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Penda's Fen

Penda's Fen 1974

Alan Clarke
I'm Nothing Pure
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.
Keywords: gay theme, gay
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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7.2
The People Under the Stairs

The People Under the Stairs 1991

Wes Craven
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
Genres
Zombies
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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70
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57
IMDb rating icon
6.4
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006

Tom Tykwer
Obsession can cause the unthinkable.
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
Language
English
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59
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56
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7.5
Personal Shopper

Personal Shopper 2016

Olivier Assayas
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
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany
Language
English
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81
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77
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6.1
Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary 1989

Mary Lambert
Sometimes dead is better.
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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51
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38
IMDb rating icon
6.5
Phantasm

Phantasm 1979

Don Coscarelli
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.
Keywords: coffin, funeral, undertaker, cult film, evil, hearse, ice cream man  , mausoleum, tall man, sentinals, sphere
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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74
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72
IMDb rating icon
6.6
Pieces

Pieces 1982

Juan Piquer Simón
It's exactly what you think it is!
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Keywords: detective, perversity, childhood trauma, stalker, puzzle, murder, serial killer, slasher, chainsaw, university, killer
Genres
Slasher
Country
Puerto Rico, Spain, United States of America
Language
English
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43
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68
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6.0
Piercing

Piercing 2018

Nicolas Pesce
Practice doesn't always make perfect.
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
France, United States of America
Language
English
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72
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63
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5.5
Pink Flamingos

Pink Flamingos 1972

John Waters
An exercise in poor taste
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
Genres
Queer
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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84
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47
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6.0
The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum 1961

Roger Corman
Betrayal cuts both ways!
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!
Keywords: inquisition, spain, castle, supernatural, insanity, buried alive, flashback, gothic horror, secret door, madness, torturer, spanish inquisition, costume horror, pendelum, iron maiden, 14th century
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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88
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78
IMDb rating icon
7.0
The Plague of the Zombies

The Plague of the Zombies 1966

John Gilling
Only The Lord Of The Dead Could Unleash Them!
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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83
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6.6
Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959

Edward D. Wood Jr.
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.
Keywords: california, stewardess, fog, tombstone, resurrection, alien, zombie, alien invasion, cult film, ghoul, grave digger, siren
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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66
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56
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3.9
Planet Terror

Planet Terror 2007

Robert Rodriguez
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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77
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7.1
Poltergeist

Poltergeist 1982

Tobe Hooper
It knows what scares you.
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
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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88
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79
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7.3
Pontypool

Pontypool 2008

Bruce McDonald
Shut up or die.
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada
Language
English
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84
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54
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6.5
Possession

Possession 1981

Andrzej Żuławski
Inhuman ecstasy fulfilled.
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
France, Germany
Language
French
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
86
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75
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7.3
Possessor Uncut

Possessor Uncut 2020

Brandon Cronenberg
No body is safe.
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
Language
English
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94
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72
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6.5
The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Poughkeepsie Tapes 2007

John Erick Dowdle
The Terror is Real
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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67
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6.0
Predator

Predator 1987

John McTiernan
Soon the hunt will begin.
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Keywords: guerrilla warfare, central and south america, predator, alien, stalking, survival, trap, creature, alien invasion, invisible, commando
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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80
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47
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7.8
Predator 2

Predator 2 1990

Stephen Hopkins
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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31
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46
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6.3
The Predator

The Predator 2018

Shane Black
The hunt has evolved.
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
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34
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48
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5.3
Predators

Predators 2010

Nimród Antal
The hunt is on.
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Keywords: hunter, predator, yakuza, hunting human beings, alien life-form, sequel, alien, alien planet, jungle, creature, soldier, warrior
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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65
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51
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6.4
Premutos

Premutos 1997

Olaf Ittenbach
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
Keywords: angel, bloodthirstiness, gore, evil, burn victim
Genres
Zombies
Country
Germany
Language
German
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5.4
Prevenge

Prevenge 2016

Alice Lowe
Killing for two.
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Keywords: pregnancy, revenge
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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91
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71
IMDb rating icon
5.9
Prey

Prey 2022

Dan Trachtenberg
They hunt to live. It lives to hunt.
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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93
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71
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7.1
Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness 1987

John Carpenter
Before man walked the earth... it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening.
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Keywords: obsession, dream, secret society, research, time travel, anti-christ, artifact, priest, satan, los angeles, california, church, demon, satanic cult
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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61
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50
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6.7
Prom Night

Prom Night 1980

Paul Lynch
If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home!
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Keywords: dancing, dance, high school, revenge, murder, prom, serial killer, slasher, killer, disco, psycho, red herring
Genres
Slasher
Country
Canada
Language
English
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48
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45
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5.3
Prometheus

