A new girl in a quiet town, Tess (Ryan Simpkins) tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom (Annika Marks). After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy (Amberley Gridley), a hit-and-run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts to question her sanity again. When the spirit possesses Tess’s mind and soul, faith leads them to the house of Sarah (Karina Logue), Lucy’s mother, who has been despondent since the accident. All together with time working against them, Sarah is desperate to believe that Lucy is still alive in Tess, but neither parent wants to give up on their daughter. Now that she understands what is happening to her, ultimately Tess must decide whether she wants to keep fighting or succumb to her affliction.
Director: Sonny Mallhi
Writers: Sonny Mallhi
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
In Theaters December 18th, 2015
When a detective (Keanu Reeves) starts to investigate his partner’s shocking death, he uncovers disturbing evidence of police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman (Ana De Armas).
Struggling with drug addiction and heartbreak after his recent separation, Sonny looks to make amends by giving his wife a precious necklace on their anniversary. But when the necklace is stolen, he must delve into the dark corners of a Louisiana town to find it. Sonny faces dangerous drug dealers and truths he may not want to confront, all in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage.
Director: Tim McCann
Writers: Tim McCann, Shaun Sanghani, Sam Trammell
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action and Adventure
Run Time: 1 hour 23 minutes
In Theaters January 22nd, 2016
Cast: Sam Trammell, Vanessa Ferlito, Missy Yager, Nick Loeb, Maria McCann
In the sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special,” writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon) goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers. What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever in this genre–defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writers: Jeff Nichols
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
In Theaters March 18th, 2016
Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Paul Sparks
When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), his son Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz), a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test in a high-stakes mission to find his father and to stop a terrorist plot.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Writers: Umair Aleem, Max Adams
Genre: Action and Adventure, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 23 minutes
In Theaters December 18th, 2015
Cast: Kellan Lutz, Bruce Willis, Gina Carano, D.B. Sweeney, Dan Bilzerian, Olga Valentina, Lydia Hull, Tyler J. Olson
Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Director: Peter Landesman
Writers: Peter Landesman
Genre: Drama, Thriller
In Theaters December 25th, 2015
Cast: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Arliss Howard, Paul Reiser, Luke Wilson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
A disabled war veteran is in bad hands when his family hires the live-in nurse from hell in this intense psychological shocker. George (The Sacrament’s Gene Jones) is an aging ex-soldier haunted by memories of Vietnam and struggling to reconnect with his estranged son and granddaughter. But when he suffers a stroke and is diagnosed with dementia, George is left in the care of Michelle (Halloween’s Kristina Klebe), a seemingly sweet nurse with a disturbing dark side. At the mercy of a psychopath with a hypodermic needle, George becomes a prisoner in his own home, caught in a sadistic game of cat and mouse as brutal as anything he experienced in Vietnam.
Director: Mike Testin
Writers: Meredith Berg
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Theaters December 4th, 2015
Cast: Gene Jones, Kristina Klebe, Peter Cilella, Hassie Harrison
10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE is based on Nellie Bly's autobiographical 1887 book. The film follows 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly (Caroline Barry) on her first undercover assignment for world-famous newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer. Bly elaborately feigns insanity, gets herself arrested and declared insane before a judge to go undercover into Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum for women, run by E.C. Dent (Christopher Lambert). Behind the thick walls and bars of the asylum, Bly, facing life-threatening peril, sets out to expose institutional corruption, abuse and murder. Bly's article launches investigations by judicial courts, including the grand jury, that ultimately lead to the successful shutdown of Blackwell's Asylum. Nellie Bly is the first woman in history to write a serious investigative front-page news story. She was called the greatest reporter in America.
Director: Timothy Hines
Writers: Timothy Hines
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 51 minutes
In Theaters November 11th, 2015
Cast: Caroline Barry, Christopher Lambert, Kelly Le Brock, Julia Chantrey, Alexandra Callas, David Mitchum Brown, Jessa Campbell, Natalia Davidenko, Talya Mar, Katie Singleton
In HARD LABOR, a middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship—and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena (Helena Albergaria) gets ready to start her own business (a small grocery store), her white-collar husband Otávio (Marat Descartes) is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otávio goes on a series of ego-crushing job interviews and begins to adapt to the needs of a new economy. Helena, now the household’s breadwinner, discovers that the building housing her store has a sinister story in its past. Beautifully translating the evanescent forces of cyber-age economics into a Grand Guignol of kitchen-sink sensibilities, HARD LABOR is unlike any other Brazilian film you’ve seen in the last decade.
Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Writers: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Genre: Horror, Foreign, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
In Theaters October 30th, 2015
Cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Gilda Nomacce, Naloana Lima, Lilian Blanc, Thiago Carreira, Hugo Villavicenzio
If you trespass upon them, they’ll trespass upon you… When London conservationist Adam (Game of Thrones’ Joseph Mawle) and his wife Clare (Bojana Novakovic, Devil, Drag Me to Hell) move with their infant son to a remote house near the Irish forest, they quickly find their new neighbors unwelcoming. The discovery of a gruesome “zombie fungus” growing in the house is just the beginning, as the surrounding woods spew forth a terrifying array of folkloric banshees, baby snatchers, and demons. Awash in the otherworldly atmosphere of a dark fairy tale, The Hallow cleverly toys with genre conventions while unleashing some of the most nightmarishly terrifying creatures in years.
