ULTRA (1986)
ART / NOT ART
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 2時間 1分
演出 : William Bennett
シノプシス
Video collage distributed by the label Come Organisation. I - IV.
1976年に日本ビクターがVHSビデオデッキを発売した後、VHSビデオはビデオテープ1本で映画を世界中どこででも楽しめると人気を博し、停滞を続けた世界の映画界にとって救世主的な存在となった。しかしその一方、海賊版が量産されるという問題が発生。そして“映画は劇場で上映されるもの”という既存の概念を覆すかのように多数のオリジナル作品がビデオ発売用に作られるが、そこで生まれたのは玉石混交の作品群で……。
1本のビデオテープを盗み出す仕事を依頼された若者たち。忍び込んだ家には大量のテープと死体があった。目的のビデオを探すため1本1本再生していくと、そこに映っていたのは──
A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
トム(チャーリー・シーン)の農場にミステリアス・サークルが出現。そのニュースを追うのはキャスターのシンディ(アンナ・ファリス)。彼女は友人の通夜で、1本のビデオを手にする。それは呪いのビデオだった。
「必ず7日後に死ぬ」と言われる呪いのビデオを見てしまったジュリア。迫り来る運命から逃れ、呪いの連鎖を断ち切るべく、恋人のホルトとともに、呪いのルーツを辿り、謎を解き明かそうとする。やがて辿り着いたのは一人の少女の存在。しかしそれは更なる恐怖の幕開けだった…。
アメリカからドイツのバレエ学校に留学してきたスージー。到着早々、彼女の周囲で奇妙な事件が次々と発生する。天井から落ちてくるうじ虫。盲導犬に噛み殺される盲目のピアニスト。学校に隠された秘密とはいったい何なのか。
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
レストラン強盗で手に入れた資金でフロリダ旅行へ出かけた女子大生4人組は、旅先でドラッグやセックス漬けの毎日を楽しんでいたが、麻薬ディーラーの男エイリアンとの出会いをきっかけに裏社会へと足を踏み入れていく。
Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage.
Two newly hired video store clerks are asked by their new boss to deliver a package to a theater across town. Unbeknownst to them, the package is truly a shipment of cocaine for a local drug kingpin.
Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game titled 'Beyond the Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Three young brothers are terrorized by an evil clown.
Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to fall over Marty's life, the kids at school won't stop picking on him, his parents just don't seem to understand him, and now Marty must grapple with a terrible secret that threatens to destroy life as he knows it—his big brother is a serial killer.