Season 6 Episode 14
A neo-fascist cannot relax because he cannot forget about his past.
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Horror History: Friday, December 14, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tourist Trap” premiered
Season 6 Episode 13
A Parisien con artist meets his match and learns that there is no such thing as the perfect con.
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Season 6 Episode 12
Two men kidnap a young woman for a night out in Paris.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 7, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “White Slaves” premiered”Horror History: Friday, November 30, 1990: Misery was released in theaters
Based on the novel by Stephen King. Successful romantic novelist, Paul Sheldon, who just had his life saved by his No.1 fan…now lives to regret it. When Ann Wilkes discovers that her favorite character, Misery Chastain, has been killed off in his latest novel she’ll do anything to make sure he brings her back to life. Now Paul Sheldon must write as if his life depended on it…because it does.
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Season 6 Episode 11
After a housewife shoots her philandering husband, she goes after the other woman.
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Season 6 Episode 10
After spending all of his time with his paintings, an artist begins to believe that his art and life are melding together.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 23, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Windows” premiered”Horror History: Wednesday, November 21, 1990: Predator 2 was released in theaters
A police chief discovers that an invisible creature — an extraterrestrial big game hunter known as the Predator — is killing off criminals and cops and has targed him as its next victim.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 21, 1990: Predator 2 was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1990: Stephen King’s It debuted on television
A fanged monster that won’t stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. No matter what your biggest fear is, no one knows It better than Stephen King.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1990: Stephen King’s It debuted on television”Horror History: Friday, November 16, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Trust Me” premiered
Season 6 Episode 9
A con man who preys on wealthy, older women soon learns that one day everyone must pay the piper.
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Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas and Olivia Hussey star in this chilling prequel to the classic Hitchcock thriller.
A seemingly rehabilitated Norman Bates (Perkins) is drawn to a late night radio show where the host (CCH Pounder, Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight) encourages him to share his views on the topic of matricide. Reliving his childhood, Norman recounts his trials of a young boy (Thomas, Ouija 2) living with his widowed schizophrenic mother (Hussey, the original Black Christmas). These haunting memories are more than just disturbing visions of the past; they threaten to rekindle his killing urge in this spine-tingling thriller directed by Mick Garris (The Stand, Masters of Horror).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 10, 1990: Psycho IV: The Beginning premiered”Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1990: Child’s Play 2 was released in theaters
Chuckie’s back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy.
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Season 6 Episode 8
After an office manager accidentally kills the boss’s wife, she has to find a way to cover up the murder and keep herself out of jail.
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A Vietnam War veteran, now a New York City postal worker, struggles with flashbacks and hallucinations. With the help from his new bride, he fights to keep sane while his brain fluctuates between reality and delusion.
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Season 6 Episode 7
An adulterer faces a murder frame-up when his wife becomes tired of his catting around.
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From horror master Stephen King comes his most terror-filled tale yet… Gates Falls, Maine. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths.
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Season 6 Episode 6
After years of illegal dumping, the poison’s in the land start to leech into the mind.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 26, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Toxic Shock” premiered”Horror History: Friday, October 19, 1990: Night of the Living Dead was released in theaters
It’s a new dawn for terror when the dead come back to feast on the living in this contemporary version of the horror classic.
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Season 6 Episode 5
A teacher steals the writings of an inmate in a class he’s teaching at prison, but he’ll soon learn that all criminals have to pay the price.
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A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
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Season 6 Episode 4
Johnny Mattel thinks only about himself. He keeps himself busy stealing, sleeping around, and generally doing whatever he wants to do. After meeting a beautiful young woman at a bar, he becomes obsessed with a television show, “Strate Shooter”, and is determined to ‘rescue’ the young woman. Nothing is as it seems though, which Johnny soon learns after he manages to get the young woman out of the house and back to his father’s home.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 12, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Strate Shooter” premiered”Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: Sorority House Massacre II was released in theaters
Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They decide to stay in it for the night to meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor starts poking around.
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A murderous baboon with Red ass escapes from a Florida laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a live-action Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque game. Lame game doesn’t kill them, Shakma will!
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Season 6 Episode 3
A woman obsessed with climbing the professional ladder eliminates her romantic rival much the same way she would eliminate a business rival.
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Season 6 Episode 2
Mickey Black is a film director with everything going for him until he seduces a woman away from her gangster boyfriend. He promises her all the glory in the world, but things take a dangerous turn when her boyfriend refuses to give her up.
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Season 6 Episode 1
When an ex-marine realises he is all on his own, he becomes convinced that he’s on a dangerous mission and has been abandoned by his commanding officers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 21, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fading Away” premiered”Horror History: Friday, September 14, 1990: Repossessed was released in theaters
A parody of “The Exorcist”. Linda Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil. Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii, who gets called to exorcise the intrusive being.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 14, 1990: Repossessed was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Slumber Party Massacre III was released direct-to-video
Seven California coeds are dressed to kill… and a murderer is, well, dressed to drill. He’s an insomno-maniac looking for luscious bods to bore and it looks like he’ll find them at the Slumber Party Massacre. The Driller Killer is back in Part III of the classic horror fest. This time Jackie, Diane and Martia are three high school girls who love a good time. When they party, they bust out their bikinis and break out the brews – but the driller killer’s out for a thrill with his drill… and he’s ready to kill!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Slumber Party Massacre III was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was released in theaters
Arriving in Chicago, Henry (Michael Rooker, in what is undoubtedly the finest performance of his patchy career), moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis (Tom Towles) and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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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, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 17, 1990: The Exorcist III was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 10, 1990: Flatliners was released in theaters
Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts lead a talented group of medical students on a dangerous journey to the other side of death… and back.
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