Less Mean About Movies (a movielog, a podcast)

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Cast

• Robert De Niro as Max Cady
• Nick Nolte as Samuel G. Bowden
• Jessica Lange as Leigh Bowden
• Juliette Lewis as Danielle Bowden
• Joe Don Baker as Claude Kersek
• Robert Mitchum as Lieutenant Elgart
• Gregory Peck as Lee Heller
• Martin Balsam as Judge
• Illeana Douglas as Lori Davis

P2 directed by Frank Khalfoun

A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.

Cast

• Rachel Nichols as Angela Bridges
• Wes Bentley as Thomas Barclay

Hush directed by Mike Flanagan

A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Cast

• Kate Siegel as Madison "Maddie" Young
• John Gallagher Jr. as The Man
• Michael Trucco as John Stanley
• Samantha Sloyan as Sarah Greene

When A Stranger Calls (1979) directed by Fred Walton

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.

Cast

• Charles Durning as John Clifford
• Carol Kane as Jill Johnson
• Colleen Dewhurst as Tracy
• Tony Beckley as Curt Duncan
• Rachel Roberts as Dr. Monk
• Ron O'Neal as Lt. Charlie Garber

The Descent directed by Neil Marshall

A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

Cast

• Shauna Macdonald as Sarah
• Natalie Mendoza as Juno
• Alex Reid as Beth
• MyAnna Buring as Sam
• Saskia Mulder as Rebecca
• Nora-Jane Noone as Holly

High Tension directed by Alexandre Aja

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

Cast

• Cécile de France as Marie
• Maïwenn as Alexia Soral
• Philippe Nahon as The Killer

One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.

Double Team directed by Tsui Hark

An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jack Paul Quinn

Dennis Rodman as Yaz

Paul Freeman as Alex Goldsmythe

Mickey Rourke as Stavros

Natacha Lindinger as Kathryn "Kath" Quinn

Fear X directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry (Turturro), prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

Cast

John Turturro as Harry

Deborah Kara Unger as Kate

Stephen McIntyre as Phil

William Allen Young as Agent Lawrence

Gene Davis as Ed (as Eugene M. Davis)

Mark Houghton as Diner Cop

Jacqueline Ramel as Claire

James Remar as Peter

Amanda Ooms as Prostitute