Michael McLafferty Movies

An undercover cop investigating the disappearance of three small town high school girls makes a shocking discovery while posing as an unassuming transfer student. Three Belmont High students have vanished without a trace, and the pressure is on the police to capture the culprits responsible. Scouring the school hallways in search of clues, detective Maggie Rawdon (Jessica Sonneborn) makes a few new friends, and gets invited to a private rave in the country. Just as the group begins to suspect that they've taken a wrong turn, however, the trap is sprung and Maggie finds out firsthand what fate has befallen the missing girls. Deep in the country, a group of depraved fight fans are forcing teenage girls to fight to the death, and Maggie is about to become the next unwilling contender. Meanwhile, Maggie's loyal boyfriend (Michael McLafferty) senses that something has gone terribly awry with the investigation, and races to find her before the next bout begins. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A one-time freelance hitman who was just attempting to turn his life around is forced to keep his heart pumping when his vengeful former employers inject him with a lethal poison that will permanently stop his ticker if his pulse sinks beneath an active rate in a non-stop urban action extravaganza starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart. Chev Chelios (Statham) was one of the most skilled assassins in the West Coast crime syndicate. When he hung up his guns in the middle of a job to run off with his new girlfriend Eve (Smart), however, the man who was once the hunter now becomes the hunted. Awakened from his slumber by a telephone call informing him of his precarious situation, Chelios soon discovers that the only way to save Eve from certain death at the hands of his nemesis is to stay two steps ahead of his killers, keep his heart-rate high enough to stay alive, and blast through the streets of Los Angeles in search of an antidote. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

David Portlock's darkly comic film about race, The Gristle, concerns a pair of struggling medical technicians who get a moonlighting gig to deliver kidneys to a Senator. Complications ensue when a drug deal set to go down in the same place and at the same time leads to the wrong deliveries being made to the wrong groups of people. Soon the pair of kidney deliverers hatch a plan to get the drug money all for themselves. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi