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ITN at AFM 2016
MOONTRAP: TARGET EARTH
90 min. Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Sarah Butler (I Spit on Your Grave), Charles Shaughnessy (The Nanny), Damon Dayoub (Stichers, NCIS), Cara AnnMarie (Containment), Chris Newman (Batman vs. Superman)
Synopsis:
A long forgotten ancient spacecraft discovered on Earth. Investigations carried out by Scout transport her to the moon where upon she meets the impressive machines preserving the wisdom of that long lost civilization.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-m7k7Y3vDw
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YOU CAN'T HAVE IT
90 min. Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Matthew Pohlkamp, Joanna Krupa (The Real Housewives of Miami, Dancing with the Stars), Rob Gronkowski (NFL's New England Patriots) Armand Assante (Gotti, American Gangster), Dominique Swain (Face/Off, Lolita, Battle of the Drones), Jillian Murray (Code Black, Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero), Mindy Robinson (V/H/S 2), Lisa Ann Walter (Bruce Almighty, The Parent Trap)
Synopsis:
When Bill Sullivan spends the last night of Mr. Phil's Bar hanging out with his friends, drinking, sex and murder ensue. Last call takes on a whole new meaning.
TRAILER: COMING SOON!
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LAND OF SMILES
90 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Alexandra Turshen(Boy Meets Girl)
Synopsis:
A young Backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the object of a sociopathic clown's obsession.
Official Selection & Winner - Mexico International Film Festival
Official Selection & Winner - Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
Official Selection - Palm Beach International Film Festival
Official Selection - SoHo International Film Festival
Official Selection & Winner - Toronto International Film & Video Awards
Official Selection & Winner - Northeast Film Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5r627SAvTk
Password: THAILAND
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EDGAR ALLAN POE'S LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
88 min. Horror. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Vernon Wells (Max Mad 2)
Synopsis:
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6uNy_ln6R0
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OFF PISTE
91 min. Action/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Synopsis:
An ex-SAS recluse, living in the mountains of France to escape a traumatic past, is hunted down by those whose lives he has destroyed.
Official Selection - Chelsea Film Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DNBkr4z0k
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KRAMPUS 2 - THE DEVIL RETURNS
90 min. Horror. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: R.A. Milhailoff (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Hatchet II)
Synopsis:
The monster Krampus has returned to continue to punish the bad children in a small Pennsylvania town. It's up to a team of current and former police officers to end the cycle of the Christmas Devil.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKBnL21IA_s
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SUBTERRANEA
99 min. Mystery. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Bug Hall (IMDB# 962, Harley and the Davidsons), Nicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue), William Katt (Carrie)
Synopsis:
Having spent his entire life in a dark cell, never seeing the light of day or another human being, the "Captive" is released into society and must learn how to live for the first time as an adult.
TRAILER: COMING SOON
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FANG
94 min. Creature. HD. 2016. Complete.
Synopsis:
A lone sheriff and a visiting environmental consultant race to solve the mystery that haunts the valleys of Brada County.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKe4eRGeZ20
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THE CURE
90 min. Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete.
Cast:
Antonia Prebble (The Tribe, Mirror Mirror), Daniel Lissing (Hallmark Channel's When Calls The Heart), Stephen Lovatt (Neighbours), John Bach (The Lord of the Rings series, The Hobbit series)
Synopsis:
A young female researcher's life is in danger when she discovers the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer many years earlier. They haven't released it because that would destroy their chemotherapy drug sales. She must now escape and release the cure to the world while the company tries to stop her.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRuv3Jr62l0
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NATURAL SELECTION
110 min. HD. 2016. Complete.
**US Theatrical Release-August 26th, 2016**
Over 850,000 hits on the Fandango trailer!
Cast:
Katherine McNamara
(IMDB #506, Star of ABC Family's and NetFlix's Shadowhunters, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials),
Anthony Michael Hall, Netflix's War Machine with Brad Pitt, Live By Night),
Catherine Missal
(Vacation), Amy Carlson
(CBS' Blue Bloods, Law & Order), Mason Dye (Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic, MTV's Teen Wolf and Finding Carter)
Synopsis:
Teenager Tyler Evans feels as if the world has left him behind. Everyday at his new school, he fights for survival as he is easy prey among the bullies. Searching for answers, he looks to his manipulative friend Indrid who appears to have it all figured out. Soon, Tyler finds himself in a middle of the storm and gets caught up in something he may not be able to change.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSPmxCoE5E
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X/Y
82 min. Drama. HD. Complete.
