Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: 2-Genre Table :: Mystery :: Horror


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Angel Heart (1987)

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 ...

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The Blair Witch Project (1999)

In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found.

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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

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Cat People (1942)

An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

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Child's Play (1988)

Young Andy Barclay gets the doll he wanted. However, he did not know it was alive!

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Devil (2010)

A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.

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End of Days (1999)

At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.

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Final Destination (2000)

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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Final Destination 2 (2003)

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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Final Destination 3 (2006)

In this third installment of the Final Destination series, a student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself which seeks out those who escaped their fate.

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Final Destination 4 (2009)

After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.

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Final Destination 5 (2011)

Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.

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The Grudge (2004)

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

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The Haunted Strangler (1958)

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

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House at the End of the Street (2012)

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

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Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam vet attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of disassociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.

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The Kingdom - Series 1 (1994)

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science...

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The Kingdom - Series 2 (1997)

It starts with the birth of ''Little Brother'', the son of diabolical murderer Aage Kroeger and the nurse Judith...

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Let Me In (2010)

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

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The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...

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The Omen (1976)

An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.

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The Others (2001)

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

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Pandorum (2009)

A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities.

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Paranormal Activity (2007)

After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

A story about the disappearance of several Appleyard College students, and a teacher, from Hanging Rock.

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Psycho (1960)

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

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[Rec] (2007)

''REC'' turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station...

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Red Riding Hood (2011)

Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.

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The Ring (2002)

A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.

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Ringu (1998)

A mysterious video kills whomever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery.

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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

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Salem's Lot (1979)

Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.

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Saw (2004)

With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed ''Jigsaw''. The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them.

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Saw VI (2009)

Agent Strahm is dead and framed while Hoffman continues John's legacy while Jill carries out John's final request.

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Scream (1996)

A psychopathic serial killer is stalking a group of teens just like in the movies!

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Scream 2 (1997)

It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives...

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Scream 3 (2000)

Sidney visits the set of ''Stab 3,'' after pictures of her mother become the clue to a series of murders around Hollywood.

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Scream 4 (2011)

Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer.

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Seconds (1966)

An unhappy middle aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - that comes with it's own price.

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She-Wolf of London (1946)

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

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The Shining (1980)

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.

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The Thing (1982)

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

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The Thing (2011)

At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

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The Uninvited (1944)

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

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The Vanishing (1993)

The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.

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What Lies Beneath (2000)

The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost -- or that she's losing her mind.

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The Wicker Man (1973)

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

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