Blackout (2013)

Actors: Toby Ambrose (actor), Jonathan Bowersock (actor), Barry Finnegan (actor), Kellen Garner (actor), Fred Gerle (actor), Aaron Ginn-Forsberg (actor), Marshall Glass (actor), Josh Hunt (actor), Tom Koelbel (actor), Kristina Rogers (actress), Danette Shoemaker (actress), Katherine Stewart (actress), Tracy Timm (actress), Yancy Evans (producer), Douglas Monce (producer),

Plot: "Blackout" is a classic film noir set in 1953. Photographed in glorious black and white, Blackout tells the story of a man who has lost his memory. He has no idea who is is, why he has woken up in a grungy motel room, or why people are trying to kill him.

Keywords: black-and-white, gun, independent-film, murder, noir
Genres: Crime,

The Ritual (2009)

Actors: Steve Brown (actor), Damien Colletti (actor), Mark Cray (actor), Jay Cusack (actor), Joey Garrison (actor), Devin Kates (actor), Tony Kates (actor), Geoff Lutz (actor), Art Lyle (actor), Paul McCloskey (actor), Anthony Mecca (actor), Joe O'Donnell (actor), Michael J. Panichelli Jr. (actor), David M. Sitbon (actor), Kevin Ashley (actor),

Plot: Serial killer Wayne Montgomery was inadvertently "outed" in December 2006, after DNA evidence linked him and his wife Andrea to a series of brutal unsolved murders in the small town of Claymont, Delaware - as well as the disappearance of their own daughter Monica. However, Andrea was the only one arrested. Authorities were unable to locate Wayne, who had simply vanished. Countless hours of Wayne & Andrea's home footage, allegedly depicting several of these vicious acts being committed, had also vanished. Recently discovered footage recorded by Wayne in 2007 details his activities in the months following his wife's arrest - adjusting to his life as a fugitive...and beginning a sadistic, twisted relationship with a teenage male hustler named Jared, whom Wayne has selected to groom as a successor. However, things will soon become unraveled when outside influences threaten to destroy the foundation that Wayne has created for his young student.

Keywords: suspense
Genres: Drama, Horror,

Quotes:

Wayne Montgomery: The things I do serve a purpose for me.

John Craven: You don't piss in your own backyard. You've got other people's backyards for that.

Detective John Haynes: Oh and by the way, jail does absolutely nothing for you. You look horrible.::Andrea Montgomery: Thanks, I love you too. Go fuck yourself.

Wayne Montgomery: This is who I am. I'm a serial killer.

The Deep Below (2007)

Actors: Jeff Corbett (actor), Jason Dohring (actor), Michael Dorn (actor), Andrew E. Erickson (actor), James Field (actor), Brett Flynn (actor), Sterling McHan (actor), Robert Peters (actor), Greg Price (actor), Brian Shoop (actor), Hawk Slane (actor), Dan Wells (actor), Gretchen Becker (actress), Tonya Bordeaux (actress), Bill Brazelton (actor),

Plot: Will Taylor has nightmares. He dreams of watching his father and aunt being murdered when he was only four years old. Will lives with his troubled uncle Joe Mitchell because his mother remains catatonic from the attack. Joe, who has his own problems with his girlfriend Sarah, has raised Will since the bank robbery that killed his wife and brother-in-law. Back in 1990 the whole town of Canyon Hills had to be moved because a new dam was built to prevent chronic flooding. The original town is now at the bottom of the lake. Will finds out that the stolen bank money was never found and begins diving to recover it and his past. Enter Carl Bennett, the bank robber turned murderer. Just released from prison, he is heading for Canyon Hills to recover the money he left behind. Who will get to it first?

Genres: Adventure, Thriller,
Taglines: At the bottom of the lake, one would die to find it... and one would kill to get it.

Head Case (2007)

Actors: Steve Brown (actor), Jay Cusack (actor), Bruce De Santis (actor), Mario De Santis (actor), Joey Garrison (actor), Bill Jackson (actor), Erick Kniesler (actor), John Larsen (actor), Paul McCloskey (actor), Michael J. Panichelli Jr. (actor), Keith Pyle (actor), Anthony Spadaccini (actor), James J. Ward (actor), Dave Wascavage (actor), Benjamin P. Ablao Jr. (actor),

Plot: Wayne Montgomery was Delaware's most prolific serial killer. From 1986-1989, he was responsible for the deaths of countless people, while maintaining a quiet suburban life with his wife Andrea. In 1989, he took an extended hiatus from his work to settle down and help raise a family. In 2006, Wayne decided to come out of retirement to continue his life's work, with Andrea now joining him in his craft. The grisly details of Wayne and Andrea's horrific crimes were captured by Wayne's video camera, a sick, twisted way to relive the experience again and again. Hundreds of hours of shocking footage shot over a period of several months have been edited into a feature length film, with cooperation from the victims' families. This footage is now being presented as the feature film HEAD CASE. From award-winning filmmaker Anthony Spadaccini.

