Horror
see all genres ›Inducing fear and unease with the grotesque and uncanny, horror films entertain with revulsion and surprise. Many of cinema's earliest horror films drew upon gothic tales by authors like Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. The genre has historically followed strong cyclical patterns: monsters ruled the 1930s, the slasher films dominated the 1980s. Conventions (the lone survivor and the haunted house to name only two) abound. Remakes are common. And self-reflexive humor in horror is trending.
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Genres / Horror
SUB-GENRES · Creature Feature · Expressionist · Giallo · Occult · Old Dark House · Slasher · Splatter
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Id
The id, our unconscious, contains all our selfish drives and desires. Our conscious keeps these instincts in check, repressing them in order to maintain the civility required by society. But what happens when the id takes control and is allowed to run free? The result is a grim, shocking, contemplative and experimental...Start your free trial to watch -
In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original novel. Here too are some of the...Start your free trial to watch -
In the Bogie Man's Cave
The Bogie Man’s cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more...Start your free trial to watch
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Intruder
It’s 10:00pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good, and the night crew has a long shift ahead of them. Longer than they think! The lovely check-out girl has a deranged ex-boyfriend, the store’s phone lines are cut and the employees start...Start your free trial to watch -
Isle of the Snake People
A small remote island is the home for voodoo rites, death cults and an evil priest named Damballah. Local law officials turn a blind eye to their evil ways until Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland. Determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking...Start your free trial to watch
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Jasper and the Haunted House
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring...Start your free trial to watch -
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The "Second Coming" is upon us and Jesus has returned to Earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining Kung Fu action with Biblical prophecy and a liberal dose of humor, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Kingdom of Shadows
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Rod Steiger (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), KINGDOM OF SHADOWS is a haunting, sometimes shocking documentary that explores the evolution of horror in world cinema with a danse macabre of religion, science, carnivals, sex, nightmares, monstrosity and death. More than fifty...Start your free trial to watch -
Kiss of the Tarantula
When Susan discovers that mommy dearest is plotting to have dear old dad killed by her secret lover (who is also dad’s brother), she places a tarantula in mommy’s bed while she sleeps. And innocent-looking Susan doesn’t stop there, making good plot use of her father’s mortuary and her creepy little playmates!Start your free trial to watch -
The Knight of the Snows
Georges Méliès avails himself of fabulous painted sets, lavish costumes, acrobatics and editing tricks to satisfyingly transpose the imaginative domain of the fairy tale into cinema. The plot turns on a spurned suitor who sells his soul to the devil to capture his beloved princess. Enter the shining knight...Start your free trial to watch
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L'ilya
Meet L'ILYA, a young video artist who documents peoples' suicides and projects their final moments out of context in trendy clubs. Due to the film being a "moyen metrage" (or "medium-length feature," meaning, as the name implies, a film whose running time is too long to be classified as a short yet too short to be presented...Start your free trial to watch -
Lemora
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee (played by the late Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith), receives a letter stating that Lila’s father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night...Start your free trial to watch
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Long Weekend
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch their differences. They are a careless couple, littering the countryside with...Start your free trial to watch -
Mad Cowgirl
Sarah Lassez delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval), a...Start your free trial to watch -
Mad Doctor of Blood Island
The second entry in the BLOOD ISLAND Trilogy lives up to its cursed reputation as enraged, green-blooded monsters prowl the haunted jungles. An American pathologist is called in to investigate a series of grisly killings, with victims' limbs and innards gruesomely strewn about the crime scenes. His search...Start your free trial to watch




