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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
In 1967, a young boy is watching a news report on TV of then-governor of California Ronald Reagan railing against the environmentalist movement. The boy's father, a local logger named Dylan Riggs, faces resistance from a group of tree-hugg…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, slasher film
The film opens with a priest presiding over a funeral for Annabelle Fitzwilliam Carslow attended by four relatives in mourning. After the procession, her daughter-in-law Stephanie asks the priest if she can stay behind to say a few words t…
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Monster Film, Slasher Horror, horror film, monster film
A group of friends – siblings Oscar and Karen, Beth and her marine infantry boyfriend Randy, and Randy's sister Emily and her ex-Navy SEAL boyfriend Niles – are traveling through the backwoods town of Fort Collins, Louisiana. While stoppin…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
The only survivor of a weekend getaway is interrogated by a police detective, who believes she is responsible for the murders of six friends. The events of the weekend are told through flashbacks. College friends Kyle, Tyler, Ashley, Jenna…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
A young Luther Watts has a fascination with carnival geeks. When he loses his teeth while at a geek show and has them replaced with a pair of sharp metallic dentures, he acquires a liking for human blood. He begins murdering people by biti…
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown of Ovid, Colorado to attend her niece Olympia's high school graduation, but finds herself confronted by her past. Before their graduation is about to occur, a young couple goes missing and within a few …
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
One night at March College, a young couple is making out in a parked vehicle. An unseen assailant slices the vehicle's roof open and murders them both. Meanwhile, the nearby Lanier College is preparing for its final exam date.
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Horror, Thriller, comedy horror
An impatient uncle attempts to calm his rambunctious nephew by telling him three horror stories. The first story tells about a fisherman's son who is sold as a slave to two witches that are trying to resurrect their sister. The second stor…
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Five surgeons, all former medical school cohorts, go on a wilderness weekend retreat deep in the wilderness of Northern Ontario. Among them are a stalwart neurologist, Harry; Mitzi, a general surgeon; Martin, who has left his surgical care…
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Horror, slasher film
A series of murders of rich young women throughout the area of Globe, Arizona, bear the distinctive signature of a serial killer. Clues lead Detective Charles Mendoza to Paul White, a sound expert installing hi-fi systems in wealthy people…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Wealthy psychiatrist Dr. George Parson is bludgeoned and drowned in his pool, an incident his daughter Christie believes was murder, but which her mother Eve insists was an accident. Several weeks later, Josh, an ex-employee at a local mor…
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Horror, horror film, mockumentary, slasher film
Paranormal investigators Jackie, Adam, Sarah, Dave, Jim, Jen, and Earl head to the abandoned South Chicago Community Hospital where mass murderer Richard Speck killed eight student nurses from July 13–14, 1966. Hoping to document any paran…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
Twin teenage girls, Sam and Colleen, enter the mysterious Dark Ride. Sam, who is tough and competitive, gets annoyed at Colleen because she is anxious and scared. The killer kidnaps Sam and slices her stomach, then brutally kills Colleen.
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Christmas film, Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
A man in a Santa suit and a woman meet in an alleyway to have sex in a car, and are stabbed to death by a man wearing a grinning translucent mask. During a party, another man dressed like Santa Claus has a spear thrown through his head, an…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
A parked motorist is strangled by escaped mental patient Jay Jones, a PCP addict who was institutionalized after bludgeoning his parents. Jay carjacks his victim, and runs down an old woman while driving through Los Angeles. On the outskir…
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Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
Halloween Night – Journalist Miss Quinn comes to the Statesville Mental Hospital to interview Warden Kane. The warden introduces Ms. Quinn to five of the asylum’s most notorious serial killer inmates.
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Recently-divorced Los Angeles advice columnist Julie Caffret begins attending group therapy sessions led by the widowed Dr. Pieter Fales, a German psychologist. The sessions are held in Pieter's spacious house, which he shares with his tee…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
The film opens as Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge), a young student, leaves a lively party at a club in New Jersey one night. She hits a bad bump driving home drunk on a dark road. Later, hearing noises in the garage, she finds a bleeding…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
In 1990, Mister Mason arrived home from work, armed himself with a shotgun, and proceeded to kill his wife and two of his children. Mister Mason turned the gun on himself, leaving his mentally ill son, Harry Mason, alive. When the police a…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
A magazine editor named Dorine, due to budget cuts, is forced to work from home, living with her eccentric and infirm mother. One night, Dorine is called to help fix the computer of a co-worker, Gary Michaels, who is electrocuted while try…
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Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, slasher film
A group of twelve people on a camping tour of the Rio Grande decide to spend the night in an old ghost town, and an unseen killer begins to dispatch them one by one. On the first night at the stroke of midnight, three of the group are kill…
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Horror, slasher film, thriller film
The film opens in a garage, with an unconscious teenage girl having her head wrapped in duct tape and her legs chained to the back of two cars. A man and woman walk to the cars and start to drive off, dragging the victim along the ground. …
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horror film, monster film, slasher film
In 1948, a wildfire ravages the North Point section of the Keen Wild national forest in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, decimating a rural community of gypsies who live in seclusion in a cave. In 1980, older couple Frank and Mary Sylvester a…
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