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Modern-Day Fantasy, Monster Film, horror film, monster film, slasher film, teen film
Trish Jenner and her brother Darry are traveling home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Florida countryside, an old truck violently tailgates them but eventually passes. During their drive, they discuss the urban leg…
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Gothic film, Horror, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Thriller, detective film, fantasy film, ghost film, gothic horror film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, supernatural film
In the fall of 1799, pragmatic New York City constable Ichabod Crane is sent to the upstate Dutch village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of brutal decapitations of its residents, which included landowner Peter Van Garrett, his so…
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Horror, Horror comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Zombiefilm, comedy drama, comedy horror, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film, werewolf film, zombie film
In an underground laboratory, engineers Gary Sitterson and Steve Hadley discuss preparations for a mysterious ritual. The Stockholm operation recently failed, leaving only their facility and one in Japan to undertake the process, with the …
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Horror, horror film
In February 2005, James Hoyt and Kristen McKay arrive at James' isolated childhood summer home following a friend's wedding. James is reeling after an emotional Kristen rejected his marriage proposal at the reception. James calls his frien…
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Action, Erotic Film, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, chase film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
Three friends, Arlene, Shanna and radio DJ "Jungle" Julia Lucai, drive down Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on their way to celebrate Julia's birthday. In a bar, Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance …
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, crime film, gore film, horror film
Adam Stanheight, a photographer, awakens in a dilapidated bathtub with his ankle chained to a pipe. Across the room is oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon, and between them is the corpse of a suicide victim holding a revolver and a microcassett…
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Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1980, FBI agent Will Graham visits forensic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter to discuss a case. Graham has been working with Lecter on a psychological profile of a serial killer; Graham is certain the killer is a cannibal, based on the fact…
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Slasher Horror, slasher film, splatter film
After being beheaded by Sienna Shaw, Art the Clown's decapitated body reanimates inside the Terrifier haunted house, strangles and decapitates a police officer responding to the incident before making its way to the asylum where survivor V…
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Horror comedy, Teen Horror Film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, teen film
On the 15th anniversary week of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall are murdered by Ghostface. Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro the following day to promote her self-help book with her p…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
On Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a mob gathers outside local superstore RightMart in preparation for a Black Friday sale. Jessica Wright, whose father Thomas owns the store, lets her boyfriend Bobby and friends Gaby, Evan, Scuba…
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Mysterie, Teen Horror Film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Two Windsor College seniors, Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens, attend a sneak preview of Stab, a film based on the events of the Woodsboro massacre. Briefly exiting the theater to use the restroom, Phil is killed by an individual donning a G…
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Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
In 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, camp counselors Barry and Claudette sneak away from other counselors for a late night rendezvous in a supply shed. An unseen assailant attacks and murders them. On Friday, June 13, 1980, camp counselor and coo…
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Horror, body horror film, horror film
In Morocco, a hedonist named Frank Cotton buys a puzzle box said to open the door to a realm of otherworldly pleasure. At home in his bare attic, Frank solves the puzzle, and hooked chains emerge, tearing him apart. Later, Frank's brother …
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Will Graham, a former FBI criminal profiler, retired following a mental breakdown after being attacked by serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, whom he captured. His former FBI superior Jack Crawford visits him at his Florida home to seek he…
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Exploitation Film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, rape and revenge film, splatter film, thriller film
Short story writer Jennifer Hills lives in Manhattan and rents an isolated cottage in Kent near the Housatonic River in the Litchfield County countryside to write her first novel. The arrival of the attractive and independent young woman a…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film
On May 21, 1962, off the Labrador Coast, passengers aboard the Italian ocean liner MS Antonia Graza dance as a lounge singer named Francesca performs the song "Senza fine". A little girl named Katie Harwood sits alone until the ship's capt…
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Erotic Thriller, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dan Gallagher is a publishing attorney from Manhattan. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are away visiting Beth's family, he has an affair with Alex Forrest, an associate editor for a client who begins to cling to him. Dan relucta…
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Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, Teen Horror Film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Cotton Weary, now a successful talk show host, is contacted by Ghostface, who demands to know the whereabouts of Sidney Prescott. When Cotton refuses to cooperate, Ghostface murders him and his girlfriend Christine. Detective Mark Kincaid …
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, slasher film
Kansas Highway Patrol officer Jane Archer witnesses her husband, Mike, being murdered by a serial killer dubbed by the media as the "Satanic Slasher" due to the occult symbols left behind at the crime scenes. She becomes obsessed with trac…
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Fake Documentary, Horror, crime film, found footage film, horror film
The film is presented as a documentary, featuring interviews with police and FBI officials. Police officers raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they discover over 800 videotapes created by serial killer Edward Carver, which prese…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Splatter Film, slasher film, splatter film
In a morgue, Art the Clown resurrects and brutally murders the coroner examining his body before going to the laundromat to clean his blood-soaked suit where he encounters the Little Pale Girl—a mysterious entity in similar clown attire. O…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, slasher film, supernatural film, teen film, thriller film
High school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing 747-200B, with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris from John F. Kennedy Airport. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in …
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Crime, Drama, Gothic film, Musical, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film, musical drama, musical film, romance film, romantic horror film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by young sailor Anthony Hope. A flashback reveals that sixteen years prior, Benjamin was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted a…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film, psychological horror film
In 2007, David Moran witnesses a man struck in a hit-and-run incident on a New York City street. As he rushes to assist the victim, he is flooded with memories of a traumatic summer in 1958, when, as a teenager, he met Meg Loughlin—his fir…
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