Prometheus 2012

Ridley Scott
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.
Keywords: android, space, alien, creature, spin off, creation, emergency surgery, stasis, archeological dig, god complex, cave drawing, prometheus, genetic mutation, origins of life, 2090s
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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73
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64
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7.0
Promising Young Woman

Promising Young Woman 2020

Emerald Fennell
Revenge never looked so promising.
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Keywords: ohio, coffee shop, psychopath, sociopath, revenge, predator turns victim, childhood friends, rape and revenge, woman director, medical school, pediatrician, living with parents, barista, sexual predator, nice guy, prosocial psychopath, transgender character
Genres
black-comedy
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
90
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73
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7.5
The Prowler

The Prowler 1981

Joseph Zito
It will freeze your blood.
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
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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71
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45
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5.9
Psycho

Psycho 1960

Alfred Hitchcock
A new—and altogether different—screen excitement!
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.
Keywords: hotel, clerk, arizona, shower, motel, taxidermy, money, secretary, black and white, corpse, murderer, theft, mental illness, private detective, missing person, proto-slasher
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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96
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97
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8.5
Psycho Goreman

Psycho Goreman 2020

Steven Kostanski
Little girl. Big psycho.
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.
Keywords: monster, alien, suburbia
Genres
Aliens
Country
Canada
Language
English
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67
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6.2
Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead 1988

Stan Winston
For each of man's evils a special demon exists...
After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
Keywords: witch, loss of loved one, cabin, murder, pumpkin, demon, based on song, poem or rhyme, evil, storekeeper, vengeance
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
65
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47
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6.2
Pyewacket

Pyewacket 2018

Adam MacDonald
Be careful what you wish for. Someone might be listening.
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
Keywords: witch, cabin, widow, black magic, high school, woods, murder, teenage girl, attic, occult, devil worship, mother daughter relationship, evil spell
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Canada
Language
English
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83
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56
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5.8
Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2 1957

Val Guest
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
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78
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6.8
The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment 1955

Val Guest
You Can't Escape It!
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.
Keywords: london, england, transformation, alien life-form, rocket, rocket crash, escaped patient, hospital, space exploration, alien organism, westminster abbey, cactus
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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88
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6.6
Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit 1967

Roy Ward Baker
World in panic! Cities in flames!
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Keywords: london, england, spacecraft, paleontology, professor, riot, london underground, martian, scientist, cult film, based on tv series
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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87
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7.0
Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned 2002

Michael Rymer
This time there are no interviews.
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)
Genres
Vampires
Country
Australia, United States of America
Language
English
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17
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30
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5.2
Rabid

Rabid 1977

David Cronenberg
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.
Keywords: vampire, montreal, canada, motorcycle crash, murder, motorcycle, surgery, rabies, accident, vampiress (female vampire)
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada
Language
English
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79
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56
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6.3
Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil 1975

Jack Starrett
If you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell!
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Keywords: satanic cult
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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64
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53
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6.6
The Raven

The Raven 1935

Lew Landers
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
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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79
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44
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6.9
Ravenous

Ravenous 2017

Robin Aubert
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.
Keywords: canada, quebec, forest, zombie, infected, zumbis
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada
Language
French
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5.8
Raw

Raw 2016

Julia Ducournau
What are you hungry for?
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.
Keywords: vegetarian, meat, hazing, university, cannibal, lgbt, peer pressure, woman director, vegetarianism, sister sister relationship
Genres
Mind & Body
Cannibals
Country
Belgium, France, United States of America
Language
French
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
92
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81
IMDb rating icon
7.0
Razor Blade Smile

Razor Blade Smile 1998

Jake West
Part Seductress. Part Assassin. All Vampire.
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
Keywords: vampire
Genres
Vampires
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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4.7
Re-Animator

Re-Animator 1985

Stuart Gordon
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
94
Metacritic score icon
73
IMDb rating icon
7.2
Rear Window

Rear Window 1954

Alfred Hitchcock
It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Keywords: nurse, photographer, suspicion of murder, girlfriend, neighbor, salesman, whodunit, convalescence, voyeurism, missing wife, homebound, suspicious behavior, flower bed, visiting nurse
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
98
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100
IMDb rating icon
8.5
Rebecca

Rebecca 1940

Alfred Hitchcock
The shadow of this woman darkened their love.
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
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
98
Metacritic score icon
86
IMDb rating icon
8.1
Red Dragon

Red Dragon 2002

Brett Ratner
Before the Silence.
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Serial Killers
Country
Germany, United States of America, United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
69
Metacritic score icon
60
IMDb rating icon
7.2
Repossessed

Repossessed 1990

Bob Logan
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
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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31
IMDb rating icon
4.8
Repulsion

Repulsion 1965

Roman Polanski
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
95
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91
IMDb rating icon
7.6
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream 2000

Darren Aronofsky
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
78
Metacritic score icon
71
IMDb rating icon
8.3
Resident Evil

