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Skinner

Skinner 1993

Ivan Nagy
Madness is Only Skin Deep
A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he mutilated who is now looking for revenge.
Keywords: psychopath, revenge, serial killer, voyeur
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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5.1
Sleepaway Camp

Sleepaway Camp 1983

Robert Hiltzik
…you won't be coming home!
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Keywords: shyness, summer camp, murder, gore, serial killer, slasher, pedophile, mental illness, water skiing
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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81
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58
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6.2
Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleeping with the Enemy 1991

Joseph Ruben
Self-Defense is not murder
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Keywords: violent husband, feminism, strong woman, domestic abuse, stalking, domestic violence, fake death, marital rape
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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22
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48
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6.2
Sleepwalkers

Sleepwalkers 1992

Mick Garris
The first Stephen King story written expressly for the scream.
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
Keywords: killing, based on novel or book, cop-killer, black humor, incest, morphing, mother son relationship, cats
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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29
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38
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5.3
Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow 1999

Tim Burton
Heads Will Roll
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.
Keywords: small town, steampunk, 19th century, headless horseman
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Germany, United States of America
Language
English
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70
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65
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7.3
Slender Man

Slender Man 2018

Sylvain White
Can you see him?
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Keywords: small town, massachusetts, forest, supernatural, urban legend, fear, slender man
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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8
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30
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3.2
Slither

Slither 2006

James Gunn
Horror has a new face.
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Keywords: small town, mutant, transformation, meteor, meat, alien, parasite, slug, bodily dismemberment, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger
Genres
Aliens
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
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87
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69
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6.5
The Slumber Party Massacre

The Slumber Party Massacre 1982

Amy Holden Jones
Close your eyes for a second... and sleep forever.
An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests begin dropping off one by one.
Keywords: sleepover, cannabis, murder, neighbor, serial killer, slumber party, slasher, drill, woman director, murder spree
Genres
Home Invasion
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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43
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51
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5.6
Smile

Smile 2022

Parker Finn
Once you see it, it’s too late.
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
Keywords: suicide, post traumatic stress disorder, detective, paranoia, therapist, trauma, curse, hospital, doctor, mental illness, evil, psychotic, demonic, based on short film
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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79
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68
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6.5
Snowtown

Snowtown 2011

Justin Kurzel
Australia's most infamous crime story
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Keywords: vandalism, suspicion, brother, family relationships, serial killer, gang, rural area, pot smoking, torture, corpse, sadist, drugs, true crime, south australia, neighborhood, barbarism
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
Australia
Language
English
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85
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66
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6.6
Society

Society 1989

Brian Yuzna
It's all about fitting in
Bill is worried that he is 'different' to his sister and parents. They mix with other 'upper class' people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach.
Keywords: orgy, secret society, human body, transformation, cult, high school, surrealism, psychiatrist
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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62
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50
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6.5
Someone's Watching Me!

Someone's Watching Me! 1978

John Carpenter
All those windows… and he’s behind one of them!
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
Keywords: stalker, stalking
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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86
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6.6
Son of Godzilla

Son of Godzilla 1967

Jun Fukuda
A great duel against a new monster by a parent-child combination!
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.
Keywords: criterion collection, monster, cave, island, weather manipulation, giant spider, sequel, giant monster, kaiju, praying mantis, native, godzilla
Genres
Animals, Monsters & Kaiju
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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60
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5.2
Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil 2022

Christian Tafdrup
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Keywords: italy, denmark, countryside, husband wife relationship, netherlands, restaurant, babysitter, manipulation, friendship, family vacation
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Denmark, Netherlands
Language
Danish
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85
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78
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6.6
Species

Species 1995

Roger Donaldson
Our time is up.
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Keywords: telepathy, dna, paranoia, transformation, genetics, instinct, femme fatale, alien, on the run, decapitation, sexual attraction, los angeles, california, creature, scientist, sexual desire, cocoon, genetic engineering, interspecies romance, alien dna
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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42
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49
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5.8
The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase 1946

Robert Siodmak
Conflicts that freeze your emotions! Suspense that takes your breath!
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Keywords: staircase, gothic, spiral staircase, proto-slasher
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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86
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7.3
Splice

