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Horror film

Index Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences. [1]

661 relations: A Bay of Blood, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film), A Quiet Place (film), A Tale of Two Sisters, Academy Awards, Action film, Adventure film, Alaska, Alejandro Amenábar, Alfred Hitchcock, Alice, Sweet Alice, Alien (film), Alien invasion, Alien: Covenant, Aliens (film), All Through the House, Alligator (film), Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, American Horror Story, American International Pictures, American Mary, An American Werewolf in London, Anaconda (film), Andrew Fleming, Anjelica Huston, Anne Rice, Anneliese Michel, Annie Wilkes, Annihilation (film), Anthology film, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Shaffer (writer), Anthropogenic hazard, Antichrist, Antichrist (film), Anticonformity (psychology), Antonio Margheriti, Antonio Trashorras, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Apollo 18 (film), April Fool's Day (1986 film), April Fool's Day (2008 film), Army of Darkness, Arthur Robison, Atomic Age, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Audition (1999 film), Audition (novel), Audrey Rose (film), ..., Austria, B movie, Backpacker murders, Bates Motel (TV series), Bats (film), BBC Four, Beetlejuice, Benjamin Christensen, Black Christmas (1974 film), Black Christmas (2006 film), Black comedy, Black Swan (film), Black Water (2007 film), Blade (film), Blade (franchise), Blood Feast, Bob Clark, Body horror, Bollywood horror films, Bradley John Murdoch, Braindead (film), Bram Stoker, Brian De Palma, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Bruce Willis, Bryan Singer, C. Robert Cargill, Cabin Fever (2002 film), Candyman (film), Cannibal film, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibalism in popular culture, Carol Kane, Carrie (1976 film), Carrie (2002 film), Carrie (2013 film), Carrie (novel), Censorship, Charles Durning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Child's Play (1988 film), Children of the Corn (2009 film), Chinese horror, Christopher Lee, Cinema of Australia, Cinema of Japan, Cinema of Mexico, Clive Barker, Cloverfield, Comedy horror, Computer-generated imagery, Constantine (film), Contract killing, Contracted (film), Controversy, Counterculture of the 1960s, Credo (2008 film), Crimson Peak, Critters (film), Cube (film), Cult film, Curse of Chucky, Dahmer (film), Dario Argento, Dark fantasy, Dark Water (2002 film), Dark Water (2005 film), David Cronenberg, David E. Kelley, David Muñoz (director), Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), Day of the Dead (1985 film), Day of the Dead (2008 film), Dead Ringers (film), Dead Snow, Deadgirl, Deep Red, Deep Rising, Demon, Developmental psychology, Devil (2010 film), Devil's Due (film), Diary of the Dead, Disgust, Disturbing Behavior, Dog Soldiers (film), Don Coscarelli, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film), Don't Breathe, Don't Look Now, Doom (film), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 film), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film), Dracula, Dracula (1931 English-language film), Drag Me to Hell, Dying Breed (film), Dystopia, Ed Gein, Eden Lake, Edgar Allan Poe, Edison Studios, Egyptology, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, Event Horizon (film), Evil, Evil clown, Evil Dead, Evil Dead (2013 film), Excision (film), Existentialism, Existenz, Experimental film, Exploitation film, Extraterrestrial life, Extraterrestrials in fiction, Fangoria, Fantasy film, Fear, Feast (2005 film), Film International, Final Destination (film), Fionnula Flanagan, First-person narrative, Found footage (film technique), Frankenstein, Frankenstein (1910 film), Frankenstein (1931 film), Freaks, Fred Walton (director), Freddy vs. Jason, French language, Friday the 13th (1980 film), Friday the 13th (2009 film), Friend Request, Fright Night, Fright Night (2011 film), From Dusk till Dawn, Frozen (2010 American film), Garance Marillier, George A. Romero, Georges Méliès, Gerald's Game, Gerald's Game (film), German Expressionism, German underground horror, Get Out, Ghost, Ghost Ship (2002 film), Ghostbusters, Ghoulies, Giallo, Ginger Snaps (film), Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla (franchise), Goodnight Mommy, Gothic fiction, Grand Guignol, Graphic violence, Green Room (film), Greg McLean, Gremlins, Guillermo del Toro, Guinness World Records, Haley Joel Osment, Halloween (1978 film), Halloween (2007 film), Halloween II (2009 film), Hammer Film Productions, Hannibal (TV series), Harrison Ford, Häxan, Hell, Hellboy (2004 film), Hellraiser, Henry James, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Historical period drama, Holiday horror, Hollow Man, Home Sweet Home (1981 film), Horror and terror, Horror fiction, Horror film, Horror-of-demonic, Hostel (2005 film), House of 1000 Corpses, House of Wax (1953 film), House on Haunted Hill, House on Haunted Hill (1999 film), Human cannibalism, Hush (2016 film), Hysterical (film), I Am Legend (film), I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Saw the Devil, I Spit on Your Grave, I Spit on Your Grave (2010 film), Idle Hands, In the Mouth of Madness, Inside (2007 film), Insidious (film), Interview with the Vampire (film), Ira Levin, Irony, It (2017 film), It (novel), It Comes at Night, It Follows, It's Alive (2009 film), J. A. Bayona, Jack Nicholson, Jack Pierce (make-up artist), James Brolin, James Whale, Japanese horror, Japanzine, Jason X, Jaume Balagueró, Jaws (film), Jay Anson, Jean Epstein, Jeepers Creepers (2001 film), Jennifer's Body, JoBlo.com, Jodie Foster, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, John McNaughton, Joy Ride (2001 film), Ju-on: The Grudge, Juan of the Dead, Julia Ducournau, Kathy Bates, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kevin Williamson (screenwriter), Kill List, Kill, Baby, Kill, Kim Jee-woon, King Kong (1933 film), Kuroneko, Kwaidan (film), Lake Mungo (film), Lake Placid (film), Land of the Dead, Lars von Trier, Let Me In (film), Let the Right One In (film), Lights Out (2016 film), List of directorial debuts, List of disaster films, List of ghost films, List of horror film villains, List of natural horror films, List of science fiction horror films, List of Spanish films of 2001, List of zombie films, Lists of horror films, M. Night Shyamalan, Macabre, Mad scientist, Magnate, Make-up artist, Mama (2013 film), Maniac (1980 film), Maniac (2012 film), Marble Hornets, Margot Kidder, Marianne (2011 film), Mario Bava, Martyrs (2008 film), Mary Shelley, Maurice Tourneur, May (film), Media franchise, Meir Zarchi, Melodrama, Messiah of Evil, Metacritic, Metafiction, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Dougherty, Michael Powell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mimic (film), Misery (film), Misogyny in horror films, Monster, Monster movie, Mother!, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Motion Picture Production Code, Mutation, My Bloody Valentine (film), My Bloody Valentine 3D, Mystery film, National Lampoon's Class Reunion, Natural disaster, Near Dark, Neil Marshall, New England, Nicolas Roeg, Nicole Kidman, Night of the Creeps, Night of the Demons (1988 film), Night of the Demons (2009 film), Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead (film series), Nightmare, Nina Forever, Nosferatu, Nuclear explosion, Oculus (film), Onibaba (film), Orca (film), Orphan (2009 film), Outback, Paco Plaza, Paramount Pictures, Paranormal, Paranormal Activity, Parody, Parody film, Paul Leni, Paul W. S. Anderson, Paul Wegener, Peeping Tom (film), Pet Sematary (1989 film), Peter Medak, Phantasm (film), Phantasm (franchise), Piper Laurie, Piranha (1978 film), Plot twist, Polar night, Poltergeist (1982 film), Poltergeist (2015 film), Postmodernism, Predation, Predator (film), Prom Night (2008 film), Prometheus (2012 film), Psycho (1960 film), Psychological horror, Psychopathy, Pulse (2006 film), Pumpkinhead (film), Puritan migration to New England (1620–40), Quarantine (2008 film), Rabid (film), Racism in horror films, Rape and revenge film, Raw (film), Re-Animator, Reboot (fiction), REC (film), Reincarnation, Remake, Repulsion (film), Resident Evil, Resident Evil (film series), Resident Evil (film), Rex Ingram (director), Riccardo Freda, Richard Matheson, Ridley Scott, RKO Pictures, Rob Zombie, Robert Eggers, Robert Wiene, Robert Wise, Robert Zemeckis, Robin Hardy (film director), Rogue (2007 film), Roman Polanski, Romance (love), Rosemary's Baby (film), Rosemary's Baby (novel), Rotten Tomatoes, Sam Raimi, Satanism, Saturday the 14th, Saw (2004 film), Saw (franchise), Scary Movie, Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination, Science fiction, Science fiction film, Scott Derrickson, Scott Smith (author), Scream (1996 film), Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4, Sean S. Cunningham, Selig Polyscope Company, Serial killer, Shaun of the Dead, Shivers (film), Shutter (2004 film), Signs (film), Silent Hill (film), Silent Night, Deadly Night, Sinister (film), Sissy Spacek, Slasher film, Sleepaway Camp, Sleeper hit, Sleepy Hollow (film), Slender Man, Slither (2006 film), Social alienation, Social thriller, Sound film, South Korea, Special effect, Species (film), Splatter film, Split (2016 American film), Spurs (short story), Stan Winston, Stanley Kubrick, Starry Eyes, Stephen King, Steve Miner, Steven Spielberg, Stigmata (film), Stir of Echoes, Storm Warning (2007 film), Stuart Rosenberg, Student Bodies, Supernatural fiction, Supernatural horror film, Survival horror, Survival of the Dead, Suspiria, Takashi Miike, Teeth (film), Telepathy, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Amityville Horror, The Amityville Horror (1979 film), The Amityville Horror (2005 film), The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Babadook, The babysitter and the man upstairs, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Birds (film), The Blair Witch Project, The Blob (1988 film), The Body Snatcher (film), The Brood, The Cabin in the Woods, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cat and the Canary (1927 film), The Cave of the Demons, The Changeling (film), The Children (2008 film), The Collector (2009 film), The Conjuring, The Conjuring (film series), The Craft (film), The Crazies (2010 film), The Curse of Frankenstein, The Dark Half (film), The Dead Zone (film), The Den, The Den (2013 film), The Descent, The Devil's Backbone, The Evil Dead, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist (film), The Faculty, The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 French film), The Fly (1986 film), The Fog (2005 film), The Golem: How He Came into the World, The Green Inferno (film), The Grudge (2004 film), The Hallow, The Haunted Castle (1896 film), The Haunting (1999 film), The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film), The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), The Hitcher (2007 film), The Holocaust, The House of the Devil, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film), The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Innkeepers (film), The Innocents (1961 film), The Invisible Man (1933 film), The Invitation (2015 film), The Last Broadcast (film), The Last Exorcism, The Last House on the Left (1972 film), The Last House on the Left (2009 film), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Lost Boys, The Loved Ones (film), The Magician (1926 film), The Man Who Laughs (1928 film), The Mist, The Mist (film), The Mummy (1932 film), The Old Dark House (1932 film), The Omen, The Omen (2006 film), The Orphanage (film), The Others (2001 film), The Phantom Carriage, The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film), The Purge, The Ring (2002 film), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Ruins (film), The Ruins (novel), The Sentinel (1977 film), The Shining (film), The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Sixth Sense, The Strain (TV series), The Strangers (2008 film), The Student of Prague (1913 film), The Terror (1928 film), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), The Thing (1982 film), The Turn of the Screw, The Unholy Three (1925 film), The Uninvited (2009 film), The Unknown (1927 film), The Vampire Lestat, The Visit (2015 American film), The Walking Dead (TV series), The Wicker Man, The Wicker Man (2006 film), The Witch (2015 film), The Witches (1990 film), The Wolf Man (1941 film), Thirteen Ghosts, Thriller film, Tobe Hooper, Tod Browning, Tooth and Nail (film), Torture, Train (film), Train to Busan, Tremors (film), Tremors (franchise), Triangle (2009 British film), Trick 'r Treat, Under the Skin (2013 film), Underworld (film series), Unfriended, Universal monsters, Universal Pictures, Unsane (film), Up from the Depths, Urban Gothic, Urban legend, Urban Legend (film), V/H/S, Val Lewton, Valentine (film), Valentine's Day, Vampire, Vampire films, Van Helsing (film), Verónica (2017 Spanish film), Victor Sjöström, Videodrome, Vietnam War, Washington Irving, Waxworks (film), Weimar Republic, Werewolf, Werewolf fiction, Wes Craven, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, What Lies Beneath, When a Stranger Calls (1979 film), When a Stranger Calls (2006 film), White Zombie (film), Wiley-Blackwell, Willard (2003 film), Willem Dafoe, William Malone (director), Witchcraft, Wolf (1994 film), Wolf Creek (film), Wrong Turn, You're Next, Young Frankenstein, YouTube, Zombie, Zombie comedy, Zombieland, 1408 (film), 1408 (short story), 1977 in literature, 2001 Maniacs, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 30 Days of Night, 30 Days of Night (film), 3D film. 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A Bay of Blood

A Bay of Blood (Italian: Ecologia del delitto,Lucas, Tim. Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Video Watchdog, 2007.. As noted by Lucas, although known by several different Italian-language titles, the film's original theatrical release title in Italy was Ecologia del delitto lit. "Ecology of Crime", later released as Reazione a catena and Bahia de Sangre), also known as Carnage, Twitch of the Death Nerve and Blood Bath, is a 1971 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural fantasy slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American psychological supernatural slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, and written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer.

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A Quiet Place (film)

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American horror film directed by John Krasinski, who stars with Emily Blunt, his real-life wife.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters (lit. "Rose Flower, Red Lotus") is a 2003 South Korean psychological horror drama film written and directed by Kim Jee-woon.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alejandro Amenábar

Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972), commonly known as Alejandro Amenábar, is a Spanish and Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alice, Sweet Alice

Alice, Sweet Alice (originally known as Communion and also known as Holy Terror) is a 1976 American slasher film co-written and directed by Alfred Sole, and starring Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, and Brooke Shields in her film debut.

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Alien (film)

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.

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Alien invasion

The alien invasion or space invasion is a usual part of science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

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Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen.

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Aliens (film)

Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and starring Sigourney Weaver.

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All Through the House

All Through the House is a 2015 American holiday horror slasher film written and directed by Todd Nunes (Death Ward 13) and produced by The Readmond Company (Los Angeles, California).

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Alligator (film)

Alligator is a 1980 American horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by John Sayles.

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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story is a 2015 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by James Moran and starring Alexandra Breckenridge, Alexandra Holden, Chris Marquette, Jake McDorman and Doug Jones.

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American Horror Story

American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

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American International Pictures

A typical AIP double feature that inspired the idea for Grindhouse. --> American International Pictures (AIP) was a film production and distribution company formed on April 2, 1954 as American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer.

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American Mary

American Mary is a 2012 Canadian horror film starring Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, and Tristan Risk and written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska.

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An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne.

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Anaconda (film)

Anaconda is a 1997 adventure horror film by Peruvian director Luis Llosa, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson.

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Andrew Fleming

Andrew Fleming (born March 14, 1963) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

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Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, and former fashion model.

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.

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Anneliese Michel

Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who underwent Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death.

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Annie Wilkes

Anne Marie Wilkes Dugan, usually known as Annie Wilkes, is a character in the 1987 novel Misery, by Stephen King.

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Annihilation (film)

Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.

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Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point).

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Anthony Shaffer (writer)

Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister and advertising executive.

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Anthropogenic hazard

Anthropogenic hazards are hazards caused by human action or inaction.

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Antichrist

In Christianity, antichrist is a term found solely in the First Epistle of John and Second Epistle of John, and often lowercased in Bible translations, in accordance with its introductory appearance: "Children, it is the last hour! As you heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come".

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Antichrist (film)

Antichrist is a 2009 English-language Danish experimental horror film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

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Anticonformity (psychology)

Anticonformity (counterconformity) refers to when an individual consciously and deliberately challenges the position or actions of the group.

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Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was an Italian filmmaker.

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Antonio Trashorras

Antonio Trashorras, born 22 September 1969, is a Spanish screenwriter.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Apollo 18 (film)

Apollo 18 is a 2011 American-Canadian alternate history found footage science fiction horror film written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Ron Schmidt.

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April Fool's Day (1986 film)

April Fool's Day is a 1986 American mystery horror film directed by Fred Walton and starring Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, and Ken Olandt.

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April Fool's Day (2008 film)

April Fool's Day is a 2008 American direct-to-video horror film remake of the 1986 film of the same name.

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Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness (also known as Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness) is a 1992 American horror comedy film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi, co-produced by Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell and co-written by Ivan Raimi.

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Arthur Robison

Arthur Robison (June 25, 1883 – October 20, 1935) was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era.

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Atomic Age

The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear ("atomic") bomb, Trinity, on July 16, 1945, during World War II.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Audition (1999 film)

is a 1999 Japanese horror film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Takashi Miike.

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Audition (novel)

is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami published in 1997 and published in English in 2009.

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Audrey Rose (film)

Audrey Rose is a 1977 American psychological horror drama film directed by Robert Wise, and starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, and Susan Swift.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Backpacker murders

The backpacker murders were a spate of serial killings that took place in New South Wales, Australia, between 1989 and 1993, committed by Ivan Milat.

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Bates Motel (TV series)

Bates Motel is an American psychological horror drama television series that aired from March 18, 2013 to April 24, 2017.

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Bats (film)

Bats is a 1999 American adventure-horror film, directed by Louis Morneau and produced by Bradley Jenkel and Louise Rosner.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice", portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently.

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Benjamin Christensen

Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the stage.

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Black Christmas (1974 film)

Black Christmas (former alternative titles include Silent Night, Evil Night and Stranger in the House) is a 1974 Canadian psychological slasher film directed and produced by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore.

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Black Christmas (2006 film)

Black Christmas (abbreviated as Black X-Mas) is a 2006 slasher film written and directed by Glen Morgan and starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Black Swan (film)

Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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Black Water (2007 film)

Black Water is a 2007 British-Australian horror-thriller film set in the mangrove swamps of northern Australia.

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Blade (film)

Blade is a 1998 American superhero horror film directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

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Blade (franchise)

Blade is a film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name, portrayed by Wesley Snipes.

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Blood Feast

Blood Feast is a 1963 American horror splatter film composed, shot and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and starring Mal Arnold, William Arnold, Connie Mason and Lyn Bolton.

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Bob Clark

Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story.

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Body horror

Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror which intentionally showcases graphic or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body.

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Bollywood horror films

Bollywood horror films have been a subgenre of the Hindi film industry since its early days.

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Bradley John Murdoch

Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia.

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Braindead (film)

Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand splatstick comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Jackson, along with Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) is a 2001 French historical action horror film directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel, and starring Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.

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Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer.

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Bryan Singer

Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American film director, film producer, and writer.

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C. Robert Cargill

Christopher Robert Cargill (born September 8, 1975) is an American screenwriter, novelist, and former internet film critic known under the pseudonyms Massawyrm (on Ain't It Cool News) and Carlyle (on Spill.com).

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Cabin Fever (2002 film)

Cabin Fever is a 2002 American horror comedy film co-written and directed by Eli Roth (in his directorial debut) and starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, and Giuseppe Andrews.

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Candyman (film)

Candyman is a 1992 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Bernard Rose.

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Cannibal film

Cannibal films, alternatively known as the cannibal genre or the cannibal boom, are a subgenre of exploitation film made predominantly by Italian filmmakers during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici.

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Cannibalism in popular culture

Cannibalism in popular culture is a recurring theme, especially within the horror genre, and has featured in a range of media that includes film, television, literature, music and video games.

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Carol Kane

Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American stage, screen and television actress and comedian.

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Carrie (1976 film)

Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name.

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Carrie (2002 film)

Carrie is a 2002 American supernatural horror television film based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King.

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Carrie (2013 film)

Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name.

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Carrie (novel)

Carrie is a novel by American author Stephen King.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Charles Durning

Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer.

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Child's Play (1988 film)

Child's Play is a 1988 American slasher film directed and co-written by Tom Holland, and produced by David Kirschner from a story by Don Mancini.

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Children of the Corn (2009 film)

Children of the Corn is a 2009 horror television film directed, written and produced by Donald P. Borchers and based on the 1977 short story of the same name by Stephen King.

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Chinese horror

Chinese horror is a term given to Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese films as part of the stream of Asian horror films.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Cinema of Australia

The Australian film industry has its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film ever made.

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Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years.

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Cinema of Mexico

The history of Mexican cinema goes back to the ending of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when several enthusiasts of the new medium documented historical events – most particularly the Mexican Revolution – and produced some movies that have only recently been rediscovered.

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Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist.

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Cloverfield

Cloverfield is a 2008 American found footage monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, and written by Drew Goddard.

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Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, shorts, commercials, videos, and simulators.

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Constantine (film)

Constantine is a 2005 American occult detective film directed by Francis Lawrence, in his directorial debut, and starring Keanu Reeves as John Constantine.

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Contract killing

Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

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Contracted (film)

Contracted is a 2013 American body horror film directed and written by Eric England.

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Controversy

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Credo (2008 film)

Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford.

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Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak is a 2015 American gothic romance film directed, co-produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, co-produced by Callum Greene, Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull and co-written by Matthew Robbins.

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Critters (film)

Critters is a 1986 American science fiction comedy horror film starring Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy "Green" Bush and Scott Grimes.

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Cube (film)

Cube is a 1997 Canadian science-fiction horror film directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Curse of Chucky

Curse of Chucky is a 2013 American supernatural slasher film and the sixth installment of the ''Child's Play'' franchise.

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Dahmer (film)

Dahmer is a 2002 American biographical horror film directed by David Jacobson and starring Jeremy Renner as the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, a mentally-unstable recluse in Wisconsin, who captured 17 men.

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Dario Argento

Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, film critic and screenwriter.

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Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporate darker and frightening themes of fantasy.

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Dark Water (2002 film)

is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror drama film directed by Hideo Nakata.

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Dark Water (2005 film)

Dark Water is a 2005 American horror drama film directed by Walter Salles, starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth.

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor.

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David E. Kelley

David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Big Little Lies, and Mr. Mercedes, as well as several films.

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David Muñoz (director)

David Muñoz was born in 1968 in Málaga, Andalucia, southern Spain and is a Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi or Zombie) is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero.

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Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)

Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 American action horror film directed by Zack Snyder (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by James Gunn.

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Day of the Dead (1985 film)

Day of the Dead is a 1985 American zombie horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, being preceded by Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978).

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Day of the Dead (2008 film)

Day of the Dead is a 2008 American horror film about a virus outbreak that causes people to turn into violent zombie-like creatures.

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Dead Ringers (film)

Dead Ringers is a 1988 Canadian-American psychological body horror drama film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists.

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Dead Snow

Dead Snow (Død snø) is a 2009 Norwegian zombie splatter film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavlan, and Lasse Valdal.

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Deadgirl

Deadgirl is a 2008 American black comedy horror film written by Trent Haaga and directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel.

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Deep Red

Deep Red (original title Profondo rosso; also known as The Hatchet Murders) is a 1975 Italian giallo film, directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi.

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Deep Rising

Deep Rising is a 1998 American action horror film directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen and Anthony Heald.

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Demon

A demon (from Koine Greek δαιμόνιον daimónion) is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

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Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.

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Devil (2010 film)

Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle.

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Devil's Due (film)

Devil's Due is a 2014 American psychological horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Lindsay Devlin.

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Diary of the Dead

Diary of the Dead is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero.

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Disgust

Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant.

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Disturbing Behavior

Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 American science fiction horror film starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl.

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Dog Soldiers (film)

Dog Soldiers is a 2002 action horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall, and starring Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee, and Liam Cunningham.

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Don Coscarelli

Don Coscarelli, Jr. (born February 17, 1954) is a Libyan-American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for horror films.

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film)

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a 2010 dark fantasy horror film written by Matthew Robbins and Guillermo del Toro and directed by comic book artist Troy Nixey.

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Don't Breathe

Don't Breathe is a 2016 American horror film directed by Fede Álvarez, and co-written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues.

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Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now (A Venezia...) is a 1973 independent British-Italian film directed by Nicolas Roeg.

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Doom (film)

Doom is a 2005 American science fiction action horror film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and written by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, loosely based on the video game series of the same name created by id Software.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 film)

Dr.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

Dr.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.

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Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell is a 2009 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Sam Raimi.

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Dying Breed (film)

Dying Breed is a 2008 Australian horror film that was directed by Jody Dwyer and stars Leigh Whannell and Nathan Phillips.

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Dystopia

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

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Ed Gein

Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906Vital Records, Pre-1907 Wisconsin. "". – July 26, 1984), also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, was an American murderer and body snatcher.

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Eden Lake

Eden Lake is a 2008 British horror film written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O'Connell.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edison Studios

Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison.

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Egyptology

Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek -λογία, -logia. علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.

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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic.

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Event Horizon (film)

Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner.

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Evil

Evil, in a colloquial sense, is the opposite of good, the word being an efficient substitute for the more precise but religion-associated word "wickedness." As defined in philosophy it is the name for the psychology and instinct of individuals which selfishly but often necessarily defends the personal boundary against deadly attacks and serious threats.

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Evil clown

The evil clown is a subversion of the traditional comic clown character, in which the playful trope is instead rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor.

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Evil Dead

Evil Dead is an American horror film franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of four feature films and a television series.

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Evil Dead (2013 film)

Evil Dead is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Fede Álvarez (in his directorial debut), written by Rodo Sayagues and Álvarez and produced by Bruce Campbell, Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi.

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Excision (film)

Excision is a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Richard Bates, Jr, and starring AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, Jeremy Sumpter, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Gray Gubler, Marlee Matlin, Ray Wise, and John Waters.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Existenz

Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction body horror film produced, written and directed by the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg.

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Experimental film

Experimental film, experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Extraterrestrials in fiction

Extraterrestrials, a common theme in modern science-fiction, also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata.

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Fangoria

Fangoria is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Fear

Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding, or freezing from perceived traumatic events.

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Feast (2005 film)

Feast is a 2005 American action horror film directed by John Gulager, produced by Michael Leahy, Joel Soisson, Larry Tanz and Andrew Jameson.

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Film International

Film International is a bimonthly academic journal (with a of exclusive content) covering film studies that was established in 2003.

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Final Destination (film)

Final Destination is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong.

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Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnghuala Manon "Fionnula" Flanagan (born 10 December 1941) is an Irish actress and political activist.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a narrator relays events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first person protagonist (or other focal character), first person re-teller, first person witness, or first person peripheral (also called a peripheral narrator).

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Found footage (film technique)

Found footage is a film subgenre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Frankenstein (1910 film)

Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios.

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Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and adapted from the play by Peggy Webling (which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley), about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity, but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer's brain.

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Freaks

Freaks is a 1932 American MGM pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning.

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Fred Walton (director)

Fred Walton is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Friday the 13th (1980 film)

Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller.

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Friday the 13th (2009 film)

Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift.

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Friend Request

Friend Request (released overseas as Unfriend) is a 2016 English-language German supernatural-psychological horror film.

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Fright Night

Fright Night is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by Tom Holland in his directorial debut, and produced by Herb Jaffe.

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Fright Night (2011 film)

Fright Night is a 2011 American horror thriller film directed by Craig Gillespie, and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig.

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From Dusk till Dawn

From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American black comedy action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino.

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Frozen (2010 American film)

Frozen is a 2010 American horror film written and directed by Adam Green and starring Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zegers.

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Garance Marillier

Garance Marillier (born 11 February 1998) is a French actress and former musician.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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Georges Méliès

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

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Gerald's Game

Gerald's Game is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King.

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Gerald's Game (film)

Gerald's Game is a 2017 American psychological horror film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan and written by Jeff Howard and Flanagan.

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German Expressionism

German Expressionism consisted of a number of related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.

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German underground horror

German underground horror is a subgenre of the horror film, which has achieved cult popularity since first appearing in the mid-1980s.

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Get Out

Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.

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Ghost Ship (2002 film)

Ghost Ship is a 2002 American-Australian horror film directed by Steve Beck, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington and Karl Urban.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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Ghoulies

The Ghoulies film series are American horror-comedy films released in the 1980s and 1990s and centered on a group of small, demonic creatures that have a wide range of twisted appearances.

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Giallo

Giallo (plural gialli) is a 20th-century Italian thriller or horror genre of literature and film.

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Ginger Snaps (film)

Ginger Snaps is a 2000 Canadian horror film directed by John Fawcett.

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Godzilla (1954 film)

is a 1954 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho.

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Godzilla (franchise)

franchise is a multimedia series featuring Godzilla, owned and created by Toho.

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Goodnight Mommy

Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh; UK: Goodnight Mummy) is a 2014 Austrian horror film.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.

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Graphic violence

Graphic violence is the depiction of especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence in visual media such as literature, film, television, and video games.

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Green Room (film)

Green Room is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and produced by Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers and Anish Savjani.

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Greg McLean

Greg McLean is an Australian film director, producer and writer.

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Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters.

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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author and former special effects makeup artist.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Haley Joel Osment

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor.

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Halloween (1978 film)

Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut.

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Halloween (2007 film)

Halloween is a 2007 American slasher film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie.

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Halloween II (2009 film)

Halloween II is a 2009 American slasher film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Hannibal (TV series)

Hannibal is an American psychological horror–thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Häxan

Häxan (Danish title: Heksen; Swedish title: Häxan; English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish documentary-style silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.

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Hell

Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife.

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Hellboy (2004 film)

Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman, loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.

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Hellraiser

Hellraiser is a 1987 British-American horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, and produced by Christopher Figg, based on Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.

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Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Holiday horror

Holiday-themed horror films or holiday horror are a horror subgenre of films set during holidays.

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Hollow Man

Hollow Man is a 2000 American-German science fiction horror film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin.

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Home Sweet Home (1981 film)

Home Sweet Home (also known as Slasher in the House) is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Nettie Peña, and written by Thomas Bush.

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Horror and terror

The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic and horror fiction.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Horror-of-demonic

The horror-of-the-demonic film is one of three subgenres of the horror film that grew out of mid- and late-20th-century American culture.

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Hostel (2005 film)

Hostel is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Eli Roth.

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House of 1000 Corpses

House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 American exploitation horror film written, co-scored and directed by Rob Zombie in his directorial debut.

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House of Wax (1953 film)

House of Wax is a 1953 American color 3-D horror film about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays.

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House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American horror film directed by William Castle.

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House on Haunted Hill (1999 film)

House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, and Jeffrey Combs.

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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Hush (2016 film)

Hush is a 2016 American slasher film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, starring Kate Siegel, who also co-wrote the film with Flanagan.

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Hysterical (film)

Hysterical is a 1983 film from Embassy Pictures that was intended to spoof the horror movies that were abundant at the time.

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I Am Legend (film)

I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith, who plays US Army virologist Robert Neville.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Jim Gillespie, written by Kevin Williamson, and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr., with Anne Heche, Bridgette Wilson, and Johnny Galecki appearing in supporting roles.

