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Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Night of the living dead : George A. Romero's original masterpiece pits the dead against the living in a struggle for survival. Disc 2. Shaun of the dead : When flesh eating zombies go on the hunt for a bite to eat, it is up to Shaun and his best pal to save their friends and family from becoming the next entree. Disc 3. 28 days later : An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city....
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees--Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)--are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage "ghost hunters" begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be...
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Nederlands
Formats
Description
Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is a columnist who is obsessed with reading the endless abusive messages and death threats posted about her on social media. This obsession consumes her life and prevents her from concentrating on the novel she has promised to her publisher. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence. When this brutal and bloody act inspires Femke to write again, she surrenders...
6) Proxy
Language
English
Formats
Description
While walking home Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. However, friendship and understanding can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people, as Esther soon embarks down a dark path of obsession.
7) Gaia
Publisher
Neon
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. When their cabin is attacked by a strange being it's clear there is a far greater threat in this unrelenting wilderness.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
9) Frankenstein
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster, but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.
10) The babadook
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son₂s deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
11) It follows
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For nineteen-year-old Jay, the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
12) Midsommar
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry.
13) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
14) House =: Hausu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's creaky country home instead.
15) Missing
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to the reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer "No Name" claiming he saw the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda cannot believe her aloof, goofy father. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts fearing the worst and begins looking for him.
16) Under the shadow
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Persian
Description
"Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in her home is infinitely more evil and terrifying than the...
18) Knife + heart
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Anne is a producer of gay porn at discount. When Loïs, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to reclaim her by turning a film more ambitious with the flamboyant Archibald.
Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
None
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
20) In the earth
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As the world searches for a cure to a devastating virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run.
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