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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 143.

Disappearance (2002)

Horror

While driving through Nevada, the Henley family – Jim, his wife Patty, their daughter Kate, and son Matt, along with Matt's friend Ethan – discover the existence of Weaver, a ghost town, and decide to take a detour to it to take pictures. Stopping at a diner in the neighboring town of Two Wells, the family asks about Weaver but the patrons, all seeming dazed, claim not to have heard of the town, although a gas station attendant warns Jim to "stay on the pavement". The Henleys make their way to Weaver, where they find a wall with a mysterious symbol and a human-sized dried skin.

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Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)

Horror, Vampire, Werewolf

A young girl runs through the woods being chased by a creature which corners and kills her. Later, a young drifter named Ian Richards goes to the small desert town of Canton Bluff, where he befriends the local pastor Dewey and gets a job repairing the church. Ian also befriends Dewey's daughter, Elizabeth, and there is a mutual attraction.

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The Astro-Zombies (1968)

Horror, monster film, Science fiction, Zombie

Having been fired by the space agency, a disgruntled scientist creates superhuman monsters from the body parts of murder victims. The creatures eventually escape and go on a killing spree, attracting the attention of both an international spy ring and the CIA.

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Storage 24 (2012)

Horror, Science fiction

A military aircraft crashes in central London, releasing its highly classified contents. Following the crash, a malfunction at the Storage 24 facility causes the security shutters to lock, trapping several people inside: Charlie, his best friend Mark, Charlie's ex-girlfriend Shelley, her best friend Nikki, Nikki's boyfriend Chris, the building receptionist, Jake and a maintenance engineer, Bob. Charlie arrives at the facility with Mark shortly after the incident.

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Scare Package (2019)

Comedy horror

The film is presented as an anthology of short horror films, built into a frame narrative which acts as its own horror film. The frame narrative focuses on Chad Buckley, a horror aficionado who runs a struggling video store. He takes on a new hire, much to the chagrin of an obnoxious regular customer named Sam who has been trying to persuade Chad to hire him for years.

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The Revenant (2009)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire, Zombie

The film focuses on Second Lieutenant Bart Gregory (David Anders) who has been killed under mysterious circumstances in Iraq. After his friends and girlfriend Janet (Louise Griffiths) attend his funeral, Bart awakens in his grave. Enlisting the help of his best friend, Joey Leubner (Chris Wylde), Bart begins to understand and learn how to deal with his new undead state; mainly, the fact that Bart needs blood to hold back decomposition and that he returns to a state of in-animation during daylight hours.

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The Bat Whispers (1930)

Comedy horror, Drama, mystery film

A mysterious criminal by the name of "The Bat" eludes police and then finally announces his retirement to the country. In the countryside near the town of Oakdale, news of a bank robbery in Oakdale has put Mrs. Van Gordner's maid, Lizzie, on edge.

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The Lodger (1944)

Crime, Horror, Noir, thriller film

Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th-century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye. The man of the house, Robert Bonting, is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by business reverses.

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The Canyon (2009)

Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

The story starts with Nick and Lori, a newlywed couple who, after eloping, want to take a mule ride down into the canyon with a guide, Henry. The next day the trio head down into the canyon. After traveling for a while the guide offers to take them to old petroglyphs, which are a half day's ride away.

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Puffball (2007)

Drama, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction

Liffey, an ambitious young architect, moves to an isolated and eerie Irish valley to build a modern piece of architecture. The ruined cottage and land that she will use are a gift from her fiancé Richard, and is the former home of Molly, the elderly matriarch of a farming family living on the other side of the woods. Molly's daughter is Mabs, herself mother of three girls and wife to farmer Tucker.

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Monster Man (2003)

Comedy, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Satanism, Splatter Film

Adam (Eric Jungmann) and Harley (Justin Urich) drive a red 1970 Chevrolet Kingswood across the country so Adam can tell his ex-girlfriend Betty-Ann he still loves her before she gets married. After an encounter with a hearse, the two stop at a pub. They see a monster truck rally on TV, and Harley mocks the people watching it.

