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Horror, Mysterie, Satire, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film
Television director Jake Tanner travels to a small town to film a reality television show about the town's hockey team. However, town local Jaynie is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the mu…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
A former police detective and Vietnam veteran in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux, is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug …
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Animalhorror, Horror, Sci-Fi, Slasher Horror, anthology film, horror film, monster film
Terror in Topanga During a routine traffic stop, a highway patrolman is viciously stabbed by an unseen assailant, though he survives and is taken to the hospital. The perpetrator is William Henry Glazier, a serial killer who escaped a ment…
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slasher film, splatter film
A filmmaker (Shia LaBeouf) documents the exploits of two serial killers (Scott Mescudi and Chris Palko).
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Horror, horror film
Cousins Leonard "Spike" Johnson and Hoax Arthur Wilmoth are teenagers who live with Hoax's overtly religious and domineering mother, Lucy Wilmoth. While Spike is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Hoax is an introverted nerd. Even though…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
Film student Tyler is obsessed with the horror film The Hills Run Red, considered the scariest movie ever made, with the deranged serial killer Babyface in the lead role. However, the film's director, Wilson Wyler Concannon, disappeared ye…
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horror film
Despite overwhelming evidence, Jennifer Garrick, the lawyer defending convicted child murderer Vincent Gotto, believes her client is not guilty and is hiding the identity of the real killer. A fellow attorney in Jennifer's office explains …
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Slasher Horror, ghost film, horror film, teen film
In 1957, at a high school senior prom, student Billy Nordham discovers his date, Mary Lou Maloney, making out with another boy named Buddy Cooper. Mary Lou breaks up with Billy, infuriating him when she reveals she was just using him. Shor…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror, Horror comedy, Political Thriller, Satire, Slasher Horror, Thriller, Zombiefilm, comedy horror film, satirical film
During an epidemic in Hemet that is turning bath salt users into cannibals, landlady Liz Topham-Myrtle grows more vicious toward her tenants every day. For some, she revokes privileges such as their parking spot, while others face eviction…
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slasher film
The film begins at Heathrow Airport, where a Polish immigrant named Lena Malley is working a shift as a cleaner. While there, her colleague Birdie (Ainsley Howard) helps her to clean the toilets. The two begin to talk and Lena reveals that…
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Gothic film, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, exploitation film, ghost film, gothic horror film, historical film, horror film, independent film, splatter film, supernatural horror film, war film
In 1964, two rednecks named Rufus and Lester use detour signs to lure six young tourists into their rural town of Pleasant Valley, Georgia. Upon their arrival, the six are warmly welcomed by the townsfolk, and are introduced to some of the…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
High school senior Billy Lynch lives with his protective aunt Cheryl, who has raised him since infancy after his parents died in a car accident. Billy, a gifted basketball player, is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the Universi…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror, crime film, horror film, sexploitation film, slasher film
Abby Russell works as a nurse in Manhattan but is secretly a serial killer who targets unfaithful men. She murders a man by severing his femoral artery and then throws him off of the roof of a nightclub. The following day, she attends the …
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Horror, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film
Nine-year old Ted lives with his father John in the family's run-down, failing motel in Colorado. Ted's mother has left them; it later transpires she ran off to Florida with one of the motel guests. John is basically a good-hearted man and…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
Martin Bristol, a young boy with congenital analgesia, is kidnapped by psychotic and bereaved serial killer Graham Sutter. At an abandoned slaughterhouse once operated by his family, Graham cuts Martin's cheek before butchering a captive y…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
The film opens with two young women, Britney and Janet, exiting a movie theater and heading in opposite directions. Janet heads to her car in a dark parking lot where one other truck, a blood-red Bronco, sits. As she drives off the Bronco …
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Slasher Horror, horror film
A group of young Spanish tourists travel to Venice in order to have a good time, even though their inhabitants are not in a welcoming mood for tourists. Once there, they face the prospect of struggling to stay alive.
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Julia Jenz arrives at Dr. Schifrin's house for a routine baby-sitting gig. Soon after Dr.
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, comedy horror, monster film, slasher film
Following the first Thanksgiving in 1621, a topless Pilgrim girl is chased and slain with a tomahawk wielded by an evil, demonic turkey. Centuries later, five college students (good girl Kristen, jock Johnny, ditzy Ali, redneck Billy, and …
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Action, Christmas film, Horror, Sci-Fi, slasher film
The film starts with vignettes that resemble the typical Christmas advertisements, along with a news flash regarding a robotic Santa that's been recalled because of a certain malfunction that reverts it to its original programming from the…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
A family is driving down a desert highway when they hit a deer. The dad gets out and comes back with half his face gone. The family is attacked by something.
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Lucy Harbin has a solution for adultery—an axe. When she finds her husband in bed with his lover, it's off with their heads. Unfortunately, Lucy's three-year-old daughter, Carol, witnesses the deed.
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Psychological Thriller, horror film, slasher film
After surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film, the man previously known as Jerry Blake is institutionalized in Puget Sound, Washington. He has meetings with his psychiatrist. Having gained his trust, he kills the p…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, slasher film
Kingfisher, U.S.A. is home to 40,000 ghosts — mostly victims of the former sanatorium — who live and work alongside the living, but are relocated by Mayor Tracy to an abandoned neighborhood. Perfect Pizza Base driver Sean Hammerschmidt mak…
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