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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film
Baron "Bear" Bailey harbors romantic feelings for his friend Nikki Freeman. They work at a music store with friends, Ian and Sarah. Bear returns home one night to find his cat, Sandy, dead after consuming oxycodone.
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, science fiction film
In 1990, a researcher with the Async Research Institute, Naren Warne, is separated from his group and becomes lost in "the Backrooms", a labyrinthine extradimensional space containing a chaotic expanse of dull yellow rooms, fluorescent lig…
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Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1932, identical twins and World War I veterans Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore return to Clarksdale, Mississippi, after seven years in Chicago working for the Chicago mob. Using money stolen from criminal syndicates, they purchas…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A child narrator explains that on a Wednesday night, seventeen children in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, ran out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanished into the night. The missing were all students of Justine Gandy's third-grade class, from wh…
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Gothic film, Horror, adventure film, drama film, horror film, romance film, science fiction film
Prelude In 1857, Horisont, a Royal Danish Navy ship sailing for the North Pole, becomes trapped in ice. Alerted to an explosion in the distance, Captain Anderson and his men discover a gravely injured Victor Frankenstein, using a right pro…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, survival film
Socially awkward and downtrodden corporate strategist Linda Liddle anticipates a long-promised promotion from Bradley Preston, the son of her former boss, upon his appointment as CEO. Instead, Bradley awards the position to Donovan, a rece…
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Thriller, dystopian fiction, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
In an alternate 20th century, the United States is a totalitarian military regime following a devastating civil war. The regime has established an annual event, the "Long Walk", which aims to inspire patriotism and work ethic among the des…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Zombiefilm, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
After being rescued by the Fingers, a gang led by the psychopathic Satan worshipper, "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal, Spike is forced to kill Jimmy Shite in a death match, as an initiation. Sir Jimmy then renames the young boy "Jimmy" to match th…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
In the distant future, an event called the "Quiet Rapture" causes all stars, inhabited planets, and the human population to mysteriously vanish. Only lifeless planets floating in the void, and the few humans who were on space stations and …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Zombiefilm, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
During the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus, a young boy, Jimmy Crystal, flees his house in the Scottish Highlands as his family is attacked by the Infected. He takes refuge in the local church with his father, a minister, but finds him …
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Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In Woodsboro, Stab fan Scott and his girlfriend Madison visit Stu Macher's house after hearing rumors that he might have survived having a television dropped on his head. They are killed by Ghostface, who sets the house on fire. In Pine Gr…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film
In 1964, an expecting Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a haunting involving an antique mirror at a curio shop. Lorraine collapses upon seeing a vision of an entity and her unborn child, and goes into labor. Ed speeds Lorraine to the hosp…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In Aswan, Egypt, a man, a woman, their two sons, and their daughter, Layla, arrive home to find their pet bird mortally wounded. The parents go to the cellar, which is revealed to be built on a buried black pyramid. Inside, a black basalt …
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Horror, Sport, horror film, sport film
Young Cameron "Cam" Cade watches his favorite football team, the San Antonio Saviors, win the league championship. His joy turns to distress when his quarterback idol, Isaiah White, suffers a violent, possibly career-ending injury while sc…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film
In 1982, at the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant, Charlotte Emily witnesses its co-founder William Afton lure a boy into the back rooms to kill him. Her pleas for help are ignored by nearby parents, so she rescues the boy herself de…
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Horror comedy, Parodie, comedy drama, comedy horror, horror film, parody film
While watching Horror Movie—an in-universe spoof of Scary Movie—teenager Tuesday Campbell is attacked by Ghostface. Tuesday's drug addict older half-sister Sara and her boyfriend Jack Kirsch learn that Tuesday is hospitalized, and suspect …
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Horror comedy, black comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
After surviving the Le Domases' attempted sacrificial ritual, Grace MacCaullay collapses outside the property and is taken to a hospital. She reunites with her younger sister Faith, whom she has not spoken to since she left for college. Me…
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Monster Film, drama film, horror film, monster film, romance film, science fiction film
Speaking from the afterlife, Mary Shelley says she has a story she wanted to tell after Frankenstein, but could not because of her death. To tell it, she possesses Ida, a woman living in 1936 Chicago, who in her trance publicly discusses t…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film
At the Price family vacation house, Joseph Price discovers his late grandfather Benjamin's research, revealing that the Circle of the Wise Men used the Necronomicon to unleash flesh-possessing demons known as Deadites before discovering th…
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Action Comedy, Horror comedy, action film, adventure film, comedy film
Childhood friends Doug McCallister, Ronald "Griff" Griffin, Kenny Trent, and Claire Simons are all dissatisfied with the way their lives have gone. When Griff, a television actor struggling to find work at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver C…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Phoenix, Arizona, real estate secretary Marion Crane embezzles $40,000 in cash from her employer after hearing her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, complain that his debts are delaying their marriage. She sets off to drive to Sam's home in the to…
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Coming Of Age, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, coming-of-age film, contemporary fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In October 1988, twelve-year-old Bill Denbrough makes a paper sailboat for his seven-year-old brother Georgie. Georgie sails the boat along rainy streets, only to have it fall down a storm drain. Attempting to retrieve it, Georgie sees a c…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient o…
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Horror, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In 1982, four years after Finney Blake killed the Grabber, his sister Gwen begins having dreams where she sees murders that happened at Alpine Lake Camp in 1957. During one, she receives a call from her mother Hope, who at the time of the …
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