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   Serial Killer/Slasher      l     Series      l     Supernatural      l      Vampires     l     Viruses/Infections     l     Werewolves    l     Zombies
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   Aliens/Outer Space:  Alien  ▪  Aliens  ▪  Alien 3   ▪ Alien Raiders  ▪ Alien Resurrection  ▪  Alien vs. Predator ▪  Apollo 18 new!
 Attack the Block ▪ The Blob (1958)  ▪ The Blob (1988)  ▪  Invasion of the Body Snatchers  ▪  The Invasion  ▪  The Fourth Kind  ▪  Pandorum 
   Predator  ▪  Predator 2  ▪  Predators  ▪  Pitch Black  ▪  Signs  ▪ Species ▪   Splice ▪ The Thing (1982)   ▪   The Thing (2011) new!
  Village of the Damned 		  

Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.

  Based on the Book:   30 Days of Night  ▪  An American Haunting  ▪  The Amityville Horror (2005)  ▪  The Box   ▪   Blood and Chocolate
  Bram Stoker's Dracula  ▪ Carrie ▪ Christine  ▪  Creepshow  ▪  Creepshow 2  ▪ Cujo  ▪  Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931 and 1941)  ▪  Dracula
     The Exorcist  ▪ The Fog (1980)  ▪ The Fog (2005)  ▪ Frankenstein  ▪  Halloween  ▪  Haunting in Connecticut  ▪ Interview With the Vampire
  Jaws  ▪  Let Me In  ▪  Let the Right One In (Swedish)  ▪  Misery  ▪  The Mist ▪  Nosferatu  ▪  One Missed Call   ▪  Pet Sematary
  The Picture of Dorian Grey   ▪   Queen of the Damned   ▪   Red Dragon   ▪   The Relic   ▪   Rosemary's Baby   ▪   The Ruins    
   Salem's Lot (1979)   ▪  Salem's Lot (2004)   ▪   The Shining (1980)    ▪    The Shining (1997)    ▪   The Silence of the Lambs   
      Sleepy Hollow  ▪      Snow White ▪    Something Wicked This Way Comes  ▪  Stephen King's 'It'  ▪  The Thing  

In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly begining to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff to help him stop Michael before it's too late.

   Classics:   The Birds  ▪  Creature From the Black Lagoon   ▪   Dracula   ▪   Frankenstein   ▪   Godzilla   ▪   Halloween
 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931 and 1941) ▪ Invasion of the Body Snatchers  ▪ Nightmare on Elm Street ▪  The Mummy ▪ Nosferatu  
  The Picture of Dorian Grey  ▪  Psycho  ▪  Son of Godzilla   ▪   Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?    ▪     The Wolf Man		  

 Creature Features:  Anaconda  ▪  Anacondas  ▪  Black Sheep  ▪  The Blob (1958)   ▪  The Blob (1988)   ▪ The Cave  ▪  C.H.U.D. 
     Cloverfield  ▪  Creepshow  ▪  Critters ▪  Cujo   ▪   Black Water   ▪   The Descent    ▪  Eight Legged Freaks  ▪  The Fly   ▪  The Fly II 
    Gammera, the Invincible  ▪  Godzilla (1954)  ▪  Godzilla (1998)  ▪  Godzilla vs. Mothra  ▪ The Host (Korean) ▪ The Island of Dr. Moureau
   It's Alive ▪  Kingdom of the Spiders ▪ Mimic ▪ The Mist ▪ Mothman Prophecies ▪ The Fly ▪ The Fly II  ▪  The Mummy ▪ The Mummy
  The Mummy Returns ▪ Piranha ▪  Predator ▪  Predator 2 ▪  Predators ▪ The Relic  ▪  Rogue  ▪  The Ruins  ▪  Slither  ▪  Snakes on a Plane  
   Splinter ▪  Swamp Thing    ▪  Tremors  ▪  Tremors 2  ▪  Tremors 3   ▪  Tremors 4   ▪ Trollhunter  ▪  Willard

Outrageously hilarious sword-and-sorcery epic.
 
