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Explore unsettling stories, fear and the supernatural.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 238.

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Comedy horror, Ghost, mystery film, Noir

The elderly Mrs. Bentley (Helen Westley) and her lawyer see a newspaper ad from an unemployed and unmarried engineer seeking work doing “anything legal.” The lawyer calls the engineer, Alexander “Lucky” Downing (Wayne Morris), and sets up a meeting, during which Lucky is offered $1000 to feign an engagement to Mrs. Bentley's granddaughter Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) for one month.

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After Sundown (2006)

Horror, Vampire, Western, Zombie

After a female corpse in perfect condition is exhumed, two funeral home employees remove a wooden stake from it. The corpse instantly revives and reveals itself as a vampire. Sensing the return of his bride, the vampire who created her, an Old West gunslinger, comes to the town and begins to turn the people into zombies that serve his will.

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Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)

Animal horror, exploitation film, Horror

Lena, a young nurse in World War II Philippines, is bitten by a cobra which formerly belonged to a snake cult, and which gives her the powers of eternal life, beauty and sexual prowess, and the ability to turn into a snake. When a pair of UNICEF workers, Joanna and Duff, encounter her many years later, Lena's snake is killed by Duff's pet eagle, leaving Lena no option but to feed on the life-force of young men by having sex with them, starting with Duff.

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Geek Maggot Bingo (1983)

Comedy horror

The film follows the insane Dr. Frankenberry (Robert Andrews), who repeatedly attempts to reanimate the dead with the assistance of his hunchbacked assistant Geeko (Robert Zeus). Other characters include the professor's daughter Buffy (Brenda Bergman), who performs most of the film semi-nude, and falls victim to the vampire, and Flavian (Gumby Spangler), son of the professor at Frankenberry's university, Dean Quagmire (Jim Giacama) who had rejected Frankenberry's original experiments.

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Hysterical Psycho (2009)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher

A theater troupe from New York City visit a secluded area known as Moon Lake. Unknown to them, the cabin in which they stay is located on a Native American burial ground among other sites. In addition, it is the location of a lunar meteorite that has bathed the area in radiation that causes people to go violently insane.

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Ghost Voyage (2008)

Horror, Science fiction

Nine strangers, most of whom are engaged in criminal and/or morally questionable acts, wake up on an abandoned cargo ship with no memory of how they arrived there. The ship's steward explains the rules to them. The unfortunate passengers soon find out that the ship is haunted by malevolent spirits and that they've each been brought there for a particular reason.

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Curse of Bigfoot (1976)

Horror

A high school biology class receives a visitor, who is a good friend of their teacher. He tells them of an encounter that he and their teacher had 15 years before while searching for Indian artifacts in the nearby mountains. They find a mummified corpse in a cave that resembles a rough-hewn statue.

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Rock Monster (2008)

Action, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

A group of traveling college students arrive at an Eastern European small village called Ivanovo after their bus broke down. One of the students, Jason, pulls a sword from a stone, unwittingly reviving a giant monster whose body is composed of rock. The monster goes on a killing spree, regenerating and blending in with mountain and stony hill features.

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The Demon (1980)

Horror, Slasher

Fourteen-year-old Emily Parker is kidnapped from her rural home and murdered by a faceless, heavy-breathing maniac with black leather razor-blade tipped gloves. Later, the maniac hitchhikes to the city with a gregarious truck driver. The maniac kills the truck driver, steals his cash, and takes up residence at "Baron Court", a shady tenement hotel in Johannesburg's Doornfontein neighbourhood.

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Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller

Tom (Grieco), who suffers from a rare DNA degenerative condition, becomes the subject of a secretive, inter-species experiment. To treat his disease, his doctor (D'Abo) decides to inject him a part of feline brain. While the feline injections have restored his health, Tom slowly transforms as a result.

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The Hand of Night (1966)

Horror

Paul Carver is an Englishman who has recently lost his wife and children in a car accident. Waking from a nightmare, we find Carver on a plane traveling to Morocco, where he attempts to meet with a doctor, only to discover that the doctor has died. In despair, Carver ends up at the home of a German archaeologist, Otto Gunther, whom he met on the plane.

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Worm (2015)

Horror, Science fiction

Small town journalist, Posey Mapleton, does a Special Report on Fantasites, a genetically engineered parasite that allows users to once again dream - an ability they all lost 30 years ago. Seeing the new miracle product as a way escape his boring life, socially inept maintenance man, Charles, attempts to purchase Fantasites but discovers he can only afford the cheaper Economy version as opposed to the highly sought after Premium. When his Economy worms are not enough to impress his neighbor, Reed (a Premium user), Charles considers giving up Fantasites all together.

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Come Deadly (1974)

Horror, pornographic film, Slasher

A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, white gloves, and a stocking over his face rapes a woman, then smothers her. Two weeks later, as her cast mates are rehearsing for William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Ann is raped and strangled by the same man in the loft above the theatre. Thinking the killer could strike this particular theatre again, Detective Winston Rains goes undercover as the play's leading man in an effort to catch him.

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Garden of the Dead (1972)

Horror, Science fiction, Zombie

A group of prison inmates in a chain gang obtain some experimental formaldehyde, and get high off of it. They later try to escape and are shot dead. They are buried, and rise again to kill everyone in their path, and to find more formaldehyde from which to get high.

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Biohazardous (2001)

Horror, Mysterie, Science fiction, Zombie

A research company founded by ex-Nazi scientists moves to a small town. Bored, several teens break in and find that the company has been reanimating the dead. Stuck there with the zombies, they attempt to escape with the help of a few cops and employees who are also present.

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The Photographer (1974)

Comedy, Horror, thriller film

Adrian Wilde (Michael Callan) outwardly presents himself as a respected photographer specializing in animal pictures. Privately, he is a serial killer who preys on aspiring models, creating scenarios where they will die and taking pictures of them through the entire process, especially their final death expressions. He has a very hostile relationship with his mother (Barbara Nichols), who stood by as a previous lover attempted to choke him as a child, and now spends her time drinking and carousing with men, including his ostensible best friend Clinton (Spencer Milligan), who fences stolen jewelry.

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DeadHeads (2011)

buddy film, Comedy horror, Parody, Zombie, zombie comedy

Mike and Brent are inexplicably coherent zombies who become self-aware during a zombie attack. As Mike's memories slowly come back to him, he recalls wanting to visit his girlfriend so that he can tell her that he loves her. Brent adopts a feral zombie which he dubs "Cheese", and they set off, not knowing that they are being tracked by an evil corporation.

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The Killing Jar (1997)

Horror

Michael Sanford (Brett Cullen) relocates to his old town to manage the family business, taking his wife Diane (Tamlyn Tomita) with him. However, the community is soon gripped by fear as a series of child murders unfold. Michael's strange behavior makes Diane suspect his involvement in these murders.

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