Cinema of the Damned
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13 titles
The Beta Test
›NR2021 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
Calling Dr. Death
›1943 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 63m · Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
The Canal
›NR2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra
A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.
They're Playing with Fire
›R1984 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Sybil Danning, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
The Black Room
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Stephen Knight, Cassandra Gava, Jimmy Stathis
An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.
Killing Spree
›1987 · Horror · 88m · Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone
Newly wed Tom Russo suspects his wife is having sexual encounters with their suburban neighbors, and launches a methodical campaign to murder the lovers.
The Special
›NR2020 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Dave Sheridan, Sarah French, Davy Raphaely
Suspecting his wife of infidelity, Jerry is persuaded by his best friend to accompany him to a brothel to sample ‘The Special’, which proves to be a lifechanging experience in more ways than one. Because every pleasure has its price...
An Affair to Die For
›2019 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Claire Forlani, Jake Abel, Titus Welliver
A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games when their infidelity is discovered.
Living Death
›NR2006 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 85m · Greg Bryk, Kristy Swanson, Joshua Peace
Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is having a steamy affair with his best friend. And when the lovers' risky plan to get rid of him backfires, Victor's relentless anger and terrifying rage sends him over the edge on a shockingly sadistic quest for total revenge.
The Ice Cream Truck
›NR2017 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Deanna Russo, Emil Johnsen, John Redlinger
Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.
Sorceress
›1995 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Larry Poindexter, Linda Blair, Edward Albert
Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic...
Crush
›2009 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 82m · Emma Lung, Christopher Egan, Brooke Harman
Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that Anna is more dangerous than he ever would have thought.
The Stranger Within
›R2013 · Thriller, Mystery · 90m · William Baldwin, Estella Warren, Sarah Butler
After a traumatic ordeal, acclaimed actress Emily Moore and her psychiatrist husband, Robert, escape on a relaxing vacation to a gorgeous remote Mediterranean island. But on the first night at the house, a young girl arrives, blood on her hands and hysterical from the death of her boyfriend in a hiking accident. Robert offers to take in and help the young girl, but her suggestive behavior makes Emily wonder if she might be a threat to their marriage... or her life.