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Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorn …e, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | abductionobsessionpsychopathkidnappinglovemurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | tunnelgas stationfranceroad trip |
| Characters: | serial killerteacherboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | coffee machinetour de francejumping off a balconysoda cangolden eggfake injuryroadhouseabductormissing person postergiallo esquemissing womanliterary adaptationloss of girlfriendjumping off a bridgeunhappy ending …car keystruck stoppolaroid cameratv interviewhitchcockiantravelinglanguage barriermind gamecottagetwist endingburied alivehappy endingcoinchloroformbroken armexistentialismcigarette lighterpassportloss of loved oneholidaydisappearancemissing personvacationscreamingargumentcoffeenews reportflashlightdreamphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelone word titleflashback (See All) |
After a car accident, Michelle awakens to find herself in a mysterious bunker with two men named Howard and Emmett. Howard offers her a pair of crutches to help her remain mobile with her leg injury sustained from the car crash and tells her to "get good on those" before leaving the bunker. She has …been given the information that there has been an alien attack and the outside world is poisoned. However, Howard and Emmett's intentions soon become questionable and Michelle is faced with a question: Is it better in here or out there? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Story: | car keyshitchcockianmind gamebroken armcigarette lightermissing personscreamingargumentnews reportflashlightphotographflashback |
Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but a …fter a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he has never seen her. Now Jeff must attempt to find his wife, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. But who can he trust? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | truck stophitchcockianmissing personvacationone word title |
The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | abductionobsessionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Story: | mind gamechloroformholidayscreamingargumentflashlightone word title |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpsychopathmurder |
| Story: | missing person postermissing womandisappearancemissing personargumentnews reportflashlightphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | murder |
| Story: | hitchcockianpassportvacationnews reportflashlightphotograph |
A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | tunnelgas station |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | truck stop |
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.
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | twist endingchloroformmissing personnews reportflashlightone word titleflashback |
Waking groggy in pitch darkness, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq in 2006, slowly realizes he is trapped inside a wooden coffin, buried alive. With his cigarette lighter, he can see the trap he is in, and he quickly realizes that there's not enough air for him to live long. He f …inds within the coffin a working cellphone, which allows him contact with the outside world. But the outside world proves not to be very helpful at finding a man buried in a box in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Paul must rely on his best resource--himself. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | abductionkidnappingmurder |
| Story: | hitchcockianburied alivecigarette lighterflashlightone word title |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionkidnappinglovemurder |
| Locations: | france |
| Characters: | serial killerfamily relationships |
| Story: | hitchcockianpassportloss of loved onedisappearancemissing personphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they g …o beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | mind gamecottagevacationflashlightcigarette smokingflashback |
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by …his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | obsessionpsychopathmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | france |
| Story: | literary adaptationdreambased on novel |
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: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurderlove |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | serial killerteacherboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | news reportflashlightdreamphotographbased on novelflashback |
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 …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)
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | gas stationfranceroad trip |
| Characters: | serial killerfamily relationships |
| Story: | giallo esqueflashlightdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | obsessionlove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Story: | existentialismloss of loved onecoffeeflashlightphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerteacher |
| Story: | unhappy endingcar keystwist endingnews reportflashlightphotographcigarette smokingone word titleflashback |
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.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | kidnappinglovemurder |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | broken armcigarette lighterscreamingnews reportflashlightphotographcigarette smokingone word title |
A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.
| Themes: | obsessionkidnappingmurderlove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | car keysmind gametwist endingburied alivedreamphotographone word titleflashback |
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)
| Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | loss of girlfrienddisappearancemissing personscreamingflashlight |
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the qual …ity of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | loss of girlfriendunhappy endingloss of loved onedisappearancemissing personphotograph |
3 backpackers are in Amsterdam where they get locked out of their youth hostel. They are invited into a man's house where he tells them of a hostel somewhere in eastern Europe where the women are all incredibly hot and have a taste for American men. When they get there, everything is too good to be …true - the hostel is "to die for" (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | passportdisappearancemissing personscreamingphotographone word title |
Army Captain Colter Stevens finds himself working on a special program where his consciousness can be inserted into another human being. The only catch is can only be there for 8 minutes at any given time. That morning, a bomb exploded on a commuter train just outside Chicago. He occupies the body o …f teacher going to work on that train and is confused as to what he is doing or why he is there as his last memory is of flying his helicopter on a combat mission in Afghanistan. Those in charge of the program explain to him that there is a bomb on the train, and that he must locate it. More importantly, he must identify the bomber as another bombing is expected later that day. He is also told however that he cannot change the past and can only gather information. As he develops a liking for his traveling companion Christina, he sets out to test that theory. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerteacherboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | hitchcockiantravelingmind gamenews reportflashback |
Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the a …rrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionmurderlove |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | giallo esquehitchcockianburied aliveargumentflashlightphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is P …am, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | hitchcockianmind gameflashback |
In the middle of the night, a guard working the night shift at the morgue located deep in the woods has a terrible car accident, and as a result, he is now in a coma, suffering multiple skull injuries and fractures. But what made the guard panic and leave his post in the first place? Furthermore, ac …cording to the register, the body of Mayka Villaverde, a beautiful well-off businesswoman, is mysteriously missing from the morgue. Presumably, Mayka died of a heart attack, nevertheless, who signed the death certificate with the autopsy pending? In the end, when in forensic medicine the principle of: "every death is a homicide until proven otherwise" is a basic general rule, finding out who is behind this case shrouded in mystery is going to be an arduous task. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderlove |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | missing womanhitchcockiandisappearancemissing personflashlightdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | obsessionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | passportflashlightphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | obsessionmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | teacher |
