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Train

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 4:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 34 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.
Directed by: 
Gideon Raff
Produced by: 
Boaz Davidson, Avi Lerner
Executive Producer(s): 
Danny Dimbort and Avi Lerner
Written by: 
Gideon Raff
Main Cast: 
Thora Birch, Gideon Emery

Quietus

Screens before The Disappeared

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Showtime: 
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 2:00am
Run Time: 
8m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Margo stares at the moon and thinks of the man she loves. He has callously ended their relationship and Margo is angry, violent thoughts swirling in her head. Meanwhile, an evil intruder is in the house, butcher knife in hand, ready to kill. Soon, Margo will be confronted by this intruder and she will have to choose what her life is worth. Will she embrace the light of life or the dark of the QUIETUS?
Directed by: 
Dustry DePree
Produced by: 
Angelo Schuurmans, Adrian Donaldson & Jared Rodgers
Written by: 
Dustry DePree
Main Cast: 
Yvonne Gianeschi, Angelo Schuurmans & Azure Dawn

The Gates Of Hell

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Showtime: 
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 3:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 28 min
Country: 
Australia
Synopsis: 
Shrouded with mystery and years of speculation, the foreboding Von Diebitsch Manor is notoriously renowned. Decades of abandonment have built a reputation of evil and myth, but its true origins remain obscured behind the 15-foot bluestone walls that enclose the entire property. Tonight, five filmmakers set out to make a film within the grounds, but unwittingly stumble across the estates heinous truth and find themselves caught in a relentless struggle to survive against a brutal antagonist.
Directed by: 
Kelly Dolen
Produced by: 
David Parker
Written by: 
Kelly Dolen (screenplay), Justin Dix
Main Cast: 
Michael Piccirilli, Samantha Noble, Christian Clark, Bradley Tomlinson & Amy Beckwith

The Tale of Haunted Mike

Screens prior to El Rey de la Montana
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Showtime: 
Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 9:00pm
Run Time: 
12m
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Haunted Mike makes his living trolling the internet in search of the arcane and bizarre (or, at least, extremely cheap). By concocting scary (if not entirely true) histories for the items he finds, Mike ekes out a shut-in's existence selling the things on e-Bay under the tag "haunted". His days of sniping are number, however, when he stumbles upon a genuine pants-sh*tter: an antique prosthetic arm made for a child.
Directed by: 
Drew Daywalt & David Schneider
Produced by: 
Fewdio
Written by: 
Drew Daywalt & David Schneider
Main Cast: 
Michael D'Alonzo & Thomas Rhoads

Langliena

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 9:30pm
Run Time: 
7m
Country: 
Italy
Synopsis: 
A young man tapes his statement on an horrible and bloody secret he discovered one day when, driven by curiosity, he entered in an isolated cabin in the woods. The place is in fact an abattoir where human beings are butchered and fed to a corpse-eating creature, a ghoul. As he is about to conclude his account, the protagonist receives the visit of an unexpected and unwanted visitor.
Directed by: 
Emiliano Ranzani
Produced by: 
Emiliano Ranzani
Written by: 
Emiliano Ranzani
Main Cast: 
Omar Ramero and Alessio Vacchi

Les Inhumains/Unhumans

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 9:30pm
Run Time: 
16m
Country: 
France
Synopsis: 
At home, a family crisis: The baby cries, the sisters fight, the father shouts. The mother seizes a big knife. On TV, things are getting worse. The army has the situation under control, so they say.
Directed by: 
Oliver Monot
Produced by: 
Oliver Monot
Written by: 
Oliver Monot
Main Cast: 
Kemilembe Monot, Olivier Monot, Natacha Monot, Nina Monot, Deonasia Lombert & Alice Monot

Headless Horseman

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 11:30pm
Run Time: 
1 hour 27 min
Country: 
USA|Romania
Synopsis: 
Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood, where the spirit of the Headless Horseman hunts them one by one.
Directed by: 
Anthony C. Ferrante
Produced by: 
Ken Badish
Written by: 
Zachary Weintraub
Main Cast: 
Isaebella Pensinger, Lin Shaye, Ray Wise

Buried Alive

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Showtime: 
Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 7:00pm
Run Time: 
1 hour 34 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Tobin Bell stars in this terrifying story about a group of lustful college friends on a road trip to a remote desert cabin. As a night of extreme truth-or-dare and wild partying gives way to sheer fright, the teens are terrorized by a vengeful corpse who was cruelly entombed on the property. Directed by legendary make-up effects wizard Robert Kurtzman of From Dusk Till Dawn fame, Buried Alive is a chilling, retro fright-fest packed with sex, shocks and supernatural horror!
Directed by: 
Robert Kurtzman
Produced by: 
David S. Greathouse, Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Pritzker
Executive Producer(s): 
Nathan Kahane, Mike Richardson, and
Written by: 
Art Monterastelli
Main Cast: 
Tobin Bell, Terence Jay, and Leah Rachel

The Tripper

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 19, 2007 - 4:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 33 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
Directed by: 
David Arquette
Produced by: 
David Arquette, Courteney Cox Arquette, Evan Astrowsky, Neil Machlis, and Navin Narang
Written by: 
David Arquette and Joe Harris
Main Cast: 
Richmond Arquette, Paz De La Huerta, Balthazar Getty, Lukas Haas, Brad Hunt, Thomas Jane, Jaime King, Jason Mewes, Paul Reubens, and Marsha Thomason

Frayed

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Showtime: 
Friday, October 19, 2007 - 4:00am
Run Time: 
1 hour 51 min
Country: 
USA
Synopsis: 
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to hunt him down, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by Kurt, who is determined to kill him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the same woods where Kurt had escaped. Kurt's psychosis escalates, culminating in a terrifying, climactic confrontation with Kurt, the Sheriff and his family. Their fates and the dark secret behind Kurt's demented mind are revealed in this stylish and suspenseful film that will scare you senseless and leave you shocked and disturbed.
Directed by: 
Rob Portmann and Norbert Caoili
Produced by: 
Rob Portmann and Norbert Caoili
Written by: 
Kurt Svennungsen & Dana Svennugsen
Main Cast: 
Tony Doupe, Aaron Blakely, and Alena Dashiell