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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 173.

The Brute Man (1946)

Horror, thriller film

The police investigate a string of murders committed by the Creeper, a mysterious killer with a hideously disfigured face. The Creeper attacks and murders Professor Cushman, a professor from the nearby Hampton University. Later that night, the killer approaches a woman named Joan Bemis in front of her home and identifies himself as Hal Moffet.

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The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996)

Christmas film, Comedy horror, Family Comedy

The movie begins with son Eddie feeling homesick for Transylvania. Herman decides a "good old Transylvanian Christmas" is what his troubled son needs to get in the mood for the holidays. Together with the family - including Lily, Grandpa and Marilyn, he sends out invitations to the entire Munster family, including Wolfman, Mummy, and the Gill-Man.

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Parlor (2015)

Horror, Splatter Film

College friends Amy, Brock, Jesse, Stephanie, Kevin, and Kelly vacation in Vilnius, Lithuania. While exploring a strange club, Amy finds an intriguing series of portraits belonging to the Cuzas family. Brock meets a sexually aggressive tattoo artist’s apprentice named Uta and convinces Amy to accompany him to the parlor so that she can get a tattoo to commemorate her trip.

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Scanners: The Showdown (1995)

Action, Horror, Science fiction

Sam Staziak is a Los Angeles police officer who is a Scanner, a person with extraordinary telepathic and telekinetic powers. Sam tracks a renegade Scanner, Karl Volkin, who recently escaped from a mental hospital. Volkin is building his power by siphoning off the power of other weaker Scanners.

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Black Magic Woman (1991)

Horror, romance film, thriller film

The film follows Brad, the successful owner of an art gallery he co-owns with his girlfriend Diane. He is also a serial womanizer who treats his one night stands as nothing more than conquests to be won and discarded the next day. This frustrates Diane, who wants him to propose.

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Watchers Reborn (1998)

Horror, Science fiction

Ever since he lost his wife and son in a devastating fire, Detective Jack Murphy has wandered around life in a fog. He is forced to face his terrifying memories when his partner Gus is killed in a manner too brutal to be human, too clever to be animal. The only clues to Gus's death are a vagabond Golden Retriever and Dr.

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Chimera (1991)

drama television series, Horror, Science fiction

Tracy Pickford (Emer Gillespie) leaves her job as a nurse in a busy A&E department in London to take up a new post at the Jenner Clinic in rural Cumbria. The clinic provides private fertility treatment to mothers struggling to conceive, but despite the quiet atmosphere and calmer pace of work, Tracy becomes restless and begins to suspect that there is more to the clinic than meets the eye. There is a secure room protected by a keypad in one of the outbuildings which she is told contains live animals for research, but which she is not allowed to enter.

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Panic Button (2011)

Horror, thriller film

Four young people win the competition of a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson), Max (Jack Gordon), Gwen (Elen Rhys) and Dave (Michael Jibson) head off on an all expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy of the social network All2gethr.com. As they board the private jet, they are asked to relinquish their mobile phones and take part in the in-flight entertainment – a new online gaming experience. An animated alligator on-screen asks them a series of personal questions that they are supposed to answer truthfully.

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Pterodactyl (2005)

Action, Adventure, Horror, kaiju, mockbuster, Science fiction, thriller film

After a long dormant volcano suddenly becomes active again, a nest of mysterious eggs are unearthed and begin to hatch, revealing themselves as prehistoric pterodactyls. A trio of hunters, scouting the Turkish–Armenian border are suddenly attacked by a pterodactyl. While defending themselves, they become outmatched and are all killed.

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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

Drama, Horror

The British Carter family (Peter, Sally and 9-year-old daughter Jean) have just moved to a small Canadian town, following Peter's appointment as school principal. One night, Jean appears restless and disturbed, and confides to her parents that earlier that day while playing in a local wood, she and her friend, Lucille, went into the house of an elderly man who asked them to remove their clothes and dance naked before him in return for some sweets, which they did and Jean doesn't believe they did anything wrong. But her parents are appalled by what they hear and decide to file a complaint.

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The Devil's Child (1997)

Horror

The mother of Nikki DeMarco (Kim Delaney) makes a pact with Satan to save her daughter's life after she has fallen from a building and nearly died. While a priest is performing the last rites, Lucifer appears, and says that he will spare her daughter's life if she promises that one day Nikki will bear his son, the Antichrist. Her mother agrees and the Devil saves Nikki.

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Blastfighter (1984)

Action, thriller film

Jake "Tiger" Sharp (Michael Sopkiw) is a former policeman who seeks revenge after his wife is murdered. After killing the murderer, Sharp is sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release Jake is given an SPAS-12 Shotgun by his old friend Jerry in order to wreak vengeance upon the crooked attorney responsible for sending him away.

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The Devil's Rock (2011)

Horror, monster film, Satanism, Science fiction, Vampire, war film

On 5 June 1944, a unit of New Zealand commandos are sent to the Channel Islands on sabotage and distraction raids, to draw the German military's attention away from Operation Overlord, planned landings in Normandy. Captain Ben Grogan and Sergeant Joe Tane land by canoe on a fortified beach on Forau Island. Heading inland, they hear distant screaming and gunfire.

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The Rats (2002)

Animal horror, Horror

In Manhattan, when a client is bitten by a rat in the dressing room of Garsons Department Store and contracts Weil's disease, the manager Susan Costello is assigned to hire and help the best exterminator in New York, Jack Carver. Jack and his assistant Ty find a colony of mutant rats in New York City and try to convince the health department administrator and former partner of Jack, Ray Jarrett, how serious the infestation is. But the politician Ray is interested only in covering up the problem to protect the economic interests of powerful groups.

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Nightmare Sisters (1987)

Comedy horror

Buck-toothed Melody, bespectacled Marci, and chubby Mickey are socially awkward sorority sisters. Desperate for some fun, they invite a trio of equally nerdy fraternity pledges over for a party. The party fizzles and the guys are on the verge of leaving when the girls try to liven things up by holding a séance.

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A Reflection of Fear (1972)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film

The film is set in an alienated mansion in Eastern Canada that houses Marguerite, 15, the main protagonist, her mother Katherine and her maternal grandmother, Julia. Marguerite suffers from what appears to be paranoia as is apparent when she is shown talking to her dolls, especially one named Aaron or an amoeba collected from a pond, or painting unsettling pictures in seclusion. She also takes daily shots of what she believes is insulin, although the labels have been removed.

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