   Dark Comedy:  Army of Darkness  ▪  Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon  ▪  Black Sheep  ▪  Bubba Ho-Tep  ▪  Dance of the Dead 
     Dead Snow (Norwegian)  ▪  Eight Legged Freaks  ▪  Evil Dead 2  ▪  Fido  ▪  Jennifer's Body  ▪  I Sell the Dead   ▪   My Name is Bruce   
  Rocky Horror Picture Show ▪  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead  ▪  Rubber   ▪  Scary Movie  ▪  Scary Movie 2  ▪ Scary Movie 3      
       Scary Movie 4   ▪      Shaun of the Dead   ▪    Slither   ▪  Snakes on a Plane  ▪  Trollhunter  ▪  Tucker & Dale vs. Evil new!		  

 Don't Go in the Water:  Black Water  ▪  The Cave  ▪  Deep Blue Sea  ▪  Jaws  ▪  Jaws 2   ▪  Jaws 3   ▪  Jaws the Revenge 
                                           Open Water  ▪   Piranha  ▪   Rogue

Blair portrays a 12 year-old girl whose body is possessed by the devil. Jason Miller portrays the priest who confronts the devil in her body and in himself.
 Foreign:  Anatomy (Germany)  ▪ Day Watch (Russian)  ▪ Dead Snow (Norwegian) ▪ The Devil's Backbone (Spanish)  ▪ The Host (Korean) 
      Let the Right One In (Swedish)   ▪    Night Watch (Russian)  ▪  The Orphanage  ▪  R-Point (Korean)  ▪  Ringu (Japanese)  ▪  Thirst (Korean)
         Trollhunter (Norwegian) 
   Mad Scientists:  28 Days Later   ▪   Black Sheep  ▪  Deep Blue Sea  ▪  The Fly  ▪  Frankenstein  ▪  The Island of Dr. Moureau 
                                 Mimic  ▪  Splice  ▪   Swamp Thing		  

Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss unite in a fight against a great white shark that has come to terrorize the residents of a formerly peaceful summer community on the New York coast.

  Masters of Horror: 
    John Carpenter:   The Fog (1980)  ▪  Halloween   ▪  Halloween 2  ▪   The Thing   ▪   Vampires

    Wes Craven:  My Soul to Take ▪  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)   ▪  A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)  
         The People Under the Stairs  ▪  Scream ▪  Scream 2  ▪  Scream 3 ▪  Scream 4 ▪ The Serpent and the Rainbow  ▪  Swamp Thing

    Alfred Hitchcock:  The Birds   ▪    Psycho

    Stephen King:  Carrie  ▪   Children of the Corn   ▪  Christine   ▪   Creepshow   ▪   Cujo    ▪   The Dead Zone    ▪   Misery   ▪   The Mist 
      Pet Sematary   ▪   Salem's Lot (1979)    ▪    Salem's Lot (2004)  ▪      The Shining (1980)   ▪   The Shining (1997)  ▪  Stephen King's 'It'

    Sam Raimi:  30 Days of Night   ▪  Army of Darkness  ▪  Drag Me to Hell  ▪   Evil Dead 2  ▪  The Messengers

    George Romero: Creepshow  ▪  Dawn of the Dead  ▪  Day of the Dead  ▪  Diary of the Dead ▪ Land of the Dead ▪  Night of the Living Dead

An isolated Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.





 
 
 

A group of medical students take a sex-and-booze-fueled ski vacation to a remote cabin in the Norwegian Alps, where they uncover a dark secret from WWII. This discovery results in the resurrection of a battalion of uncontrollable, unstoppable and extremely undead Nazis. What follows is a blitzkrieg of bloodshed, body parts and action-packed zombie carnage.

