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Explore unsettling stories, fear and the supernatural.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 180.

The Dead Pit (1989)

Horror, Zombie

Dr. Ramzi, a brilliant yet insane doctor, has been running horrible experiments on his patients in an effort to master death, being killed and buried in the basement of a mental health facility. Twenty years later, the hospital is running again and Jane Doe arrives at the institute.

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Zombie High (1987)

Comedy horror, Horror, teen film, zombie comedy

Andrea (Virginia Madsen) is a teenage girl who has won a scholarship to Ettinger, a formerly all-male boarding school. She leaves behind her boyfriend Barry (James Wilder) in the hopes of scholastic achievement, but soon discovers that something seems wrong at Ettinger. Andrea finds that her friends are slowly changing from regular teenagers into faceless drones.

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Curse of the Black Widow (1977)

For the past four years, Los Angeles has been terrorized by a series of mysterious murders, in which several men have been found dead with huge puncture wounds in their chests. The latest happens when private detective Mark Higbie is visiting a bar. A dark-haired woman with a German accent needs help with her car, and one of Higbie's friends goes out to help her.

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Fatal Games (1984)

Horror, Slasher, sport film, thriller film

A seven member gymnastics team—Annie Rivers, Sue Allen Baines, Nancy Wilson and Frank Agee, gymnastics; Joe Ward and Phil Dandridge, track and field; and Lynn Fox, swimming—at the Falcon Academy of Athletics in Brookfall, Massachusetts is up for a Nationals competition. Dr. Jordine and his assistant, Diane, oversee the athletes' progress and administer them a number of performance-enhancing experimental steroids.

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The Outing (1987)

Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, Slasher, teen film

In 1893, a young Arab girl arrives in Galveston, Texas as a stowaway on a ship with her mother. Her mother dons a magical bracelet, and lies helplessly on the boat as a malevolent jinn murders everyone on board. The girl manages to flee the scene, taking with her a brass lamp and the bracelet.

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Ghost Story (1974)

Horror, mystery film

During the 1930s, three privileged old university friends gather for the week-end in an old country house located in a sprawling British estate. In fact McFadyen, who has recently inherited the estate, invites his two college acquaintances Talbot and Duller ostensibly for a week-end of game hunting. Duller, who appears to have an interest in the supernatural from a more scientific perspective, is sullen and rude, though an excellent shot, while Talbot is easygoing but puzzled as to why he was asked along, especially when his colleagues continually mock and ridicule him.

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Maniac (1963)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

The story tells of vacationing American artist Jeff Farrell who becomes romantically involved with an older woman named Eve Beynat in southern France while at the same time harboring an attraction to her teenage stepdaughter, Annette. Eve's husband/Annette's father Georges is in an asylum for, four years ago, using a blowtorch to kill a man who had raped Annette. Believing it will help make Eve his for life, Jeff agrees to assist her in springing Georges from the asylum.

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Dalaw (2010)

Horror

Stella (Aquino) decides to marry Anton (Ocampo) four years after her husband died. She hopes that this marriage will give her son Paolo (Morales) the experience of having a whole family. Anton was her great love before she was forced by her parents to marry Danilo.

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Mega Shark vs. Kolossus (2015)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, monster film, mystery film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film

After the events of the previous film, another shark is awakened by Russian miners drilling underwater for red mercury. Two ships intercept the MegaShark, which survives the attack. Benedict leads a team of prospectors into a mine in Russia and discover a secret stock of red mercury.

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The Mad Magician (1954)

Horror, thriller film

Don Gallico is a master of disguise and inventor of stage-magic effects aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great in the late 19th century. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Gallico performs his first magic show, headlined by his latest illusion, The Lady and the Buzz Saw. Businessman Ross Ormond and his lawyer stop the show and serve Gallico a cease and desist order against the performance of the trick.

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Tone-Deaf (2019)

Comedy horror

As a little girl, Olive Smith performs a piano recital. Olive's parents miss the performance when her depressed father Michael hangs himself following an argument with Olive's mother Crystal. As an adult, Olive breaks up with her difficult boyfriend York.

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Beyond Evil (1980)

Adventure, Horror

Architect Larry Andrews and his new wife Barbara travel to a small island off the coast of the Philippines, where they are due to move into a condominium. Barbara is perturbed when Larry's business associate, Del, notifies them the residence is not ready yet, and pays for them to stay in a hotel, and tells Larry she feels Del exploits him. At dinner, Del subsequently reveals to the couple that there was no condominium to begin with, and that he instead arranged for them to live in a large, historic colonial mansion named Casa Fortuna.

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The Task (2011)

Horror

Six terrified people, Shoe (Ashley Mulheron), Randall (Marc Pickering), Toni (Amara Karan), Dixon (Texas Battle) and brother and sister Stanton (Tom Payne) and Angel (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), are kidnapped to take part in a new reality show which will see them spending a night in an abandoned prison to win $20,000. Show host, Taylor (Adam Rayner) handcuffs the contestants together, removes their belongings and sends them into the prison. The contestants find their way to the Warden's office, where they unlock themselves.

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The Astounding She-Monster (1957)

Aliens, Crime, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

In outer space, there is a planet where its people fear that if the Earth is not destroyed first, it will destroy the universe. Because of this, the planet's inhabitants decide to contact Earth. In the United States, gangsters Nat Burdell and Brad Conley kidnap wealthy socialite Margaret Chaffee and, joined by gun moll Esther Malone, head for the San Gabriel Mountains to await the ransom they have demanded from Chaffee's father.

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Octaman (1971)

Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction

A scientific expedition to a remote Mexican fishing community, led by Dr. Rick Torres and Susan Lowry, discovers unhealthy amounts of radiation in the local waters. They find a small mutant octopus that can crawl on land.

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Tony (2009)

Crime, Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Tony Benson lives alone in a flat on a Dalston council estate tower block. He obsessively collects 1980s violent action movies, and he aimlessly wanders the streets of London most days in unsuccessful attempts to connect with other people. He is extremely socially anxious, has severe mental development problems and has difficulty trying to express himself or communicate naturally.

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Burke & Hare (1972)

Horror

In Edinburgh, in 1828, there are two sides to society: men living in dirty hovels and grave robbing to make a living; and rich men going to the brothels. Meanwhile, the doctors dine together and drink wine. Surgeon Dr Robert Knox needs bodies for dissection to satisfy the training needs of his medical students.

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The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)

Horror, monster film, Science fiction

In the sleepy California town of Piedras Blancas, Sturges, the lighthouse keeper, is very superstitious and concerned for the safety of his teenage daughter, Lucy. He leaves food for a sea monster who lives in a nearby cave. The locals disregard his warnings at first, but they begin to take notice when the bodies of people killed by the creature are found on the beach.

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Treehouse (2014)

Horror, thriller film

On the outskirts of a small town, a teenage girl named Elizabeth returns home one day to find that her house has been broken into and her younger brother, Little Bob, has been abducted. She chases the kidnappers into the woods with a rifle, but fails to catch up with them when she steps on broken glass and hurts her foot. Elizabeth and Bob are both declared missing and a curfew is set for the youth of the town.

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Ouija House (2018)

Horror

A graduate student trying to complete her book on the paranormal, brings friends to a house with a mysterious past, where the group unwittingly summon an evil entity playing a terrifying game. Then, they faced some troubles and came out with a terrifying end.

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