THE UNBORN (2009)

	January 9th, 2009
	David S. Goyer
	David S. Goyer
	Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba, Rhys Coiro, James Remar
	Rogue Pictures
	Horror, Thriller
	theunbornmovie.net, myspace.com/theunbornmovie, youtube.com/theunbornmovie, mytwinhauntsme.com
	PG-13 intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references
	1 hour 28 minutes
	$34,516,310

And sometimes it actually succeeds...

Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit.

Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.

Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.

With Sendak’s help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.

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MIDNIGHT MOVIE

	January 9th, 2009
	Jack Messitt
	Mark Garbett, Jack Messitt
	Daniel Bonjour, Michael Swan, Arthur Roberts, Dinora Walcott, Rebekah Brandes, Ashley Black, Michael Schwartz,Kathryn Aagesen, Greg Cirulnick
	Big Foot Entertainment
	Horror
	midnightmovie.com
	NONE
	1 hour 20 minutes

A midnight showing of an early 1970's horror movie turns to chaos when the Killer from the movie comes out of the film to attack those in the theater.

A midnight screening of a 1970s cult horror film becomes a wholesale bloodbath after the members of the audience see one of their friends butchered on the big screen, and quickly surmise that there's a madman in the theater who seeks to slaughter them all. It was just another run down movie house in a small suburban town: what better place for a screening of a true cult classic? But this isn't your typical horror film, because years ago, the director had been locked away in a psychiatric hospital after having a complete mental breakdown. The teens at the screening have no idea that he escaped from the hospital nearly five years ago, and that chances are good he's still out there somewhere. When the film starts to roll and the heckling begins, the atmosphere in the theater is loose and fun. Giddiness gives way to deep-rooted dread, however, when the horrified audience is forced to watch as one of their good friends is viciously murdered right before their very eyes. This is no movie, and when the audience tries to flee they realize that the same psycho they just saw on the silver screen has now trapped them all in the theater. With no hope of escape and their numbers thinning fast, the survivors must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the very same killer that they once rooted for in their favorite slasher flick.

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SLAUGHTER (2009)

	January 9th, 2009
	Victor Garcia
	Nathan Brookes, Bobby Lee Darby
	Shawnee Smith, Erica Leerhsen, AnnaLynne McCord
	Maverick Films
	Horror
	horrorfestonline.com, theslaughtermovie.com
	R disturbing violent content, language and some sexuality
	1 hour 35 minutes

A young actress travels to a remote location to shoot a film, only to discover she and her co-stars have been cast in a Japanese snuff film and must fight to survive.

Leerhsen will play a young actress who travels to a remote desert location to shoot a film called Slaughter, only to discover she and her co-stars have been cast in a snuff film and must fight to survive.

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Perkin's 14

	January 9th, 2009
	Craig Singer
	Lane Shadgett
	Josh Davidson, Trey Farley, Katherine Pawlak, Heather Tocquigny
	After Dark Films
	Horror, Thriller
	massify.com/films/perkins14, horrorfestonline.com
	R for graphic bloody violence, terror, language and some sexuality
	1 hour 35 minutes

A decade ago, 14 people--including the son of policeman Dwayne Hopper--disappeared with almost no clues as to their whereabouts. When Dwayne meets a prisoner named Perkins who could be a suspect in the old case, he murders him in anger over his son who is presumed dead. But his son and the 13 others aren't dead; they've been brainwashed and now they are capable of murder.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Craig Singer ("Dark Ride," "Dead Dogs Lie," "A Good Night to Die"), with a screenplay by Lane Shadgett ("Luna Park," "All Lost Souls"), "Perkins' 14" was developed online at Massify.com. Writers were invited to upload story pitches, and actors submitted audition videos. The site's community members then voted on their favorite story and on which actors they thought deserved to be cast in the four main roles.


The winning idea, submitted by Jeremy Donaldson, follows Robert Perkins, who at age six, becomes mentally unstable when his parents are brutally murdered inside their home. His psychosis has him living the rest of his life convinced that the killers will return in the future to kill him as well. At age 34, Perkins kidnaps 14 people from his hometown of Stone Cove and brainwashes them, creating a unified team of psycho killers.

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FROM WITHIN (2009)

	January 9th, 2009
	Phedon Papamichael
	Brad Keene
	Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Rice, Adam Goldberg, Jake Weber, Laura Allen, Rumer Willis
	After Dark Films
	Thriller
	fromwithinmovie.com, horrorfestonline.com
	R for violence, disturbing images and some language
	1 hour 30 minutes

Set in a small, God-fearing town, the story focuses on a young girl caught between her Christian upbringing and a desire to experience the outside world. Her desire to break free is amplified when residents begin to die suspiciously.

The small, serene community of Grovetown is shaken by the dual suicide of a young couple. When more suicides quickly follow, people in the evangelical town turn a blind eye and cling firmly to their deep-seated beliefs. Lindsay (Elizabeth Rice), a local student and girlfriend of the pastor's son, is not so dismissive. She begins to prod deeper into the mystery and befriends Aidan (Thomas Dekker), a non-believer whose family has stirred controversy before. Lindsay soon discovers that something evil and indescribable is at work, moving parasitically from victim to victim.
Trailer: http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08D056bfuxDGI

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