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Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Scientist Dr. Russell Marvin and his new bride Carol are driving to work when a flying saucer appears overhead. With no proof of the encounter other than a tape recording of the ship's sound, Dr.
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Aliens, Horror comedy, comedy film, science fiction film
A parasitic organism attacks All-Mart employee Monty as he prepares the store for its Black Friday sale. Monty mutates into a monster and attacks two coworkers. Because he has to work on Thanksgiving, Ken Bates drops off his daughters Lyla…
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Aliens, Horror, Retro Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, adventure film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus, the XY-21, crashes into the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Italy. Fishermen in their boats head to the spacecraft, enter it through a hole, and pull two spacemen from the nose-down craft before it com…
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Mysterie, crime film, horror film, monster film, mystery film
In 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr.
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Monster Film, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
While investigating the murders of a serial killer who mutilates and removes the internal organs of the victims, two present-day New Orleans police detectives, Carson O'Conner and her partner Michael Sloane, learn that Victor Frankenstein,…
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Animalhorror, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
At Black Lake, in Aroostook County, Maine, young couple April and Jason go skinny dipping and are attacked and killed by juvenile crocodiles. Meanwhile, at the house of the deceased Sadie Bickerman, her nephew Nathan, his wife Susan, and t…
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Horror, horror film, monster film, vampire film
Wraparound story Unlike the first two Creepshow installments, in which the wraparound element linking the stories was a horror comic, Creepshow 3 takes an approach similar to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in which characters from each s…
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Aliens, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
In the distant future, at a genetic research station located on the remote desert planet of Xarbia, a research team has created an experimental lifeform they have designated "Subject 20". This lifeform was built out of the synthetic DNA st…
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Drama, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
In 2031, Dr. Buchanan and his team work to develop the ultimate weapon, an energy beam that will completely remove whatever it is aimed at. Buchanan hopes he can create a weapon so powerful that it will end all war and have the added benef…
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Action, Horror comedy, action film, monster film, science fiction film
Burt Gummer, now a star in his own survivalist web-series, and his new cameraman, Travis Welker, are approached by South African Wildlife Ministry agents Erick Van Wyk and Johan Dreyer, who hire them to deal with Ass-Blasters in South Afri…
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Christmas film, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, fantasy film, slasher film
At Cadillac Jack’s diner in Waco, Texas, killer Millard Findlemeyer murders most of the Leigh family, leaving only Sarah Leigh and her mother, Betty, alive. Sarah’s testimony leads to Millard’s conviction and execution in the electric chai…
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Werewolf, horror film, monster film, teen film
Tony Rivers, a troubled teenager at Rockdale High, has a short temper that gets him into numerous fights. Local police Detective Donovan advises Tony to talk with a psychologist who works at the local aircraft plant, Dr. Alfred Brandon, a …
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Animalhorror, horror film, monster film
Reba is revealed to still be alive. She kills the last remaining crocodile in the supermarket. Two years later, Reba now an EPA agent, returns to Black Lake with Dennis and sheriff Theresa Giove to neutralize a crocodile hatchling with a t…
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Horror, horror film, monster film
One night, two married couples, Carl and Vicky, and Douglas and Barbara, are being chased through the woods by a mysterious monster. Barbara is killed as Douglas tries to rescue her. Some time later, five college students, Alissa, her boyf…
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Horror, Monster Film, body horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, supernatural horror film
In 1964 on a rural Mississippi backroad, newlyweds Caroline and Eli MacCleary get stranded. While Eli walks to a service station to retrieve a tow truck, an unseen creature escapes from a nearby cellar before attacking and raping Caroline.…
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Drama, Fantasy, Monster Film, Sci-Fi
Captain Robert Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame. While icebound, the crew spots two dog sleds, one chasing the other. A few hours later, the crew rescues one of the sl…
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Slasher Horror, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, slasher film
Film student and screenwriter Maggie Butler has recurring dreams of a girl named Sarah, caught in a fire and chased by an assailant. She documents these on an audio tape in the hopes of making them into a film. Maggie's classmate Toby D'Am…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Jack Flynn is driving down a highway at night looking at a bracelet he bought his teenage daughter, Carol, for her birthday, when his pickup truck hits a massive silk thread stretched across the road. The next morning, Carol is concerned t…
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fantasy film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An evil mad scientist named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a mecha modeled after the legendary Mondo Island giant ape named Kong, to dig for Element X, the highly radioactive mineral found only at the North Pole. As Mechani-Kong enters an i…
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In 1860, Baron Victor Frankenstein is sentenced to death by guillotine for the murders committed by the monster he created. He escapes execution by having a priest beheaded and buried in his place with the aid of a hunchback named Karl. Th…
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Komödie, Monster Film, adventure film, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
Out in space on a desolate planet, the shape-shifting bounty hunters Ug and Lee and their human companion Charlie McFadden search for a vicious, worm-like creature. After killing the beast, they depart the planet. Soon afterwards, they rec…
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Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Debris from a destroyed Soviet space station—where experiments on genetically altered giant spiders were conducted—crashes into a New York City subway tunnel where Jason Cole works. During the investigation, Jason’s coworker Jimmy is bitte…
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action film, comedy film, monster film
On the final day of the war between humans and the giant monsters known as Kaiju, the king of all kaijus, Belloc, a dragon-like being, attacks a city. But during the attack, a human woman, Margaret Rosenblatt, confronts him; they fall in l…
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monster film
Eight teenagers, including Brady, Claire, Duncan, Kit, Annabelle, Sunny, Foster, and Hubs, are going on a weekend boat trip on a remote lake in Southern California for spring break. As the group is about to depart on their boat, Sheriff Bo…
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