451. Twilight Zone: The Movie
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Landis
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, Jeremy Licht, John Lithgow, Kevin McCarthy
Plot: 4 totally unrelated stories are told by 4 different directors that encompass the same feeling as the popular 60's television show.
452. Apt Pupil
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bryan Singer
Actors: Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, David Schwimmer, Heather McComb, Bruce Davison
Plot: After discovering his neighbor is a Nazi war criminal, bright and promising student Todd Bowden strikes a deal - he will keep silent in exchange for learning first-hand about the WWII concentration camps. Their strange relationship begins and has disturbing consequences.
453. Brute Force
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines
Plot: Prison inmates revolt against a sadistic guard.
454. The Hills Have Eyes
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, James Whitworth
Plot: A family takes an ill-advised shortcut through an old air testing range in the California desert. When their car breaks down they are hunted by mutant cannibals.
455. Sudden Fear
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Plot: Ambitious actor Lester Blaine seems destined to be the star in Myra Hudson's new play, until the woman dashes his hopes by proclaiming is his not romantic enough. Seeing opportunity, he romances Myra himself - all the while plotting with his mistress to murder her.
456. The Shallows
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge, Brett Cullen
Plot: Nancy is looking forward to secluded surfing experience, but 200 feet from shore, she is attacked by a great white shark. Alone, she beings the ultimate battle of survival and will as she tries everything to make it back to the beach alive.
457. Night Moves
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Alia Shawkat, Peter Sarsgaard, James Le Gros, Lew Temple
Plot: Follows the lives of three environmentalists as they make a plan to destroy a dam.
458. The Funhouse
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Kevin Conway, William Finley
Plot: Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
459. The Awakening
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Richard Durden
Plot: Following WWI, England slowly recovers as the grief and loss threaten to overwhelm the population. Into the miasma Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is called to investigate the sighting of ghost child at a boarding house, but this is no simple hoax - and everything she thought she knew about life and death comes crashing down.
460. The Mean Season
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Borsos
Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia
Plot: A reporter in Miami is fed up with writing about local murders and
promises his girlfriend they will move away. But before he leaves, he
begins receiving calls from a man claiming to be the latest murdered he
has been reporting on. He promises to kill more and call again. As the
murders and calls both keep coming, the reporter realizes he's in far
deeper than ever before.
