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Drive Angry

The story centers on a man (Nicholas Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.
Location: US - Louisiana

Completed

February 25, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Straw Dogs

James Marsden as a Hollywood screenwriter who accompanies his wife (Kate Bosworth) as she returns to her hometown in Mississippi. Her ex-boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard), a former high school football hero, sees her return as an opportunity to reclaim glory.

Completed

September 16, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Completed

April 8, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Vanishing on 7th Street

In the film, when a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, a disparate group of individuals (Christensen, Leguizamo, Newton) find themselves alone. The entire city's population has vanished into thin air, leaving behind heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. Soon the daylight begins to disappear completely, and as the survivors gather in an abandoned tavern, they realize the darkness is out to get them, and only their rapidly diminishing light sources can keep them safe.
Location: US - Michigan

Completed

February 18, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York VOD / Digital

The Absent

A high school teacher is forced to choose between his career and a love affair with one of his students. The pressure mounts when his twin brother, Oscar, returns after serving 25 years in jail for killing their parents.
Location: US - Washington

Completed

January 7, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD VOD / Digital

Apollo 18

The story follows film footage purported to have been shot by the crew of Apollo 18. This moon mission from the early 1970s was officially canceled by NASA, but according to urban legend, it actually happened. Footage shows signs of alien life, and the events of the mission are built into a thriller storyline.
Location: CA - British Columbia

Completed

September 2, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Sleeping Beauty

A haunting erotic fairy tale about a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.

The Ledge

Story centers on a man standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the policeman below (Terrence Howard) tries to manage the situation.

Completed

July 8, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles VOD / Digital

The Wave

Germany today. During project week, high school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) comes up with an experiment in order to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results begins. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community builds into a real movement: The Wave. By the third day, the students start ostracizing and threatening others. When the conflict finally erupts into violence at an intramural water polo game, the teacher decides to break off the experiment. But it's too late.

Completed

June 9, 2011 Limited VOD / Digital

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Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

Completed

November 4, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Suing The Devil

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.

YellowBrickRoad

In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, NH abandoned their homes and walked up an ancient trail, never to be seen alive again. Their fates have remained a mystery for over 70 years, until a team of researchers discover the trailhead and attempt to track the path the doomed citizens of Friar took.

Completed

June 1, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

The Big Bang

Antonio Banderas as a private detective searching for a former stripper who is supposed to exist but no one has ever seen in a mystery connected to a particle collider. She plays a meth addict who works at a medical center pretending to have different diseases for interns to react to.

Completed

May 13, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Atrocious

The film centers on the Spanish police’s discovery of hours of recorded evidence that shed new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family’s summer holiday, where a brother and sister investigate a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.

Completed

August 17, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Dream House

Successful publisher Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived.

When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Naomi Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will’s dream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next.
Location: CA - Ontario

Completed

September 30, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Road to Nowhere

A noirish tale of a young filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal scheme while making a movie on location.

Completed

June 10, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

The Chameleon

The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.

Completed

July 8, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...

At the height of the Cold War, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, has been compromised. An ever-watchful former top lieutenant and career spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), is called out of retirement by the government to help identify and track a suspected mole at the top of the agency. The list of suspects is narrowed to five men. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…
Location: UK - Unknown

Completed

December 9, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Insidious

A young family makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose son has become a conduit for the supernatural, while his consciousness is held hostage in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further.

Completed

April 1, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD