16 Dec 2005
Cigarette Burns
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
Criticized
A prominent film critic writes a scathing review of a new horror film, and is abducted by the film's mentally unstable director, who subjects him to an eye-opening experience.
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John Lynd Darian Stonehall
Brian Rohan Arthur Lements
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