Splice 2009

Vincenzo Natali
Science's newest miracle...is a mistake.
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Keywords: experiment, dna, genetics, gene manipulation, genetic engineering, genetically modified organism
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Canada, France, United States of America
Language
English
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75
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66
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5.8
Split

Split 2016

M. Night Shyamalan
Kevin has 23 distinct personalities. The 24th is about to be unleashed.
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
Keywords: child abuse, kidnapping, sequel, gore, stalking, teenage girl, super power, mental illness, multiple personality, traumatic childhood, dissociative identity disorder
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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78
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62
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7.3
Spontaneous

Spontaneous 2020

Brian Duffield
An explosive love story.
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.
Keywords: black humor, high school, based on young adult novel
Genres
Disaster
black-comedy
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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96
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78
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6.5
Stage Fright

Stage Fright 1987

Michele Soavi
The theatre of death.
A troupe of struggling stage actors rehearsing for a small-town production of a play panic after finding out they are locked in the theater with a killer wearing an owl mask.
Keywords: panic, theatre group, psychopath, murder, slasher, vomiting, owl
Genres
Slasher
Country
Italy
Language
English
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90
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6.6
Stake Land

Stake Land 2010

Jim Mickle
The Most Dangerous Thing Is To Be Alive.
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Keywords: vampire, vampire hunter (slayer), protégé, dreary, post-apocalyptic
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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75
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66
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6.4
Starry Eyes

Starry Eyes 2014

Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
She would kill to be famous.
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Keywords: elite, fame, hollywood, initiation
Genres
Occult
Country
Belgium, United States of America
Language
English
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74
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49
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6.0
Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers 1997

Paul Verhoeven
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
Keywords: moon, based on novel or book, asteroid, spacecraft, space marine, intelligence, buenos aires, argentina, space battle, dystopia, army, giant insect, satire, creature, soldier, drill instructor, military, bugs
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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70
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52
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7.3
Stigmata

Stigmata 1999

Rupert Wainwright
The messenger must be silenced.
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
Keywords: vatican, miracle, faith, clergyman, atheist
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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22
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28
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6.2
Stir of Echoes

Stir of Echoes 1999

David Koepp
In every mind there is a door that should never be opened.
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Keywords: cemetery, obsession, paranoia, grave, haunted house, hypnosis, tools, clairvoyance, murder, disappearance, psychic, ghost, neighborhood, repressed memory, hearing voices
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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67
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67
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6.9
The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape 1972

Peter Sasdy
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
Keywords: supernatural
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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6.4
The Strangers

The Strangers 2008

Bryan Bertino
Lock the door. Pretend you're safe.
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
Keywords: mask, murder, slasher, psychological thriller, home invasion, very little dialogue
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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48
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47
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6.1
Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs 1971

Sam Peckinpah
Sometimes a man is forced to defend his honor.
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
Keywords: england, rape, based on novel or book, country life, primal fear, cornwall, england, revenge, rural area, english countryside, cult film
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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82
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73
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7.4
Subspecies

Subspecies 1991

Ted Nicolaou
The night has fangs.
Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.
Keywords: transylvania, gypsy, coffin, vampire, half-brother, artifact, caretaker, decapitation, cult film, folklore, haunted castle, stake
Genres
Vampires
Country
Romania, United States of America
Language
English
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83
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5.7
Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam 1999

Spike Lee
No one is safe from son of sam.
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Keywords: italian american, 1970s, distrust, intolerance, punk rock, serial killer, summer, bigotry, bronx, new york city
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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67
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6.7
Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard 1950

Billy Wilder
A Hollywood Story.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Keywords: new year's eve, screenwriter, jealousy, butler, loss of sense of reality, diva, delusion, film noir, hollywood, los angeles, california, black and white, madness, aging actor, has been, silent film star, grandiose behavior, kept man, movie studio
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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98
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94
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8.4
Sunshine

Sunshine 2007

Danny Boyle
If the sun dies, so do we.
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Keywords: saving the world, bomb, sun, space marine, space suit, sunlight, solar energy, space travel, space mission, earth, expiration, 2050s
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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76
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64
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7.2
Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead 2009

George A. Romero
Death isn't what it used to be.
On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
Keywords: island, national guard, zombie, delaware
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
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30
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43
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4.8
Suspiria

Suspiria 1977

Dario Argento
The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 80.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Keywords: germany, witch, boarding school, ballet, whodunit, young woman, gothic, cult film, evil, coven (akelarre), ballet school
Genres
Occult
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
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94
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79
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7.3
Suspiria

Suspiria 2018

Luca Guadagnino
Give your soul to the dance.
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
Keywords: berlin, germany, 1970s, dance performance, telepathy, telekinesis, remake, ballet, paranormal phenomena, demon, choreographer, witchcraft, occult, living dead, ritual sacrifice, choreography, ballet school, spiritualism, dance company, psychotherapist, mysterious events, good versus evil
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Italy, United States of America
Language
English
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65
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64
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6.7
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007

Tim Burton
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Keywords: confession, asylum, razor, villain, widow, musical, beggar, blood splatter, based on play or musical, child in peril, cane, lust, cannibal, person on fire, incest, infatuation, shaving, social injustice, barbershop, oven, beadle, uxoricide, seaman, mother figure, folktale
Genres
Cannibals
Slasher
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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86
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83
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7.3
Sweetheart

Sweetheart 2020

J.D. Dillard
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.
Keywords: ocean, island, shipwreck, survival, creature, sea monster, deserted island
Genres
Animals, Monsters & Kaiju
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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63
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51
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5.5
Teeth

Teeth 2007

Mitchell Lichtenstein
Every rose has its thorns.
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
Keywords: sexual assault
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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80
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57
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5.4
Terrifier 2

Terrifier 2 2022

Damien Leone
Who's laughing now?
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.
Keywords: clown, halloween, resurrection, sequel, gore, slasher, killer, killer clown, duringcreditsstinger, evil clown, halloween night, graphic violence, megaslasher
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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85
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59
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6.1
Terror Train

Terror Train 1980

Roger Spottiswoode
The boys and girls of Sigma Phi. Some will live. Some will die.
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Keywords: mask, college, surprise, stalker, revenge, murder, train, killer, psycho
Genres
Slasher
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
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44
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42
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5.8
Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla 1975

Ishirō Honda
Mechagodzilla has been resurrected!
A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.
Keywords: criterion collection, kaiju
Genres
Animals, Monsters & Kaiju
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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43
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6.1
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989

Shinya Tsukamoto
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Keywords: fetishism, transformation, dystopia, gore, japanese cyberpunk
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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82
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6.9
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

Tobe Hooper
Who will survive and what will be left of them?
When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
Keywords: sadistic, gas station, texas, van, midnight movie, leatherface, hitchhiker, slaughterhouse, chainsaw, cannibal, family, polaroid, cult film, grave robber, brutal violence
Genres
Folk Horror
Cannibals
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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88
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87
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7.4
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986

Tobe Hooper
After a decade of silence... The buzzz is back!
Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top. This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey Vanita "Stretch" Brock, who teams up with Texas lawman Lefty Enright to battle the psychopath and his family deep within their lair, a macabre abandoned amusement park.
Keywords: vietnam veteran, radio station, texas, yuppie, sequel, revenge, murder, dark comedy, gore, decapitation, slasher, chainsaw, car accident, masked villain, chili, cannibalism, human skin mask, female dj
Genres
Slasher
Cannibals
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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50
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42
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5.6
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003

Marcus Nispel
Based on a true story...
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Keywords: suicide, sheriff, trauma, telephone, psychopath, stalker, friends, remake, murder, gore, hitchhiker, slaughterhouse, chainsaw, torture, cannibal, killer, family, graphic violence, human skin mask
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
37
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38
IMDb rating icon
6.2
Them

Them 2006

David Moreau, Xavier Palud
They're already inside.
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Keywords: forest, romania, underground tunnel
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
France, Romania
Language
French
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
63
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60
IMDb rating icon
6.4
Thesis

Thesis 1996

Alejandro Amenábar
My name is Ángela. They're going to kill me.
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
Keywords: madrid, spain, kidnapping, research, snuff, psychopath, friends, film in film, murder, serial killer, thesis, psycho, video tape, college student
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
Spain
Language
Spanish
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
83
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IMDb rating icon
7.4
They Live