Keywords: basement, blood, death, murder, serial-killer, snuff, torture, video-camera
Genres: Drama, Horror,
Taglines: "Pain is what I want..." From the home movies of serial killers Wayne & Andrea Montgomery

Quotes:

Wayne Montgomery: Pain is what I want.

Andrea Montgomery: Would you like some ginger ale?

Andrea Montgomery: If you were to kill someone, how would you do it?

Andrea Montgomery: What do you think would be the most painful way to die?

Andrea Montgomery: You're bored.::Wayne Montgomery: Very!

Olivia Hutton: It's a little warm in here. Do you think I could open those windows?::Andrea Montgomery: No, no. They're nailed shut. We don't like them open. Too many bugs.

Andrea Montgomery: It's not fair.::Wayne Montgomery: Well, life's not fair. Just ask some of them.

Andrea Montgomery: Now you're eating breakfast? And why aren't you eating with a knife and a fork? You know better than that! Didn't your mother teach you any manners?::Wayne Montgomery: It's a doughnut!::Andrea Montgomery: Knife and fork!::Wayne Montgomery: It's a doughnut!::Andrea Montgomery: Knife and fork!::Wayne Montgomery: Yeah, yeah!

Wayne Montgomery: Damn, that spine's tougher than I thought!

Wayne Montgomery: Oh, look! Two for the price of one! I wonder if it was a boy or a girl? Guess she'll never know.::Andrea Montgomery: Guess not.

Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

Actors: Ted Blumberg (actor), Harry Bugin (actor), Mark Casella (actor), Allan Corduner (actor), Tom Foral (actor), Merwin Goldsmith (actor), James Hanlon (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Peter Francis James (actor), Ben Jones (actor), Dave Krause (actor), Richard Litt (actor), Steve Martin (actor), Jerry Mayer (actor), Andre Belgrader (actor),

Plot: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

Keywords: 1940s, ambisinister, american-indian, anger, anonymity, art, art-gallery, artist, aspirin, bar
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Joe Gould: In the winter, I'm a Buddhist; in the summer, I'm a nudist!

Joe Gould: Only the artist is free, Joe. Because he is single of purpose. He knows what he wants and wants only that. But this, frightens people, I don't know.

[first lines]::Joe Mitchell: In my home town, I never felt at home. In New York, New York City, in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks, and the misfits, and the one runners, and the has-beens, and the might-have-beens, and the would-bes, and the never-wills, and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

Joe Mitchell: You know that fellow who was in here the other day? The small, disheveled looking...::Harold Ross: That was you, Joe.

Joe Gould: So I supposed you're puzzled about me, Mr. Mitchell. If so the feeling's mutual. I've been puzzled about me, and have been since childhood. Did you ever have a painful operation or disease?

Joe Gould: When I am hungry I don't have any self respect!

Joe Gould: [looking at a sculpture] Is she your type?::Joe Mitchell: Parts of her.

Joe Gould: Edward Nagel called me a barbarian, because I didn't see a picture as a picture. It didn't mean anything to me. All I saw was the expression of the man who painted it. And Gaston LeChez agreed with me, saying art is essentially a means of self-expression, putting E. Nagel in his place.::Joe Mitchell: Well, that must have made you feel good.::Joe Gould: No, actually it made me feel bad. Because although our thoughts were the same, Gaston's and mine, his meant something, because he was who he was. Mine meant nothing, because because I was who I am.

Joe Gould: Take care of those composition books, Joe. The Oral History is my rope, my scaffold, my bed, my board, my wife, my floozy, my wound and the salt on it. My whiskey, my aspirin, my rock, and my salvation.

Joe Gould: [for his book] Civilization brings distinctions of cast apart from individual attainment. Thus is developed the patrician and the peasant. Each has a different set of virtues, and both are needed for the complete sum of humanity. When you find a patrician without pride, or a peasant without avarice, you get very nearly the perfect person. In the eyes of the infinite, all pride is just dust and ashes.

Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)

Actors: Bob Alden (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), George Boyce (actor), Roy Brent (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Al Eben (actor), William Frawley (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), William Alcorn (actor),

Plot: A famous radio singer takes time off from her career and returns to New York City to visit with old friends, who don't know she's a famous singer (she uses a stage name). She falls in love with a struggling songwriter (who also doesn't know she's a famous singer), and sets out to get his songs into a play that some producers want her to be in.

Keywords: new-york-city, singer, songwriter
Genres: Musical,

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)

Actors: George Allen (actor), Eugene Burr (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Roy Cardona (actor), John Cowell (actor), William Desmond (actor), Earl Douglas (actor), Earl Douglas (actor), John Elliott (actor), Knute Erickson (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Art Felix (actor), Richard Alexander (actor),

Plot: This Weiss Serials Production film, ("Presented" by George M. Merrick who also co-wrote the screenplay and was the production manager), with the working title of "The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand" but the actual release title on the film and all the printed material related to it was "The Clutching Hand", was loosely based on a novel by "Craig Kennedy" creator Arthur B. Reeve, and was also released as a feature in addition to the 15 chapter serial, both of which were originally distributed by Stage and Screen Productions, Inc. In Chapter 1, ("Who is the Clutching Hand?"), Doctor Paul Gironda announces he has discovered a formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold. The International Research Foundation agrees to financially help him develop his formula. Just before the Board of Directors arrive at Gironda's laboratory to witness his achievement, he is heard screaming, and mysteriously disappears before help arrives. Newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, who is engaged to Gironda's daughter Verna, calls in investigator Craig Kennedy. Kennedy and Jameson face many perils and cliffhangers, including chapter 8 ("A Cry in the Night") when Gironda's kidnappers use television to show Gironda as still alive and the unseen "Clutching Hand" orders Kennedy to quit the case. The latter finally finds Gironda a prisoner aboard the freight ship, "The Nellie B", in chapter 13 ("The Mystic Menace")and rescues him. He instructs Jameson to return Gironda to his home, but Jameson's car is overtaken by agents of "The Clutching Hand" and the doctor is once again kidnapped. In chapter 15,("The Lone Hand") Kennedy convenes the IRF board of directors and various other people, and exposes "The Clutching Hand" as...

Keywords: barroom-brawl, based-on-novel, butler, car-chase, cloaked-figure, corporately-controlled-scientific-experiment, fistfight, gold-making-formula, gold-making-machine, gunfight
Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery,
Taglines: a Craig Kennedy Thriller In Fifteen Chapters

Quotes:

[first lines]::Warden [Ch.1]: [gives Mitchell a handful of cash] Here you are, Mitchell. You're going out into the world a free man. I hope you become a useful and law-abiding member of society.::Joe Mitchell: Aw, cut out the lecture, Warden.::Warden [Ch.1]: Bitterness won't get you anywhere, Mitchell. Now that you squared your debt...::Joe Mitchell: My debt ain't squared... not by a long shot. I got a lot of collectin' to do.

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)

Actors: Eugene Burr (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Roy Cardona (actor), William Desmond (actor), Earl Douglas (actor), John Elliott (actor), Knute Erickson (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Art Felix (actor), Olin Francis (actor), Robert Frazer (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Gaston Glass (actor), Richard Alexander (actor),

Plot: Doctor Paul Gironda announces he has discovered a formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold. The International Research Foundation agrees to financially help him develop his formula. Just before the Board of Directors arrive at Gironda's laboratory to witness his achievement, he is heard screaming, and mysteriously disappears before help arrives. Newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, who is engaged to Gironda's daughter Verna, calls in investigator Craig Kennedy. Kennedy and Jameson face many perils and cliffhangers. When Gironda's kidnappers use television to show Gironda is still alive, the unseen "Clutching Hand" orders Kennedy to quit the case. The latter finally finds Gironda a prisoner aboard the freight ship, "The Nellie B",and rescues him. He instructs Jameson to return Gironda to his home, but Jameson's car is overtaken by agents of "The Clutching Hand" and the doctor is once again kidnapped. Near the end, Kennedy convenes the IRF board of directors and various other people, and exposes "The Clutching Hand".

Keywords: feature-version-of-serial
Genres: Crime, Drama,