Tales Of Terror - The Haunted Apartments

 Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force. Aimi begins to see visions of a girl that doesn't exist. She learns that a girl named Ai lived here 30 years ago before she vanished one day on her way home from school. Aimi is driven to find out more about her

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Horror,

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Devil (2010)

Director: John Erick Dowdle Writers: Brian Nelson (screenplay), M. Night Shyamalan (story) Stars: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller Country: USA Language: English | Ukrainian | Spanish Release Date: 17 September 2010 (USA) Also Known As: Devil Filming Locations: Pennsylvania, USA In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the buildi

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2010, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,

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A Field in England (2013)

Director: Ben Wheatley Writer: Amy Jump Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover Genres: Drama | History | Horror | Mystery Country: UK Language: English Release Date: 5 July 2013 (UK) Also Known As: A Field in England Filming Locations: Hampton Estate, Seale, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lay behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they

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2013, Drama, History, Horror, United Kingdom,

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Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)

Director: Mario Colucci Writer: Mario Colucci Genres: Horror Country: Italy Language: Italian Release Date: 25 April 1975 (USA) A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building. I first became aware of this (and its equally obscure director) via the *** star rating on the "Giallo" section of the "Cult Filmz" website; incidentally, I also did not know that Farley Granger had worked so extensively in Italy – in that Luchino Visconti's SENSO (1954) was no fluke (I recently watched him in a

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1970s, Horror, Italy,

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Ghost Photos: The Cursed Images (2006)

Director: Kôta Yoshida Genres: Horror Country: Japan Language: Japanese Release Date: 25 August 2006 (Japan) Toshiko, a high school student, and her brother find a camera in their grandfather's bedroom. Later on, she receives a message to her cell phone from her brother; in this message there is a mysterious picture of a dark forest where an unknown woman is standing. From that moment on, strange things begin to happen to Toshiko, including visions of a strange looking girl. She decides to talk to one of her best friends about it and she tells Toshiko that there is an urban legend about

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Asian, Horror, Japan,

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Director: Robert Fuest Writers: James Whiton, William Goldstein Genres: Comedy | Horror Country: UK Language: English | Hebrew Release Date: 18 May 1971 (USA) Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involvin

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1970s, 1971, Comedy, Horror, Reviews, United Kingdom,

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Tales of Terror (1962)

Director: Roger Corman Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 January 1964 (West Germany) Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 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. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences. Tales of Terror is a classi

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Films, Horror, Mystery, Reviews,

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The Crazies (2010)

Director: Breck Eisner Writers: Scott Kosar (screenplay), Ray Wright (screenplay) Stars: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker Genres: Horror | Thriller Country: USA | United Arab Emirates Language: English Release Date: 26 February 2010 (USA) Also Known As: The Crazies Filming Locations: Cordele, Georgia, USA As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival. A transport plane crashes i

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2010, Horror, Thriller,

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The House That Dripped Blood (Blu-Ray)

The fans of Amicus movies all have their personal favorites. Some prefer the pulpiness of TALES FROM THE CRYPT or VAULT OF HORROR while others enjoy the cheesiness of TORTURE GARDEN or DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS. Then there's the literate approach of HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. I love them all and saw every Amicus film that came my way, even the non-anthology ones like AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS and I, MONSTER. Most of them I caught in drive-ins. My personal preference is for the low key approach of HOUSE and GRAVE with HOUSE being my favorite Amicus movie althou

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Blu-Ray, Horror, Reviews,

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Class of Nuke 'Em High, Pts. 1-3: The Complete Spill-ogy DVD Box Set

High-school students, some on the honor roll, turn beastly from exposure to nuclear-plant waste. Unleashed in 1986, the original Class of Nuke 'Em High is, for me at least, the weakest in the trilogy. The plot revolves around Tromaville High School, which is known as 'Nuke 'Em High,' due to the fact that it's within spitting distance of a high-profile Nuclear Power Plant. Somewhere along the line, a meltdown occurs and infects the water supply of the local school. The regular students slowly become vicious, violent cretins, part of the Cretin Biker Gang, who wreak havoc on the school and a

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Comedy, DVD, Horror,

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Redneck Zombies Collector's Edition, Limited Edition, The 20th Anniversary Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition, Director's Cut DVD

When a clan of hillbily dirtfarmers turn a misplaced barrell of chemical waste into a whiskey still, going blind is the least of their worries as the toxic moonshine turns them into REDNECK ZOMBIES! Now they're ready to invite a group of wayward yankees to a down-home feast of southern-fried gore and mayhem that will turn your stomach and tickle your funny bone! So grab a seat and set a spell with your favorite gut-chompin, tobacco chewin' cannibal kinfolk from hell in REDNECK ZOMBIES! Special Features include: -Brand New Director-Approved Color-Corrected Transfer of the Film -The O

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Comedy, DVD, Horror, Sci-Fi,

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No Telling (1991)

