This short film, based on the novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, was produced to demonstrate the direction of a full Talisman adaptation.
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This short film, based on the novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, was produced to demonstrate the direction of a full Talisman adaptation.
One night, a mortician passes through the gates of a manor. He says he came to this place because of an invitation, and the locals tell him some unbelievable things. First, he can never leave the manor. Second, a special "game" is held every day against terrifying hunters. Third, if you receive an invitation to the "game," you are confirmed to participate. You cannot escape. The mortician, who was caught up in it without any preparation or resolve, meets Joseph, a cold-hearted hunter, in his first game.
When a young black man’s girlfriend mysteriously disappears, he’s forced to go on the run, staying one step ahead of suspicious police to clear his name and to find out if otherworldly forces are to blame.
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the storyteller, "Tales of the Tales of the Unusual 35th Anniversary Special: Legendary Masterpieces One Night Only Revival Edition" will be broadcast on Fuji TV's "Saturday Premium" slot (Saturday 9pm) on May 31st. The program will feature five of Tamori's most famous works from the series' past. The programs that will be broadcast on the 31st are as follows: "BLACK ROOM" (broadcast in 2001, starring Takuya Kimura) "The Night Train Man" (broadcast in 2002, starring Ren Osugi) "Locker" (broadcast in 1990, starring Yuji Oda) "Bijokan" (broadcast in 2005, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki) "Memories of Love, Don't Stop" (broadcast in 2019, starring Yuki Saito)
There was once a man named Yin XIII, who was known for helping the suffering. According to rumors, he was good at solving supernatural phenomena and knew how to drive away evil spirits. Yin saw what ordinary people could not see. One day, he was invited into the Lin family home to solve the mystery of the ghost footprints.
The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...
In an opressed world, a bunch of workers will start a revolution.
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
A police officer gets tangled up in a crimelord's world.
Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.
Murder, mystery and mayhem as B movie fan, Adam Waltz, wins Walk on Role in a film Featuring Scream Queen, Cassie Blue (Tiffany Shepis). Thinking his luck had changed for the better he steps into chaos with a killer loose and no one on the production safe.
Angela West has always wanted a family, and now has one with her husband Keith. When an ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, Angela turns to Keith, but no matter what she tries, she can't seem to shake the stalker who is ruining her life.
When government security files entrusted to a Rear Admiral go missing, his daughter aims to track them down.
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.
Young advertising executive Mack Maddox is on a career fast-track. Happily married with a young daughter, Mack seems to have it all... until a bizarre series of events make him the target for murder.
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity.
Iain Syme returns to his family’s farmland in the Scottish Borders and attempts to sell it off to a mysterious local landowner. However, his brother Cammy, a hermit who still lives on the land, has different ideas...
When Christine was found brutally killed in the woods, her boyfriend, a forest ranger and a farmer are summoned for inquest. Each has a version to tell. But as the case deepens, they discover the shocking truth.
British television film starring Martin Kemp
A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.
Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitors and residents begin to be bumped off one by one under grizzly circumstances.
A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor.
Within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls is Elizabeth Sayers, a new student who, under an assumed name, hopes to learn the truth behind her younger sister's apparent suicide. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called 'The Five' — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world!
The investigation of a mysterious serial-killer in a mountain village, set in Norway in the mid 1300s.
After a car accident, Alison, a woman with a seemingly perfect life, begins to have visions that suggest she is not who she thinks she is.
Rekha and her uncle Shyamlal are the only survivors in their family which has a long and painful history of death under bizarre and suspicious circumstances while living in their ancestral property. Rekha and Shyamlal leave their ancestral property in fear and settle down in the city where Rekha meets a jovial and rowdy bunch of youngsters belonging to the Youth Club. Members of the Youth Club decide to unravel the mystery of Rekha's ancestral property and hope to find out if those deaths are freak accidents or an ancient curse.
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
A state DGP's daughter goes missing as predicted by a crime novelist in his story. An undercover cop comes in to unravel the mystery.
