Thirteen Days
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Bruce Thomas Caitlin Wachs Drake Cook Janet Coleman Jon Foster Kevin Costner Kevin O'Donnell Lucinda Jenney Matthew Dunn Shawn Driscoll
The Thaw
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Director: Mark A. Lewis
Stars: Aaron Ashmore Alejandro Rae Alexandra Staseson Anne Marie DeLuise Kyle Schmid Martha MacIsaac Steph Song Val Kilmer
Term Life
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.
Director: Peter Billingsley
Stars: Bill Paxton Hailee Steinfeld Jon Favreau Jonathan Banks Jordi Mollà Mike Epps Shea Whigham Taraji P. Henson Vince Vaughn William Levy
Suspect Zero
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Stars: Aaron Eckhart Ben Kingsley Carrie-Anne Moss Curtis Plagge Ellen Blake Harry Lennix Jerry Gardner Julian Reyes Keith Campbell Kevin Chamberlin
Stay Alive
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.
Director: William Brent Bell
Stars: Adam Goldberg Billy Slaughter Frankie Muniz Jimmi Simpson Jon Foster Milo Ventimiglia Nicole Oppermann Samaire Armstrong Sophia Bush Wendell Pierce
Special Effects
Reality and illusion collide in this thriller about a megalomaniacal movie director who murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the dead woman's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the part of the dead actress.
Director: Larry Cohen
Stars: Bill Oland Brad Rijn Eric Bogosian H. Richard Greene Heidi Bassett John Woehrle Kevin O'Connor Kitty Summerall Steven Pudenz Zoë Lund