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Fantasia Film Festial 2008 Horror Movie Lineup

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A ghost in the remake of The Echo.

A ghost in the remake of The Echo.

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Akanbo shôjo (AKA Tamami: The Baby's Curse) (2008)
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
Starring: Nako Mizusawa, Goro Noguchi, Takumi Saito, Itsuji Itao
Plot: An orphaned teenager rediscovers her birth parents and moves into their house, only to find out that she has a crazed mutant baby sibling.
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Whitney Able, Edwin Hodge
Plot: Chaste high schooler Mandy Lane is the apple of every boy's eye, but she has yet to deem any of them worthy of her intimacy. When she gathers with a group of friends at a remote ranch, however, one spurned suitor takes matters too far, killing all competition in pursuit of Mandy Lane.
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Alone (2007)
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Starring: Masha Wattanapanich, Vittaya Wasukraipaisan
Plot: From the creators of Shutter comes this Thai tale of a woman who is haunted by the ghost of her formerly conjoined twin.
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Art of the Devil 3 (AKA Long Khong 2) (2008)
Directors: Ronin Team
Starring: Mamee Nakprasit, Supakorn Kitsuwan
Plot: A third installment in the successful Thai franchise about gory black magic spells and sacrifices.
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Babysitter Wanted (2008)
Directors: Jonas Barnes, Michael Manasseri
Starring: Sarah Thompson, Matt Dallas, Kristen Dalton, Bruce Thomas, Bill Moseley
Plot: A babysitter is menaced by crank phone calls and a shadowy figure responsible for a series of disappearances.
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Baby's Room (AKA La Habitación del Niño)
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino, Antonio Dechent
Plot: In this Spanish production, a couple with a newborn child moves into an old house but discovers a presence living in the baby's room.
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Bad Biology (2008)
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Charlee Danielson, Rachel Robbins, Tom Kohut, Anthony Sneed, Jelena Jensen
Plot: The director of Frankenhooker and Basket Case delivers a horror-comedy-love story about a man and a woman with freakish genitalia who discover each other and delve into over-the-top sexual excess.
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The Butcher (2007)
Director: Kim Jin-won
Starring: Kim Sung-il, You Dong-hun
Plot: This Korean point-of-view flick finds people being tortured and murdered in a slaughterhouse as part of a snuff film business.
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Chasing World (AKA Riaru onigokko) (2007)
Director: Issei Shibata
Starring: Takuya Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura, Shunsuke Daitô, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Akira Emoto
Plot: In Japan, masked men suddenly begin killing anyone named Sato.
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Dance of the Dead (2008)
Director: Gregg Bishop
Starring: Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, Carissa Capobianco, Randy McDowell
Plot: Zombies crash as high school prom in this horror-comedy.
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Dark Floors (2008)
Director: Pete Riski
Starring: Skye Bennett, Noah Huntley, Dominique McElligot, Leon Herbert, William Hope, Ronald Pickup
Plot: A Finnish film about a father seeking to remove his daughter from a hospital, only to run into creatures from another dimension.
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The Detective (AKA C+ Jing Taam) (2007)
Director: Oxide Pang
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Shing Fui-On, Liu Kai-Chi, Lau Siu-Ming, Jo Koo
Plot: The Pang Brothers, of The Eye fame, bring this tale of a Bangkok detective investigating a series of murders.
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The Echo (2008)
Director: Yam Laranas
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon, Iza Calzado, Jamie Bloch, Hrant Alianak, Kevin Durand, Jayne Eastwood
Plot: In this remake of the Philippine film Sigaw, a man recently released from prison moves into his deceased mother's apartment and discovers that ghosts frequent his floor.
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The End (2007)
Director: Jeremy Thomas
Starring: Jeremy Thomas, Ella May, Katie Webber, John Knight, Darren MacDonald
Plot: A man with the ability to see the future helps track down the culprit in a series of kidnappings while trying to avoid a mysterious cloaked figure.
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Epitaph (AKA Gidam) (2007)
Directors: Jeong Beom-sik, Jeong Sik
Starring: Jin Ku, Kim Bo-kyeong, Kim Tae-woo
Plot: Taking place during World War II, this Korean film features three intertwining tales that take place in a hospital where the dead don't always stay dead.
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Flick (2007)
Director: David Howard
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Hugh O’Conor, Mark Benton
Plot: In this Welsh "flick," a bullied teen who died in the '50s comes back to life 50 years later for revenge.
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From Within (2008)
Director: Phedon Papamichael
Starring: Elizabeth Rice, Thomas Dekker, Adam Goldberg, Jared Harris, Kelly Blatz, Laura Allen, Rumer Willis
Plot: A small town is shaken by a series of apparent suicides that turn out to be the result of a parasitic element that moves from person to person.
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Home Movie (2008)
Director: Christopher Denham
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Cady McClain, Austin William, Amber Joy Williams, Lucian Maisel
Plot: Told through the lens of their home videos, two parents try to come to grips with the fact that their children might be pure evil.
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Hunting Grounds (2008)
Director: Eric Bilodeau
Starring: Patrice Leblanc, Patrick Baby, Marie-Eve Lemire, Émilie Gilbert-Gagnon, Luc Rivard
Plot: In this futuristic Canadian offering, nature is off limits to humans, and hunters use virtual reality to experience the wild. A few hunters manage to escape into the real wilderness, but discover it overrun by zombies.
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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Director: Jon Knautz
Starring: Trevor Matthews, Robert Englund, Rachel Skarsten, James A. Brooks, Daniel Kash, Ashley Bryant, Stefanie Drummond, Meghanne Kessels, David Fox
Plot: Jack Brooks is a plumber with a chip on his shoulder who discovers that his destiny lies in cleaning up monster scum.
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