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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 149.

Maneater (2007)

Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film

Two people disappear along the Appalachian Trail: a young man jogging with his girlfriend and a hermit who rarely leaves his home. Sheriff Grady Barnes finds a trail that leads him to parts of the hermit's body. That night, young Roy Satterly is reading by flashlight when a Bengal tiger briefly appears in front of his bedroom window.

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Minotaur (2006)

fantasy film, Horror, Sword-and-sandal

In the Minoan Bronze Age, a shadow looms over the village of Thena. Every three years, under King Deucalion's order, eight youths are taken from the village to the capital of the Minoans. There, they are placed in an underground labyrinth to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, a Minoan god.

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The Vindicator (1986)

Action, Horror, Science fiction

Carl Lehman is a scientist working on a next-generation space suit for the ARC corporation in a high-tech secret lab, run by the sinister Alex Whyte. One of the projects being developed for the space suit, the "rage program", is software that can take over the brain of the user when attacked to destroy the attacker. One day, Alex Whyte is performing test trials of the software on monkeys.

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Scanner Cop (1994)

Action, Horror, Science fiction

A Scanner (a person with special telepathic and telekinetic abilities) goes crazy and is shot by officer Pete Harrigan (Richard Grove). Harrigan discovers the Scanner had a child and adopts him. 15 years later, Harrigan leads the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Schizoid (1980)

Horror, Slasher

Recently-divorced Los Angeles advice columnist Julie Caffret begins attending group therapy sessions led by the widowed Dr. Pieter Fales, a German psychologist. The sessions are held in Pieter's spacious house, which he shares with his teenage daughter, Alison.

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The Forgotten (1973)

Horror, Psychological horror

Stephens Sanitarium is a secluded rural mental health institute whose chief doctor, Dr. Stephens, believes that the best way to cure insanity is to allow the patients to act out their realities freely. After a patient threatens her life, an elderly nurse decides to retire.

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Silip (1985)

Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Horror, romance film, sexploitation film

In the remote countryside of Ilocos, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters, Tonya (Maria Isabel Lopez), a sexually repressed young woman, and Selda (Sarsi Emmanuelle), a promiscuous woman, meet Simon (Mark Joseph), the most attractive man in the village. Tonya teaches catechism to the children of the village.

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Beware! Children at Play (1989)

Horror

A young boy plays with his father in the woods when his father is caught in a bear trap; he tells his son that eventually people will come and free him. After several days, he dies of the injury and orders the son to cannibalize his corpse after death, which the little boy proceeds to do. Ten years later, parents John and Julia DeWolfe drive with their daughter Kara to visit their friends, the Carr family (Sheriff Ross, Cleo, and their daughter Mary-Rose) in New Jersey.

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The Boogens (1981)

Horror, monster film

A small construction team of four men work to reopen an abandoned silver mine, in a Colorado town, 100 years after a mysterious massacre forced the military to shut it down. What they don't know is that their excavating has inadvertently freed some predatory creatures (cross between a turtle and a spider) lurking deep within the mine shafts. The reptilian creatures are known as the Boogens.

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Antibirth (2016)

body horror film, Horror, psychedelic film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

Lou (Natasha Lyonne) is a hard-partying stoner who lives in a run-down trailer outside a rural Michigan town where women have recently been going missing. She awakens one morning after a party at an abandoned warehouse and finds herself experiencing bizarre symptoms akin to those experienced during pregnancy. Her friend, Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) believes she is pregnant and not telling her about it, despite Lou's claims that she hasn't had sex with anyone in nearly a year.

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The Undead (1957)

Horror, mystery film

Quintus, a psychic researcher who has spent seven years in Tibet, wants to send someone back in time into a past life via hypnosis. He hires (for $500) a prostitute, Diana Love, and plans to send her into a trance over 48 hours so she can access her past life. Quintus' former professor is present to witness it.

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L.A. Zombie (2010)

gay pornographic film, Horror, new queer cinema, Sex Film, Zombie

An extraterrestrial zombie (who may just be a schizophrenic vagrant, and whose appearance constantly shifts between that of a corpse, a tusked beast with irregular genitals, and a normal man) emerges from the sea, and begins making its way to Los Angeles. A motorist notices the zombie walking along a deserted road, picks it up, and dies in an accident moments later. The zombie recovers from the crash, and reanimates the driver by penetrating a wound in the man's chest with its monstrous penis.

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The Toybox (2018)

Horror, thriller film

Jennifer (Richards) and her family go on a summer road trip in a used RV with her husband's estranged father and brother. Along the way, they find Samantha (Barton) and her brother, broken down on the side of the highway. After driving into the middle of nowhere, the RV takes on a mind of its own, crashing and stranding them in the scorching and isolated desert.

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Hit and Run (2009)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

The film opens as Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge), a young student, leaves a lively party at a club in New Jersey one night. She hits a bad bump driving home drunk on a dark road. Later, hearing noises in the garage, she finds a bleeding man, mangled and impaled on her jeep's bumper.

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Demon Island (2002)

Horror

A small, isolated tribe is cursed by spirits for their sins. One of the tribesmen crafts a clay piñata which the tribe put their evil into, and then sends the object afloat in the ocean. A group of college students sail to a remote island for an annual Cinco de Mayo treasure hunt.

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Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, B movie, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film

A group of divers are installing a power cable at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, when a shark swims up and kills one of them. Six months later, lifeguard Ben Carpenter and his partner Esai drive out to sea to catch some lobster. While diving, Ben finds a broken power cable with a large shark tooth stuck in it.

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Buried Alive (1990)

Horror

At the Ravenscroft Institute, an all-girl school for juvenile delinquents, several girls go missing as they are assaulted by a man in a Ronald Reagan mask, who drags them to the basement of the school and immures them into darkened chambers to die a slow and agonizing death by way of entombment. Janet, a new teacher, arrives at the school and becomes a target of the killer.

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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)

Animal horror, Horror, satanic film, thriller film

The Barry family acquired a German Shepherd puppy after their old one died in an accident. They get the puppy from a seemingly friendly fruit vendor who is a Satanist who bred the dog during an evil ceremony, causing it to be possessed. The Satanic cult then gives away the dog's offspring to wreak havoc in the world in the hope that Satan will overcome good once and for all.

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The Weekend It Lives (1992)

Horror, Slasher

In 1990, Mister Mason arrived home from work, armed himself with a shotgun, and proceeded to kill his wife and two of his children. Mister Mason turned the gun on himself, leaving his mentally ill son, Harry Mason, alive. When the police arrived to the scene of the crime, Harry Mason and the bodies of his dead siblings were missing.

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