My Soul To Take

According to legend, a serial killer The Ripper will return to the quaint town of Riverton^[4] to murder the seven children that were born the night he allegedly died. Sixteen years after his death, members of the community begin to disappear. All the teens know the Ripper to be dead, but they hold the belief that his soul may have reincarnated into one of their bodies, forcing them to discover who among them may be the killer. Only one of the teenagers knows the answer. Adam "Bug" Hellerman was supposed to die on the bloody night his father went insane. Unaware of his father's terrifying crimes, Bug has been plagued by nightmares since he was a baby. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the Ripper, he must face an evil that will not rest.

Case 39

Social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is assigned to investigate the family of 10-year-old Lillith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been abusing Lillith, and proposes to her department to take the child away from her parents' custody. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lillith's parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at their home. Emily saves Lillith with the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane). Lillith is originally sent to a children's home but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lillith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lillith's parents (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O'Malley) are placed in a mental institution.
Not too long after Lillith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later another of Jenkins's cases, a boy named Diego (Alexander Conti), suddenly murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime. As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lillith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames (Bradley Cooper). During the session, however, Lillith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night while studying he receives a strange phone call in his apartment, Douglas is panicked by the sight of a mass of hornets coming out of his body and kills himself in his bathroom.
Emily gradually becomes fearful of having Lillith in her home, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lillith's parents. They tell her that Lillith is a demon who feeds on feelings, and that they tried to kill her in an attempt to save themselves. Lillith's father tells Emily that the only way to kill Lillith is to get her to sleep. Shortly after Emily leaves the asylum, both parents die in unusual circumstances. Lillith's mother is fatally burnt and her father is stabbed with a fork.
Barron initially thinks Emily should seek psychiatric help, but is later convinced when he receives a strange phone call in his home from Emily's cellphone, which is being used by Lillith. He arms himself at the police precinct to aid Emily in handling Lillith. However, he inadvertently shoots himself when Lillith makes him imagine he is being attacked by dogs. That night, Emily has Lillith drink tea spiked with sedative. While Lillith is asleep, Emily sets fire to her house, hoping to get rid of her. However, the girl escapes unharmed from the burning house.
The police offer to escort Emily and Lillith to a temporary place to sleep. As Emily is following the police cars, she suddenly takes a different route and drives her car at a high speed, hoping to bring fear to Lillith. She then drives the car off a pier. As the car sinks, Emily struggles to lock Lillith (now in the form of her demon self) in the trunk by folding the rear seats against her. Emily then exits the car, but as she swims away, Lillith grabs her leg after punching a hole through the car's left tail light section. Emily struggles to break free until Lillith finally lets go as the car continues to sink. She climbs back ashore, relieved to be rid of Lillith.

Let Me In (film)