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I Saw the Devil

I Saw the Devil is a 2010 South Korean action horror thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon, and written by Jee-woon and Park Hoon-jung.

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I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave (initially titled as Day of the Woman) is a 1978 American rape-and-revenge exploitation horror film written, directed, produced and edited by Meir Zarchi.

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I Spit on Your Grave (2010 film)

I Spit on Your Grave is a 2010 American rape-and-revenge horror film and a remake of the controversial 1978 cult film of the same name (originally known as Day of the Woman).

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Idle Hands

Idle Hands is a 1999 American horror comedy film directed by Rodman Flender, written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox.

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In the Mouth of Madness

In the Mouth of Madness (also known as John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness) is a 1994 American psychological Lovecraftian horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca.

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Inside (2007 film)

Inside (À l'intérieur) is a 2007 French home invasion horror film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo and starring Alysson Paradis and Béatrice Dalle.

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Insidious (film)

Insidious is a 2010 American-Canadian supernatural horror film directed by James Wan, written by Leigh Whannell, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey.

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Interview with the Vampire (film)

Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

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Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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It (2017 film)

It (also known as It: Chapter One) is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King.

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It (novel)

It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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It Comes at Night

It Comes at Night is a 2017 American post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults.

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It Follows

It Follows is a 2014 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, and Lili Sepe.

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It's Alive (2009 film)

It's Alive is a 2009 American horror film directed by Josef Rusnak.

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J. A. Bayona

Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish film director.

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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.

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Jack Pierce (make-up artist)

Jack Pierce (born Janus Piccoula; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968) was a Hollywood make-up artist best remembered for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931), along with various other classic monster make-ups for Universal Studios.

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James Brolin

James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in film and television, including sitcoms and soap operas.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theater director and actor.

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Japanese horror

Japanese horror, known outside Japan as "J-horror", is Japanese horror fiction in popular culture, noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre in light of western treatments.

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Japanzine

Japanzine is a Japan-based English-language magazine, published by Carter Witt Media.

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Jason X

Jason X is a 2001 American science fiction slasher film produced and directed by James Isaac.

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Jaume Balagueró

Jaume Balagueró i Bernat (born 2 November 1968) is a Spanish film director widely known for his horror films, most notably the acclaimed ''REC'' series.

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Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.

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Jay Anson

Jay Anson (November 4, 1921 – March 12, 1980) was an American author whose most famous work was The Amityville Horror.

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Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein (25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.

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Jeepers Creepers (2001 film)

Jeepers Creepers is a 2001 American-German horror film written and directed by Victor Salva.

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Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body is a 2009 American supernatural horror dark comedy film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama.

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JoBlo.com

JoBlo.com is a website primarily focused on the film industry.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer.

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Joe Dante

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, musician, editor and composer.

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John McNaughton

John McNaughton (born January 13, 1950) is an American film and television director, originally from Chicago, Illinois, known for his first film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

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Joy Ride (2001 film)

Joy Ride is a 2001 American horror-thriller film directed by John Dahl and written by J. J. Abrams and Clay Tarver.

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Ju-on: The Grudge

Ju-on: The Grudge is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.

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Juan of the Dead

Juan of the Dead (Juan de los Muertos) is a Spanish-Cuban comedy zombie film written and directed by Alejandro Brugués.

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Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau (born 18 November 1983) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Kathy Bates

Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.

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Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans, Sr. (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers.

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Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)

Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known for the creation of the TV series' Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), The Following (2013–2015) and Stalker (2014–2015).

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Kill List

Kill List is a 2011 British crime drama psychological horror film directed by Ben Wheatley, co-written and co-edited with Amy Jump, and starring Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Michael Smiley.

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Kill, Baby, Kill

Kill, Baby, Kill (Operazione paura) is a 1966 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava and starring Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Erika Blanc.

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Kim Jee-woon

Kim Jee-woon (born July 6, 1964) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

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King Kong (1933 film)

King Kong is a 1933 American NR pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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Kuroneko

(aka simply The Black Cat) is a 1968 black-and-white Japanese horror film, directed by Kaneto Shindo, and an adaptation of a supernatural folktale.

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Kwaidan (film)

is a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

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Lake Mungo (film)

Lake Mungo is a 2008 low budget Australian psychological horror film directed by Joel Anderson and starring Talia Zucker and Martin Sharpe.

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Lake Placid (film)

Lake Placid is a 1999 American monster horror comedy film written by David E. Kelley and directed by Steve Miner.

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Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a 2005 post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by George A. Romero; the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies, it is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.

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Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades.

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Let Me In (film)

Let Me In is a 2010 American-British romantic horror film written and directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, and Richard Jenkins.

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Let the Right One In (film)

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay.

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Lights Out (2016 film)

Lights Out is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by David F. Sandberg in his directorial debut, produced by Lawrence Grey, James Wan, and Eric Heisserer and written by Heisserer.

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List of directorial debuts

This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order.

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List of disaster films

This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre.

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List of ghost films

Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.

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List of horror film villains

The following is an alphabetical list of horror film villains (Note that this list is not restricted to original film characters, and villains featured in cinematic adaptations of other horror media are also included herein.).

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List of natural horror films

Natural horror (also known as creature features) is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.

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List of science fiction horror films

This is a list of science fiction horror films.

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List of Spanish films of 2001

A list of films produced in Spain in 2001 (see 2001 in film).

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List of zombie films

The following is a list of zombie feature films.

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Lists of horror films

This is a chronological list of horror films split by decade.

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M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu "M.

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Macabre

In works of art, macabre is the quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere.

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Mad scientist

Mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a caricature of a scientist who is described as "mad" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.

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Magnate

Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus, 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities.

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Make-up artist

Special effects makeup techniques A make-up artist or makeup artist is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modeling industry.

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Mama (2013 film)

Mama is a 2013 English-language Spanish supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Andy Muschietti in his directional debut and based on his 2008 Argentine short film Mamá.

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Maniac (1980 film)

Maniac is a 1980 American psychological slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by C. A. Rosenberg.

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Maniac (2012 film)

Maniac is a 2012 French-American psychological slasher film directed by Franck Khalfoun, written by Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, and C.A. Rosenberg, and starring Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder.

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Marble Hornets

Marble Hornets (abbreviated MH) is a YouTube web series inspired by the Slender Man online mythos.

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Margot Kidder

Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018), professionally known as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress and activist.

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Marianne (2011 film)

Marianne is a 2011 Swedish horror film, written and directed by Filip Tegstedt, that premiered at the 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival on 2 August 2011.

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist, and cinematographer from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.

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Martyrs (2008 film)

Martyrs is a 2008 French psychological horror drama film written and directed by Pascal Laugier.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Maurice Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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May (film)

May is a 2002 American psychological horror film written and directed by Lucky McKee in his directorial debut.

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Media franchise

A media franchise, also known as multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game.

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Meir Zarchi

Meir Zarchi (born 1937) is a film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Messiah of Evil

Messiah of Evil (later also shown under the title Dead People) is a 1973 American horror film co-written, co-produced, and co-directed by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, and starring Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, and Elisha Cook Jr..

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Metafiction

Metafiction is a form of literature that emphasizes its own constructedness in a way that continually reminds the reader to be aware that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty (born October 28, 1974) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his work with Dan Harris on the scripts for Bryan Singer's films X2 and Superman Returns.

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Michael Powell

Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.

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Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer.

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Mimic (film)

Mimic is a 1997 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro based on Donald A. Wollheim's short story of the same name, and starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini and F. Murray Abraham.

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Misery (film)

Misery is a 1990 American thriller film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name and starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, and Frances Sternhagen about a psychotic fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write her stories.

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Misogyny in horror films

Misogyny can occur in horror films when there is a degrading representation of women.

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Monster

A monster is a creature which produces fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions.

