Rage (2010)

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While parking his car, Dennis inadvertently cuts up a biker. It proves to be a far bigger mistake than he could have guessed.
Starting with childish baiting, and working his way up, the baker spends the day stalking and terrorising Dennis from behind his tinted visor, taking a simple disagreement way beyond road rage, and turning it into a terrifying ordeal.

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Do You Like My Basement? (2012) (aka "The Basement")

Stanley Farmer fancies himself a film-maker, and dreams of making a horror movie about people spending the night in a basement in order to win a cash prize. During the course of the night, the maniac running the competition will subject his 'guests' to torture.
After acquiring a shooting location, Stanly puts out a casting call. Little do the applicants know that Stanly will be making his film the authentic way, and by the time they turn up for audition, they've already been cast...

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Curfew (1989)

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2 brothers on death row escape from prison and decide to punish the men they hold responsible for their sentence.
They quickly dispatch the psychiatrist who testified against them, and the judge who passed down the sentence, but for the District attorney, they have bigger plans.
Stephanie, the DAs daughter, gets home just in time to be embroiled in the brothers' violent revenge.

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The Purge (2012)

In the year 2022 the New Founding Fathers of America have ushered in a new age of peace and prosperity; Crime is at an all time low, and unemployment is down to 1%.
The secret of the New Founding Father's success is "The Purge", an annual event in which, for 12 hours, Emergency services are suspended, and all crime is legal.
James Sandin sells security systems specifically intended to keep those who can afford them safe during The Purge. After locking his family home down for the night, his son takes pity on a man who is being hunted, and disarms the system long enough to let him in.
The man's pursuers soon show up and offer the Sandins an ultimatum: deliver him alive before the gang's heavy equipment arrives, or they will force their way in and kill everyone inside.
Can the Sandins find the man, now hiding in their home, and if they can find him, can they bring themselves to turn him over?

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The Collector (2009)

Arkin in an ex-con turned handyman, working at the home of a jeweler, Larry Wharton, who owns a massive ruby.
When his girlfriend and wife are in danger from loan sharks,  He makes a deal with an acquaintance he made in jail to steal the ruby to raise the money to pay the loan.
When Arkin arrives in the family home he is not the only intruder - The house has been rigged with lethal boobie traps, and the Whartons are already being tortured by serial killer The Collector.

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