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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 184.

The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

Drama, Horror, monster film, Science fiction

In the south of England, at an isolated laboratory near a small village, physicist Dr. Laird is assisted by American scientist Gilbert Graham. They are performing a series of advanced and dangerous experiments with magnetic fields, while using massive amounts of power in equipment never designed to carry such loads.

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Dawn of the Mummy (1981)

Horror, Zombie

In Egypt during the fourth millennium BC, slave raiders abduct villagers to be servants for Pharaoh Sefirama's burial. While standing around Sefirama's sarcophagus, they are killed with poison gas, and the entrance to his tomb is sealed. Thousands of years later, three men, Rick, Tariq, and Karib, uncover its entrance.

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The Arousers (1973)

Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, Horror, thriller film

Eddie Collins finds that he is unable to perform sexually with women because of repressed memories of his mother. After accidentally killing a woman while trying to sleep with her, he finds that he is able to get aroused by the dead body. This leads him into a chain of luring women into bed in order to kill them for sexual gratification.

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Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)

Action, Comedy, Comedy horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film, Teen Comedy Film

Tromaville's nuclear reactor has been rebuilt and the Nukamama Corporation that funded it has incorporated a new college, the Tromaville Institute of Technology (T.I.T.), inside the design, as an effort to atone for the events of the first film. Located inside the nuclear plant, Professor Holt has perfected a race of 'Sub-humanoids'. They are living beings without emotions, who have been created and programmed to perform menial tasks.

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Wolfgirl (2001)

Drama, fantasy film, Horror, thriller film, Werewolf

Born into a financially suffering traveling freak show circus, Tara works as the show's "Wolf Girl" due to her hypertrichosis. She is well loved by her fellow circus people, but is frequently ostracized by the local teens at the towns they visit. At their latest town she runs afoul of the town bullies but meets Ryan, a teenage boy whose mother is working on an experimental depilatory treatment.

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Skeleton Man (2004)

Action, Horror

The film opens with an archaeologist looking at some artifacts he has dug up from an Indian burial ground. Among these items is the skull of an Indian chief, Skeleton Man appears through a portal and kills the archaeologist. Skeleton Man then chases the archaeologist's assistant to a power plant, killing her and the two men working there.

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Alison's Birthday (1981)

Horror, Ozploitation film

Sixteen-year-old Alison Findlay, along with two of her female classmates, Chrissie and Maureen, play with a ouija board. During the session, Chrissie apparently becomes possessed by an entity claiming to be Alison's father, warning her that something bad will occur on her 19th birthday. Moments later, a bookcase collapses on Chrissie, killing her.

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Needle (2010)

Horror, Mysterie

Ten years earlier, a man on a phone call is killed gruesomely, after the person at the other end of the line accuses him of stealing an important archaeological artifact. Present time, college student Ben inherits a mysterious mechanical box called 'Le Vaudou Mort' from his father, who died two years earlier. He shows his friends Ryan, Nelson, Jed, Mary, Kandi and Isabel.

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Zotz! (1962)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Crime, fantasy film, spy film

A brilliant but peculiar professor of Ancient Eastern languages, Jonathan Jones, finds that an amulet sent to his niece Cynthia by a boyfriend from an archeological dig has magical powers. Whoever has the amulet in their possession can 1) cause great pain by pointing at another living creature, 2) cause time to go into slow motion (but only for the target(s)) by saying the word "Zotz!", or 3) cause instant death by simultaneously pointing and saying "Zotz!". Both government and Communist agents immediately develop an interest in the amulet's possible military use.

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Eye of the Beast (2007)

Horror, monster film, natural horror film, television film

Robbie and Krissy are enjoying a date off the fictional Fells Island on Lake Winnipeg in a small speedboat. While kissing, a huge tentacle slithers into their boat and wraps onto Krissy's leg. She panics, and Robbie falls overboard.

