Starring Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton & Thomas Buesch.

Adam (Oliver) is a college student in medical school. He suffers from repetitive migraine headaches and is a bit aloof in his classes. Although he is very intelligent, he doesn’t seem to have any drive and his teacher is noticing that he makes little effort. He appears to be at a crossroads in life and is depressed.

He receives an email from a Dr. Vick (Stapleton) basically offering him some work, but leaves it as a mystery. The doctor just tells him he can do so much more and convinces him he is a perfect candidate for his work and to come visit him.

The doctor lives in a very secluded town, up in the mountains in an almost unreachable place. Adam has to hike the last few miles through the snow covered mountains to get to his house. What he finds is a doctor working on some very odd experiments in cryonics. The doctor is looking for someone he can kill, and then revive with the chemical experiments he has been working on. Before you know it, Adam is getting “murdered” repeatedly in order to satisfy the doctor and his work.

The medicine and playing God have their side effects though, and not all goes perfectly as planned.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Subject Two an 8.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Cardiac Pictures

Starring Ryan Phillipe, Mike Myers, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell & Breckin Meyer.

This movie is about the infamous Studio 54, which catered to celebrities and the elite in the 1970’s in New York City. Although it was primarily a disco, you need not be a fan of the genre to enjoy this movie. It’s more about the club itself, and its inner workings, rather than about the music.

Shane O’Shea (Phillipe) is a young man living just across the river in NJ. He reads about a woman he admires, Julie Black (Campbell), in a magazine and sees that she attends Studio 54. He thinks this is the “in place” and gets his friends to go there with him one night.

The owner, Steve Rubell (Myers), sees him in line and gives him a unique opportunity to enter the Studio, but not his friends. He takes advantage of this and almost instantly falls in love with the place. He is ultimately offered a job there as a busboy, where they dress in just a skimpy pair of shorts and tend to the VIP members at the club. This gives you an opportunity to see the sex and drugs that were going on behind the scenes and what the workers truly had access to while employed there.

He befriends another worker, Greg (Meyer) who is married to another employee, Anita (Hayek). He moves in with them while working there as it’s much closer to the club.

The rest of the movie gives more insight to the rampant sex and drugs that were going on inside the secretive club, as well as how the millions of dollars that were being made.

Mike Myers is fantastic in this movie as the owner, Steve Rubell. He was a very unique guy and very flamboyant, and Myers performs the role perfectly.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores 54 a 7.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Dollface

Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus McFadyen, Dina Meyer & Barry Flatman.

This is Jigsaw’s 3rd horror installment and he’s ready to play a few more games.

He is now very sick and on life support. Jigsaw’s sidekick, Amanda (Smith) kidnaps a doctor to help keep him alive. She has a bomb strapped around her neck. She must keep Jigsaw alive at all costs, for if he dies, the bomb will go off.

They have also recruited Jeff (McFayden) to play the game. Jeff is obsessed with finding the person who is responsible for killing his son in a car accident. He’ll now have an opportunity, just in a much more sick fashion than he has ever dreamed about.

Jeff is lead through a series of “tests” to deal with his anger, hatred and desire for revenge. All the while, Jigsaw is slowly dying as he is being tended to by the doctor who has been kidnapped and Jigsaw’s sadistic assistant.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Saw III an 8.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Evolution Entertainment

Starring Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Desmond Harrington & Jeremy Sisto.

In a secluded town in the hills of West Virginia lives a very sick family. They have been in-breeding for generations and the entire family is severely deformed and have turned into cannibals.

Chris (Harrington) is on his way to a job interview when he gets stuck in bad traffic. He turns around and looks for an alternate route. He chooses a 15 mile dirt road, which will turn out to be a bad choice. He accidentally runs into another vehicle that has a flat tire while rounding a bend, and now there are 6 of them stranded in the woods of WV.

Since both vehicles are down for the count, they decide to hike it to look for assistance. What they don’t know, is they aren’t fully there by accident, someone is waiting for them. One by one they are confronted with the deformities, who literally eat those they catch coming into their area. Now they are in for the fight of their lives to escape the woods.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Wrong Turn a 6.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Summit Entertainment

Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg & Erik Knudsen.

“Jigsaw” (Bell) returns for his second installment of playing his games, or forcing them, upon his unsuspecting prey.

Detective Eric Matthews (Wahlberg) actually catches Jigsaw. But while they are apprehending him they realize that the various monitors at his place are playing out a more sinister plot. Matthews then realizes that Jigsaw has 8 victims this time, trapped in an old shelter and slowly breathing in deadly gas. They must play his game and find the antidote in order to survive. Worst of all, one of the victims is the detectives son.

Jigsaw more or less demands that the detective sit and talk with him. While hesitant, Matthews has little choice as he wants to know where it is he has his son stowed away. Jigsaw just keeps telling him that he’s in a safe place.

Matthews must either convince Jigsaw to tell him where his son is, or use clues to find him, as one by one all of the victims are falling to the deadly gas.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Saw II a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Twisted Pictures