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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 256.

The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973)

Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Kaspar (Ele Grigsby) is partnered with Detective Sam Trowel (Hugh Smith). He locates the hideout of a kidnapping and drug ring that Trowel has been unable to find because he is too focused on procedures. Trowel hires safecracker Frederick Fenzer (David Roster) and his bodyguard, Noname (Harlo Cayse), as phoney suppliers to set up Ruthie (Carla Rueckert) to be kidnapped by the ring.

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The Possessed (2009)

documentary film, Horror

The film is based upon the events surrounding what became known as the 'Watseka Wonder'. Using period photographs, dramatic recreations, and interviews with subject experts, it addresses what is allegedly the first well-documented and recorded spirit possession story in America of 1877, and the subsequent recorded "possessions" suffered by Lurancy. Beginning in 2006, and using the assistance of members of the Studio Nine class of Watseka Community High School, The Possessed was shot on locations in Watseka, Illinois, in the actual homes of, and including interviews of, the remaining family members of Lurancy Vennum.

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Nailbiter (2013)

Horror

Janet and her children Sally, Jennifer, and Alice are on the way to the airport to pick up their military father when they are forced to take shelter from a tornado that is ravaging the area. They manage to find a storm cellar outside of a seemingly abandoned house, however once the storm stops they discover that a fallen tree is preventing them from leaving. Sally decides to try escaping from a window, only to get bitten by something outside of the cellar and fall into temporary unconsciousness.

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House of Mystery (1961)

Horror

A pair of newlyweds visit an old cottage for sale in the country, and hear the housekeeper's account of its macabre history. The previous owners had been disturbed by paranormal activity, and on calling in a medium, the ghost was identified as an eccentric and vengeful scientist, once resident in the cottage. The scientist was obsessed with electricity, and when his unfaithful wife and her lover attempted to murder him, he responded by electrifying the living room floor and fixtures, and challenging the couple to escape.

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Skull Heads (2009)

Horror

In the basement of their castle in Rome, Italy, Naomi Arkoff is tortured on a rack by her father Carver, "this" time for having a cell phone. Untying her, he warns that next time her punishment won't be slow and painful. She runs upstairs screaming: "I can run faster than you!" over and over.

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Shadow: Dead Riot (2006)

Horror

20 years earlier, Shadow, who was a satanic serial killer, faced execution for the crimes he committed at Ellis Glen penitentiary. However, something goes wrong and soon a riot ensues in the prison. For whatever reason, the guards, after killing all the prisoners to contain the riot, agree to not only bury them under the prison, but also cover up the entire situation.

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Inhumanoid (1996)

Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

A family of three is travelling in space, when they encounter a spaceship with one survivor. They discover the rest of the people on the ship were killed, and the survivor turns out to be an emotionally unstable android programmed without morals.

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Cemetery Gates (2006)

Action, Horror

After breaking into a laboratory facility in order to free the animals kept there for experiments, two environmental activists unleash a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil from its cage. Fleeing from the facility, the creature begins hunting in a nearby cemetery, killing anyone and anything it comes across.

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Christmas with the Dead (2012)

Christmas film, Comedy horror, Dystopian, Zombie

Strange electrical currents hurtle towards Earth from outer space. Calvin lives a typical life with his wife Ella and daughter Tina in the fictional East Texas town of Mud Creek It's during the holidays and one night Ella harasses him to put up Christmas decorations on their home. Instead Calvin naps on the couch and then a freak lightning storm from the strange electrical currents causes everyone who sees it to drop dead.

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Dementamania (2013)

Horror

On the morning of Friday the 13th, 2013 software analyst Edward Arkham (Sam Robertson) is bitten by a hornet, marking the beginning of a disastrous day. Several of his bosses and co-workers make mention to Edward leaving the department and possibly losing his job and to make matters worse, the insect bite is beginning to turn into a terrible rash. Throughout all of this Edward seems to be followed by the strange Nicholas LeMarchand (Vincent Regan), who appears to know everything that Edward is feeling or thinking.

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Psychopath (1973)

Horror, Slasher

Mr. Rabbey, the host of a children's television show, is every boys' and girls' favorite. But unknown to everyone, when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they suffer at the hands of their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.

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The Drownsman (2014)

Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy

A near-death experience in a lake leaves Madison (Michelle Mylett) with extreme hydrophobia. It's grown so bad that she's unable to attend her best friend Hannah's (Caroline Korycki) wedding because of the rain, as Madison believes that a sinister figure known as the Drownsman (Ry Barrett) will pull her into his world and kill her. In their attempt to help her, Madison's friends try to hold a seance to make contact with this being and find that Madison is being haunted by Sebastian Donner (also played by Barrett), a serial killer that loved to listen to his victims' hearts beat as they slowly died.

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Mystery Highway (2023)

anthology film, Horror, Science fiction

Radio DJ George Bell hosts a weekly radio drama series called Mystery Highway, where truckers tune in to listen to stories of science fiction and the paranormal. The truckers imagine themselves as characters in separate stories told by Bell. After the show's intro, Bell begins telling the first of six dramas.

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