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MONSTER MASH
A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko, a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape.
In this exquisitely made and terrifying horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family's frightful unraveling.
A creature plunges from a bridge into the Han River, emerging on its shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young girl is snatched in the melee, her family sets off to recover her from the monster.
Local hunters and a few college students in Norway decide to trail a mysterious "poacher". Documenting every move they lands themselves in the path of - trolls. They risk their lives to uncover the secrets of these creatures. A mockumentary.
THE UNDEAD
They are just like anyone else - except they're immortal and must feast on human blood. When their 8000 year-old roommate Petyr, turns 20-something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must guide him through his newfound eternal life. A mockumentary.
Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night, moves in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders.
This being a Rollin film, we quickly... get on with the general absence of story and the vital accumulation of fetish. Eluding their pursuers, our two clowns continue their never-explained flight on foot, journeying to a cemetery, then a chateau inhabited by "the last of the vampires."
Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws -- perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place...where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom.
A vampire in 1930s Vienna seeks marriage counseling from Sigmund Freud and meets the reincarnation of his one true love in this ensemble comedy, a hilarious mess of mistaken identities that proves 500 years of marriage is enough.
Vladimir is tired of being a vampire, he feels lonely and depressed, so he will try to reinsert himself into society, get a job and recover his human life. A comedy.
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth (Vincent Price) becomes a reluctant vampire hunter. Based on the 1954 novel "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson.
THRILLERS
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. When he discovers her affair with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her. He blackmails an old acquaintance into carrying out the murder, but the carefully-orchestrated set-up goes awry.
A dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places, Borgman follows an enigmatic vagrant who enters the lives of an upper-class family and quickly unravels their carefully curated lifestyle.
Randall is a low-level criminal, recently [injured] in a drug deal gone wrong. Cooped up in his apartment in a rough neighborhood and he owes a loan shark big. With the clock ticking for him and his girlfriend to pay the money back, his life turns into a game of cat and mouse. A gift of binoculars presents him with an opportunity to get his hands on the cash he needs, but at great risk.
A 30 year-old soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by Jerome, her French husband, who is obsessed by a cult and its leader. She hires a mysterious conman to get rid of him but things don't go quite as planned...
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Noredin, a police officer in Cairo, investigates a pop singer's murder at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially appears to be a crime of passion turns into a complicated case involving the power elite of Egypt. When Noredin decides to break the rules to obtain justice, he begins to unravel not only the corrupt police system but also his own sense of self.
Details the year leading to the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.
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