Udo Kier

In a city swallowed up by darkness, a group of seven strangers are stalked by a serial killer seeking the one woman who can identify him to the authorities. The lights are out due to rolling blackouts, and most of the locals are cowering in their homes as a homicidal maniac dubbed the Picasso Killer stalks the streets. One night, in a darkened office building, seven strangers find themselves stalked from the shadows. The Picasso Killer is near, and the slaughter won't stop until Christie Wallace is dead. Christie knows the Picasso Killer's true identity, and is she wants to get out of this building alive, she's going to have to fight for her life. Udo Kier, Dominique Swain, and David Carradine star in a thriller from Suburban Nightmare director Jon Keeyes. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The Devil's Rejects director Rob Zombie resurrects one of the most notorious slashers in screen history with this re-imagining of the 1978 John Carpenter classic that spawned numerous sequels and countless imitators. As a child, young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) committed one of the most unspeakable crimes imaginable. Subsequently locked in an asylum and placed under the care of Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), the hollow-eyed boy grew into an emotionless man determined to escape back to his hometown of Haddonfield and complete the murderous mission that he began so many years back. These days, the long-abandoned Myers house sits decrepit and overgrown on a peaceful suburban street, its boarded windows and rotting wood a silent testament to the slaughter that has haunted Haddonfield for decades. Now Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is back, and as the children of this typical Midwestern town fill the sidewalks for a fun-filled night of tricks and treats, Haddonfield is about to find out that there is no escape from pure evil. Brad Dourif, William Forsythe, Udo Kier, Dee Wallace, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danny Trejo, and Adrienne Barbeau co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Twenty years after the brutal slaying of five students at an abandoned resort hotel, a group of fearless students return to the site of the original crime only to discover that the murderer is still on the loose and waiting to strike again. The year was 1984: A group of five students broke into the Royal Crescent Hotel as part of a local rite of passage. Days later, their bodies were found mutilated. The killer was believed to be a local drifter, though no one was ever caught or convicted of the murders. At the time, the press made no mention of the fact that the bereaved parents insisted that the police hire a psychic to locate the murderer, and that after handing one of the student's personal objects the clairvoyant claimed to have seen the killer's face. Though the psychic had claimed that the killer was still inside the hotel, a comprehensive sweep of every floor yielded to clues to his whereabouts. Later that same night, the psychic died in her sleep, effectively rendering the case cold. Flash forward twenty years later, and another group of students conducting a so-called "Tour of Fear" break into the hotel on a mission to visit each of the five rooms where the high schoolers had been slain. Upon discovering a severed hand in one of the rooms, the students unleash a terrifying force that has haunted the hotel grounds for nearly a century. Now, if they can only solve the mystery of a world-class hotel that once hosted royalty before mysteriously plunging into disrepute, perhaps that can escape with their lives and save their immortal souls from eternal damnation. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Armand Assante and Udo Kier star in director Ivan Nichev's tale of two warring gangs of drug dealers struggling to gain the upper hand in the lucrative Berlin drug trade. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often thought lost. He sets off to find a legendary film titled "Le Fin Absolute du Monde," a movie that supposedly turned the one audience who saw it into a murderous mob. The man begins to fear for his life as he gets closer and closer to his goal. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

In this satirically witty look at the entertainment industry, Cole (Sean Patrick Flanery) is a record company executive who makes a wager with one of his colleagues that he can take anyone off the street and turn him or her into a star. Enter Maggie Moreno (Camille Guaty), an attractive woman with no outwardly visible talent who becomes the subject of Cole's experiment. In less than a month, he subjects her to music lessons, dance lessons, and a makeover so she'll seem "more Latin" while setting the hype machine in action to make the world aware of the emergence of a new star. But Maggie becomes increasingly unsure if she wants to be a star, especially at the expense of her own identity, while Cole has misgivings of his own when he begins to fall for Maggie. 30 Days Until I'm Famous also features Udo Kier and Alanna Ubach; Scott Stapp and Carmen Electra have cameo roles as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Writer/directors Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson make their feature debut with the paranoid thriller One Point O (1.0). Jeremy Sisto plays a computer programmer named Simon J. who gets used as a test subject. His corporate employers are secretly conducting a experiment on him in order to test out a new advertising scheme. Simon receives empty boxes at his apartment, grows suspicious of everyone else, and develops a strange desire for milk. Also starring Deborah Unger, Lance Henriksen, and Udo Kier. One Point O premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the dramatic competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

A handsome boy on the brink of adulthood finds his quest to become a man leading him down a dangerous path in director Maria Solrun's dark coming-of-age tale. Jargo (Constantin von Jascheroff) has everything a young man could want; a lavish home in Saudi Arabia and more money than he knows what to do with. When his father (Udo Kier) suddenly and unexpectedly commits suicide, however, Jargo is forced to relocate to a Berlin housing project, where he strikes up a friendship with young Kamil (Oktay Özdemir). A low-rent Turkish criminal who quickly teaches his new friend the ropes while inducting him into the drug-addled world of all night raves and beautiful girls, Kamil begins setting into motion a daring plan to rob the Filipino cigarette mafia. As the day of the heist draws near and Kamil discovers that the disloyal Jargo has cemented his manhood by sleeping with Kamil's girlfriend, Mona, the spurned lover hastily amends his plan to include a dangerous trap for his naïve, onetime friend. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

In this Ghost-like blend of fantasy and crime melodrama, stockbroker Sterling Brooks (Cameron Bancroft) dies before his time in a freak accident. Not having led the most exemplary of lives, Brooks is not permitted to enter Heaven until he performs a good deed on earth. Thus, he endeavors to rescue a young mother, Annie Campbell (Erika Eleniak), and her seven-year-old daughter, Marissa (Nickol Tschenscher), from the gangsters who have torn their family apart. One of several Mary Higgins Clark adaptations produced in Canada for the PAX network, He Sees You When You're Sleeping first aired on December 22, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide