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Mysterie, Slasher Horror, drama film, horror film, neo-noir
Mia Baran is a devout Catholic schoolteacher at a boys' school outside Pittsburgh where her husband, Guy, is schoolmaster. Guy is abusive to the weak Mia, a former nun who suffers from cardiomyopathy; his mistress, Nicole Horner, a fellow …
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Horror, horror film
Fifteen-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms. After chatting with another apparent student who goes …
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
On the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day, a group of college friends, consisting of Harvey Edison, Nikki Brashares, Rob Ferris, Skip St. John, Nan Youngblood, Chaz Vyshinski, Kit Graham, and Arch Cummings, gather to celebrate spring b…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, horror film
Dr. Alan Feinstone is a Los Angeles dentist who, despite his professional success, quietly suffers from extreme obsessive–compulsive disorder and is preoccupied with cleanliness and perfection. On the day of his wedding anniversary, Alan d…
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LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film
One year after the events of the second film, Maria Nacastro is heading to camp. Suddenly, she is chased into an alleyway and run over by a garbage truck, driven by Angela Baker, who throws Maria's body into the back and compacts it. Angel…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film
Sweet Tooth Written and directed by Dave Parker. Having just finished trick-or-treating, Mikey comes home. His parents have left him in the care of babysitter Lizzy, who has invited her boyfriend Kyle over to watch a horror movie.
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Horror, Mysterie, exploitation film, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film, slasher film
A man dressed in black drives through Los Angeles, listening to the exhortations of a radio preacher. Near a car dealership, the man has a flashback of a car accident that occurred at the site, which killed a young woman. The man arrives a…
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Horror comedy, Psychological Thriller, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, teen film
In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired woman appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenag…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, slasher film, teen film
A group of prep school students consisting of Graham, Mercedes, Lewis, Randall, Regina, Tom, Dodger and Owen play a game called Cry Wolf, where someone is marked as a "wolf" and the group tries to figure out who it is. After meeting his ne…
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giallo, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In Minneapolis, chiropractic nurse Georgia Jackson stays after-hours at her practice during a rainstorm to meet a new patient. Upon arrival, Georgia thinks she recognizes the patient, but the unseen patient brutally decapitates her with an…
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Vampirfilm, horror film, vampire film
Richard Dees is a cynical tabloid reporter whose motto is "Never believe what you publish and never publish what you believe." Merton Morrison, his editor-in-chief at the tabloid Inside View, assigns him to investigate a series of murders …
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
A young bride is murdered on her wedding day by the man she rejected for her current fiancé, Len Gamble, a detective. Several years later on Long Island, a young bride-to-be named Marie is stabbed to death in a movie theater while her frie…
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Horror, horror film
In the 1980s, Samantha Hughes, a cash-strapped college student, responds to an ad for a babysitting job for a Mr. Ulman. Her best friend Megan gives her a ride to the Ulmans' remote mansion.
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Three young American tourists, Alex, his sister Bea, and her friend Amy, are backpacking in Brazil. After a bus crash leaves all the passengers stranded, they are joined by two British men, Finn and Liam, and an Australian woman, Pru, who …
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Dark Comedy, Horror comedy, comedy horror, parody film, slasher film
Lizzie Borden High's class of 1972 is getting ready to go through the motions at their 10-year reunion when a deranged alumnus named Walter Baylor, who was driven insane by a horrible, sadistic, senior-year prank, escapes from the mental i…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Samantha Sherwood, a beautiful actress and muse for director Jonathan Stryker, feigns mental illness and has herself committed to an asylum to prepare for the titular role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. Once inside, s…
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LGBTQ-related film, horror film, slasher film
In 1993, four years following the events of Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, Allison Kramer (Carrie Chambers) is plagued by gruesome nightmares that revisit a campsite. Unable to recall the actual events due to a forced mental block,…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, ghost film, slasher film
Mike Reilly is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system. The victim, Polidori, exhibits bleeding from his eyes and other orifices and, by the frozen look on his face, appears to have seen some…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, slasher film
Martin plays catch with his older brother Pete, who has learning difficulties and has been sent to live in a special boarding school in London, by their mother. Martin is the only remaining figure in Pete's family life; their father died y…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
The film begins with a couple (Sarah and James) held captive and tortured in a dark dungeon. After Sarah frees herself from her binding, James tells her to run and he gets killed. Sarah runs away from a disfigured man in a black trench coa…
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Mysterie, slasher film, thriller film
In rural Australia, expatriate American truck driver Patrick Quid pulls into a motel for the night. There, a man in a green van checks in with a female hitchhiker, whom Quid had passed by because of trucking company policy. In their motel …
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Action, Bad Cop, Christmas film, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film, prison film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
After being impaled by a pipe and plunged into a body of water, the now-undead "Maniac Cop" Matthew Cordell acquires a junked police cruiser and restarts his killing spree through New York City. Finding a convenience store in the middle of…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
A supermarket closes and the workers begin restocking the shelves for the next day. Craig – the ex-boyfriend of cashier Jennifer – appears and the two quarrel. Worried about her friend, her coworker, Linda, witnesses the debacle and presse…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, slasher film, thriller film
Warren Stacey is a young office equipment repairman who kills women after they reject his sexual advances. His attempts at flirting are always seen as creepy by women, resulting in frequent rejections. One night, Stacey attends a showing o…
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