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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

Review by CJ

Director:
Brad Anderson

Starring:
Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine

Other notable appearances:
Jason Flemyng, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Sophie Kennedy Clark

Running time:
112 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Shutter Island, Crimson Peak

 

Doctor Newgate (Sturgess) attends his new post at Stonehearst Asylum only to find himself embroiled in an unexpected mystery and falling in love with one of his patients.

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Mother! (2017)

Director:
Darren Aronofsky

Starring:
Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer

Other notable appearances:
Kristen Wiig

Running time:
121 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Exodus: Gods and Kings

 

A couple (Lawrence and Bardem) living in an isolated home react very differently when unexpected guests arrive at their doorstep.

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Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Review by CJ

Director:
Stephen Chiodo

Starring:
Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon

Other notable appearances:
Some of the best terrible clown costumes in the solar system

Running time:
88 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Funhouse Massacre, Tremors, The Toxic Avenger

 

A group of clowns from outer space descend on a small town on Earth to capture, liquify and devour the human inhabitants. It is up to one police officer and four civilians to save their town before it gets too in-tents! (Not even sorry. That pun isn’t half as cheesy as this film.)

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Death Note (2017)

Review by CJ

Director:
Adam Wingard

Starring:
Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley

Other notable appearances:
Paul Nakauchi

Running time:
101 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Donnie Darko, The Crow

 

Light (Wolff) finds a journal that unites him with a death god named Ryuk (Dafoe) who will kill anyone whose name and method of death Light writes in the book. When Light starts to use the journal to kill anyone he deems to be evil, he quickly discovers that being a vigilante isn’t as easy as the comic books make it seem.

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47 Metres Down [US Title: 47 Meters Down] (2017)

Review by CJ

Director:
Johannes Roberts

Starring:
Mandy Moore, Claire Holt

Other notable appearances:
Matthew Modine, Chris Johnson, Yani Gellman, Santiago Segura

Running time:
89 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Open Water, The Reef

 

Two sisters on holiday in Mexico decide to try cage diving with great white sharks. When the cable holding their cage up gives way, they find themselves on the bottom of the ocean running out of time and oxygen.

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