In 1983 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, an ambulance is being escorted by the police to a hospital. An unidentifiable and mute man is in a hospital room being guarded by a police officer. A police detective enters the hospital and visits the suspect, tells him that he will catch whoever else is in league with him, but is then called out to the reception area by a nurse to take a phone call. While he is on the phone, a scream is heard from the suspect's room, and when the detective returns he sees that the suspect has fallen out of the window several stories to his death. Before doing so, the man scribbles a note reading, "I'm Sorry Abby."
Flashback to two weeks earlier, Owen is a very unhappy and lonely 12-year-old child, who is neglected by his divorcing parents (who no longer live together) and continually harassed by bullies at his school. While peering at neighbors from his bedroom window with a telescope, he notices a girl named Abby and a man who appears to be her father moving in next door. Abby reluctantly becomes Owen's friend after telling him that they can't be friends, but won't tell him why. Abby and Owen grow closer and closer, hanging out late at night and developing feelings for one another. Abby claims and appears to be 12-years-old. During school Owen writes down the Morse code alphabet for he and Abby to use to communicate to each other through their walls. He encounters the bullies in the bathroom between classes, and Jimmy (the main bully) scars his face with an antenna rod he carries around with him. Owen meets Abby later that night and gives her and explains the system of Morse code. Abby then notices his band aid covering his cut and tells Owen he needs to hit back, and she will help him if needed. Owen scoffs and says that she's just a girl, but Abby assures him that she is stronger than she looks.
Meanwhile, Abby's Father/Protector periodically goes out at night to kill local residents so that he can bring their blood back to Abby, as blood is the only thing she can survive on. His first attempt is successful in getting a victim at a gas station, and stringing him upside down in the snowy woods, but when he is collecting the blood, his leg falls through thin ice and spills all the blood. In a panic from an oncoming car, he flees the scene, returning home to Abby with nothing. Abby, furious that he returns empty handed, goes outside and tricks a neighbor jogging by pretending to be hurt and kills him for blood. She quickly snaps his neck after biting him. On the other hand, Abby continues developing her emotional relationship with Owen by using his Morse code to communicate with him by tapping on the wall from her apartment: we see that Abby rudely tells her Protector to get out of the living room and leave her alone, so that she can use the wall to send the coded messages to Owen in privacy. The Father/Protector meekly cooperates and goes to another room, and we see that Abby has considerable power over her Protector and that she can be demanding. At some point, the Father/Protector asks Abby to stop talking to Owen, and his behavior reveals signs of jealousy that they may have more of a relationship than fully expained, but Abby gently touches his face, alleviating his fears of abandonment, but not expressly telling him that she will not see Owen anymore. He Acts taken aback by this, slamming his tools into his bag. One night The Protector goes out and picks a car at the local high school that he can hide in until the owner returns, although when the owner returns a friend is with him which complicates matters. They stop at a gas station and when the passenger notices The Protector in the backseat, the passenger is attacked and killed, but not before The Protector attempts to drive away and rolls down an embankment on the side of the road. Fearing that his identity will be discovered, The Protector douses his face with acid so that his connection to Abby will not be discovered by the police. The Protector is taken to the hospital with a police officer posted outside his room, and when Abby hears on the news that he is there, she goes to visit him by climbing up the side of the hospital wall outside his window. Abby is stricken with grief over what happened to The Protector and to put him out of his misery, Abby kills him by sucking his blood after The Protector implores her to do so, and he falls out the window to his death.
Abby is traumatized and confused by the loss of her Protector. She goes to Owens bedroom window and while he is asleep, she asks him if she can come in. Owen allows her into his room, and he asks her to go steady and be his girlfriend. She rejects him first, but when Owen tells her that nothing will change between them, she accepts. As the friendship between the Owen and Abby deepens, the police detective gradually learns of The Protector's past and how his connection to Abby. The next day on a field trip at school, Owen stands up to Jimmy and hits him with a pole in the head, splitting his ear badly. When Owen tells Abby about his encounter that night, Abby leans down and kisses him lightly on the cheek. He then takes her down to an abandoned area of the complex as a surprise. Owen is certain the adults have no idea about it. He wants to surprise her and implores that she closes her eyes, he cuts his finger to make a blood pact with her. Abby is taken aback by the blood falling to the ground from his finger and drops to the ground to lick up his blood. She looks up and Owen is able to see her true vampiric face, not wanting to attack Owen. Abby runs from Owen and attacks a woman in the complex park named Virginia. Abby bites Virginia's neck and tries to drink her blood, but shes pushed and chased off by Virginia's boyfriend, Larry.
Owen comes to terms that Abby is a vampire, and still likes her the same, as she is able to provide the affection he could not find in the human society. He goes to her apartment and stays the night there. As Owen looks through Abby's belongings, it becomes clear from the ancient photos that the middle-aged man who was protecting her was not her father, but that many years ago, he once was a young man who became her friend. At the hospital the next morning, the police detective learns from Larry that the girl who attacked Virginia in the complex matches the description of Abby. A few seconds later, Virginia, unaware she is a vampire now, begins to feed on the Blood in her arm from her IV. She bursts into flames when a nurse opens the blinds in the morning daylight, burning them both alive. The police detective heads to The Protector's and Abby's apartment and busts down the door, unaware that Owen is there. The police detective finds Abby in the bathroom and tries to shine the daylight to see, but Owen stops him and gets his attention. Abby then awakens and kills the police detective in the bathroom, he reaches his hand out to Owen for help but Owen simply closes the door in shock. Abby afterward embraces Owen softly, and he leans into her hold. She lightly kisses him on the lips. Abby tells Owen she needs to leave the town and start over somewhere else. Owen is devastated at the loss of her and cries looking out the window periodically, after watching her enter a cab and pull away.
At school during gym class, Owen's teacher tells Owen he will be swimming that day, and is shown to tutor Owen how to breathe properly while swimming. Jimmy, his friends, and his older brother, start a fire outside to distract the teacher. Once the teacher is gone, the bullies turn out the lights and clear out the swimming pool. Owen realizes what is happening, and runs to his locker. He pulls out a very small knife, which he uses to defend himself against the bullies, but it doesn't work. Jimmy proceeds to threaten Owens' life. The boy tells Owen that if he can survive underwater for three minutes, then all he'll do is to cut Owen's cheek, if he can't, then Owen will have one of his eyes cut out. Owen is held underwater by Jimmy's brother and struggles to hold his breath. A minute goes by and Jimmy believes Owen has learned his lesson, and encourages his brother to stop, but is pushed back by his brother. This time Owen is facing death by drowning, but he notices something happening above the water, when suddenly blood starts to fill the pool, followed by screams and the head of Jimmy's brother. Owen pulls himself to the surface and sees blood and body parts of the bullies thrown around the pool: Abby has returned to save him as she promised.
Sometime later, Owen is on a train, getting his ticket punched. The ticket checker looks down at Owen's feet and notices a large chest and asks if it is his. Owen replies it is and the man moves on. Then from the chest comes k-i-s-s tapped out in Morse Code, which Owen gently taps back.