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Monster movie

A monster movie, creature feature, or giant monster film is a disaster film that focuses on a group of characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters, often abnormally large ones.

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Mother!

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Motion Picture Production Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.

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My Bloody Valentine (film)

My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film directed by George Mihalka and written by John Beaird, starring Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, and Neil Affleck.

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My Bloody Valentine 3D

My Bloody Valentine 3D is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Patrick Lussier, and starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Betsy Rue, and Kerr Smith.

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Mystery film

A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.

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National Lampoon's Class Reunion

Class Reunion is a 1982 black comedy film produced by National Lampoon as the third film from the magazine.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.

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Near Dark

Near Dark is a 1987 American western horror film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by her and Eric Red.

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Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall (born 25 May 1970) is an English film director, editor and screenwriter.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Jack Roeg (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and former cinematographer.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker, starring Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow.

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Night of the Demons (1988 film)

Night of the Demons is a 1988 American supernatural horror film written and produced by Joe Augustyn and directed by Kevin S. Tenney.

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Night of the Demons (2009 film)

Night of the Demons is a 2009 American horror film and remake of the 1988 film of the same name.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by John Russo, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Night of the Living Dead (film series)

The Dead is a series of six zombie horror films created by George A. Romero beginning with the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo.

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Nightmare

A nightmare, also called a bad dream, Retrieved July 11, 2016.

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Nina Forever

Nina Forever is a 2015 British horror comedy film written and directed by brothers Ben and Chris Blaine.

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Nosferatu

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

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Nuclear explosion

A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.

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Oculus (film)

Oculus is a 2013 American supernatural horror film written, edited and directed by Mike Flanagan.

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Onibaba (film)

is a 1964 Japanese historical drama horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo.

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Orca (film)

Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American disaster horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sampson.

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Orphan (2009 film)

Orphan is a 2009 psychological horror thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson from a story by Alex Mace.

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Outback

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Paco Plaza

Paco Plaza (born February 8, 1973) is a Spanish film director best known for writing and directing REC and REC 2 with Jaume Balagueró.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American found footage supernatural horror film written, co-produced, photographed, edited, and directed by Oren Peli.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Parody film

A parody film is a subgenre of comedy film that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches, works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together.

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Paul Leni

Paul Leni (8 July 1885 – 2 September 1929), born Paul Josef Levi, was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionist filmmaking, making Backstairs (Hintertreppe, 1921) and Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, 1924) in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1929) in the U.S.

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Paul W. S. Anderson

Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter who regularly works in science fiction films and video game adaptations.

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Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener (11 December 1874 – 13 September 1948) was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.

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Peeping Tom (film)

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer.

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Pet Sematary (1989 film)

Pet Sematary (sometimes referred to as Stephen King's Pet Sematary) is a 1989 American horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name.

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Peter Medak

Peter Medak (born Medák Péter, 23 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born film director and television director of British and American productions.

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Phantasm (film)

Phantasm is a 1979 American horror film directed, written, photographed, and edited by Don Coscarelli.

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Phantasm (franchise)

Phantasm is an American horror film series that consists of five films, novels, comic books, and merchandise.

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Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American stage and screen actress known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Academy Award nominations.

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Piranha (1978 film)

Piranha is a 1978 American satirical B horror film directed and co-edited by Joe Dante, and starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele and Dick Miller.

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Plot twist

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.

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Polar night

The polar night occurs in the northernmost and southernmost regions of the Earth when the night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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Poltergeist (1982 film)

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper.

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Poltergeist (2015 film)

Poltergeist is a 2015 American 3D supernatural horror film directed by Gil Kenan and written by David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Predator (film)

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas.

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Prom Night (2008 film)

Prom Night is a 2008 American-Canadian slasher film directed by Nelson McCormick that is a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title.

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Prometheus (2012 film)

Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron.

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Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is a 1960 American NR psychological-horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano.

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Psychological horror

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction that relies on mental, emotional and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle readers, viewers, or players.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

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Pulse (2006 film)

Pulse is a 2006 American horror film written by Wes Craven and Ray Wright, and directed by Jim Sonzero.

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Pumpkinhead (film)

Pumpkinhead is a 1988 American dark fantasy horror film.

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Puritan migration to New England (1620–40)

The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time.

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Quarantine (2008 film)

Quarantine is a 2008 American found-footage horror film directed and co-written by John Erick Dowdle, produced by Sergio Aguero, Doug Davison, and Roy Lee, and co-written by Drew Dowdle, being a remake of the Spanish film REC.

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Rabid (film)

Rabid is a 1977 Canadian-American horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg.

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Racism in horror films

There has been a stereotyping of minorities and people of colour in the horror genre, especially within American films.

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Rape and revenge film

Rape and revenge films are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s.

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Raw (film)

Raw (Grave) is a 2016 French-Belgian horror drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau, and starring Garance Marillier.

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Re-Animator

Re-Animator (also known as H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator) is a 1985 American science-fiction horror comedy film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette Herbert West–Reanimator.

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Reboot (fiction)

In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established fictional universe, work, or series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.

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REC (film)

REC (stylized as; short for "record") is a 2007 Spanish found footage horror film co-written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Remake

A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier film or TV series and tells the same, or a very similar, story.

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Repulsion (film)

Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Yvonne Furneaux.

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Resident Evil

Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard, is a media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and owned by the Japanese video game company Capcom.

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Resident Evil (film series)

Resident Evil is an action-horror film series loosely based on the Japanese video game franchise of the same name by Capcom.

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Resident Evil (film)

Resident Evil is a 2002 action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and produced by Bernd Eichinger and Jeremy Bolt.

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Rex Ingram (director)

Rex Ingram (15 January 1892 – 21 July 1950) was an Irish film director, producer, writer and actor.

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Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda (Alexandria, Egypt, February 24, 1909 – Rome, Italy, December 20, 1999) was an Italian film director.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American musician, filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Robert Eggers

Robert Eggers (born 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter and production designer, best known for his 2015 horror film The Witch.

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Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene (27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the German silent cinema.

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Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer and editor.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects.

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Robin Hardy (film director)

Robin St.

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Rogue (2007 film)

Rogue is a 2007 Australian independent horror film about a group of tourists in Australia who fall prey to a giant, man-eating crocodile.

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Roman Polanski

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Romance (love)

Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.

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Rosemary's Baby (film)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film with supernatural horror elements written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel of the same name by Ira Levin.

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Rosemary's Baby (novel)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin, his second published book.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sam Raimi

Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer famous for creating the cult horror ''Evil Dead'' series, as well as directing the original ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film Darkman, and the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Saturday the 14th

Saturday the 14th is a 1981 American horror comedy film starring real-life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, co-written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman.

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Saw (2004 film)

Saw is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan.

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Saw (franchise)

Saw is an American horror franchise distributed by Lionsgate, produced by Twisted Pictures and created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, that consists of eight feature films and additional media.

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Scary Movie

Scary Movie is a 2000 American horror comedy film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.

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Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination ("Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination", also known in English as Warning Shadows) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Arthur Robison.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Scott Derrickson

Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.

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Scott Smith (author)

Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins.

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Scream (1996 film)

Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.

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Scream 2

Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.

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Scream 3

Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger.

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Scream 4

Scream 4 (stylized as SCRE4M) is a 2011 American slasher film and the fourth installment in the ''Scream'' series.

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Sean S. Cunningham

Sean Sexton Cunningham (born December 1, 1941) is an American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer.

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Selig Polyscope Company

The Selig Polyscope Company is an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago.

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Serial killer

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 comedy horror film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost.

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Shivers (film)

Shivers (also known as The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within and Frissons for the French-Canadian distribution) is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry and Barbara Steele.

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Shutter (2004 film)

Shutter (Thai: ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ) is a 2004 Thai horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom; starring Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, and Achita Sikamana.

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Signs (film)

Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and executive produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer.

