Super Charged Cinema
This late-night series will hold particular appeal for adventurous filmgoers, featuring four films that run the gamut from the edgy to the downright outrageous, with an emphasis on high-octane entertainment. The four films that our programmers have chosen for this year’s showcase include sterling examples of the action, dark comedy, horror and thriller genres.
If you’re ready for a hit of adrenaline, Supercharged Cinema is just the ticket! The showcase hits the screen each Friday and Saturday night at 11:00 pm at the Palm Canyon Theatre.
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End of the Line
Canada, 2006, 95 min.
Maurice Devereaux’s offers a new twist on a classic horror tale as a group of subway riders find themselves trapped in the underground by knife-wielding religious fanatics.... more
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Free Jimmy
Norway, 2006, 80 min.
Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Kyle MacLachlan and Jim Broadbent lend their voices to his outrageous Norwegian animated adventure in which a drug-addicted elephant escapes from the circus, only to be chased down by circus employees, sober animal activists, big-game hunters and the mafia.... more
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The Host
South Korea, 2006, 119 min.
Described by the New York Film Festival as “the decade’s best monster movie,” this slick and effective thriller about a creature rampaging Seoul and the dysfunctional family in pursuit of it has become a worldwide hit. Beneath the film’s scare-fest is a sharp and ironic critique of misdirected emerg... more
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Severance
United Kingdom, 2006, 90 min.
In this hilarious horror film, a British sales team who have traveled to the wilds of Hungary for an off-site team building excursion, find that their executive skills provide little defense against the blood-thirsty locals out to massacre them.... more
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