th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story: Four teenage girls are inseparable best friends.
They want to live together in their own place and they spend most of their time wondering how they can make that a reality.
One of the girls is worse off than the rest with an abusive and dominating father who drives his daughter to run from him.
She has many issues and turns to the wrong people and drugs to ease her sad home life.
When her friends are at their end with her behavior and give her the option to change or they will not be in her life, she chooses to do the right thing...but by that time, unfortunately, it's just a little too late.
Stars Jodie Foster , Cherie Currie , Marilyn Kagan , Kandice Stroh , Sally Kellerman , Lois Smith , Scott Baio , Sloan Roberts , Adam Faith , Jill Barrie Bogart , Wayne Storm , Mary Margaret Lewis , Grant Wilson , Fredric Lehne
Directed by Adrian Lyne
Rated R
DRAMA
Released January 16th in the US.
Filmed in Pennsylvania.
The story: A young man returns back to the town where he grew up and worked as a coal miner ten years earlier, where he caused a major accident to find that his old flame is married with child and there is a killer on the loose.
Ten years earlier, a man was put away for committing brutal murders on Valentine's day in the same town and it seems he may be back.
But the townspeople know that the murderer is dead, so they are now believing that the young man who had suddenly vanished ten years ago and has surprisingly returned out of the blue may be to blame for the recurrent bloody murders.
Stars Kerr Smith , Tom Atkins , Jaime King , Jensen Ackles , Edi Gathegi , Betsy Rue , Karen Baum , Megan Boone , Kevin Tighe , Joy de la Paz , Marc Macaulay , Todd Farmer , Jeff Hochendoner , Liam Rhodes , Bingo O'Malley
Directed by Patrick Lussier
Rated R
REMAKE/THRILLER/HORROR
Released in film festivals in 2002 until being released in theaters briefly in 2003 and 2004.
Filmed entirely in Massachusetts.
The film: Elizabeth Tivey is an aging , semi-retired actress, mother of a teenage daughter who is living the single life after her husband left her for a younger woman who is a friend of hers.
When Elizabeth's sister feels the need to make a documentary starring her, Elizabeth wants to have no part in it due to feeling shes let herself go.
Elizabeth's daughter who desperately wants to become a cosmetologist decides to give her mother a makeover, and she secretly loves it.
Now Elizabeth decides to star in her sisters' film after much pleading, but only wearing the makeup...the film that started as a documentary but ends up being a romance.
Elizabeth soon realizes that she is the attractive woman she thought she grew out of when she falls in love with the man she is cast to play romantically involved with.
Stars Brooke Adams , Lynne Adams , Eva Amurri , Light Eternity , Kalen Conover , Lance Krall , Jim Issa , Tony Shalhoub , Gary Sinise , Shaun Fogarty
Directed by Tony Shalhoub
Rated PG13
DRAMA/COMEDY
Released March 20th, 1964 in the US.
Filmed in Italy, France, and California.
The story: Inspector Clouseau is on a mission.
It seems that the rare pink diamond, which is named the pink panther because of a color flaw that resembles a panther, is in great danger of being stolen from the princess who owns it.
Little does the Inspector know that anyone could possibly be the thief.
The Inspector does everything in his power to keep the diamond safe and in the princess's possession.
Stars David Niven , Capucine , Claudia Cardinale , Robert Wagner , Peter Sellers , Colin Gordon , Brenda De Banzie , John Le Mesurier , James Lanphier , Guy Thomajan , Michael Trubshawe , Riccardo Billi , Meri Welles , Martin Miller , Fran Jeffries
Directed by Blake Edwards
Not Rated
MYSTERY/COMEDY
Released June 6th in the US.
The story: A young panda dreams of one thing, being a kung fu legend.
Although his father believes that his sons' destiny is noodles.
Everything changes when the panda gets his chance at being a hero when he is chosen to be the mighty dragon warrior who is to defeat the ultimate enemy of the people.
Stars (voices of) Jack Black , David Cross , Angelina Jolie , Seth Rogen , Lucy Liu , Dustin Hoffman , Ian McShane , Randall Duk Kim , James Hong , Dan Fogler , Michael Clarke Duncan , Wayne Knight , Kyle Gass , JR Reed
Directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
Rated PG
ANIMATION/FAMILY
"There is no price for awesomeness..or attractiveness"
Released July 18th in the US.
Filmed in Illinois, UK, China, and California.
The story: The town of Gotham is once again in trouble.
Of course, Batman is the usual suspect called upon to stop the crime and destruction.
When Batman is not in his crime-fighting attire, he is Bruce Wayne an almost regular guy with lots of connections.
He befriends Harvey who is becoming a very powerful lawyer in Gotham who happens to be seeing the love of his life.
After getting to know Harvey better, Bruce believes that he is Gotham's new hero and decides that maybe his beloved town no longer needs his help.
Stars Christian Bale , Aaron Eckhart , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Heath Ledger , Gary Oldman , Anthony Michael Hall , Michael Caine , Morgan Freeman , Chin Han , Ron Dean , Monique Curnen , Nestor Carbonell , Eric Roberts , Cillian Murphy , Ritchie Coster
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Rated PG13
ACTION/THRILLER/SCIFI
I believe this was part of the After Dark Horror Fest in 2006.
Released April 20th in the US.
Filmed entirely in California.
The story: A group of modern-day hippies are en route to an outdoor concert in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
On their way there, they encounter a little bit of trouble. But that doesn't stop them from their dream of getting to the concert and having a really great time.
What they don't know...is that there is a blood-hungry lunatic on the loose with a vengeance for hippies.
Stars Redmond Gleeson , Alan Draven , Bert Kinyon , Noah Maschan , David Arquette , Ben Gardiner , Balthazar Getty , Paz de la Huerta , Lukas Haas , Stephen Heath , Josh Hammond , Brad Hunt , Thomas Jane , Jaime King , Jason Mewes , Christopher Allen Nelson , Sean O'Brien , Richmond Arquette , Courteney Cox , Rocky George , DeAndre Gipson , Richard Gross , John McKnight , Angelo Moore , Rick Overton , Paul Reubens , Nicole Wilder , Marsha Thomason ,
Directed by (and story partly written) David Arquette
Rated R
MYSTERY/HORROR/DARK COMEDY
Released in April of 1974 in the US.
Filmed entirely in Belgium.
The story: 7 tourists have no choice but to stay the night in a mysterious castle.
What the tourists learn quickly is that the owner of the castles' family is cursed, and almost every one of them has died some sort of horrible death in the castle due to the curse which is in the form of a succubus.
The tourists learn of the succubus personally with drastic consequences.
Stars Jean Servais , Daniel Emilfork , Lucien Raimbourg , Jacques Monseau , Ivana Novak , Lorenzo Terzon , Shirley Corrigan , Colette Emmanuelle , Christian Maillet , Erika Blanc , Yvonne Garden , Frederique Hender , Maurice de Groot
Directed by (and story partly written) Jean Brismee
Rated R
MYSTERY/HORROR