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Sorority Party Massacre (2012)

Comedy horror, LGBTQ-related film, Slasher

Every year, Stella Fawnskin selects seven members of Sigma Phi Pi, a sorority with chapters all over the United States, to compete for the Fawnskin Grant. On her way to Stella's ranch, which is in the isolated resort town of Grizzly Cove, grant contender Holly Fanning is killed at a deserted rest area. The next day, Detective William Watts is informed by Holly's father, Captain Dan Fanning, that he is being suspended from the LAPD due to his repeated use of excessive force.

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House of the Damned (1963)

Horror, monster film, thriller film

Architect Scott Campbell and his wife survey an old mansion where the previous tenant disappeared. Strange noises, eerie sights and vanishing keys ruin their attempt at a wedding anniversary. Things get worse after Scott's employer and his wife arrive, and his employer's wife is kidnapped.

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Puppet Master 5 (1994)

Horror

Following the events of the previous film, Rick Myers has been arrested under the suspicion of having caused the murders of Dr. Piper and Baker, but Dr. Jennings, the new director of the Artificial Intelligence research project and Rick's temporary superior, gets him out on bail.

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Children of the Living Dead (2001)

Horror, teen film, Zombie

Serial killer and serial rapist Abbott Hayes disappears from the morgue and becomes the leader of several waves of zombies that attack his home town. Fourteen years after the last zombie attack, a businessman relocates bodies from a local cemetery to pave the way for progress, but sets in motion Abbott's next undead assault.

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Amityville Terror (2016)

Ghost, Horror

Jessica and Todd Jacobson, along with their teenage daughter Hailey and Todd’s troubled sister Shae, move into a haunted house in Amityville, New York. Shae has unknowingly purchased the house from property manager Delilah McAllister. Hailey quickly meets a local teen, Brett, and they develop a relationship.

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La mansión de la locura (1973)

Horror, thriller film

In 19th-century France, journalist Gaston LeBlanc visits a sprawling, remote psychiatric hospital in the mountains where a Dr. Maillard has purportedly invented revolutionary treatments for the mentally ill. Driven by carriage, Gaston is accompanied by his old friend Julien Couvier and Julien's cousin Blanche, and coach driver Henri.

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Killer Pad (2008)

Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror

Three friends, Brody, Craig, and Doug, get a new house from Winnie, an Asian woman, so they can hook up with women. They encounter a mysterious Mexican man who warns them of the devil, but they think he is a squatter who is talking about hot sauce so they ignore him. At the house they meet three attractive women, Lucy, Jezebel, and Delilah.

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Shed of the Dead (2019)

Comedy horror, Zombie, zombie comedy

Trevor is between jobs, and spends his days in the company of equally unemployable friend Graham painting figurines and war gaming fantasy worlds in his allotment shed. After he accidentally kills one of his neighbours, when they try to have him evicted from his plot, the dead begin to rise forcing Trevor to make a life changing decision. Whether to rescue his wife, as the adopted alter ego of his fantasies, Casimir, or leave her to an uncertain fate.

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Blood Song (1982)

Horror, Slasher

In 1955 in Portland, Oregon, a businessman finds his wife in bed with another man, and commits a double murder-suicide. His young son, Paul, witnesses the three deaths, and is traumatized. Twenty-five years later, in 1980, Paul is incarcerated at a psychiatric institution near Stanford Bay, a small town on the Oregon Coast.

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The Slime People (1963)

Horror, monster film, Science fiction

The film concerns a race of subterranean reptile-men (dubbed "slime people", due to their slime-covered skin) who create a wall of "solidified fog" around Los Angeles using a strange organic-looking machine and proceed to invade the city after they are driven out of their subterranean homes by underground atomic tests. A pilot (portrayed by Hutton) lands in Los Angeles after some flight difficulties and finds the city almost deserted. He later encounters other survivors, including a Marine separated from his unit, and a scientist and his two daughters, and the group try their best to halt the further invasion of the slime people who are…

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