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PREVIEW: FANTASY ISLAND
THE hit Seventies TV show is given a horror twist in this big screen reimagining.
Five contest winners
– Melanie (Lucy Hale, pictured), Gwen (Maggie Q), Patrick (Austin Stowell) and stepbrothers JD (Ryan Hansen) and Brax (Jimmy O Yang) – arrive at a tropical resort called Fantasy Island, which promises to make their dreams come true.
Custodian Mr Roarke (Michael Peña) and his partner Julia (Parisa FitzHenley) encourage their guests to live their fantasies to the full.
Melanie, Gwen, Patrick, JD and Brax are confronted with diabolical, twisted variations on their greatest wishes, which brings Melanie face-to-face with her childhood bully Sloane (Portia Doubleday). The guests slowly unravel the terrifying otherworldly secrets of Fantasy Island and conceive a madcap plan to escape.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
HHHHH
WHAT you can’t see might kill you in this ingeniously executed horror thriller.
Architect Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss, pictured) silently sneaks around the clifftop home of her controlling beau, scientist Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), as he sleeps. She escapes the glass box prison with help from her sister Alice (Harriet Dyer) and goes into hiding in the home of police officer pal James (Aldis Hodge) and his daughter (Storm Reid).
Soon after, Cecilia learns that Adrian has committed suicide and bequeathed her $5m in his will, to be paid in monthly instalments.
For the first time in years, Cecilia draws breath but a series of strange events convinces her that the news of Adrian’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.
DARK WATERS
HHHHH SLOW-BURNING thriller, based on real cover-up in 1970s.
Defence lawyer Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo, pictured) receives a visit from farmer Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp), who lives in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Wilbur delivers videotapes to the Taft office detailing the decimation of his cow herd on land adjoining a DuPont chemical plant.
With the blessing of his boss, Tom Terp (Tim Robbins), Rob unearths evidence that man-made PFOA, used in the production of Teflon, might have leaked into the water supply.
DuPont executive Phil Donnelly (Victor Garber) frustrates Rob’s dogged pursuit of the truth, putting a strain on his marriage to Sarah (Anne Hathaway).