Let the Right One in

Genre: Horror
Release Date: April 2008 (Sweden)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord

Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Let The Right One In is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Written by John Nordling, Producer)

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Trick 'r Treat

Genre: Horror/Thriller
Release Date: 2008 (USA)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Cast: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Quinn Lord, Leslie Bibb, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Lauren Lee Smith

It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four women cross paths with a costumed stalker at a local festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick. Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem... the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety-human and otherwise-try to survive the scariest night of the year.

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Taken

Genre: Action/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 6.5
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Holly Valance, Goran Kostic, Katie Cassidy, Olivier Rabourdin, Radivoje Bukvic, Leland Orser, Camille Japy

Liam Neeson is a former spy, Bryan, whose daughter (played by Maggie Grace) is abducted in Paris. Bryan goes on a manhunt to find her. With this great cast, and the info from the synopses and trailers, I can see why people are champing at the bit to see it, here in the States.

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Paranoid Park

Genre: Drama
ImdB Rating: 7.3
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Daniel Liu, Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Winfield Jackson, Joe Schweitzer, Dillon Hines, Emma Nevins, Brad Peterson, Emily Galash

Based on a young adult novel by Blake Nelson, Paranoid Park concerns a teen-aged boy who frequents a suburban skate park, hypnotized by its punk energy and the anarchic spirit he discovers there. When a crime of horrific violence occurs nearby, the boy finds himself at the center of a criminal investigation. Within this rather straightforward construct, Van Sant fragments the narrative, trusting the audience to assemble the nonlinear details and impressions to resolve the story for themselves. The film is as fluid, obsessive, and mysterious as the young skateboarder's own maturing consciousness, as he struggles to connect his sense of being and self to the society and culture around him.

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The Bank Job

Genre: Action
ImdB Rating: 7.8
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner

In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a 'D' Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved. (Written by The Production)

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Sputnik Mania

Genre: Documentary
ImdB rating: 7.5
Direcor: David Hoffman
Cast: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Daniel Liu, Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Winfield Jackson, Joe Schweitzer, Dillon Hines, Emma Nevins, Brad Peterson, Emily Galash


The launch of Sputnik 50 years ago almost triggered a nuclear World War III. Global catastrophe was averted, however, because of a private agreement between two ex-generals. Now, with the help of recently released documents from the former Soviet Union, the full story of how close we cam to global nuclear war can be told for the first time.

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City of Men

Genre: Drama
ImdB Rating: 7.4
Director: Paulo Morelli
Cast: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos, Camila Monteiro, Naima Silva, Eduardo 'BR' Piranha, Luciano Vidigal, Pedro Henrique

In City of Men, producer Fernando Meirelles returns to the Brazilian favelas of his Academy Award-nominated film, City of God. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.


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Step Brothers

Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 25 July 2008 (USA)
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage, Elizabeth Yozamp, Lurie Poston, Richard Jenkins, Logan Manus

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who last teamed in the box-office smash "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," now star in "Step Brothers," directed by Adam McKay ("Talladega Nights"). In "Step Brothers," Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

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Married Life

Genre: Drama/Crime
Release Date: 8 May 2008 (Germany
Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck, Erin Boyes

After decades of marital contentment, Harry (Chris Cooper) concludes that he must kill his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) because he loves her too much to let her suffer when he leaves her. Harry has fallen hard for the young and lovely Kay (Rachel McAdams), but his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) wants to win Kay for himself.
As Harry implements his maladroit plans for murdering his wife, the other characters are entangled with their own deceptions. Like Harry, they race towards their passions but trip over their scruples, seemingly well-intended towards all, but truthful to none.

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Red Velvet

Genre: Horror
Release Date: 2008. (USA)
Dircetor: Bruce Dickson
Cast: Henry Thomas, Kelli Garner, Eric Jungmann, Michele Nordin, Kevin Wheatley, Natalia Baron, Bret Roberts, Ryan Doom, Jordan Hagan

A chance encounter at a laundry mat between a YOUNG MAN and YOUNG WOMAN turns into a afternoon lunch date. As they get to know each other, bizarre stories begin to unfold, some fact, some fiction about each other's past. Eventually, the Young Man delves into a story about a birthday party whose guests began to be systematically killed off by a maniac in a white jump suit. The Young Woman, oddly enough, becomes more and more intrigued with the tale as the mayhem mounts. Is this the beginning of a beautiful relationship or a building block leading to a day ending in madness beyond fairy tales? (Written by Anthony Burns)

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Open Graves

Genre: horror/Thriller
Release Date: October 2008 (USA)
Director: Álvaro de Armiñán
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Mike Vogel, Alex O'Dogherty, Ethan Rains, Naike Rivelli, Lindsay Caroline Robba, Boris Martinez, Gary Piquer, Martxelo Rubio, Ander Pardo


Directed By Álvaro de Armiñán, starring Mike Vogel (Cloverfield, Rumor Has it) and Eliza Dushku (Wrong Turn, Bring it On).In the vein of Final Destination, an international group of young surfers come into possession of an ancient artifact, Mamba, an old board game made from the skin and bones of a witch executed during the Spanish Inquisition. At a drunken party one night, they casually decide to play. Its all fun and games until they find out that curses last forever and death is the ultimate undertow.

FEARnet got the chance to speak to director Uwe Boll, during a Manhattan screening of "Postal," asking him if he is aware that an online petition has been going around to stop him from making movies. The petition currently has 18,000 signatures.

"Yeah, I know that," said Boll. "18,000 is not enough to convince me." When asked how many would it take, he replied: "One million. Now we have a new goal."

Boll has previously directed "House of the Dead," "Alone in the Dark," "BloodRayne" and "In the Name of the King." If you are tired of seeing films like that, click on the link below to sign the petition. Or you can just not watch his movies. (www.worstpreviews.com)

Can We Stop him?

Here can you sign the Petition

Planet 51

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Family
Release Date: 24 July 2009 (USA)
Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martínez
Voices: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott

The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Donkey Punch

Genre: thriller
Release Date: 2008. (USA)
Director: Oliver Blackburn
Cast: Julian Morris, Jay Taylor, Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley,  Jaime Winstone

After meeting at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort, seven young adults decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies in a freak accident the others argue about what to do, leading to a ruthless fight for survival.

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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

Genre: Action/Sci-fi
Release Date: 2008 (USA)
Directoe: Edward Neumeier
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Boris Kodjoe, Marnette Patterson, Stelio Savante, Garth Breytenbach, Stephen Hogan, Tanya van Graan, Jon Falkow, Anthony Bishop

The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation starship crash-lands on the distant alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel Johnny Rico, reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P, to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.

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