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Horror, Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Two lost newlyweds named Barbra and Greg stumble onto the site of the ritualistic murder of a woman by Joe Vickers, a corrupt police officer and serial killer who is also a Devil worshiper. Vickers murders both of them. The next day, three…
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horror film, slasher film
The story begins with a woman named Ashley driving her car up the hills to the house of her boyfriend Ray, a former professional hockey player who was recently cut from his team. Ashley arrives at the house but Ray is nowhere to be found, …
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
As a three-year-old, the daughter of Jack the Ripper is witness to the brutal murder of her mother by her father. Fifteen years later, she is a troubled young girl who is seemingly possessed by the spirit of her late father. While in a psy…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
On October 22, 1981, college students Terry, Nancy, and Gloria embark for a music festival in rural Washington. While driving on a forested road, the women smoke marijuana in the car, while a news radio broadcaster announces the recent dis…
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horror film, mystery film, slasher film
An unknown assailant is killing the tenants of an exclusive, high-rise apartment building in New York City. The police suspect the doorman is involved and place an undercover police officer in the building to gather evidence on him.
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
At Weston Hills Sanitarium in rural Ohio, psychiatric patient Dickie Cavanaugh commits suicide by hanging himself. Cavanaugh's sister gives permission to two gravediggers to bury the body. While the two men are digging the hole for Cavanau…
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Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, horror film
Ashley, a spoiled brat, gets a new present and discards her old teddy bear. That night, the teddy bear pulls her into a closet and rips her eyes out, Ashley's mother discovers her corpse and screams in horror at the sight. Jack, a failed t…
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horror film, slasher film
At Hamilton High School's 1957 prom, students Lisa and Brad leave the festivities to have sex in Brad's car. Before the two can undress, they are distracted by a noise, revealed to be someone putting candles on the hood of the car. After s…
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Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film
When Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance in a game of poker, little does he realize that the game is far from over. Max Taylor chooses to ignore Chance's ominous warning and moves into the house within days. After moving in…
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horror film, slasher film
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, cons…
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Giallo, Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Diablo, the leader of the Demons motorcycle gang, is about to be executed for the murder of a young woman Sarah. Confronting the victim's sister Gail Jackson, he proclaims his innocence and vows to return before being killed via the electr…
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ghost film, horror film
In 1972 on the Old Highway, the religious R.V. family encounters The Driver stranded on the side of the road next to a yellow truck, completely out of gas. Once in the R.V., the mother heavily flirts with The Driver and asks Scotty, her ph…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
Three sisters, Brielle, Kelli, and Sam, are on a college break. They discover that their grandfather has just died and he has left them a motel in his will. Their father, John, tries to persuade them not to go, but the sisters ignore him a…
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Action, Horror comedy, Monster Film, Slasher Horror, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film
The film begins with a monstrous cyclops assaulting a village in Africa, where a monster hunter is preparing to intervene, and a flashback to tell the story that leads up to this is told. As a child, Jack Brooks witnesses his sister, mothe…
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horror film, slasher film
A man named Chad is snowboarding down a mountain, when suddenly a skier dressed in black attacks him. He attempts to get away, but is decapitated by a piece of wire strung up between two trees. Meanwhile, college student Kimberly is going …
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Horror, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film
Madison Penrose, a wealthy and selfish high school student, is preparing for her Sweet 16. Madison decides to have her party at the Roller Dome, a once popular roller skating rink with a violent history. Despite her father's objections tow…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, comedy horror, slasher film
Lester Bacon is an old farmer living with his simple-minded, obese son Buddy. Lester's old hog farming ways have been replaced with modern factory-type slaughterhouses. Buddy kills two teenagers, Kevin Matthews and Michelle Mitchell, at Lo…
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horror film
The film begins with a group of nurses at a psychiatric hospital daring a fellow nurse, Nicole (Jessica Von), to go into the hospital's basement for a game of Bloody Mary. Playing what the others call "The Mirror Game", she releases the ve…
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slasher film
Edward, a scientist doing research in an attempt to read and record people's thoughts, has a relationship with his artist girlfriend Britt. The extensive time he puts into his research leaves him little time for his relationship with Britt…
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Christmas film, comedy horror, fantasy film, slasher film
Kelvin Cheatum is trying to save his father's studio from bankruptcy by producing worthy heirs to his father's slate of classic low-budget cult films. Cheatum Studio's current productions include Hamburger Time Traveler Detective and the n…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
Kay is an abstract visual artist plagued by disturbing dreams since childhood. The intensity and frequency of the dreams have fluctuated throughout her life, as has their content; some of her dreams are simply glimpses of desolate location…
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Cannibal-Movie, Splatter Film, slasher film
The film opens in Tasmania in the 1800s. Alexander Pearce, a convict known as "the Pieman", has escaped into the wilderness, and he is being hunted by policemen with dogs. He is faced by a policeman who attempts to shoot Pearce, but his gu…
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Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, slasher film
Dennis Skinner is a handsome, likeable young man who is secretly a skid row slasher-style serial killer preying on sex workers. To avoid detection he moves from town to town, eventually ending up in his current location, where he rents a r…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
In a small Southern town, couple Ted and Angie are brutally murdered while having sex down by the riverfront, and their bodies are thrown into the water. Several days later, Bob and Kathy, both young college students home for summer vacati…
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