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Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Chris Jarvis, Sadie Katz, Aqueela Zoll, Rhys Coiro, Roxanne Pallett
Daria and Nick ride their bikes deep in the Hobb Springs Bike Trail. After bathing in a small watering hole, they start having sex. Afterward, they ride their bikes again until Nick falls off and discovers that an unknown assailant has shot him with a bow and arrow. The assailant, Three Finger, then kills Nick with an arrow through the face. Daria attempts to flee only to ride into a strip of barbed-wire planted by One Eye and Saw Tooth. Three Finger then proceeds to kill her via decapitation with a machete.
Border Run (2013)
Directed by Gabriela Tagliavini
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Sharon Stone, Billy Zane, Olga Segura, Manolo Cardona
Une journaliste américaine recherche son frère disparu dans un contexte de violence et de trafic d'êtres humains à travers la frontière USA/Mexique. Inspiré de faits réels.
, 1h23Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Francesco Malcom
While out driving, three young men meet two beautiful women and convince them to go with them to a rave out in a remote location. Once there, the women realize that there is no rave and that the men lied to them in order to beat and rape them. The women try to escape, only to accidentally unleash a pack of zombie gladiators that proceed to attack the group as a whole.
Stitches (1985)
, 1h29Directed by Rod Holcomb
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Parker Stevenson, Geoffrey Lewis, Brian Tochi, Sydney Lassick, Tony Longo, Eddie Albert
Fatal Error (1999)
, 1h31Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films
Actors Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Janine Turner, Robert Wagner, Malcolm Stewart
À Seattle, un groupe d'avocats attend une télé-connexion avec l'Australie pour une conférence en duplex. Bientôt, le signal est établi. Soudainement, les hommes de loi sont pris de foudroyants malaises. La mort est quasi instantanée. Nick Baldwin, un scientifique, intervient quelque temps plus tard auprès de policiers afin de les aider à maîtriser un forcené. Le dénommé Tarrance, devenu fou, raconte à Baldwin l'agonie des malheureux. Une fois arrivé à la morgue pour examiner les corps, Baldwin en arrive à la conclusion qu'un virus pourrait être la cause du décès. L'épidémie menace.
Phobia (1980)
, 1h34Directed by John Huston
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, Fritz Weaver, Alexandra Stewart, Sean Scully
Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Ross (Glaser) M.D., is using radical techniques on his patients to cure them of their various phobias. He becomes terrified when someone starts murdering the subjects one at a time.
Norbit (2007)
, 1h42Directed by Brian Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Obésité, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Thandie Newton, Terry Crews, Cuba Gooding Jr., Khamani Griffin, Eddie Murphy, Clifton Powell
Norbit Albert Rice (Eddie Murphy) and Kate Thomas (Thandie Newton) are best friends as children at a combination Chinese restaurant and orphanage owned by their father figure, Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy), but are separated when Kate gets adopted. While being bullied by twins on a playground one day, Norbit is saved by a tough, overweight girl named Rasputia Latimore (Eddie Murphy) who scares him into being her boyfriend. Though at first she genuinely likes Norbit and cares about him, going as far as intimidating other kids into letting Norbit play with them – Rasputia's kindness deteriorates as she grows up to be an ignorant, arrogant, vindictive, and mean-spirited woman. She eventually pressures Norbit into marrying her, and bullies, insults, and controls him to make sure that she keeps him all to herself. Norbit is also belittled by Rasputia's older brothers, Big Black Jack (Terry Crews), Blue (Lester 'Rasta' Speight), and Earl (Clifton Powell), working as a bookkeeper at their local construction company. The Latimore brothers also run a "security business" and instill fear in everyone in the town except Mr. Wong, who refuses to sell his establishment to them.
