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Horror, Thriller, supernatural horror film
In 1974 Oregon, a young girl with a Polaroid camera follows a mysterious voice and encounters an erratic man in pale makeup. Twenty years later, FBI agent Lee Harker is assigned by her supervisor, William Carter, to a case involving a seri…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, supernatural horror film
In 1999, Captain Petey Shelburn attempts to return a wind-up drum-playing toy monkey at an antiques shop. Before he can do so, the monkey plays its drum, triggering a chain reaction that ends with a harpoon gun disemboweling the shop owner…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, thriller film
Kevin Lomax is a defense attorney based in Gainesville, Florida who has never lost a case. While defending schoolteacher Lloyd Gettys against a charge of child molestation, he realizes his client is guilty. He proceeds with his defense, de…
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Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Obsession, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, desire horror fiction, female buddy film, horror film
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, once an insecure and studious teenager living in the small town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, has become a violent asylum inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement. Since childhood, …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, psychological horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, supernatural horror film
In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a spaceship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier. The ship has mysteriously reappeared in orbit around Neptune, prompting the US Ae…
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Family Drama, Monster Film, Thriller, apocalyptic film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
Sightless aliens with sharp hearing and impenetrable armored skin have taken over the planet and killed most of the human population. The Abbott family – father Lee, mother Evelyn, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau – live on th…
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Horror, horror film
Two friends, Daniel and Lucas, are driving down a dark road at night. While stopped on the side of the road for Lucas to urinate, Daniel is suddenly killed by an unseen attacker and Lucas flees. Elsewhere, couple Maddie and Tyler are celeb…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror film, metafiction, slasher film
Twenty-five years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher's killing spree in Woodsboro, high school student Tara Carpenter is home alone when she is attacked by Ghostface and left hospitalized. In Modesto, Tara's estranged older sister Sam Carpe…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 2104, the spaceship Covenant is en route to colonize the planet Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists and 1,140 human embryos in cryogenic stasis. An unexpected shockwave from a nearby star damages the ship and kills 47 colonists, includin…
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Space Opera, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
A deep-space salvage crew find an escape shuttle where Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to kill an alien creature that slaughtered the crew. Ripley is debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Cor…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Famed novelist Paul Sheldon writes Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Though the books are profitable, Paul despises the series and wishes to focus on writing more serious literature. He has just left the…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
In 1945, Grace Stewart resides in a remote country house in Jersey, a Channel Island formerly occupied by the Germans. As her young children, Anne and Nicholas, suffer from a severe sensitivity to light, Grace keeps the home darkened with …
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Six days after Rose Cotter's death, the now-cursed Joel attempts to pass the Smile Entity on by killing one murderous criminal in front of another. He accidentally kills the witness in a shootout, and drug dealer Lewis Fregoli, whom Joel h…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, horror film, speculative fiction film
In 1719 in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. While tracking deer, she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a Thunderbird,…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Cellular biology professor and former US Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She recounts her expedition to an anomalous zone known as the Shimmer. The Shimmer began expanding three years prior from a meteor that crash-landed at the …
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Duqu, Horror, mystery film, supernatural horror film
Paranormal investigator YouTubers Riley Brennan, Laura Tucker, David Reynolds, and Peter Bailey—collectively known as the Paranormal Paranoids—go missing while investigating a prison in the ghost town of Shelby Oaks. The bodies of all but …
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Empire Awards - Winner, Exorcism Film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In northern Iraq, priest Lankester Merrin takes part in an archaeological dig in the ancient ruins of Hatra. During the dig, he finds a stone talisman of a winged being that evokes a concerned look on his face. He then visits an ancient st…
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Horror comedy, action film, comedy horror, science fiction film
In 1979, space station Skylab is decommissioned through atmospheric reentry, but an oxygen tank survives and lands in Western Australia. A farmer takes it and makes a makeshift Skylab museum around it. In 2007, biochemist Dr.
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Horror, psychological horror fiction, slasher film
In 1918, Pearl is a young woman living with her German immigrant parents on their farm in Texas, while her husband, Howard, serves in World War I. Her father is infirm and paralyzed, and her strict mother, Ruth, insists that she help care …
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Horror, ghost film, horror film
After his family's ordeal at the Overlook Hotel, the traumatized Danny Torrance is followed by its ghostly inhabitants seeking his "shine". When Danny is 8 and after an incident with the ghost lady in his bathroom, Dick Hallorann teaches h…
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Horror, horror film
It's Buddy! is a forgotten 1999 children's television series hosted by the titular Buddy, an anthropomorphic talking unicorn with magic powers. Other cast members include Buddy's co-host Betty Bunny; child actors Freddy, Wade, Josh, and Ol…
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Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
Just outside Philadelphia, three teenage girls — friends Claire and Marcia, and their classmate Casey — are waiting in the car of Claire's father to be driven home from her birthday party. They are kidnapped by a man, who imprisons them in…
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Dark Comedy, Ghost-House-Movies, Gothic film, comedy horror, dark fantasy, fantasy film, ghost film
In Winter River, Connecticut, Adam and Barbara Maitland are spending their vacation decorating their large country home that local real estate agent Jane Butterfield constantly pesters them to sell. As a hobby, Adam is building a scale mod…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
On July 4, 1996, in Southport, North Carolina, Julie James and her friends Ray Bronson, Helen Shivers, and Barry Cox drive to the beach while celebrating Helen's victory at the beauty pageant. On the way back, Barry's drunken antics cause …
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