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Cannibal-Movie, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, supernatural horror film
While having sex with a woman in Morningside Cemetery, a young man named Tommy is stabbed to death by the woman, who is revealed to be the local mortician, in supernatural disguise as "The Lady in Lavender". At the funeral, Tommy's friends…
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LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Teen Horror Film, crime film, crime thriller film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
Five years after Freddy Krueger's apparent defeat, the Walsh family has moved into Nancy Thompson's former home. Their teenage son, Jesse, has a nightmare about Freddy. Jesse and his friend Lisa Webber discover Nancy's diary in his room, d…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
In 1994, Heather, a bookstore employee at the Shadyside Mall, is fatally stabbed by her friend, Ryan Torres. He murders her and six other mall employees before he is shot dead by Sheriff Nick Goode. The media reports the massacre as the no…
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Slasher Horror, slasher film
Narrowly having survived Winnie-the-Pooh's and Piglet's killing spree, Christopher Robin flees from the Hundred Acre Wood and comes back to his childhood town of Ashdown to seek help; the corpses of Maria and her friends are recovered from…
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Six years after escaping Haddonfield's police station, Michael Myers and his niece Jamie Lloyd have been abducted by the Man in Black and his Druid-like cult at an unknown facility with medical staff. By Halloween Eve, a now fifteen-year-o…
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Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1973, after her friends and older brother were brutally murdered by a mysterious man in a human skin mask, Sally Hardesty escapes from the murderous Sawyer clan's farmhouse and gives a statement to the police. The people of Newt, Texas,…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
It has been twenty years since Michael Myers escaped from Smith's Grove and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield to kill his long-lost sister, Laurie Strode. After an explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital caused by Dr. Sam Loomis, …
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Alter Ego, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, thriller film
Sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller is attending therapy sessions with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott. During an appointment, Kate attempts to seduce him, but Elliott rejects her advances, stating his unwillingness to …
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, Torture Porn, crime film, horror film
After being imprisoned in the bathroom, Detective Eric Matthews breaks his foot with a toilet lid to escape. Six months later, the scene of a Jigsaw game is discovered by Officer Daniel Rigg's SWAT team. The victim, Troy, had to rip chains…
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Horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
Following the murders at Higgins Haven, police clean up the grounds and Jason Voorhees' body, believed to be dead, is taken to the morgue. The hockey masked killer spontaneously revives and escapes from the cold storage at the hospital, mu…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
On October 30, 1988, Michael Myers, who has been comatose for ten years since the explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, is being transferred from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. During the transfer, when Mic…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
Heather Langenkamp lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Chase, and their young son, Dylan. She is recognized for her role as Nancy Thompson in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. One night, she has a nightmare in whic…
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Horror, Komödie, Slasher Horror, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
thumb|The full film Florist shop owner Gravis Mushnick has two employees, Audrey Fulquard and Seymour Krelborn. Located on skid row, Mushnick's rundown shop gets little business. When Seymour fouls up a floral arrangement for dentist Dr.
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Cannibal-Movie, Dark Comedy, Horror, Slasher Horror, black comedy film, body horror film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1986, high school seniors Buzz and Rick race along a desolate stretch of Texas highway, en route to the Texas-OU football game at the Dallas Cotton Bowl, and harass a pickup truck driven by chainsaw-wielding cannibal Leatherface along t…
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Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, comedy film, horror film
Owners of Camp Pineway, John and Kathy, are relaxing by the campgrounds lakeside one night. John is murdered when an acoustic guitar is shoved into his mouth, while Kathy has a knife inserted into her skull. The killer, an individual donni…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
A couple, Talia and Erik Harson, have sex. After a shower, Erik finds the message "you're next" written on the window in Talia's blood, and her body lying dead on the ground. An intruder wearing a lamb mask kills Erik with a machete.
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Shortly after being sliced with a machete by Ginny Field, a badly injured and unmasked Jason Voorhees goes to a lakefront store for a change of clothes. While there, he murders the store owner, Harold, and his wife, Edna. Meanwhile, Chris …
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, teen film
Michelle Mancini is driving back to Pendleton University and stopped at a rundown gas station, where she fled from a clerk who tried to keep her from leaving the store, unaware the clerk was trying to save her from a killer in the backseat…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, mystery film, slasher film, time-travel film
One day after the events of Happy Death Day, college student Ryan Phan wakes up in his car on September 19. Returning to his dorm room, he walks in on his roommate Carter and Carter's girlfriend, Tree. Ryan resumes work on an experimental …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, teen film, thriller film
Stacy, a teenage babysitter, receives a wrong number phone call during one of her nighttime babysitting jobs. The calls continue with heavy breathing on the other end. Police later arrive to find Stacy and the three children she was watchi…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
Five years after killing mass murderer Jason Voorhees, a teenage Tommy Jarvis is tormented by nightmares of him, resulting in his internment in numerous psychiatric hospitals. He is eventually transferred to the Pinehurst Halfway House, ma…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy horror, horror film, parody film, romantic comedy film, slasher film, teen film
One month after Andy Barclay was taken into custody and Chucky's third demise, in Lockport, New York, Tiffany Valentine, Chucky's ex-girlfriend and accomplice, bribes police officer Bob Bailey into selling her Chucky's remains. After murde…
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Erotic Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, struggling actor Jake Scully has recently lost his role as a vampire in a low-budget horror film after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. Upon returning home to discover his girlfriend Carol cheating on him, Scully splits…
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Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, teen film
On July 4, 2005, in the fictional town of Broken Ridge, Colorado, Amber Williams, her boyfriend Colby Patterson and their friends Zoe, Roger, and PJ stage a prank at the town carnival where Roger impersonates the "Fisherman" killer. Afterw…
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