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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,216 films · Page 251.

Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death (1991)

Horror

William Spanner (Charles Solomon) is now an adult and working as an assistant district attorney, determined to have a normal life and rejecting his magical heritage. His newest client is Ruben Carter (Ahmad Reese), an African-American teen, who stands accused of raping and murdering the divorcee for whom he did odd jobs. According to the prosecuting attorney, Vivian Hill (Nicole Lauren), the state has an open and shut case.

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Tales of Poe (2014)

fantasy film, Horror, independent film

Based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Poe is a series of three chilling stories adapted for the screen and based on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and one of his more obscure poems "Dreams". Bart Mastronardi wrote and directed his award-winning The Tell Tale Heart starring horror star Debbie Rochon and changes the genders from the original story to female in this macabre story that takes place in a mental asylum. Alan Rowe Kelly wrote, directed and stars in an updated adaptation of The Cask with co-stars Randy Jones and Brewster McCall in a love triangle gone awry in a Giallo styled film of…

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The Crescent (2017)

Horror

After the death of her husband, Beth with her toddler son Lowen escape to a remote family beach house. There, Beth copes with her grief and the new struggles of single parenting by losing herself in her art, the process of paper marbling. Lowen also seems to be affected by the loss and frequently acts out in tantrums which causes Beth to further detach from him.

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The Piper (2023)

fantasy film, Horror

Melanie Walker, a talented flautist performing under renowned conductor Gustafson, is preparing for an important orchestral concert when the sudden death of celebrated composer Katherine Fleischer throws the program into disarray. Gustafson had planned to premiere Katherine’s final concerto, but the score is nowhere to be found. Having once studied under Katherine, Melanie volunteers to locate the missing work.

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The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)

Horror, Splatter Film

A group of six friends (Mel, Wyatt, Bill, Blind Kiyomi, Lin, and Sarah) are on a deer hunt in the southern United States. Kiyomi hears noises in the distance, and her boyfriend Mel goes to investigate. He then leads the others to a church graveyard in the woods where long-dead Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War are buried.

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House of Good and Evil (2013)

Horror, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller

Maggie Conley has a miscarriage after an argument with her husband, Chris, turns physical. To save their marriage, they move to a large house in rural Virginia. They are met by a real estate agent, Rob Bradley, who explains that the house has been converted into a duplex.

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Deadly Desire (1991)

thriller film

Frank Decker (Scalia) is an ex-Los Angeles policeman now partnered in a private security firm in San Diego. During the course of his job, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Angela (Harrold) who's unhappily married to the rich and dangerous Giles Menteer (Patton). The complications which result from this "triangle" follow a pattern reminiscent of Double Indemnity and Body Heat.

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Altered Species (2001)

Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film

Schultz, a scientist searching for a way to end cancer, creates a green substance. While the experiment's results look promising as it can "hunt and destroy" cancer cells, he loses his funding and must shut the lab down. His assistant, Walter, gets rid of the green substance by pouring it down the sink.

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Silent But Deadly (2011)

Comedy horror, Horror

A mute, illiterate Louisiana farmer's son with an extreme fondness for goats becomes a serial killer who goes after anyone who hurts goats, and wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting film crew shooting a film in the area. A subplot involves a small crew following a sheriff investigating the murders.

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The Collective (2008)

Horror

Tyler Clarke receives a cryptic voice-mail from her sister Jessica pleading for help but giving no explanation of the trouble she is in. Tyler makes several attempts to call her sister but to no avail. In a moment of desperation, she takes the red-eye to New York to find Jessica.

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Shook (2021)

Horror, thriller film

When Mia, a social media influencer, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real? Or is it just a game at her expense?

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The Tell-Tale Heart (1934)

Drama, Horror

A young manservant is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of an old man who cares for him. He kills his master and hides the remains under the floorboards. When the police investigate the old man's disappearance, the imagined beating of the victim's heart haunts the murderer's thoughts so much that his words and actions arouse the suspicions of the police.

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Pillow of Death (1945)

Horror, Noir

Attorney Wayne Fletcher intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary, who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicating with him, making it even more difficult for him to prove his innocence.

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Criminally Insane 2 (1987)

exploitation film, Horror

Due to budget cuts, an asylum for the criminally insane releases the infamous Ethel Janowski, a morbidly obese woman whose obsession with food caused her to murder six people 13 years earlier, into a halfway house operated by the elderly Hope Bartholomew. As soon as Ethel is admitted into the Bartholomew House, it becomes clear that she is still delusional, convinced that Hope is her dead grandmother, and that a fellow patient named Edgar Stanley is the detective who arrested her. As time passes, Ethel begins demanding more food and refusing to take her medication.

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Killer Bash (2005)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film

Thirty years ago, Robert Hyde, an outcast college student, was killed in a fraternity prank by the five members of the Delta boys. Since then, his tortured spirit has been haunting the campus, waiting for the perfect opportunity for revenge. A generation has passed and the sons of his five murderers are the new big men on campus - and Robert has the perfect plan to kill every one of them.

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Tragic Theater (2015)

Horror

In 1981, a group of construction workers were building a theater when the ceiling collapsed; many survived, but more than a hundred men died when the ceiling fell upon them. They were buried beneath the theater. In 1999, Annie (Andi Eigenmann), an engineer, wants to consult a group of exorcists and spirit mediums led by Nilo Marcelo (John Estrada), a priest, to help her gather information about an old theater with a dark past before she starts her project there.

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Straight Into Darkness (2004)

Horror, war film

Two American World War II soldiers, both about to be court martialed for cowardice near the end of the war, escape when the Military Police Jeep they are riding in hits a land mine. They flee over the presumably French or Belgian countryside when they run into a band of partisans consisting of children led by an adult couple. The partisans, believing the Americans are German impostors, initially take the soldiers prisoner.

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The Haunted Symphony (1995)

Horror, Mysterie

In XVIII century France, aristocratic composer Octave Barron writes a symphony for the Devil as part of a satanic pact. During his work Barron is "inspired" by the murders he commits with the help of his lover and maid, Carlotta. For his crimes and devil worshiping Barron is eventually discovered by the authorities and subsequently taken out of his mansion by an angry mob of townsfolk, who torn him apart with horses while Barron screams that his pact with the evil forces will resurrect him through his music.

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