Resident Evil 2002

Paul W. S. Anderson
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
35
Metacritic score icon
33
IMDb rating icon
6.6
Resolution

Resolution 2012

Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
80
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80
IMDb rating icon
6.3
Return of the Living Dead III

Return of the Living Dead III 1993

Brian Yuzna
She's to die for.
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America, Japan
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
55
Metacritic score icon
47
IMDb rating icon
5.9
The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead 1985

Dan O'Bannon
They're Back From The Grave and Ready To Party!
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
91
Metacritic score icon
66
IMDb rating icon
7.3
Revenge

Revenge 2017

Coralie Fargeat
Why do women always have to put up a fight?
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
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
Belgium, France
Language
French
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
93
Metacritic score icon
81
IMDb rating icon
6.4
Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis 2013

Juno Mak
The Dead Will Rise
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
Genres
Vampires
Country
Hong Kong
Language
Cantonese
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
65
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53
IMDb rating icon
6.3
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky 1991

Lam Nai-Choi
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Hong Kong
Language
Cantonese
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
89
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7.0
The Ring Two

The Ring Two 2005

Hideo Nakata
Fear comes full circle.
Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
Keywords: nun, based on novel or book, bath tub, nightmare, son, sequel, remake, vision, woman reporter, mental institution, videotape, evil child
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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20
Metacritic score icon
44
IMDb rating icon
5.4
The Ring

The Ring 2002

Gore Verbinski
Before you die, you see…
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
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
71
Metacritic score icon
57
IMDb rating icon
7.1
Ringu

Ringu 1998

Hideo Nakata
One curse, one cure, one week to find it
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
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
98
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7.2
The Ritual

The Ritual 2018

David Bruckner
Your darkest dream awaits you.
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
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
74
Metacritic score icon
57
IMDb rating icon
6.3
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975

Jim Sharman
A different set of jaws.
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
Genres
Aliens
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
79
Metacritic score icon
65
IMDb rating icon
7.4
Rope

Rope 1948

Alfred Hitchcock
The guest who's dead on time.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Keywords: banquet, footlocker, strangle, rope, murder, based on play or musical, gay interest, long take, technicolor, gay, gay subtext
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
92
Metacritic score icon
73
IMDb rating icon
7.9
Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby 1968

Roman Polanski
It's not what you're expecting
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
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
96
Metacritic score icon
96
IMDb rating icon
8.0
Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin 1987

David Irving
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.
Keywords:
Genres
Slasher
Country
Israel, United States of America
Language
English
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5.3
Saint Maud

Saint Maud 2019

Rose Glass
Your Savior is Coming
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.
Keywords: a24, nurse, obsession, self-destruction, terminal illness, loneliness, chain smoking
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
92
Metacritic score icon
83
IMDb rating icon
6.7
The Satanic Rites of Dracula

The Satanic Rites of Dracula 1973

Alan Gibson
Evil begets evil on the sabbath of the undead!
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
Genres
Vampires
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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5.5
Saw

Saw 2004

James Wan
Live or die. Make your choice.
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...
Keywords: detective, shotgun, sadism, flashback, hospital, doctor, torture, sadist, cult film, survival horror, chained, bludgeoning, death match, booby trap, mind game, extreme violence
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
50
Metacritic score icon
46
IMDb rating icon
7.6
Scanners

Scanners 1981

David Cronenberg
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
Canada
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
70
Metacritic score icon
60
IMDb rating icon
6.7
Scare Me

Scare Me 2020

Josh Ruben
Want to hear a scary story?
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
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
84
Metacritic score icon
66
IMDb rating icon
5.7
Scorpio Rising

Scorpio Rising 1963

Kenneth Anger
From the underground – the original and wildest film of the Hell’s Angels cult!
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Keywords: underground film, homoerotic
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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6.8
Scream

Scream 1996

Wes Craven
Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far.
After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends become the target of a masked killer.
Keywords: riddle, killing, small town, halloween, high school, house party, serial killer, school, slasher, whodunit, killing spree, phone, tabloid, news reporter, self-referential, crime spree, halloween costume, young adult, teens
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
81
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65
IMDb rating icon
7.4
Scream

Scream 2022

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
It's always someone you know.
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.
Keywords: attempted murder, mask, hallucination, murder, serial killer, hospital, slasher, whodunit, killing spree, hometown, reboot, crime spree, murder mystery, fandom, copycat killer, murder spree, sister sister relationship, retired cop, return to hometown
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
76
Metacritic score icon
60
IMDb rating icon
6.3
Scream 2

Scream 2 1997

Wes Craven
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.
Keywords: mask, college, campus, sequel, slaughter, serial killer, slasher, university, self-referential, copycat killer
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
82
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63
IMDb rating icon
6.3
Scream 3

Scream 3 2000

Wes Craven
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
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
41
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56
IMDb rating icon
5.6
Scream 4