They Live 1988

John Carpenter
You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.
Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
Keywords: dystopia, alien, villainess, conspiracy, social commentary, los angeles, california, alien invasion, sunglasses, cult film, glasses, brawl, subliminal message
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
86
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55
IMDb rating icon
7.2
The Thing

The Thing 1982

John Carpenter
Man is The Warmest Place to Hide.
A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey.
Keywords: based on novel or book, spacecraft, space marine, paranoia, mutation, snowstorm, research station, alien life-form, remake, alien, creature, antarctica, shape shifting alien, alien infection, cult film, sled dogs, alien monster, alien parasites, isolated place
Genres
Aliens
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
84
Metacritic score icon
57
IMDb rating icon
8.2
Thir13en Ghosts

Thir13en Ghosts 2001

Steve Beck
Misery loves company.
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Keywords: hunter, nanny, collector, house, supernatural, hell, uncle, revenge, lawyer, inheritance, psychic, devil, trapped, machine, evil, ghost, glass
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
18
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30
IMDb rating icon
5.6
Thirst

Thirst 2009

Park Chan-wook
Lusting after sinful pleasures.
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Keywords: vampire, priest, self mutilation, childhood friends, blood transfusion, confessional, catholic guilt, lesion, jumping off a building
Genres
Vampires
Country
South Korea
Language
Korean
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
81
Metacritic score icon
73
IMDb rating icon
7.1
To the Devil a Daughter

To the Devil a Daughter 1976

Peter Sykes
...and suddenly the screams of a baby born in Hell!
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Keywords: satanism, ritual, satanist, pact with the devil, supernatural, cult, writer, demon, occult
Genres
Occult
Country
Germany, United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
45
Metacritic score icon
39
IMDb rating icon
5.8
Tony

Tony 2009

Gerard Johnson
Keeping a neighbourhood watch.
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Keywords: prostitute, isolation, police, murder, loneliness, vhs, strangulation, madness, recluse, inarticulate, sexual inadequacy, bullied, ineptitude, council estate, british man, unemployment benefits, victimization, unemployed
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
76
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IMDb rating icon
6.2
Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap 1979

David Schmoeller
Every year young people disappear.
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the mysterious Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of supernatural mannequins.
Keywords: mask, museum, mannequin, cult, psychopath, friends, murder, slasher, demon, telekinetic, wax
Genres
Folk Horror
Hicksploitation
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
40
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IMDb rating icon
6.1
Tragedy Girls

Tragedy Girls 2017

Tyler MacIntyre
Friends who slay together, stay together
McKayla and Sadie, two death-obsessed teenage girls, use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
Keywords: friendship, high school, murder, serial killer, internet, twitter
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
84
Metacritic score icon
58
IMDb rating icon
6.0
Train to Busan

Train to Busan 2016

Yeon Sang-ho
Life-or-death survival begins.
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Keywords: zombie, train, survival horror, busan, south korea, south korea
Genres
Zombies
Country
South Korea
Language
Korean
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
94
Metacritic score icon
73
IMDb rating icon
7.6
The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration 2016

Michael O'Shea
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
Keywords:
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
86
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65
IMDb rating icon
6.1
Triangle of Sadness

Triangle of Sadness 2022

Ruben Östlund
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
Keywords: satire, stranded, dark comedy, survival, cruise ship, class differences, gender roles, sinking ship, food rationing, power struggle, luxury yacht, open ended, social media influencer, social climber
Genres
Disaster
Country
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
72
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63
IMDb rating icon
7.3
Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat 2007

Michael Dougherty
Poison, Drowning, Claw, Or Knife. So Many Ways To Take A Life.
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
Keywords: monster, grave, halloween, anthology, woods, undead, serial killer, paranormal phenomena, werewolf, corpse, school bus
Genres
Anthology
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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81
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IMDb rating icon
6.7
Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day 2001

Claire Denis
The hunger to love.
Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken.
Keywords: rape, eroticism, vampire, cannibal, male masturbation, vampirism, woman director, new french extremism
Genres
Mind & Body
Cannibals
Country
France, Germany, Japan
Language
French
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
54
Metacritic score icon
40
IMDb rating icon
6.0
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil 2010

