Horror Films at Ames Public Library
Today is 5/24/2012
Them (DVD FOREIGN THE) 77 min. 2006.
Clémentine is a teacher at the French School in Bucharest. She lives in a remote estate in Snagow with her husband Lucas, who is a writer. During the night, Clémentine is awakened by weird noises outside, and Lucas sees their car being stolen. Then the lights in the house turn off, the phone line is dead, they see that their property gate has been trespassed, and they are surrounded by weird persons with lights. They hide in the cellar and try to escape during this dreadful night of pure terror.
Them! (DVD SCI-FI THE) 92 min. 1954.
Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing enough formic acid to kill 20 men.
The Thing from Another World (DVD SCI-FI THI) 87 min. 1951.
A team of scientists, investigating a magnetic disturbance near the North Pole, discovers a disc-shaped object and some sort of man-like creature frozen beneath the ice.
Thir13en Ghosts (DVD SCI-FI THI) 91 min. 2001.
After a tragedy, a family discovers that the home they've inherited from an eccentric uncle is inhabited by sinister phantoms. Once the 12 ghosts are unlocked from the basement, there is only the need for one more fresh ghost to fulfill an evil prophesy.
3 Vincent Price Greatest Horror Classics of All Time (DVD SCI-FI THR) 241 min.
House on Haunted Hill, 1958: Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a “Haunted House” party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000 each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors. The Last Man on Earth, 1959: Dr. Robert Morgan is the only survivor of a world-wide plague. He is all alone now...or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims leave their graves, part of a hellish undead army thirsting for blood...his! The Bat, 1964; A crazed killer known as “The Bat” is on the loose in a mansion full of people.
Trigger Man (DVD ACTION TRI) 80 min. 2007.
Reggie, Sean, and Ray leave Manhattan to go deer hunting in Delaware and drink a beer in the woods away from city responsibilities that are forcing the friends apart. With one well-aimed shot, a walk in the sun is transformed into a fight for survival. Inspired by true events.
The 28 Weeks Later (DVD SCI-FI TWE) 99 min. 2007.
After the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that reconstruction. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one member unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
Vacancy (DVD SCI-FI VAC) 85 min. 2007.
David and Amy Fox are stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. They find a motel, but there is something strange about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests. The set appears to be filmed in the very room David and Amy are occupying. They realize that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras filming their every move. David and Amy search for a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels, all before they become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic.
Vanishing on 7th Street (DVD SCI-FI VAN) 90 min. 2011.
In this apocalyptic thriller, an unexplained blackout leaves Detroit in darkness and causes the population to vanish. As the sun rises, a handful of survivors seeking refuge realize the few light sources are all that protect them from the impending dark terror.
Wake Wood (DVD SCI-FI WAK) 90 min. 2009.
Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice, who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise move to the town of Wake Wood, where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple finds the idea disturbing and exciting, but once they agree to the terms, a far bigger question looms: what will they do when it is time for Alice to go back?
The Watcher in the Woods (DVD FAMILY WAT) 84 min. 1981.
Paranormal appearances haunt an American family in an old English house in the woods. The two daughters see a teenaged girl who vanished during a solar eclipse decades before. The film stars Bette Davis and Carroll Baker.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (DVD DRAMA WHA) 135 min. 1962.
In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
What Lies Beneath (DVD DRAMA WHA) 130 min. 2000.
Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a university scientist, is concerned about his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a cellist who had a serious auto accident. Claire hears voices and witnesses eerie occurrences at their lakeside Vermont home. Claire tells her therapist that the house might be haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact.
Wolf Creek (DVD SCI-FI WOL) 104 min. 2005.
Three pals in their twenties hike through Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback, but they return from their hike to find that their car will not start. A friendly local bushman named Mick Taylor offers them a ride, but their troubles have just begun.
The Wolf Man: the Legacy Collection (DVD SCI-FI WOL) 280 min.
This set includes The Wolf Man, 1941, when a man attacked by a werewolf finds that he becomes one himself under a full moon; Werewolf of London, 1935, where Dr. Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal while on a botanical expedition in Tibet; Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man, 1943, in which grave robbers open the grave of the Wolf Man and awake him; and She-Wolf of London, 1946, where a young heiress discovers evidence of a nighttime family curse.
The Wolfman (DVD SCI-FI WOL) 119 min. 2010.
Lawrence Talbot is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father, his brother's grieving fiancée, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector. When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and discovers a fate far worse than death.
