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Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Sarah O’Neill and her shy, arachnophobic son Christopher ("Chris") move to the Irish countryside. While driving home, Sarah and Chris get into a car accident when she almost hits an old woman named Noreen Brady standing in the middle of th…
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Groteske, Horror, Musical, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, musical film, thriller film
Following a run-through by the 1950s-style nostalgia band the Juicy Fruits, star record producer Swan overhears singer-songwriter Winslow Leach perform an original composition: a song from the cantata based on the legend of Faust. Swan bel…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
In 1860s London, medical student Victor Frankenstein attends a circus. He witnesses a hunchbacked clown use advanced anatomical knowledge to help save an injured aerialist, Lorelei. Intrigued, Victor rescues the abused hunchback from the c…
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Exorcism Film, Slasher Horror, horror film
In Georgetown, fifteen years after Regan MacNeil's exorcism in 1973, Father Joseph Dyer and Lieutenant William F. Kinderman reminisce about Father Damien Karras. The following night, an incident at a church occurs indicating the presence o…
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Found Footage, Horror, Sci-Fi, found footage film, horror film
The film is presented as an anthology of five short horror films themed around science fiction tropes, and built into a frame narrative which acts as its own sixth short horror film shot akin to a documentary, with interviews from ufologis…
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Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Roland Bishop, Quincy "Q" Powell, Raheem Porter, and Eric "Steel" Thurman are four teenage African-American friends growing up together in Harlem. They regularly skip school, instead spending their days hanging out at Steel's apartment, at…
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Vampirfilm, supernatural horror film, vampire film
On 6 August 1897, the merchant ship Demeter washes ashore in England. Among its wreckage, the police find the log kept by her captain, Eliot. One month earlier, Demeter has made port in Varna, Bulgaria, to receive cargo bound for London.
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
Off the coast of Mexico, the ship of shark fin smuggler Captain Carlos Santiago is caught in a hurricane, interrupting his meeting with a potential buyer. A firefight ensues between the buyer and the Santiago before a tornado throws shoals…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
In the wake of his wife Theresa's mastectomy, Nathan Gardner moves his family, including children Lavinia, Benny, and Jack, to his late father's farm. One night, a brilliantly colored meteorite crash-lands in their front yard near the well…
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, satanic film, thriller film
Former NYPD Police Detective Jericho Cane runs an elite security agency in New York City. Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, both killed in retaliation for his testimony against corrupt police officers, he considers suicide. O…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural film
Policeman Edward Malus gets news from his ex-fiancée, Willow Woodward, that her daughter Rowan is missing. He travels to an island in the Puget Sound off the coast of Washington where a group of neo-pagans live. They are led by Sister Summ…
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Girls with Guns, LGBTQ-related film, Zombiefilm, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie comedy
In rural Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling runs into her mysterious ex-boyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by brothers J.T. and Sheriff Hague. Meanwhile, the demented Lt.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Slasher Horror, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film
In 2008, mass murderer Jason Voorhees is captured by the United States government and held at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. By 2010, after numerous failed attempts to kill him, Rowan LaFontaine, the head of the facility, suggests pla…
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Coming Of Age, Horror, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, body horror film, comedy horror, rape and revenge film
Dawn O'Keefe is a teenage spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group, "The Promise". She frequently overhears her stepbrother Brad and his girlfriend Melanie arguing about his refusal to engage in vaginal intercourse, insisting on only …
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film
At a remote cabin, a boy and his mother, Sarah, are visited by his abusive biological father, a police officer named Jonas. Jonas strikes and sexually assaults Sarah, who threatens to tell Jonas's wife about their illegitimate son. Jonas l…
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Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
Two years after a satanic cult led by his former babysitter, Bee, tried to kill him, Cole Johnson is a junior in high school. He is unable to convince anyone, except for his best friend Melanie, of Bee's life-threatening plot; his parents …
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Psychological Thriller, buddy cop film, drama film, horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1998 New York City, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is bed-bound after an accident that left him quadriplegic. Amelia Donaghy, a newly recruited patrol officer, discovers a mutilated corpse buried at a Civil War-era railroad bed. Rhyme d…
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Christmas film, Horror comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Monster Film, black comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, parody film
Three days before Christmas, the Engel family—parents Tom and Sarah, daughter Beth, son Max, and Tom's mother, whom the family calls Omi—prepares for the holidays. Despite his family's dysfunction, Max still believes in Santa Claus and wri…
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Stop Motion, comedy film, comedy horror, dark fantasy, horror film, satanic film
Eight-year-old Katherine "Kat" Elliot (Lyric Ross) lives with her parents Delroy and Wilma, who own a root beer brewery in the town of Rust Bank. On their way home, Kat's parents were killed in a car accident. In the underworld, demon brot…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Ten-year-old Justin Whitter is abducted by an unknown force while riding his bike. Greg Harper is made the lead detective on the case, assisted by Detective Spitzky. A green pocket knife is found at the scene, connecting the crime to a ser…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, fantasy film, horror film
In 1983, Dan O'Grady returns home to North Dakota from a trip to his native Ireland, where he captured a leprechaun, who then gave him a pot of gold in accordance with the leprechaun code. After burying the gold, O'Grady discovers that the…
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Fantasy, action film, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
One evening, Cleveland Heep, the superintendent of an apartment complex in Philadelphia, discovers Story, a naiad-like being, in the building's swimming pool. Heep immediately rescues Story from an attack by a Scrunt, a grass-covered and w…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, psychological thriller
In the early morning hours on November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murders his entire family with a rifle at their home of 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. One year later, middle-class newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz move into the …
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, dark fantasy, fantasy film, horror film
Eight hundred years ago, the Witch Queen unleashes the Black Plague to wipe out humanity. A band of knights, including a widowed Kaulder, storms her lair and impales her. Before dying, the Queen curses Kaulder with eternal life.
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