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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 203.

The Strange Door (1951)

Horror

Sire Alain de Maletroit plots revenge on his younger brother Edmond for stealing Alain's childhood sweetheart, who died giving birth to Edmond's daughter Blanche. Alain secretly imprisons Edmond in his dungeon for 20 years and convinces Blanche that her father is dead. Alain intends to further debase Blanche as revenge against Edmond.

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Septic Man (2013)

Horror

Jack is a sewage worker who is asked to investigate a water contamination in his small hometown that has forced everyone else, including his pregnant wife Shelley, to evacuate. While checking out the local sewage plant, he falls into a septic tank, where he discovers numerous corpses. His screams for help are heard by local criminal Lord Auch and his brother Giant, who are responsible for the corpses and refuse to let Jack out as they cannot risk having their criminal activities uncovered.

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Bell Witch: The Movie (2007)

Ghost, Horror

The film retells the haunting legend about the Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee, a historically documented haunting that took place in the early 19th century. The film is described as a love story turned tragic when entangled with the legendary haunting of the Bell Witch. After stumbling across an ancient burial (in what is now known as the Bell Witch cave), brothers John Jr.

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1950)

Horror

The film uses a framing device set in a gentlemen's club where one of the members reads to his friends from a copy of Poe's book. A century before, a young man visits a bleak-looking mansion in the English countryside where his friend Lord Roderick Usher lives with his sister Lady Madeline. They are both mysteriously ill and he discovers that they are suffering from a curse caused by their father which will lead to them both dying shortly, resulting in the downfall and end of the ancient family of Usher.

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Beyond Darkness (1990)

Horror, Zombie

A minister and his family move into a new house, without knowing that it was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake. Soon the terror begins, with the house terrorizing its inhabitants (a la Amityville Horror) with the elements that lie within the construction, for example; a possessed radio and a flying cleaver. The priest's young son is possessed by the demons of Hell, and he enlists the aid of another, more experienced priest to help him perform an exorcism on the boy, in a sequence very similar to that in The Exorcist.

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Monster (1980)

Horror, monster film

One night in the fishing village of Chimayo, Colombia, María Reyes witnesses a monster devouring her husband José. Some years later, the American cement manufacturer Durado Cement dispatches troubleshooter Bill Travis to Chimayo to restore order to their manufacturing plant there: an anticorporate activist named Víctor Sánchez has been exploiting the villagers' fear of the monster to stir up hostility against Durado, which has been polluting their fishing waters in Lake Chimayo. In the process, María has become ostracized from the villagers; a group led by a man named Carlos calls her la bruja ("the witch").

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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)

Comedy, Comedy horror

Several young women are missing, and the newspapers offer sensational headlines: "Is It the Vampire?" Prof. Von Housen, who believes himself to be a vampire, seeks world domination from his headquarters in London. His master plan has him commanding an army of 50,000 radar-controlled robots that are powered by uranium.

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Necromancer (1988)

rape and revenge film

Three friends, Paul, Carl, and Allan, break into their professor's office to steal the answers for an important test. What they do not know is that they are not alone. Fellow student Julie Johnson is finishing some work when she spots Allan.

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Pervert! (2005)

Comedy horror, sexploitation film

College student James (Andrews) arrives from New Orleans at a desert ranch owned by his father, Hezekiah (Sandeen) to help out. Soon after arriving, James is hit on by Hezekiah's wife, Cheryl (Carey), and starts having nightmares. James and Cheryl are caught by Hezekiah having sex, Cheryl and Hezekiah have a fight, then she leaves the ranch that night.

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The Legend of Robert the Doll (2018)

Horror

In 1939, SS Officer Dietrich arrives at the home of Joseph Von Hammersmark to negotiate the price of Von Hammersmark's latest book, in which he wrote mystical recitations and spells from practices observed in Tibet and Egypt. After Von Hammersmark proves the power of the book's spells, Dietrich agrees to pay a large sum of money. As the officer leaves, Joseph catches his wife Eva eavesdropping and assaults her.

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Almost Human (2013)

Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

Two years ago Mark (Josh Ethier) was kidnapped and taken to parts unknown. Upon his return Mark's personality is completely changed. His friends Seth (Graham Skipper) and Jen (Vanessa Leigh) decide to investigate Mark's mysterious disappearance and re-appearance, but are soon met with a series of grisly murders.

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The Ape (1940)

Animal horror, Horror, monster film

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who was forced to become a small town physician after the medical community rejected his theories. He persists however in pursuing his experiments on nerve regeneration, with the quiet support of his mute elderly housekeeper Jane, and becomes determined to cure local girl Frances Clifford's polio induced paralysis so she can eventually marry her sweetheart Danny Foster.

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Lighthouse (1999)

Horror, Slasher

Police psychologist Dr McCloud finishes the profile of serial killer Leo Rook, and flashes back to the day police found his hideout. Two months later, prison ship Hyperion is traveling to Marshalsea Island prison. Rook kills a guard, as well as the female guard who helped him escape, and steals a lifeboat.

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Bloodeaters (1980)

exploitation film, Horror, Science fiction, Zombie

Illegal drug plantations are sprayed with the chemical Dromax by passing aeroplanes in an anti-drug initiative organised by corrupt government officials. Instead of killing the plants, the hippie growers of the crop are turned into flesh-eating zombie-like creatures.

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Alien Origin (2012)

found footage film, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

In 2011, a group of soldiers and a journalist team head out to the jungles of Belize. The mission was thought to just be plant surveillance on hostile state borders. The soldiers and Julie Evans team locate an abandoned boat in the middle of an open field.

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