Sundance Film Festival 2010

Home to horror films and crazy comedies.

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7 Days and Splice
7 Days (Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Daniel Grou; Writer: Patrick Senecal; Stars: Rémy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette, Martin Dubreuil, Rose-Marie Coallier)
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who murdered his young daughter.
World Premiere
Buried (Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Rodrigo Cortés; Writer: Chris Sparling; Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Ivana Miño, Anne Lockhart, José María Yazpik)
A contractor awakes to find he is buried alive.
World Premiere
Frozen (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Adam Green; Writer: Adam Green; Stars: Emma Bell, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt, Adam Johnson, Chris York, Peder Melhuse, Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, Kane Hodder, John Omohundro, Joshua Cameron)
Three skiers are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
World Premiere
HIGH School (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: John Stalberg Jr; Writer: Erik Linthorst, John Stalberg Jr, Stephen Susco; Stars: Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Mykelti Williamson, Andrew Wilson, Yeardley Smith, Michael Vartan, Curtis Armstrong, Erica Phillips, Adhir Kaylan), Official Site
When a drug test coincides with a valedictorian's first hit of pot, there's only one solution... get the whole school high.
World Premiere
The Perfect Host (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Nick Tomnay; Writer: Nick Tomnay; Stars: David Hyde Pierce, Nathaniel Parker, Clayne Crawford, Helen Reddy, George Cheung, Megahn Perry, Tyrees Allen, Brooke Anderson, Annie Campbell, Joseph Will, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Indira G. Wilson, Amanda Payton, Cooper Barnes, Greg Brown)
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
World Premiere
HIGH School HIGH School
HIGH School and Buried
Splice (Country: Canada, France, US; Year: 2009; Director: Vincenzo Natali; Writer: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor; Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett, Delphine Chanéac, Abigail Chu, Brandon McGibbon, Amanda Brugel, Stephanie Baird), Official Site, Trailer
An experiment gets out of control after scientists go on the run with their human-animal hybrid creation.
North American Premiere
Tucker & Dale Vs Evil (Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Eli Craig; Writer: Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson; Stars: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss.)
A pair of hillbillies have a nasty run in with a group of college kids.
World Premiere
The Violent Kind (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Mitchell Altieri, Phil Flores; Writer: Mitchell Altieri, Phil Flores; Stars: Taylor Cole, Tiffany Shepis, David Fine, Mackenzie Firgens, Joseph McKelheer, Bret Roberts, Cory Knauf, Christina Prousalis, Joe Egender, Samuel Child, Ilea Matthews, Montgomery Paulsen, Nick Tagas, Jeff Redlick, Erik Braa)
A group of rowdy young bikers party it up at a secluded farmhouse when, tormented by a mysterious force, things take a turn for the worse.
World Premiere
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