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Crime, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, crime film
Charlie MacKenzie is a popular local beat poet living in San Francisco who makes his frequent break-ups the subject of his poems. His best friend Tony, a recently promoted police detective, believes that Charlie is afraid of commitment and…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
One year after attempting to kill Pam Roberts, Tommy Jarvis is released from the local Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He still suffers from flashbacks of the mass murderer Jason Voorhees, whom he killed six years ago. Tommy returns to…
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Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, Thriller, splatter film
Convicted murderer Seth Baxter wakes up chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade. He is told that he can release himself by crushing his hands between two presses. He does so, but the blade still bisects him as someone watches through a…
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
The Barrett family—mother Lacy, father Daniel, older son Jesse, and younger son Sammy—reside on a quiet suburban street in an unnamed American city. Daniel is currently unemployed, placing the burden of supporting the family on Lacy, who w…
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Horror, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, splatter film, thriller film
The film opens with several news reports about the Firefly family's murderous rampage. Through the reports, it is revealed that Baby, Otis, and Captain Spaulding miraculously survived their shootout with the police and that they will be tr…
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Mysterie, Satanism, horror film, satanic film
A narrator (later revealed to be Ramirez) relates a story (a fictional Mexican folklore) about his childhood, where his mother would explain to him and his siblings the circumstances that surround the Devil roaming the Earth, searching for…
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Found Footage, Horror, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
The opening text explains that the footage shown was confiscated by the U.S. government in 2009, until an anonymous source leaked it for the entire world to see. Claridge, a town located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thrives on its water su…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Three years after the murders at Hillcrest Academy, a guilt-ridden Laurie Strode is institutionalized in Grace Andersen Sanitarium. It is revealed that the person she previously decapitated, whom she believed to be Michael Myers, was in fa…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2008, the Reaper Virus ravages Scotland. Unable to contain the outbreak or cure the infected, the UK government erects a 30-foot wall isolating Scotland. The quarantine succeeds, but the extreme method turns the country into a pariah st…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
In early 1988, a twelve-year-old girl accompanies her babysitter on a date with serial killer Patrick Bateman. After Bateman kills and starts to dissect the babysitter, the girl kills him with an ice pick. In 1993, the young girl, Rachael …
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Horror, Thriller, action film, horror film, road movie, slasher film, thriller film
Jim Halsey, a young man delivering a car from Chicago to San Diego, spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert and gives him a ride. The hitchhiker, who calls himself John Ryder, forces Jim's leg down on the accelerator when they pas…
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Horror, Thriller, action film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Two cyclists riding through a canyon are followed by a mysterious matte black car. At a bridge, the car crushes one cyclist against the wall and rams the other from behind, catapulting him off the bridge. A hitchhiker encounters the car an…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
In 1939, a woman dies while giving birth in a slaughterhouse in Texas, and the supervisor abandons the baby in a dumpster. When young Luda Mae Hewitt finds the child, she takes him back to the Hewitt residence, names him Thomas and raises …
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Fairy-Tale Film, Horror, Thriller, action film, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film
Valerie lives with her parents, Cesaire and Suzette, and older sister Lucie in Daggerhorn, a village on the edge of a forest plagued by a Wolf that is also a werewolf. She is in love with her childhood friend Peter, a local woodcutter, but…
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Psychological Thriller, Teen Horror Film, Torture Porn
Best friends Marie and Alex are on their way to stay at Alex's parents' house for the weekend to study. Upon arriving, Alex gives Marie a tour of her house, then they have dinner and go to bed. While the family sleeps, Marie stays awake in…
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, slasher film
On Valentine's Day 1997, six miners are trapped underground by an explosion at the Hanniger mine in the small mining community of Harmony. By the time rescuers reach the miners, they find only comatose Harry Warden still alive. Further inv…
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Drama, Erotic Film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Thriller, drama film, horror film, musical film, sexploitation film, teen film
Three young women—Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson, and Petronella "Pet" Danforth—perform in a rock band, the Kelly Affair, managed by Harris Allsworth, Kelly's boyfriend. The four travel to Los Angeles to find Kelly's estranged aunt, Susan…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
On Halloween, after a night out trick-or-treating, children Tia and Timmy are surprised to find an unmarked VHS tape in their candy bag. Together with their babysitter Sarah, they watch the tape, which contains three stories featuring a ho…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Years after the zombie apocalypse, the scattered remnants of human civilization have established a chain of protected city-states across North America. One such sanctuary is located in downtown Pittsburgh, ruled by a feudal-like government…
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Ghost-Movie, ghost film, horror film, supernatural horror film
The Cuesta Verde neighborhood is turned into an archaeological dig centered on the spot where the Freelings' home stood. The excavation leads to the discovery of a cave. Its existence is revealed to psychic Tangina Barrons, who informs her…
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Horror, supernatural horror film
In the fictional small town of Winsford, Massachusetts, Katie Jensen, Hallie Knudsen, and their friends Chloe and Wren have a sleepover at Katie's house. They speculate that the group of boys they saw earlier were planning to summon Slende…
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Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, horror film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Eliot Deacon owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial. Middle school teacher Anna Taylor meets Eliot when she attends the funeral of her piano teacher. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul at a r…
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Slasher Horror, Vampirfilm, Western, Western film, action film, adventure film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, independent film, religious horror, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, vampire film
Jack Crow leads his team of Vatican-sponsored vampire hunters in a daylight raid on an abandoned house in New Mexico. Finding a "nest" of vampires, the team subdue the creatures with gunfire, pikes, and wooden stakes, using a modified cros…
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Fantasy, Thriller, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Thomas Dagget, a Catholic seminary student, loses his faith after seeing visions of an angelic war. Years later, Thomas is a detective with the LAPD. Two angels fall to Earth; Simon and Uziel, a lieutenant of the Archangel Gabriel.
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