Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.
In every neighborhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid.
Poindexter "Fool" Williams, his brother Leroy, and their family face eviction from their rented home in South Central Los Angeles. Their landlords are a greedy, uncaring couple who live in a mansion that's as huge as it is eerie. Leroy has a plan to burglarize the mansion, but what the boys find inside is not what they expected.
Keywords: child abuse, shotgun, escape, serial killer, landlord, wrongful imprisonment, cannibal, incest, mental illness, break in, guard dog, bad landlord, disfigurement, tarot, greedy developer, neighborhood, landlord tenant relationship, poor kid, murderous pair, trapped in a house, class warfare, in the walls, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, sexual fetish
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Keywords: paris, france, prostitute, based on novel or book, small town, obsession, orgy, bad smell, lone wolf, lavender, nose, child prodigy, fish market, daughter, supernatural, genius, murder, death, perfume, 18th century
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, United States of America
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Keywords: paris, france, medium, poltergeist, apparition, spirit, text message, shopping, dress shop, dead brother, personal shopper, contacting spirits, clothes shopping
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
Keywords: based on novel or book, parent child relationship, coffin, pet, villain, funeral, head injury, resurrection, woods, grief, zombie, new neighbor, pet cemetery, dead cat, death of patient, loss of pet, dead lover, ghost, grave robbing, indian burial ground, woman director, pets, supernatural horror
If this one doesn’t scare you, you’re already dead.
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.
Keywords: prostitute, hotel, based on novel or book, hallucination, escort service, psychological thriller, married man
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Keywords: trailer park, jealousy, pop culture, drug dealer, heroin, fetishism, spanner, excrements , disgust, dog dirt, van, gay interest, adult humor, execution, cult film, zoophilia, drag, filth, hitchhike, egg
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
Keywords: voodoo, cornwall, england, human sacrifice, zombie, cult film, witchcraft
Unspeakable horrors from outer space paralyze the living and resurrect the dead!
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
Humanity's last hope… rests on a high power machine gun!
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
Keywords: loss of loved one, military base, gas, grindhouse, zombie
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh to help before it's too late.
Keywords: parent child relationship, medium, ghostbuster, poltergeist, haunted house, dying and death, family relationships, suburbia, paranormal phenomena, power of goodness, haunted
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
Keywords: disc jockey, radio station, winter, survival, zombie, fear, ontario, canada, radio broadcast, talk radio, zombie apocalypse, trapped in building
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Keywords: germany, berlin wall, adultery, monster, obsession, hysteria, investigation, marriage crisis, police, murder, gore, domestic abuse, teacher, serial killer, domestic violence, love affair, motorcycle, miscarriage, extramarital affair, mental illness, private detective, doppelgänger, video nasty, breakdown
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Keywords: gun, hallucination, dystopia, mind control, murder, gore, sanity, brutality, machine, tech noir, corporation, assassination attempt, brain implant, body horror, mind parasite, graphic violence
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
Keywords: stockholm syndrome, pedophilia, mask, suffering, snuff, sadism, mysterious man, serial killer, mockumentary, brainwashing, torture, sadist, slave, masked man, macabre, found footage, torment, mysterious killer
Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He’s in town with a few days to kill.
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
Keywords: predator, war on drugs, extraterrestrial technology, alien, los angeles, california, creature, alien invasion, invisible
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
Keywords: predator, sequel, alien, creature, alien invasion, military
Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His Goal is to rule the world, the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout human history and is then recognized as some kind of monster. In the present time, a young man living in Germany begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks - of the lives he lived in the past as Premutos' son! He remembers how he appeared in the middle age, when mankind suffered from pestilence and during WWII in Russia. On his (earthly) father's birthday, a case containing some strange old book and a yellow potion is found in their garden, which was hidden by some peasant in 1943, who experimented with witchery in order to re-animate his deceased wife. Whe the young man gets in touch with the book and some of the yellow potion, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos and to disturb the little birthday party
When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.
Keywords: hunter, alien life-form, prequel, alien, native american, bear, decapitation, dog, severed foot, bear attack, comanche, human vs alien, indigenous peoples, severed arm, dog hero, great plains
The Search for Our Beginning Could Lead to Our End.