Devil (Film)

The film begins with a worker committing suicide by jumping from a building. The scene is narrated by Ramirez (Jacob Vargas) who mentions that his mother told him stories of the Devil roaming the earth, and it always begins with a suicide. Detective Bowden (Chris Messina) is called to the scene to aid in the investigation. Bowden is a recovering alcoholic devastated by the death of his wife and child in a hit-and-run accident by a driver who was never caught. As this is happening, five strangers, who have committed various crimes in the past, step onto an elevator located within the same building where the suicide has taken place.
The five strangers are Ben (Bokeem Woodbine), a temp security guard with a violent past; an elderly woman (Jenny O'Hara) who is a kleptomaniac; Vince (Geoffrey Arend), a mattress salesman who moonlights as a con artist; Tony (Logan Marshall-Green), a former mechanic who served in the U.S. marine corps during the War in Afghanistan who is now seeking employment within the building; and Sarah (Bojana Novakovic), a blackmailing gold-digger meeting with her lawyer in the building.
Strange things start to occur beginning with the elevator becoming stuck between floors. Then, after the lights go out, Sarah is inexplicably wounded on her back. The remaining occupants of the elevator quickly begin to suspect Vince of having committed the assault. Slowly, one by one, the five strangers start to die. First, Vince is killed by a shard of glass from a mirror which slices his jugular vein. Detective Bowden, sensing a connection between this and the man who earlier committed suicide in the same building, is compelled to further investigate. Checking the building's guest log, Bowden finds that only four people have missed their scheduled appointments that day: Sarah, Vince, Ben, and “Janecowski”. Investigators misinterpret the latter as “Jane Cowski” and assume it to be the old woman’s name, leaving Bowden suspicious of Tony who appears to be the only undocumented occupant.
With the help of the building’s security team, Bowden examines security footage and discovers that the old woman had stolen a wallet prior to entering the elevator. The office building's repairman is sent down the elevator shaft to fix it, but plummets to his death. During a power outage, the old woman is found hung by the neck from an electrical cord. Sarah and Ben turn on Tony, while Bowden begins to suspect that Sarah's husband has hired Ben to kill her. A security guard inspects the basement and electrocutes himself attempting to secure a hot fallen wire. The lights go out again and Ben is dead with his neck completely twisted around. Each thinking the other must be responsible for the murders, Tony and Sarah prepare to fight each other with broken glass, but Bowden seemingly manages to calm them. As Sarah prepares to take out a shard of glass hidden in her back pocket, the lights once again go out and her throat is slashed. The mystery seems solved, when a tattooed woman arrives and informs Bowden that Tony is her fiance, and was at the building for a job interview. Only then is his full name revealed to be Tony Janecowski.
The old woman suddenly rises and appears behind Tony. It is now apparent that she is the Devil who has taken a human form. Having dispensed of the others, the Devil tells Tony it's his turn to die. Detective Bowden watches through the CCTV as Tony confesses to killing two people in a drunken hit-and-run accident. Tony had been trying to grab another beer while driving and had not seen where he was going. Tony says "I'm so sorry," and Bowden had a car wash coupon that says "I'm so sorry" on the back. At which point the Devil is forced to spare him (as he confessed his sin and apologized for it) and disappears as the firemen finish breaking into the elevator. Detective Bowden realizes Tony is the one who killed his wife and son, but expresses his forgiveness en route to the police station following his arrest.
The film ends with Ramirez telling the audience that his mother always reassured him at the end of her stories, "If the Devil is real, God must also be real."