Scream 4 2011

Wes Craven
New decade. New rules.
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
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
60
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52
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6.2
Scream VI

Scream VI 2023

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
New York. New rules.
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Keywords: new york city, mask, trauma, halloween, college, fake identity, sequel, revenge, public murder, murder, gore, serial killer, conspiracy theory, social commentary, police corruption, slasher, whodunit, multiple stabbings, brutality, killing spree, self-referential, crime spree, aftercreditsstinger, sisterhood, movie fan, copycat killer, masked villain, stabbed to death, sister sister relationship, fbi agent, post credit scene, masked killer
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
76
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61
IMDb rating icon
6.6
Se7en

Se7en 1995

David Fincher
Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die.
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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82
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65
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8.6
Seconds

Seconds 1966

John Frankenheimer
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.
Keywords: criterion collection, plastic surgery
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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79
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71
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7.6
The Sentinel

The Sentinel 1977

Michael Winner
She's living in the gateway to hell.
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
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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45
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19
IMDb rating icon
6.3
The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988

Wes Craven
Don't Bury Me...I'm Not Dead!
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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64
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6.4
Session 9

Session 9 2001

Brad Anderson
Fear is a place.
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Keywords: schizophrenia, lunatic asylum, psychology, relation, coin, tape recorder, pot smoking, cell phone, walkie talkie, security guard, asbestos, multiple personality, tunnel, lobotomy, hazmat suit
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
66
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58
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6.4
The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal 1957

Ingmar Bergman
The story of a challenge to death
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
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
Sweden
Language
Swedish
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
93
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88
IMDb rating icon
8.1
The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim 1943

Mark Robson
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
Genres
Occult
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
94
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6.7
Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire 2000

E. Elias Merhige
An Unspeakable Horror. A Creative Genius. Captured For Eternity.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Keywords: movie business, vampire, nosferatu
Genres
Vampires
Country
Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
81
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71
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6.9
The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water 2017

Guillermo del Toro
A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times
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.
Keywords: cold war, baltimore, usa, fairy tale, government, supernatural, laboratory, orphan, bathtub, scientist, magic realism, capture, sign languages, 1960s, fishman, amphibious creature
Genres
Animals, Monsters & Kaiju
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
92
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87
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7.3
Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead 2004

Edgar Wright
A romantic comedy. With zombies.
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.
Keywords: london, england, surrey, satire, slacker, friends, parody, dark comedy, survival, zombie, cult film, survival horror, british pub, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, zombie apocalypse
Genres
Zombies
Country
France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
92
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76
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7.9
The Shining

The Shining 1980

Stanley Kubrick
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
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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82
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66
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8.4
Shivers

Shivers 1975

David Cronenberg
Being Terrified is Just the Beginning!
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
Genres
Zombies
Country
Canada
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
85
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58
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6.4
Shocker

Shocker 1989

Wes Craven
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.
Keywords: sadistic, detective, blackout, psychopath, murder, gore, capital punishment, slasher, maniac, rage, killer, evil, madman, insane
Genres
Zombies
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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26
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51
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5.5
The Shout

The Shout 1978

Jerzy Skolimowski
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
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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87
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6.6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island 2010

Martin Scorsese
Some places never let you go.
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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69
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63
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8.2
Sightseers

Sightseers 2012

Ben Wheatley
Death has a ginger beard.
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Keywords: england, hippie, jealousy, tourist, caravan, satire, dark comedy, series of murders, suicide pact, cyclist, stolen dog
Genres
Folk Horror
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
86
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69
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6.5
Signs

Signs 2002

M. Night Shyamalan
It's not like they didn't warn us.
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Keywords: symbolism, farm, faith, alien, family relationships, rural area, alien invasion, crop circle, alien attack, loss of faith, alien encounter, aliens
Genres
Aliens
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
75
Metacritic score icon
59
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6.8
The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs 1991

Jonathan Demme
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
Genres
Mind & Body
Cannibals
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
95
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86
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8.6
Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night 1984

Charles E. Sellier Jr.
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
Genres
Slasher
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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44
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31
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5.8
Single White Female

Single White Female 1992

Barbet Schroeder
Living with a roommate can be murder.
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.
Keywords: stalker, remote control, puppy, lesbian relationship, basement, photograph, surprise party, mental illness, business card, ice cream, stairway, software
Genres
Home Invasion
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
53
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63
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6.4
Sisters

Sisters 1973

Brian De Palma
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.
Keywords: criterion collection, detective, hallucination, witness, police, insanity, murder, neighbor, psychic, model, twins, evil, report
Genres
No items found.
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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85
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70
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6.9
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense 1999

M. Night Shyamalan
Not every gift is a blessing.
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
Genres
Ghosts & Hauntings
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Rotten Tomato score iconRotten Tomato score icon
86
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64
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8.2