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, 1h24
Directed by Glen MorganOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Films about families,
Christmas films,
Films about sexuality,
Serial killer filmsActors Katie Cassidy Rodgers,
Michelle Trachtenberg,
Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Oliver Hudson,
Lacey Chabert,
Kristen ClokeRating46%




William Edward "Billy" Lenz, a boy born with severe jaundice due to a liver disease, is constantly abused by his hateful mother. After murdering Billy's father and burying his body in the underground crawlspace with the help of her boyfriend, Mrs. Lenz locks Billy in the attic to prevent him from talking. Years later, she attempts to conceive a new baby but realizes that her new man is impotent. She goes up to the attic and rapes 12-year-old Billy. Nine months later, a daughter named Agnes is born and treated like a princess by Mrs. Lenz. When Agnes is eight and Christmas comes around, Billy escapes from the attic and disfigures Agnes by gouging out her eye and taunts his mother, saying "she's my family now." Billy then gruesomely kills his mother and her lover. He is caught by the police eating pieces of his mother's flesh, and sent to a mental asylum.
, 1h35
Directed by Samuel BayerOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Fantastic,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Films about children,
Films about sexuality,
Films about pedophilia,
Freddy,
Serial killer filmsActors Jackie Earle Haley,
Kyle Gallner,
Rooney Mara,
Katie Cassidy Rodgers,
Thomas Dekker,
Kellan LutzRating52%




Kris Fowles (Katie Cassidy) goes to the Springwood Diner to meet with her boyfriend, Dean Russell (Kellan Lutz), who falls asleep at the table and meets a man covered in burn scars, wearing a red and green sweater, a fedora and a clawed glove on his hand. The burned man cuts Dean's throat in the dream, but in reality it appears that Dean is cutting his own throat as his friend, waitress Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara), looks on with Kris. At Dean's funeral, Kris sees a photograph of her and Dean as children, but cannot recall ever knowing Dean before high school. Kris begins to dream about the burned man herself and refuses to go to sleep for fear that she will die in her dreams. Jesse Braun (Thomas Dekker), Kris's ex-boyfriend, shows up at her house to keep her company while she sleeps, but Kris meets the burned man in her dreams and is murdered. Covered in blood, Jesse runs to Nancy's house to try to explain what happened and he learns that Nancy has been having dreams about the same man: Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley).
, 1h45
Directed by Chris SivertsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Serial killer films,
Films about disabilitiesActors Lindsay Lohan,
Julia Ormond,
Neal McDonough,
Brian Geraghty,
Garcelle Beauvais,
Bonnie AaronsRating36%




The quiet suburb of New Salem is being terrorized by a serial killer who abducts and tortures young women, holding them captive for weeks before murdering them. Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a pianist and aspiring writer, appears to be his latest victim when she disappears during a night out with her friends. She is later seen bound and gagged on an operating table as her hands are exposed to dry ice. As the days tick by, the special FBI Task Force convened to track the killer begins to lose hope of finding her before it's too late.
, 1h28
Origin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantasy,
Action,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Transport films,
Serial killer films,
Road moviesActors Gaylen RossRating51%




The film opens with T.P (Tony Fish), one of the senior counselors at a camp, is telling a scary story around a campfire to the young campers and the other counselors - who consist of Betsy (Gaylen Ross), Ellie (Jan Claire), Dave (Seth Jones), Stacy (Harriet Bass), Bill (Alexander Murphy Jr.), and Max (Carl Fredericks); the late middle-aged head counselor. After T.P. finishes his story, Max begins to tell of a man named Madman Marz, who killed his whole family with an axe was convicted by being hung for his crimes, only to break free and disappear into the woods. Max continues by saying that anyone who says his name will awaken him and cause him to track and kill that person. Richie (Jimmy Steele), a cocky teenager, stands up and screams Marz's name, smashing a rock into his old house. Max, annoyed at Richie, ends the campfire and sends everyone to their cabins, while he goes into town to retrieve supplies. Richie notices Madman Marz up in a tree, and follows him to his house, where he investigates. As Max and Dave try to retrieve a felling axe that is stuck into a log, everyone heads inside their cabins. Chef Dippy (Michael Sulliva) is killed by Marz outside.
, 1h37
Directed by Ronny Yu,
John Lafia,
Don Mancini,
Tom Holland,
Jack BenderOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Films about children,
Films about families,
Jeu,
Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Child's Play (film series),
Serial killer films,
Films about toys,
Films about disabilities,
Comedy horror films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Brad Dourif,
A Martinez,
Jennifer Tilly,
Brennan Elliott,
Alex Vincent,
Fiona DourifRating56%




