Cult 101: Red Eye (2005)
- Sat, Sep 28, 2024
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Director: Wes Craven Run Time: 85 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2005
Starring: Brian Cox, Cillian Murphy, Jack Scalia, Jayma Mays, Rachel McAdams
Country: United States
Language: English, Russian
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In the wake of her grandmother’s funeral, hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is waiting to fly back home when she meets charming Jackson Rippner (Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy) at check-in. She thinks it luck that they’re seated together on the plane, but soon learns otherwise. Jackson hopes to assassinate the head of Homeland Security, but to do so, he needs Lisa to reassign the official’s room number at her hotel. As insurance, Jackson has kidnapped Lisa’s father.
“If constructing a thriller could be likened to building a house, then Wes Craven’s Red Eye is a perfect piece of architecture”
—Scott Tobias, AV Club
About the filmmaker:
Wes Craven was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor. Originally intending to be a college professor, he instead became one of the most recognized masters of the horror genre, best known for his pioneering work on slasher films mixing horror with satire. For his work, Craven received a number of lifetime achievement awards, including honors from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in 1995 and the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2012.
He created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–2010) and directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He also directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) — his directorial debut — followed by The Hills Have Eyes (1977), horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Music of the Heart (1999), and the 2006 Cannes Film Festival selection Paris, je t’aime (2006) as one of 22 international contributing directors.
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