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Phantasm (1979)
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Phantasm (1979)

Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to  β€¦half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man. (Read More)

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Story:
severed fingerchild driving a carburning carcar crashattempted child strangulationfirst of tetralogypart of tetralogyice cream manmysterious eventdrill in the headgrave robbingdead parentstall manantique shopice cream truck β€¦mausoleumvolkswagen beetlefingerstrong manmopedcasketparallel universedirector also cinematographerguitar playingundertakermadmaneye gougingpsychotronicdwarfpresumed deadelectronic music scorecult directordismembermentgrandmotherfirst partautomobileactor shares first name with characterstalkingevil manfirst of serieschild in perilpart of seriescoffinno opening creditsdeath of friendgood versus evilbeddreamsurprise endingknifesingingone word titlefemale nudity (See All)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
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A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

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)

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funeralmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
cemetery
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mysterious villain
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New Nightmare (1994)
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New Nightmare (1994)

It's nearing the 10th Anniversary of the film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and one of the stars, Heather Langenkamp is being scared by a voice on a phone, sounding very similar to the film's villain, Freddy Krueger. When Heather's husband is killed in a car accident and is discovered with slash marks β€¦ on him, Heather starts to wonder something. Especially when she discovers that Wes Craven is writing another 'Nightmare' film. Soon, she realizes that Freddy has now entered the real world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again. (Read More)

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funeralfearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
cemeterycar
Characters:
boy
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Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
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Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)

It's been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger terrorized people in the dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory. Freddy still has one more plan on getting back to Elm Street. He resurrects Jason Voorhees and sends him off to kill. The more bodies which fall to the groun β€¦d, the stronger in which Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realizes that Jason isn't going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself. (Read More)

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cult filmindependent film
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fearmurder
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nightmare
Locations:
small towncemetery
Characters:
mysterious villainzombie
Story:
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only on β€¦e who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son? (Read More)

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cult filmindependent film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
car
Characters:
boy
Story:
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The Fog (1980)
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The Fog (1980)

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)

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fearmurder
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small town
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mysterious villainzombieboy
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Enemy Mine (1985)
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Enemy Mine (1985)

A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexp β€¦ected way. (Read More)

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cult film
Themes:
funeralfearmurder
Characters:
alienbrother brother relationship
Story:
psychotronicpresumed deadelectronic music scoreevil manchild in perildeath of friendgood versus evildreamsurprise endingknifesinging

Friday The 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
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Friday The 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Five years after killing the goalie hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis has grown up in various mental hospitals unable to get over the nightmares about Jason's return. When Tommy is sent to a rural halfway house in New Jersey for mentally disturbed teenagers, a series of grisly murder β€¦s begin anew as another hockey-masked killer begins killing off all people at and around the residence. Has Jason returned from the dead to re-start his killing spree? Has Tommy decided to take over the reign of Jason, or has someone else? (Read More)

Subgenre:
cult filmindependent film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
small towncemetery
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mysterious villainbrother brother relationship
Story:
madmaneye gougingpsychotronicstalkingevil manchild in perilsurprise endingfemale nudity

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Pet Sematary (1989) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Pet Sematary (1989)

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)

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cult film
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funeralmurder
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nightmare
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cemeterycar
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zombie
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Halloween (1978)
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Halloween (1978)

The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor want β€¦s to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people. (Read More)

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fearmurder
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Characters:
boy
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Legion (2010)
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Legion (2010)

An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael (Bettany).

Themes:
murder
Locations:
small town
Characters:
brother brother relationship
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28 Days Later... (2002)
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28 Days Later... (2002)

Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our pro β€¦tagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature. (Read More)

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Child's Play (1988) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Child's Play (1988)

When Charles Lee Ray needs to get quick escape from cop Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerou β€¦s murders. Once the adults accept Andy's story as truth, it's too late. (Read More)

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car
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boy
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Poltergeist (1982)
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Poltergeist (1982)

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.

