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After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reali …ty. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horrorsupernatural horrorpsychological |
Themes: | mental illnesstraumaevilinsanityparanoiasupernatural powermonsterprisonsuicidemurder |
Locations: | gas stationhospital |
Characters: | self immolationbrother in law sister in law relationshipfiance fiancee relationshipterrorpsychiatristinterracial relationshipsister sister relationshipdetectivepolice officerfemale protagonistdoctorafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship …family relationships (See All) |
Story: | jump scaremental healthevil smiledemonic possessionevil spiritmental illness in familymental breakdownmexican womanhaunted by the pastfemale therapistpsychiatric patientevil winsdrinking winefeeding a catmissing cat …dead catwitnessing a suicidecommitting suicideforced suicidehorror movieex girlfriend ex boyfriend relationshiphorror filmboss subordinate relationshipsetting oneself on firepsychiatric sessiongraphic death scenepsychiatric caretraumatic eventdescent into madnesspsychiatric treatmenthouse in the woodsmentally ill mothergoing insanedropping a glasschain letterchild's birthday partysecurity videobreaking a glassthroat slitfamily disputeconfronting the pastinsane mangoing crazymissing petdeath by overdoseupside down viewshapeshifterincidenttherapy sessionviralcurseddreadreturn homepsychiatric wardends with deathchildhood homementalunhappy endingdemonicsmileinterventioncounselorentityptsdhauntedsmilingjumphouse on firescaretragic endingbased on short filmpsychiatryabandoned housebeing followednervous breakdownsymbolismpsychoticwoman in jeopardyvisionmexicanrealitytherapistpatientspirithealthmurdererrace against timepossessioncursecreaturebirthday partystabbed in the chestwinef wordhallucinationdemonwritten by directorcatcorpsedreamknifetitle spoken by characterone word titlebloodflashback (See All) |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape …d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessevilinsanityparanoiasupernatural powerprisonsuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | self immolationterrorpsychiatristfemale protagonistdoctorfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mental breakdownincidentpsychiatric wardmentaldemonicnervous breakdownwoman in jeopardypatientmurdererpossessionhallucinationcorpsedreamknifeflashback …blood (See All) |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze …l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
Themes: | evilinsanityparanoiasupernatural powerprisonsuicidemurder |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerfather son relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionhaunted by the pastevil winscursedunhappy endinghauntedpossessioncursestabbed in the chestf worddemoncatcorpseknifetitle spoken by character …one word titleflashbackblood (See All) |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t …o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnesstraumaevilsupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | female protagonistdoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | demonic possessionpsychiatrypsychoticspiritpossessionhallucinationdemoncatknifetitle spoken by characterflashback |
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blo …od and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle. (Read More)
Themes: | traumaevilsupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | terrordetectivefemale protagonistdoctorafrican american |
Story: | jump scaredemonic possessionentitybeing followedspiritpossessionhallucinationdemonknifetitle spoken by characterone word titleflashbackblood |
When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them.
Themes: | mental illnessinsanityparanoiamonstermurder |
Characters: | terrorpsychiatristpolice officerdoctorafrican american |
Story: | mental breakdownhaunted by the pastdreadwoman in jeopardytherapistmurdererbirthday partywritten by directorcorpseknifetitle spoken by characterone word titlebloodflashback |
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 …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)
Themes: | evilinsanitysupernatural powermonstermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | terrorpsychiatristdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | jump scareevil spiritforced suicidedemonicabandoned housespiritmurdererstabbed in the chestdemoncorpsedream |
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 …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: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Characters: | terrordetective |
Story: | demonic possessionevil spiritgoing crazyhauntedspiritcursedemondreamflashbackblood |
Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is that chipper guy clocking the nine-to-five at a bathtub factory, with the offbeat charm of anyone who could use a few friends. With the help of his court-appointed psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush (Gemma Arterton). However, the relationship takes a sudden, murderous … turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy, or indulge in a much more sinister path. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessevilsuicidemurder |
Characters: | psychiatristmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | mental illness in familymentally ill motherchildhood hometherapisthallucinationcatcorpseknifebloodflashback |
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | traumaparanoiasupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | police officermother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | evil spiritcursedhauntedpsychoticpossessioncatcorpseflashbackblood |
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 …e who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son? (Read More)
