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Fantasia Film Festial 2008 Horror Movie Lineup

By Mark H. Harris, About.com

Vinnie Jones stars as Mahogany in Midnight Meat Train

Vinnie Jones stars as Mahogany in Midnight Meat Train.

Photo: Saeed Adyani © Lions Gate

Lady Blood (2008)
Director: Jean-Marc Vincent
Starring: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Matthias Van Khache, Serge Riaboukine, Philippe Nahon, Shirley Bousquet, Bruno Slagmulder, Bruno Solo, Luc Schiltz
Plot: In this sequel to the bizarre 1990 French film Baby Blood, the monster that was birthed in the original movie appears to have returned to commit a series of murders.
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg
Plot: A 12-year-old boy who faces bullying at school falls in love with a strange girl who gives him the strength to fight back but also turns out to be a vampire.
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Machine Girl (AKA Kataude mashin gâru) (2008)
Director: Iguchi Noboru
Starring: Asami, Honoka, Yûya Ishikawa, Ryôsuke Kawamura, Noriko Kijima
Plot: In this Japanese romp, a schoolgirl whose brother was murdered and who had her arm chopped off seeks bloody revenge against the gangster family responsible.
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Mad Detective (AKA Sun Taam) (2007)
Directors: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Starring: Lau Ching-Wan, Andy On Chi-Kit, Gordon Lam Ka-Tung, Lam Suet, Kelly Lin
Plot: In this Hong Kong thriller, an ex-cop with a supernatural ability to see inside criminals' minds attempts to solve a series of crimes.
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Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart
Plot: A photographer investigating a serial killer who stalks the subway finds that the source of the terror lies even deeper than he thought.
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Mother of Tears (2008)
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Asia Argento, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Cristian Solimeno, Daria Nicolodi, Udo Kier
Plot: An American student in Rome unknowingly unleashes a long-dead witch upon the world, causing a wave of crime and violence. This is the third in director Dario Argento's Three Mothers trilogy, which began with Suspiria and Inferno.
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The Objective (2008)
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson, Jon Huertas, Michael C. Williams, Sam Hunter, Jeff Prewett
Plot: Two months after 9/11, an American military team seeking a cleric in Afghanistan encounters a deadly force in mountains that are rumored to be cursed.
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Our Town (AKA Uri Dongne) (2007)
Director: Jung Gil-young
Starring: Ryou Duck-hwan, Oh Man-suk, Lee Sun-kyun
Plot: In this Korean thriller, a writer murders his landlady and then stages the crime scene to look like that of the local serial killer, drawing the attention of the killer.
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Paradise Murdered (AKA Geukrakdo Salinsageon) (2007)
Director: Kim Han-min
Starring: Park Hae-il, Park Sol-mi, Sung Ji-roo
Plot: Police investigate the disappearance of the entire population of a small Korean island.
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Peur(s) du Noir (AKA Fear(s) of the Dark) (2007)
Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Callou, Richard McGuire, Pierre Di Sciullio, Lorenzo Mattotti
Starring: Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Aure Atika, Arthur H, Louisa Pili, Francois Creton, Christian Hecq
Plot: A dark animated French film about the nature of fear. Beret optional.
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Pig Hunt (2008)
Director: James Isaac
Starring: Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, Howard Johnson Jr., Rajiv Shah, Les Claypool
Plot: A group of city slickers pig hunting in the woods encounter hippies, rednecks and a 3,000-pound wild boar.
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[REC] (2007)
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Starring: Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Manuel Bronchud, Martha Carbonell, Claudia Font
Plot: In this Spanish production (remade in the US as Quarantine), a TV reporter and her cameraman documenting a fire department's call to an apartment building end up trapped inside with a bad case of zombie-itis.
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Red (2008)
Directors: Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee
Starring: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer, Angela Bettis, Kyle Gallner, Shiloh Fernandez
Plot:From Lucky McKee, director of indie horrors May and The Woods, comes every octogenarian's dream: an old man seeks vengeance for the death of his dog at the hands of some punk kids. Based on the Jack Ketchum novel.
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring: Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Paris Hilton, Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman
Plot: In this horror-comedy-musical set in the year 2057, a company named GeneCo leads the world in organ transplants. However, those who cannot keep up with the payments on their new organs face fatal repossession by organ repo men.
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The Shadow Spirit (AKA Môryô no hako) (2007)
Director: Masato Harada
Starring: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Abe, Kippei Shiina, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Rena Tanaka
Plot: In this Japanese thriller, book dealer with the ability to read memories tries to solve a twisted mystery.
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Shadows in the Palace (AKA Goongnyeo) (2007)
Director: Kim Mee-jung
Starring: Kim Nam-jin, Park Jin-hie, Seo Yeong-hie
Plot: In this Korean film, period piece meets murder mystery when mysterious deaths pop up in a royal palace.
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Starring: John Waters, John Landis, Stuart Gordon, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Fred Olen Ray, Leonard Maltin, Marcel Marceau, Forrest J. Ackerman
Plot: A documentary of William Castle, showman extraordinaire, who used all kinds of gimmicks to promote his horror movies, including 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler.
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Stuck (2008)
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
Plot: A woman hits a man with her car, sending him hurtling into her windshield. Panicked, she drives home with him embedded in the windshield and leaves him there to die, underestimating his will to survive.
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