Cinema of the Damned
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Southern Comfort
›R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Weird Woman
›1944 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
There's Something in the Barn
›R2023 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 100m · Martin Starr, Amrita Acharia, Kiran Shah
An American family fulfills their dream of moving back to their roots after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway. But there's a surprise waiting for them.
Nocebo
›2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
The Possession of Joel Delaney
›R1972 · Horror · 105m · Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
They're Watching
›2016 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Brigid Brannagh, Carrie Genzel, David Alpay
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.
Viking: The Berserkers
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Sol Heras, Anthony Baines, Kezia Burrows
The Hunger Games heads back to the Dark Ages when a group of five young Saxons is captured by a clan of fearsome Viking warriors and used as prey in a ritualistic manhunt. High on a potion that turns them "berserk" the brutal hunters are soon on the scent of the terrified youngsters in a desperate battle for survival from the ritualistic manhunt. Written and directed by Welsh film-maker Antony Smith.
The Green Inferno
›R2013 · Adventure, Horror · 100m · Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Sky Ferreira
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
The House Where Evil Dwells
›R1982 · Horror · 88m · Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke
›R2007 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Adrian Paul, Frida Farrell, Rhett Giles
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after, members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Before returning to England for provisions, leader John White puts his son-in-law Ananais Dare in charge, and Dare realizes the island is haunted by Norse spirits. Enlisting the aid of a friendly Native American, Dare attempts to free the spirits from their earthly captivity before the entire colony is lost.
Ritual
›R2002 · Horror · 111m · Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine
An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.
Behind the Trees
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 87m · Vanessa Curry, Sahil Shroff, Subrat Dutta
While on a romantic getaway in the Indian wilderness, a couple from Los Angeles accidentally witnesses the haunting exorcism of an 11-year old girl. They decide to rescue her.