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A Hollywood Foley artist who records real screams for horror films crosses paths with a grieving father hunting the snuff-film ring he believes took his daughter.
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The Day of the Locust
Tod Hackett, a young set designer at a Hollywood studio in the 1930s, falls for a would-be starlet and watches the bored, disappointed people who came to California to die turn ugly.
Haunted
Seventeen people answer an ad for a writers' retreat and lock themselves into an old theatre for three months, where they tell their worst stories and, to make better ones, set about sabotaging themselves.
Not Forever, But For Now
Cecil and his older brother Otto, two young men still kept by governesses in a grand house in Wales, are heirs to a family business of murder for hire, and their grandfather, a contract killer with stories about famous victims, wants Otto in the trade.
The Seventh Veil of Salome
In 1950s Hollywood, Vera Larios, an unknown young Mexican actress, is cast as Salome in a lavish biblical epic, a part that Nancy Hartley, a blonde starlet who has worked for years to be noticed, wanted for herself.
The Book of Illusions
A man watches a silent film and becomes obsessed with the actor, whose disappearance fifty years ago may hold the key to his own unraveling life.
Imperial Bedrooms
Twenty-five years after Less Than Zero, Clay, now a screenwriter, returns to Los Angeles to cast a film and finds the same people, older, richer and emptier, still circling the same moral void.
Shutter Island
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston Harbor to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room.
Get Shorty
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, goes to Los Angeles to collect from a man who faked his own death, meets a producer of schlock horror films who also owes money, and decides he could make movies himself.
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
Cigano, an American drifter living rough in Rio de Janeiro after leaving prison clean of heroin, meets Narcisa, a poet and street addict, and falls for her.
Dog Soldiers
John Converse, a writer in Saigon, arranges to smuggle three kilos of heroin to California, and the man he sends with it, Ray Hicks, finds that someone is waiting for him.
Yesteryear
Natalie Heller Mills, a traditional-lifestyle influencer with eight million followers, wakes up in a life that looks like her own but is not, on a rustic farm in 1855 with no electricity, strange children and a husband who is suddenly a real farmer, and she sets out to learn what has happened.
Sanctuary
A young woman in Depression-era Mississippi is violated by a bootlegger, and the justice system that responds reveals more about the corruption of power than the crime itself.