2005 Movies : Sci-Fi

With Felicity Mason • Mungo Mckay • Rob Jenkins • Lisa Cunningham • Dirk Hunter • Emma Randall • Michael Spierig • Peter Spierig

Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her childhood farm to the bank, local beauty Rene decides to leave town and head for the big city. Suddenly, an avalanche of meteorites races through the sky, bombarding the town and bringing an otherworldly infection. Departing is going to be much more difficult than she had planned. The living dead are awakened and Rene is now caught in a nightmare of zombies hungry for human flesh. She manages to find salvation in a small isolated farm house owned by the town loony, Marion. There she is met with four other desperate survivors. Together they battle their way through a plague of walking dead and discover that there is more transpiring than just an infection.

With Johnny Depp • Helena Bonham Carter • Missi Pyle • Freddie Highmore • AnnaSophia Robb • Tim Burton • Bruce Berman • Noah Taylor • John August • Christopher Lee • David Kelly • Julia Winter • Michael Siegel • Roald Dahl • James Fox • Jordan Fry • Philip Wiegratz • Patrick McCormick • Richard D. Zanuck • Brad Grey • Felicity Dahl

Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka, and Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.

With Scarlett Johansson • Djimon Hounsou • Michael Bay • Alex Kurtzman • Steve Buscemi • Ewan McGregor • Michael Clarke Duncan • Shawnee Smith • Caspian Tredwell-Owen • Noa Tishby • Roberto Orci • Walter Parkes • Laurie MacDonald • Ian Bryce

Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island"—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide "spare parts" for their original human counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is "harvested," Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.

With Danny Trejo • Bill Moseley • Natasha Lyonne • Rob Zombie • Mike Elliott • William Forsythe • Sheri Moon • Michael Ohoven • Peter Block • Sid Haig • Tyler Mane • Ken Foree • Michael Berryman • Michael Paseornek • Andy Gould • Brent Morris • Marco Mehlitz • P.J. Soles

Sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses" is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in 'House of...') who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.

With Timur Bekmambetov • Maria Poroshina • Konstantin Khabensky • Sergei Lukyanenko • Vladimir Menshov • Victor Verzhbitsky • Dima Martynov • Galina Tyunina • Konstantin Ernst • Anatoly Maximov

Set in contemporary Moscow, "Night Watch" revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness—the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. As night falls, the dark forces battle the super-human "Others" of the Night Watch, whose mission is to patrol and protect. But there is constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true: that a powerful "Other" will rise up, be tempted by one of the sides, and tip the balance plunging the world into a renewed war between the dark and light, the results of which would be catastrophic.