Dead of Night (1945)
A man invites several people out to his country farmhouse for the weekend. One of the guests, Walter Craig, has a strange feeling as he drives up to the house. It’s almost as if he’s been here before, but he’s sure he hasn’t. Not only that, but the other guest that have been invited also seem oddly familiar, though he’s never met them before in person…. Only in his dreams.
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The Quacky Slasher (2018)
While still just a boy, Michael Quackers suffered a traumatizing event when he seemingly witnessed the death of his father at the beaks (feathers?) of the local pond ducks. The experience was so upsetting to Michael that it rendered him mute and he found himself in a mental institution. Now, some twenty years later, grown […]
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Stunt Rock (1978)
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to L.A. to do some work on a television show. While he’s there he meets up with his cousin, Curtis Hyde, a member of the band Sorcery. While Grant is there he lends his expertise to the band, helps one of his coworkers (Monique van de Ven), and gets injured, attracting the attention of newspaper reporter, Margaret Gerard, who is writing a story about people who get a little too into their work. She’s nice enough to pick him up once he breaks out of the hospital.
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The Yellow Wallpaper (2012)
Jane has been diagnosed with an undisclosed illness. To help her, her husband takes her to a secluded country home, sure that with enough rest she will begin to recover faster. While there, Jane is primarily confined to an upstairs room. It’s a rather unremarkable room, with the only thing of note being the fading […]
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The Sid Saga (1985-2003)
The Sid Saga is the personal story of Sid Laverents, an amateur filmmaker who didn’t pick up the hobby until he was 50 years old. He started out by filming everything from his travels, to garden snails, and then experimented with manipulating the sound and picture with in-camera editing techniques.
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Slugs (1988)
The toxic history of a small, rural town comes back to literally bite the current inhabitants when a swarm of large, black slugs mutate due to an improperly secured toxic waste site and develop a ravenous craving for human flesh. Several people die before anyone realizes what’s going on, but all of the city officials […]
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Mystics in Bali (1981)
Cathy, a young American author, has traveled to Bali to do research on the Leák, a cult of black magic practitioners feared by the locals. Her Balinese boyfriend, Mahendra, manages to secure her an introduction with the Leák Queen, and Cathy is taken on as the woman’s apprentice in the dark arts. This involves transfiguration, a suspicious amount of laughing and an inexplicable need to walk like an Egyptian.
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Satanis: The Devil’s Mass (1970)
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass is a 1970 documentary about the then (relatively) newly established Church of Satan and its founder, Anton LaVey. The film focuses on interviews with LaVey, his family, church members and neighbors of the church. It also features footage of LaVey and others conducting and participating in several satanic rituals. You can […]
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Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is a low budget horror movie that keeps you guessing. It’s in the same vein of movies like The Haunting or even Jacob’s Ladder, in that you’re never quite sure what’s going on. With the main characters sanity thrown into question early on you feel much like Jessica, not knowing whether or not the events really happened or if it’s all just a product of her head.
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The Evil (1978)
Psychologist C.J. Arnold and his wife, Caroline, have just gotten a great deal on a remote and empty mansion. The old place was built and owned by reclusive eccentric, Emilio Vargas, around the time of the Civil War and has been abandoned for years due to a rather dubious reputation, but the Arnolds think it’ll […]
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