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Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
A news report shows a victim being pulled away on a stretcher. It is revealed that a serial killer, having murdered over thirty people, is on the loose in a Los Angeles suburb. Horace Pinker, a television repairman, is the culprit.
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Crime, Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir
After his wife Lisa dies from an accidental electrocution, psychologist Cal Jamison relocates with his young son, Chris, from Minneapolis to New York City, where Cal begins working as a police psychologist for the New York City Police Depa…
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Fantasy, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Three years after the Candyman murders in Chicago, Professor Phillip Purcell writes a book about the Candyman legend and hosts a lecture event in New Orleans discussing his life. He reveals Candyman's real name to be Daniel Robitaille and …
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Horror, Parodie, comedy film, horror film, parody film, slasher film, teen film
While in her house alone teenager Screw Frombehind is attacked by "The Killer". While being chased, Screw accidentally runs into a bug zapper and is electrocuted. The killer's disappointed he was not the cause of her death, lights a cigare…
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LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
Artist Reno Miller and his girlfriend Carol enter a Catholic church and approach his estranged, derelict father. The derelict seizes Reno's hand, causing him and Carol to flee from the church. Unknown to Reno, his father slipped him a piec…
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Fantasy, Horror, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film
In 2096, on a remote planet, the Leprechaun courts an alien princess named Zarina in a nefarious plot to become king of her home planet. The two agree to marry, with each partner secretly planning to kill the other after the wedding night …
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Christmas film, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, list of holiday horror films, slasher film, thriller film
On Christmas Eve four years after the events of the first film, Ricky Caldwell (né Chapman), the now-adult brother of serial killer Billy Chapman, is being held in a psychiatric hospital for a series of murders he himself committed. While …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Monster Film, comedy horror, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, slasher film
A young couple, Catherine and Francois, are attempting to escape from a figure who eventually catches and drags Francois to his death. It also grabs hold of Catherine just before she arrives at a monolith in a grassland. Four American coll…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
FBI Special Agent Jennifer Marsh is a widowed single parent living in a suburban Portland home with her daughter, Annie Haskins, and her mother, Stella Marsh. At night, she works in the FBI's cybercrime division with Griffin Dowd, fighting…
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Horror comedy, Slasher Horror
When Abby and her Diablos teammates are forbidden from doing any risky cheer stunts by their overly cautious school, they fear that they will be laughed out of the upcoming regional cheer competition. The squad comes up with a plan to chor…
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Horror, body horror television series, comedy horror film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film
Prologue A creepy-looking coroner introduces three different horror tales involving his current work on various gruesome cadavers in "body bags." "The Gas Station" Directed by John Carpenter. Anne is a young college student who arrives for…
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Christmas film, Psychological Thriller, Splatter Film, horror film, thriller film
Young businesswoman Angela Bridges, who works in a Midtown Manhattan office block, is working late on Christmas Eve, before leaving to attend a family party. After reaching the second underground parking level (P2) beneath the office block…
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Horror, Komödie, Musical, Slasher Horror, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the early 1960s, a motown three-girl "Greek chorus" – Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon – introduce the film, warning the audience of some impending horror ("Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors"). Orphaned Seymour Krelborn and his co-worker, Au…
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crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, giallo, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, romantic horror film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Sam Dalmas is an American writer vacationing in Rome with his English model girlfriend, Julia, while trying to overcome his writer's block. They are preparing to return to the United States in two days. While walking home one evening, Sam …
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Fantasy, Horror comedy, hood film, horror film, slasher film
In ancient times, many Leprechauns are summoned by an ancient king to protect his gold. After the king's death, the Leprechauns return to their places of origin, all except one, who becomes corrupted through the ages and obsessed with the …
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Amy prepares to leave her job at the city morgue while Seth and their boss Holden work the graveyard shift. As Amy is leaving to meet friends at a bar for her birthday, Holden receives news that a number of bodies are being delivered, the …
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film
In Rehobeth, Alabama, 1988, two girls trick an overweight boy, whom they nickname Loverboy, into dropping his pants and preparing for a kiss, only to tease and humiliate him. When one of the girls rides home alone later, Loverboy knocks he…
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Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film
Trevor Gooden survives a car accident that apparently killed his wife Kirsty Cotton when their car plunged off a bridge into the river below. Trevor manages to escape with his life, but even though police divers find both car doors open th…
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Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film
Law student Martin Bells is hired as a night watchman at a hospital morgue. A string of gruesome prostitute murders committed by a necrophiliac serial killer quickly point to him as the lead suspect in the investigation carried out by Insp…
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Christmas film, Horror comedy, comedy film, slasher film
In the town of Angel Falls, while teenager Winnie Carruthers is celebrating the Christmas season with her family, her father David is called away by his business partner, Henry Waters, the CEO of Waters Industry. With David in tow, Henry a…
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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Splatter Film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
Farmer Vincent Smith and his younger sister, Ida, live on a farm with an attached motel, named "Motel Hello". Vincent's renowned smoked meat is actually human flesh. He sets traps on nearby roads to catch victims.
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Horror, Mysterie, Teen Horror Film, Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Family man Abel Plenkov, a sufferer of dissociative identity disorder, accidentally discovers that he is the Riverton Ripper, a local, masked serial killer. After killing his pregnant wife, Sarah, and then his psychiatrist, he is shot down…
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Fake Documentary, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film
The film is shot as a documentary set in a world where the killers depicted in famous slasher films are historical figures. A journalist named Taylor Gentry and her two cameramen, Doug and Todd, document Leslie Vernon as he prepares to joi…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
At a university fraternity's New Year's Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell is pressured into a prank: she lures the awkward, virginal pledge Kenny Hampson into a bedroom under the promise of sex. Instead, he discovers a corpse stolen fro…
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