Cast: America Ferrera (IMDB #1,162, Ugly Betty, NBC's Superstore), Ryan Piers Williams,
David Harbour - IMDB #481(Suicide Squad,The Equalizer, Black Mass), Amber Tamblyn-IMDB
# 417 (127 Hours, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants),
Common (Selma, Suicide Squad), Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station), Maria Dizzia (Orange is the New Black), Dree Hemingway (Starlet, While We're Young).
Synopsis:
A group of friends living in New York, caught between "generation X and Y," struggle to forge and sustain emotional relationships and human connections in a society reliant on modern technology.
Official Selection - Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection - Edinburgh Film Festival
Official Selection- Seattle International Film Festival
Official Selection - Austin Film Festival
Official Selection - Stockholm International Film Festival
Official Selection - Key West Film Festival
Official Selection - Cucalorus Film Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mJmkVFzxM
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MISFORTUNE
90 min. Crime/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Vinicius Machado (Power, True Detective), Kevin Gage (Heat, Blow, Sons of Anarchy), Steve Earle (True Blood, Treme, Talladega Nights), Nick Mancuso (Under Siege, Rapid Fire, The Firm TV Series)
Synopsis:
When a young man, down on his luck, learns about his father's killer's parole, it sets off a cat and mouse chase through the hostile desert, searching for a hidden family inheritance.
"Evocatively Shot" - Hollywood Reporter
"Tightly wound crime thriller" - Film Pulse
"Misfortune unfolds with a promisingly lean efficiency" - Hollywood Reporter
Festivals
OPENING NIGHT FILM - Chelsea Film Festival
Winner - Jaipur International Film Festival
Official Selection - Aizona International Film Festival
Winner - Black Hills Film Festival
Official Selection - Dances With Films Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_xqy3tQJs
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THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
91 min. Comedy/Romance. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Jay Hernandez (IMDB #393, Bad Moms, Suicide Squad), Allison Janney (IMDB #668, CBS' Mom, The Help, The West Wing, The Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children), Matt Jones (Home), Eloise Mumford (Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker), Carlson Young (Scream: The TV Series), Kelen Coleman (HBO's The Newsroom), Dave Hill (The Most Popular Girls in School)
Synopsis:
The drinks pile up as four twenty-something millennials find unexpected friendships, and maybe something more.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ns0fF_ISk
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OCCUPANTS
81 min. Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager)
Synopsis:
Annie has roped her husband into a project that involves setting up cameras throughout their house. Complications arise when the cameras start showing that same couple in a sinister, alternate universe.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV6UdbFQVeA
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BUS DRIVER
91 min. Action. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Robert Forster (London Has Fallen, Olympus Has Fallen, Mulholland Drive), Michael Bailey Smith (The Hills Have Eyes I & II), Tom Williamson (Criminal Minds), Holly Elissa (Supernatural), Steve Daron
Synopsis:
A high school bus blows a tire and stops at the nearest ranch for help. The driver,five troubled students, and their chaperone come face-to-face with criminals.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsotOf6yhE
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ASTHMA
90 min. Romance/Drama. HD. Complete.
**US Theatrical Release -October 23rd, 2015 by IFC Films***
Directed by Jake Hoffman
Cast: Krysten Ritter -
IMDB # 150
(NetFlix's Jessica Jones, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Breaking Bad),
Nick Nolte, Benedict Samuel (The Duel), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Iggy Pop,Goran Visnjic (ER), Gillian Zinser (90210), Joey Kern(Cabin Fever), Dov Tiefenbach, Odessa Rae(Hard Candy)
Synopsis:
This drug-fueled rock 'n roll joyride follows two New York City slackers on a surreal, life-altering road trip. Heroin addict artist Gus (Benedict Samuel) has hit bottom - he even botches his own suicide attempt. With nothing to lose, he steals a Rolls Royce in an attempt to win over his tattoo artist crush, Ruby (Krysten Ritter). The pair embarks on a wayward journey that takes them everywhere from a neo-hippie commune to the bedside of Gus' gravely ill mother as they come to terms with their feelings for one another. Featuring Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, and punk icon Iggy Pop, Asthma captures the highs and lows of being young, lost, and in love.