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cult film
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cemetery
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boy
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

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)

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funeralmurder
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Halloween 5 (1989)
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Halloween 5 (1989)

It's one year later after the events of Halloween 4. Michael survives the shootings and on October 31st he returns with a vengeance. Lurking and stalking, Jamie, Rachel, and Rachel's friends, Michael forms a plan to lure Jamie out of the children's hospital where events lead up to the confrontation  β€¦at the Myers house. Halloween 5 is a dark, thrill ride that will scare the heck out of you! (Read More)

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The Prophecy (1995) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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The Prophecy (1995)

"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit β€¦ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)

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Critters (1986)
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Critters (1986)

A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.

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A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
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A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Kruger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death in β€¦to a nightmare reality. (Read More)

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In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)
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In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)

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)

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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)

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The Road Warrior (1981)
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The Road Warrior (1981)

A former Australian policeman now living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback as a warrior agrees to help a community of survivors living in a gasoline refinery to defend them and their gasoline supplies from evil barbarian warriors.

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murder
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car
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boy
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Wolf Creek (2005)
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Wolf Creek (2005)

Three backpackers travel into the Australian Outback, only to find themselves stranded at Wolf Creek crater. Once there they are encountered by a bushman, Mick Taylor, who offers them a ride back to his place. Little do the three know that their adventure into the Outback, would be a complete nightm β€¦are after the backpackers find a way to escape. (Read More)

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fearmurder
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car
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mysterious villain
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw o β€¦ther people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all. (Read More)

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Scream (1996) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Scream (1996)

1 year after her mother's death, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and her friends started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of β€¦ many questions, the main one being: Whats your favorite scary movie? Along with many scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small town of Woodsboro. (Read More)

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The Dead Zone (1983)
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The Dead Zone (1983)

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...

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The Ring (2002)
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The Ring (2002)

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own  β€¦life. (Read More)

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Jason Lives: Friday The 13th Part Vi (1986)
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Jason Lives: Friday The 13th Part Vi (1986)

Tommy Jarvis returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.

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cult film
Themes:
murder
Locations:
small towncemetery
Characters:
zombie
Story:
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

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)

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The Omen (1976)
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The Omen (1976)

Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newbor β€¦n whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate. (Read More)

Themes:
funeralfearmurder
Locations:
cemetery
Characters:
boy
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Wrong Turn (2003)
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Wrong Turn (2003)

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cult filmindependent film
Themes:
fearmurder
Story:
car crashdismembermentfirst partstalkingfirst of seriesdeath of friendsurprise endingknife

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

On Halloween in 1963, Michael Myers murdered his sister, Judith. In 1978, he broke out to kill his other sister, Laurie Strode. He killed all of her friends, but she escaped. A few years later, she faked her death so he couldn't find her. But now, in 1998, Michael has returned and found all the pape β€¦rs he needs to find her. He tracks her down to a private school where she has gone under a new name with her son, John. And now, Laurie must do what she should have done a long time ago and finally decided to hunt down the evil one last time. (Read More)

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cult filmindependent film
Themes:
murder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
small town
Characters:
mysterious villain
Story:
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The Collector (2009) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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The Collector (2009)

When the Chase family moves to an isolated house in the middle of nowhere in Detroit, Arkin is hired to fix the windows and the doors. Later he meets his daughter and his wife that has a debt with dangerous sharks and needs money, but his week payment is not enough to pay her debts. Arkin plots to h β€¦eist the safe of Michael Chase during the night to raise the necessary money. However, when he arrives in the house, he finds that a sadistic criminal has imprisoned the family and planted traps everywhere. Arkin seeks a way out of the deadly house to save his life. (Read More)

Subgenre:
independent film
Themes:
murder
Characters:
mysterious villain
Story:
severed fingercar crashpsychotronicfirst partactor shares first name with characterevil manchild in perilgood versus evilsurprise endingknifefemale nudity

30 Days Of Night (2007)
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30 Days Of Night (2007)

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband- β€¦and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction. (Read More)

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
fearmurder
Locations:
small towncar
Characters:
brother brother relationship
Story:
burning carcar crashdismembermentautomobilechild in perilno opening creditsknife

Gremlins (1984)
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Gremlins (1984)

Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and no bright light. Hilarious m β€¦ayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. So, when your washing machine blows up or your TV goes on the fritz, before you call the repair man, turn on all the lights and look under all the beds. 'Cause you never can tell, there just might be a gremlin in your house. (Read More)

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cult film
Locations:
small town
Story:
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The Return Of The Living Dead (1985)
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The Return Of The Living Dead (1985)

When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.