Splice

Young scientists Clive (Brody) and Elsa (Polley) achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals, creating new species. In the pursuit of even greater scientific discovery, they secretly blend human DNA with their creations, ignoring their society's ethical and legal boundaries. The scientists name their creature "Dren." Now they must come to terms with their decision as their creature quickly develops into a beautiful, yet deadly, winged humanoid-chimera.

Cast

Adrien Brody as Clive

Sarah Polley as Elsa

David Hewlett as Barlow

Amanda Brugel as Melinda Finch

Delphine Chanéac as Dren

Abigail Chu as Young Dren

Brandon McGibbon as Gavin

Stephanie Baird as Elsa / PD

Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island - a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie apocalypse. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: The O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found. Into this situation wander a small group of National Guard troops who, after robbing the protagonists of the previous film, have decided to strike out on their own in an effort to survive.

Cast

• Alan van Sprang as Sarge "Nicotine" Crockett
• Kenneth Welsh as Patrick O'Flyn
• Kathleen Munroe as Janet O'Flynn
• Devon Bostick
• Richard Fitzpatrick as Seamus Muldoon
• Stefano Colacitti as Francisco
• Athena Karkanis as Tomboy
• Salar Madadi as Zombie Construction Worker
• Joris Jarsky as Chuck
• Matt Birman as Lem Muldoon
• Wayne Robson as Tawdry O'Flynn
• Julian Richings as James O'Flynn
• George Stroumboulopoulos as Talk Show Host
• Pete Zedlacher as Talk Show Stooge
• Mitch Risman as Drooling Zombie

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an upcoming 2010 American slasher film written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, directed by Samuel Bayer, and produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller. It is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 slasher film of the same name and designed to reboot the franchise. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, a role made famous by Robert Englund, while Rooney Mara takes over the role of Nancy Thompson, originally portrayed by Heather Langenkamp. The remake is set to be released on April 30, 2010.

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife is an upcoming 3-D science fiction horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, and Shawn Roberts. It is the fourth installment in the film adaptations based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil and is the first film in the series to be released in 3-D. It is scheduled to be released on September 10, 2010.