Official Selection - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Addict road trip drama ASTHMA is a fascinating study of character." - Village Voice
" ASTHMA is distinctly original in the sense of its cinematic nuance and its ability to crawl over your skin like warm honey." - Autre Magazine
"Jake Hoffman's directorial debut Asthma is charming, hilarious, heartbreaking and like the lingering cough its main character can't get over, it stays with you for a while." - Paste Magazine
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTZIZBWcs0
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AXE GIANT
90 min. Fantasy/Horror. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Dan Haggerty (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams)
Synopsis:
Young adults at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but it much more horrifying than they could have imagined.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iodnQxHKw
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DITCH DAY
80 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Bill Oberst Jr.
Synopsis:
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns for revenge.
BEST FEATURE FILM - Burbank International Film Festival
BEST HORROR FEATURE- Burbank International Film Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcngkFrZmCc
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KILLER FRANK
100 min. Crime. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: William Forsythe (The Rock), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Kevin Corrigan (Pineapple Express), Robert MacNaughton (ET), Bianca Hunter (The Fighter)
Synopsis:
Frank Stone (William Forsythe), a cold-blooded gangster and diamond thief, writes stories of his exploits to impress Jackie, a writing student. When the mob kills Jackie and comes after Frank, he vows to kill everyone responsible for Jackie's death.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQIUP0YUREc
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METALFACE
80 min. Horror. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down)
Synopsis:
A serial killer is purposely released from an asylum for the criminally insane so that he can continue his rampage.
SELLING POINTS:
Ties into Lionsgate's Theatrical release of LEATHERFACE, starring Lili Taylor and Stephen Dorff.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDq6G2MNNFw
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BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
110 min. Action/Sci-Fi. HD. 2016. Complete.
Synopsis:
Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7mISF9YA0
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BOOST
95 min. Action/Crime. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Danny Trejo, Danay Garcia (Prison Break),Michael Flores (Blackhat, Let's Be Cops), Grazi DiPaolo
Synopsis:
When Jimmy finds a mysterious package in the trunk of his latest carjacking ("BOOST"), he is thrust into a violent underworld of criminals, and a race against the clock to save a little girl's life.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V9iioSEqXI
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PARANORMAL ABDUCTION
90 min. Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Edward Furlong -(American History X, Terminator 2), Kate Nauta (Transporter 2), Heather McComb (Apt Pupil, All The Real Girls), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Taking of Pelham 123, 2016 film: Independence Day: Resurgence) and Vail Bloom (The Young and the Restless)
Synopsis:
A young woman survives a brutal attack and tries to piece together the clues and its similarities to a series of recent murders, before she becomes the next victim.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLZSwrmq1A
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LIFE GETS IN THE WAY
84 min. Womens. HD. 2014. Complete.
Cast: Donna Mills (Joy, General Hospital, Knots Landing, Melrose Place, Sharknado 4), Gregory Zarian (90210, Nip/Tuck), Mackenzie Mason
Synopsis:
A woman tries to pick up the pieces of a broken past and struggles with an unstable present in the big city of Los Angeles, where serious relationships are hard to find.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H4Zt1uflf0
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A REMARKABLE LIFE
97 min. Womens. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place), Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream), Marie Avgeropoulos (IMDB# 862, CW's The 100, Tracers, 50/50), Dylan Bruno (Saving Private Ryan),
John O'Hurley
Synopsis:
Lenny Babbitt has his identity and manhood challenged when his wife leaves him for a female doctor who has been treating their autistic son.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrNdwpc1CdQ
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AMERICAN BEAST
89 min. Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete.
Synopsis:
James Erikson begins a journey to discover the truth behind a mysterious creature that haunts the woods behind his family's property.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjXh4_kxVc
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BEVERLY HILLS CHRISTMAS
90 min. Family. HD. 2015. Complete.
UPTV Exclusive World Television Premiere - December 6th, 2015
Directed by Brian Skiba
Cast: Dean Cain (Netflix Lady Dynamite), John Savage (Deer Hunter), Donna Spangler (Matilda), Vincent De Paul (Poseidon, Riding in Cars with Boys), Brandon Tyler Russell (Smitty) and Jack the Pomeranian
Synopsis:
With help from a guardian angel, a spoiled teenage girl learns that true value is found in assisting others and not in material things.
Official Selection - Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppZaOJYhe4
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THE NEW JERSEY RIPPER
77 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Synopsis:
The Evangelist, a bible-quoting serial killer, has a small New Jersey town gripped with fear.
TRAILER: COMING SOON!
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STREET
90 min. Action. HD. 2015. Complete.
