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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 186.

Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)

alien invasion, Animal horror, disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction

Three years prior to the start of the series, a team of astronaut miners complete a space expedition. By the time they return to Earth, their commander has gone insane, taking an important secret with him to a heavily guarded state lunatic asylum. At the beginning of the series, archaeologist Lloyd Walker and entomologist Marianne Winters are questioning a possible link between the space mission, the commander’s insanity, and a series of sudden, unexplained accidents and disappearances.

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Slumber (2017)

Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy

Dr. Alice Arnolds is a respected sleep therapist and neurologist, but beneath her composed exterior, she carries the trauma of a horrifying childhood event, her younger brother died mysteriously while sleepwalking. She found him dead at the base of the stairs, his eyes wide open in terror.

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Up from the Depths (1979)

Animal horror, Horror, monster film

The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet.

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Berdella (2009)

Biography, exploitation film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film

Beginning in 1984 and ending in 1988, the film follows Robert "Bob" Berdella, a homosexual bazaar owner and sexually sadistic serial killer who is introduced drunkenly bludgeoning Jimmy Hower, a man whom Bob had been holding captive in the basement of his Kansas City home, 4315 Charlotte Street. Bob subsequently goes to work and skims pornographic magazines in the park, returning home afterward to sell drugs to his friend, Larry. Bob then invites over a drug addict and slits the man's throat after he stumbles onto a file about Jimmy.

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Scarecrow Gone Wild (2004)

Horror, Slasher

Sam (Caleb Roehrig) is one of the freshman on the baseball team who are being hazed by upperclassmen, including his friend Jack (Matthew Linhardt). Because Sam needs a scholarship to attend college, Jack gave him a blood sample so that no one would know he was diabetic and he would make the team, thus giving him a chance at a scholarship. Although Jack promises his coach that there will be no hazing, the rest of the team (and some young women) go to the haunted corn field and continue the hazing.

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Playback (2012)

Horror, Obsession, thriller film

On October 21, 1994, Harlan Diehl (Luke Bonczyk) murders his family at their farmhouse and he is shot by the police, as he kills his sister. The tragedy leaves behind video footage (which he had taped) and his sister's baby, who lives. Fifteen years later in Marshall, Michigan, an ambitious high school student Julian Miller (Johnny Pacar), is tasked with completing a film assignment on forgotten local stories for journalism class.

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Fear Clinic (2014)

Horror

Sara (Fiona Dourif) is one of five people that developed PTSD after surviving a bloody shooting attack in a small diner by a masked shooter, which had the unfortunate side effect of either worsening pre-existing phobias or developing new ones. Like the others, she sought treatment from Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a brilliant scientist and doctor that developed a new way of treating fear-related ailments by way of his "Fear Chamber".

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The Masks of Death (1984)

Crime, Horror, thriller film

In 1913, Sherlock Holmes, virtually in retirement, is persuaded by Inspector Alec MacDonald of Scotland Yard to take on a baffling case. Three dead bodies have been found in London's East End, all with no discernible cause of death, but the expressions on their faces suggest that they all died in a state of terror. Holmes, accompanied by Dr Watson, begins an investigation, but before he can make any real progress he is visited by the British Home Secretary and a German Diplomat, Count Udo von Felseck, who tell Holmes that a German envoy, on a secret mission to Britain, has disappeared from Felseck's house in Buckinghamshire.

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Beauty and the Beast (2005)

Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film

In a land ruled by Vikings, the daughter of King Thorsson: Freya is due to wed one of her father's mightiest clan warriors. Before their engagement is set, the ailing king decides to take one last expedition to Gungnir, a foreboding island that was said to be enchanted by Odin and is rumored to be home to a monstrous beast. Before the clan departs, Freya bargains with Sven that she will only marry him if her father returns safely.

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Found Footage 3D (2016)

found footage film, Horror

A group of independent filmmakers — producer and actor Derek, editor Mark, lead actress Amy, sound technician Carl, director Andrew and production assistant Lily — travel to a cabin in a remote part of Central Texas to film the first ever 3D found footage movie, Spectre Of Death. Mark — Derek’s brother — is hired to film footage for a behind-the-scenes feature. Derek and Amy’s turbulent marriage is breaking up, with Derek privately revealing to Mark that Amy’s contract to star in the film was signed before they separated.

