An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970)

Vincent Price tells 4 of Poe's most famous and beloved tales.
In The Tell-Tale Heart a man is driven mad with guilt, The Sphinx tells of a man who see's a monster looking out through his friend's window, The Cask of Amontillado sees a man lead a rival wine collector into the catacombs on the pretext of showing him a rare bottle, and finally, a first-hand account of a man sentenced to death by torture at the hands of the spanish inquisition brings things to a close in The Pit and The Pendulum.

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The Tingler (1959)

Pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) notices that in subjects terrified at the moment of death, the lower vertebrae are often shattered, he discovers that the tingling at the base of the spine during moment of fear is caused by a parasite... one which can only be dispelled by screaming.
Eventually, a Tingler escapes into a movie theatre; During the initial cinema run, it escaped into the theatre that you were in, thanks to William Castle's innovative 'process', Percepto!

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Splinter (2008)

A couple onan anniversary camping trip are kidnapped and held hostage by a couple on the run.
Stopping for fuel they are attacked by a strange creature; seemingly make out of splinters, it will slowly infect and take over any living creature that it injures, turning their tissue into more of the strange spines it is made of; they find themselves hauled up in the filling station, working together to survive the night.

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The Prophecy (1995)

As told (in universe) in a missing portion of the bible, a second war is raging in heaven. Many of the Angels have grown tired of the "talking apes", and long for the days when God favoured them above all others, the only way to end the war is to gain control of a black soul, the blackest soul that ever walked, before it is claimed by Satan.
Angels, Simon (Eric Stoltz), and Gabriel (Christopher Walken) have each come to to find
A one-time trainee and current police officer, Thomas, finds himself stuck in the middle when he investigates the death of a very strange John Doe...

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Frankenfish (2004)

A biologist is sent to investigate the death of a fisherman in the swamps of Louisiana; it soon transpired that the cause of death was attack from a hitherto unknown species of fish.
After meeting with the fisherman's wife, they find themselves hauled up in a local resident's house boat, while the fish is on the attack...

Based (loosely) on a real event.

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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

A silent and unnamed man (Vinnie Jones) is killing people on quiet, late night trains in the New York subway, but with no bodies are turning up, the victims are listed only as "Missing People".
A photographer photographs a woman minutes before her disappearance, and his investigation leads him to the killer.
Unable to convince the police, he becomes obsessed with the man, and is determined to find proof.

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Maniac (2012)

By day, Frank (Elijah Wood) runs his own business restoring mannequins; by night he murders women, taking their scalps to adorn his personal collection.
When Frank meets photographer Anne, she becomes the latest object of his obsession.

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Darklands (1998)

A reporter looks into a series of animal sacrifices in Wales, and is also asked to look into the death of a man in the steelworks.
He begins to suspect the two cases are related, and us drawn into a world of nationalism and religious cults. 

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World War Z (2013)

When the Zombie Apocalypse breaks out, former UN investigator, Garry Lane (Brad Pitt), is called in to work with a team tracking down patient zero in hopes of finding a cure. 

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The Dead Undead (2010)

A group if teens arrive at an abandoned motel, only to be attacked by zombies.
Thankfully help is at hand, in the form of a group of zombie fighting vampire mercenaries. 

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V/H/S/2 (aka S-VHS) (2013)

A Private investigator and his partner have been asked to check out the whereabouts of a missing student.
Breaking into his house (with the permission of his mother, the PI's client) they find an elaborate setup of multiple TVs, VCRs and a Laptop.
The PI goes to check out the rest of the house, and leaves his partner to see if she can find any clues on the laptop, or any of the collection of VHS tapes strewn around the floor.

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Frankenweenie (2012)

Victror is a child science-wizz and amatur film-maker; when his best freind, his dog Sparky, is run over, Victor digs him up, and brings him back to life.
With the school science fair coming up, it isn't long before the other kids are trying to reanimate animals using Victor's technology... Unfortunately, Sparky's return is a bit of a fluke, and the other animals all come back as monsters.

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Street Trash (1988)

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When a liquor store owner finds a crate of an unknown drink, Viper, in a hidden compartment in his cellar, he decides to sell it at $1 a bottle to the local homeless population.
One problem... Anyone who drinks the Viper, melts into neon coloured slime. 

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Smiley (2012)

An internet-legend claims that if you visit a random video-chat site, and type "I did it for the lulz" three times, "Smiley", a killer with an emoticon carved into his otherwise featureless face, is supposed to appear behind your chat partner... And kill them.
Not wanting to move into the dorms, college freshman, Ashley, moves into a house-share with a stranger, fellow freshman, "Proxy", a keen user of 4chan's /b/ image board (home of Anonymous).
Proxy takes Ashley to a party organised by her fellow /b/tards, where she learns about, the myth of Smiley, and witnesses it for her self when a boy that the party invokes him on a chat-roulette style website.
Later, to prove to themselves that it was a prank, Proxy convinces Ashley to try it for herself... And it works.
When the boy who tried it at the party turns up dead, it seems that the legend of smiley isn't told in full; after killing the victim, Smiley comes after the person who summoned him; And it looks like Ashley is next...

