Season 5 Episode 21
Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
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Season 5 Episode 20
When a television journalist’s private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.
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Season 5 Episode 19
A pedestrian dies in a hit and run and his killer can’t put it out of his mind.
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The notorious Santa Claus killer is back (after getting shot presumably dead in SNDN 2), and this time he’s hooked up with a blind young woman with telepathic powers. Directed by famed Roger Corman protege Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop)!
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Season 5 Episode 18
If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” premiered”Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters
An attractive college student begins a journey of terror when she takes a class on fear from an “off-center” professor who believes one must experience fear firsthand to understand it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1989: Shocker was released in theaters
Wes Craven directs this blend of special effects, jolting humor and an exhilarating soundtrack that portrays a mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1989: Shocker was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1989: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released in theaters
One year following the events of Halloween 4, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield with a vengeance.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1989: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, October 12, 1989: Puppet Master was released direct-to-video
The Andre Toulon and the Puppet Master saga begins…Alex Whittaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon’s secret of death in the form of five killer puppets-each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem.
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Season 5 Episode 17
A coach’s players learn more about his track record with other teams when his sadistic tendencies make themselves known.
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Season 5 Episode 16
Things start to go wrong when a greedy woman decides to kick out her brother, a Vietnam war veteran.
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Season 5 Episode 15
A designer struggles to maintain control after the suicide of one of his models.
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Season 5 Episode 14
All isn’t well in the hamburger world when a restauranteur learns that not everything is easy.
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Through the dreams of an unborn child, Freddy has resurrected himself … and he’s looking for new victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.
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Season 5 Episode 13
A con artist finds out that sometimes there are limits as to how far one can go.
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Season 5 Episode 12
A young performance artists tries to move forward, but is consumed with a series of disturbing nightmares.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 5, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Spinning Wheel” premiered”Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland was released in theaters
This time, the camp set in the deep, dark woods is a camp for troubled youths. The psychotic killer that has roamed the woods and been the topic of many ghost stories, is still lurking about. He has come up with a permanent cure for the teens’ problems as the body count piles up.
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Season 5 Episode 11
A secret involving a long ago scandal with his friends causes trouble for a recent university graduate as he prepares to marry the woman of his dreams.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Phantom Zone” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was released in theaters
A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask.
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Season 5 Episode 10
A woman can’t get past the thought that her husband is unfaithful, and it begins to rule her life.
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Season 5 Episode 9
Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois’ home, but they soon realize that some memories are best left forgotten.
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Season 5 Episode 8
A jealous husband finds himself at the mercy of a computer answering service.
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Season 5 Episode 7
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles and the young girls he forces into prostitution finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place and one of his girls develops the stigmata.
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Season 5 Episode 6
When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer’s plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
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Season 5 Episode 5
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it’s dangerous to play games.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 8, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shadow Puppets” was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered
Season 5 Episode 4
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered”Horror History: Thursday, July 6, 1989: Witchery was released direct-to-video
When a storm strands a group on a Massachusetts island where the only dwelling is an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress (Knef), the result is the standard horror film as each of the cast is picked off one-by-one.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, July 6, 1989: Witchery was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Saturday, July 1, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dark Wishes” premiered
Season 5 Episode 3
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
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Season 1 Episode 6
An uptight elderly man (M. Emmet Walsh) retires and soon discovers his wife’s (Audra Lindley) obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.
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Season 1 Episode 5
A newlywed couple (Amanda Plummer and Stephen Shellen) retreats to the mansion of the wife’s aunt in which the husband plans to kill her for her inheritance, but he soon learns that his wife’s family has a dark past and that the wife herself is not who she seems to be.
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