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Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track the killer, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....
3) Angst
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Erwin Leder (*Schindler’s List*) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. ANGST is a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. "*The rarest masterpiece of cinema.*” – **Gaspar Noé**
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With a psychopath named Buffalo Bill is murdering women and believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) to interview a demented prisoner: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a cannibalistic psychiatrist whose fascination with the young agent is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own demons, but also an evil so powerful she may not have...
5) Scream
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Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and Marley Shelton.
6) Scream VI
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
In the sixth installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start afresh in New York City.
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Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O'Shea's debut feature THE TRANSFIGURATION follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo's dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, THE TRANSFIGURATION is an atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New...
9) Hurt
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Tommy comes home from a military deployment to surprise his wife Rose for Halloween. But he seems different now. He seems shaken and traumatized. When he suggests they go to their favorite Halloween attraction, the Haunted Hayride, they both see it as a way to feel like a normal couple again. What Tommy and Rose do not realize is they are not only spectators at this spectacle of terror. They are unwitting participants, because a masked killer is on...
10) Red dragon
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
11) Freaky
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive High School when she becomes the newest target of The Butcher, her town's infamous serial killer. The Butcher's mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other's bodies, and Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before it is permanent. While Millie races against the clock to reverse the curse, The Butcher discovers that having a female body is...
12) Blood work
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
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There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to...
13) The snowman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When an elite crime squad's lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit, the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.
Grisly images, violence, some language, sexuality and brief nudity.
14) Lizzie
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous path? Perhaps it is Bridget's influence, the maid that...
15) Halloween
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once and for all. Will she prevail if she and Myers come face-to-face...
17) Fallen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
18) Halloween ends
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control....
19) Monster
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex...
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