Subgenre:
cult filmindependent film
Locations:
cemetery
Characters:
zombie
Story:
electronic music scoredismembermentfirst partfirst of seriespart of seriessurprise endingfemale nudity

Paranormal Activity (2007) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Paranormal Activity (2007)

After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Subgenre:
independent film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Story:
director also cinematographerfirst partactor shares first name with characterfirst of seriesno opening creditssurprise endingknife

Ghosts Of Mars (2001)
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Ghosts Of Mars (2001)

200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.

Themes:
murder
Characters:
zombiebrother brother relationship
Story:
severed fingerelectronic music scorecult directordismembermentdeath of friendknife

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House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)
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House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)

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:
funeralfearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
cemetery
Story:
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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:
cult film
Themes:
beyond deathmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
small towncemetery
Story:
cult directordismembermentchild in perilcoffindream

The Terminator (1984) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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The Terminator (1984)

A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector - Kyle Reese - also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sa β€¦rah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg ? (Read More)

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
murder
Locations:
car
Story:
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V/h/s/2 (2013)
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V/h/s/2 (2013)

Themes:
murder
Characters:
alienzombie
Story:
severed fingercar crasheye gougingchild in perilno opening creditsfemale nudity

Halloween II (1981)
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Halloween II (1981)

In a continuation of the plot of Halloween, Michael Myers shows off his indestructability by resuming his murder spree despite being gunned down with six bullets in the original movie. Laurie Strode is once more his intended victim, with Dr. Sam Loomis again in hot pursuit.

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
fearmurder
Locations:
small towncar
Story:
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The Descent (2005)
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The Descent (2005)

A woman goes on vacation with her friends after her husband and daughter encounter a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
car
Story:
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Curse Of Chucky (2013) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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Curse Of Chucky (2013)

After the events of Seed of Chucky, Nica, a young woman forced to a wheelchair since birth, has to regroup her sister, Barb and her brother-in-law, Ian for a funeral after the death of her mother. While dealing with Barb, Ian, along with their 5-year-old daughter, Alice; Nica receives an odd package β€¦ - a creepy doll. After people start showing up dead, the fearless Nica soon suspects that the creepy doll is much more than just a doll. (Read More)

Themes:
funeralmurder
Locations:
cemetery
Story:
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An American Werewolf In London (1981)
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An American Werewolf In London (1981)

Two American college students are on a walking tour of Britain and are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmar β€¦es of hunting on four feet at first but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he commit suicide to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural deaths. (Read More)

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Locations:
cemetery
Characters:
zombie
Story:
car crashpsychotronicfirst partactor shares first name with characterdeath of friendbeddreamsurprise endingknifefemale nudity

Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
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Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

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:
fearmurder
Locations:
cemeterycar
Characters:
zombie
Story:
director also cinematographerpsychotronicelectronic music scorecult directorfirst partfirst of seriessurprise endingknifefemale nudity

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Starship Troopers (1997)
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Starship Troopers (1997)

In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don't know is that they'll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.

Subgenre:
cult film
Themes:
funeralmurder
Characters:
alien
Story:
dismembermentfirst partfirst of seriesno opening creditsdeath of friendgood versus evilknife

High Tension (2003) is one of the best movies like Phantasm (1979)
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High Tension (2003)

Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnap β€¦s Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end. (Read More)

Subgenre:
independent film
Themes:
fearmurder
Mood:
nightmare
Characters:
mysterious villainboy
Story:
car crashmadmanstalkingevil manbeddreamsurprise endingknifefemale nudity

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986)
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Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986)

Loosely based on serial killer 'Henry Lee Lucas' (qv), the film follows Henry and his roommate Otis who Henry introduces to murdering randomly selected people. The killing spree depicted in the film starts after Otis' sister Becky comes to stay with them. The people they kill are strangers and in on β€¦e particularly gruesome attack, kill all three members of a family during a home invasion. Henry lacks compassion in everything he does and isn't the kind to leave behind witnesses - of any kind. (Read More)

Subgenre:
cult filmindependent film
Themes:
murder
Characters:
mysterious villain
Story:
madmanpsychotronicdismembermentstalkingevil mansurprise endingfemale nudity

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