**US Theatrical Release:October 30th, 2015**
Cast: Beau 'Casper' Smart (Step Up 3D, Honey 2), Quincy Brown (Dope, Brotherly Love), John Hennigan (E.C.W., WWE), Kate Miner (The Campaign, Fired Up!), Mark Ryan (The Prestige), Shashawnee Hall (Bruce Almighty), Mindy Robinson (V/H/S)
Synopsis:
Remo Street is a 23-year-old former wrestling champion who lost his father in the war and now struggles to support his ill mother and young sister. Street's heroic choice to defend a group of strangers unknowingly forces him into an underground fighting ring to keep his family protected from Russian mobsters. Coach Oz, one of the strangers he saved, shows Street gratitude by offering him a job at his local fight gym. Street is forced to fight for his life when a chance encounter puts him in the corner of an up and coming champ, a Russian gangster and the seedy underworld of gambling, arson and bare knuckle boxing.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OppopD1U8
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SNOWBALL'S CHRISTMAS TAILS BY THE FIRE
90 min. Christmas/Family. HD. 2016. Complete.
Synopsis: This holiday, spend some time with Snowball and his friends as they tell Christmas stories around the fire, including time honored Christmas Classics
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TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGyvO4msE2Q
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SLASHER.COM
89 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Jewel Shepard (The Return of the Living Dead), R.A. Milhailoff (Leatherface, Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Hatchet II)
Synopsis:
After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.
*For Fans of Unfriended, The Craigslist Killer, Cabin Fever, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The People Under the Stairs
*Ties into the release of Leatherface
Official Selection -Grindhouse Planet Film Fest
Official Selection - Bloody Horror International Film Fest
Official Selection - Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival
Monsterpalooza
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEV6wrngK7s
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THE PURGING HOUR
80 min. Horror. HD. 2015. Complete.
Synopsis:
A family who has recently moved to Mammoth Mountain, California, is being hunted by a mysterious force.
TRAILER:
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HOTEL HELL
84 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2014. Complete.
Synopsis:
A paranormal investigator and his newly hired videographer explore an cursed hotel known for its supernatural occurrences, a serial killer and crazed clown.
SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off Rob Zombie's Theatrical release of the clown movie 31.
Ties into the the DVD release of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-3Zz8psXk
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THE INSOMNIAC
94 min. Crime/Thriller. HD. 2013. Complete.
Cast: Danny Trejo (Machete), Clare Grant (Black Snake Moan), Alimi Ballard (Fast Five, Numb3rs), John Heard (Home Alone), Keith Szarabajka (The Dark Knight, Argo), Eddy Salazar (The Extra)
Synopsis:
After someone breaks into John Figg's home and takes all of his material and sentimental possessions, he develops a severe case of insomnia and learns that the people around him are not as trustworthy as they appear to be.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5bwBp0xxs8
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CHECKMATE
95 min. Action. HD. 2016. Complete.
Cast: Fat Joe, Alex Maisonette, James Dinonno
Synopsis:
There's a drug war between the Bikers and the local drug dealers. A group of bad cops are investigating them, but the bad cops at the same time are setting up a Detective that is not corrupt like them. In order for the Good Detective to do that, he first needs to figure out the bad cops next move, in order to bring them all down and save him from getting killed by the bad cops that work with him.
TRAILER: COMING SOON!
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THE DEVIL'S FOREST
90 min. Horror/Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete.
Synopsis:
Based on true events. Filmmakers travel to Transylvania to document the world's most haunted Hoia Baciu forest (known as the Bermuda Triangle of Romania) which has a dark history of strange occurrences, ghost sightings and countless cases of missing people.
SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off Sony's DVD release of THE FOREST, starring Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney.
Shot in the Hoia Baciu Forest (as seen on The Travel Channel's GHOST ADVENTURES)
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRDQwAGTm8I
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AMERICAN POLTERGEIST
83 min. Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Ashley Green Elizabeth (Muck), Simona Fusco (Beerfest, The Pool Boys), Luke Brandon Field (Outliving Emily, Where the Road Meets the Sun).
Synopsis:
Over the course of five days, a group of friends experience once of the deadliest poltergeists in American history.
SELLING POINTS:
Drafts off the Warner Bros./New Line Cinema's Theatrical release of THE CONJURING 2: THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST, starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Os2MFxM_I
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KIDNAPPED IN ROMANIA
88 min. Thriller. HD. 2015. Complete.
Cast: Michael Madsen (Tarantino's The Hateful Eight), Maia Morgenstern (The Passion of the Christ), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Gouchy Boy (Brick Mansions)
Synopsis:
A couple of journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQ_F5CSdys
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