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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 172.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)

Drama, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

The story follows respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll, who suggests to his colleagues that finding a means to separate the good and bad inherent in every human being, and eliminating the evil side, will help advance man's progress and survival. He has created a serum which he believes will accomplish this, but the very idea of it is rejected by his peers.

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Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Crime, Horror

Big-game hunter and wealthy zoologist Eric Gorman is an insanely jealous husband who uses his animal knowledge to dispose of his impulsive wife's lovers. The film opens in an Indian jungle with Gorman using a needle and thread to sew a colleague's mouth closed after having discovered that he had kissed his wife, and then he seals the man's fate by abandoning him in the jungle with the wild beasts. Gorman later pretends to be surprised at hearing that the man had been eaten by tigers.

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Rottweiler (2004)

Animal horror, Horror, Science fiction

In the near future (2018), a prisoner named Dante (William Miller) escapes from jail after having been arrested for illegally entering Spain as a stowaway on a boat. After killing a prison guard, he is hunted by the prison's monstrous Rottweiler police dog, which sadistic prison warden Kufard (Paul Naschy) had revived and cybernetically enhanced after a fatal injury. Believing his Spanish girlfriend Ula (Irene Montalà) was sent to work as a prostitute in Puerto Angel as punishment, Dante looks for her, but is exhausted by the chase and wounded by the Rottweiler.

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The Hitchhiker (2007)

female buddy film, Horror, Psychological Thriller, rape and revenge film, thriller film

While travelling through Utah, Jack Carter picks up a hitchhiker, but kicks him out after a few minutes due to the man hitting on him. Hours later, Jack stops in a secluded area, and begins digging a grave for the woman he had bound and gagged in the back of his pickup truck. Four women (Melinda, Patty, Kristina, and Denise) from Colorado Springs are driving through the area on their way to a nurse's conference in Las Vegas.

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The Return of Dracula (1958)

Horror, Vampire

In the Balkans, Investigator John Meierman and several assistants attempt to trap Count Dracula inside his tomb in a cemetery, but upon opening his casket, they find it empty. Nearby, Dracula, who has fled, boards a train. He murders Bellac Gordal, a Czech artist en route to the United States to visit his extended family in the small community of Carleton, California.

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Wheels of Terror (1990)

Horror

On a desert highway in Arizona, a man and his daughter have broken down on the side of the road. After a truck does not stop to help them, they are then approached by a dirt-covered black 1974 Dodge Charger with a 400 V8. The driver of the Charger (who is never seen) then strikes the man, killing him, before backing up and abducting the screaming girl.

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Troglodyte (2008)

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

Will is fishing with his crew in a thunderstorm. As they try to pull the fishing net in, a wave hits the ship, and one crew member, Joey, is suddenly spat in the face, attacked, dragged into the sea, and killed by an invisible creature. The mysterious creature attaches itself to the bottom of the boat.

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Greta - Haus ohne Männer (1977)

Drama, Erotic Film, exploitation film, Horror, prison film, sexploitation film

Greta works as the warden in a psychiatric hospital for young women. Unbeknownst to her, a patient, Abby is actually the sister of Rosa, one of the hospital's other patients. Abby has lied in order to get herself admitted so that she can find out what has become of her sister, and, hopefully, to rescue her.

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Zombie Massacre (2013)

Action, Horror, Zombie

As the U.S. government begins experimenting with a bacteriological weapon in a small town in Eastern Europe, a disaster occurs in which the weapon spreads its effects on the citizens of the area, turning them into mutated zombies. To cover up the exposure and make it look like a nuclear meltdown of an area power station, the U.S.

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The Disappeared (2008)

Horror, thriller film

Matthew Ryan (Harry Treadaway) has just been released from a psychiatric hospital following a breakdown resulting from the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom. Feeling guilty and responsible for Tom's disappearance, he begins to hear Tom's voice and to see him around. He seeks advice from his friend Simon (Tom Felton), the parish priest Adrian Ballan (Alex Jennings), and his new neighbour, Amy Tyler (Ros Leeming).

