The story begins in New Orleans in 1942, with black crime kingpin J.D. Walker (David McKnight) shot dead on Bourbon Street. Cut to the present when clean-cut college student Ike (Glynn E. Turman) falls under the malevolent influence of the ghostly gangster. As he begins to exhibit J.D.’s boisterous, violent traits, Ike seeks out a local minister (Louis Gossett, Jr.) to exact his revenge.
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Horror History: Friday, June 25, 1976: The Omen was released in theaters
Satan’s son has arrived on Earth and He’s not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine’s (Lee Remick) pregnancy ends in a stillbirth in a Rome hospital, U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) substitutes another baby, whose mother died.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 25, 1976: The Omen was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1976: Grizzly was released in theaters
It’s 18 feet tall, over 2000 pounds, and not content to forage through trash cans. When a killer grizzly terrorizes a state park rampaging for human prey, the ranger and his men must stop the ensuing slaughter. The most dangerous jaws on land, Grizzly was the highest-grossing independent film of 1976 and remains a cult favorite today.
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Heaven Help Us When the Devil’s Rain! Patriarch Steve Preston goes missing and worried mom Emma (Ida Lupino) sends eldest son Mark (William Shatner) in search for his father. Suddenly, a dying, eyeless Steve returns and demands that the family: “Give Corbis what belongs to him!” before dissolving into a gelatinous meltdown. Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) is a Satanic priest hell-bent on recovering a valuable book listing the names of those who sold their souls to the devil…a book that resides with the Preston family. Mark refuses to hand it over and puts up a brave fight, only to wind up an unwilling sacrifice. Occult expert, Dr. Richards (Eddie Albert) and Mark’s younger brother, Tom (Tom Skerritt) plot to free the Prestons and destroy The Devil’s Rain, a bottle containing the souls of those already damned. The battle rages as the elixir is released and a bloody rain of devilry and malevolence is loosed upon a screaming, melting world.
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Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Lara Parker, and Loretta Swit star in this high-octane horror-thriller about two couples who encounter a vicious, murderous Satanic cult while on vacation in Texas.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 27, 1975: Race with the Devil was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 20, 1975: Jaws was released in theaters
Academy Award-winner Steven Spielberg directs one of the most influential and gripping adventures in film history about the hunt of a deadly great white shark.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 20, 1975: Jaws was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, March 4, 1975: Trilogy of Terror premiered
Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women. Written by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour et al.).
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, March 4, 1975: Trilogy of Terror premiered”Horror History: Friday, December 20, 1974: Black Christmas was released in theaters
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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Five youths on a weekend getaway fall prey to a depraved family of cannibals in Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece of subversive horror, now featuring a 4k digital transfer and all-new surround sound mix supervised by the director.
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When a young girl mysteriously disappears, police sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not at all what it seems.
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Last of the Hammer Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along with inmate Dr. Helder, who has been institutionalized for conducting such experiments.
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After suffering a nervous breakdown, a washed-up horror-film actor agrees to do a TV-series based on his old screen creation, the monstrous “Dr. Death.” Soon the cast and crew of the series begin dying in mysterious ways.
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When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do.
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A bona-fide classic of the “blaxploitation” era! A Vietnam veteran has lost his arms and legs when he stepped on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with the vet’s fiance) switches his DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
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Horror History: Wednesday, June 27, 1973: Scream Blacula Scream was released in theaters
Blacula, back in the world of the living by means of voodoo, is now loose with an insatiable bloodlust on a small community in the Louisiana backcountry.
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A millionaire hires a team of paranormal investigators to determine whether his newly acquired mansion is haunted.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1973: The Legend of Hell House was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, April 5, 1973: Theatre of Blood was released in theaters
Vincent Price is a crazed Shakespearean actor who adds murder to his repertoire when he takes gruesome revenge on the critics who slighted him.
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Five unsuspecting hotel guests step into an elevator, which leads them into an underground vault. Trapped with no way out, each guest shares a gruesome tale of an encounter with death. But as the stories unfold, the men begin to suspect that their presence in the vault is no coincidence, and that the only way out…is death. Starring Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Denholm Elliott (Raiders Of The Lost Ark), Curt Jurgens (The Mephisto Waltz) and Michael Craig (Mysterious Island), this ferociously entertaining film is a worthy sequel to Tales From The Crypt!
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Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters’ insidious sibling bond.
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Its code name is ‘Trixie,’ an experimental government germ weapon that leaves its victims either dead or irreversibly insane. When the virus is accidentally unleashed in Evans City, Pennsylvania, the small community becomes a war zone of panicked military, desperate scientists and gentle neighbors turned homicidal maniacs.
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While England swings, the immortal blood sucker finds jaded psychedelic-era kids are ideal victims. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing again face off in a Hammer Studio frightfest.
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When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) arrives at the Dunsmoor Asylum for the incurably insane, he expects to be interviewed by asylum director Dr. Starr. Instead he is met by Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who explains that Dr. Starr had suffered a mental breakdown and now is one of the patients. Dr. Rutherford decides that if Martin can deduce which one is really Dr. Starr, then he will be given the position. Is it Bonnie (Barbara Parkins), whose affair with a married man turns murderous? Is it Bruno (Barry Morse), a hardluck tailor visited by a mysterious stranger (Peter Cushing) with a blueprint and very special fabric for an unusual suit? Is it Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), accused of murdering her brother and her nurse but insisting that her friend Lucy (Britt Ekland) was responsible; Or is it Dr. Byron (Herbert Lom) who claims the ability to transfer collecting?
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A vampire attacks a couple in a graveyard, brutally raping the woman. The child born feeds only on the blood of his mother, until she dies from anemia. As the child grows into adulthood, he curses his heritage.
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In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start abducting likely candidates.
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Strippers at a sleazy club are being mutilated at an alarming rate.
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Two girls are tortured and left to die after they become captives of four prison escapees. The merciless criminals end up in the house of one of the girls and the mother tortures and kills them.
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In 1780, African Prince Mamuwalde pays a visit to Count Dracula seeking his support in ending the slave trade. Instead, the count transforms him into a vampire! In LA nearly two centuries later Mamuwalde emerges from his coffin as “Blacula!”
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 25, 1972: Blacula was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1972: Beware! The Blob was released in theaters
The Blob returns,more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Larry Hagman (who also directed), Burgess Meredith, Dick Van Patten, Robert Walker and Shelly Berman, add to the fun. A geologist (Godfrey Cambridge) unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the North Pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever blood-red Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town. No one is safe as it crawls into a bowling alley and oozes its way across an ice rink, becoming grotesquely bloated with the blood of its victims. Can this bizarre creature ever be stopped?!
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Actors led by Alan Ormsby go to a graveyard on a remote island to perform a Satanic Ritual. The ritual works and soon the dead are walking about and eating the flesh of their victims.
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