Cinema of the Damned
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Tales of Terror
›1962 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 89m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
The Pale Blue Eye
›R2022 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 128m · Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Right to Die
›2007 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Martin Donovan, Julia Benson, Robin Sydney
When a grisly car accident put his wife into a coma, a man reluctantly pulls the plug only to realize her spirit has turned vengeful against the living.
Brooklyn 45
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, History · 93m · Anne Ramsay, Ezra Buzzington, Jeremy Holm
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together in a Brooklyn brownstone several months after the end of World War II, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
Caged
›NR2021 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 81m · Edi Gathegi, Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Winchester
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook
San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
Twixt
›R2011 · Mystery, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
›R1996 · Horror · 98m · Michael Gross, Alexis Arquette, Hilary Swank
Jon Porter comes home for a funeral and walks straight back into hell. The demons who butchered his sister are back, nastier than ever, and now they want his daughter, body and soul.