 Musicals:  Little Shop of Horrors (1960)   ▪  Little Shop of Horrors (1986)  ▪   The Rocky Horror Picture Show   ▪   Sweeney Todd

It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital.
 Originals and Their Remakes:  The Amityville Horror (1979)  /  The Amityville Horror (2005)   ▪  The Blob (1958)  /  The Blob (1988)
  Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931 and 1941) ▪   The Fog (1980) / The Fog (2005)   ▪   Friday the Thirteenth (1980)   /  Friday the Thirteenth (2009)
   Godzilla (1954)  /  Godzilla (1998)   ▪   My Bloody Valentine (1981)  /  My Bloody Valentine (2009)   ▪   The Omen (1976)  / The Omen (2006) 
  Ringu (1998, Japanese)  / The Ring (2002)  ▪  Salem's Lot (1979)   /  Salem's Lot (2004)  ▪    The Shining (1980)   /   The Shining (1997)  
           When a Stranger Calls (1979)   /   When a Stranger Calls (2006)    ▪   The Wolf Man (1941)   /   The Wolfman (2010)
   Psychological:  The Boogeyman  ▪  The Box  ▪  Bug  ▪  Carrie  ▪  The Cell  ▪  Devil  ▪  Frozen  ▪  Gothika   ▪  Hannibal   ▪  Hannibal Rising
   The Last Winter  ▪  Misery  ▪  The Mothman Prophecies  ▪  Red Dragon  ▪  The Roommate  ▪ The Shining (1980)  ▪ The Shining (1997) 
   Silence of the Lambs  ▪  Something Wicked This Way Comes   ▪  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?   ▪  When a Stranger Calls (1979) 
     When a Stranger Calls (2006)		  

Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's amorous accomplice who creates diabolical meat pies out of the remains of Mr. Todd's victims.

  
 Serial Killer/Slasher:  Anatomy (Germany)  ▪   Baghead   ▪   Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon  ▪  Black X-mas  ▪  Child's Play
  Children of the Corn  ▪ The Cell  ▪  Frailty  ▪  Friday the 13th (2009) ▪ From Hell ▪  Halloween  ▪  Halloween 2  ▪ Hannibal Rising  ▪  The Hitcher 
   I Know What You Did Last Summer    ▪   In Dreams   ▪   My Bloody Valentine (1981)   ▪   My Bloody Valentine (2009) 
 My Soul to Take ▪  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) ▪  A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)  ▪  The Orphan  ▪  P2  ▪  People Under the Stairs
   A Perfect Getaway ▪ Prom Night ▪  Red Dragon ▪  Saw ▪  Saw 2  ▪  Scream  ▪  Scream 2  ▪  Scream 3  ▪  Scream 4   ▪ Severance 
  Silence of the Lambs ▪   Stay Alive   ▪  The Strangers  ▪  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  ▪  Urban Legend   ▪    Wolf Creek
 

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.
 
 Series:
 28 Days Later   ▪   28 Weeks Later  The Mummy  ▪  The Mummy Returns  ▪  Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon
   Alien    ▪    Aliens    ▪    Alien 3 
      Alien Resurrection    ▪    Alien vs. Predator		  Night of the Living Dead  ▪   Day of the Dead   ▪   Dawn of the Dead 
   Land of the Dead  ▪  Diary of the Dead  ▪  Survival of the Dead 		  

After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.

 Anaconda   ▪   Anacondas  The Omen (1976)  ▪  The Omen (2006)  ▪  Damien, Omen II

After most of the world's population has been wiped out 28 days after the release a deadly virus, a small group of survivors in London try to find their way to safety while combating zombie-like people who have become infested.
 Blade  ▪  Blade 2  Paranormal Activity ▪  Paranormal Activity 2
 Creepshow  ▪  Creepshow 2  Predator ▪  Predators (remake) ▪  Predator 2
 Day Watch  ▪  Night Watch  (Russian)  Red Dragon  ▪  Silence of the Lambs ▪  Hannibal
 Final Destination  ▪  FD 2  ▪  FD 3  ▪  FD 4  ▪  FD5 new!  Resident Evil  ▪  Resident Evil: Apocalypse  ▪  Resident Evil: Afterlife
   The Fly   ▪   The Fly 2  The Ring  ▪  The Ring 2  
   The Grudge   ▪   The Grudge 2  Saw   ▪   Saw 2  

It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends who vividly remember the terrors of their youth reunite to make a desperate stand against It.

