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- Horror films are filled with jump scares, moments that shock and startle viewers as monsters, serial killers, ghosts and even cats pop out of the darkness. But while jump scares are a very common element to include in a scary movie, they don't always work as intended, and often, you might just end up laughing instead of screaming. To find out what goes into creating an effective jump scare we spoke with Rebekah McKendry. a film professor at USC who specializes in horror. What makes certain scenes in "The Conjuring," "Insidious," and "The Exorcist 3" so terrifying while others like in "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" fall flat?
- Tom plans to revenge his fathers death at the hands of Cleyburn's men. He makes a deal with wanted outlaw the Nighthawk. Then posing as the Nighthawk, he plans to rob Cleyburn until he is bankrupt and also marry his niece Helen leaving him with nothing. But things do not go as planned.
- Gli anni delle immagini perdute is the portrait of Valerio Zurlini, who died in October 1982, a few weeks after serving as a jury member at the 50th Venice Film Festival. Zurlini knew he was ill and had dedicated the last months of his life to writing his spiritual will, which would be released posthumously as Gli anni delle immagini perdute. It is a pitiless existential final account, the story of a world that has changed irredeemably, an anguished appeal in defence of auteur cinema. The director harks back to the most important events of his life, reveals the motivations behind his filmmaking and remembers the artists who shaped him. Above all he talks about the "Immagini Perdute" (lost images): the numerous films he wrote and prepared without managing to make them. Gli anni delle immagini perdute returns to the places where the director loved to retreat, it brings together the stories of friends and associates and contains a repertoire of interviews and conversations with the director in an attempt to understand the reasons for this enforced and fatal productive "silence".
- Eighty years of life and activity of the Experimental Center of Cinematography (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) through the eyes of those who attended the school over the years. From Fascism to the Second World War, from the Economic Miracle to the Protests of 1968, from the 80s till today, the documentary passes though the imaginary of a whole country, Italy, thanks to the exclusive use of archive materials from Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce.
- A biographic, artistic and human portrait of the great filmmaker Ettore Scola, realized with archive material, movie clips, backstage clips, photos from family albums, sketches and illustrations and an interview by Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif).
- After journeying through the Italy of the "musicarelli" from the 1960s with Nessuno mi può giudicare, Della Casa turns his attention to post-WWII archives. The result is an X-ray of a different country: narrated by the politicians Togliatti and De Gasperi, by the cinema of Germi and Castellani, by the ironical social analysis of Eduardo and Zavattini, by the cultural brutality of Bianciardi, and the wild rhythms of boogie-woogie. A biography through images of an unusual Italy, in constant transformation.
- In regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself..
- A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
- The lively Nicoletta becomes casually associated with a mafioso boss trying to save her co-tenants from a notice to quit just the day she is going to marry. She loses her fiance and goes to Nice to smuggle diamonds for Bontade, the mafioso boss.
- When a rich man decides to sell his villa and go to work, his butler hires a couple to pretend the place is a bad buy.
- Forerunner of the popular 50s Matarazzo melodrama: An elderly countess, her son, and an illegitimate child he has with a lower class woman all meet tragic fates, while the scandalized woman retreats into a convent.
- A comedy of misunderstandings over soccer pool money.
- Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent.
- Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
- Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
- Phone calls: A man happens to listen to a phone call between a lady and a man who loves her; using that knowledge, he scares away the would-be lover, presenting himself to him as the lady's husband; and he obtains an appointment with the lady, which he has no intention to attend. Jealousy: A young man and a young woman love each other but they are so jealous that they come apart; however, the young woman will come back, and that will bring the timid young man to manifest his love for her, at last. Through the Window: A suitor enters a lady's home through the window, and when her jealous husband catches him, he pretends to be a robber; but it happens that a real robber breaks in at the moment, and pretends to be the lady's lover; the husband is at a loss to know who is who, and let's go the robber. The Tramway Operator: At a bus stop, a passenger, two tram operators and a supervisor meet, start talking, and soon reveal how apart their respective classes and different their interests are. The postman: A postman arrives home exhausted after a day's work, and can't take a rest because of the repetitive piano music of a woman neighbor; he goes hard on his family, because of his repressed rage; at dinner time, he organizes a huge din with the help of his sons, in order to rupture the piano class; the young man apologizes at last, and says that that musical piece was the preferred one by her betrothed, lost in the war; the postman remembers than that he had a letter for her - and it was her from her loved young man; now, they make a din all together. Equestrian Gala at the Circus: The circus number that justifies the compilation title of the film.
- The rabble has a dream:a place where the children from the wrong side of town could play .
- The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous Eugen Schliebach, who knows, that she once had an affair with his late boss. Schliebach wants to blackmail Agnes to become his mistress and when she refuses to do so, he goes to Fredersen tells him everything.
- Although they are orphans, the sisters Annie, Karin, Grace, Irene and Maude are five healthy girls. They face life with courage and music, and only to fulfill their mother's last wish, they contact their unknown landlord uncle. The meeting with him, however, leads them into a new world - full of complications, intrigue and five crushes.
- A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.