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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
Samantha Gray, a famous figure skater, is engaged to London businessman Alan Falconer. On the day of Alan and Samantha's wedding, ex-convict William Haskin begins stalking Samantha. Over the next few days, Haskin terrifies Samantha by leav…
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Horror, Splatter Film, mystery film, neo-noir, splatter film
A magician named Montag the Magnificent puts on elaborate magic shows in a dilapidated post-punk Los Angeles in which he seemingly kills, in brutal torturous fashions, beautiful young women who nevertheless appear alive and unharmed at the…
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Horror, Thriller, female buddy film, psychological thriller, rape and revenge film, thriller film
While travelling through Utah, Jack Carter picks up a hitchhiker, but kicks him out after a few minutes due to the man hitting on him. Hours later, Jack stops in a secluded area, and begins digging a grave for the woman he had bound and ga…
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Blaxploitation, Sexploitation Film, Slasher Horror, blaxploitation film, horror film
In Los Angeles, Dr. Henry Pride is an accomplished and wealthy African American medical doctor working on a cure for cirrhosis of the liver along with his colleague, Dr. Billie Worth (Rosalind Cash).
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erotic thriller, horror film, independent film, psychological thriller, slasher film, thriller film
Debbie Strand is a beautiful psychopath who escapes from the mental institution she was sent off to in the first installment of the series when a female orderly tries to sexually assault her. After a teenage girl who took Debbie in her car…
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Crime, Horror, horror film
The film starts in 1936 as a barber tells a patron the story of the infamous Sweeney Todd. In 1836, Sweeney Todd is a barber with a shop near the docks of London. One day, as the mercantile ship The Golden Hope readies to leave, Todd watch…
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Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy horror, musical film, slasher film
In 2004, Broadway diva Kylie Swanson opened the musical The Haunting of the Opera (a reference to real-life musical The Phantom of the Opera) to a packed audience. However, that same night, she was murdered backstage by an unknown assailan…
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Horror comedy, Sexploitation Film, Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
High school students Kelly and Gary are camping out at night, when an unseen assailant stabs Gary to death and impales Kelly with a hiking stick. The next day, the Bridgemont High cheerleading squad (Parker, Angela, Tammy, Shelley, and Din…
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Horror, horror film
Actresses and roommates Carol Edwards and Jane Pruitt are among a group of unemployed actors who are assembled by an anonymous producer to appear in a stage play titled The Flesh and Blood Show. The performers arrive at the Dome Theatre, a…
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pornographic film, pornographic parody film, slasher film, splatter film
While traveling through Texas (in the vicinity of where several bodies have been uncovered) five friends become lost, with their van running low on gas. When one of the group, Christine, goes out to urinate, two of the others pass the time…
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film
A high school student named Brett Bumpers (Weston) receives a mysterious package one day. It contains a bull penis totem with a note explaining that it will grant him three wishes. His first wish is for Samantha (Alexandra Holden) to go to…
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Teen Horror Film, ghost film, horror film, rape and revenge film, slasher film
In 1978, Mary Mattock has her first period, and due to menstrual psychosis, murders her parents with a hatchet. Deemed mentally unfit, Mary is placed in Kings Park Psychiatric Center, where she is raped and impregnated by a guard in 1989. …
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Slasher Horror, horror film
Seeking refuge from a torrential storm, Jay, her brother, and three friends break into what they think is an abandoned recycling plant. (A fourth friend, Karen, decides not to enter the building and leaves.) They find two dead people, who …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
The film opens as a couple named Tom and Gwen are in a national park and are attacked and taken hostage. Later Gwen is raped, while Tom is killed. Mark Till is a young CEO, a self-made sporting goods tycoon who sees human survival as a ski…
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gay pornographic film, slasher film
A woman returns home from grocery shopping, and has her throat slit by a masked serial killer known as "Bonesaw". Elsewhere, a man named Lee wakes up in Bonesaw's warehouse, and is informed via closed-circuit televisions and the building's…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
In New Orleans, a dapper and mysterious middle-aged man named John arrives at a bar searching for the "evilest" prostitute he can take home. He is directed to Shirley, who agrees to leave with him for $200. At his house, he asks her to lie…
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rape and revenge film, slasher film, splatter film
At a construction site in east Texas, six men gang rape Linda Jenkins. Five months later, a person in camouflage clothing and black motorcycle helmet kills one of the rapists with a nail gun. One month later another rapist, Mark, cuts some…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, horror film, slasher film
The film opens with a man and a woman arriving at a digging site somewhere in Africa. The man enters a nearby cave, and finds all the workers brutally murdered, while the woman discovers a monkey statue. As the pair flee the scene, the wom…
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comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, parody film, slasher film, splatter film
Fuad Ramses III returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the suspicions of Detective Loomis who was the young investigating officer during his grandfather’s notorious murder spree in 1963. When Fu…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Ian Stone is an average man. He loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice, Ian thinks he sees a dead body near the railroad tracks.
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
After a heated argument with her military police turned cop husband, Lawson (Michael Dudikoff); Russian immigrant house wife, Lara () storms off into the night convinced he's more married to his job than her. On her drive to a friend's hou…
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horror film
While at his family's lakeside lodge in northern Wisconsin, six-year-old Peter van Cleese witnesses his grandfather mysteriously become overtaken by an apparent supernatural force while listening to a reel-to-reel tape player and fishing o…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film, thriller film
Vietnam vet, amateur bodybuilder, and talented porno-photographer Kirk Smith is a crazed killer who stalks the streets of Los Angeles, strangles young women in lurid fashion, and sexually abuses their dead bodies. The film opens with Smith…
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horror film
Musician Bruno is hired to compose soundtrack for an upcoming horror film, and rents the villa where the film is set for inspiration. Director Sandra is trying to capture the fear of the dark in the film, and is keeping the film's ending c…
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