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| Panic in Year Zero! (1962) |
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Director: Ray Milland
Synopsis: In Panic in Year Zero (1962), a tight-knit Los Angeles family flees their home just before the city is hit by a hydrogen bomb. ... Read more
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| Paranoiac (1963) |
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Director: Freddie Francis
Synopsis: A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she has seen Tony (Alexander Davion), her brother who killed himself seven years ago. Eleanor's other sibling Simon (Oliver Reed), who is inarguably alive, uses this as an excuse to ... Read more
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| Parasite (1982) |
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Director: Charles Band
Synopsis: In this gory sci-fi outing, shot and originally released in 3-D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime. Dean's research causes him to absorb an especially voracious parasitic worm, which feeds inside the human stomach until it becomes strong enough to burst out in search of a new host. In time, Dean is able to extract the creature from his body, but soon it ... Read more
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| People Under the Stairs, The (1991) |
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Director: Wes Craven
Synopsis: Wes Craven wrote and directed this surrealistic horror-comedy, which was inspired by a true story of parents keeping their children locked in a basement for years. Fool (Brandon Adams), an African-American teen, breaks into the home of the wealthy landlords who evicted his family from a ghetto tenement. A fortune in gold coins is rumored to exist inside, but Fool discovers that the mansion is a chamber of horrors presided over by a pair of incestuous, serial killer sibli ... Read more
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| Peopletoys (1974) |
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Director: Sean MacGregor
Synopsis: 1970s pop star Leif Garrett and his little sister Dawn Lyn star in this creepy horror tale about five kids who escape from a mental asylum and wind up murdering guests at a winter resort. The rich vacationers invite the wayward kids to stay with them, unaware that their new house guests are more interested in slaughter than sledding. The juvenile sociopaths kill off the adult snobs one by one -- in very inventive ways. ... Read more
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| Pet Sematary (1989) |
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Director: Mary Lambert
Synopsis: A doctor dabbles in magical resurrection with horrific consequences in this supernatural thriller adapted from the novel by Stephen King. When Dr. Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) and his family move from Chicago to an old farmhouse in rural Maine, their only concern is the busy highway that flanks their new home. Louis' family -- wife Rachel (Denise Crosby), daughter Ellie (Blaze Berdahl), and toddler Gage (Miko Hughes) -- soon meet kindly old duffer Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne ... Read more
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| Phantasm (1979) |
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Director: Don Coscarelli
Synopsis: Often considered one of the icons of 1970s independent horror cinema, director Don Coscarelli's classic nail-biter follows two boys who, in pursuit of an odd-looking grave robber, may wind up as the newest members of a freshly dead slave race. Jody (Bill Thornbury) and Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) discover that the creature (Angus Scrimm) stealing cadavers walks the earth but lives in the afterworld -- and that it needs more corpses. ... Read more
CineMorte Rating:  (10/10)
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| Phantasm II (1988) |
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Director: Don Coscarelli
Synopsis: In this 1980s sequel to a '70s cult classic, Mike (James LeGros) -- the teen hero of the earlier film -- has just been released from a mental hospital and is determined to resume his quest to destroy grave-robbing mortician, the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Enlisting the aid of his old pal, Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike must destroy the silver sphere-wielding menace before he harms the mysterious girl who's been appearing in Mike's dreams. ... Read more
CineMorte Rating:  (6/10)
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| Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) |
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Director: Don Coscarelli
Synopsis: Thirteen years after his first appearance, the ever-menacing Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) is haunting the thoughts of Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) and his friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister), a shotgun-toting former ice cream vendor. While the Tall Man dispatches his deadly dwarf henchman across Idaho, he must contend with the two pals and Mike's resurrected brother (Bill Thornbury). Phantasm franchise creator Don Coscarelli writes and directs again. ... Read more
CineMorte Rating: (5/10)
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| Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) |
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Director: Don Coscarelli
Synopsis: The horror that is the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) rises again as he goes in search of a successor in this Phantasm series installment. Our hero, Mike (Michael Baldwin), is trying to learn how and why the Tall Man became so powerful while simultaneously attempting to escape the madman's clutches. Mike will need help from his friends, Reggie (Reggie Bannister) and Jody (Bill Thornbury), but can they make it in time? ... Read more
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| Phantom Creeps, The (1939) |