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Curse of Chucky (aka. Child's Play 6) (2013)

A paraplegic woman, Nica, takes delivery of a parcel addressed to her mother, Sarah.
The parcel is found to contain a 'good guy' doll; a talking doll of a little boy "Chucky", popular in the 80's. Neither of them knows who could have sent it, or why.
The next day, Sarah is found dead, having apparently killed herself.
When Nica's sister and family come to stay for the funeral, it isn't long before more people start dying, because (as fans of the franchise already know), Chucky isn't like other dolls...

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KFZ: Kentucky Fried Zombies (aka: DIEner... Get it?) (2012)

Unassuming serial killer, Ken, stops in at a near-deserted roadside diner, and kills Rose and Fred, the waitress and Chef.
While he's clearing away the bodies, a couple arrive to use the diner, and before he can kill them, the local Sheriff stops by for a coffee, so Ken poses as a new employee of the diner.
All is going relatively smoothly, until the sheriff spots Fred in the back room... Walking around. 

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Warwolves (2009)

After being cornered and attacked by a 'dog man' while on manoeuvres in the Middle East, a squad of 3 men and women of the Army started experiencing changes; Heightened senses, increase strength and agility... And blood lust.
One of the men kills himself, while another, Jake Gabriel, gives himself a change of name, and starts a new life as a mini-mart worker, suppressing the changes, and the memory, with a cocktail of drink and drugs.
Unfortunately for Jake, the rest if his pack aren't ready to give up on him. 

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First of all, if you are a werewolf on the run, do not change your name to Lawrence Talbot. It's not clever, and in the real world, it would probably make you easy to find. 

Secondly, if you are writing a low-budget SyFy original about wear wolves, do not invoke the name Lawrence Talbot. It is not wise to remind your viewers of a better movie. 

The Cellar Door (2007)

When Rudy goes to her friends house for a 'girls night in' they both end up passing out drunk.
She wakes up in a wooden crate, in a basement, as the prisoner of a socially awkward man, named Herman.
All Herman wants to do is keep her happy in her box, but sometimes she says mean things to Herman, or won't co-operate with him, and when she upsets Herman, she makes him do bad things...

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The movies prologue sees Herman's previous obsession escaping, and her subsequent murder. I get that they wanted to give the movie a dramatic lead-in but later, when Rudy realises she is not the first woman that Herman has 'kept', it's a big thing for her, and it's lacking some of its punch for us as we already know. Another small thing is that his previous victim was blonde, whereas Rudy is a redhead... To me, I'd have liked to have seen Herman always kidnap a similar looking woman, but again, it's a minor gripe. 

The Box (2009)

The Lewises wake one morning to find a package on their doorstep.
Inside the package is a wooden box, with a red button on top of it, shielded by a locked glass dome.
Later, a Mr Steward comes to give them the key to the dome, and explain the box's purpose.
They are to keep the box for 24 hours, after which Mr Steward will call again to collect it.
If at any point during that 24 hours, the button is pushed, 2 things will happen; Mr Steward will give them $1 million when he collects the box, and someone they do not know will die...

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Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)

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When Devon (Snoop Dogg) accidentally shoots his kid sister during a gang fight, he makes a deal with the devil, His sister can return, but he must become a Hound of Hell; A gatekeeper of the underworld, who tells stories and collects souls.
In this Urban pistache of "Tales From The Crypt", We are lead through 3 short stories: A street artist given the power to kill through Graffiti,  A wealthy redneck who abuses his power when he inherits the house his daddy's old platoon live in, and a rapper whose meteoric raise to fame may have been more than just good luck...

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The Shrine

A young man is the latest in a long line of backpackers to go missing in Eastern Europe, only to have his belongings show up in an airport elsewhere on the continent weeks later.
When a journalist traces his last known whereabouts to a village in Poland, she heads out with her assistant and reluctant photographer boyfriend to solve the mystery.
Things take a nasty turn when she decides to investigate an unmoving and mysterious patch of dense perpetual fog in the woods on the village's outskirts, and finds an imposing statue that the villagers would rather she hadn't seen...

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Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)

Years ago, Ken Boyd was trapped and tortured by the high school basketball team, leaving him emotionally (and physically) scarred.
Fresh out of the loony bin and working in an ice-cream parlour, Ken seems to be getting his life in order, and all is going well, until he is sent to one of the team member's birthday party to serve ice-cream, and the ex-jock mocks his work-uniform (a giant ice-cream cone).
The next day, the bully turns up dead; and he's not the last.
One by one, the people who tormented Ken get brutally slaughtered, to complicate things further, Ken's 11 year old daughter shows up.
Can Ken find his place in the world, can he be a dad, or is he just Some Guy Who Kills People?

