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In 1981, seven sorority sistersKatey Rose, Vicki, Liz, Jeanie, Diane, Morgan, and Steviecelebrate their graduation at their sorority house on the far end of a sorority row. Their party is interrupted by the domineering house mother, Mrs. D…
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Horror, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, satirical film, slasher film, vampire film
The film opens and follows a young man, Martin, traveling on an overnight train from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh. Martin sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics, rapes her, slices her forearm with a razor blade, then drinks her blo…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror, horror film, puppet film, slasher film
In Texas of 1989, escaped Nazi war criminal Andre Toulon attempts to engage a bartender in a sexual relationship; he responds with disgust upon learning that she is a lesbian. Later that night, he induces his sentient puppets to attack and…
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Slasher Horror, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, religious horror, slasher film, splatter film
A woman comes home to her Miami Beach apartment and hears of a recent murder in Rogers Park. She is then murdered while taking a bath. Before leaving, the killer hacks off her leg above the knee with a machete and bags it.
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Occult Horror, Teen Horror Film, slasher film, supernatural horror film
On November 5, 1969, three high school football players try to drug and kidnap their prom night dates. Their plan works with two of the girls but the third, Mary Banner (Lillith Fields), tries to escape. The football captain chases her int…
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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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Horror, horror film, slasher film
In 1963, the town of Gatlin, Nebraska, suffers a severe drought. In a tent, a boy preacher claims that a god, whom he calls "He Who Walks Behind the Rows," has spoken to him in his dreams. He tells the other children that the adults in the…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, teen film
Teenage pranksters Brady Mannion, Sam Fuller, Jeff Mosley, and Roy, a.k.a. “PrankMonkey69”, successfully convince Mrs. Kolbein that an intruder is in her house and her daughter is in danger.
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Fantasy, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, comedy horror, slasher film
After apparently managing to kill Victor Crowley, Marybeth Dunston makes her way back into the city, bloodied and disorientated. She walks into the Jefferson Parish Police Department, where she is quickly put into custody due to her carryi…
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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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Coming Of Age, Drama, Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
When Abby and Loren McWilliams' parents John and Mary Beth are killed in an accident, they are sent to live with their uncle Charlie and aunt Fay in the small town of Glenby, Florida. Charlie and Fay own a small amusement park with an atta…
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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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At Hell Fest, a traveling horror theme park, a masked man known as "The Other" kills a woman and hangs her corpse in the maze so it blends in with the props. On Halloween night, Natalie goes to the theme park with her best friend Brooke, B…
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Christmas film, horror film
After being shot down by police, the infamous Santa Claus Killer Richard "Ricky" Caldwell is left comatose for six years, with a transparent dome affixed to his head by the doctors in order to repair his damaged skull. Wanting to contact R…
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Horror, exploitation film, prison film, slasher film, splatter film
As a boy, a reclusive and antisocial Sufferton resident, Max Seed, was disfigured in a school bus crash that killed everyone involved. In 1973, Seed began torturing and murdering people, filming some of his victims starving to death in his…
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Horror, ghost film, horror film
Prickly Captain Ashland is leading his cruise ship on his final voyage, attended by his replacement, Trevor Marshall, who brought his family along. In the middle of the night following a routine Caribbean route, their radar detects a myste…
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horror film, monster film, slasher film
During “Hell Night,” four college pledges—Marti, Jeff, Seth, and Denise—are locked inside the abandoned Garth Manor as part of their fraternity and sorority initiation. Legend says the mansion’s owner, Raymond Garth, murdered his family tw…
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Action, Slasher Horror, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
A Voodoo priest named Houngan resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and comes back to life to do his bidding. Meanwhile, a pair of reporters who are hoping to make it big come across a convenience store robbery, where a police offic…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, a young doctor named John Wesford becomes a suspect when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. John and another young doctor, Jack Pendler, are at the scene of the latest crime in the series; they know …
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, horror film, romance film, slasher film
In the intro, a mother reads the story of Hansel and Gretel to her young boy. The setting then moves to the present day, where The Man goes about his day-to-day routines and occasionally chats with others on his computer, where he looks fo…
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Horror, horror film
Russell Logan, a hotshot Los Angeles police detective who specializes in catching serial killers, is hunting the Pentagram Killer, a murderer nicknamed after his habit of carving a pentagram in his victims before killing them. Logan receiv…
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Christmas film, Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, list of holiday horror films, slasher film
In suburban New Jersey, on Christmas Eve 1947, a boy named Harry Stadling, his younger brother Phil, and their mother watch as a man dressed as Santa Claus comes down their chimney, eats the milk and cookies they provided for him, and leav…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
A young couple named Jim and Lori lose control of their motorbike while riding in a forest. With Jim hurt, Lori finds no help and returns, only to find Jim dead hanging from a tree before she is killed by a trap. Weeks later, a group of ca…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, horror film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film, teen film
The titular Smiley killer is the subject of an Internet myth. Supposedly, if a person types "I did it for the lulz" three times on a Chatroulette-style website, a killer called Smiley (who had his eyes stitched shut and his mouth carved in…
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