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An action-packed supernatural thriller that addresses questions of life, love and belief against an apocalyptic backdrop. A group of close friends gather for a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by a series of cataclysmic events and enemies foretold by biblical end-times prophecies. The survivors face a horrifying, uncertain future as they scramble for safety, but as their world collapses around them in chaos and terror will they choose real...
2) Creepshow
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"Five shocking yarns, each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics."--Container.
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When Elena is talked into attending an underground warehouse party with her friends, she finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap where the revelers are mowed, sliced, and crushed to death by a macabre series of contraptions operated by a masked psychopath.
"Genre aficionados are likely to revel in every crunched bone, gratuitous decapitation and slow-motion iron-maiden impaling."--NPR
"...feels utterly unburdened by anything but its lean, fleet-footed...
6) Wish upon
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After her father presents her with a mysterious music box, Clare Shannon is surprised to find her every wish coming true. Her joy slowly morphs into terror as she begins to realize the bloody price of each new wish.
" ... Offers a welcome glimmer of magic."--Newsday.
"It's a summer movie that delivers a lowest common denominator good time ..."--San Francisco Chronicle.
7) Abandoned
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Abandoned follows the sharply intense lives of a mother, father, and infant son as they move into a remote farmhouse, which harbors a dark, tragic history.
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A deadly new disease is ravaging the world, turning the populace into mindless zombies, and the number of infected is skyrocketing by the second. As their fellow classmates and teachers succumb to the infection around them, a small group of students at Fujimi High School are fighting for their lives after surviving the initial outbreak. It is up to Takashi Komuro to unite the group of weary survivors and try to escape the horrors that surround them...
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Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
10) Talk to me
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When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
11) Underwater
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A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
13) The ninth gate
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A rare book dealer is hired to locate the remaining copies of a demonic manuscript that can summon the devil.
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Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her 'safely' behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target, the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
16) Fear, Inc
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The story follows a company of degenerates who can be hired for a premium to bring your greatest fears to life. But when horror junkie Joe Foster's customized scare seemingly begins, he and his friends must decide if this company is there to scare them or make them pawns in their own sick game.
18) Sorority row
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When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.
"...the presence of Carrie Fisher as a shotgun-toting housemother who taunts the killer by shouting...
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As if everyday high school life wasn't stressful enough, Michael Harris learns that he is the last heir of Abraham Van Helsing. Michael must track down the legengary Sceptor of God, a powerful biblical artifact once possessed by his great-great grandfather. But Michael is not the only one search for the Scepter, Simon Magus-the arch-angel that created it is also hot on its trail.
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Deadly drifter: A wild cross-country trip with a political revolutionary, this satire of American radicalism moves from psychedelic 60s Greenwich Village to New Age 80s California.
Blood tide: A man and his wife go to a primitive Greek island to find the wife's missing sister. There they discover that human sacrifices are being offered to some mysterious sea monster and that the sister is to be the next victim.