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Wrong Turn (2003), a slasher film directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. In this installment, two college students, Rich Stoker and Halley Smith, are rock climbing in the remote forests of West Virginia. As Rich reaches the top of a cliff, he is suddenly murdered while trying to help Halley up. She is then forced to cut the rope and falls to the ground. However, her escape attempt is cut short when she becomes entangled in barbed wire and dragged back into the woods with screams echoing through the trees. Jumping ahead in time, we meet Chris Flynn – ...

Stark Raving Mad (2002) is a film from A Band Apart. It centers around a heist planned during a rave. Drew Daywalt took on the role of director and writer for this movie. The story follows the events of one night at a nightclub where the main character, Ben, has rented out the venue. The club owner is not pleased with the noise levels, fearing consequences for his license. However, this noise serves as a cover for an elaborate bank heist orchestrated by Ben in order to pay off his own debts and those of his deceased brother to a local Chinese crime boss. Time is of the essence as Ben must complete the mission before ...

The Mexican (2001), an American dark comedy adventure crime film by Gore Verbinski, takes place in Los Angeles. You hear a car accident off-screen as a traffic light turns red. Five years pass and Jerry Welbach has been paying off his debt to Arnold Margolese, a mob boss now behind bars. But when Jerry messes up his last task, Bernie Nayman, Margolese’s right-hand man, assigns him a new final mission: retrieve an antique pistol named ‘the Mexican’ from a man called Beck in Mexico. This job pushes Jerry’s girlfriend Sam over the edge and she leaves for Las Vegas. Upon arriving in Mexico, Jerry ...

Memento (2000), a neo-noir psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and based on the short story Memento Mori by his brother Jonathan Nolan, introduces us to a Polaroid photo of a deceased man. As we watch the sequence in reverse, the photo transforms back into its undeveloped state, ultimately returning to the camera before the man is fatally shot. The film then proceeds with alternating black-and-white and color scenes. The black-and-white portions feature Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator with anterograde amnesia caused by an attack ...

Velvet Goldmine (1998), a musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons, follows British journalist Arthur Stuart as he delves into the mysterious withdrawal of 1970s glam rock icon Brian Slade. Stuart interviews those involved in Slade’s career, each recalling their experiences which become a vignette for that particular segment of Slade’s life. Along with exploring the vibrant rock shows, fashion, and journalism of 1970s Britain, the film also touches on ...

The American acid Western film, Dead Man (1995), was both written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It follows the story of William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, as he travels by train to Machine, a frontier company town. He is looking to start a new accounting job at the metal works. However, the fireman on the train warns him against this plan. Upon arriving in Machine, Blake realizes that the townspeople are not welcoming towards him. To his dismay, he discovers that the accounting position had already been filled by someone else. The town’s owner, John Dickinson, even resorts to threatening Blake with ...