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Silent Hill (film)

Silent Hill is a 2006 Canadian-French supernatural psychological horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary, Gans, and Nicolas Boukhrief.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach and Leo Geter.

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Sinister (film)

Sinister is a 2012 British-American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson.

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Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer.

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Slasher film

A slasher film is a film in the sub-genre of horror films involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed tools.

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Sleepaway Camp

Sleepaway Camp (also released as Nightmare Vacation) is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, who also served as executive producer.

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Sleeper hit

In the entertainment industry, a sleeper hit is a title (such as a book, film, song or game) that becomes successful, gradually, often with little promotion.

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Sleepy Hollow (film)

Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton.

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Slender Man

The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009.

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Slither (2006 film)

Slither is a 2006 Americanscience fiction comedy horror film written and directed by James Gunn in his directoral debut.

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Social alienation

Social alienation is "a condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment".

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Social thriller

A social thriller is a motion picture genre using elements of suspense to augment attention to abuses of power and instances of oppression in society.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Species (film)

Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman.

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Splatter film

A splatter film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

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Split (2016 American film)

Split is a 2016 American psychological horror film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley.

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Spurs (short story)

"Spurs" is a short story by Tod Robbins.

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Stan Winston

Stanley "Stan" Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects creator.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Starry Eyes

Starry Eyes is a 2014 American horror film directed and written by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Steve Miner

Stephen C. "Steve" Miner (born June 18, 1951) is an American director of film and television, film producer, and a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stigmata (film)

Stigmata is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser and atheist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself had himself suffered from the phenomenon.

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Stir of Echoes

Stir of Echoes is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by David Koepp.

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Storm Warning (2007 film)

Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Nadia Farès and Robert Taylor.

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Stuart Rosenberg

Stuart Rosenberg (August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director whose motion pictures include Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984).

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Student Bodies

Student Bodies is a 1981 comedy horror film written and directed by Mickey Rose, with an uncredited Michael Ritchie co-directing.

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Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a genre of speculative fiction exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it.

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Supernatural horror film

Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of horror film and supernatural film.

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Survival horror

Survival horror is a subgenre of video games inspired by horror fiction that focuses on survival of the character as the game tries to frighten players with either horror graphics or scary ambience.

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Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead) is a 2009 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Alan van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh and Kathleen Munroe.

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Suspiria

Suspiria (Latin: "sighs") is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis (Sighs from the Depths) and co-produced by Claudio and Salvatore Argento.

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Takashi Miike

is a Japanese filmmaker.

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Teeth (film)

Teeth is a 2007 American horror comedy film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes

The Abominable Dr.

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The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977.

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The Amityville Horror (1979 film)

The Amityville Horror is a 1979 American supernatural horror film based on Jay Anson's book of the same name (1977).

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The Amityville Horror (2005 film)

The Amityville Horror is a 2005 American horror film directed by Andrew Douglas and written by Scott Kosar.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a 2016 supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal.

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The Babadook

The Babadook is a 2014 Australian supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent in her directorial debut, and produced by Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Molière.

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The babysitter and the man upstairs

The babysitter and the man upstairs — also known as the babysitter or the sitter — is an urban legend that dates back to the 1960s about a teenage girl babysitting children who receives telephone calls from a man who continually asks her to "check the children".

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Italian: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is a 1970 giallo film directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut.

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The Birds (film)

The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

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The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.

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The Blob (1988 film)

The Blob is a 1988 American science-fiction horror film written and directed by Chuck Russell, co-written with Frank Darabont, and starring Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark and Joe Seneca.

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The Body Snatcher (film)

The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film directed by Robert Wise based on the short story "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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The Brood

The Brood is a 1979 Canadian science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle.

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The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 American horror comedy film directed by Drew Goddard in his directorial debut, produced by Joss Whedon, and written by Whedon and Goddard.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr.

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The Cat and the Canary (1927 film)

The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 American silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play of the same name.

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The Cave of the Demons

The Cave of the Demons (La Caverne maudite) is an 1898 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.

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The Changeling (film)

The Changeling is a 1980 Canadian psychological horror film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere.

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The Children (2008 film)

The Children is a 2008 British horror thriller film directed by Tom Shankland and starring Eva Birthistle and Hannah Tointon.

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The Collector (2009 film)

The Collector is a 2009 American horror film written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, and directed by Dunstan.

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The Conjuring

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes.

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The Conjuring (film series)

The Conjuring is an American horror film series mainly produced by New Line Cinema and The Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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The Craft (film)

The Craft is a 1996 American supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True.

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The Crazies (2010 film)

The Crazies is a 2010 American science fiction horror film directed by Breck Eisner, with a screenplay by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright.

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The Curse of Frankenstein

The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the novel Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley.

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The Dark Half (film)

The Dark Half is a 1993 American horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name.

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The Dead Zone (film)

The Dead Zone is a 1983 American horror thriller film directed by David Cronenberg.

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The Den

The Den (previously The New Den) is a football stadium in Bermondsey, south-east London, and the home of Millwall Football Club.

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The Den (2013 film)

The Den (initially released in Russia as смерть в сети, Death Online) is a 2013 slasher film by Zachary Donohue and his feature film directorial debut.

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The Descent

The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall.

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The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo) is a 2001 gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro, David Muñoz, and Antonio Trashorras.

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The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and executive produced by Raimi and Bruce Campbell, who also stars alongside Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 American supernatural horror trial film directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson.

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The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller.

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The Faculty

The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction teen horror film written by Kevin Williamson, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and starring Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Robert Patrick, Bebe Neuwirth, Piper Laurie, Famke Janssen, Usher Raymond, Salma Hayek, and Jon Stewart.

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 French film)

The Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French horror film directed by Jean Epstein, one of multiple films based on the Gothic short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.

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The Fly (1986 film)

The Fly is a 1986 American science-fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg.

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The Fog (2005 film)

The Fog is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Tom Welling, Selma Blair, and Maggie Grace.

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The Golem: How He Came into the World

The Golem: How He Came into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, also referred to as The Golem) is a 1920 silent horror film co-directed by and starring Paul Wegener.

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The Green Inferno (film)

The Green Inferno is a 2013 American cannibal horror film directed by Eli Roth.

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The Grudge (2004 film)

The Grudge is a 2004 American supernatural horror film and a remake of the Japanese film, Ju-on: The Grudge.

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The Hallow

The Hallow (originally titled The Woods) is a 2015 horror film directed by Corin Hardy, written by Hardy and Felipe Marino, and starring Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, and Michael Smiley.

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The Haunted Castle (1896 film)

Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.

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The Haunting (1999 film)

The Haunting is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont.

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace.

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The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film)

The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 American horror film and remake of Wes Craven's 1977 film of the same name.

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The Hitcher (2007 film)

The Hitcher is a 2007 American horror-thriller film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The House of the Devil

The House of the Devil is a 2009 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, and Mary Woronov.

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The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Tom Six.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American romantic drama film with horror elements starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 American black-and-white science-fiction horror film from Universal-International, produced by Albert Zugsmith, directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Grant Williams and Randy Stuart.

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The Innkeepers (film)

The Innkeepers is a 2011 American horror film written, directed and edited by Ti West, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, and Kelly McGillis.

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The Innocents (1961 film)

The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins.

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The Invisible Man (1933 film)

The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale.

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The Invitation (2015 film)

The Invitation is a 2015 American horror-thriller film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.

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The Last Broadcast (film)

The Last Broadcast is a 1998 American found footage horror film made by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler.

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The Last Exorcism

No description.

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The Last House on the Left (1972 film)

The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, edited, and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham.

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The Last House on the Left (2009 film)

The Last House on the Left is a 2009 American horror film directed by Dennis Iliadis and written by Carl Ellsworth and Adam Alleca.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a horror story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..

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The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes.

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The Loved Ones (film)

The Loved Ones is a 2009 Australian horror film written and directed by Sean Byrne and starring Xavier Samuel and Robin McLeavy.