Eli Craig
Evil just messed with the wrong hillbillies.
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Keywords: cabin, west virginia, chainsaw, hillbilly, killer
Genres
Folk Horror
Hicksploitation
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
85
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65
IMDb rating icon
7.5
Twilight

Twilight 2008

Catherine Hardwicke
When you can live forever, what do you live for?
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
Keywords: soulmates, based on novel or book, vampire, forbidden love, immortality, high school, teen movie, trust, desire, washington state, duringcreditsstinger, woman director, interspecies romance, based on young adult novel, supernatural power, good versus evil, high school romance, vampire human love
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
49
Metacritic score icon
56
IMDb rating icon
5.3
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 2011

Bill Condon
Forever is just the beginning
The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world.
Keywords: based on novel or book, vampire, hybrid, teen movie, werewolf, supernatural creature, dead, duringcreditsstinger, based on young adult novel
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
25
Metacritic score icon
45
IMDb rating icon
4.9
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 2012

Bill Condon
The epic finale that will live forever
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Keywords: based on novel or book, vampire, romance, villainess, teen movie, werewolf, supernatural creature, super strength, imprinting, cross breed, bloodsucker, grudge, chief of police, wolf pack, misinformation, seeing the future, based on young adult novel
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
49
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52
IMDb rating icon
5.5
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010

David Slade
It all begins... with a choice.
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
Keywords: based on novel or book, vampire, graduation, bite, immortality, teen movie, werewolf, based on young adult novel, supernatural power, vampire human love
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
47
Metacritic score icon
58
IMDb rating icon
5.0
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

The Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009

Chris Weitz
The Next Chapter Begins.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
Keywords: moon, based on novel or book, vampire, teen movie, werewolf, interspecies romance, based on young adult novel, supernatural power, good versus evil, vampire human love
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
29
Metacritic score icon
44
IMDb rating icon
4.7
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

David Lynch
Meet Laura Palmer... In a town where nothing is as it seems... And everyone has something to hide.
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Keywords: detective, sexual abuse, small town, drug addiction, orgy, surreal, investigation, supernatural, murder, rural area, prostitution, cult film, psychotronic, disturbed teenager
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
France, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
64
Metacritic score icon
45
IMDb rating icon
7.2
Twins of Evil

Twins of Evil 1971

John Hough
Which is the Virgin? Which is the Vampire?
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
Keywords: twin sister, virgin, witch burning, castle, satanism, vampire, puritan, bonfire, witch hunt, sister sister relationship
Genres
Vampires
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
79
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62
IMDb rating icon
6.6
Twixt

Twixt 2011

Francis Ford Coppola
Between the living and the dead, evil is waiting.
A declining writer arrives in a small town where he gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl.
Keywords: sheriff, vampire, orphanage, writer, ghost, murder mystery
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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29
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40
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4.7
Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou 1929

Luis Buñuel
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Keywords: dream, cloud, razor, ant, surreal, donkey, surrealism, priest, midnight movie, death, cult film, psychotronic, severed hand, piano, short film
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
France
Language
French
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7.6
Under the Shadow

Under the Shadow 2016

Babak Anvari
Fear will find you.
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
Keywords: mother, daughter, teheran (tehran), iran, supernatural, djinn, family relationships, bombing, evil, 1980s, supernatural power, iran-iraq war
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
Iran, Jordan, Qatar, United Kingdom
Language
Persian
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
99
Metacritic score icon
83
IMDb rating icon
6.8
Under the Skin

Under the Skin 2013

Jonathan Glazer
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Keywords: scotland, based on novel or book, edinburgh, scotland, alien, prowler, body snatchers, very little dialogue
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
84
Metacritic score icon
80
IMDb rating icon
6.3
Underworld

Underworld 2003

Len Wiseman
An immortal battle for supremacy.
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Keywords: budapest, hungary, subway, love of one's life, vampire, bite, descendant, hostility, hybrid, rivalry, shootout, werewolf, gothic, dark fantasy, lycanthrope, urban gothic, supernatural power
Genres
Vampires
Country
Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
31
Metacritic score icon
42
IMDb rating icon
7.0
The Uninvited

