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B movie, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film
A television announcer reports sightings of a red fireball around the world. Meanwhile, Nancy Archer, a wealthy but highly troubled woman with a history of emotional instability and immoderate drinking, is driving on a road that night in a…
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Fantasy, Horror, fantasy film, horror film, monster film
In 1957, Tom Harley waits inside his farm cabin with his wife and his son, Ed. A doomed man seeks sanctuary at Tom's cabin, but Tom refuses and threatens to shoot him if he does not leave. Watching through a window, Ed witnesses the man be…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, body horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
Several months after the events of The Fly, Veronica Quaife gives birth to a larval sac and dies. The sac splits open to reveal a seemingly normal baby boy. Anton Bartok, the owner of the company that financed Seth Brundle's teleportation …
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Gothic film, Horror comedy, black comedy film, comedy horror film, fantasy comedy film, fantasy film, gothic horror film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film
Mad scientist Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang and his hunchbacked assistant Floop rob graves for body parts to build an experimental creation including the fingers of the zombie pianist Franz Pennywhacker who Wolfgang strikes in the head to re…
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Fantasy, Monster Film, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Kyle Kingson is the arrogant and vain son of news anchor Rob Kingson. After he bullies Kendra Hilferty, not knowing she is a witch, for defacing his pictures, she transforms him into a bald, scarred, heavily tattooed shell of his former se…
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Action, Horror, Vampirfilm, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, vampire film
Rayne is an unholy breed of human and vampire, known simply as a "dhampir". Dhampirs, with a diminished thirst for human blood, are unaffected by crucifixes but maintain a weakness to holy water. Rayne is the daughter of Kagan, a vampire k…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
During the Cold War, a group of Soviet and British plunderers excavate an abandoned 13th-century abbey in the Carpathian Mountains. As they set up a dynamite charge, the floor splits beneath them and they fall into a vast cave system. They…
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Animated Film, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, dark fantasy, drama film, sword and sorcery film
Geralt is hired to kill an Allamorax which is deemed responsible for the deaths of several fishermen in Bremervoord. He lets the creature go after the merman Deroua beg to have mercy on it and claim that the Allamorax is not responsible. S…
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Fantasy, Occult Horror, comedy horror, horror film, monster film
The film has a wraparound intro and outro by the Crypt Keeper, who states that the story centers upon an isolated area in New Mexico, where several people live in a decommissioned church converted into a boarding house. One of its resident…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, science fiction film, splatter film
Dr. Edward Pretorius, a hedonistic and overly-ambitious scientist, has developed the Resonator, a machine that allows observers within its effective range to see beyond perceptible reality. His assistant, Dr.
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, body horror film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
At Starliner Towers, a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal, Dr. Emil Hobbes murders a young woman named Annabelle. He slices open her stomach, pours acid into the wound and then kills himself.
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, comedy horror, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film
Jim Bickerman, due to his injuries, is left with an eye patch, hook and wooden leg. Working in Black Lake, Maine, with another mercenary named Beach, they capture a female giant crocodile. They take it back to their truck, where two scient…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
Ms. Martin, the CEO of Tri-Oceanic Corp., hires geologist Steven Beck to supervise an undersea mining operation for three months. The crew consists of members Glen "Doc" Thompson, Elizabeth "Willie" Williams, Buzz "Sixpack" Parrish, Justin…
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Fantasy, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, action film, crime film, dark fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film, supernatural horror film
Aaron Boone has recurring nightmares of a place called Midian. His girlfriend Lori Winston encourages him to resume psychotherapy with Dr. Phillip Decker.
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Action, action film, adventure film, biopunk, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
On a remote island off the North American coast, a mercenary squad is attacked and slaughtered by a lone aggressor during a nighttime operation. The encounter is a result of the efforts of a scientist named Dr. Krieger to turn soldiers int…
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Horror, anthology film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction horror film, slasher film, thriller film
Prologue In the small town of Dexter, Maine, a delivery truck pulls up to a newsstand. Billy, a young boy, eagerly follows the truck on his bike. The truck's back shutter opens to reveal the Creep, who drops off copies of the latest issue …
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, adventure film, comedy film, speculative fiction film
Terravex Oil is in the midst of a fracking operation in North Dakota, overseen by CEO Reece Tenneson and geologist Jim Dowd. The operation releases a trio of squid-like creatures from underground and destroys the drilling rig. Two are capt…
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Horror, Komödie, fantasy film, horror film
The Potter family – Harry Potter Sr. and Anne Potter with 14-year-old son Harry Jr. and 10-year-old daughter Wendy Potter – move into a new apartment complex in San Francisco.
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Action, Adventure, Horror, Komödie, Sci-Fi
Mr. Tako, head of Pacific Pharmaceutical, is frustrated with the television shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Ta…
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Fantasy, Military Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
A squad of Federation troops and psychic soldiers find themselves pinned down on a planet overrun by Arachnids. General Jack Shepherd (Ed Lauter) makes a last stand with four of his best soldiers, allowing the majority of his surviving tro…
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Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, satanic film, swashbuckler film, sword and sorcery film, thriller film
In the year 1600, in North Africa, English privateer Solomon Kane leads his ship's crew into battle against the Ottoman defenders of a fortress town. After defeating the defenders, Kane and his men raid the fortress, where most of the crew…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, comedy horror
Jeffrey Franken, a young man who lives in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, is a power plant worker and an amateur scientist who specializes in bioelectricity. He is about to marry his fiancée Elizabeth. At the birthday party of Elizabeth's father, J…
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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film
Six-year-old Hushpuppy and her ailing, hot-tempered father Wink live in a small community on an island in the Louisiana bayou called the "Bathtub". Although it lies beyond the levee system that helps protect the land to the north from risi…
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Adventure, Destiny, Justice Drama, adventure film, drama film, monster film
In 1841, a sailor named Ishmael heads to the New England town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to sign on a whaling ship. In the inn where he is staying for the night, he is forced to share his room with a Pacific Islander and harpooner name…
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