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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 201.

Beyond the Gates (2016)

Horror

Two estranged brothers, Gordon and John Hardesty reunite at their missing father's video store after he has been missing for seven months. Later Gordon goes to their father's house where he is joined by his girlfriend, Margot. Margot and Gordon go to a local place for dinner where they meet John and his drifter friend Hank, who makes some crude comments to Margot, angering Gordon.

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Witches' Brew (1980)

Comedy horror

As in earlier film versions of Leiber's story such as Weird Woman (1944) and Night of the Eagle (1962), the story is set around a college campus where rivalries for various chairmanships of faculties take place. While the script's touch is notably lighter than in earlier film versions, verging on comedic in places, the story is basically the same. Several of the wives practice witchcraft in order to advance their husbands' careers.

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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)

Horror, Teen Horror Film

A group of five led by Julie set up their filming equipment in the hotel of the derelict town of Goldfield, hoping to capture footage of the ghost of Elisabeth Walker, a maid tortured and killed in room 109. Troubled by visions, Julie discovers that a necklace, handed down to her from her grandmother, is somehow connecting her to this tragedy.

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Fender Bender (2016)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Hilary (Makenzie Vega), a 17-year-old girl, gets into a fender bender shortly after obtaining her driver's license. She innocently provides all of her information to the other driver (Bill Sage). When Hilary returns home, her parents are angry at her, though the stranger rear-ended her.

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Sacred Flesh (2000)

Horror, nunsploitation, sexploitation film

Sister Elizabeth, the mother superior of a medieval convent, has visions of Mary Magdalene and a skeletal dead nun. Father Henry, the abbot, and his servant Richard are summoned by the convent's abbess to help with the hysteria spreading among the order. Elizabeth recounts the confessions and fantasies of the nuns, flagellating herself and becoming excited as she does so: Sister Sarah masturbates; Sisters Mary and Helena flagellate one another and then have sex.

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Greystone Park (2012)

found footage film, Ghost, Horror

The film is said to be based on true life experiences. Sean Stone and Alexander Wraith play filmmakers who meet at a dinner with Oliver Stone (Sean's real-life father) when Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was being filmed in October 2009. They start to discuss ghost stories.

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'It's Alive!' (1969)

Drama, monster film, Science fiction

Norman Sterns and Leela Sterns are newlyweds who are driving from their home in New York City to Los Angeles. They become lost and run out of gas, stranding them in the rural Ozark countryside. They meet a friendly paleontologist named Wayne Thomas.

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The Amityville Playhouse (2015)

Ghost, Horror

Fawn Harriman, a Dannemora high school student whose parents died a year ago, inherits the Roxy, an abandoned theatre located in Amityville, New York. Fawn visits the Roxy with her friend Indy Divani, boyfriend Kyle Blaker, Kyle's bullied younger brother, Jevan, and Jevan's friend Matt Darnell while one of her teachers, Victor Stewart, looks into the history of the theatre, as well as Amityville. Fawn and her friends become trapped in the theatre, which has no cellphone service, shortly after meeting Wendy Shardlow, a runaway who has been squatting in the Roxy.

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Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

In rural Louisiana in 1981, Evelyn, who has recently been released from a psychiatric institution, finds her daughter Lorie practicing witchcraft in their basement. This causes her to have a mental breakdown, and she stabs Lorie to death. She convinces the authorities that she had nothing to do with her daughter's death, though suspicion looms over her.

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Chosen Survivors (1974)

Horror, Science fiction

After being selected at random by a computer to seek safety in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear attack, a group of refugees makes a horrible realization: They are sharing the space with a colony of vampire bats. And since going back above ground is not an option, they are forced to stay and fight for their lives.

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Crucible of Terror (1971)

Ghost, Horror

Struggling art dealer John Davies is putting on an exhibit of works by the reclusive artist Victor Clare, whose art has not been shown since World War II. The artworks are eventually stolen by Victor's son Michael, an alcoholic in need of money. Joanna and George Brent come to the show and George is enamored of a bronze of a reclining nude woman.

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The Horror of It All (1963)

Comedy horror

American encyclopedia salesman Jack Robinson arrives at a dilapidated mansion in the English countryside, which belongs to the Marley family. Robinson has fallen in love with Cynthia and wants to ask permission to marry her. Cynthia's family includes: her uncle Percival, an inventor; her cousin Natalia, a macabre, vampire-like creature; Cornwallis, a hammy ex-actor; her uncle Reginald; Grandfather, who lies bedridden upstairs; and cousin Muldoon, who is kept locked up in the fear that he will harm someone.

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Amityville: Evil Never Dies (2017)

Ghost, Horror

After acquiring a clown painting that is implied to have originated from 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, a Rhode Island senator named Ty Pangborn dons clown makeup and uses a shotgun to kill his dysfunctional family during his son James' birthday party, afterward committing suicide while forlornly stating, "This isn't funny." A week later, a trio of thieves led by Drake break into the Pangborn residence in search of the clown painting, and are murdered by a spectral clown, which rips out and eats Drake's heart. A priest is then shown being interviewed about 112 Ocean Avenue. The priest explains that even though the house was at…

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Syngenor (1990)

Horror, monster film, Science fiction

Stan Armbrewster, an executive at military contractor Norton Cyberdyne, lures public relations head Tim Calhoun to the basement of the building with a pair of prostitutes. He shows them a reptilian humanoid, "Syngenor" (short for Synthesized Genetic Organism), the company's newest product. Armbrewster covertly releases the Syngenor and flees, leaving it to kill Calhoun and the prostitutes.

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Blood Dolls (1999)

Horror

Virgil Travis is a wealthy psychopath who lives in seclusion in his mansion with his little person butler, Hylas, and his murderous clown make-up-wearing henchman. Tortured and mutated as a child by a woman who put him through body transforming procedures, Virgil has an abnormally sized head. Basking in the suffering, degradation, and death of others, Virgil has already kidnapped an all-female rock group who he keeps imprisoned to satisfy his perverse amusement.

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Legion (1998)

The story is set in the year 2036 and revolves around a special forces team led by Major Agatha Doyle (Farrell) formed from death-row prisoners and their ensuing mission. Captain Aldrich is a former war hero convicted and on death row who is offered the chance at a pardon if he will join the team and undertake their mission to infiltrate an enemy facility. Once they have gained access to the base they are confused by the apparent lack of resistance and upon further inspection they find their enemies bodies piled up in a storeroom.

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Kamillions (1989)

Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Robins plays bumbling mad scientist Nathaniel Pickman Wingate, of the Miskatonic University. He works on opening a portal to another dimension while his wife, Nancy (Laura O'Malley) and family prepare his fiftieth birthday party. When he succeeds with contact with the new dimension, two triops-like creatures escape.

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House Hunting (2013)

Horror, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller

Charlie Hays, his daughter Emmy, and his second wife Susan follow a lead on a foreclosed house Charlie wants to buy. It's a seemingly perfect and beautiful home on 70 acres of private land. He also wants to use this as an opportunity for Emmy and Susan to get along, as neither likes the other.

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Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (2015)

Drama, Ghost, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film

The plot concerns the mayor of Auckland and an "expert ghost shark hunter" as they fight to save the city from a supernatural beast known as Ghost Shark. Despite being labelled "Ghost Shark 2", it is not related to SyFy's Ghost Shark, and the decision to make it a sequel was made for narrative reasons. The tone of the film is that of a serious drama, despite the seemingly parodic subject material.

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