The Birthday (2004)
Comedy horror, Horror
Set in 1987, the plot follows Norman Forrester, a guy who attends the birthday of his girlfriend's father, involving himself in a conspiracy pertaining to doomsday cults.
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Comedy horror, Horror
Set in 1987, the plot follows Norman Forrester, a guy who attends the birthday of his girlfriend's father, involving himself in a conspiracy pertaining to doomsday cults.
Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In Drake Industries Research Lab in Hawaii, two creatures – Dinocroc and Supergator – are being studied. However, Supergator breaks free from the lab and eats two scientists before escaping into the water. Dinocroc also breaks free by breaking the wall and crushing another scientist.
Comedy, Drama, Horror, romance film, romantic comedy
Two lonely Londoners – Neaera Duncan, a children's author (Glenda Jackson), and William Snow, a bookstore assistant (Ben Kingsley) – find common ground when visiting the sea turtles at London Zoo. Independently, each perceives that the turtles are unnaturally confined, and they hatch a plan with the assistance of zookeeper George Fairbairn (Michael Gambon) to smuggle them out and release them into the sea. Their release of the turtles is a metaphor for their escape from their inhibitions.
mystery film, neo-noir, Science fiction
Laura and Steven Harding (Barbara Eden and Don Murray) move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had died mysteriously. While Laura is occupied with passing the bar exam, Steven is disturbed by their children, athletic but unfocused David (Randall Batinkoff) and free-spirited, music loving Mary (Tammy Lauren). Steven joins the Men's Association, which is still assimilating their wives into robots.
Horror
During a blizzard, veteran Sergeant major Tom Morris tells stories of his travels to India to his friends John and Jenny White. He tells them of a monkey paw he obtained from a Hindu fakir. The paw grants three wishes, but the fakir has warned Tom that the wishes will ultimately lead to regret.
Science fiction
A pair of agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI), Dr. Jeffrey Stewart and Dr. Dan Forbes, are sent to investigate a strange anomaly at a local appliance store.
Horror
Ex-con John Martense (Blake Adams) returns to his childhood home of Leffert's Corners after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Martense visits family friend Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli), a mortician who has been holding half of a map for him. The map leads to a graveyard where Martense's father hid the money from his last heist.
fantasy film, Horror, supernatural horror film, thriller film
Ted Cogan is a United States National Guard captain commanding a National Guard unit in Iraq. When a van pulls into his checkpoint, he orders it to stop, to no avail. He orders his men to fire a warning shot, but they open fire on the van instead.
Ghost, Horror, Occult Horror
In 1840, in the rural and wooded hillside region of Kushiata near Kyoto, a samurai, named Shigero, comes home to find his wife, Otami, in bed with another man, named Masanori. In a violent scene, Shigero kills them both and then himself. Flash-forward to the present day, an American family of three, which includes writer Ted Fletcher, his wife Laura, and their 12-year-old daughter, Amy, moves into this since-abandoned house and starts to experience incidents of haunting and possession.
Comedy horror
The family of a wealthy woman named Anastasia "Granny" Gargoli (Stella Stevens) wants her to die, in order for them to inherit her insurance. Granny is given an eternal life potion by the mysterious preacher Namon Ami (Luca Bercovici). Although the preacher admonishes her not to take it in sunlight, Granny ignores him and drinks it in broad daylight.
Horror
The film begins with a group of nurses at a psychiatric hospital daring a fellow nurse, Nicole (Jessica Von), to go into the hospital's basement for a game of Bloody Mary. Playing what the others call "The Mirror Game", she releases the vengeful spirit and is snatched away. When Nicole is reported missing, her writer/reporter sister Natalie (Kim Tyler) decides to investigate on her own.
Comedy horror
A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new home.
Christmas film, Comedy horror
Scooby and the gang are celebrating along with a parade dressed up in costumes and enjoying the fun moment with many other people. While everyone is having fun, standing beside Fred is Havros Menkle, the owner of Menkle's toy store, who is unhappy as his toy store business isn't doing so well and the sales are going down. Havros is stressed and aware of the situation and is paranoid and suspicious of it.
Horror
A young Australian female sheriff discovers that the local townspeople are being ripped to shreds by an undead killer kangaroo. Working with her eccentric Vietnam Vet uncle, she must battle the roo before it kills them all.
Horror, thriller film
Kristie believes that she has the perfect life: a marriage to Marc, her charming TV personality husband, Dylan, her beautiful young son, an enchanting house in the British countryside, and a successful new career. However, as time passes, occurrences manifest that raise her suspicions. Multiple incidents prompt these concerns.
Comedy horror, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, monster film
The film depicts a wrestling-style fight to the death set inside an abandoned and cursed graveyard, shown in a pay-per-view style atmosphere. The fighters are eight classic movie monsters – Cyclops, Swamp Gut, Frankenstein's Monster, Lady Vampire, Werewolf, Mummy, Witch Bitch and Zombie Man. Acting as play-by‐play announcer is Buzz Chambers (Dave Foley) with color commentating by former champ Sasquatch Sid (Art Hindle).
Horror
The film is set at John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington. Ten years prior, student Abel Frye, a victim of bullying, had committed suicide by hanging himself on the school property.
fantasy film, Horror
During a summer festival, the Angel of Death (Robert Z'Dar) instructs his "Soultaker" subordinate (Joe Estevez) to kill five people: Zack (Gregg Thomsen), Zack's friends Brad (David "Shark" Fralick) and Tommy (Chuck Williams), Brad's girlfriend Candice (Cinda Lou Freeman), and Zack's ex-girlfriend Natalie (Vivian Schilling). After Natalie's friend leaves her behind, Zack offers her a ride home in Brad's car, although Brad is high on cocaine and reluctant to accept her as a passenger. Driving home at high speed, Brad crashes the car to avoid hitting the Soultaker.
Horror, Splatter Film
On April 1, 1973 in Brooklyn, a college student named Bill takes his pregnant girlfriend Rebecca to get an abortion at a seedy back-alley abortion clinic which also doubles as a brothel. Rebecca is reluctant to go through with the process, but before she can back out of it, she is rendered unconscious after drinking a drugged liquid given to her by Big Mama, the woman running the establishment. After removing the fetus, Big Mama gets her assistant Bertha to dispose of it by flushing it down the toilet.
Horror
1871 Anna McCallum (Lucinda Dooling) is walking through the woods at night, seemingly drawn to something. Meanwhile, her husband, Aaron (Robert Ginty), is tucking their daughter, Esther, into bed. Aaron goes out looking for Anna, and sees her approaching the mysterious man named DelGatto (Robert Glaudini) who has enchanted her.
Horror, Vampire
A man's body wrapped in a shroud is shoved into a Transylvania grave in 1874. An executioner drives a stake through its heart. Immediately afterward, Carl, severely physically disabled, emerges from hiding and kills the gravedigger.
Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Leo Kroll is a mother-fixated lab technician who collects dolls. He is also a serial killer, responsible for the death of a number of nurses, and is questioned by the police regarding those murders, but is released. Kroll claims his next victim, Clara, the nurse who has been looking after his possessive mother, who is in hospital after a heart attack.
Biography, Drama, Horror
fantasy film, Horror, thriller film, Vampire
In a world where males born as vampires join the Brotherhood and drink donated blood from human churchgoers, rather than being killed at birth as in the past, a pregnant woman gives birth to a vampire. A teenaged Brother, Silus, is told that he and this child, Edgar, are from the same mother. The mother, who is in visible distress, reaches for Silus across the room.