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"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
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1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. within five years three more people die on the property--...
3) The Thing
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English
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When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish...
4) Jaws
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
5) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A geophysical team investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth learns that the core of the Earth is heating up and warns the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world. Includes commentary, alternate ending, deleted scenes, featurette, and music video.
"...Emmerich...
6) M3GAN
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch, and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her eight-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl a M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences....
7) The cell
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Using an experimental technique, a therapist enters the mind of a serial killer to save a child's life. Her experience becomes a nightmare when she cannot find her way out.
8) The mummy
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English
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Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.
9) Devil
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Five people trapped in an elevator discover that the Devil is among them.
10) Alien quadrilogy
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Includes 2-disc versions of: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, plus a bonus disc loaded with special features. Includes the original theatrical versions and the extended cuts of each Alien film.
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When her best friend Tina is brutally murdered, teenager Nancy suspects the killer isn't Tina's boyfriend but rather a much more horrifying figure from her dreams. Convinced that this vicious murderer is stalking her friends and killing them as they sleep, Nancy enters a desperate race against time to bring him out of her dream world and stop the bloodbath ... before she falls asleep and becomes his next victim.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own. She is aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her and she struggles to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive...
13) The conjuring
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The Conjuring tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A rambunctious group of five college friends steal away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a night of endless terror and bloodshed. As the teens begin to exhibit standard horror movie behavior, a group of technicians in a control room are scrutinizing and sometimes even controlling every move the terrified kids make. Do they have any chance of escape?
15) Hannibal rising
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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After young Hannibal is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa, being devoured by starving soldiers in his Lithuania homeland. Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. Hannibal's revenge plan includes his cannibalism to justify his insatiable appetite for human flesh. Hannibal excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers....
16) Don't breathe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they'll get away with the perfect heist. They're wrong.
17) Psycho
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c1935, c1941, c1943, c1946
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English
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The Wolf Man: When a man is attacked by a werewolf, he finds to his horror that he now becomes one himself under a full moon. WereWolf of London: While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man: Graverobbers open the grave of the WolfMan and awake him. She-Wolf of London: A young heiress finds evidence suggestig that at night she acts under the influence of a...
19) Frozen
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As a ski resort is closing down for a week, three snowboarders become stranded on a lift high above the ground and find themselves in a struggle to survive.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Vulvus, Viago, and Deacon are vampires who live here, among us. They are real vampires; undead, immortal creatures who stalk the night and search for human blood, preferably virgins. Witness the many horrid, abominable aspects of vampire life, such as hunting and feeding, vampire rivalry and fighting with werewolves, as well as normal night to night aspects that make them not so different from us like keeping the flat clean, jobs, shopping, meeting...
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