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Explore unsettling stories, fear and the supernatural.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 130.

Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)

Horror, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, comedy horror, crossover fiction, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

A series of horrific murders has terrorized Victorian London and baffled police. While returning home from a pub, newspaper reporter Bruce Adams finds one murder victim, a prominent doctor. The next day, two American policemen, Slim and Tubby, who are studying London police methods, respond to brawl at a women's suffrage rally in Hyde Park.

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Retro Puppet Master (1999)

Horror, action film, horror film

The film begins in 1944, Switzerland, taking place after the events of Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge. Toulon and his little friends are still on the run, and decide to hide in the Kolewige, an inn from the Swiss border. Blade finds the wooden head of an old puppet named Cyclops in their trunk, and when Toulon sees it, he then tells his puppets the adventures he had with the woman he loves, and his retro puppets, starting in Cairo, Egypt, in 1902.

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Boy Eats Girl (2005)

Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, teen film, zombie comedy

While working in the church, a woman named Grace finds a hidden crypt. While exploring she discovers a voodoo book; however, she is soon sent away by Father Cornelius. Grace's son, Nathan, attends the local high school with his friends Henry and Diggs.

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Plane Dead (2007)

Zombiefilm, horror film, zombie film

On a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a renegade group of scientists have smuggled aboard a secret container holding a fellow scientist infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus which reanimates the dead. The virus is said to be a variant of the "malaria virus." They discovered and manufactured the virus with the intent of turning it into a biological weapon. Their goal was to produce "super soldiers" who could continue fighting in the harshest conditions, including being mortally wounded or under heavy enemy fire.

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The Ghostmaker (2011)

Horror, ghost film, science fiction film, thriller film

A group of young college students find an old 15th-century coffin, which is equipped with a part clockwork-mechanical/supernatural contraption that enables contact with spirits and even allows one to experience becoming a ghost for a period of time, whilst cheating death's grasp. Their first adventures in this mystery world brought by said 'box of shadows' is just innocent playful fun. But the casket soon brings out their more purely evil side, manifesting their more dangerous impulses and darker desires.

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Long Pigs (2007)

comedy horror

Two desperate and young filmmakers stumble upon the ultimate subject, a 33-year-old cannibalistic serial killer named Anthony McAllister, who has agreed to let them document every aspect of his horrifically violent life-style. Initially terrified, the filmmakers get to know Anthony as a person. They even begin to identify with his ecological and philosophical justifications for his cannibalistic lifestyle.

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Arcade (1993)

horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

Alex Manning (Megan Ward) is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Alex and her friends visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno", where a new virtual reality arcade game called Arcade is being test marketed by a computer company CEO, Difford, who hands out free samples of the home console version and hypes up the game.

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Dead Trigger (2017)

Action, Zombiefilm, horror film

The film follows a world ravaged by a deadly virus that turns people into zombies. Unable to halt the outbreak, the government creates a video game called Dead Trigger to identify skilled players capable of combating the real-life undead. Captain Kyle Walker leads a team of elite soldiers and gamers on a mission to locate a group of scientists who may have developed a cure for the virus.

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Werewolf (1996)

horror film

Archaeologists working in the Arizona desert find a skeleton that appears to be a werewolf. The ill-tempered foreman, Yuri, gets into a fight with his crew: Tommy, Joel, and Bill. In the course of the fight, Tommy is scratched by the werewolf skeleton.

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Tower of London (1939)

Historie, Horror, drama film, horror film

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his clubfooted executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in the line of succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished, Richard takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward, Richard is the heir to the Crown of England and consequently becomes Richard III, King of England.

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The Boy Behind the Door (2020)

Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film

In South Dakota, best friends Kevin O'Connor and Bobby Green are walking through the woods on their way home when they are kidnapped. The two boys wake up inside the trunk of a car, and Kevin is taken inside while Bobby is left locked in the trunk. He is able to free himself and escape, but decides against running away after he hears Kevin screaming for help.

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Spiral (2019)

Fantasy, Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film

On December 12, 1983, teenagers Malik and Liam make out in a car when a group of men suddenly appear and brutally attack them. On November 7, 1995, Malik, his partner, Aaron, and Aaron’s teenage daughter, Kayla, moves into a new home in a small town to begin a new life as a family. During the first night in their home, Malik hears strange noises, and a mysterious, hooded person watches them from afar.