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Keywords: mask, murder, serial killer, slasher, maniac, pitchfork
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Keywords: scotland yard, monster, alien life-form, meteor, rocket, sequel, mind control, black and white, scientist, moon colony, research laboratory, invasion of earth, member of parliament, british government, toxic atmosphere, colonial life form, synthetic food, company town, government infiltration, toxic substance, food manufacturing plant, radar scanner, inspection tour
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?
Keywords: based on novel or book, queen, rock star, secret society, vampire, light, bite, spontaneous combustion, fatal attraction, vampiress (female vampire)
You can't trust your mother, your best friend, the neighbor next door… one minute they're perfectly normal, the next… RABID!
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing shocker
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Keywords: plastic surgery, revenge, serial killer, mad doctor, torture chamber, car accident, gothic romance, poe fanatic, mad surgeon, psychotic obsessions, obsessed with a woman
In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them.
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
A 19th century woman, who has become one of the undead, acts as a hired killer in modern times. When she starts knocking off part of the elite businessmen, "The Illuminati", who secretly are taking over business and the government, she becomes the target of a hired Scotland Yard detective. Of course, the head of "The Illuminati" is the vampire who first gave her immortality
Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders... and another on his desk.
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Keywords: experiment, overdose, black humor, insanity, reanimation, laboratory, mad scientist, decapitation, severed head, hospital, zombie, intestines, death, cult film, black cat, based on short story, dead cat, surgical operation, reanimated corpse, medical student, medical school
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Keywords: monte carlo, based on novel or book, age difference, obsession, bride, cornwall, england, love, film noir, rural area, devotion, housekeeper, death, estate, costume party, second wife
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Keywords: fbi, psychopath, murder, serial killer, cannibal
The Devil's back. But he's never dealt with an exorcist like this!
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess her! With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller plans to air the exorcism live on TV.
Keywords: rock 'n' roll, exorcism, live-reportage, spoof, devil
The nightmare world of a virgin's dreams becomes the screen's shocking reality!
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Keywords: criterion collection, london, england, schizophrenia, post traumatic stress disorder, hallucination, rent, loneliness, black and white, psychosis
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Keywords: drug addiction, drug dealer, junkie, heroin, hallucination, speed, diet, unsociability, drug use, illegal prostitution, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of sanity, gay father, gay
A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.
Keywords: amnesia, undercover, mutant, biological weapon, hologram, dystopia, quarantine, flashback, conspiracy, zombie, special forces, based on video game
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Keywords: fire, cave, cabin, friendship, drugs, handcuffed, native american reservation, recovering addict, addict, video tape, resolution, resolution collection, the endless
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
Keywords: military base, addiction, motorcycle crash, sequel, undead, gang, zombie, cannibal, body mutilation, self mutilation, carnage, cannibalism
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
Keywords: cemetery, crematorium, punk rock, undead, zombie, paramedic, attic, warehouse, night of the living dead, walking dead, horror comedy, louisville, louisville, ky
Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.
Keywords: rape, drowning, nightmare, vigilante, blood splatter, revenge, car crash, gore, man hunt, hallucinogenic drug, bullet wound, exploding head, desert, hunting, eye gouging, isolated house, cauterizing a wound, peyote, rape and revenge, headshot, hunters, stabbed in the back
When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.
Keywords: vampire, black magic, hong kong, ghost, jiangshi, taoist priest
Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally 'through' the feared 'gang of four', and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen.
Keywords: martial arts, based on manga, held captive, death, animal abuse, knocked out, megalomaniac
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
Keywords: journalist, drowning, island, horse, investigation, telephone, supernatural, remake, paranormal, curse, cabin in the woods, ghost, well, videotape, mysterious death
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Keywords: urban legend, videotape, japanese horror
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Keywords: robbery, based on novel or book, sweden, monster, nightmare, cabin, scandinavia, forest, hiking, friends, murder, grief, guilt, survival horror, pagan, norse mythology, guilty conscience, folk horror, lost in the woods
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rockv'.
Keywords: transvestism, transylvania, sexual identity, rock 'n' roll, transvestite, time warp, group sex, castle, seduction, musical, sex addiction, based on play or musical, cross dressing, cult film, homoeroticism, psychotronic, lgbt interest
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Keywords: criterion collection, based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, satanism, conspiracy, demonic possession, satanic ritual, pregnant wife, coven (akelarre), satanic cult, manhattan, new york city, woman in jeopardy, neighbor neighbor relationship
A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.