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Doll Graveyard (2005)

Horror, monster film, Teen Horror Film

In 1911 a little girl, Sophia, is accidentally killed when her abusive father Cyril forces her to bury her beloved dolls, an African warrior, a German soldier, a porcelain girl, and a samurai, in their home's back yard. He hides the crime by burying her with the dolls, unaware that his gold pocket watch was buried along with her. Decades later in 2005, the same house is now occupied by Lester Filbrook and his two children, Guy and Deedee.

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Terror Toons (2002)

Comedy horror, monster film, teen film

In the "Cartoon Dimension", mad scientist Doctor Carnage experiments on a man, then disembowels him and rips his skull out through his stomach. On Earth, sisters Cindy and Candy are left alone with Cindy's friend Amy. While Cindy and Amy call over Rick and Eddie, Candy watches a Terror Toons DVD that she received in the mail.

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It Waits (2005)

Horror, monster film

In a remote national forest, five archaeology students discover a cave associated with an ancient Native American legend. Using explosives to gain entrance, they find prehistoric drawings and bones strewn across the cave floor. Suddenly, a creature emerges from the shadows and slaughters them all.

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Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)

Horror, monster film

Professor Ernst Prell, a Yeti investigator, is leading four graduate students on a field trip into the mountains: Keith, Karen, Tom and Lynn. The night before the trip, the professor invites Keith to dinner, where he samples an exotic dish named "gin sung". The rest of Prell's students attend an off-campus party where they encounter a former student, Spencer St.

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Cold Light of Day (1990)

Biography, Crime, Horror

In late-1970s London, middle-aged civil servant Jordan March, apprehended by authorities, recounts the various murders he committed to Inspector Simmons, which are relayed through flashbacks. Jordan's killing spree began with a young former art student, Joe, whom he meets at a pub. After the two have drinks, Joe returns home with Jordan.

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A Warning to the Curious (1972)

drama television series, Gruselfilm, Horror, Mysterie

thumb|150px|left|Three crowns emblem at Saxmundham parish church, Suffolk, England In the 1930s the recently made unemployed Paxton (Peter Vaughan), an amateur archaeologist who has fallen on hard times during the Great Depression, travels to a remote seaside town in Norfolk to search for one of the three lost crowns of East Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the East Anglian coast from invasion. Paxton tracks down the location of the buried crown by discovering that the local Ager family have been the guardians of the crown and its burial site for generations. The last of the family was William Ager (John Kearney), who had died…

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Born for Hell (1976)

Anti-War Film, Crime, Drama, Horror, Slasher

In late 1972 Belfast, during the early stages of the Northern Ireland conflict, a disturbed American soldier named Cain Adams arrives after deserting in the Vietnam War. Eager to return to the United States, Cain is unable to board a ship from Belfast for approximately one week. While meandering around the city, Cain eventually meets a middle-aged prostitute who propositions him.

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Romasanta (2004)

Action, Horror, Werewolf

The story takes place in 1851 in a small Spanish village apparently plagued by what we would now call a serial killer, as corpses are discovered bearing both savage mutilation and precise surgical incisions. Clues point toward Manuel Romasanta, who confesses to the crimes, but claims that he is a victim of lycanthropy. A scientist, Professor Philips, argues that Romasanta suffers not from a supernatural curse but from a mental disorder.

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Nothing But the Night (1973)

Horror

The Van Traylen fund supports a school for orphans on the Scottish island of Bala. Three of its wealthy trustees are murdered, though their deaths are staged as suicide or accident. Three other trustees are on a bus carrying children from the school when the driver suddenly catches on fire, but he is the only one to die.

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Amityville Exorcism (2017)

Horror

A general contractor named Charles Humes is sentenced to death after killing his wife and two daughters with a hammer in Amityville, New York. The day before his execution, Charles meets with Father Benna. Charles confides in Benna that he committed the familicide due to being possessed by demons that he claims reside within lumber that he took from 112 Ocean Avenue, a local house that was haunted until an exorcism was performed on it by Benna's brother, Father Jonas.

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