Psychological Thrillers | 2012 Movie Releases

In New York City, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) checks in to the Roosevelt Hotel under the false name of Walker, goes to his hotel room at the top floor, and climbs on the ledge, apparently ready to commit suicide. The crowd below sees him and calls the police. They isolate the area, with Dante Marcus (Titus Welliver) controlling the crowd, while Jack Dougherty (Edward Burns) tries to talk with Nick. However, Nick says he will only speak to negotiator Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks), who is on a leave of absence after failing to convince a depressed policeman not to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge a month earlier.

Anchor Bay Films / Psychological Thrillers

Mother’s Day (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

In Stonewall, the couple Beth and Daniel Sohapi are celebrating in their recently bought house with their friends Gina and Treshawn ‘Trey’ Jackson; Melissa McGuire and George Barnum; Annette Langston and Dave Lowe; and Daniel’s partner Julie Ross. Beth and Daniel have lost their son in an accident, and Daniel has a secret affair with Julie. Meanwhile, the thieves and brothers Izaak ‘Ike’ Koffin, Addley Koffin and Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Koffin are fleeing to the house of their mother in Stonewall after a heist of the First Omaha Bank.

Horror Movies / IFC Films / Psychological Thrillers

The Moth Diaries (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

At an exclusive boarding school for girls, 16-year-old Rebecca writes her most intimate thoughts in a diary. Two years earlier, Rebecca’s father, a poet, took his own life by slitting his wrists. Her mother transferred Rebecca to the school, hoping to help her daughter escape the memory of her father’s death. With the help of her best friend and roommate, Lucy, Rebecca soon recovers.

Horror Movies / Paramount Pictures / Psychological Thrillers

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

February 6, 2019February 7, 2019

The Paranormal Activity film series continues with this fourth entry from Paramount Pictures and returning directors of the previous outing, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. This time, the cell phones and computer cameras are focused on a teenage girl (Kathryn Newton) whose family allow a young boy in their neighborhood named Robbie (Brady Allen) to stay with them while his mom is sick.

Psychological Thrillers / Sony Pictures

Piranha 3DD (2012)

February 6, 2019February 10, 2019

Lake Victory is a dead place after the tragic events with the invasion of prehistoric flesh-eaters piranhas. In Cross Lake, Merkin County, the greedy Chet opens The Big Wet Water Park against will of his stepdaughter Maddy. When the van of her friends Travis and Ashley is found in the water and the couple is missing, Maddy and her friend Shelby miss them and they talk on a wooden deck on the lake.

Horror Movies / Magnolia Pictures / Psychological Thrillers

Playback (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

On October 21, 1994, Harlan Diehl (Luke Bonczyk) murders his family at their farmhouse and he is shot by the police, as he kills his sister. The tragedy leaves behind video footage (which he had taped) and his sister’s baby, who lives. Fifteen years later in Marshall, Michigan, an ambitious high school student Julian Miller (Johnny Pacar), is tasked with completing a film assignment on forgotten local stories for journalism class.

Horror Movies / Lionsgate Films / Psychological Thrillers

The Possession (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

The basketball coach Clyde and his wife Stephanie divorced a couple of months ago and their teenage daughter Hannah and the girl Emily ‘Em’ live with their mother and spend the weekends with their father. One day, Clyde stops his car in a yard sale and Em buys an antique carved box and becomes obsessed with it. Em finds the hidden lock and releases an evil spirit that possesses her.

Action and Adventure / Columbia Pictures / Crime and Mystery Movies / Psychological Thrillers

Premium Rush (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

Wilee is a Manhattan bicycle messenger. He is a Columbia law school graduate, who forwent the bar exam, basically putting off his white collar life in favor for being paid, albeit poorly, to do something he loves, namely cycling, although he realizes he cannot do it forever. Although riding his single gear brakeless bicycle is seen as reckless by most, he asserts that he in the past had only gotten into trouble when he hesitated by braking, especially as he has an uncanny ability to quickly scan a busy situation for the best path to cause the least disruption both to himself and to others.

20th Century Fox / Psychological Thrillers / Science Fiction Movies

Prometheus (2012)

February 5, 2019February 6, 2019

Millions of years ago, a spacecraft of an advanced humanoid alien race arrives on Earth. One of the aliens consumes a dark liquid, causing its body to disintegrate and fall into a nearby waterfall. We see its DNA break down and recombine, seeding Earth with the building blocks of life.

Crime and Mystery Movies / Period Films / Psychological Thrillers / Relativity Media

The Raven (2012)

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

In 1848, in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe is a penniless writer with drinking problem, who writes reviews in the Baltimore Patriot newspaper. Emily Hamilton and he are in love but her father Captain Charles Hamilton despises him. When a mother and her twelve year-old daughter are mysteriously murdered in a locked room, the efficient Detective Emmett Fields finds a hidden spring in a window nailed shut that opens the window and he recalls an Allen Poe story.