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Setting: New York City in the 1990s
Main Characters: Sam Wheat, Molly Jensen, Oda Mae Brown, Carl Bruner, Willie Lopez, Louise, Clara, Subway ghost
Contains some violence, mild profanity, and sexual situations
Produced by Lisa Weinstein for Howard W. Koch; Paramount Pictures
Screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin
Music: Maurice Jarre
Songs include "Unchained Melody" performed by the Righteous Brothers
Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze), a Wall Street Banker, and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) have a passionate love for each other and have decided to get married. Their dreams are shattered when one of them is killed by a mugger. With positive themes, everlasting love, enough comedy to keep the movie light, excellent special effects, romantic music, a strong script, and a tremendous cast -- it's no surprise that this movie played in theaters for almost a year. Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) is especially good as the zany spirit medium which helps Sam and Molly communicate between the earthly and spirit worlds. This movie leaves you feeling good inside, that evil is eventually punished, and that love transcends everything, even death itself.
THIRTEEN GHOSTS
(warner bros.)
Release Date: October 26, 2001
D: Steve Beck
Cast: Shannon Elizabeth; Tony Shalhoub; F. Murray Abraham; Rah Digga; Embeth Davidtz
Plot: When Dr. Zorba dies, he leaves his house to his broke nephew, who moves in with his daughter. With the house come two unexpected pluses (or minuses): the house has 13 ghosts which can only be seen with a special pair of glasses, and there's a fortune hidden somewhere in the house... and someone wants it.
The Amityville Horror
On November 14, 1974, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a nightmarish crime scene at the Defeo residence in Amityville, Long Island - an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald Defeo confessed to methodically shooting his parents and four siblings while they slept, claiming "voices" in the house drove him to commit the grisly murders. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house thinking it would be their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur to the family as George was plagued by nightmarish visions and haunting voices from the evil presence still lurking within the residence. 28 days after moving in, the Lutzes abandoned the home - lucky to escape with their lives.
VAMPIRES
Prolific director John Carpenter takes on the vampire genre in his action-horror film VAMPIRES. Bitter, tough-as-nails vampire hunter Jack Crow (James Woods) leads a specialized team, funded by no less than the Vatican, that is dedicated to destroying the race of vampires that inhabit the earth. The team is successful, and becomes lazy in its success, eventually falling victim to an elaborate ambush set up by a powerful master vampire. Crow and two others of his team are the only survivors, and are determined to get revenge for the massacre. Carpenter takes the genre to new heights with powerful action scenes, nifty vampire-killing weapons and great special effects. James Woods is wonderfully over the top as the head vampire hunter who has no love for the Vatican and a mysterious past that is never far behind him. VAMPIRES is based on the book by John Steakley, adapted for the screen by Don Jakoby. The score is creepy and powerful, a typical characteristic for a Carpenter film.