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Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)

Horror, Slasher, teen film, Teen Horror Film

A group of friends plays volleyball on a beach in Venice. Jackie, one of the group, is a high school senior throwing a slumber party that night, as her parents are out of town looking for a new house. When the friends leave the beach, one of the girls, Sarah, gets into her car and is brutally murdered by an unseen assailant in the backseat with a power drill.

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Emelie (2015)

Horror, thriller film

A girl named Anna is supposed to be babysitting a family but is kidnapped by Emelie Liroux and an unidentified man. Emelie then poses as Anna and enters the house of Dan and Joyce Thompson, whose kids, 4-year-old Christopher, 9-year-old Sally, and 11-year-old Jacob, Anna is supposed to be babysitting while Dan and Joyce are celebrating their 13-year anniversary. Emelie exhibits odd and often disturbing behavior after the parents leave as she seems to favor Christopher over his older siblings.

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Far North (2007)

Destiny, Drama, Horror, Psychodrama, romance film

The film opens up with a voiceover of a woman named Saiva telling the listener that a shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she cared for. While she and a young woman named Anja are camping in a subarctic region of Siberia, in desperation, she takes one of her sled dogs and after calming it, slits its throat. She and Anja then set out to relocate their camp.

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Sleep Has Her House (2017)

Drama, Horror, mystery film

In a world seemingly devoid of humans and inhabited by only a select few animals, an undefined presence manifests, embodied as the wind. It passes through the valley, lake, and woods, leaving only mysterious deaths in its wake. As the night creeps in, the supernatural forces at work transcend into the natural, with apocalyptic consequences.

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I.C.U. (2009)

thriller film

Young Tristen Waters, her brother Troy and his friend Ricky go to their father William's holiday home, spending most of their time alone while William works as a policeman to pay off the damage caused by the gambling problem that ended his marriage with Tristan and Troy's mother. While there, the three of them start to spy on their neighbours and soon notice that one of their neighbours is hiring prostitutes who go into the house but never come out. When the man discovers they are filming him, they hide in the flat, only to be found and tied up by the murderer later.

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Unearthed (2007)

Action, Aliens, Horror, monster film

After a sinister crash on the highway in a small New Mexican town, people start disappearing, and animals begin dying. The cause of the crash is later revealed to be a 900-year-old creature which was unearthed during an archaeological dig in the area. Meanwhile, a gas station owner informs a group of people that the gas tank never arrived, so the small group needs to spend the night at the gas station.

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The Mummy's Shroud (1967)

fantasy film, Horror

The Mummy's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey. The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem, a manservant of Kah-To-Bey, spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection. The boy dies and is buried.

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The Mask (1961)

Horror

The story concerns a psychiatrist, Dr. Allen Barnes, who obtains a mysterious ancient Aztec mask after one of his patients, Radin, commits suicide. Whenever he puts on the mask, Barnes experiences dream-like hallucinations that become increasingly disturbing and violent, eventually leading him to physically harm his girlfriend Pam.

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The Tripper (2006)

Horror, Slasher

In 1967, a young boy is watching a news report on TV of then-governor of California Ronald Reagan railing against the environmentalist movement. The boy's father, a local logger named Dylan Riggs, faces resistance from a group of tree-hugging hippies who will not allow him to clear the forest, despite how he needs the money to buy medicine for his ailing wife. A standoff between Dylan and the hippies ensues, following which Dylan's disturbed son takes a chainsaw to the neck of one of the protesters.

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The Bunker (2001)

Horror, mystery film, war film

In late 1944, the remnants of a platoon of Panzergrenadiers are caught in an ambush by American troops. As they retreat, Private Hugo Engels is killed and the platoon finds a bunker occupied by Privates Heinrich Mirus (John Carlisle) and Michael Neumann (Andrew-Lee Potts) who have orders to defend it. Corporal Otto Schenke confronts Sergeant Theobald Heydrich about not counter-attacking.

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