The Wailing

Rural police officer Jong-Goo, unused to anything too exciting to investigate gets called out to a series of frenzied family murders in the village of Gokseong. The people involved seem to be 'infected' somehow and he starts to see evidence of this in others around town.

Local rumour is it's all the doing of an elderly Japanese man who moved in to the area and is said to have done all manner of bad things including sexual assault and attacking a local shopkeeper.

Incredulous, Jong-Goo goes to visit the newcomer who lives way up in the hills.

No good will come of this.

They Live

The world is on the edge of another Great Depression and self reliant drifter "Nada" (Roddy Piper) arrives in LA looking for work.

He manages to get a labouring gig on a building site and strikes up a friendship with Frank (Keith David). Frank directs "Nada" to a local shanty town for somewhere to stay. In the camp, a mix of manual workers and the unemployed eke out a life with help from community organisers and the local church.

Becoming suspicious of odd comings and goings at the church, "Nada" sneaks in one day and finds its a front for some kind of lab but it's not clear what's going on. After being confronted he runs off and later that day the Police arrive in force, bulldozing the settlement, rounding up various people and trashing the church.

Returning in the morning to see if he can salvage any of his possessions "Nada" goes back to the church, finding a box hidden behind a secret panel. Thinking it something valuable he makes off with it but is disappointed to find it's just full of cheap looking sunglasses.

Nonetheless he stashes the box, picks up one pair to wear and starts to walk back to the camp.

No good will come of this.

Scary stories to tell in the dark

Late 60s small town USA, Halloween. Three friends take refuge in stranger's car at a drive-in movie to hide from local bullies. Discovering a mutual love of horror and scary stories they decide to take him to see the local "real haunted house" the old Bellows mansion. Uncovering a hidden room they find Sarah Bellows' hand written story book, the focal point of the grisly tales that made the place infamous.

They take the book when they leave, but the blank pages start to spontaneously fill with new grisly tales that come true.

Avatar

In the 22nd century, Earth is an industrialised environmental disaster with frequent wars and rampant inequality. When scientist Tom Sully is killed in a street mugging, the corporation that had been preparing him for an offworld posting reaches out to his identical twin brother Jake (Sam Worthington) to take his place. Their genetic similarity makes him the only person capable of doing so.

Arriving on the alien world Pandora Jake is to remotely pilot an Avatar, a genetically engineered human/alien hybrid the science team attached to the corporate mining operation uses to engage with the mostly hostile indigenous population the Na'vi..

Being mostly unprepared for this job, Jake's Avatar is separated from the rest of the team on his first trip out. Alone in the hostile forest environment he is rescued by one of the Na'vi, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) who treats him like a stupid baby that needs protecting. Which he does.

Jake's naivety and the unplanned nature of this event gives him an introduction to the Na'vi the science team have been unable to re-establish after losing their trust some time back and soon he is lost in their world. Meanwhile efforts to strip mine Pandora continue.