Cinema of the Damned
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12 titles
A Quiet Place
›PG-132018 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 91m · Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Gammera the Invincible
›1966 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane Findlay
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Godzilla
›PG-131998 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 139m · Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
DeepStar Six
›R1989 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
The Giant Claw
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 74m · Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
The Jurassic Games
›2018 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 86m · Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton
In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.
Amphibious Creature of the Deep
›2010 · Horror · 83m · Michael Paré, Verdi Solaiman, Janna Fassaert
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...
Dinocroc
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Bruce Weitz
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Gereco lab.
Hammerhead
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Lydie Denier
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
Planet Dune
›2021 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 86m · Sean Young, Emily Killian, Sienna Farall
A crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms.
King Dinosaur
›1955 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 63m · William Bryant, Patti Gallagher, Douglas Henderson
In 1960, four American scientists travel to a planet that has just entered Earth's solar system to see if it's able to support an Earth colony. They find an oxygen atmosphere, a lush earth-like forest, and earth-like animals living around a potable fresh-water lake.
