Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Writer: Hisakatsu Kuroki and Shinya Tsukamoto
Release year: 2008
The world’s nightmares, on one man’s shoulders.
Terrifying acts inflicted on fellow student Kikukawa are about to have deadly consequences for Yukie and her friends. Now she can only pray that The Nightmare Detective will live up to his reputation and stop the events which have been set in motion.
Director: David Noel Bourke
Writer: David Noel Bourke
Release year: 2009
Heads or Tails
Johnny (Tao Hildebrand) and Nina (Laura Bach) are quite the happily married couple. He’s a smalltime drug dealer with an unhealthy addiction to the goods. She’s a former-prostitute turned actress. Or so she told him. Johnny has big dreams of his own. Nina has plans of her own too. This can’t go right, can it?
Director: Norberto López Amado
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarría based on a novel by Javier García Sánchez
Release year: 2002
English title: They Are Watching Us
A descent into madness: Spanish Gothic Style
Spain’s horror film industry had a huge comeback in the 90′s with directors such as Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró and specially, Alejandro Amenábar; a new generation of young directors demonstrating that there was a lot more going on in Spain’s cinema besides Pedro Almodóvar‘s already famous melodramas. The nightmarish nights and the urban decay of Spain’s big cities, the grim and ghostly memories of the country’s troubled past and in particular, that characteristic black humor that Spaniards domain very well. These have become the main ingredients of that tasty mix producing the dark fantasies of Spain’s new horror films.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Joseph Stefano based on a book by Robert Bloch
Release year: 1960
A boy’s best friend is his mother.
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a young woman on the run, stops for the night at the isolated Bates Motel. The motel manager, oddball Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), is happy for the company, but Marion is distracted by her recent past. The motel has a past of its own in which Marion soon becomes immersed….
Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Tom Holland
Release Year: 1983
Coming home is hard to do.
More than twenty years after the events of the first film, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is released from the asylum and returns to the Bates Motel. Lila Loomis (Vera Miles)—who apparently married her sister’s boyfriend Sam—objects to his release in the strongest possible terms, but Dr. Bill Raymond (Robert Loggia) assures her that Bates is restored to sanity. Others, including Norman himself, are not so sure….
