The Purge
(2013) 85 Min.
Rated: R (gore)
Country: USA
Director: James DeMonaco
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey
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Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
One night a year violent behavior is allowed for 12 hours. The family of a security system salesman takes in a Purge refugee and attracts the attention of his pursuers.
V/H/S/2
(2013) 96 min.
Rated: NR (Nudity, Sex, Gore)
Director: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard
Starring: Kelsy Abbott, Lawrence Michael Levine, Adam Wingard
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Rating: ★★★☆☆
The second installment of a found footage anthology.
Martyrs
(2008) 99 Min.
Rated: R (Gore, torture, nudity)
Country: France / Canada
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï
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Rating: ★★★☆☆
A girl who withstood torture tries to calm her demon by killing her torturers, but involves her girlfriend during her quest.
The Lords of Salem
(2012) 101 min.
Rated: R (nudity, mild gore, sexual themes)
Country: USA / UK / Canada
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Judy Geeson, Meg Foster, Jeff Daniel Phillips
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Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Salem’s rock DJ named Heidi is given a mysterious record, which plays a song from a group called the Lords.
V/H/S
(2012) 116 min.
Rated: R (Nudity, Sex, Gory violence, drug use)
Country: USA
Director: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence
Starring: Joe Swanberg, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Chad Villella
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Rating: ★★★★☆
A found footage anthology framed around the playing of VHS tapes.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
(1971) 89 min.
Rated: PG-13
Country: USA
Director: John D. Hancock
Stars: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor, Mariclare Costello
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Rating: ★★★☆☆
Jessica, newly released from a mental facility, is not entirely if the threats she endures are imagined or real.