Director: Corin Hardy
Writers: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Theaters November 6th, 2015
Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael Smiley, Michael McElhatton
Four friends stumble into a deal too good to refuse. But when the investment goes bad, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss… and it’s payback time. Now, they must successfully kidnap a family member of a rival kingpin in order to erase the life-threatening debt. In way over their heads, if they can complete the assigned task without screwing up, they just might escape with their lives. John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Michael Pitt (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) star in this action-packed thriller about insider trading, the Mob and an unrelenting quest for vengeance.
Director: Jackie Earle Haley
Writers: Robert Lowell
Genre: Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
In Theaters November 20th, 2015
Cast: Michael Pitt, Dan Stevens, Christopher Abbott, Rob Brown, Edi Gathegi, Jackie Earle Haley, John Travolta
An uncompromising revenge thriller of operatic scope, The World of Kanako is a nonstop visual and emotional assault to the senses as it follows troubled ex-detective Akikazu (Kôji Yakusho, 13 Assassins, Babel) on the hunt for his missing teenage daughter, Kanako. What he discovers in his search is an unsettling and harrowing web of depravity––surrounding both Kanako and himself. As Akizaku stumbles along a shocking trail of drugs, sex and violence, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the revelations that affect all he holds dear. A wildly kinetic and startlingly venomous throwback to the best that Asian extreme cinema has to offer, The World of Kanako offers a trip right up to the edge of a man's private hell––and over it.
Director: Tetusya Nakashima
Genre: Foreign, Thriller, Action and Adventure
Run Time: 2 hours
In Theaters December 4th, 2015
The story of John, a small time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.
Director: Trey Nelson
Writers: Trey Nelson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
In Theaters November 6th, 2015
Aja Naomi King plays Sophie Clé, the head of marketing for a high tech firm run by her father Jack Clé, played by Colm Feore. On the eve of launching a sleek device that allows users to relive their happiest memories, Sophie is kidnapped. After she escapes with a mysterious wound to her head, Sophie is haunted by increasingly violent visions of her late mother (Lela Rochon Fuqua) who committed suicide years earlier. When her father questions her sanity, Sophie enlists the family’s security guard (Gary Dourdan) to help uncover the family’s dark secrets.
Director: Jose Nestor Marquez
Writers: Elissa Matsueda, Jose Nestor Marquez
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
In Theaters October 9th, 2015
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Colm Feore, Gary Dourdan, Amanda Plummer, Jeanette Samano, David Clennon
Five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this visually stunning, heart-pounding animated anthology featuring the voices of Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman and Guillermo del Toro. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe's imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history.
Director: Raul Garcia
Writers: Raul Garcia, Edgar Allan Poe
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Run Time: 1 hour 14 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015
Cast: Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, Guillermo del Toro
When their attempt to rob a casino owned by the feared gangster Pope goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take the passengers hostage.
Director: Scott Mann
Writers: Stephen Cyrus Sepher, Max S. Adams
Genre: Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Theaters November 13th, 2015
Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Robert De Niro, Kate Bosworth, Gina Carano, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, D.B. Sweeney, Lydia Hull, Tyler J. Olson, Morris Chestnut, Dave Bautista
In this timely thriller, when single father Dennis Nash (Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield) is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to work for Rick Carver (Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon), the ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal with the devil that may save his family home, but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Genre: Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
In Theaters September 25th, 2015
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Noah Lomax, Tim Guinee, J.D. Evermore, Clancy Brown
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth. Olga Kurylenko (THE NOVEMBER MAN) breaks out as a leading action heroine in this dynamic thriller costarring James Purefoy (TVs THE FOLLOWING).
Director: Stephen Campanelli
Genre: Action and Adventure, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
In the fast-paced, high-adrenaline “Point Break,” a young FBI agent, Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes—led by the charismatic Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways. Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes. The film is replete with the most daring athleticism ever seen in a motion picture. These action-adventure feats are performed by elite athletes representing the world’s best in class in big-wave surfing, wingsuit flying, sheer-face snowboarding, free rock climbing, and high-speed motorcycling.
Director: Ericson Core
Writers: Kurt Wimmer
Genre: Action and Adventure, Thriller
In Theaters December 25th, 2015
Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, Delroy Lindo
Saving Mr. Wu is a crime drama based on the true story of China’s famous celebrity kidnapping case. Mr. Wu (played by acclaimed film star Andy Lau) is kidnapped by Zhang Hua (Wang Qinyuan) along with three accomplices and demanding a ransom of 3 million RMB. In the ensuing 20 hours, the Chinese detectives led by Chief Xing (Liu Ye) quickly form a task force and sweep the city. Time is of the essence, as Mr. Wu is ordered to be killed at 9pm, regardless of whether or not the money is collected. Hua is eventually apprehended alone, and a dangerous mental showdown develops. As the deadline rapidly approaches, the detectives and captors collide in a dramatic showdown that leaves the audience on the edge of their seats. Saving Mr. Wu is directed by Ding Sheng, one of China’s most unique and visually compelling action directors (Little Big Soldier, Underdog Knight, Police Story 2013).
Director: Ding Sheng
Writers: Ding Sheng
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour 46 minutes
In Theaters October 2nd, 2015