The Uninvited 1944

Lewis Allen
From the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"!
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Keywords: criterion collection, sibling relationship, sunrise, based on novel or book, cat, cliff, haunted house, family secrets, cornwall, england, lesbian relationship, apparition, trance, crying, doctor, spirit, dog, old dark house, housekeeper, gothic, madness, vengeful ghost, old house, ghost, séance, brother sister relationship, night, grandfather granddaughter relationship, suspense
Genres
No items found.
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
95
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IMDb rating icon
7.2
Unsane

Unsane 2018

Steven Soderbergh
Is she or isn't she?
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Keywords: stalker, mental institution, fear, mother daughter relationship, shot on iphone
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
80
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63
IMDb rating icon
6.4
Us

Us 2019

Jordan Peele
Watch yourself
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Keywords: mask, boardwalk, murder, psychological thriller, fear, family vacation, home invasion, amusement park, doppelgänger, santa cruz, california, 1980s, duality
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
93
Metacritic score icon
81
IMDb rating icon
6.8
Valentine

Valentine 2001

Jamie Blanks
Remember that kid everyone ignored on Valentine’s Day? He remembers you.
Four friends start to receive morbid Valentine cards and realise they are being stalked by someone they had spurned 13 years ago. A masked killer is on the loose and Valentine's day is soon approaching.
Keywords: mobbing, success, violence against women, revenge, serial killer, slasher
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
11
Metacritic score icon
18
IMDb rating icon
4.9
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970

Jaromil Jireš
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
Keywords: corruption, sexuality, based on novel or book, allegory, magic, vampire, innocence, supernatural, priest, religion, demon, cult film, occult, sexual awakening, vampirism, dream like experience, czech new wave, polecat, bohemians
Genres
Vampires
Country
Czechoslovakia
Language
Czech
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
80
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IMDb rating icon
7.1
Vamp

Vamp 1986

Richard Wenk
Ever have one of those nights?
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
Keywords: vampire, strip club, chase, murder, fraternity, vixen
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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40
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IMDb rating icon
5.9
The Vampire Doll

The Vampire Doll 1970

Michio Yamamoto
The curse of an undead beauty who has risen, weeping in her search for fresh blood...
A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even seeing someone that looks just like his dead love. Later he sees Yuko outside the house and follows her to a grave with her name. Cut to some days later where the young mans sister is worried since she hasnt heard from him in some time. She persuades her boyfriend to take her to the house, but is told that he already left. For the sake of proper plot development she doesnt believe Yukos mother and fakes the car breaking down so that they can investigate what really happened.
Keywords: vampire
Genres
Vampires
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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6.6
The Vampire Lovers

The Vampire Lovers 1970

Roy Ward Baker
An erotic nightmare of tormented lusts that throb in headless, undead bodies!
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
Keywords: exploitation, vampire, daughter, revenge
Genres
Vampires
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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76
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63
IMDb rating icon
6.4
Vampire in Brooklyn

Vampire in Brooklyn 1995

Wes Craven
A comic tale of horror and seduction.
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — Rita meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean playboy determined to romance her. When Rita begins suffering from crippling hallucinations, she calls upon Dr. Zeko, an occultist who suspects a vampire is on the loose.
Keywords: vampire, brooklyn, new york city
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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12
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27
IMDb rating icon
4.6
Vampire’s Kiss

Vampire’s Kiss 1988

Robert Bierman
Seduction. Romance. Murder. The things one does for love.
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
Keywords: nightclub, therapist, vampire, hallucination, bite, insanity, delusion, murder, dark comedy, secretary, psychosis, drinking blood
Genres
Vampires
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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63
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30
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6.1
Vampyr

Vampyr 1932

Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Strange Adventure of Allan Gray
Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.
Keywords: criterion collection, based on novel or book, dream, castle, vampire, anemia, black and white, gothic horror, inn, traveler
Genres
Vampires
Country
Germany, France
Language
German
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98
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7.4
The Vanishing

The Vanishing 1988

George Sluizer
Who Has Seen This Woman?
A man embarks on an increasingly obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears without a trace during a romantic summer getaway to France.
Keywords: france, loss of loved one, kidnapping, roadhouse, vacation, disappearance, missing person
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
France, Germany, Netherlands
Language
Dutch
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
98
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IMDb rating icon
7.7
The Vast of Night

