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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 236.

Unholy (2007)

Horror

The film deals with a grieving mother, Martha (Barbeau), trying to uncover the terrifying secret jeopardizing her family. With her son (Brendon), Martha becomes entwined in a conspiracy involving a fabled witch, Nazi occultists, and the United States of America (U.S.) government. The film purports to be inspired by an actual military document.

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Dark Mirror (2007)

Horror, Psychological horror, thriller film

A family of three, mother Deborah (Lisa Vidal), father Jim (David Chisum) and son Ian (Joshua Pelegrin) move to L.A. from Seattle after Deb is entranced by a house with beautiful glass pane windows. As the family settles in, Deb attempts to resume her career as a photographer while simultaneously taking care of her son as Jim is usually working late.

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Tin Can (2020)

Horror

Fret, a scientist researching a deadly contagious fungal disease in Canada, makes a breakthrough that could protect people from, or reverse the effects of, the disease. She tells a coworker while examining the results, and plans to leverage this new knowledge to enable humanity to fight back. When she later exits the lab, she is assaulted, knocked unconscious, and the face shield of her biohazard suit is broken.

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Spring Break Shark Attack (2005)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film

During spring break, when a pack of tiger sharks begins a feeding frenzy on partying teen-aged bathers, the only safe place is up on the beach far from the water. Fighting for survival, a group of young people must attempt to outsmart nature's perfect predator. Danielle (Shannon Lucio) is a teen-aged girl who, against her father's wishes, heads to Florida for spring break.

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Castle of Evil (1966)

Horror

The undertaker Muchado has been called to Castle Montego by housekeeper Lupe Tekal d'Esperanza because of the death of her employer, the reclusive scientist Kovic. But Muchado had discovered that Kovic was not quite dead yet. He prepared the body anyway and now demands twice his usual fee.

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Driftwood (2006)

Action, Ghost, Horror

Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16-year-old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) and his brutal young henchman, Yates (Talan Torriero). Once there, David becomes haunted by the spirit of Jonathan (Connor Ross), a former inmate who met a mysterious end; a mystery whose resolution could very well be David's only way out.

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Enter the Dangerous Mind (2013)

Psychological horror

The plot revolves around EDM musician Jim, who falls into madness after his relationship with a beautiful woman, Wendy, turns sour. In his spare time, Jim makes his own dubstep mixes, as he sees them as an outlet to express himself in ways that he is otherwise incapable of achieving. He's constantly harangued by his roommate Jake, who views Jim as a loser and wants him to do more than just hang around the apartment all day.

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Love Me Deadly (1973)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film

Young, attractive Los Angeles heiress Lindsay Finch has a habit of dressing in mourning and attending wakes for men she never knew. When everyone else leaves, she kneels before the coffins and kisses the corpses passionately. However, at the many parties she holds at her house, she shows no interest in any of the (living) men.

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Megalodon (2002)

Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

In the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland, a highly advanced deep sea oil rig has been recently constructed by the company Nexecon Petroleum, and named "Colossus" for its immense size. This "new" type of oil rig can dig deeper and extract more oil than any other in the world. The fact that this huge rig has been built on fault lines alarms geologists, who are concerned that the delicate ocean floor fault lines in that region might be disturbed through deep drilling, with catastrophic consequences.

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Devil's Tower (2014)

Horror, Zombie

Sarah (Roxanne Pallett) is a woman that has been thrown out of her house by her alcoholic mother and forced to live in Albion Court, a run-down apartment building with a seedy reputation. With no other options, Sarah tries to make the best of a bad situation and initially things seem to be going fairly well, as she finds that she gets along well with her neighbors. However, it is not long before a series of strange events culminates in a horde of zombies appearing and attacking the building's occupants.

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The Wisher (2002)

Horror

A teenage girl, Mary, who loves horror movies watches them all the time and experiences nightmares. She begins to sleepwalk out of her house, resulting in her parents getting angry. They forbid her to watch any more horror movies in an attempt to prevent her sleepwalking, however there's a new movie called "The Wisher" out which is a huge hit.

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The Blue Man (1985)

Crime, Horror

A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon, he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.

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Nightmare Weekend (1986)

Horror, Science fiction

A brilliant professor invents a complex computer program meant to better society by altering the bad behavior of its test subjects. However, this sometimes causes the personal belongings of these subjects to transform into deadly metal pinballs that attack people, as one unfortunate burglar discovers. His shut-in daughter also uses the machine like a video game, unaware or uncaring of its real world effects on nearby machinery turning against their users.

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Crawl (2011)

Horror, thriller film

Slim Walding (Paul Holmes), a bar owner, hires a Croatian (George Shevtsov) to kill an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but the culprit leaves behind the murder weapon, an antique pistol belonging to Slim (thus framing him for the homicide). As the Croatian makes his getaway, he accidentally runs down a stranded motorist.

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Secret of the Blue Room (1933)

Mysterie, mystery film

At her family's rural manor in Germany, Irene von Helldorf celebrates her twenty-first birthday with her father Robert, her suitor Thomas Brandt, and Thomas's two rivals, Walter Brink and Frank Faber. Thomas challenges Walter and Frank to each spend a night in a mysterious locked blue room in which several murders had occurred years before, each at exactly one hour past midnight. The first victim was Robert's sister, followed by his best friend and, later, a detective who attempted to solve their deaths.

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Die Sister, Die! (1978)

thriller film

Edward (Jack Ging) is tired of the "allowance" granted him by his sister Amanda (Edith Atwater) and becomes impatient for her death and his inheritance. To hasten her demise, or at least stop her suicides from being thwarted, Edward hires Esther (Antoinette Bower), a discredited ex-nurse, to watch over her. Esther is less than enthusiastic about killing the old woman, and curious about the secrets held in the house, including a mysterious third sister, Nell.

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