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After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatoni β¦c. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorb moviecult filmindependent film |
Themes: | claustrophobiamadnessevilillnessinsanityghostmarriagedeathrevenge |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | costume horrorcrimes of passionhereditydrive in classiccatatoniacryptmassachusettschandeliersicknessestateburied aliveengagementsuperstitionbutlerpsychotronic β¦haunted by the pastaccidental deathdiseasegothiccult directorskeletonlightningbased on short storycursegravecoffinhousemansionpaintingdreamfirecharacter name in titleblood (See All) |
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague. β¦.. An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | evilillnessinsanitymarriagedeath |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | superstitioncursecoffinhousemansionblood |
In "House of 1000 Corpses", two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the 1000+ horrors that β¦await. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | madnessinsanitydeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | buried alivecult directorskeletonlightninggravecoffinhousedreamfireblood |
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in β¦ love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever? (Read More)
Themes: | madnessillnessinsanity |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | estatehaunted by the pastgothichousepaintingfirecharacter name in titleblood |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel β¦ Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horror |
Themes: | madnessghostrevengedeath |
Story: | cryptestatesuperstitionskeletoncursegravecoffinhousemansionpaintingfireblood |
The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two others) of the home of his family's evil landlords, he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the "chil β¦dren" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | claustrophobiaevilinsanitydeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | gothiccult directorskeletonhousemansionblood |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be β¦fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagedeath |
Story: | estatebutlerhaunted by the pastaccidental deathgothicmansionpaintingdreamfirecharacter name in title |
The curse of the headless horseman is the legacy of the small town of Sleepy Hollow. Spearheaded by the eager Constable Ichabod Crane and his new world ways into the quagmire of secrets and murder, secrets once laid to rest, best forgotten and now reawakened, and he too, holding a dark secret of a p β¦ast once gone. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | ghostmarriagerevenge |
Story: | costume horrorgothiccult directorbased on short storycursecoffindreamfireblood |
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, β¦whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits inhabit the old mansion. As time goes by it becomes obvious that they have gotten more than they bargained for as the ghostly presence in the house manifests itself in horrific and deadly ways. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horror |
Themes: | insanityghostmarriagedeath |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | gothichousemansion |
Based on a true story that was claimed by writer Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long Island where newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into the house that they hope will be their dream house which ends up in terror. Despite full discl β¦osure by the real estate agent of the house's history, George and Kathy buy the house. George says, "Houses don't have memories," but they turn to their family priest Father Delaney who believes the house is haunted and performs an exorcism on the house. But the evil spirit in the house causes him to become blind and makes him very sick. With the help of another priest Father Bolen and a police detective, George and Kathy face the fears of the house, but not knowing the spirit is planning to possess George and then the children... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilghostmarriage |
Story: | chandelierestategothiclightningcursehousedreamblood |
In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-o β¦r at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horror |
Themes: | madnessghostdeathrevenge |
Story: | chandelierestateburied alivegothiccursegravecoffinmansionpaintingfireblood |
This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of H β¦arker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | madnessevilinsanitymarriagedeathrevenge |
Locations: | storm |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | costume horrorgothiccursecoffincharacter name in titleblood |
Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother's fiancee, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father's estate β¦ to learn that his brother's mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father, Lawrence sets out to find his brother's killer... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline comes to investigate. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | evilinsanitydeath |
Story: | cryptestatecursecoffinmansionfireblood |
A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will β¦ live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | claustrophobiaghostdeath |
Story: | superstitiondiseasegothicgravemansion |
Barbra and Johnny visit their father's grave in a remote cemetery when they are suddenly set upon by zombies. Barbra manages to get away and takes refuge in what seems to be an abandoned farm house. She is soon joined by Ben who stopped at the house in need of gas. Beset by the walking dead all arou β¦nd them Ben does his best to secure the doors and windows. The news reports are grim however with creatures returning to life everywhere. Barbra and Ben are surprised when they realize there are 5 people hiding out in the basement: Harry, Helen and Judy Cooper; and a young couple, Tom and Judy. Dissensions sets in almost immediately with Harry Cooper wanting to be in charge. As their situation deteriorates, their chances of surviving the night lessen minute by minute. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | marriagerevengedeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | drive in classicsicknesspsychotronicdiseasegothiccult directorgravehousefireblood |
