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

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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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Stan Helsing (2009)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Bo Zenga

Starring:
Steve Howey, Kenan Thompson, Diora Baird, Desi Lydic

Other notable appearances:
Leslie Nielsen, Ben Cotton

Running time:
108 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Scary Movie 3, Superhero Movie, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie

 

Stan Helsing (Howey) is a deadbeat and selfish video store clerk heading out to a Halloween party with three friends. They need to make a detour and deliver some videos to the store owner’s mother on the way. What ensues is an unfortunate series of horror-related events that derail their plans. It falls to Stan and his friends to save themselves, each other and the town cursed by some of horror’s greatest villains’ b-grade knock-offs.

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The Dark Tower (2017)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Nikolaj Arcel

Starring:
Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor

Other notable appearances:
Jackie Earle Haley

Running time:
95 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Warcraft, The Last Action Hero 

 

Jake Chambers (Taylor) is haunted by nightmares of the Man in Black (McConaughey) killing children and using their psychic abilities to attack the dark tower. No one in his world believes Jake, but when he finds a portal to the home of the figure in his nightmares, Jake must put his own doubts aside to save everyone’s worlds.

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Texas Chainsaw (2013)

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Review by CJ

Director:
John Luessenhop

Starring:
Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine ‘Trey Songz’ Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Shaun Sipos, Thom Barry, Paul Rae

Other notable appearances:
Gunnar Hansen

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw, Wrong Turn

 

Just before a road trip to New Orleans, Heather Miller (Daddario) discovers she is adopted and her birth grandmother has bequeathed a house in Texas to her. Heather and her friends decide to stop in on the way to Louisiana. What she doesn’t realise is that the house comes with a secret — a murderous, chainsaw wielding secret.

 

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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

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Review by CJ

Director:
David F. Sandberg

Starring:
Anthony LaPaglia, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Stephanie Sigman, Miranda Otto, Samara Lee

Running time:
109 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Conjuring, Annabelle, Lights Out

 

When their orphanage closes down, Sister Charlotte (Sigman) takes her six charges to live with a kind couple doing their Christian duty. What Sister Charlotte doesn’t know is that when Samuel (LaPaglia) and Esther (Otto) lost their daughter, they would have done anything to get her back — and they did.

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