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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Max Maury should be on top of the world. He's a famous horror director. Actors love him. Hollywood needs him. He's making money hand over fist. But it's the 80s, and he's directing cheap slashers for audiences who only crave more blood, not real art. Not real horror. And Max's slimy producer refuses to fund any of his new ideas. Sally Priest dreams of being the Final Girl. She knows she's got what it takes to score the lead role, even if she's only...
2) Scream 3
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette are back in the chilling third chapter of this phenomenally popular and frightfully entertaining series! While Sidney Prescott (Campbell) lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the latest movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings. And when the escalating terror finally brings her out of hiding, Sidney and other Woodsboro survivors...
3) Sinister
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[©2013]
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
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English
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Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, "New York Times" film critic Zinoman delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age--the 1970s, when such directors as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and Brian De Palma redefined the genre.
7) Harrow Lake
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Language
English
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"Lola Nox is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother in the mining town where her horror movie director father's most iconic film was set, when paranormal incidents and whispers of a century-old monster make her question if she'll make it out alive"--
The things Lola Nox knows about Harrow Lake: It's where her father shot his most disturbing slasher film. And there's something not right about this town. When her father is brutally attacked...
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"In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film's scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets...
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Language
English
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"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...
11) April Fool's Day
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A practical joker invites her college pals to her family's mansion, where one by one they're threatened and killed.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
13) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A team of explorers discover a clue to mankind's origins, leading them to the darkest corners of the universe.
14) The third hotel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Shocker on Shock Street": Erin and her friend, love the Shocker on Shock Street horror movies and all the gory monsters that Erin's dad creates for the Shocker Movie Studios. Her dad invites the girls to be the first to ride the new Shocker tour ride. "Click": Seth realizes his new remote can freeze a person when he hits the pause button.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Minding the Monsters brings together your favorites: Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, Jose Jalapeno and Achmed the Dead Terrorist. The result is an all-new original live comedy event like no other; complete with each of Jeff's stage partners starring in their own horror movie trailer.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Discover the evil, the eroticism, and the legends through interviews with directors, actors, special effects artists, writers, and critics. Includes film clips from the most immortal vampire movies in history.
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English
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A century after the macabre deaths of several students at a New England girls' boarding school, the release of a sensational book on the school's history inspires a horror film adaptation that renews suspicions of a curse when the cast and crew arrive at the long-abandoned building.
1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chigago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to...