Horror History: Friday, October 23, 2009: Saw VI was released in theaters

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.

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Horror History: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell was released direct-to-video

When Diana, a beautiful coed, discovers an ancient gem inside a mystical Persian case, she unwittingly releases the mercilessly evil “Djinn.” The gut-slinging demon uses fiendish trickery to take the form of a professor in order to slice, dice and burn his way through the university staff and its students.

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Horror History: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: Ginger Snaps was released direct-to-video

Death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their straight-laced suburb, must deal with the tragic consequences of a werewolf bite in this chilling coming-of-age drama.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1998: The Last Broadcast was released in theaters

A cult film which is widely thought to have been the inspiration for ‘The Blair Witch Project’. On Dec 15th 1995, the four-strong crew of a cable access show head into the woods to search for the legendary Jersey Devil. Two days later the bloody corpses of three of the crew are discovered and the sole survivor is charged with murder. A year passes and filmmaker David Leigh (David Beard) makes a film investigating the killings…

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1998: Apt Pupil was released in theaters

A sixteen-year-old honor student discovers a Nazi war criminal in his hometown and exchanges a vow of silence for an in-depth look into the Nazi’s sinister history. Based on the novella by Stephen King.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1992: Dr. Giggles was released in theaters

When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1987: Prince of Darkness was released in theaters

This story centers on a Catholic priest who discovers a gelatinous fluid that he believes is the source of power for the anti-Christ that is about to attack an unsuspecting world.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1981: The Pit was released in theaters

Jamie wouldn’t kill anyone… unless Teddy told him to! Twelve-year-old Jamie (Sammy Snyders, Tom Sawyer of TV’s “Huckleberry Finn and His Friends”) is one creepy kid… he has a perverse obsession with sex, his only friend is an evil teddy bear, and he’s the only one who knows about the hole in the forest where he feeds raw meat to a ravenous pack of mutant troglodytes. Jamie will teach everyone a lesson: the kids who teased and bullied him, the mean old lady down the street, even his pretty new babysitter. Soon they – and his entire town – will face the flesh-eating horror of The Pit! The one and only directorial effort by Lew Lehman with a script by documentarian Ian A. Stuart and featuring a wonderful cast that includes Jeannie Elias (Nomads), Sonja Smith (Videodrome) and Richard Alden (The Sadist).

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1970: The Wizard of Gore was released in theaters

Montag the Magnificent is The Wizard of Gore, is a seedy small-time magician with a shocking stage act. Hypnotizing pretty young women from the audience to be his obedient volunteers, Montag then proceeds to mutilate them in a series of illusions. Trouble is, after the show, the “illusions” become all too horribly real!

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” premiered

Season 1 Episode 4

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1942: The Mummy’s Tomb was released in theaters

Ancient Egyptian Mummy, Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) and High Priest Mehemet (Turhan Bey) wreak vengeance on the family who defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.

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Horror History: Thursday, October 23, 2014: V/H/S: Viral

As the streets of Los Angeles overflow with camera-wielding gawkers seeking to capture images of a bizarre police pursuit, the same people who sought to exploit the suffering of others for amusement on the Internet become the stars of a gruesome viral video from which no one gets out alive.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 2015: Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was released in theaters

After moving into a new home, a family finds an old video camera that shows the paranormal activity in the house that has begun to terrorize them.

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