Set twenty-five years after Child's Play, the Chucky doll (voiced by Brad Dourif) mysteriously arrives in the mail of the home of paraplegic Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) and her mother, Sarah. Later that night Sarah is found dead from a stab wound and her death proclaimed a suicide.
, 1h31
Directed by Bill CondonOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Fantasy,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Ghost films,
Serial killer filmsActors Tony Todd,
Kelly Rowan,
William O'Leary,
Bill Nunn,
Matt Clark,
Timothy CarhartRating52%




The father of New Orleans schoolteacher Annie Tarrant (Rowan) was murdered in a Candyman-like fashion some years prior. When Professor Philip Purcell is murdered in a bathroom by Candyman after presenting the legend at a book signing and calling him forth, Annie's brother is accused of the murder (since his furious public confrontation of Purcell over the subject) and one of her students starts to see the Candyman. In order to disprove to herself that the Candyman exists, she says his name five times in front of a mirror, summoning him to New Orleans on the eve of Mardi Gras, where the killings begin in earnest. Her husband Paul Mckeever becoming one of Candyman's new victims. The film's climax reveals more details of the Candyman's genesis, and his reason for stalking Annie.
, 1h30
Directed by Anthony PerkinsOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Horror,
Crime,
SlasherThemes Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Serial killer films,
Films about psychiatryActors Anthony Perkins,
Diana Scarwid,
Jeff Fahey,
Roberta Maxwell,
Hugh Gillin,
Donovan ScottRating54%




Norman Bates works at the Bates Motel and lives with the preserved corpse of his mother, Emma Spool. Local law enforcement and Norman's ex-boss, Ralph Statler, are concerned because Mrs. Spool has been missing for over a month. Duane Duke, a sleazy musician desperate for money, is offered the job of assistant motel manager to replace the late Warren Toomey who was fired by Norman. Maureen Coyle, a mentally unstable young nun, is a long-term tenant at the Bates Motel.
, 1h39
Directed by Bernard RoseOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
SlasherThemes Films about music and musicians,
Ghost films,
Serial killer films,
Hip hop films,
Gangster filmsActors Virginia Madsen,
Tony Todd,
Xander Berkeley,
Vanessa Williams,
Kasi Lemmons,
Bernard RoseRating66%




Helen Lyle, a graduate student, conducts research on urban legends, and, in the process, learns of a local legend known as Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will murder the summoner with his hook-hand. Later that evening, Helen and her friend Bernadette, skeptical of Candyman's existence, call Candyman's name into the mirror in Helen's bathroom, but nothing happens.
, 1h29
Directed by Fred WaltonOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Horror,
Crime,
SlasherThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Serial killer films,
Teen movieActors Deborah Foreman,
Thomas F. Wilson,
Ken Olandt,
Griffin O'Neal,
Leah Pinsent,
Clayton RohnerRating60%




A group of college friends--Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz, Kit and Arch--gather to celebrate Spring Break by spending the weekend at the island mansion of their friend Muffy St. John, on the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day. The tone is set almost immediately, with Muffy preparing details around the house, and finds an old jack-in-the-box she remembers (in flashback). Her friends, meanwhile, are joking around on the pier, then on the ferry to the island. But en route to the island, Buck, a local deckhand, is seriously injured in a gruesome accident.
, 1h22
Directed by Bigas LunaOrigin EspagneGenres Thriller,
Horror,
Crime,
SlasherThemes Medical-themed films,
Serial killer films,
Films about disabilities,
La cécitéActors Zelda Rubinstein,
Michael Lerner,
Isabel García Lorca,
Craig HillRating66%




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