Room of Death (2007 France)

 Room of Death (2007 France)

aka

La chambre des morts

Melody's Smile

Chamber of Death

Die Kammer der toten Kinder

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill 

another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take 

the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. 

The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind 

girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine 

that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also 

witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom. The kidnapper 

kills the girl but poses her body with an odd smile and in clothing that 

resembles a popular doll. The autopsy reveals that the girl was gently strangled 

and had cedar chips in her shoes and wolf hair on her nightgown. Her scalp was 

also damaged apparently from someone constantly brushing her hair. The kidnapper 

left finger prints but with no ridges for identification.

Two days later, another 12-year old girl is kidnapped. She is diabetic and 

only has enough medicine for 40 hours. The profiler thinks the kidnapper is 

the same man and is deriving some kind of pleasure from what he's doing.

Hypnotized (2004)

 Hypnotized (2004)

Faceless Beauty (aka Hypnotised) is a stunning masterpiece in 

the psychological thriller genre. While it has been marketed 

as a supernatural horror there are only small elements of the 

traditional horror style in the film.

The real horror of this film is based largely in the characters 

and their psychology. The film follows the story of an emotionally 

damaged psychiatrist who develops an unhealthy (and unprofessional) 

relationship with a seriously unstable female patient. As the two 

get more involved both patient and doctor quickly unravel in mutual 

self-destructive downward spirals.

aka

Eolguleobtneun minyeo

Faceless Beauty

Black's Game (Iceland 2012)

 Black's Game (Iceland 2012) 

Svartur á leik

In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw 

a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into 

a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story 

of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took 

control of Iceland's underworld.

The Food of the Gods (1976)

 The Food of the Gods (1976)

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote 

Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant 

wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn 

inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some 

exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with 

animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most 

dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are 

mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

Rent-a-Cat (Rentaneko 2012 Japan)

 Rent-a-Cat (Rentaneko 2012 Japan)

An odd woman named Sayoko rents cats to lonely people. Of course, 

Sayoko is lonely herself and worried that all she attracts is cats.

Some of the renters include an old woman who lost her husband and 

her cat, a middle-aged man who moved away from his family for work, 

a woman at a reception desk who questions her existence and a 

man who has a connection with Sayoko. 

Hard Candy (2005)

 Hard Candy (2005) 

After three weeks of chatting with the thirty-two year old 

photographer Jeff Kohlver over the Internet, fourteen year 

old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. 

Hayley flirts with him in spite of the age difference and 

proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares a 

screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, 

he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. 

Jeff denies the accusation, and Hayley begins to torture him 

in a cat and mouse game.