Keywords: scotland yard, vampire, satanist, gothic horror, van helsing
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...
10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Keywords: criterion collection, telepathy, telekinesis, mind control, psychic power, murder, mind reading, paranormal phenomena, scientist, exploding head, drugs
During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in the dark of a Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller.
Keywords: cocaine, pizza delivery, cabin, writer, power outage, drugs, storytelling, french writer
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far.
Away at college, Sidney thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her... until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel.
Someone has taken their love of trilogies one step too far.
While Sidney lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the latest movie based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings.
Keywords: movie business, isolation, mask, ex-cop, serial killer, reporter, slasher, hollywood, self-referential, phone call, former-reporter, hollywood, usa, annual phone call
Sidney returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour, which brings about the return of Ghost Face and puts her family, friends, and the whole town in danger.
Keywords: sheriff, jealousy, mask, victim, knife, self-inflicted injury, sociopath, murder, rescue, house party, serial killer, author, hospital, slasher, home invasion, self-referential, cousin cousin relationship, phone call, millennials, publicist, fame-seeking, new generation, return to hometown, masked killer, remakes, movie trivia
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Keywords: self-fulfilling prophecy, detective, s.w.a.t., drug dealer, evisceration, rage and hate, pride and vanity, immoderateness, insomnia, investigation, pension, police, serial killer, religion, whodunit, neo-noir
Who are SECONDS? The answer is almost too terrifying for words. From the bold, bizarre best-seller. The story of a man who buys for himself a totally new life. A man who lives the age-old dream — If only I could live my life all over again.
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its own price.
A New York City model with a troubled past relocates to an apartment in a brownstone building where the only other tenant is a withdrawn blind priest. After experiencing strange occurrences, she begins to realize her building houses a sinister evil.
Keywords: italy, based on novel or book, secret society, hell, priest, hellgate, lawyer, church, model, demon, police detective, crucifix, brooklyn, new york city, occult, murder investigation
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Keywords: poison, based on novel or book, cemetery, boston, massachusetts, beheading, revolution, nightmare, hallucination, voodoo, spider, haiti, amazon rainforest, superstition, buried alive, surrealism, jungle, chained, anthropologist, graveyard, zombification, rite, death certificate, airliner
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Keywords: chess, countryside, witch, blacksmith, allegory, symbolism, artist, last judgment, crusade, juggler, witch burning, sense of life, dying and death, grim reaper, black and white, demon, middle ages, black death, playing chess, death personified, death incarnate, 14th century
Weird pagan rites in secret dens of exotic mystery! Beauty enslaved to a creed of Evil! Loveliness at bay behind a mask of Terror... See the strangest thrills on record!
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Keywords: new york city, paranoia, satanism, film noir, murder, betrayal, punishment, noose, missing person, satanic cult, greenwich village, devil worship
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
He came as the caretaker, but this hotel had its own guardians - who'd been there a long time
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Keywords: hotel, based on novel or book, isolation, hotelier, colorado, delusion, loneliness, caretaker, vision, psychological thriller, writer, alcoholic, cult film, snowed in, haunted hotel, writers-block
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Keywords: panic, attack, sexual attraction, zombie, organ transplant, parasite, infestation, sex fiend
On October 2, at 6:45 AM mass murderer Horace Pinker was put to death. Now, he's really mad.
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Keywords: composer, small town, cricket, super power, based on short story, devon
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Keywords: based on novel or book, island, hurricane, investigation, psychiatric hospital, u.s. marshal, conspiracy theory, psychological thriller, whodunit, neo-noir, 1950s
To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Keywords: based on novel or book, fbi, kidnapping, psychopath, murder, serial killer, psychological thriller, brutality, cannibal, moth, virginia
You've made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas.
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Keywords: holiday, santa claus, murder, gore, serial killer, decapitation, orphan, killer santa claus, christmas
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
They were joined at birth by the devil and the evil never left them!
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Keywords: philadelphia, pennsylvania, child abuse, loss of loved one, sense of guilt, confidence, psychology, dying and death, marriage crisis, afterlife, single, paranormal phenomena, psychological thriller, cowardliness, single mother, school play, ghost, child, spiritism, ghost child