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Things (1989)

exploitation film, horror film, monster film

Don and Fred decide to visit the house of Doug, Don's brother. They are unaware that Doug and his wife Susan, who have been unable to conceive a child naturally, have been participating in unconventional experiments performed by Doctor Lucas, in order to artificially induce pregnancy in Susan. While looking for beer in Doug's house, Don and Fred discover a book written by Aleister Crowley, as well as a tape recorder that plays a recording of a distorted voice.

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All You Need Is Death (2023)

Horror

Anna, a failed Irish folk singer, and her Eastern European boyfriend Aleks are travelling through rural Ireland to document obscure Irish folk songs and sell the recordings to collectors (unbeknownst to the singers). They become fascinated with a lead on an undocumented thousand-year-old folk song allegedly passed down from mother to daughter, and track down Rita Concannon, an elderly woman who can sing it. The song, in Old Irish, is about a king who is betrayed by the object of his romantic affections and then places a curse on her, her lover, and her descendants.

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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Zombiefilm, fantasy film, horror film, zombie film

In a Cornish village in August 1860, the inhabitants of the town are dying from a mysterious plague that seems to be spreading at an accelerated rate. Even the local doctor, Peter Tompson, cannot combat the disease. Alarmed, Tompson sends for outside help from his friend and former mentor, Sir James Forbes.

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Danika (2006)

Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film

Danika Merrick suffers from increasingly disturbing, paranoid hallucinations. Most of her hallucinations involve threats to her family and media-fuelled fears such as child kidnappings, car accidents, her children lying and terrorism. Danika confides to her husband, Randy, and Evelyn, her psychiatrist.

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Quicksilver Highway (1997)

Horror, horror film

The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story "Chattery Teeth", about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells "The Body Politic", a story about a man whose hands rebel against him.

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Jinn (2014)

Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, Horror, Monster Film, Mysterie, action film, horror film, thriller film

According to Dread Central, the producers claim the film will "introduce the accurate mythological concept of the jinn to Western audiences".

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Body Melt (1993)

biopunk, horror film

Ryan, an employee of the Vimuville health spa, sets out early one morning to warn the residents of Pebbles Court in the suburb of Homesville in Melbourne that they've been targeted for experiments with their illegal new vitamins. His lover and Vimuville's manager, Shaan, having correctly suspected that he was only using her to find out about her plans, sneakily administers him with a major overdose of the vitamins, causing his body to begin mutating uncontrollably as he nears Pebbles Court. He breaks the speed limits in an attempt to get there alive, and tries to record a warning on a dictaphone, but crashes and is thrown through the…

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Here After (2024)

Horror

Claire is overjoyed when her daughter Robin is miraculously revived following an accident that would have otherwise proven fatal. However, her relief turns to dread as Claire notices changes in her daughter and suspects that something dark has followed her back from the brink of death.

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I, Madman (1989)

Horror, Mysterie, horror film, slasher film

Virginia Clayton, an aspiring actress who works at a used bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, becomes absorbed in the pulp horror novels of the late author Malcolm Brand. Virginia's detective boyfriend, Richard, begins to grow concerned about her fixation on the books, which she becomes immersed in during her free time, occasionally having daydreams in which their villain, the deformed serial killer Dr. Kessler, appears to her.

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Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013)

Vampirfilm, horror film, vampire film

Vladislaus Dragulia, a Romanian prince, a Knight of the Secret Order of the Dragon and the direct descendant of Abel, is charged with vanquishing the Turks from his homeland. While on the campaign, he appoints his wife, Erzebet to rule in his place. But when he returns, he finds his wife and knights have been murdered by his advisers, who were unhappy with his ways.

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Eyes of Fire (1983)

Horror, horror film

In 1750 on the American frontier during the colonial days, before the United States declared its independence, Fanny and Meg, a young woman and a child, have been discovered by the French military. The two relay a recent series of past events: Both fled their settlement after a new preacher, Will Smythe, is accused of having an affair with two women. The first is Fanny's mother Eloise, whose husband is away hunting for food, and another woman, Leah, who is insane.

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