No Telling essentially answers the question, what if PETA made a Frankenstein movie? But it’s so much more that that. Sure there’s the ethical question about whether lab experiments on animals is actually okay—as long as it leads to beneficial medicine? But more importantly, No Telling is extremely well directed by Larry Fessenden with nice swooping camera movements that don’t trip over the shoestring budget. Fessenden also uses a stopped car on the highway to illuminate the spatial distance between a married couple before they relocate to a remotely idyllic farmstead. So what’s the horror

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Horror,

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Parents (1989)

Parents did not fare well when landed in theaters back in 1989, receiving so-so reviews and bombing at the box office. Thankfully, time has been kinder to Bob Balaban‘s dark cannibal comedy. For years, the film was shuffled around on DVD double features and horror collections, but in the meantime, it became a cult classic and finally got a Blu-ray release early this year. Hopefully, that means Parents will get a boost in popularity because the twisted satire juxtaposes suburban 1950s Americana and macabre flesh-eating violence to distinctly delightful results. Parents stars Bryan Madorsky

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Comedy, Horror, Mystery,

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Bloody Moon (1981)

Jess Franco is most famous for Vampyros Lesbos and his modern swingin’ Euro adaptations of Marquise de Sade’s sadistic seductions—but Bloody Moon is his most straightforward horror film. There’s a killer on the loose at a Spanish schoolhouse, five years after a rape and murder at a party. And because it’s Franco, there’s also some body disfigurement and incest. The script is pretty ludicrous and the acting is pretty bad, but it never aims much higher than trashy kills and pearl-clutching plot mentions which is Franco’s sweet spot. It’s the perfect midnight movie for your fucked up friends—i

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Horror,

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Fascination (1979)

What if Eric Rohmer made a bisexual vampire movie? Well, it’d be an immoral tale such as Fascination. Of all the lesbian/bisexual vampire movies of the 70s this is the one that puts women in the most control over their sex and their prey. It’s not just a few women cooped up in a mansion, it’s a whole underground society. Fascination opens with a robbery that’s filmed liked grown ups playing the same shootout games that they did as kids. The wounded man stumbles in upon a woman’s home and though the man’s stunted and playing the same games he did as a child, these women have graduated to a w

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Horror,

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Tourist Trap (1979)

Alternately goofy as hell and downright creepy, Tourist Trap is one of the more bizarre slasher films to come out of the pre-80s onslaught, somehow managing to be unique despite borrowing heavily from the horror hits that preceded it. The film follows a fairly standard set of slasher victims; a group of youths who get stranded at remote gas station/museum filled with grotesque mannequins, which happens to be run by a creepy, murderous man who stalks them down one-by-one. That may all sound a bit par for the course, but Tourist Trap really earns its stripes when it gets going, exploring th

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Deathdream (1974)

Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) is one of the first narrative films to directly address the Vietnam War. In it, a soldier (Richard Backus) returns home from Vietnam after his parents (John Marley and Lynn Carlin) had already received a letter from the army stating that he was killed in combat. The logline for Bob Clark‘s (Black Christmas, Porky’s) second feature labels the man a zombie, but he returns addicted to blood and kills animals and locals so that he can inject blood into his veins and keep living. Needing blood like clockwork in order to keep living? Sounds a little bit like a vampi

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Horror,

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The Asphyx (1972)

The Asphyx is slow-burn Victorian horror, which usually falls well outside my range of interests, but what it demands in patience, it makes up for in a purely original story that somehow hasn’t been replicated since. The title refers to an ancient creature that comes to claim your soul at the moment of death, and the film centers around Sir Hugo Cunningham (Robert Stephens), a fancypants high society doctor who begins experimenting with the creature; first by capturing its image, and ultimately trying to capture the entity itself in a dangerous quest for immortality. The film’s plotting st

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Blood and Lace (1971)

Seven years prior to Halloween, Blood and Lace featured the first home invasion killer POV during a murder. The hammer murder of a prostitute at the beginning sends her teenage daughter (Melody Patterson) to an oppressive orphanage run by the sadistic Gloria Grahame (all of the great 40s divas eventually made their way to cheap horrors at the twilight of their career), who lives off the state contract given for each orphan and works the children extra hard or punishes them even harder. Every man in Blood and Lace is oozing filth as they all try to get their hands on the new teen, who talks

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Horror, Reviews,

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Daughters of Darkness (1971)

With nudity and sexual proclivity loosened across the first world’s various censor boards, the vampire film finally got to embrace the eroticism of the genre in the 1970s. For the past few decades there have been many sex films involving the vampire; Belgium’s Daughters of Darkness is the most artful and moody of the spicy lot. There’s a flower-eating “mother”, a mysterious man on a bicycle, and an ornate Transylvanian hotel where a Countess (Delphine Seyrig, known to cinephiles as the indomitable Jeanne Dielman) and her assistant (Andrea Rau) lament that their world hardly has any remaini

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Horror, Reviews,

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