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Funeral Home
The eccentric old woman Maude Chalmers used to be married to an undertaker, but her husband disappeared several years ago. Maude earned a meager living as a floral designer since that time. Hoping to supplement her income, Maude converts the former funeral into an inn. Maude's granddaughter Heather arrives at the beginning of the summer to live for a while with her grandma. Harry Browning and his mistress Florie book a room in the inn. Maude attempts to kick out the unmarried couple, but they insist on staying. While visiting a local quarry, the couple's car is pushed into the water below, where they both drown. Mr. Davis arrives at the inn to ask about his long-missing wife Helena, but he is soon murdered with a a pickaxe. Heather discovers Helena's necklace in the inn's garage, and she repeatedly hear her grandmother speaking to an unseen man in the basement. She gets the impression that her grandma is keeping secrets. Heather is right, Maude suffers from dissociative identity disorder. And her alternate personality happens to be a ruthless serial killer.

- 1980
Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

- Metascore80
- 1973
Paranormal Activity 4
The story takes place in 2011, five years after Katie killed her boyfriend Micah, sister Kristi, her husband Daniel; and took their baby, Hunter. Story focuses on Alex and her family experiencing weird stuff since the new neighbors moved in the town.

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- 2012
Advent
A young priest finds himself in danger when he goes too far in his search for heaven and hell.
- 2016
Maximum Conviction
Tom (Steven Seagal), a former black ops operative, and his partner Manning (Steve Austin) are forced to defend a prison when a force of mercenaries assaults the facility to find two women.

- 2012
The Color Out of Space
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".

- 2010
Multiple Maniacs
The traveling sideshow "Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions" is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all, but her life changes after she gets raped by a 15-foot lobster.

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- 1970
The Big Black Pill
Joe Dancer, a private detective working in Los Angeles, is handed a big-money case by Tiffany Farinpour of the Farinpour family, which includes powerful politicians. Tiffany needs Joe to find her younger brother David, who has left the family under a cloud. In trying to find David, Joe is warned off by several thugs before he finally finds David in a small town, just trying to live a quiet life. But just seconds after he's located, he is killed by a hidden assassin, Joe discovers that all evidence of David's life in the town has been erased, and Joe faces a murder charge. With the clock ticking, Joe must find the killer in a plot that involves danger and deep family secrets.

- 1981
The Taste of Money
Newly-hired gofer Young-Jak Joo becomes a key pawn in a powerful South Korean corporate-crime family obsessed with sex, money, and intrigue. The family bribes a government official to take the heat off its young heir. The Yoons are so rich, they have no qualms letting the young bag-man cull the cash he's to deliver, from a storeroom jammed with 6 foot high stacks of money. Mr. Joo seems too obsequious and obedient to worry about, but when the wife of the company CEO sees on her spy cameras, that her husband is having an affair with their maid, the infuriated matriarch orders Mr. Joo to have sex with her, then entrusts the befuddled Mr. Joo with monitoring the video screens.

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- 2012
Ghosthouse
A father who works in a funeral house has a nasty habit of stealing things of the dead and he gifts his daughter a stolen doll which turns out to be demonic and one night both father and mother are brutally murdered by an unseen entity while the daughter is locked in the basement along with the creepy doll. After this incident, the story moves twenty years ahead and a radio operator picks up a signal of people screaming. The operator somehow manages to track down the location where these screaming occurred and travels there with his girlfriend and the young couple arrive to the place where the screaming took place, which is the same house where the killings took place because of the demonic doll.

- 1988
The Business of Strangers
A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted businessman while stuck at an airport hotel.

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- 2001
Bundy and the Green River Killer
A police detective is on the case to track down the gruesome Green River Killer and put him behind bars. To do this, he uses any means necessary, including enlisting the help of a convicted psychopath. He consults the infamous Ted Bundy to learn from his experience.

- 2019
The Room
Loving young couple Kate and Matt move into a secluded mansion and discover a strange secret room whose interior holds the power to make everything they want a reality. Millions of dollars, the original of Van Gogh and the most luxurious outfits--whatever they want instantly materializes. One day, she decides to ask the room to grant them the child they haven't been able to have. But their initial happiness from this blessing will have unforeseen consequences. As they say: careful what you wish for.

- 2019
Mad Detective
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer.

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- 2007
Lucky Grandma
In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly-widowed 80-year-old grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live as an independent woman despite the worry of her family. When a local fortuneteller (Wai Ching Ho) predicts a most auspicious day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino and goes all-in, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck--suddenly attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate to protect herself, Grandma employs the services of a bodyguard (Corey Ha) from a rival gang and soon finds herself in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.

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- 2019
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.

- Metascore66
- 2006
Equinox
Four teenagers go on a woods hike and encounter a creepy forest ranger and a crazy old man. The old man is a scientist who had found a mysterious book bound in human skin, the Necronomicon, and when he had read its cryptic symbols it conjured monsters into existence. The teenagers keep the book, and are then pursued by monsters, a demonic cult, and the ranger. The ranger turns out to be a red flying devil in human disguise.

- 1970
Alice, Sweet Alice
After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main suspect.

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- 1976
St. Benny the Dip
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.

- 1951
Satan's Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders and a teacher are kidnapped by satanists led by a sheriff (John Ireland) and his wife (Yvonne De Carlo).

