Silence of The Lambs
Synopsis:
Jodie
Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy.
Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter
(Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath,
serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford
believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an
attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Movie
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In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller,
Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training
academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment:
the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills
young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott
Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a
brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind
bars.
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R (adult situations/language)
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Feb 13, 1991 Wide
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Jul 1, 1998
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1 hr. 58 min.
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The Omen
Synopsis:
A
new age of evil threatens to arise when an American diplomat (Liev Schreiber)
and his wife (Julia Stiles) learn that the child (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick)
they adopted may be the son of Satan. Mystical signs point to the Antichrist's
coming battle for dominion over heaven and Earth.
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The prophecy from the Book of Revelation
provides a map to a terrifying future. The passage specifically points to the
arrival of the Anti-Christ and the beginning of Armageddon. Robert Thorn, a
senior American diplomat, has other things on his mind. His wife, Katherine,
who had suffered two previous miscarriages, has endured yet another
unsuccessful delivery, but she's unaware their newborn child has died. The
hospital priest, Father Spiletto, presents Thorn with another child born that
night, whose mother died in childbirth. The priest compels Thorn to take the
infant boy as his own. Katherine will never know the truth. Katherine embraces
the child as her own, blossoming in motherhood. Thorn's career ascends. He
becomes the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and the family settles into an
estate outside London. But certain disturbing events seem to revolve around the
now five-year-old Damien. The boy's nanny hangs herself at his birthday party;
a strange priest brings dire warnings to Thorn; a children's trip to the zoo
results in a panicked frenzy; Damien becomes hysterical during a drive to
church; and blurred movements in a series of photographs portend shocking
deaths. Then tragedy strikes closer to home. It's apparent that Damien is the
long-prophesized Anti-Christ. Now, Thorn must make the ultimate sacrifice to
prevent the unspeakable terror that awaits the world.
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R (for disturbing violent content, graphic
images and some language.)
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Jun 6, 2006 Wide
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Oct 17, 2006
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$54.6M
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1 hr. 43 min.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
Synopsis:
Teenagers
Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin
having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater
and a glove made of knives. The man, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley),
terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when
one of their number dies violently, the friends realize that what happens in
the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
Movie
Info:
Columbus late-night legend Fritz The Nite Owl
will host a 30th anniversary screening of A Nightmare On Elm Street, complete
with host segments and vintage commercial breaks. Please remain in your seat
after the film for more Fritz!
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R (for strong bloody horror violence,
disturbing images, terror and language)
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Apr 30, 2010 Wide
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Oct 5, 2010
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$62.0M
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1 hr. 36 min.
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The Shining
Synopsis:
Jack
Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook
Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with
his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is
plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's
visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and
begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.
Movie
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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980
adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and
psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack
Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous,
mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the
Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack
that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks
it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise. Settling into
their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and
plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous
lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego,
"Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is
plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts
visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her
husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon
discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the
hotel has done to Jack. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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R (adult situations/language, nudity,
violence)
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May 23, 1980 Wide
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Jun 29, 1999
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2 hr. 25 min.
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The Conjuring
Synopsis:
In
1970, paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed
(Patrick Wilson) Warren are summoned to the home of Carolyn (Lili Taylor) and
Roger (Ron Livingston) Perron. The Perrons and their five daughters have
recently moved into a secluded farmhouse, where a supernatural presence has
made itself known. Though the manifestations are relatively benign at first,
events soon escalate in horrifying fashion, especially after the Warrens
discover the house's macabre history.
Movie
Info:
Before there was Amityville, there was
Harrisville. "The Conjuring" tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine
Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators,
who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded
farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find
themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
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R (for sequences of disturbing violence and
terror)
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Jul 19, 2013 Wide
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$137.4M
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1 hr. 52 min.
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