40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE β¦ terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone. To celebrate the film's 40th anniversary and its enduring ability to scare audiences both new and old, Dark Sky Films proudly presents THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in an all-new 4k digital transfer and with a newly created 7.1 surround sound mix supervised by Tobe Hooper. Get ready to experience fear in a whole new way. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | madnessevilinsanitydeath |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | drive in classiccryptestatepsychotronicgothiccult directorskeletongraveblood |
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the c β¦ompanion of the monster. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | evil |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | cryptgothiclightningfirecharacter name in title |
Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all l β¦iterature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's. (Read More)
Themes: | madnessinsanityghostrevengedeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | haunted by the pastgravecharacter name in titleblood |
Set back in the late 1800s in a Victorian village, a man and woman by the names of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot are betrothed because the Everglots need the money or else they'll be living on the streets and the Van Dorts want to be high in society. But when things go wrong at the wedding r β¦ehearsal, Victor goes into the woods to practice his vows. Just as soon as he gets them right, he finds himself married to Emily, the corpse bride. While Victoria waits on the other side, there's a rich newcomer that may take Victor's place. So two brides, one groom, who will Victor pick? (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Themes: | ghostrevenge |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | butlergothicskeletonpaintingfire |
Ashley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil. This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil. Ash and her β¦ end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilghost |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | psychotroniccult directorskeletoncurseblood |
The cynical and skeptical writer Mike Enslin writes books evaluating supernatural phenomena in hotels, graveyards and other haunted places, usually debunking the mystery. While writing his latest book, he travels from Los Angeles to New York to spend one night in the Dolphin Hotel's posessed room 14 β¦08, which is permanently unavailable for guests. The reluctant manager Mr. Gerald Olin objects to his request and offers an upgrade, expensive booze and finally relates the death of more than fifty guests over decades in the cursed room. However Mike threatens Mr. Olin, promising to sue the hotel, and is finally allowed to check into the room. Later in the night, he finds that guests of room 1408, once they have checked in, might never leave the room alive. (Read More)
Themes: | claustrophobiaevilillnessinsanityghostdeath |
Story: | based on short storygravecoffinpaintingdreamfireblood |
The five highly trained Bennett sisters in Georgian England must try to protect themselves from the growing zombie threat, find suitable husbands for themselves, battle marriage proposals and unlikely suitors, and save the country before it's too late.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | illnessmarriagerevengedeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | superstitiondiseaselightningmansionpaintingfireblood |
Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one surv β¦ivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilghostdeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | psychotroniccult directorgravefireblood |
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19t β¦h century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin." (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | illnessdeath |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | sicknesssuperstitiondiseasecursecoffinfireblood |
New England, 1630: William and Katherine try to lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a β¦ family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | madnessevilillnessinsanityghostdeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | gothicgraveblood |
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | ghost |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | psychotroniccult directorskeletoncoffinhouse |
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | madnessdeath |
Story: | drive in classicpsychotronicgothiccult directorlightningmansiondreamfireblood |
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king...
Themes: | revengedeath |
Story: | cryptgothicskeletoncoffinpaintingdreamfireblood |
As the centennial of the small town of Antonio Bay, California approaches, paranormal activity begins to occur at midnight. 100 years ago, the wealthy leper Blake bought the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane and sailed with his people to form a leper colony. However, while sailing through a thick fog, the β¦y were deliberately misguided by a campfire onshore, steering the course of the ship toward the light and crashing it against the rocks. While the town's residents prepare to celebrate, the victims of this heinous crime that the town's founders committed rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the ominous glowing fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilghostdeathrevenge |
Story: | drive in classicpsychotronicgothiccult directorcurseblood |
The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetery in the woods behind the house. The Creed's neighbours are reluctant to talk about the cemetery, and for good r β¦eason too. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | ghostdeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | psychotronicgothicgravecoffinhousedreamfireblood |
A young hospice worker helping care for an invalid who lives in a remote mansion in the Louisiana bayous finds herself caught in the middle of morbid happenings centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners.