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Director: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Synopsis: Bela Lugosi stars as Dr. Alex Zorka in this classic mad scientist chiller. When Zorka's wife is killed, he vows to unleash his creations on the world. Will former partner Dr. Fred Mallory (Edwin Stanley) be able to thwart his devious plans? This showcase of Lugosi's fiendish appeal is a concoction of foreign spies, federal agents, a pretty girl and a thrilling dirigible explosion for which actual footage of the Hindenburg disaster was used. ... Read more
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| Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, The (1955) |
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Director: Dan Milner
Synopsis: When a radioactive monster emerges from the ocean's depths, leaving a pile of dead bodies in its wake, an oceanographer (Kent Taylor) teams with a government agent (Rodney Bell) to get to the bottom of the creature's murky origins. As it turns out, the deadly beast can trace its roots to an impossibly mad scientist (Michael Whalen) who didn't seem to realize that his research was destroying the world. ~Netflix ... Read more
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| Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) |
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Director: Richard Friedman
Synopsis: The mayor of Midwood, California, Karen Wilton (Morgan Fairchild), is perplexed to discover that the mall she just ceremonially opened has become the favored hunting ground for a mass-murderer. The heroine of this would-be spoof is a young waitress (Kari Whitman). Could it be that the killer is really her dead boyfriend? ~All Movie Guide ... Read more
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| Phantom of the Opera (1962) |
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Director: Terence Fisher
Synopsis: This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts. Instead of Paris, the action takes place at the Royal Opera House in London. The Phantom (Herbert Lom) is a facially disfigured musician/composer who had his opera stolen by a conniving composer, the lecherous Lord d'Arcy. The Phantom -- who lives in the sewer beneath the opera house -- has his dwarf assistant (Ian Wilson) kidnap Christine Charles (Heath ... Read more
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| Phenomena (1985) |
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Director: Dario Argento
Synopsis: Young Jennifer (Jennifer Connelly) has the ability to telepathically communicate with insects, and while that makes her the subject of much derision among her new boarding school classmates, her powers might help catch a serial killer at the school. She works with an entomologist (Donald Pleasence) who thinks he can use the bugs at each gruesome crime scene to solve the crime. Italian horror master Dario Argento directs this shocking, gory thriller. ... Read more
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| Pieces (1982) |
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Director: Juan Piquer Simón
Synopsis: With a tagline that reads, "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre," this Spanish-Italian entry into slasher film territory went on to achieve a dubious distinction as one of the most tasteless films ever produced. The bloodshed opens in 1942 with a scene of a little boy axing his mother after her discovery of him piecing together a puzzle of a nude girl. Cut to 42 years later and the little ax-man has moved on to chainsaws as he begins buzzing coeds on th ... Read more
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| Piranha (1978) |
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Director: Joe Dante
Synopsis: The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of yesteryear. Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost River Lake. She hires surly backwoods drunkard Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) to serve as her guide. Searching the area, they find an abandoned military facility. The only resi ... Read more
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| Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981) |
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Director: James Cameron, Ovidio G. Assonitis
Synopsis: This poorly scripted horror film about miniature, finny "jaws" details the mating rituals of the fictional "grunion" fish (falsely introduced as "piranhas" for more box-office recognition) and their need to attack and kill humans -- either inside or outside the water. These saber-toothed wonders have been hatched from a canister of eggs on a sunken ship in front of a posh Club Med resort, which features the mating rituals of humans who at times need to attack and kill fi ... Read more
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| Pit and the Pendulum (1961) |
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Director: Roger Corman
Synopsis: Francis (John Kerr) visits the gloomy Spanish castle of his late sister Elizabeth's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), to learn the reason for her death. Nicholas fears his wife isn't really dead and that her spirit wanders the halls at night. Seems Nicholas's father was a feared leader of the Spanish Inquisition; as a child, Nicholas saw his father torture his mother and bury her alive, and he's convinced Elizabeth has suffered a similar fate. ... Read more
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| Plague of the Zombies, The (1966) |
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Director: John Gilling
Synopsis: A strange disease reaching epidemic proportions is invading the English countryside where Peter Thompson (Brooks Williams) practices. In desperation, Thompson seeks the help of his mentor, Sir James Forbes (Andre Morell). Amidst walking corpses, voodoo dolls and empty graves, the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ghastly secret. ... Read more
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