The Seven Gates Of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George of Pieces) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl of The Beyond) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive – with the horrors of the living dead!
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Horror History: Friday, April 8, 1994: Leprechaun 2 was released in theaters
The evil little Irishman returns to wreak bloody havoc in his never-ending quest for female companionship in this sequel to 1993’s Leprechaun.
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From The Director Of The Craft, The Screenwriter Of Die Hard, & The Producer Of The Terminator In the mid-70s, the members of the love cult Unity Fields sought the ultimate joining by dousing themselves with gasoline and committing mass suicide. A young girl blown clear of the fiery explosion was the only survivor. Thirteen years later, Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin of A Nightmare On Elm Street 3) awakens from a coma inside a psychiatric hospital with only buried memories of that horrific day. But now, her fellow patients are each being driven to their own violent suicides. Has the sect’s hideously burned leader (Richard Lynch) returned to claim his final child, or is something even more depraved lurking within her Bad Dreams? Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator), Harris Yulin (Scarface), E.G. Daily (The Devil’s Rejects) and Dean Cameron (Summer School) co-star in this intense horror shocker directed by Andrew Fleming (The Craft, Dick), co-written by Steven de Souza (Die Hard, 48 HRS) and produced by Gale Anne Hurd (Armageddon, T2).
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Season 3 Episode 12
Jill McGuiness is a lonely daydreaming bank officer who constantly fantasizes about her dream lover. When she dreams about murders and finds that they actually happened, she is unable to distinguish dream from reality. When she finally meets Mr. Right, Jim, she snaps out of her dream world and catches him just in time.
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Season 1 Episode 27
An over-the-hill boxer gets a boost from one of his biggest fans – a little boy with an unwavering belief in magic.
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