Sarah ("Freakshow")
Stanley ("Reducing Stanley")
This compendium of six horror shorts starring Matthew Glave, Alice Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Gayheart serves up a ghoulish cinematic buffet. Two pals discover the dangers of carnivals in "Freak Show"; a sea creature preys on victims in "Desserts"; a man has a "twin" who only surfaces when he sleeps in "Doppelganger"; and more. Also includes "Reducing Stanley," "Holiday on the Moon" and "A Fate Foretold."
2004-10-26
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A Collection of Horrific Shorts
6.6The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head before he reveals where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.
6.9In the aftermath of a deadly haunting in a small suburban home, a sinister omnipresent entity proceeds to cause havoc in the private lives of a young boy, an unsuspecting teen, and an absent-minded inspector.
Thee girls driving through a wooded area soon find themselves fighting for their lives after running into something on the road.
7.0Bubba's Chili Parlor, a restaurant in rural Texas, becomes ground zero for a worldwide zombie epidemic after Bubba unwittingly serves chili infected with a mutated strain of Mad Cow Disease.
On a ranch somewhere in the Midwest, Renee takes a stand against fear, uncertainty, doubt and evil itself. But does she have the strength to bring back the power of love to a brutal and unforgiving world?
6.2A young mortician learns that not even death can stand in the way of true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung Fu, and biker werewolves.
5.8A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion.
5.2A newly married couple wake up to find a door has appeared in their living room tempting them to open it and discover the mystery inside.
A mother home alone with her baby goes to sleep in her room next to a video monitor peeking in on her child. She is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call with a man on the other end claiming to be calling from inside her baby's room.
6.2While looking after a precocious young boy, Amy discovers a vicious serial killer named Daniel Lively has escaped from a nearby prison.
A disillusioned twenty-something ventures to an island infested with murderous creatures to confront his insecurities and become a man.
Two slackers discover their new found couch lurks with mysterious evil...
Cynthia is the story about a man in purgatory who's soul is being condemned to hell by his murdered girlfriend under the gaze of the devil who eagerly awaits.
A menacing porcelain doll comes to life at night to terrorize a young girl, in need of her human body as a gateway to live again.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. This film is lost.
A lonely woman with an overwhelming obsession of masturbation must extricate herself from what consumes her every moment.
6.3A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
5.0A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.
0.0One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost.
0.0During a wedding party, according to tradition, hide-and-seek is played in a local abandoned castle. The bride falls into a hidden corridor. As she enters a room, the door falls shut behind her. Inside, she finds a dead woman and a book that says she cannot get out of here. However, a cat taking her scarf outside is her salvation. The cat puts the searchers on the right track, and the groom finds his bride.