Poltergeist
Synopsis: It Knows What Scares You. “They’re here,” playful at first…but not for long. A storm erupts, a tree attacks and little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked away into a […]
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Synopsis: If You Think Your Dreams are Disturbing, Imagine the Nightmares of Stephen King. Go beyond the ordinary. Go beyond the sane. With Stephen King as storyteller, you’ll travel to […]
Anatomie
Synopsis: The Subject Is You. When Paula (Franka Potente, Run Lola Run), a brilliant, ambitious medical student, is accepted into a prestigious anatomy class taught by a legendary professor, it seems like a […]
Riget
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Lars Von Trier delves into the world of the supernatural with the chilling series that inspired Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. At The Kingdom, Denmark’s most technologically advanced […]
Sei donne per l’assassino
Synopsis: The Greatest Shocks Ever Filmed! An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house with exotic models running sexual favors, cocaine dealings and blackmail, becomes a […]
Kwaidan
Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish production draws […]
La frusta e il corpo
Synopsis: Nevenka’s ex-lover, who is her husband’s brother, Kurt, has come back to claim her and he does so by engaging in a forbidden rendezvous. The next day Kurt is […]
Hausu
Synopsis: How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any […]
The Maid
Synopsis: Some rules should never be broken Chinese legend has it that the gates of Hell open and the dead walk the Earth for 30 days each year. Break the […]
Tôkyô zonbi
Synopsis: Tadanobu Asano and Show Aikawa star as fulltime slackers and wannabe ju-jitsu champions who bring the body of their murdered boss to Tokyo’s towering toxic waste dump known as […]
Re-Animator
Synopsis: Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders… and another one in a dish on his desk. Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the […]
Braindead
Synopsis: Some things won’t stay down…even after they die. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. Lionel, an innocent young man, is forced […]
The Frighteners: The Director’s Cut
Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) comes this wicked comedy-thriller. Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a small-town “ghostbuster” in league […]
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