Most auspicious looking Movies I want to see 2013

RELEASED DATE: 18 January 2013
DIRECTOR: Andres Muschietti

CAST: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Daniel Kash, Julia Chantrey, Isabelle Nelissé

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night. The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas and his girlfriend, Annabel, have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home. As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years all by themselves? As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.

RELEASED DATE: 15 March 2013
DIRECTOR: Kimberly Peirce

CAST: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde, Julia Chantrey, Michelle Nolden, Alex Russell, Samantha Weinstein


Carrie tells the supernatural tale of a telekinetic teenage girl tormented by her peers. The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine, is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter, Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc.

RELEASED DATE: April 12 2013
DIRECTOR: Fede Alvarez (Federico Alvarez)

CAST: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, Jessica Lucas, Bruce Campbell

In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.

RELEASED DATE: March 1 2013
DIRECTOR: Park Chan-wook

CAST: Wentworth Miller, Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, Alden Ehrenreich, Phyllis Somerville, Dermot Mulroney

After India's (Wasikowska's) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother (Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

RELEASED DATE: 7 June 2013
DIRECTOR: M. Night Shyamalan

CAST: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo, Sascha Dhawan

The plot for “After Earth” is fairly straightforward. Teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) crash land on Earth. Not a familiar Earth, but one that has been abandoned by humans for a 1,000 years and is considered a quarantined planet. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must undertake a dangerous journey to signal for help. Along the way, he will face many dangers, including the terrain and animal species that have evolved to kill humans.

RELEASED DATE: 21 June 2013
DIRECTOR: Marc Foster

CAST: Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, David Morse, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale

Through a series of oral interviews, Brooks, as an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, describes the history of 'World War Z'. Although the origin of the zombie pandemic is unknown, the story begins in China after a zombie bites a young boy. The Chinese government attempts to contain the infection and concocts a crisis involving Taiwan to mask their activities. The infection is spread to other countries by the black market organ trade and by refugees; an outbreak in South Africa finally brings the plague to public attention. A film adaptation is due for release in 2013 after the rights were obtained by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) with the screenplay being written by J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame.

RELEASED DATE: September 21, 2012
DIRECTOR: Mark Tonderai

CAST: Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot

"House at the End of the Street" centers on a teen girl (Lawrence) who moves with her mom to a new town and learns that their home is next door to a house where a double murder took place. Complications ensue when the teen befriends the massacre's sole surviving son (Thieriot). Shue costars as Lawrence's mom.