Cinema of the Damned
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12 titles
The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Plastic Men
›2026 · War, Drama, Horror · William Fichtner, James Preston, Aaron Dalla Villa
Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions. He decides to take his own life, but as he struggles to come to terms with his choice and reality, a chance encounter changes everything.
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.
House
›R1985 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 92m · William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll
A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
Shadow
›2009 · Horror, Thriller · 77m · Jake Muxworthy, Karina Testa, Nuot Arquint
A Young soldier returning from Iraq goes on a high mountain adventure in a desolate place in Europe to forget his past, he will lear truth in a mysterious local legend discovering that reality can be sicker than nightmares.
Born for Hell
›1976 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
555
›R1988 · Horror · 90m · Greg Kerouac, B.K. Smith, Mara Lynn Bastian
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
Don't Answer the Phone!
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.
Killing Season
›R2013 · Action, Thriller · 91m · Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Rob Lowe, Marnie McPhail, Ben Lewis
A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
Blackenstein
›R1973 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
Jacob's Ladder
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie
After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.
