Needful Things (1993) Trailer

Needful Things

The town of Castle Rock just made a deal with the Devil... Now it's time to pay!

Needful Things is a 1993 horror film and an adaptation of Stephen King's 1991 novel Needful Things.

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The devil in disguise comes to a quiet, peaceful town and opens a store called Needful Things. The store has an item for everyone in town. All the devil asks for in return is a few dirty pranks. Little do they know, that they've sold their souls, and the pranks escalate to murder.

Firestarter (1984) Trailer

Firestarter

Will she have the power... to survive?

Firestarter is a 1984 science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.

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Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>

The Cider House Rules (1999) Trailer

The Cider House Rules

 A story about how far we must travel to find the place where we belong.

The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name.

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Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him? Written by Martin Lewison <MLewison@utk.edu>

The 13th Warrior (1999) Trailer

The 13th Warrior

An Ordinary Man...An Extraordinary Journey! 

The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton and is a loose retelling of the tale of Beowulf. 

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In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh. 

Written by <surge@discoverynet.com>

The Wind in the Willows (1996) Trailer

The Wind in the Willows

Go wild in the country!

The Wind in the Willows (released on home video in the US as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride), is a loose 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel of the same name, starring Steve Coogan, Eric Idle and Terry Jones (who also directed and wrote this version).

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Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr. Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels.

Written by Anonymous

Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) Trailer

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Snow covers everything...except the truth

Smilla's Sense of Snow (released in the United Kingdom under the original novel title) is a 1997 Danish thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. 

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Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.

Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>

The Shipping News (2001) Trailer

The Shipping News

You'll never guess what you'll find inside...

The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.

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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... Written by <jonas.reinartz@web.de>