6 Movies Directed by Marcus Nispel

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-10-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (101443 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Kim Henkel

Tobe Hooper

Scott Kosar (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-10-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (1459 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Cast:

Writer:

Dean R. Koontz (concept)

John Shiban

Fullplot:

Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-04-13

Languages:

English, Icelandic

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (35546 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Cast:

Writer:

Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay)

Nils Gaup

Fullplot:

A young Viking boy is left behind at a hostile tribe of American Indians, whom eventually accept him into the tribe and raise him. A personal war begins for the young Viking when the Vikings return 15 years later and initiate a barbaric attack on the tribe and the woman he loves.

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (69684 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Damian Shannon (screenplay)

Mark Swift (screenplay)

Damian Shannon (story)

Mark Swift (story)

Mark Wheaton (story)

Victor Miller (characters)

Fullplot:

A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover. Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-08-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (78534 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Dean Donnelly

Joshua Oppenheimer

Sean Hood

Robert E. Howard (character of Conan)

Fullplot:

A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

Exeter

Exeter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-08-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (1735 Reviews)

Director:

Marcus Nispel

Cast:

Writer:

Kirsten McCallion

Kirsten McCallion

Marcus Nispel (story)

Fullplot:

From the director of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious comes new Horror. During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to experiment with the occult, mysteriously leading to a violent possession. In an effort to find help, the group rushes to escape, only to find themselves locked inside with no means of communication. Tempers flare, trusts are broken and in attempt to save one of their friends possessed by the demon, the amateurs try to perform an exorcism. Instead of solving the problem, and unbeknownst to them, they unleash an even more powerful and vengeful spirit, one with a distinct motive and which wants them all dead. The teen's only chance of survival is to uncover the asylum's deep mysteries and find a way out before it's too late. Their search for answers uncovers the asylum's dark past and the terrible secrets that are harbored within its walls. What started as a harmless paranormal experiment turns into a fast paced bloody paranormal nightmare with unexpected consequences.

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