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.
Two sisters suspect foul play after the mysterious disappearance of their mother in the mountains.
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a twist of fate, much more than that.
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
Two different men are possessed by spirits of Native Americans after they separately wander into a sacred burial ground. When John and Sybil come home with their son after a trip to the Mojave Desert, they bring an unusual stone back as a memento of the trip. The stone seems to cause strange noises and other horrible inexplicable phenomena.
After the tale by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Graduation performance, developed into a film. Filming took place in the Pushkin museum.
A group of drunken young people severely beat the couple in love. Subsequently, Aleksandr Shchetinin died in the hospital after receiving injuries from beatings. The court, chaired by Judge Khromova, is to pronounce the death sentence on one of the four participants in the fight, who committed the fatal blow that led to death.
When the long-collapsed Tongtian Pagoda mysteriously reignites and a fiery dragon devastates the city’s training grounds, panic grips the capital and rumors spread that only Empress Wu Zetian’s sacrifice can stop the disaster. Assigned to investigate, Di Renjie is forced to partner with his rival Pei Dongsheng to uncover the truth behind the supernatural calamity before fear and foreign threats tear the city apart.
After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to hunt down the creature. However, as they wander into the wilderness they discover that an entire tribe of Sasquatches awaits them. Now the enraged creatures descend from the hills and into the town to declare war upon its citizens.
A group of friends come up with the brilliant idea of testing the non-existent drink known as "Tea Coffee".
A black and white silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.
Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the police, and one behind an unraveling criminal syndicate, he must once again sacrifice everything in the name of family.
In two separate but related episodes, Hong Kong Police Inspectors Tang Yat-see and Kim try to deal with baffling crimes but end up "clueless," until Yat-see's girlfriend Helen introduces the idea that legends and supernatural forces may be involved.
A young lawyer and his wife work on the case of a woman who was murdered after stepping into a magician's trick iron maiden.
It's 1991. A strange triangular-shaped object made of metal and human flesh misteriously appears at the campus of an university. However, after an incident involving the "Scarlet Obelisk" as it was called, chaos begins.
Major Zaza is investigating a routine criminal case: murder for the purpose of robbery. However, his adversary is cunning and ruthless, a dangerous and cynical repeat offender nicknamed “The Intellectual.” Exposing this cunning criminal is proving difficult.
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Isobel Neiman, a former FBI agent turned cop, is assigned to catch a ballerina's murderer, but runs into resistance by fellow cops who don't think a woman detective can handle the case.
A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very own sister. When he learns that his wife has been murdered, he tries to implicate the set designer who has designs on his sister.
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges. The uncle’s stalking every corner of the house, popping out of cupboards and out from behind curtains slowly takes its toll on the young bride.
A string of murders in Jinning City leads to rumors of a legendary banshee. Demon-hunter Gu Shijie embarks on a clever and intense battle against both demons and rival heroes to uncover the truth.
Alice, after divorce, takes on motherhood and cares for her son August. His father's unfulfilled promises trigger August's death, causing his mysticism to spiral into retribution. Alice, believing in reason and right, must protect her son.
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Successful journalist Anıl falls into a deep depression after experiencing a major betrayal and moves away from the hustle and bustle of the city to a quiet forest house. However, Esin, whom he meets by chance after an unexpected accident, turns Anıl's plans upside down. Esin, who suffers from amnesia, flees from the dangers pursuing her, thereby also disrupting Anıl's life. Anıl is forced to hide Esin, and this escape leads them on an unexpected journey.
Alan Tam is a writer who has spent the last decade in a mental hospital. Upon leaving, he rents an apartment in an abandoned building which contains a clock that sends him back to 1984. The only person that can hear Alan during this time is one of the previous tenants, a young girl named Dolphin. A strange romance soon develops between the two, and so when her sister Whale begins dating a suspicious professor, Alan helps Dolphin to find out the shocking truth about her sister's beau.