  Halloween  ▪  Halloween 2  Scary Movie   ▪   Scary Movie 2   ▪   Scary Movie 3   ▪   Scary Movie 4  

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
 Jaws  ▪  Jaws 2  ▪  Jaws 3  ▪  Jaws the Revenge  Scream  ▪  Scream 2  ▪  Scream 3  ▪  Scream 4
 Jeepers Creepers    ▪    Jeepers Creepers 2 Tremors   ▪  Tremors 2   ▪  Tremors 3   ▪  Tremors 4

 Supernatural: 1408   ▪  An American Haunting  ▪ The Amityville Horror (1979) ▪  The Amityville Horror (2005)  ▪  Army of Darknes 
 The Blair Witch Project ▪ Case 39  ▪  Child's Play ▪ Christine  ▪ The Covenant  ▪ Dark Water ▪ Dead Zone  ▪ Devil's Backbone (Spanish) ▪ Devil    Drag Me to Hell Evil ▪ Dead 2  ▪ The Exorcist ▪ Exorcist: The Beginning ▪  The Eye ▪ Fallen ▪ Final Destination ▪ FD 2  ▪  FD 3  ▪  FD 4  ▪ FD5
 The Fog ('80) ▪ The Fog ('05) ▪ The Gate ▪ Gothika ▪ Grave Encounters new! ▪ The Grudge  ▪  The Grudge 2  ▪   A Haunting in Connecticut
  Haunting of Molly Hartley ▪ The Haunting of Amelia ▪ House of the Devil  ▪  Insidious  ▪ The Last Exorcism ▪  Legion   ▪  The Messengers  
   My Name is Bruce  ▪  The New Daughter  ▪ The Ninth Gate  ▪  The Omen (1976)   ▪  The Omen (2006)   ▪   Damien, Omen II 
 The Orphanage  ▪  The Others ▪ Paranormal Activity  ▪  Paranormal Activity 2  ▪ Poltergeist  ▪  Pulse  ▪  R-Point (Korean)  ▪ The Return  
 The Ring ▪  The Ring 2 ▪ The Rite ▪  Rosemary's Baby ▪ The Serpent and the Rainbow  ▪ The Seventh Sign ▪ Shutter  ▪ Skeleton Key 
 Sleepy Hollow ▪  Stigmata ▪ Stir of Echoes  ▪  The Uninvited  ▪  Vanishing on 7th Street  ▪  The Visitation   ▪   What Lies Beneath
 




Blair portrays a 12 year-old girl whose body is possessed by the devil. Jason Miller portrays the priest who confronts the devil in her body and in himself.
 

A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.

  Vampires:  30 Days of Night ▪ Blade  ▪  Blade 2 ▪ Bram Stoker's Dracula  ▪  Daybreakers  ▪  Dracula ▪ Fright Night  ▪  From Dusk Till Dawn
  Interview With the Vampire  ▪  Jennifer's Body  ▪  Let Me In  ▪  Let the Right One In (Swedish)  ▪ The Lost Boys  ▪  Near Dark ▪ Nosferatu
    Once Bitten  ▪  Queen of the Damned  ▪  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead   ▪  Salem's Lot (1979)  ▪  Salem's Lot (2004)   
      Shadow of the Vampire  ▪  Thirst (Korean)  ▪  Vampires   ▪  Van Helsing
 
   Viruses/Infections:   28 Days Later    ▪    28 Weeks Later    ▪    Carriers    ▪   The Crazies   ▪    Quarantine    
                 Resident Evil/Resident Evil: Apocalypse (both films are on one disc)   ▪     Shaun of the Dead     ▪     Splinter		  
   Werewolves:  An American Werewolf in London ▪  Blood and Chocolate ▪  Dog Soldiers new!  ▪  Van Helsing ▪ The Wolfman ▪ The Wolf Man   
   
  Zombies:   28 Days Later  ▪  28 Weeks Later  ▪  Bubba Ho-Tep  ▪  Dance of the Dead  ▪  Dawn of the Dead   ▪   Dead Snow (Norwegian)  
  Diary of the Dead   ▪   Fido   ▪   Land of the Dead  ▪  Night of the Living Dead   ▪  Planet Terror  ▪   Resident Evil  ▪  Resident Evil: Apocalypse 
     Shaun of the Dead   ▪   Stake Land   ▪   Survival of the Dead    ▪    Underworld, Rise of the Lycans    ▪    Zombieland
 		  

 
                         
 
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