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Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, mystery film, natural horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
On 1 July 1916, in New Jersey during WWI, local lifeguard Alex Trednot watches over one of the beaches. He is approached by his best friend Stanley and ex-girlfriend Alice for his opinion on a wedding cake. Suddenly, beachgoer Charles Van Sant is attacked by a mysterious force.
Horror, Psychological Thriller
Horror, thriller film, Vampire
Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the film follows 15-year-old Shawna, a teenager grappling with self-esteem issues, particularly concerning her dark skin. She lives with her father and brother, while her mother, Denise, struggles with drug addiction in the dilapidated Ombreaux housing project, a place still bearing the scars of Hurricane Katrina. Shawna's summer takes a dark turn when she is attacked by a group of vampires while walking home from a party.
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Carol (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a young woman recovering from her recent, although not the first, nervous breakdown. She has just inherited "Midnight", a defunct nightclub in a now seedy neighborhood, from her mysterious Uncle Fletcher (Sam Schacht). Against the advice of her mother Betty (Brenda Vaccaro) to simply sell the property, Carol not only commits to reopening the club, but moves in as well.
Comedy, Horror
Jonah, an unlucky, down and out twenty-something, is best friends with wealthy but violently unstable Richard. One morning Richard ambushes and brutally beats the unsuspecting Jonah, because he suspects that Jonah has slept with his girlfriend, Sasha. Sasha arrives and pulls Richard away, explaining that suspicious texts Richard found on her phone were actually her and Jonah planning to buy him a speargun for his birthday.
Action, Horror, thriller film
The film begins with a man running for his life through the forest. As he looks around, something comes up from behind him, throwing him up into the air. The man screams as something begins eating him, and the camera turns to a pair of dog tags.
Horror, Slasher
Claire is ending her night shift at a convenience store. She expects her boyfriend to arrive to drive her home, but instead, someone else, who identifies himself as Duke, is driving her boyfriend's truck. After an unsettling ride home during which Duke makes increasingly overt sexual comments about her, Claire closes herself into the safety of her house.
Action, exploitation film, Horror
Sabrina (Zoë Bell), along with 49 other women, is kidnapped by the diabolical husband and wife team of Elizabeth (Sherilyn Fenn) and Joseph (Doug Jones), and kept in a prison where they are all barefoot in matching white tank tops and gray sweatpants. The women are told that they will fight to the death for the entertainment of a group of bored rich people. If they lose or refuse to fight, a sniper will kill their loved ones.
fantasy film, Horror, thriller film
Margaret, having endured the tragic loss of her twin sister Elizabeth due to a drowning accident in their childhood, grapples with persistent suicidal ideation even in her adulthood. Upon returning to her family home, she experiences a transition to an alternate dimension where Elizabeth may still be alive.
fantasy film, Horror, monster film
In 1831 a hamlet holds a yearly ritual to cleanse their home of anything they view as unclean. As a result, the deformed infant of a witch is thrown into a bonfire, which enrages her. She curses the town, saying that every Halloween a goblin will come to the town and try to take its children.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Marshall Lawson (Steven Seagal) is the commander of an elite U.S. military unit. During an overseas assignment in Paris, Lawson loses all three of his men in a seemingly random attack on their hotel room.
Horror
Eric is a land surveyor that has been sent out to assess a forest in Dublin. His employer is vague on the exact reasons for the survey, but Eric willingly goes on the assignment in order to get away from his family. It also allows Eric to spend more time with his student assistant Olivia, as the two are engaged in an extramarital affair and their assignment will leave them in almost complete seclusion from the outside world.
Horror, Slasher
Teenager Ellie Masters is orphaned after her prostitute mother and one of her johns are beaten to death with a hammer, and the house set on fire. Calvin Carruthers, a detective investigating Ellie's mother's murder, takes an avid interest in her well-being. Ellie is sent to an isolated orphanage run by the sadistic Mrs.
Crime, Horror, Mysterie
In 1992, a group of young anarchists, seeking to preserve local wildlife, are brutally murdered. The killer is later found by the river, having collapsed from wounds he sustained while trying to kill a lone surviving anarchist. The movie flashes forward 15 years to 2007, as a successful crime novelist Susan moves into a nearby house with her husband David, who purchased it in hopes of helping her with her writing.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Ghost, Horror, Mysterie, romance film
A witch named Morella is put to death in Colonial America, leaving behind her husband and infant daughter, Lenora. Seventeen years later, Lenora has grown up and stands to inherit money arranged by her mother's family. With the stage set, Morella wants to return to life by taking over Lenora's body.
Horror
On a snowy mountain pass in Lake Arrowhead, California, a van transporting children from a psychiatric hospital crashes, apparently killing most of its passengers, aside from a young nun, Sister Hannah, and four of the children: Susan, Moe, David, and Brian. The children and Sister Hannah travel on foot, seeking shelter. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Julie and her boyfriend Rick embark to Lake Arrowhead to visit her father, Papa Doc, a real estate tycoon, at his lakeside chalet.
Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
Using fossilized DNA, a scientist clones a prehistoric sabretooth tiger. However, one night, as a janitor prepares to clean the sabretooth's residential quarters, he is subsequently killed after carelessly locking himself in the cage with it. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and kills the driver before stalking human prey.
Horror, monster film
The film contains six stories, each inspired by Paris’ legendary Grand Guignol theatre. The six stories are presented within a connecting framework, "Theatre Guignol": Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters.
Comedy horror
Troma Entertainment co-founder and B-movie director and producer Lloyd Kaufman plays the Crap Keeper. He presents the viewers with two horror stories that contain gore, nudity, fat men, talking penises, lesbian scenes, vampires, UFOs, and appearances by porn star Ron Jeremy and the band New Found Glory. The film was purportedly shot over three years with six directors and close to fifteen writers.
Horror
Danny Sloan is an art student who works in a record shop. He visits his friend Billy, who is in drug rehab in hospital. Billy suggests Danny goes to see the "psycho ward" before he leaves, to see Byron Volpe, a serial killer kept in a padded cell after being convicted of murdering his wife Madeline by hypnotizing her into jumping from a building.
Horror
Following the funeral of Simon Cordier (Vincent Price), a French magistrate and amateur sculptor, his secret diary is read out by Simon's pastor friend to a group of people gathered around the table, Simon's servants, and a police captain. The diary reveals that Simon has come into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible yet corporeal being, called a horla, is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
Horror
All Hallow’s Eve, 1862: Two Confederate soldiers, the last of their company, are being hunted in the woods outside Wormwood Ridge. They attempt to defend themselves as the Headless Horseman emerges from the woods and decapitates them. Halloween, Present Day: Seven teenage friends; Seth, his girlfriend Tiffany, Lizzie, her boyfriend Doc, Nash, Ava, and Liam are driving through eastern Kansas to a party when they stop for gas and directions.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film
In a coffeehouse, Officer Joe Vickers, a serial killer empowered by Satan, overhears Brian and Larry, a pair of white-collar workers, discussing a bachelor party that they are planning to throw in their workplace for their friend Gary. Vickers follows the two to their office, and stakes it out in his car (which is full of body parts and demonic imagery) until after hours, which is when Larry bribes the security guard into letting in three strippers. Vickers tricks the guard into letting him in, then stabs him in the eye with a pencil.