The Haunting in Connecticut

The story centers around Matt Campbell, a teenager who is being treated for cancer with a trial therapy in a remote hospital. Matt's mother, Sarah, rents a house near the hospital; she learns that the house was previously a funeral home. Subsequently, they discover a door inside Matt's room in the basement, which severely burns Matt when he attempts to enter one night. Sarah finds old photographs from when the house was used as a funeral home. Later, the door in Matt's room swings open as Matt wakes during the night, revealing a mortuary room. The next day while he and his younger brother explore the room, Matt's behavior changes. The family begins experiencing violent, supernatural events that the parents blame on stress and hallucinations from Matt's medications and treatment. Matt experiences visions; during dinner as they link hands to say grace, he sees a vision of a séance from the the point of view of a young man named Jonah (Erik J. Berg) . After his vision of the séance, Matt recites a rhyme to his sister Wendy that disturbs her. The next day when Matt has a vision of crabs crawling across the floor and over his body. Matt then meets Reverend Nicholas Popescu, who talks with him and gives him a contact card. That evening, the power cuts whilst Matt's little sister is playing in her room, and a withered hand appears behind her after the light flickers off and on.

Matt and his siblings play hide and seek with Matt seeking. After the others have hidden, Matt enters a room decorated with birds, and has a vision of Jonah. He watches as Jonah tries to gather belongings and run away as a masculine voice calls his name. The room returns to normal, but as Matt turns to walk down the hall, he hears the voice again as he looks through the bannisters of the staircase. He runs downstairs and sees Jonah being grabbed by the owner of the voice, through the kitchen and down the steps to the basement, but the door to the mortuary room swings shut as he enters the room. Matt opens the door, and finds the room is full of covered corpses, as it would have been during use. The door shuts behind him, and he finds he cannot reopen it. Matt turns to see the bodies uncovered, and a foot of one of the bodies moves. He calls for Wendy, then looks up to see the bodies standing close. He attempts to push the corpses away, but the vision disappears and he is instead pushing his young brother away from him. Afterward, Matt calls the Reverend for help, who advises him to find out what the spirits want from him.

That night while Matt is working out in his room, a charred ghost appears by his side, and Matt ask the ghost what it wants. Matt sees a brief vision of fire. Later, his family return to the house, where they discover him paralyzed in a corner his hands covered in blood and the wall presumably scratched by his fingernails. At the hospital, Sarah and her husband Peter are told that Matt's behavior had not been an effect of his cancer or medication. Matt tries to tell his mother to do something if he died, but Sarah interrupts and tells him that he will not die. Sarah leaves the room and cries, then tries to pray for Matt's recovery but breaks down into tears. In another room, Peter watches a slideshow of pictures of Matt through the years and then ends up crying.

During a game of hide and seek, Matt's younger brother encounters a badly burned ghost in a dumbwaiter, and his younger sister falls through some rotten floorboards in the attic. After she receives help, Matt discovers a box underneath the floorboards containing a number of photographs from the séance. He also finds a box of human eyelids. The photos of the séance shows a boy Matt recognises as Jonah, and ectoplasm emerging from his mouth. Matt again recites the rhyme he had told Wendy, and links it with Jonah. He tells Wendy he has seen Jonah every day since they had moved into the house, and Wendy suggests the house is haunted. They investigate the house's past in libraries, and discover that the previous owner, Doctor Aickman, conducted séances in the house, using his assistant Jonah as a medium. During one of the séances, Aickman and his guests all died and Jonah went missing. Matt then contacts Nicholas. Nicholas hypothesizes that Aickman removed the corpses' eyelids so the dead were not 'at peace' and performed necromancy on the bodies that he was meant to inter to enhance Jonah's abilities as a medium. They also discover that the bodies were never buried; Aickman filled all the coffins with sandbags. Nicholas asks for Matt and Wendy to pray with him for those spirits. As they hold hands to pray Matt has another vision. He sees a séance in which ectoplasm emerges from from Johnah's mouth and turns into fire. Sarah enters the room and demands to know why Nicholas is there. Matt's vision disappear. Nicholas tries to tell her that the spirits in the house want her son and Sarah responds by telling Nicholas to leave. That night, Sarah sees a vision of a corpse standing in her room. Peter returns home drunk, and upon entering the house exclaims that every light is on. The children stay in Sarah's room as Peter walks around the house removing every light bulb. Sarah warns Peter afterward that he cannot come home if he gets drunk again. That night, the house has an electrical storm during the night, during which the television and other appliances turn on and off by themselves while light flashes where the bulbs in the lamps and ceiling lights had been.