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The Magician (1926 film)

The Magician is a 1926 horror film directed by Rex Ingram about a magician's efforts to acquire the blood of a maiden for his experiments to create life.

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The Man Who Laughs (1928 film)

The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni.

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The Mist

The Mist is a horror novella by the American author Stephen King, in which the small town of Bridgton, Maine is suddenly enveloped in an unnatural mist that conceals otherworldly monsters.

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The Mist (film)

The Mist (also known as Stephen King's The Mist) is a 2007 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1980 book The Mist by Stephen King.

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The Mummy (1932 film)

The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund.

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The Old Dark House (1932 film)

The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code horror comedy film directed by James Whale.

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The Omen

The Omen is a 1976 English-language supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, and written by David Seltzer.

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The Omen (2006 film)

The Omen (also known as The Omen: 666) is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by John Moore and written by David Seltzer.

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The Orphanage (film)

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona.

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The Others (2001 film)

The Others (Los Otros) is a 2001 supernatural gothic horror film with psychological horror elements.

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The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, literally "The Wagoner") is a 1921 Swedish parable generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'', directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he "loves" a star.

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The Purge

The Purge is a 2013 American dystopian horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco.

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The Ring (2002 film)

The Ring (stylized as the ring) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox and Daveigh Chase.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical science-fiction horror-comedy film by 20th Century Fox produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman.

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The Ruins (film)

The Ruins is a 2008 supernatural horror film directed by Carter Smith which stars Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson.

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The Ruins (novel)

The Ruins is the second novel by American author Scott Smith, whose first novel was A Simple Plan.

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The Sentinel (1977 film)

The Sentinel is a 1977 American supernatural horror film based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Konvitz, who also co-wrote the screenplay with director Michael Winner.

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The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.

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The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

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The Strain (TV series)

The Strain is an American horror drama television series that aired on FX from July 13, 2014, to September 17, 2017.

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The Strangers (2008 film)

The Strangers is a 2008 American slasher film written and directed by Bryan Bertino.

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The Student of Prague (1913 film)

The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag, also known as A Bargain with Satan) is a 1913 German silent horror film.

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The Terror (1928 film)

The Terror is a 1928 early American, pre-Code, slasher film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the play of the same name by Edgar Wallace.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film and a remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There? It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms.

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898).

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The Unholy Three (1925 film)

The Unholy Three is a 1925 American silent film involving a crime spree, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.

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The Uninvited (2009 film)

The Uninvited is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by the Guard Brothers, and starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn.

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The Unknown (1927 film)

The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.

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The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, and the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire.

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The Visit (2015 American film)

The Visit is a 2015 American found footage horror film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Kathryn Hahn.

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The Walking Dead (TV series)

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed by Frank Darabont for AMC that is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy.

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The Wicker Man (2006 film)

The Wicker Man is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage.

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The Witch (2015 film)

The Witch: A New-England Folktale (stylized The VVitch) is a 2015 period supernatural slasher film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his directorial debut.

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The Witches (1990 film)

The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl.

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The Wolf Man (1941 film)

The Wolf Man is a 1941 American horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner.

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Thirteen Ghosts

Thirteen Ghosts (also known as 13 Ghosts and stylized as THIR13EN Ghosts) is a 2001 Canadian-American supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that involves excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the horror genre.

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Tod Browning

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning, Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film actor, film director, screenwriter and vaudeville performer.

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Tooth and Nail (film)

Tooth and Nail is a 2007 horror film written, directed and edited by Mark Young, about a group of people in a post-apocalyptic world who must fight to survive against a band of vicious cannibals.

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Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

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Train (film)

Train is a 2008 horror film directed and written by Gideon Raff; the film stars Thora Birch and Gideon Emery.

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Train to Busan

Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean zombie apocalypse action thriller film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, and Ma Dong-seok.

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Tremors (film)

Tremors is a 1990 American monster film directed by Ron Underwood, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Brent Maddock, and S. S. Wilson, and written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood.

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Tremors (franchise)

The Tremors franchise is a monster movie series centering on the vicious attacks of subterranean worm-like creatures known as Graboids.

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Triangle (2009 British film)

Triangle is a 2009 British-Australian psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Christopher Smith, and starring Melissa George and Michael Dorman.

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Trick 'r Treat

Trick 'r Treat is a 2007 anthology black comedy horror film written and directed by Michael Dougherty and produced by Bryan Singer.

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Under the Skin (2013 film)

Under the Skin is a 2013 science fiction film directed and co-written by Jonathan Glazer, loosely based on Michel Faber's 2000 novel of the same name.

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Underworld (film series)

Underworld is a series of action horror films created by Len Wiseman, Kevin Grevioux and Danny McBride.

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Unfriended

Unfriended is a 2014 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze, written by Nelson Greaves, executive produced by Jason Blum, co-produced by Adam Sidman, and produced by Greaves and Timur Bekmambetov.

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Universal monsters

The Universal monsters are fictional monsters that figured in various horror, suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios during the decades of the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Unsane (film)

Unsane is a 2018 American psychological horror film shot, edited, and directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer.

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Up from the Depths

Up From the Depths is a 1979 horror film directed by Charles B. Griffith.

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Urban Gothic

Urban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, film horror and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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Urban Legend (film)

Urban Legend is a 1998 American psychological slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, and Rebecca Gayheart.

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V/H/S

V/H/S is a 2012 American anthology horror film created by Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting.

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Val Lewton

Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.

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Valentine (film)

Valentine is a 2001 American slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, and Katherine Heigl.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vampire films

Vampire films have been a staple since the era of silent films, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in films throughout the years.

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Van Helsing (film)

Van Helsing is a 2004 American dark fantasy action film written and directed by Stephen Sommers.

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Verónica (2017 Spanish film)

Veronica (Verónica) is a 2017 Spanish horror film directed by Paco Plaza.

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Victor Sjöström

Victor David Sjöström (in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Videodrome

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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Waxworks (film)

Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent fantasy-horror film directed by Paul Leni.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik) is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state during the years 1919 to 1933.

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Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf).

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Werewolf fiction

Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting man/woman-beasts, in the media of literature, drama, film, games, and music.

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Wes Craven

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, writer, producer, and actor.

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a 1994 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, the original creator of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)

When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological horror film.

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When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)

When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American horror film directed by Simon West and written by Jake Wade Wall.

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White Zombie (film)

White Zombie is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Willard (2003 film)

Willard is a 2003 American horror film co-written and directed by Glen Morgan and starring Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey and Laura Elena Harring.

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Willem Dafoe

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor with Italian citizenship.

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William Malone (director)

William Malone (born 1953) is an American horror filmmaker who directed such films as the 1999 remake House on Haunted Hill, Scared to Death, Creature, and FeardotCom.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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Wolf (1994 film)

Wolf is a 1994 American romantic horror film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce and Om Puri.

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Wolf Creek (film)

Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Greg McLean, and starring John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, and Kestie Morassi.

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Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn is a 2003 horror film directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy.

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You're Next

You're Next is a 2011 American slasher film directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett and starring Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, A. J. Bowen and Joe Swanberg.

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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Zombie comedy

The zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as dark comedy.

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Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic horror comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

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1408 (film)

1408 is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King's 1999 short story of the same name.

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1408 (short story)

"1408" is a short story by Stephen King.

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1977 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1977.

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2001 Maniacs

2001 Maniacs is a 2005 American Comedy horror film directed by Tim Sullivan and starring Robert Englund, Jay Gillespie, Dylan Edrington, and Matthew Carey.

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28 Days Later

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland, and starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston.

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28 Weeks Later

28 Weeks Later is a 2007 science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.

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30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night is a three-issue horror comic book miniseries written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and published by American company IDW Publishing in 2002.

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30 Days of Night (film)

30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name.

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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