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The Cabin (2018)

Horror

Americans Harry and Rose are in a bad relationship where they can't stop arguing. They head to rural Sweden to a cabin that is situated on a small island in the middle of a lake, a place where Harry's family had frequented for retreats. However, they are unaware that it has become the hangout for a serial-killing axe murderer named Sven.

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Swamp Women (1956)

Adventure, Crime, exploitation film, Horror, thriller film

Three escaped female convicts, along with an undercover policewoman, Lee Hampton, begin a search for stolen diamonds in the Louisiana swamps. The escape, allowed by the authorities, is part of a larger plan by the authorities to trail the convicts and recover the diamonds. When notified that the stolen diamond cache has been recovered by the undercover officer, they plan to rearrest the women and return the diamonds to their rightful owner.

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The Stylist (2020)

Horror, Psychological Thriller

Claire, a lonely hairdresser based in Kansas City, Missouri, is a murderer who discreetly kills and scalps her clients, storing their scalps in her cellar as a way to cope with feelings of self-loathing. Her friend Olivia asks Claire to do her hair for her upcoming wedding, which Claire agrees to. Claire tries to fit in with Olivia's friends, but is mocked for being socially awkward.

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Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Animal horror, Horror, Science fiction

An animal trainer, Fred Mason, returns from his latest safari with a horde of animals for his employer John Whipple, owner of the Whipple Circus. Among them is Cheela, a gorilla with remarkably human characteristics. Mason relates that she is the most affectionate jungle animal he has ever encountered.

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Beyond Atlantis (1973)

Adventure, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction

A man brings a woman named Syrene (Leigh Christian) to an island, and she pays him with some pearls. The inhabitants of the island appear to be inbred, with oversized eyes, and they kill any intruders that they find. Back on the mainland, the fisherman Manuel the Barracuda (Vic Díaz) pays East Eddie (Sid Haig), who runs the piers, with some pearls.

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Humanoids from the Deep (1996)

Horror, monster film

The United States Army conducts experiments on death row inmates in an attempt to create the perfect amphibious soldier and the resulting man/fish hybrids escape to the open ocean. Over the next few days, several people are killed by being pulled into the sea and drowned. In the nearby town of Harbor Shores, canning company Canco Industries is under fire from local environmentalists for dumping toxic chemicals into the harbor.

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The Headless Horseman or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1922)

Horror

The village of Sleepy Hollow, New York is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he begins to pursue the beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt (aka "Brom Bones"), who was courting her.

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The Lost Missile (1958)

Science fiction

The appearance of an unknown "missile-like" object in nearby space leads a European nation (unnamed, but implied to be one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain) to fire a rocket at it. Though the rocket intercepts the unidentified object, the explosion only diverts the missile into an orbit around the Earth. Racing five miles above the earth, tremendous heat from its rocket engine causes widespread devastation of the land below.

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Reaper (2014)

Ghost, Horror

A former cult leader escapes the electric chair and returns as a supernatural serial killer named Reaper, wreaking havoc on a small county and targeting those he believes to be sinners. Natalie, an attractive hitchhiker, gets picked up by alcoholic salesman Bill, but his car breaks down and they wind up at a motel. Bill and Natalie check in as newlyweds and get intimate.

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Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000)

Erotic Thriller, Horror, independent film, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, thriller film

Debbie Strand is a beautiful psychopath who escapes from the mental institution she was sent off to in the first installment of the series when a female orderly tries to sexually assault her. After a teenage girl who took Debbie in her car dies when retreating from Debbie and accidentally impaling herself, Debbie steals both the girl's identity and her car, and heads off to the college the dead girl was supposed to attend as a freshman. There, Debbie instantly develops a psychotic crush on her dashing writing professor, Dr.

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