The Vast of Night 2019

Andrew Patterson
There’s something in the sky.
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Keywords: small town, new mexico, basketball, ufo, tape recorder, radio show, phone call, 1950s, telephone switchboard operator, audio static
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
93
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84
IMDb rating icon
6.7
Versus

Versus 2000

Ryûhei Kitamura
Witness a battle no one has ever seen.
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
Keywords: japan, samurai, yakuza, forest, escaped convict, zombie, back from the dead, chanbara, abduction
Genres
Zombies
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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75
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6.3
Videodrome

Videodrome 1983

David Cronenberg
First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Keywords: criterion, suicide, paranoia, black market, hallucination, radio presenter, toronto, canada, virtual reality, dystopia, insanity, sadomasochism, surrealism, cyberpunk, brainwashing, cult film, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, snuff film, pirate broadcast
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Canada
Language
English
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80
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60
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7.2
Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned 1960

Wolf Rilla
What Demonic Force Lurks Behind Those Eyes?
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Keywords: suicide, england, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, youngster, pregnancy, parish, village, car crash, mind reading, black and white, explosion, cult film, military, evil child, forced suicide
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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93
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77
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7.3
The Village

The Village 2004

M. Night Shyamalan
There is no turning back
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Keywords: pennsylvania, usa, twist, forest, rural area, blindness, courtship, mentally handicapped man, aura, village council, bosque, plot twist
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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43
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44
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6.6
The Vindicator

The Vindicator 1986

Jean-Claude Lord
They thought they took his life...now he wants theirs. Invincible. Unstoppable. Indestructible. He's out on the street and out of control!
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
Keywords: robot, explosion, drugs, machine
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
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4.9
The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring 1960

Ingmar Bergman
Ravished innocence... brings terrible revenge!
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
Keywords: rape, child murder, peasant, brother, revenge, pregnant woman, medieval, rape and revenge, 13th century, spring (water)
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Sweden
Language
Swedish
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88
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8.1
Viy

Viy 1967

Georgiy Kropachyov, Kostiantyn Yershov
Spirit of Evil
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Keywords: witch, folk horror
Genres
Occult
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
88
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7.2
The Wailing

The Wailing 2016

Na Hong-jin
Never be tempted.
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Keywords: small town, exorcism, investigation, daughter, police, possession, murder, priest, curse, rural area, shaman, zombie, demon, shrine, ghost, gluttony, folk horror, acupuncture, divination
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
South Korea, United States of America
Language
Korean
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99
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81
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7.4
Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark 1967

Terence Young
A blind woman plays a deadly game of survival.
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Keywords: photographer, heroin, police, murder, neighbor, search, doll, blindness, blind woman
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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96
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81
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7.7
Wake Wood

Wake Wood 2011

David Keating
Beware Those You Love the Most
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Keywords: loss of loved one, small town, veterinarian, ritual, reincarnation, supernatural, murder, grief, ireland, pagan, folk horror
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom
Language
English
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80
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5.5
Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright 1971

Ted Kotcheff
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
After a bad gamble, a schoolteacher is stuck in an outback town whose eccentric inhabitants are only too eager to turn him into one of their own.
Keywords: gambling, based on novel or book, beer, australia, teacher, mining town, outback, hunt, drunkenness, australian outback, christmas, kangaroo, coin toss, independent film
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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97
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85
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7.6
War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds 2005

Steven Spielberg
They're already here.
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Keywords: post traumatic stress disorder, new jersey, based on novel or book, underground, airplane, dystopia, daughter, remake, alien, survival, apocalypse, creature, alien invasion, human subjugation
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
75
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73
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6.5
The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds 1953

Byron Haskin
Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Keywords: laser gun, mountain village, dystopia, street riots, space invasion, radioactivity, martian, religion, los angeles, california, alien invasion, technicolor, scientist hero, martian invasion, mass evacuation, meteor space ship, wedge maneuver, impenetrable force field, martian aircraft, three-lensed eye
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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78
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7.0
Warlock

Warlock 1989

Steve Miner
Satan also has one son.
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?
Keywords: witch, cemetery, magic, time travel, aging, curse, warlock, witch hunt
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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53
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44
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6.2