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1) Whitechapel
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
2) Bedlam
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
A supernatural thriller set in a luxury apartment building which is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip new high rise on the edge of a British metropolis. Behind the façade of stylish 21st century living lie unimaginable horrors, for this former pre-Victorian asylum is possessed by its previous inhabitants. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool....
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
When Ruth Blacksmith's new partner, Aidan, reveals that he once hurt a woman called Mary Trelease, Ruth is deeply worried. She raises her concerns with Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer who is intrigued. But when Charlie decides to call in at Ruth's house, she finds a disturbing scene. Ruth's ex-husband, Jason Blacksmith, has been murdered. Charlie and Detective Simon Waterhouse investigate the case and find themselves divided over motives and suspects....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Two lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) fight each other for survival and sanity on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind horror masterpiece The Witch. Nominated for an **Academy Award**. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
5) Prey
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
BAFTA nominated John Simm stars as Detective Constable Marcus Farrow in this fast-paced thriller. Farrow is a well-liked copper with an ex-wife and two kids. But when Farrow is found at the scene of a brutal crime, with all the evidence pointing towards him, his world collapses. Arrested and charged, it seems his fate is sealed. So when he gets the opportunity to escape, he seizes it with both hands. Now on the run, Farrow is not just trying to evade...
6) Titane
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sam is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creaky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for total lunar eclipse. Victor at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in...
8) Nightbreed
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
9) Talk to me
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
10) Surveillance
Language
English
Description
When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung-out junkie and an eight-year-old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well-practiced lie, they...
11) Silver nitrate
Author
Language
English
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
Author
Series
Indian Lake trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
13) The sixth sense
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8 year old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions of the dead.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
15) The menu
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young couple travels to a secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu. What they don't know is tonight's clientele have been selected for a specific reason, and they are all involved in the spectacle he intends to perform.
16) Psychoville
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A chilling message draws five seemingly disparate characters into a dark tale of blackmail and desire in this nightmarish comedy from the creators of The League of Gentlemen. A blind recluse with an unusual hobby, a love-struck telekinetic dwarf, an embittered hook-handed clown, a murder-obsessed man-child, and a deranged but caring midwife all receive the same ominous message sending their already bizarre lives into turmoil. All are affected by the...
17) The Exorcist III
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward. Based on the novel "Legion" by William Peter Blatty, who also directed this film.
18) The Necromancer
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Retreating from the violent Napoleonic War, a weary band of British soldiers make their way through the Black Forest in Germany, unaware of what new terror is awaiting them.
19) Maniac
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in the present day, MANIAC is a reboot of the cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made. Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, whose life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates and the number of victims increases, it becomes clear that Frank is...
20) Willard
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A social misfit, WILLARD is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
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