Themes: | traumaevilinsanitysupernatural powermonstermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | terrorfemale protagonistdoctorafrican americanmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | evil spiritdrinking winedemonicpsychoticspiritmurdererpossessionhallucinationdemondreamknifebloodflashback |
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 … 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: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | traumaevilsupernatural power |
Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionmexican womanentityspiritcursehallucinationdemoncatcorpsedream |
For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends … must find a way to escape the horrors, that seem to be only a few steps behind. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfemale protagonist |
Story: | horror movieentityscareabandoned housebeing followedvisioncursef worddemonwritten by directorcorpseblood |
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 …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: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Characters: | psychiatristsister sister relationshippolice officerfemale protagonistdoctor |
Story: | evil spiritpsychiatric treatmentdemonichouse on firepsychiatrymurdererstabbed in the chestwinehallucinationdemoncorpseknifeone word titlebloodflashback |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling … that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horror |
Themes: | mental illnessparanoiasuicidemurder |
Characters: | psychiatristsister sister relationshipfemale protagonistmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | haunted by the pastmentalhauntedhouse on firevisionmurdererhallucinationcorpsedreamknifeflashbackblood |
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience hi …s increasingly fragile grip on reality. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnesstraumaparanoiamurder |
Characters: | father son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mental healthrealitymurdererhallucinationcatcorpseone word titlebloodflashback |
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 … - 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: | evilsupernatural powermurder |
Characters: | brother in law sister in law relationshipterrorsister sister relationshippolice officermother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | jump scarecursef wordwritten by directorcorpseknifeflashbackblood |
In the small village Goksung in South Korea, police officer Jong-Goo investigates bizarre murders caused by a mysterious disease. His partner tells a gossip for him that a Japanese stranger that lives in a secluded house in the mountains would be an evil spirit responsible for the illness. Jong-Goo …decides to visit the Japanese with his partner and a young priest that speaks Japanese. They find an altar with a goat head and pictures of the infected people that died on the walls. However they are attacked by the guard dog and they only can leave the place when the stranger arrives. Jong-Goo finds one shoe of his beloved daughter Hyo-jin in the house of the stranger and soon she becomes sick. His mother-in-law summons the shaman Il-gwang to save her granddaughter while a mysterious woman tells Jong-Goo that the stranger is the responsible. Who might be the demon that is bringing sickness to Goksung? (Read More)
Themes: | evilsupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | gas stationhospital |
Characters: | police officerdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | evil spirithouse in the woodshouse on firespiritpossessioncursedemonwritten by directorknifeone word titleflashback |
When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their … courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen. (Read More)
Themes: | insanityparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Characters: | doctorafrican american |
Story: | evil spirithauntedabandoned housecreaturebirthday partystabbed in the chestf wordhallucinationdemoncorpseknifetitle spoken by characterblood |
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 …ivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilsupernatural powermurder |
Story: | jump scaredemonic possessionevil spiritbased on short filmspiritpossessiondemonwritten by directorblood |
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 …in of her father's powers and meets Dad head-on in a final showdown (originally presented in 3-D). (Read More)
Themes: | evilinsanitysupernatural powermonstermurder |
Characters: | terrorfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | evil spiritdemonicpsychotictherapistmurdererstabbed in the chestdemondreamknifetitle spoken by characterbloodflashback |
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also …destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilinsanitysupernatural powersuicide |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | psychiatristdetectivepolice officermother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionpsychiatric treatmentpossessionhallucinationdemoncorpseknifetitle spoken by characterone word titlebloodflashback |
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas ('Anton Yelchin' (qv)) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction - Odd knows that his town is in serious t …rouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy ('Addison Timlin' (qv)) and the local sheriff ('Willem Dafoe' (qv)), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling thriller by Dean Koontz. (Read More)
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | police officerdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionevil spirittragic endingvisionrace against timecursecreaturedemonwritten by directorcorpsedreamknifetitle spoken by characterbloodflashback |
Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past.
