The Killing Gene (2008)

A missing pregnant woman’s body surfaces, but something is not right. Carved into her stomach are the symbols “W Delta Z”. The two cops in charge of this specific case pass the entire thing off as gang violence and nothing more under the assumption that carving a message into a dead body indicates that the victim isn’t the person who should be reading it. Further investigation leads them to discover that the women in question was actually knocked out by a rare compound. But as they bring this evidence up with their small towns only scientist in possession of that compound, they spot “W Delta Z” scrawled out on his office chalkboard. After evading capture for some time, the truth comes out: “W Delta Z” represents the selfish gene concept and those with it want to protect the people they love who share their DNA in some way, no matter the cost. Someone is using this to their advantage, pulling the strings of those with this gene and forcing them to commit some of the most gruesome torture porn style murders you could imagine.

This film is directed by Tom Shankland and stars Melissa George, Selma Blair, and Stellan Skarsgard

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Oscar nominated director Guillermo del Toro brings the epic story of Hellboy back to the big screen in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Having done amazingly visual and terrifyingly artistic work in movies such as Pan’s Labyrinth and the original Hellboy, del Toro brought the Hellboy series into a much darker and more evil world, releasing creatures never before dreamed of.

An ancient truce between mankind and the wold of elves and goblins has been broken, leaving nothing but disaster as a possibility for the future. The invisible realm’s new leader has defied his bloodlines wishes and taken full control of an unstoppable army laid to rest a long time ago. Only one group of paranormal superheroes has what it takes to stop this menace, but when the people of the world turn on them for being different, which side is truly where they belong?

The B.P.R.D. line-up chosen to defend the Earth this time, includes: the demon Hellboy (Ron Perlman), the pyrokinetic Liz (Selma Blair), the aquatic empath Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and the protoplasmic mystic Johann.