Caroline Daniels (Samara Weaving) is a small-town girl who dreams of traveling. While working at a petrol station, she meets a con man named Oliver Anderson (Kyle Gallner), who is pulling a short-change scam. Intrigued by the handsome stranger, Caroline enters into a relationship with Oliver. She then goes on a cross-country crime spree with him, graduating from pulling low-level cons to robbing banks.
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The Surfer (Nicolas Cage) is a man with a dream. He wants to buy a house in the prestigious Cliff Top Drive, which overlooks Luna Bay beach. He plans on showing the house off to his son, the Kid (Finn Little), during a surfing trip. However, shortly after their arrival, the Surfer learns that the Bay Boys have taken over the beach.
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Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2. The broad strokes of the plot are the same. James (Jeremy Irvine) is deeply in love with Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson). After receiving a mysterious letter from Mary, James travels to the town of Silent Hill to find her. While there, James bumps into a bunch of weird monsters, the most famous of which is Pyramid Head (Robert Strange). He also meets several strange characters.
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Baron “Bear” Bailey (Michael Johnston) is a young man with a crush on his friend, Nikki Freeman (Inde Navarrette). He’s not sure if she feels the same way, and instead of talking to her about it like an adult, he uses a “One Wish Willow” toy to make her fall in love with him “more than anyone else in the entire world.” It works. However, it isn’t long before Nikki’s behavior becomes clingy, erratic, and eventually violent.
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Ulysses Richardson (Bob Odenkirk) is a lawman with a rather laissez-faire attitude towards policing. He’s been appointed the interim sheriff of Normal, Minnesota. It’s a small town full of quirky characters. The kind of place that looks all cozy, but isn’t nearly as idyllic in reality. Something that Ulysses discovers when a bank robbery exposes the town’s big secret.
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Devon Weisz (Sadie Sandler) is a lonely soon-to-be college freshman who longs for a best friend. She has her brother Alex (Aidan Langford), but Devon needs someone who isn’t biologically related to her. Her prayers seem answered when she meets the cool, carefree Celeste Durand (Chloe East). However, problems start to arise after Devon asks Celeste to be her roommate.
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Much like another character created by Derek Kolstad, Hutch Mansell (Bod Odenkirk) has to deal with “dipping his pinkie” back into his previous life come the sequel. He’s returned to his job as an “auditor” to pay off this massive debt, but that’s led to him working long hours away from his family. So, he decides to take his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen), his father, David (Christopher Lloyd), and his kids, Brady (Gage Munroe) and Sammy (Paisley Cadorath), on a vacation.
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Sasha (Charlize Theron) is an adrenaline junkie whose husband Tommy (Eric Bana) passes away during a freak accident on one of their adventures. Five months later, she travels to her husband’s native Australia for another excursion, venturing alone in this remote park where several visitors have gone missing. What could possibly go wrong?
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Warning: This article contains Scream series spoilers
In this remake of I onde dager or The Trip (which is a way worse title if you know what I onde dager translates as), Dan (Jason Segel) and Lisa (Samara Weaving) are a couple going through some difficulties. They travel up to a remote cabin ostensibly to reconnect. In reality, Dan is planning on murdering Lisa. However, his plan quickly goes awry when he discovers that Lisa has not only caught on, but is planning to kill him as well.
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The Life of Chuck is a 2024 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella of the same name. It was written and directed by Mike Flanagan. The plot is hard to describe beyond saying it follows the life of one Charles “Chuck” Krantz, played as an adult by Tom Hiddleston. I should probably warn Hiddleston fans that he doesn’t appear as much as you might think, partly because he’s one of four actors who play Chuck throughout his life.
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