Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
Keywords: criterion collection, dictator, war crimes, trial, genocide, guatemala, war criminal, indigenous peoples, guatemalan civil war
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Keywords: rape, nun, temple, virgin, vampire, snake charmer, dangerous, worm, derbyshire, human sacrifice, paganism, archaeologist, monastery, folk horror
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Keywords: drowning, hypnosis, australia, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, mockumentary, found footage, séance, creepy, victoria, docufiction, search and rescue, spirit photography
A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
Keywords: mountain, musician, brother, iceland, grief, parenthood, birth, couple, mental illness, sheep farm, remote location, folk tale
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
It rests on 13 acres of earth over the very center of hell...!
Two girls go on a careless hunt to buy marijuana - and end up captives of four maniacal prison escapees. The girls are then subjected to obscene torture.
Keywords: rape, loss of loved one, gun, birthday, kidnapping, concert, revenge, marijuana, slasher, cult film, pond, rape and revenge, video nasty
Eli is 12 years old. She’s been 12 for over 200 years and she just moved in next door.
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
Keywords: based on novel or book, sweden, vampire, castration, bullying, child vampire, murder, bully, androgyny, new neighbor, young love
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Keywords: planet mars, alien life-form, space, astronaut, space station, intelligent, trapped in space, extraterrestrial life, alien on board, death of astronaut
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
Keywords: space marine, vampire, flying saucer, comet, alien, halley's comet
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Keywords: isolation, island, nightmare, hallucination, lighthouse, mermaid, lighthouse keeper, gay interest, storm, male masturbation, new england, madness, drunkenness, 19th century, isolated island, one location, two-hander, gay subtext
It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever..
They tampered with nature—now they must pay the price …
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
Keywords: criterion collection, skeleton, ghost ship, bats, freighter, coastal village
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Keywords: suicide, winter, massachusetts, cabin, thanksgiving, stepmother, murder, snow, divorce, dead dog, ice skating, cult leader, religious cult, christmas
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Keywords: london, england, jack the ripper, boarder, lodger, serial killer, silent film, fashion show, modeling
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
Keywords: suicide, based on novel or book, norway, nihilism, heavy metal, biography, based on true story, self mutilation, oslo, norway, black metal, semi-biographical, norwegian
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
Keywords: witch, sadistic, radio station, satanism, sadism, heavy metal, salem, massachusetts, death, witchcraft, evil, occult, campfire, coven (akelarre), screaming, wickedness
Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire.
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires that they suspect of a few mysterious murders and restore peace and calm to their town.
Keywords: california, street gang, parent child relationship, small town, vampire, boardwalk, single, murder, gay interest, amusement park, blood sucking, seaside town, pets, 1980s, brother brother relationship, vampires, beach town
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Keywords: prison, pornography, dual identity, jealousy, dream, eroticism, sexual frustration, violent husband, paranoia, headache, death row, motel, prison cell, jazz singer or musician, nightmare, gangster, car mechanic, hallucination, suspicion, bedroom, highway, identity crisis, transformation, police, insanity, murder, car crash, surrealism, los angeles, california, videotape
Your favorite pain in the neck is about to bite your funny bone!
Dracula and Renefield relocate to 70's era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may almost certainly, possibly, may be in love with Cindy too.
Keywords: new york city, coffin, vampire, romantic comedy, spoof, disco, horror comedy, dracula
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Keywords: poison, magic, grave, painting, love, crying, death, witchcraft, stockings, white horse, love potion, woman director, searching for love, woman seduces a man
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Keywords: germany, berlin, germany, child murder, detective inspector, investigation, psychopath, organized crime, black and white, criminal, child killer, pre-code, psycho, expressionism, german expressionism
How do you wake up from a nightmare if you’re not asleep?
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Keywords: factory, insomnia, post it, machinist, osha, taunting, manhole, one armed man, torment, mother's day, losing weight, old photograph, dostoevsky
In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for – revenge!
Keywords: chain, baby, exploitation, villain, bridge, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, matter of life and death, australia, benzine, biker, vigilante, cop, partner, truck, motorcycle, motorcycle gang, exploding car, cult film, adventurer, action hero, good versus evil
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
Keywords: future, chase, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, australia, rescue, survival, on the run, on the road, convoy, peak oil, dark future
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
Keywords: movie business, mockumentary, brutality, arab
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Keywords: kidnapping, nightmare, revenge, surrealism, rescue, animated scene, chainsaw, cabin in the woods, motorcycle, cult film, lumberjack, cult leader, religious cult, burning corpse, 1980s, psychedelic drug, demonic
A young girl on vacation in Egypt is given a mysterious charm, causing her archeologist father to be struck blind inside an unexplored pyramid tomb. But when the family returns home to Manhattan, a plague of supernatural evil and sudden violence follows. Can this ancient curse be stopped before it is unleashed on the streets of New York City?
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Keywords: loss of loved one, journalist, fbi, covered investigation, eye, full moon, investigation, psychopath, serial killer, crime scene, videotape, neo-noir, 1980s, hannibal lecter
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Keywords: saving the world, total destruction, the white house, planet mars, usa president, cataclysm, laser gun, ambassador, congress, flying saucer, based on comic, parody, alien, dark comedy, creature, alien invasion, horror comedy, outer space
Martin, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
Keywords: vampire, murder, flashback, cult film, syringe, older woman younger man relationship, razor blade, radio show, disturbed teenager, delusional
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Keywords: child abuse, woman martyr, suffering, revenge, torture chamber, torture, cruelty, transcendence, abuse, new french extremism, blood on body, devastating
On October 8th, 1983, the McPherson family gathered together to celebrate the 5th birthday of Michelle, the littlest member of their household. Everything was captured on VHS by Michael McPherson and his new camcorder — including the alien invasion.
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
Keywords: countryside, vacation, woods, flashback, church, police officer, apple tree, grieving, intruder, body horror, pub, loss of husband, house rental
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Keywords: sweden, paranoia, ritual, cult, magic mushroom, anthropology, paganism, hallucinogenic drug, death of family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, midsummer, cultural conflict, bad trip, folk horror, toxic relationship, midnight sun, isolated community, summer festival, traumatized woman
Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he’s writing to stay alive.
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also dangerously unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged, and at her mercy.
Keywords: nurse, based on novel or book, colorado, psychopath, car crash, author, slasher, psychological thriller, torture, obsessed fan, blizzard, bedridden, female psychopath
Belief divides them, mystery surrounds them, but fear changes everything.
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Keywords: monster, supermarket, fight, artist, fog, bible, spider, faith, prayer, survival, giant monster, anger, thunderstorm, father son relationship
The first female serial killer of the United States
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
Keywords: prostitute, rape, sexual abuse, death penalty, motel, based on true story, murder, betrayal, serial killer, poverty, prostitution, heartbreak, mental illness, woman director
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
Keywords: vampire, based on comic, duringcreditsstinger, supervillain
It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent fritters!
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
An actress longing to be a star. A woman searching for herself. Both worlds will collide… on Mulholland Drive.
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Keywords: schizophrenia, detective, identity, amnesia, loss of sense of reality, suppressed past, hitman, trauma, key, nightmare, bisexuality, hallucination, surreal, job interview, casting, surrealism, hollywood, los angeles, california, car accident, audition, doppelgänger, neo-noir
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Keywords: egypt, virgin, museum, mummy, incantation, reincarnation, resurrection, buried alive, excavation, trance, goddess, sorcerer, black and white, african, archaeologist, pre-code, priestess, eternal love, condemned man, buried tomb, ancient curse, ancient scroll
As a child, Ed was cleaning his father’s hunting rifles - a surprise birthday treat for the old man - when one of them went off, hitting and killing his mother. On seeing the bloodshed, his father flew into a murderous rage - Ed just barely escaped with his life. Now in his teens, he returns home; he doesn’t expect to find his father, still there, waiting for a chance to settle the score . . .
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned the town not to celebrate Valentine's Day again. When a group of teenagers decides to defy that order, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. This is the story before that story.
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
Keywords: 1970s, ohio, biography, high school, based on true story, sociopath, murder, male homosexuality, serial killer, divorce, social outcast
In one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life.
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
Keywords: menage a trois, necrophilia, relationship
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Don't Dare Make New Year's Resolutions... Unless You Plan To Live!
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
Keywords: new year's eve, nightclub, psychopath, murder, serial killer, slasher, maniac, 80s style
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris.
Keywords: paris, france, based on novel or book, survival horror, living dead, zombie apocalypse
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire"
Keywords: journalist, airport, vampire, airplane, undead, reporter, series of murders, female corpse, tabloid reporter
All That Stands Between Light And Darkness Is The Night Watch.
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
Keywords: witch, subway, fight, airplane, guard, moscow, russia
The good news is your date is here. The bad news is.. he's dead.
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Keywords: england, professor, black magic, animal attack, investigation, psychologist, electrocution, demon, witchcraft, skeptic, occult, hypnotism, satanic cult, séance, jumping through a window, stonehenge, folk horror, parapsychology, catatonic state, science vs superstition, foggy night, supernatural power
Do The Undead Demons Of Hell Still Arise To Terrorise The World?
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Keywords: fire, based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, professor, tarot cards, spider, eagle, supernatural, giant bird, fireplace, bird attack, witchcraft, occult, rape accusation, obscene telephone call, college professor
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben does his best to control the situation, but when the murderous zombies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic.
Keywords: criterion collection, sibling relationship, loss of loved one, pennsylvania, usa, cemetery, gun, gas station, cellar, house, barricade, zombie, black and white, trapped, cult film, bitten, farm house
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Keywords: sword, father murder, prince, iceland, viking, northern ireland, sword fight, revenge, death of father, gore, fate, king, brutality, hamlet, based on myths, legends or folklore, nordic, 10th century, viking age, muscular men, fantasy, graphic violence
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger
Keywords: germany, transylvania, loss of loved one, shapeshifting, self sacrifice, coffin, castle, vampire, ghost ship, supernatural, black and white, silent film, seashore, vampire bat, real estate agent, ghoul, psychotronic, locket, sailing ship, corpse in coffin, nosferatu, real estate, black death, expressionism, mountain country, sleepwalking, romania, rat, german expressionism, dracula
Nosferatu… he who is doomed to wander alone in darkness.
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.
Keywords: transylvania, small town, coffin, castle, vampire, bed, ship, bite, house, cowardliness, doctor, gypsies, german expressionism, dracula
He chose his weapons... He selected his victims... He picked his nose...
Joe is an ugly loser, incapable of picking up women. But when he’s taught a magical power, capable of transforming him into anyone he pleases and then back to his normal self, he decides to use it to live out his perverse fantasies. Initially content just watching them shower, Joe soon tires of mindless nudity and gears up to take his ultimate revenge against womankind: luring them to his shabby apartment, violently killing, and even eating them!
Keywords: prostitute, loser, transformation, serial killer, cannibal, police detective, homeless man, cross dresser, high school girl, magic ritual
Five persons in the house… Strangers cut off from the world by thunderstorms and landslide... Terror of the unknown draws them together.
Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.
Keywords: fight, family secrets, stalker, eccentric, old man, storm, centenarian, attraction, old dark house, cult film, madness, pre-code, pyromaniac, psychotronic, stormy night, drunkenness, locked room, landslide, refuge, mute servant
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Keywords: hypnosis, sushi restaurant, rage and hate, notebook, daughter, hostility, sin, revenge, loneliness, torture, based on manga, urination, anger, catholic, incest, neo-noir, asian origins, remade, south korea, hammer, driven to suicide
The power of evil is no longer in the hands of a child.
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.
Keywords: london, england, ambassador, devil's son, anti-christ, demon, fox hunt
It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it.
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Japanese World War II facility, when they are attacked by real zombies. Or, that's what it says on the tin, but this is the story of how it really happened.
Keywords: film in film, zombie, filmmaking, film shoot
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Keywords: jealousy, samurai, desertion, hold-up robbery, bamboo hut, murder, survival, demon, sengoku period, 14th century, japanese horror
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Keywords: christianity, servant, cemetery, suicide attempt, shotgun, world war ii, nanny, nightmare, bible, haunted house, channel islands, mansion, soldier, gardener, photosensitivity, photo album, 1940s, spiritism, jersey island
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Keywords: france, world war ii, nazi, normandy, france, village, d-day, laboratory, explosion, behind enemy lines, paratrooper, 1940s, scientific experiment, black soldier
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs out, Madeline pursues the trail laid by a killer calling himself Harry Houdini. After capturing him, Madeline brings Harry back to the police station, but is unable to get him to confess where Frances is buried. As time runs down, Harry gets inside the head of unstable, alcoholic Madeline.
Keywords: new york city, miami, florida, cemetery, ransom, kidnapping, death penalty, buried alive, pay phone, theft, police station, masochist, magician, picking a lock
What happens when make-believe believes it's real?
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
Keywords: criterion collection, spain, resistance, servant, anti hero, fairy tale, franco regime (francoism), army, princess, love, woods, cruelty, hiding, labyrinth, magic realism, mythological, dark fairy tale, children in wartime, post spanish civil war, faun
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Keywords: burglar, bunker, housebreaking, safe, money, home invasion
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night. Followed by five terrifying installments in the franchise, this is the original found-footage shocker that started it all.
Keywords: haunting, psychic, entity, demonic possession, found footage
In 2009 you demanded it. Nothing can prepare you for what's next.
Days after welcoming a newborn baby, Dan and Kristi Rey return home one day to find their house ransacked with seemingly no explanation. Their fear forces them to put in security cameras, which begin to capture strange activity around the house.
Keywords: ouija board, haunting, demonic possession, found footage, duringcreditsstinger
It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Keywords: birthday party, private lessons, basement, dark comedy, con artist, working class, psychological thriller, class differences, housekeeper, tutor, family, crime family, unemployed, wealthy family, south korea, seoul, south korea
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Keywords: pornography, confession, dance performance, texas, world war i, alligator, barn, farm, prequel, murder, serial killer, slasher, corpse, murderer, lust, religious fundamentalism, audition, mental illness, projectionist, isolated farmhouse, pandemic, 1910s, mother daughter relationship, origin story, aspiring actress
What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.