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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 241.

Worry Dolls (2016)

Horror, thriller film

The film opens with a young woman, Amber, fleeing from Henry, a serial killer. She is almost caught and murdered, but is saved by the appearance of Matt, a detective that shoots and kills Henry. Matt and his partner Darcy find a box containing four cursed worry dolls, which belonged to Henry.

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Fair Game (1988)

Horror, thriller film

After being dumped by his girlfriend Eva, who was tired of his unrelentingly negative and sexist attitude, Gene decides to take revenge by killing her with a mamba, a venomous snake, into which he also injected hormones to increase its aggressiveness.

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Basement (2010)

Horror

After returning from an anti-war demonstration, Gary (Danny Dyer), Sarah (Kierston Wareing), Saffron (Lois Winstone), Pru (Emily Beecham) and Derek (Jimi Mistry) stop in the country. Derek and Saffron discover a metal hatch in the middle of the forest, and they decide to explore inside. Gary, Pru and Sarah search for their missing friends and follow them into the hatch and find themselves locked in when it closes behind them.

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California Scheming (2014)

Horror

In Malibu, California, Chloe (Gia Mantegna), a teenage girl, finds an injured seagull on the beach and calls for two guys to help her out with it. The guys quickly become interested in this attractive girl and seem to do whatever she asks of them. One of the guys meets another girl, and Chloe just amps up her game of seduction.

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Dead Men Walk (1943)

Horror, Vampire

The story involves a kindly small-town physician, Doctor Lloyd Clayton, who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn's deep involvement in satanic occult practices. Only Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him, but the doctor maintains that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society. Meanwhile, because Elwyn had gone far with his study of the dark arts before his demise, he returns to life as an evil supernatural being who begins murdering the villagers by draining them of their blood.

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Cornered! (2009)

Horror, Slasher

Los Angeles is being terrorized by a masked serial killer whose modus operandi is to break into stores after hours, murder the workers, and take the surveillance tapes so he can use them to relive his crimes. At Steve's liquor store (the main door to which has been boarded up due to an incident with a homeless man) the employees, customers, and a deliveryman named Morty discuss the killer, the $500,000 being offered as a reward for his capture, and how they would kill him, the mentioned methods being eye gouging, exsanguination in plastic wrap, sawing, and decapitation. After the store closes, Steve has a clerk named Donny, and two…

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Dead Awake (2001)

Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Horror, thriller film

thumb|100px|Stephen Baldwin in 2008 Marketing executive Desmond Caine (Stephen Baldwin) is stricken with a bizarre form of insomnia, spending his nights walking the city's dangerous streets at night. Caine ends up at a local deli where he encounters some unusual characters: a nice, if bit lost, young woman (Macha Grenon) and a slightly deranged man who looks homeless (Michael Ironside), and an anti-social policeman. During one of his half-hallucinogenic journeys, Caine witnesses a brutal murder.

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Monster Ark (2008)

fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction

An archaeologist team finds what appears to be new undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Ruins, Israel. The scrolls are that of a much earlier Book of Genesis that claims that Noah had an ark before the famous Noah's Ark which was used to store the only surviving Nephilim. When they find this ark though, they have released it into the world, and the only way to stop it is to use Noah's Staff.

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Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005)

Horror

In Furlough, a small Texas border town and self-proclaimed "goat capital of the world," the mythical chupacabra has begun to terrorize the populace. At first it drains the blood from goats in the town, then starts targeting people with animal blood on them. As the deaths escalate and police dismiss the attacks, a group of townspeople decides to fight back.

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A Taste of Blood (1967)

Horror, Splatter Film, supernatural horror film, Vampire

A Miami businessman, John Stone, receives a parcel from England containing two old bottles of Slivovitz brandy from his recently deceased ancestor, and after drinking both bottles, becomes a vampire. Stone uses his newfound vampire powers to keep his wife, Helene, in a trance as he travels to England to kill the descendants of Abraham Van Helsing that murdered Count Dracula. Meanwhile, Helsing's distant relative, Howard Helsing, pursues Stone with the intent to put the reborn vampire to rest for good.

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Horror House on Highway Five (1985)

Horror, Slasher

While preparing for a night out, a young man attempts to frighten his girlfriend with a Richard Nixon mask. Outside, a killer murders him and steals the mask, before also killing his girlfriend. A short time later, Los Angeles City College students Louise Kingsley, Michael Simpson, and Sally Smith are appointed to do a research project on a supposedly-deceased German expatriate rocket scientist named Frederick Bartholomew.

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Death Do Us Part (2014)

Horror

A disheveled woman in a bridal gown is found stumbling along a highway, and is brought to a ranger station. As they wait for the sheriff, the only on-duty ranger asks the woman her name, and what happened to her. The bride refers to herself as Kennedy, and the film flashes back to the previous day, to when Kennedy, her fiancé Ryan, Kennedy's half-sister Hannah, their friend Emily, Ryan's cousin Derrick, and Ryan's friend Chet travelled to a secluded cabin for a Stag and doe party.

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Ghost Catchers (1944)

Comedy horror, Ghost

The Marshall family of Georgia has rented an old house in New York, where youngest daughter Melinda is due to make her singing debut at Carnegie Hall. When the family is unsettled by strange noises and visions, eldest daughter Susanna runs next door for help. Unfortunately for her, next door is a nightclub, where Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson perform their zany routines with gun shots, airborne props, and trap doors.

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Sins of Silence (1996)

Crime, Drama

Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed, and grossly underfunded, as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophie seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that would reveal Sophie's past promiscuity, and thus seriously compromise her case against her assailant, Molly is sent to jail.

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