Themes: | ghostmarriagedeath |
Story: | superstitiongothicskeletonlightningmansiondreamblood |
Five tales of terror are presented. The first deals with a demented old man returning from the grave to get the Father's Day cake his murdering daughter never gave him. The second is about a not-too-bright farmer discovering a meteor that turns everything into plant-life. The third is about a vengef β¦ul husband burying his wife and her lover up to their necks on the beach. The fourth is about a creature that resides in a crate under the steps of a college. The final story is about an ultra-rich businessman who gets his comeuppance from cockroaches. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | revengedeath |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | buried alivecult directorskeletonlightninggraveblood |
Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home. Hutter leaves his innocent wife, Ellen, with some β¦ friends while he is away. Hutter's trek is an unusual one, with many locals not wanting to take him near the castle where strange events have been occurring. Once at the castle, Hutter does manage to sell the Count the house, but he also notices and feels unusual occurrences, primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in the daytime when the Count is unusually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he has recently read, believes the Count is really a vampire or Nosferatu. While Hutter is trapped in the castle, the Count, hiding in a shipment of coffins, makes his way to Wisbourg, causing death along his way, which most attribute to the plague. Hutter himself tries to rush home to save his town and most importantly save Ellen from Nosferatu's imminent arrival. In Wisbourg, Ellen can feel the impending darkness as Nosferatu gets closer. But she learns that a sinless woman can sacrifice herself to kill the vampire. Will Hutter be able to save Ellen either from Nosferatu and/or her self-sacrifice? (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horror |
Themes: | madnessdeath |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | cryptestatesuperstitiongothiccoffinhouseblood |
The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However, she has been spotted by the mysterious count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle o β¦utside the village... (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult film |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | costume horrorcryptgothiccoffin |
Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). T β¦his movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gothic horrorcult filmindependent film |
Themes: | illnessdeath |
Story: | costume horrorcoffinblood |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | madnessevilinsanitydeath |
Story: | butlercursehousemansionblood |
Following up the previous Nightmare film, the dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills all three of the surviving Elm Street kids. However, Kristen (who has the ability to draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her frien β¦d Alice before her demise. Afterwords, Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power she now wields to pull a new group of teenage children into his foul domain. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilrevenge |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | drive in classicskeletoncoffindreamfireblood |
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends β¦up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | madnessevilinsanitydeath |
Story: | gothiccult directorlightningpaintingblood |
Japanese warlord Hidetori Ichimonji decides the time has come to retire and divide his fiefdom among his three sons. His eldest and middle sons - Taro and Jiro - agree with his decision and promise to support him for his remaining days. The youngest son Saburo disagrees with all of them arguing that β¦ there is little likelihood the three brothers will remain united. Insulted by his son's brashness, the warlord banishes Saburo. As the warlord begins his retirement, he quickly realizes that his two eldest sons selfish and have no intention of keeping their promises. It leads to war and only banished Saburo can possibly save him. (Read More)
Themes: | madnessillnessinsanitymarriagerevenge |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | cursegravedreamfireblood |
It hasn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, β¦and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own, turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | deathrevenge |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | costume horrorchandeliergothiccoffinfireblood |
The Draytons - David, Steff and their son Billy - live in a small Maine town. One night a ferocious storm hits the area, damaging their house. The storm is accompanied by a strange mist. David and Billy and their neighbour Brent Norton go into town. There they discover that the mist contains some fr β¦ightening creatures, creatures intent on killing humans. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | insanitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | storm |
Story: | lightningbased on short storyhousepaintingfireblood |
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by β¦ the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | b movie |
Themes: | evilghostrevengedeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | estatehouseblood |
Zombies rule the world, except for a small group of scientists and military personnel who reside in an underground bunker in Florida. The scientists are using the undead in gruesome experiments; much to the chagrin of the military. Finally the military finds that their men have been used in the scie β¦ntists' experiments, and banish the scientists to the caves that house the Living Dead. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have made their way into the bunker. (Read More)
Subgenre: | b moviecult filmindependent film |
Themes: | claustrophobiainsanitydeathrevenge |
Story: | drive in classicpsychotroniccult directorskeletonhouseblood |
Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the p β¦revious evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd sounds abound; and Daniel, the pianist, is killed by his own dog. A bit of research indicates that the ballet school was once a witches' coven - and as Suzy learns, still is. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilillnessdeath |
Story: | drive in classicpsychotronicgothiccult directorlightningcoffinfireblood |
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so cl β¦osely. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | claustrophobiaillnessinsanityghostdeath |
Story: | drive in classicgothiccult directorskeletonhousepaintingfireblood |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever β¦ had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
Themes: | claustrophobiadeath |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | estatelightninggravehousemansiondreamblood |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg β¦eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | illnessmarriagedeath |
Locations: | storm |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | butlerlightninggravecoffinfire |
In part six of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, dream monster Freddy Krueger has finally killed all the children of his hometown, and seeks to escape its confines to hunt fresh prey. To this end, he recruits the aid of his (previously unmentioned) daughter. However, she discovers the demonic orig β¦in of her father's powers and meets Dad head-on in a final showdown (originally presented in 3-D). (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilinsanityghostdeath |
Story: | drive in classicgothicdreamfirecharacter name in titleblood |
On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends (comprising Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Fred Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Fred tries to pick them off one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save β¦ you? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | evilrevenge |
Story: | drive in classicgothiccult directorhousedreamblood |
Christine Brown is a loans officer at a bank but is worried about her lot in life. She's in competition with a competent colleague for an assistant manager position and isn't too sure about her status with a boyfriend. Worried that her boss will think less of her if she shows weakness, she refuses a β¦ time extension on a loan to an old woman, Mrs. Ganush, who now faces foreclosure and the loss of her house. In retaliation, the old woman place a curse on her which, she subsequently learns, will result in her being taken to hell in a few days time. With the help of a psychic, she tries to rid herself of the demon, but faces several hurdles in the attempt. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | evilrevenge |
Story: | cult directorcursegravehousemansiondream |