Nicholas is called back the same night, and while he is searching the house for the restless spirit, he spots the figure in Matt's room. He notifies Sarah, who rushes to protect Matt while he is asleep. Nicholas enters the mortuary room, and talks to the spirit. He eventually looks into the mortuary oven, and is prevented from searching it as its door slams violently. Finding another way to explore it outside the house, Nicholas discovers ashes and a portion of a skull in the mortuary oven. While removing it, a bloodied figure is seen behind Sarah, walking towards Matt, shadows of birds are seen flapping in windows, and the doors and windows of the house begin to slam violently, which abruptly ceases after Nicholas has removed the remains. The figure in the basement disappears. Matt wakes to find runes being carved into his body by some force, and his screams alert his family who rush him to the hospital. Nicholas runs off the road after seeing the burned ghost in his rear view mirror. Both he and Matt have a similar vision, revealing that the burned ghost is Jonah. The visions of the séance Matt saw concludes in Jonah accidentally using his medium powers to burn the other members of the séance, including Aickman, to death. Jonah was then chased by their angry spirits into the dumbwaiter, which dropped down into the incinerator where he burned to death.

Nicholas realizes that Jonah had been trying to help the dead to escape while he had been alive, and Jonah's remains were the only factor keeping the rage of the other ghosts in check. He rings the household, but Wendy is in the shower, and is unable to hear the phone. Nicholas leaves a message explaining that they need to escape the house immediately.

At the hospital, Peter and Sarah learn that Matt's treatment has had no effect, and that he may die at any time. They request to see him, but upon entering his room, they find a man chanting the rhyme Matt had told Wendy, and the window broken. At the house, Wendy sees Matt crossing the lawn holding a fire axe, and immediately tells the children to hide, locking the door. But she fails to realise Matt's intentions, who tells her to get herself and his siblings outside the house, and not to put out the fire. He barricades himself inside the house and smashes the interior walls of the living room, revealing dozens of embalmed corpses. After setting the house ablaze the angry spirits of the victims surround him but the spirits are eventually released by the fire. Sarah runs in to save him and the firemen pull them both out of the burning house. Matt is revived and Jonah's spirit is released from Matt's body, and stands over him, seen only by Nicholas. After credits state that Matt's cancer went into total remission, and that the Aickman house was rebuilt and resold, with no further incidents reported.

Blood: The Last Vampire

The story is set in the American Yokota Air Base located in post-WWII Japan, a few months before the beginning of the Vietnam War. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts hematophagous bat-like creatures called chiropterans for a secret organization known as the Red Shield.

Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat is an upcoming horror film. It was written and directed by Michael Dougherty and based on his short film Season's Greetings. Originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, it was announced in September 2007 that the movie has been pushed back. Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are slated to release the film at an undetermined date. IMDb currently has the release date set for April 24, 2009.

plot

The film is an anthology of five Halloween-related scary stories. One thing that ties the stories together is the presence of Sam, a mysterious pint-sized trick-or-treater with a burlap pumpkin mask who makes an appearance in all the stories, and who may only be costumed as a child.

Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; a terrifying principal (Dylan Baker) with a serial killer attitude teaches one neighbor the true meaning of Halloween; Laurie (Academy Award-winner Anna Paquin), a young woman dressed as little red riding hood, is stalked by a mysterious hooded figure at a local Halloween Festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local urban legend of a school bus massacre; and a cantankerous old hermit (Brian Cox), is visited by a strange trick-or-treater (Sam) with a few bones to pick.

Things turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety — human and otherwise — try to survive the scariest night of the year.

Drag Me To Hell

Director Sam Raimi ("Spider-Man" trilogy, "Evil Dead" series) returns to the horror genre with "Drag Me to Hell," an original tale of a young woman's desperate quest to break an evil curse.

Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and give the old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home.

In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?