Halloween Movies
Halloween movies from independent, underground and cult cinema. This collection is made for the night when fear becomes a pleasure: scary movies and halloween horror films that go beyond the usual jump scares, with slow dread, strange atmospheres, haunted places and creatures that stay in the dark. There are spooky and creepy movies for a shared evening, classic halloween stories and darker, more adult films that take the idea of fear seriously. They come from filmmakers who work with small means and big imagination, which is often where the most unsettling films are found.
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Simon Marsdenās Haunted Life In Pictures
Movie
Documentary, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2019.
This documentary retraces the life and work of Simon Marsden, widely regarded as one of the foremost photographers of the supernatural. Premiered at the British Film Institute in London, the film offers a fascinating journey into his creative uni... -
Little Shop of Horrors
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Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1960.
The brilliant Roger Corman, director and producer who has often worked with ridiculous budgets, allowing the debut of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, makes the film where his style is more recognizable. A budget of 30 thousand dollar... -
Before The Time Changes
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Short film, by M. Menegazzo, M. Pernisa, Italy, 2017.
Every year, the last week of October, between Saturday and Sunday, the transition from summer to solar time takes place, the antechamber of the winter season. Before moving the hands back one hour and feeling the approach of darkness, someone ... -
Attack of the giant leeches
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Horror, Sci-fi, by Bernard L. Kowalski, United States, 1959.
An independent production by Roger Corman's factory, it is one of the "creature films" produced in the 1950s in response to fears of the cold war. In the Florida Everglades, a pair of giant leeches live in an underwater cave. They begin... -
Beast from Haunted Cave
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Horror, Crime, by Monte Hellman, United States, 1959.
A group of criminals, led by the ruthless Alexander Ward, devises a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to cause an explosion in a nearby gold mine; the detonation w... -
Vampyr
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Horror, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany, 1932.
Late in the evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn near the town of Courtempierre and rents a room to sleep. Gray is suddenly disturbed by an old man, who enters the room and leaves a square package on the table: "To be opened on my death" is written ... -
The Wasp Woman
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Horror, Sci-fi, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
Scientist Eric Zinthrop is fired from his job on a honey farm for using wasps to experiment with him. The owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin, is upset when the sales of her company start to decline: her customers know that she ... -
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
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Horror, science fiction, by Joseph Green, United States, 1962.
Dr. Bill Cortner saves a patient who was pronounced dead, but the senior surgeon, Bill's father, condemns his son's unorthodox transplant methods and theories. While driving to his family home, Bill and his attractive future wife Jan ... -
The Werewolf of Washington
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Horror, comedy, by Milton Moses Ginsberg, USA, 1973.
Jack Whittier is a reporter posted to Washington D.C. as correspondent from Budapest. Jack is infected by a werewolf during a party and begins to transform into a werewolf. Meanwhile, he tries to hide his new condition and keep his job as a jou... -
Death Screams
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Horror, directed by David Nelson, United States, 1982.
"Death Screams" opens with the scene of a brutal murder of a young couple who are having sexual intercourse by a river. A few days later, a group of college students, including Bob and Kathy, return to their small hometown for the summer vaca... -
The Manster
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Horror, Science Fiction, by George P. Breakston, United States, 1959.
An American journalist stationed in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist who is conducting bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the scientist realizes that the hapless correspondent is the ... -
Darkness, This Is my Revenge
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Thriller, by Giuseppe Di Giorgio, Italy, 2022.
The film tells the story of a mysterious killer who begins murdering women, leaving a message behind: "This is my revenge." Commissioner Soavi investigates, but is unable to find any clues that point him in the right direction. One thing that all the... -
Faust
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Horror, by F. W. Murnau, German, 1926.
Faust is an elderly scholar who has lost faith in life. He is defeated by his inability to help others and by his awareness of his own mortality. One day, he meets Mephistopheles, who offers him a pact: in exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles will give him ... -
Halloween
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Horror, by John Carpenter, United States, 1978.
An independent film shot on a very small budget, it grossed over $ 80 million worldwide at the time. It is the most successful slasher movie and one of the 5 most profitable films in the history of cinema, which has become a cult with countless sequ... -
Haxan
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Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil... -
Silent night, bloody night
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Horror, by Theodore Gershuny, United States, 1972.
1972 American Slasher, is a forerunner horror genre several years before Carpenter's Halloween, with a complex script and first person shooting of the killer, which inspired many subsequent films. Its originality and its narration are what manage... -
The Terror
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Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1963.
Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a French soldier, loses contact with his unit and is forced to wander alone near the Baltic Sea. While searching for his regiment, he spots Helene (Sandra Knight), a mysterious beauty, walking alone. Enchanted, Du... -
The last man on earth
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Horror, sci-fi, by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, United States / Italy, 1964.
Unnoticed at the time of its release and considered today a masterpiece, it is the first and best film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name, released in 1954. Shot back in 1964, in Rome, with an Italia... -
Dementia 13
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Horror, Thriller, by Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1963.
Francis Ford Coppola's debut film produced at low cost by Roger Corman, who wanted a film on the model of low budget Psycho with gothic atmospheres and heinous crimes. The Haloran family gathers in their Irish castle to commemorate t... -
Dementia
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Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...