Subgenre: | psychological horrorpsychological |
Themes: | mental illnessinsanitymurder |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | mentalhauntedwoman in jeopardyrealityhallucinationdreamblood |
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental asylum. The head of Green Manors has just been replaced, with his replacement being the renowned Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck). Romance blossoms between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwards but Dr. Edwards starts to show …odd aversions and personality traits. It is discovered that he is an impostor, and amnesiac, and may have killed the real Dr. Edwardes. Dr. Petersen is determined to discover the truth through unlocking the secrets held in the impostor's mind, a process which potentially puts her and others' lives at risk. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessparanoiasuicidemurder |
Characters: | psychiatristdetectivepolice officerdoctor |
Story: | mentalpsychiatrynervous breakdownsymbolismpatientmurdererhallucinationdreamknifeone word titleflashback |
In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the …frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases. (Read More)
Themes: | evilsuicidemurder |
Characters: | police officermother daughter relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionhaunted by the pastdead catsecurity videodemonicstabbed in the chesthallucinationwritten by directorcorpseknifeflashbackblood |
A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show s …igns of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | insanityparanoiasupernatural power |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | demonic possessionvisionrace against timepossessionf wordhallucinationdemoncorpseknifetitle spoken by characterone word titleblood |
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 … end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilmonstermurder |
Story: | demonic possessionevil spiritspiritpossessioncursestabbed in the chesthallucinationdemonblood |
In 1977, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to London, England, where single mother Peggy Hodgson believes that something evil is in her home. When Peggy's youngest daughter starts showing signs of demonic possession, Ed and Lorraine attempt to help the besieged girl, only to fin …d themselves targeted by the malicious spirits. (Read More)
Themes: | evil |
Characters: | terror |
Story: | jump scaredemonic possessiondemonicpossessiondemon |
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 … family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil. (Read More)
Themes: | evilinsanitysupernatural powermurder |
Characters: | terrorsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | demonic possessionevil winspossessionhallucinationdemonknifeblood |
Karen Davis, an American Nurse, moves to Tokyo and encounters a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find away to break this spell, before s …he becomes its next victim. (Read More)
Themes: | supernatural powersuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | terrordetectivepolice officerfemale protagonistmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | visionspiritcursecatcorpseflashback |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
Subgenre: | psychological horrorpsychological |
Themes: | supernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | interracial relationshipdetectivedoctor |
Story: | being followedpatientspiritstabbed in the chesthallucinationdemonwritten by directorcatcorpsedreambloodflashback |
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his w …ay back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him? (Read More)
Themes: | evilinsanitysuicidemurder |
Characters: | terrorpsychiatristdoctorafrican american |
Story: | throat slitpsychiatric wardmentalabandoned housepsychoticmurdererstabbed in the chestf wordcorpseknifetitle spoken by characterblood |
A girl is mysteriously killed after recording herself playing with an ancient Ouija Board, which leads to a close group of friends to investigate this board. They later find out that some things aren't meant to be played with, especially the 'other side'.
Themes: | evilsupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Characters: | sister sister relationship |
Story: | jump scareevil spiritspiritwritten by directortitle spoken by characterone word titleflashbackblood |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requir …ing genuine courage. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powermonsterprisonmurder |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | hauntedrace against timepossessioncursecreaturestabbed in the chestwinehallucinationcatcorpseknifetitle spoken by characterbloodflashback |
The twenty-one year-old Timothy "Tim" Allen Russell is discharged from a mental institution by his psychiatric Dr. Shawn Graham completely healed from a childhood trauma where his father purportedly tortured and killed his mother before being killed himself by Tim. His sister Kaylie welcomes him in …the parking area and brings him home. Then she tells that they need to destroy an ancient mirror that she has found through working at an auction house. She then steals the mirror and the reluctant Tim follows his sister and has fragmented recollections from their childhood, going back to when his father Alan buys a mirror for the home office of their new family home. Kaylie and Tim see a woman with their father in his office and the behaviors of Alan and Marie change, ending in a family tragedy. Kaylie blames the mirror and now she wants to destroy it with Tim. Will they succeed? (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | traumainsanitysupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | fiance fiancee relationshippsychiatristpolice officerfemale protagonistmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | drinking winementalbased on short filmtherapistpossessioncursehallucinationone word titlebloodflashback |
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 …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)
Themes: | evilsupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | terrorafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | evil spiritdemonicmurdererstabbed in the chestdemoncorpsedreamblood |
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 …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)
Themes: | traumaevilinsanitysupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Characters: | terrorfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionevil spiritdemonicmurdererdemoncorpsedreambloodflashback |
