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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Splatter Film, action film, horror film, slasher film
In 1974, at the Glenville Sanatorium in West Virginia, head doctor Dr. Brendan Ryan gives Dr. Anne Marie McQuiad a tour around the building, entering Cell Ward C, where he introduces her to the young Hillicker brothers, Saw Tooth, One Eye,…
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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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slasher film
One night, drug dealers Miguel and Vincent chase a young woman named Adrienne, who's stolen a stash of cocaine from them, into the old Anchor Bay Cannery - a long-abandoned dockside building rumored to be haunted by the "Sailor Man". Just …
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Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
On their way home from a family party, David and Amy Fox, who are on the verge of divorce after the death of their son, are on a remote mountain road due to a wreck slowing down the interstate. They stop at an old auto repair garage after …
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Buddy Cop, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
In New York City, a waitress on her way home is assaulted by two muggers and seeks aid from a police officer, who breaks her neck. Over the next two nights, this "Maniac Cop" commits more murders, prompting Lieutenant McCrae, who was told …
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Cannibal-Movie, Drama, Family Drama, Horror, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, slasher film
In 1990, 17 years after Leatherface's killing spree in 1973 and 13 years after the sole survivor Sally Hardesty died in a private health care facility in 1977, Leatherface kills a young woman, Gina, and cuts off her face to make it into a …
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Obsession, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, teen film
In 1989, Barbara Lang claims that her daughter Rachel is possessed, having seen her display telekinesis. Barbara is diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized, while six-year-old Rachel is placed in foster care. Ten years later, Ra…
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Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, comedy horror, slasher film, splatter film
Sampson and his son Ainsley are hunting alligators in a swamp. While Ainsley is urinating, Sampson falls silent; Ainsley finds Sampson dead before he, too, is killed by an unseen being. During a Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, a gro…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Harold Speck was a traveling salesman, making the rounds in a small town when he encountered an old man in a diner. The man approached him with a strange, uncomfortable question, before abruptly leaving. Shortly after his visit, Harold was…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, thriller film
In 2127, Dr. Paul Merchant, an engineer, seals himself in a room aboard The Minos, a space station that he designed. As armed guards attempt to break through the door, Merchant manipulates a robot into solving the Lament Configuration, des…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, slasher film, teen film
In 1974, 11-year-olds Wendy Richards, Jude Cunningham, Kelly Lynch, and Nick McBride play hide-and-seek in an abandoned convent. When 10-year-old Robin Hammond tries to join them, the group scares her, leading to Robin accidentally falling…
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Slasher Horror, slasher film, teen film
In the fictional town of Osborne, Nebraska, high school football player Jackson Pace awakens from a nap to find his house covered in photographs taken on the night he beat up a gay classmate, Caleb, as part of a haze. Jackson is then stabb…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, teen film, vampire film
After playing a video game titled Stay Alive, friends Loomis Crowley, Rex, and Sarah are killed in manners that mirror their in-game characters' deaths. At Loomis's funeral, some of his belongings are given to his friend Hutch MacNeil—incl…
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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, prison film, slasher film
Several years after the reality TV show massacre, 4 college students – Alex, Brent, Sophie, and Trey – go to the West Virginia backcountry on a rafting trip. As they are camping by the riverside, the inbred cannibal Three Finger appears an…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
At a small hotel named The Pines Hotel, a masked figure abducts the owner Linda Spring. Elsewhere, the Keenan family (father Roy, mother Elaine, younger son Kevin, and older daughter Taylor) is in disarray after the police arrest Taylor fo…
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Family Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
In a suburban Utah house, Grady Edwards shaves off his beard, dyes his hair, and removes his brown contact lenses. As he leaves, it is revealed that he has murdered his wife and three children. When the police investigate, it is said that …
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Teen Horror Film, action film, horror film, slasher film
Officer Frank Williams and his partner Blaine investigate an abandoned house, where they find a young woman with her eyes ripped out. A large figure with an axe then murders Blaine, whilst Frank has his arm chopped off before he is able to…
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Splatter Film, action film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
During Halloween 1976, a group of carnival workers, Charly, Venus, Panda, Levon and Roscoe, gleefully travel through the countryside. Later that night, the group is attacked by people disguised as scarecrows and taken to a strange, large b…
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, comedy horror, crime film, horror film
Middle-aged Ezra Cobb helps operate a farm in the rural Midwest with his elderly mother, Amanda, a religious fanatic who has indoctrinated him since childhood to abhor women. She tells him that there is one woman that he should contact upo…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, college student Tyler Murphy is attacked and killed in his dorm room by a masked assailant, after receiving anonymous text messages. Best friends Parker Mason and Miri Woodlow decide to quaranti…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
In Los Angeles, FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell is moments too late to save a young woman from a serial killer he has been investigating, who escapes. Campbell quits his job and moves to Chicago where he is plagued by guilt-induced migrain…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
At a Texas high school, Mandy Lane blossoms over the summer, attracting her male classmates. One of them, Dylan, invites Mandy to a pool party at his house. She accepts with the provision that her best friend Emmet can come along.
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
A young girl named Eden is playing outside when an older boy named Boyd emerges from the cornfield and retrieves a knife. He hears whispering from the cornfield and promises Eden that he does not want her to cry anymore and that "nothing r…
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Biographical picture, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, neo-noir
Jeffrey Dahmer lures attractive young men home, where he conducts experiments on and kills them, trying to create a living zombie who will never leave or judge him. Flashbacks to Dahmer's past reveal that he killed his first victim, a hitc…
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