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As for its New York content, the movie gives viewers a great tour of the city, and for once, the geography of the movie actually makes sense. And while some may argue Ghostbusters 2 is just a rehash of the original, can we all agree that Vigo the Carpathian would make a fantastic addition to the Met?

Sounds silly, but there are at least two masterful moments of suspense that have stayed with me since I first saw the film, and the whole thing has a fun creepiness to it. But where to find the missing body parts? Times Square, of course! Specifically, the hookers. Unfortunately, his wife returns from the dead with a much increased libido and goes on a rampage through New York. Will the Big Apple ever be the same? Synopsis: Poet Rose Elliot finds a book describing how the world is ruled by three evil witches, and becomes convinced one of them is living in her apartment building.

After enlisting her friend Mark for help, Rose is horribly murdered, and Mark is left to get to the bottom of things. Watch for: a very unusual scene in which a guy from a hot dog stand literally runs across a Central Park lake and kills a guy getting eaten by rats.

Tagline: The blinds moving up and down…the squeaking shoes…and then the knife whistling past her ear…. Synopsis: Blind young Village resident Audrey Hepburn accidentally comes into possession of a drug shipment, and the owners want it back.

And neither will you! Synopsis: One of the first monster movies, The Beast From 20, Fathoms tells the story of a hibernating dinosaur who, after being awoken by atomic bomb testing in the Arctic, comes to New York and tears the place up. The special effects, by master Ray Harryhausen, steal the show and are definitely worth a watch. Title: Cloverfield. Synopsis: Cloverfield is a Blair Witch Project -style film about some annoying somethings trying to escape New York in the middle of an alien invasion.

Synopsis: The classic story of Beauty and the Beast, if Beast was a foot gorilla. Impoverished beauty Ann Darrow accompanies the S. Venture on a trip to Skull Island to star in a film…and finds herself kidnapped by a giant ape! Kong is brought back to New York for a gala unveiling, only to escape and run amok in the city.

Synopsis: In the 8th installment of the series, Jason hitches a lift to the Big Apple from Crystal Lake with a high school class on a cruise. This might have been great if Jason actually got to Manhattan early on. Unfortunately, too much of the film takes place on the damn boat.

Jason causes a bit of mayhem on the streets of pre-Giuliani Times Square did he run into Frankenhooker? Synopsis: Breaking pretty much every rule of Fiction Is he dead? Was it all a dream? Vietnam vet-turned-postal worker Jacob Singer suddenly finds that the world around him crumbling in horrific ways. He begins seeing regular people with monstrous deformities, evidence of government conspiracies, and ultimately loses all grip on reality.

Synopsis: Will Smith runs from badly rendered computer images that you never believe are there. Tagline: The dolphin hotel invites you to stay in any of its stunning rooms. Mistrust your senses. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.

The story is about a thirty six year old cricketer who stopped his cricketing career ten years ago, now aiming to play for Indian team. A madcap romp through the 's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it.

Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change. In rapidly changing New York of the s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.

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