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The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 5.1

A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.

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Amityville: The Awakening

Amityville: The Awakening

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 4.8

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange...

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Gacy

Gacy

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 4.7

Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his hou...

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Prey

Prey

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 4.7

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

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The Afflicted

The Afflicted

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 4.5

A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious...

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Wolves at the Door

Wolves at the Door

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 4.5

Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terr...

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The Apparition

The Apparition

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 4.1

Plagued by frightening occurrences in their home, Kelly and Ben learn that a university's parapsychology experiment produced an entity that is now haunting them. The malevolent spirit feeds on fear an...

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Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman

Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 3.8

Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this Is the true story of America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Florida in 1989 and 1990. What few people know, is that b...

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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 3.6

Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw...

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The Haunting of Sharon Tate

The Haunting of Sharon Tate

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 2.9

Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.

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