- 1977
The Bride and the Beast
Newlyweds Dan and Laura Fuller arrive at Dan's isolated mansion just as a thunderstorm breaks. Dan, a big game hunter, reveals he has a pet gorilla named Spanky whom he brought back from Africa and raised since infancy, and now plans to donate him to a zoo. Laura, who has grown up with animals, is fascinated and insists on meeting the animal. Despite Dan's warnings, Laura gets near enough to Spanky's cage for the gorilla to grab her wrist, but Laura calmly talks the animal into releasing her. Later that night, Laura is disturbed by dreams of the gorilla and, awakening, paces around the adjoining room. Meanwhile, Spanky escapes from his cage and makes his way upstairs. Hearing Laura, Spanky approaches the room and confronts Laura, who is unafraid. Dan awakens in time to see Spanky rip off Laura's nightgown and shoots the animal as Laura faints. Later, a revived Laura admits to Dan that she was completely unafraid of Spanky, and has a strange feeling she knew him before. Dan insists that Laura speak with a doctor the following day. Returning to sleep, Laura dreams of living long ago in a past filled with wild animals and awakens screaming, confessing to Dan that she has had this same dream for years. The next morning, Dan brings his friend, Dr. Carl Reiner, to examine Laura, and Carl suggests a hypnotic session to relieve Laura's tensions. Laura agrees and under hypnosis regresses into the past, revealing that in a previous life Laura was a gorilla. Dan remains skeptical, but Carl assures him that Laura believes in this vision, which he links to her disturbing dreams. Carl advises Dan to postpone their honeymoon trip to Africa, but Dan insists on going. Laura, Dan and his manservant Taro depart the following day for Africa, where Dan receives special permission from game warden Capt. Cameron to capture various animals for an American zoo. Over the next several days Dan hunts many animals, capturing a zebra, rhinoceros and giraffe. Laura is extremely happy and confides in Dan that she feels as if she has returned home. A week later, Dan is summoned by Cameron, who reveals that a shipwreck just off the coast has released two dangerous Indian tigers and the government requests that Dan help recapture them. Over the next few days, Dan, Taro and his other assistants get close to both tigers at different times, but are unable to reach them. When one of the camp servants, Marka, is mauled my the animals, Dan wounds one tiger. Later, Taro reports that the other tiger has fallen into one of the traps, and Dan knows the wounded tiger will eventually seek its mate and waits by the trap all night. Early the following morning, Laura awakens and, worried about her husband's continued absence, goes out in search of Dan. The wounded tiger corners Laura as she nears the trap and forces her off a small cliff. Dan attacks the tiger and kills it with a knife as Taro hastily returns the dazed Laura to camp. Taro goes for a doctor, as Laura dreams fitfully about her previous existence in the jungle. Later, Laura awakens and hears a gorilla call outside the tent. Although still stunned, Laura goes outside where a gorilla awaits her. When Dan tries to intervene, the gorilla knocks him down before carrying Laura away. Dan revives and tracks Laura to a cave filled with gorillas, but, still dazed, Laura does not respond to Dan's entreaties. Dan shoots one gorilla and sees Laura being carried away by the other gorillas before he is struck unconscious. Back at home several weeks later, Dan relates to Carl that despite a protracted search, he was never able to find Laura. Carl comforts Dan by offering his belief that Laura willingly returned to her origins.

- 1958
Hurricane Streets
Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?

- 1997
Flashpoint
It began as a stroke of incredible luck for two United States Border Patrol agents, Bob Logan and Ernie Wyatt. Partners and pals who enjoyed good whiskey and bad women. They accidentally discover a jeep buried in the Texas desert for over 20 years with $850,000 in cash in a metal container; a second metal container that holds a fishing rod and a high powered rifle. And finally a skeleton of a man in the drivers seat. They find his wallet with only a Texas drivers license and a piece of paper with a phone number and a Washington, D.C. area code. It should have been their ticket to a first class life if they played it "smart". If they played it "stupid" they could wind up like the skeleton in the jeep. Logan wants to take the money and run; Wyatt wants to at least try and find out who is the skeleton in the jeep. What was in store for both of them is something much more terrifying. A chilling drama of friendship, intrigue and murder.

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- 1984
They Made Me a Criminal
A southpaw with a distinctive boxing style, New York based Johnnie Bradfield has just won the world lightweight boxing champion title. While he, to the public, portrays himself as wholesome, doting on his mother, he, in reality, lives a hard and fast life in stark contrast to that public persona. While passed out in a drunken stupor, a reporter, poised to expose Johnnie's true lifestyle, dies in Johnnie's apartment. Knowing that he did not kill the reporter but that he is implicated in doing so, Johnnie, with a few hundred dollars of his several thousand dollars amassed wealth in his pocket, goes on the run in learning that the authorities also believe that he died in a fiery car crash. Not by plan or choice but rather circumstance and need, Johnnie, using the alias Jack Dorney, ends up at the Rafferty Date Farm in Arizona run by elderly Grandma Rafferty, whose brother, Father Rafferty, before his passing, sent a group of six reform school kids from New York City's East side to give them a better chance at life in that reform. Despite initial animosity between Johnnie and Grandma, the six delinquents and Peggy, the sister of one of the reform kids who accompanied her brother to the farm in feeling she may be a grounding influence for him, all end up having a reciprocal positive influence on the other, especially Johnnie and Peggy, who start to fall for each other. There are two problems potentially to upset Johnnie's new life. First, he may turn to the only way he knows how to earn a living, namely boxing, which may expose him as still being alive. Second, NYPD Detective Monty Phelan, whose career took a nosedive ten years prior in a grave error of judgment, believes Johnnie is indeed alive and will do anything to prove his case in needing to restore some legitimacy to his career.

- 1938