The Mark of Cain (1985)
Jan 17, 2010Evil Twin Psycho-Thriller
An obscure Canadian-made thriller about an evil twin
Deborah Grover
The Gate (1987)
Aug 6, 2000Demonic Gateway Opened
Modest horror film of the 1980s where kids inadvertently open a demonic gateway. Like a juvenile version of Poltergeist, this comes with the bonus of some fairly good effects
Still Small Voices (2006)
Dec 15, 2007Ghostly 911 Calls
TV movie in which Catherine Bell is a 911 operator who receives calls from a ghostly child
A Lobster Tale (2006)
Jan 17, 2010Magical Realism/Miracle Healing Moss
Set in a nowhere New England town where fisherman Colm Meaney discovers a moss with miracle-healing properties. Sort of a Magical Realist version of The Shipping News
Bag of Bones (2011)
Jan 20, 2012Stephen King Adaptation/Ghost Story
The perpetually terrible Mick Garris is allowed loose on another Stephen King book where he promptly reduces a subtle, ambiguous ghost story to a series of lunging pop-up scares without any concept of atmosphere or nuance
Fatman (2020)
Dec 20, 2020Kid Hires a Hitman to Kill Santa
Amusingly dark Christmas film where a kid hires a hitman to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking. Featuring Mel Gibson as a grumpy Santa struggling with modern economic realities