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Michael Bafaro Movies

 
2008  
PG13  
Twenty years after discovering her mother murdered in her family's lighthouse home, traumatized Katelyn returns to the scene of the crime to confront her worst fears. After her father was arrested and incarcerated for the murder, Katelyn fled town, vowing never to return. Now two decades have passed, and a development company is planning to renovate the lighthouse. Drawn back to her childhood home, Katelyn discovers that the developers have begun disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Later, Katelyn learns that her grandfather harbored a dark secret, and that the only way to end the nightmare that started with the death of her mother is to finally unearth the truth about her family's dark history. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Lindy BoothJames Thomas, (more)
 
2008  
R  
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A group of college students on an environmental studies trip discover something truly terrible buried deep in the woods in this shocker starring Daryl Hannah. Amy Singer and her friends were excavating what they believed to be an ancient Indian burial site when they discovered a human arm bone with a Rolex still attached to the wrist. Realizing that they've discovered a different kind of burial ground than anyone anticipated, the students try frantically to escape as they are stalked through the woods. Meanwhile, Carrie Mitchell (Hannah) is driving to her new house in Salem, Maine when a terrified Amy staggers out of the woods. Amy has been badly injured, and as Carrie tends to her wounds the frightened girl begins to reveal the horrors that befell her friends back in the woods. As Amy's story winds to a close, Carrie realizes that the end is yet to come, and that her mysterious passenger still harbors one last, horrible secret. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Daryl HannahLeah Gibson, (more)
 
2004  
R  
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As a young girl Sarah Tobias was forever scarred by the savage murder of her parents and the horrifying image of the numbers "11:11" written in blood next to their lifeless bodies. Eighteen years after the tragedy, a series of paranormal events shake the small town Sarah calls home. A terrifying prophecy involving the numbers "11:11" soon begins to materialize, confirming Sarah's worst fear -- the entire town may be resting on the very gates if hell. As the flames of the inferno grow higher, Sarah must face her inner demons and solve the mystery of "11:11" once and for all if she holds any hope of saving her hometown and the souls of the unsuspecting residents. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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2001  
R  
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When the perfect murder is foiled by an unexpected twist and darkness descends on a small Alaskan town, a madman's hunger for blood grows in this thriller from director Michael Bafaro. As a blanket of darkness settles over Revelstoke, AK, for a period of 24 hours, local barber Dexter Miles and the rest of the citizens realize that winter's chill is soon to follow. No one would suspect a man like Dexter Miles to be a cold-blooded killer, but when Dexter overhears the sheriff mention that the body of Lucy Waters has been discovered, he quickly realizes that his dark secret is about to break wide open. Having only murdered Lucy a few days prior, Dexter had hoped that authorities wouldn't discover her body until the spring thaw. Now, as the big-city detectives cloaked in the darkness of the Alaskan winter arrive to investigate the murder, Dexter once again feels the thrill of the kill -- and he's starting to like it. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Malcolm McDowellJeremy Ratchford, (more)
 
1998  
 
Michael Bafaro's Sleeping Dogs features a thief named Harry Maxwell (Scott McNeil) breaking into a gem factory apparently staffed by underwear-clad supermodels and thuggish guards with really bad aim. He kills some of them while gay bad-guy Sanchez Boon (a woefully miscast C. Thomas Howell) shakes down someone from "The Agency." Boon rips a microphone out of the man's jaw with a pair of pliers and shoots him, going way overboard in the tooth-gnashing evil department, evidently so the audience will forget that he was Ponyboy from The Outsiders. Then there's a lot more shooting and Maxwell slides down the supermodels' table on his stomach with both guns blazing. He grabs one of the women, throws some explosives, punches out the woman, and rappels them from the roof to safety as more people shoot at them. Then someone blows up a helicopter with a rocket-launcher. This is all before they even get sent to the main location (a remote outer-space prison colony) with a topless cyborg (Ciara Hunter) and the mayhem really begins. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

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Starring:
Scott McNeilC. Thomas Howell, (more)
 
1996  
R  
Set in San Francisco, this drama cautions those who would eavesdrop on other people's sexy telephone calls to think twice. Sarah is a bisexual ad executive who has left a relationship with her close pal Krista for one with handsome but troubled writer Jake. Though she craves a committed heterosexual relationship with him, she is not sure she is capable of settling down. To help her cope, she listens in, via a cheap cordless telephone, to the phone-sex calls of a nearby masher. From there she spies on an actual night of lovemaking between a woman and the caller. When the same woman turns up dead, and the police suspect a serial killer, Sarah begins to fear for her life, especially when it seems that Jake just may be the killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Starring:
Brooke LangtonSarah Buxton, (more)
 
1996  
 
This crime story juggles comedy and action as a rag-tag collection of professional and amateur thieves and murderers find themselves after the same thing, with confusing consequences. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Ben RatnerJohn Cassini, (more)
 
1994  
 
Die Hard meets Cliffhanger in this two-fisted action flick full of cool guns and exploding racists. One cop stands between order and lawlessness when a nefarious band of white supremacists invade a ski resort and take the guests hostage. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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Starring:
Thomas Ian GriffithNastassja Kinski, (more)