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Tour de Fright
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A team of American cyclists discover that while competing in the Tour de France is difficult, surviving it might be impossible.
A team of American cyclists discover that while competing in the Tour de France is difficult, surviving it might be impossible.
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Thermae 2'40"
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A small boat, with five people, approaches an isolated villa where, years before, the younger sister of two of them died in the thermal spring baths. Since then, the house has been abandoned. As night falls on the splendid landscape, changes occur. One character's surreal visions turn into a nightmare for everyone in the group. In an inexorable spiral of fear, the mysterious secret which lives and hides in the house is slowly revealed.
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The Tale of Haunted Mike
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Haunted Mike makes his living trolling the internet in search of the arcane and bizarre (or, at least, extremely cheap). By concocting scary (if not entirely true) histories for the items he finds, Mike ekes out a shut-in's existence selling the things on e-Bay under the tag "haunted". His days of sniping are number, however, when he stumbles upon a genuine pants-sh*tter: an antique prosthetic arm made for a child.
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The Shadow of the Night
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Contemporary and classical cinemas collide in this tale of a vampire in a modern-day city. Presented in silent black and white, this film tells the story of a mysterious detective who has taken it upon himself to hunt down and destroy an illusive vampire that plagues his town. After finding one of the vampire's victims discarded at a construction site, the detective follows him home, seeking to confront and destroy the vampire. But is the detective prepared for what awaits him...
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Snip
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Glued to his TV set, a man channel-surfs frenetically, zapping from one stultifying show to other. As he grows more and more indifferent to the constant stream of violent and crude images, he stands up and engages himself in unspeakable act of self-liberation.
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Sandman's Box
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After celebrating his victory on a very important case, attorney Michael Perez (Rene Rosado), gets attacked, beat up and robbed by two individuals. After being left unconscious, Michael is confused for a homeless person and kidnapped by three masked men. Michael is forced to play a game, called Sandman's Box, and compete with Chris (J.W. Cortes), a homeless man, where the winner of the game is the last one alive.
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Quietus
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Margo stares at the moon and thinks of the man she loves. He has callously ended their relationship and Margo is angry, violent thoughts swirling in her head. Meanwhile, an evil intruder is in the house, butcher knife in hand, ready to kill. Soon, Margo will be confronted by this intruder and she will have to choose what her life is worth. Will she embrace the light of life or the dark of the QUIETUS?
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Night of the Living Jews
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On the first night of Passover the residents of a remote Jewish bungalow colony are turned into flesh-eating zombies by matzo with a dark history. In the hunt for human flesh these Hasidic zombies descend on an unsuspecting gentile family in their quiet farmhouse. The loving mother and father and their mischievous son and nubile teenage daughter face an almost certain end until a mysterious stranger miraculously appears to save the day.
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Marvel Zombies The Movie
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Synopsis
Based on the popular Marvel Zombies comic series. This is a world where our heroes (i.e. Spiderman, Hulk, etc.) have become blood thirsty for those whom they are there to protect. The real torture comes when they have quenched their hunger. It is then they return to their normal frame of mind and must deal with the mental anguish of feasting on the ones they have cared for. Then the hunger returns.
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Martians Go Home
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Legend has it that Sarah Clockwork, a great virtuoso disappeared in the middle of the show in a large theater in New York in 1928. Was she abducted by Martians? In 1986, Fran - young person, doing use of his precocious faculties like scientist, makes a Theremin. Fran uses it to communicate with Sarah Clockwork, his platonic love. What began as a simple game ends at strange events that force Fran to think that the Theremin has the power to attract the Martians.