The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs!
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Horror History: Tuesday, July 17, 2001: Mimic 2 was released direct-to-video
Four years ago, a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City. Then, research biologists developed a species of “Judas” bugs engineered to “mimic” and overrun the diseased roaches in their grubby habitat. The plan worked until the creatures evolved to mimic their next prey … humans!
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Season 3 Episode 8
An artist (Tim Roth) who can’t seem to sell any of his work soon encounters a mysterious collector of morbid artwork (William Atherton), but he has to keep producing ghoulish artworks in order to satisfy his new customer, which soon leads him down a dark and dangerous path.
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Season 2 Episode 16
A tabloid news show host (Morton Downey, Jr.) and his camera crew investigate an abandoned house which is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who had killed seven men. The host and the crew get more than they bargained for when a chain of supernatural happenings indeed begin taunting and haunting them. All of this is aired on live TV.
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Season 4 Episode 19
A parody of I Love Lucy, an alien comes to a family’s door asking for ammonia and hilarity ensues. Written by Jule Selbo
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This time–it’s personal. The Jaws saga reaches its conclusion in this thrilling fourth and final installment as the wife of police chief Brody is followed to the Bahamas by a Great White.
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Scientist Lugosi transplants Carradine’s brain into the body of recently discovered Missing Link, thereby creating a horrific human ape.
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