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The Collection (aka The Collector 2) (2012)

The Collector's MO of killing a building full of people to kidnap one continues... But this time his trophy is the daughter o a very rich man who sends a team of mercenaries to retrieve her.
And if you think he makes his victims houses deadly, wait until you see him on home turf...

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9 Dead (aka Nine Dead) (2010)

After a spate of abductions in LA, all 9 of the masked kidnappers wake up in the same room, each handcuffed to a post.
The kidnapper enters the room, and tells them that they are all here for a reason; he will return every 10 minutes and ask if they know what the reason is. If they do, he will call the police, release them, and make a full confession; if they do not, he will kill one of them, and restart the clock...

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V/H/S (2012)

A gang of young thugs, who film petty crime for fun, and make money by selling videos assaulting women in the street, take a steal-to-order job, requiring them to break into a house and steal a VHS tape.
When they get there, they find the occupant dead, and many tapes.
Told that they "will know" which tape is needed, they begin to watch some of the tapes, the contents of the tapes form the 5 stories presented in the movie.

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The Purge (2012)

In the year 2022 the New Founding Fathers of America have ushered in a new age of peace and prosperity; Crime is at an all time low, and unemployment is down to 1%.
The secret of the New Founding Father's success is "The Purge", an annual event in which, for 12 hours, Emergency services are suspended, and all crime is legal.
James Sandin sells security systems specifically intended to keep those who can afford them safe during The Purge. After locking his family home down for the night, his son takes pity on a man who is being hunted, and disarms the system long enough to let him in.
The man's pursuers soon show up and offer the Sandins an ultimatum: deliver him alive before the gang's heavy equipment arrives, or they will force their way in and kill everyone inside.
Can the Sandins find the man, now hiding in their home, and if they can find him, can they bring themselves to turn him over?

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Night of the Lepus (1972)

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Head to HorrorMovieAWeek.co.uk to see what my freind Lisa thinks about this film, and the rest of the 52 movies we review each and every year.

WARNING:
Although this movie has been tagged as "Recommended" I am not claiming it is a "good" film. It is not. 

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A cattle farmer in the American South West calls in experimental biologists to help rid him of his rabbit-infestation, a rabbit injected win an experimental serum is inadvertently released into the wild, the infestation of rabbits rapidly becomes an infestation of giant, killer rabbits.
It's up to the farmer, and the scientists who created the monsters, to find a way to stop them before they reach a nearby town and destroy it.

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The Collector (2009)

Arkin in an ex-con turned handyman, working at the home of a jeweler, Larry Wharton, who owns a massive ruby.
When his girlfriend and wife are in danger from loan sharks,  He makes a deal with an acquaintance he made in jail to steal the ruby to raise the money to pay the loan.
When Arkin arrives in the family home he is not the only intruder - The house has been rigged with lethal boobie traps, and the Whartons are already being tortured by serial killer The Collector.

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Episode 50 (2011)

After 49 episodes of debunking 'haunted' buildings, the team from "Paranormal  Inspectors" are given the opportunity of a lifetime.
A Rich nogoodnick with only months left to live grants them access to an abandoned mental facility, dubbed "The Most Haunted Building in the Country".
But there's a catch; he's also granted access to a rival group of supernatural investigators, who are out to prove the existence of an afterlife.
Something went wrong that weekend; and episode 50 will never air.  

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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane. (2006)

Mandy Lane is the most sought after, and most unobtainable, girl in school. At a pool party, her best friend Emmet, apparently board with seeing the male populous of his school hit on his friend, convinces one drunken would-be suitor to go to extreme measures to try and impress Mandy... With tragic consequences.
9 months later, Mandy and Emmet's friendship is utterly distorted, and Emmet is more of an outcast than ever, while Mandy maintains her status as the ultimate "prize".
A student organises a vacation at his fathers ranch for himself and 5 friends (including Mandy, who he believes he can be the one to seduce) but when they arrive, it gradually becomes apparent that they have been followed by a madman, determined to take them all down one-at-a-time. 

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Stan Helsing (2009)

 Video-store clerk, Stan Helsing, is tasked with delivering a bunch if videos to his boss' mothers' house in gated community, Stormy Night Estate, so he convinces his friends to take a detour to the estate on the way to a Halloween party.

Little does Stan realise, the estate is plagued by monsters and, as a descendant of legendary monster-hunter Abraham Van Helsing, only he can end the curse.
And so six if the worlds most prolific movie monsters make it their mission to stop him.

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