Remains (2011)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Miko Hugues, Lance Reddick, Grant Bowler, Tawny Cypress
Tom (Grant Bowler) and Tori (Evalena Marie) are employees at the fictional Silver Star Casino in Reno. On a slow day at the tables, Tom convinces Tori to join him in a stock room for a sexual encounter. At the same time a news report is airing about "Peace Day", a day when the entire world's supply of nuclear weapons is set to be destroyed. Something goes wrong during the event and a nuclear blast occurs, knocking out power to the casino and trapping Tom and Tori behind an electronic lock. When the power is restored they find the casino trashed and people gone, except for an old lady in a power chair who attacks Tori. After dispatching the old lady with a chair leg, they encounter magician's assistant Jensen (Miko Hughes). He tells them that he turned the power back on and that he isn't sure what happened. Tom and Jensen go up front to check the casino security cameras while Tori goes to the front door to look outside. Tom and Jensen see Victor (Anthony Marks) outside throwing a man to the zombies to save himself. Victor bolts into the casino and demands to be let in. Jensen lets him in and takes him to a bathroom to clean up while Tom and Tori decide to start trapping the other zombies in the casino.
Die You Zombie Bastards! (2007)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Comedy science fiction films, Serial killer films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Jamie Gillis, Rufus, Hasil Adkins, Lloyd Kaufman
Serial killer Red Toole is married to Violet. After a night of killing innocent people, Red comes home to find that Violet has given him a gift: a superhero outfit made out of human skin. Red's joy is cut short when Baron Nefarious kidnaps Violet. Red puts on his superhero outfit and sets off to rescue his wife before she is turned into a mindless zombie.
Black Demons (1991)
, 1h28Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Origin Italie
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Three American college students, Dick, his sister Jessica, and her British boyfriend Kevin, are traveling through Brazil on vacation when Dick, after attending a bizarre voodoo ceremony, develops strange powers.
Shatter Dead (1994)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
The film opens with a scene of a woman having sex with an apparently female angel. No explanation is given in the film. The back of the DVD cover says the Angel of Death impregnates a mortal woman, causing the dead to come alive. The next shot is of seventeen months later as Susan works her way through a mostly abandoned town on foot. She encounters some of the living dead, including one who gave up his arm to research.
After Death (1990)
, 1h24Directed by Claudio Fragasso
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Candice Daly, Jeff Stryker, James Gaines, Nick Nicholson, Massimo Vanni, Don Wilson (kickboxeur)
Researchers at a remote jungle island outpost discover the natives are practicing voodoo and black magic. After killing the local priest (James Sampson), a voodoo curse begins to raise the dead to feed on the living in retribution. The researchers on the island are killed by the newly risen zombies, except for Jenny (Candice Daly), the daughter of a scientist couple. She escapes, protected by an enchanted necklace charm given to her by her mother shortly before her death.
The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Matthew McGrory
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.
, 1h44Directed by Joe D'Amato
Origin Italie
Genres Erotic, Horror, Pornographic
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Dirce Funari, Mark Shannon, Lucía Ramírez
A tropical island cursed by voodoo is purchased by a land developer (Mark Shannon) who plans to open a luxury hotel. He hires a sea Captain (George Eastman) to take him and a socialite (Dirce Funari) to the nearby island. Arriving at their location, the group is greeted by a shaman and his granddaughter Luna (Laura Gemser). They are warned to leave as the island is the reported home to zombies of dead natives. But Luna, who just might be a ghost, takes a liking to the greedy land owner.
Naina (2005)
, 2h22Origin Inde
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Bollywood, La cécité
Actors Urmila Matondkar, Anuj Sawhney, Amardeep Jha, Malavika, Dinesh Lamba, Charle
During a solar eclipse in 1986, young Naina Shah, while traveling in the backseat of her England-based dad's car, is struck by glass from the shattered windshield during an accident, and loses her eyesight. Her parents do not survive, and she is brought up by her paternal grandmother. Years later, Naina gets a successful cornea transplant, and is able to see. She complains of vision problems, seeing hooded persons, and people dying, which a psychiatrist, Samir Patel, diagnoses as hallucinations. But when Naina reports seeing someone else in her mirror reflection, Sameer decides to investigate who the original cornea actually belonged to. This investigation will lead them to an impoverished village in New Bhuj, Gujarat, where she will find her life endangered by hostile villagers who believe that the donor of her cornea was cursed.