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parent's for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries …lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horrorsupernatural horror |
Themes: | paranoiasuicidemurder |
Characters: | psychiatristinterracial relationshipdetectivedoctorafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | jump scarehouse in the woodswinef wordtitle spoken by characterflashbackblood |
"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 …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)
Themes: | evilinsanityparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
Story: | demonic possessionvisionrace against timepossessionhallucinationdemonwritten by directorcorpseknifetitle spoken by characterbloodflashback |
The basketball coach Clyde and his wife Stephanie divorced a couple of months ago and their teenage daughter Hannah and the girl Emily 'Em' live with their mother and spend the weekends with their father. One day, Clyde stops his car in a yard sale and Em buys an antique carved box and becomes obses …sed with it. Em finds the hidden lock and releases an evil spirit that possesses her. Soon Clyde discovers that Em has a problem, but his annoying ex-wife and her boyfriend Brett do not pay attention to him and get a restraining order against Clyde. Clyde seeks out Professor McMannis and when he sees the box, he explains that it is a Dibbuk Box, where a fiend is trapped inside. He also explains that the box should not be open; otherwise the person will be possessed by the spirit. Now Clyde travels to a Jewish community in New York and the rabbi's son Tzadok returns with him expecting to exorcise Em to save the girl. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilsupernatural power |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | psychiatristsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | demonic possessionevil spiritspiritpossessioncursehallucinationblood |
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dr …eams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth. (Read More)
Themes: | insanityparanoiasuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | psychiatristdetectivepolice officerdoctormother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | murdererstabbed in the chesthallucinationcorpsedreamknifetitle spoken by characterbloodflashback |
A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart can master her f …ear. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermonstermurder |
Characters: | terrormother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | evil spiritdemonicmurdererpossessioncreaturestabbed in the chestf wordhallucinationdemondreamknifeblood |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int …ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horror |
Themes: | traumaparanoiasupernatural powersuicide |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | fiance fiancee relationshipdoctorafrican american |
Story: | haunted by the pastvisionrace against timef wordhallucinationcorpseknifetitle spoken by characterone word titlebloodflashback |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart …his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
Themes: | mental illnessparanoia |
Locations: | gas station |
Characters: | psychiatristdoctorafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mentalcounselornervous breakdownf wordhallucinationdreamknife |
A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the … story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | supernatural horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powersuicidemurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | psychiatristdoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | demonic possessiondemonicpsychiatryvisionpossessiondemonblood |
Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and IRL. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina's (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone's shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual me …ant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura's profile. Even though it wasn't Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious, cruel deaths, Laura must figure out how to break the deadly curse before it's too late. (Read More)
Themes: | supernatural powersuicide |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | self immolationfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | horror filmpsychoticspiritcursebirthday partydemonknife |
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to …take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horror |
Themes: | mental illnessinsanitymurder |
Characters: | terrorpsychiatristsister sister relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | abandoned housenervous breakdownpsychoticmurdererstabbed in the chesthallucinationcorpseone word titlebloodflashback |
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 …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)
Themes: | evilinsanityparanoiamonstersuicidemurder |
Characters: | psychiatristpolice officerdoctor |
Story: | cursedmurderercreaturehallucinationdemoncorpsetitle spoken by characterflashbackblood |
Near Burkittsville, in the Black Hills Forest, on the root of a lightning-struck tree, the couple of Lane and Talia find a DV tape sticking out of the ground. The content of the found tape is mostly footage of static, however, near the end, there is also an intriguing small part where someone is try …ing to escape from something that is after him, screaming and running in an abandoned house. After accidentally stumbling across the uploaded footage, James, believing that this is his final chance to put an end once and for all in the unresolved mystery of his sister's Heather disappearance, some twenty years ago in the same woods, he assembles a team of friends in search of answers. Sooner or later, the team will go astray in the heart of a green maze that is riddled with the chilling legend of Elly Kedward, the Blair Witch who relentlessly keeps messing with their sanity, gradually taking them down, one by one. Eventually, James will find himself in the epicentre of the evil activity, trapped inside the very house where his sister disappeared, unaware of the fact that, once more, the witch will demand her sacrifice. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psychological horror |
Themes: | evilparanoiasupernatural powermurder |
Story: | house in the woodsabandoned housecursecreaturestabbed in the chestf wordcorpsetitle spoken by characterblood |