River’s Edge (1986)
River’s Edge In a small Northern California town, high schooler John has just strangled and killed his girlfriend, Jamie. John is not horrified, ashamed, or even phased by this act. Quite the opposite. He seems almost proud of it, in fact. So proud that he immediately tells his friends what he did and takes them […]
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge Some five years after Nancy seemingly sends Freddy back to the depths of hell where he belongs, the Walshes move into Nancy’s old home. But of course things are never what they seem to be on old Elm Street, and it’s not long before the Walshes teenage […]
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Gargoyles (1972)
Gargoyles Anthropologist Dr. Mercer Boley and his daughter Diana visit a small Arizona town, after being summoned there for Dr. Boley to inspect a mysterious skeleton that had been found somewhere out in the desert. When they arrive, the doctor and his daughter are greeted by an eccentric shopkeeper calling himself Uncle Willie, who leads […]
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Several teens in a small town all seem to be struggling with the same affliction: they keep having strange dreams. But these aren’t just any dreams. These dreams all take place in a sweaty boiler room surrounded by pipes and blood, and a mysteriously burnt man wearing a striped sweater […]
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Within the Rock (1996)
Within the Rock AKA: SpaceTrek A large rogue moon is hurtling towards a collision course with Earth and threatening to destroy life as we know it. To try to prevent this catastrophe, a group of miners, led by Dr. Dana Shaw, are sent to the renegade moon to derail it’s course. The Plan: to drill […]
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Mom (1991)
Mom Emily Dwyer is a kindly old widow living in Los Angeles whose children are all grown up. Looking for a little companionship, and really just someone else to talk to, Emily offers one of her spare rooms for rent. Enter Nestor, a soft-spoken blind drifter, who claims he’s just looking for a place to […]
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Cold Light of Day (1989)
Cold Light of Day Jordan March is a middle-aged civil servant living in a third-floor flat. He appears to be the quiet, mild-mannered type who goes out of his way to help his neighbors and doesn’t bother anybody. But looks can be deceiving. Because recently Jordan has taken up the practice of strangling young men […]
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Pumpkinhead (1988)
Pumpkinhead Ed Harley is a widowed father who owns a small general store out in the country. While Ed’s busy running his day to day business, he gets some new customers one evening: a group of city kids who are out in the area to stay at their friends cabin and do a little camping. […]
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Haunted Dormitory: White Paper Girl (2017)
Haunted Dormitory: White Paper Girl Yuyan has recently become haunted by disturbing nightmares. Some time ago her best friend, Susu’s affections for their mutual friend, Xue Jun, were rejected. And after learning that Yuyan and Xue Jun were dating, Susu, overcome with feelings of betrayal and rejection, committed suicide by drowning herself in a nearby […]
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The Tag-Along 2 (2017)
The Tag-Along 2 Social worker Li Shu-fen has just discovered that her teenage daughter Ya-ting is pregnant, and is none too happy about it. Not long after she takes her to a clinic to see what their options are, Ya-ting mysteriously goes missing. The only clue to her disappearance is some surveillance footage of the […]
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