The Sin Eater In The Sin Eater Heath Ledger plays renegade priest Father Alex Bernier, sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil and the terrifying knowledge that there is a fate worse than death. • Stars: Heath Ledger Shannyn Sossamon Benno Furmann Mark Addy Peter Weller • Directed by: Brian Helgeland • YOP: 2003 • Runtime: 98 minutes Soul Survivors After a night of partying, college freshman Cassie (Melissa Sagemiller) and her friends are involved in a horrific car accident that turns into a gripping tale of the supernatural. Overwhelmed by startling hallucinations, Cassie has the eerie feeling that her boyfriend Sean (Casey Affleck) is trying to reach out to her from beyond the grave. Her concerned friends, Matt (Wes Bentley) and Annabel (Elizabeth Dushku), encourage Cassie to move on with her life and forget about Sean. As her supernatural encounters with Sean become more real and unearthly presence pursues her. Cassie’s grip on reality slips further. Unsure of where to turn or who to trust, Cassie begins a desperate race against time to learn who her real friends are, who wants her dead, and who will be the Soul Survivor. • Stars: Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Melissa Sagemiller • Directed by: Steve Carpenter • YOP: 200 • Runtime: 82 minutes The Fury In Brian De Palma’s terrifying horror/thriller, an elaborate game of mind control begins when a government agent’s (Kirk Douglas) son (Andrew Stevens) is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him, the father hires a girl (Amy Irving) with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret US agency where he’s being used for dangerous mind experiments – and programmed for elimination. • Stars: Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Kirk Douglas • Directed by: Brian DePalma • YOP: 1978 • Runtime: 113 minutes The Legend Of Hell House It sits there, shrouded in mist and mystery, a nesting place for living evil and terror from the dead. It's Hell House. Roddy McDowall heads the cast of this exciting chiller about four psychic investigators and the dark, brooding mansion they themselves call "the Mt. Everest of haunted houses". It's already destroyed one team of researchers. Now this brave quartet ventures in for another try at unravelling its secret. But before they succeed, they must suffer through madness, murder and everything else the spirits that dwell here have in store for them. Yet learning the truth just might drive them all insane. An ingeniously-devised ghost story, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE will thrill and delight veteran horror fans from the first creaking door to the very last slithering shadow. • Stars: Roddy Mcdowall, Pamela Franklin • Directed by: John Hough • YOP: 1973 • Runtime: 90 minutes The Omen He was born at 6am on the 6th day of the 6th month. The coming of Armageddon, the site of the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Book of Revelations, will being with the birth of the son of Satan - in human form. Unable to tell his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) the tragic news of their stillborn son, American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) accepts a new born orphan as his son. Details of the child's birth remain a secret but, as the boy Damien grows older, it becomes apparent that he is no ordinary child. As mysterious deaths and strange warnings occur, Robert Thorn slowly becomes aware of the hideous evil behind the child's innocent face and the significance of the number 666, which brings about the most terrifying of revelations. • Stars: Gregory Peck, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Lee Remick • Directed by: Richard Donner • YOP: 1976 • Runtime: 106 minutes