| Story: | flashlightdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
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: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerfamily relationships |
| Story: | missing womanloss of girlfriendtwist endingmissing personphotographbased on novelone word titleflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | road trip |
| Characters: | serial killerteacherfamily relationships |
| Story: | dreamflashback |
A young girl is sent to live with her estranged father and his girlfriend at their new home. The father, Alex has plans to spruce up the home with the help of his interior decorator girlfriend, Kim. The previous owner of the home was a famous painter who mysteriously disappeared. Alex's daughter, Sa …lly, soon discovers the cause of the painter's disappearance. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | polaroid cameracoindisappearancescreamingflashlight |
The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus o …n her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | missing womantwist endingdisappearancemissing personnews reportdreamphotographbased on novelflashback |
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront …Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | abductionobsessionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Story: | hitchcockianloss of loved onescreamingnews reportdreamphotographflashback |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame …lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | abductionkidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | tunnel |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | buried alivescreamingflashlightphotographbased on novel |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma …gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionkidnappingmurderlove |
| Story: | twist endingburied alivecoinbroken armloss of loved oneargumentphotographbased on novelflashback |
Americans abroad. Roy and Jessie finished a volunteer stint in China. He loves trains, so they go home via the Trans-Siberia Express. There are strains in the relationship, including her past. They meet Carlos, a Spaniard, traveling with Abby, a young American. Carlos keeps close to Jessie, and when … Roy is left behind and waits a day for the next train so he can catch up, Jessie and Carlos take a trip into the dead of winter to photograph a ruined church. Carlos may be running drugs, so, later, when Roy catches up and introduces Jessie to his new pal, an English speaking Russian narcotics detective, he's the last person Jessie wants to see. Will the Siberian desolation be their undoing? (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
| Story: | hitchcockiantravelinglanguage barrierpassportphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th …e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
| Themes: | abductionkidnappingmurder |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | teacherboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | abductorbroken armnews reportflashlightphotographcigarette smokingone word title |
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Ita …ly, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpsychopathmurderlove |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | hitchcockianpassportdisappearancebased on novelflashback |
A film about two homicide detectives' ('Morgan Freeman (I)' (qv) and ('Brad Pitt' (qv) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopath …ic "John Doe" ('Kevin Spacey' (qv)) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerteacher |
| Story: | hitchcockiannews reportflashlightphotographone word title |
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house vio …lently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it? (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerfamily relationships |
| Story: | mind gamevacationscreaming |
A man is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in law. He soon has visions and dreams of a ghost of a girl. Trying to avoid this, nearly pushes him to brink of insanity as the ghost wants something from him - to find out how she died. The only way he can get his life back is finding out the truth behi …nd her death. The more he digs, the more he lets her in, the shocking truth behind her death puts his whole family in danger. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionkidnappingmurderlove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | missing person posterdisappearancemissing personflashlightbased on novel |
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 … 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)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | loss of loved onescreamingargumentflashlightdreamcigarette smoking |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just …when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurderlove |
| Locations: | tunnelgas station |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | loss of girlfriendhappy endingloss of loved onescreamingcoffeenews reportflashlightdreamphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | obsessionmurder |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | screamingcoffeeflashlightphotographcigarette smokingone word title |
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)
| Subgenre: | psycho thriller |
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | serial killerfamily relationships |
| Story: | jumping off a bridgescreamingflashlightdreamphotographflashback |
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)
| Subgenre: | psycho thrillercult film |
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | missing person posterdreamphotographflashback |
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 …are after the backpackers find a way to escape. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | gas stationroad trip |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | mind gameflashlightphotographcigarette smoking |
Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her dark past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was … gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionpsychopathmurderlove |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Characters: | teacherboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | loss of loved onenews reportflashback |
How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their s …treet. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? (Read More)
| Themes: | abductionkidnapping |
| Mood: | nightmare |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | missing personnews reportflashlightphotographone word titleflashback |
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw … him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car with a family, and while trying to advise the driver that the man is dangerous, they have an accident. While walking on the road, they find the whole family stabbed in the car, and John sees that the driver is still alive. He drives to a restaurant seeking for help, but the police blame Jim and Grace to the murder and send them to the police station. However, John kills the policemen and pursues the couple, playing a tragic and violent mouse and cat game with Grace and Jim. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Locations: | gas stationroad trip |
| Characters: | serial killerboyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | truck stopdream |
The continuing saga of Hannibal Lecter, the murdering cannibal. He is presently in Italy and works as a curator at a museum. Clarice Starling, the FBI agent whom he aided to apprehend a serial killer, was placed in charge of an operation but when one of her men botches it, she's called to the mat by … the Bureau. One high ranking official, Paul Krendler has it in for her. But she gets a reprieve because Mason Verger, one of Lecter's victims who is looking to get back at Lecter for what Lecter did to him, wants to use Starling to lure him out. When Lecter sends her a note she learns that he's in Italy so she asks the police to keep an eye out for him. But a corrupt policeman who wants to get the reward that Verger placed on him, tells Verger where he is. But they fail to get him. Later Verger decides to frame Starling which makes Lecter return to the States. And the race to get Lecter begins. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathkidnappingmurder |
| Characters: | serial killer |
| Story: | giallo esquechloroformnews reportcigarette smokingone word titlebased on novelflashback |
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