Bones (2001)

In 1979 Jimmy Bones was the numbers runner for, and respected protector of, his hood, until he was murdered.
In the 22 years since, the hood has become a ghetto.
A bunch of kids wanting to make good for themselves, and region aye the area, buy a property to convert into a club. Unbeknownst to them, the property is Jimmy's old place, and the stray dog they find in the building and adopt is the key to Bones' return... Those who wronged him in life had better look out, and God help anyone who gets in between Bones and his victims.

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Stuck (2002)

On her way home from a club, care-worker Brandy hits a homeless man who stepped out in front of her car.
Unable to afford a DUI charge, she panics and flees the scene, with the man still stuck in her wind-shield.
After putting the car away in her garage the man, still in place, wakes up.
In too deep to simply call for help, she is left trying to find a way to deal with the injured man.

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Monster (2008)

In 2003 Tokyo suffered an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, killing more than 7,000 people. The incident was captured on film by two American film makers.But it wasn't an earquake...

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Theatre of Fear (2014)

Aka The Midnight Horror Show.

Meet ringmaster Dr. Deimos Moreau, his daughter Venus, and his sons Apollo, Janus, and Trinculo, a traveling family who tour thier underground adult cabaret act, The Midnight Horror Show, around Britain.
Venus and Apollo can't stop bickering. Trinculo, who wears his clown make-up per entangle to hide his scars, is desperately trying to start a relationship with a girl he's just met. Janus, who is either unbalanced or his ventriloquist dummy really does talk to him, has secretly signed with a talent agent and is looking to break out of the family business and make it big. To make matters worse, the rich father of one of the families previous victims has sent a detective/hitman to track them down and kill them slowly.

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Rage (2010)

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While parking his car, Dennis inadvertently cuts up a biker. It proves to be a far bigger mistake than he could have guessed.
Starting with childish baiting, and working his way up, the baker spends the day stalking and terrorising Dennis from behind his tinted visor, taking a simple disagreement way beyond road rage, and turning it into a terrifying ordeal.

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Jackyll + Hyde (2006)

Medical student, Henry "J" Jackyll, believes he can invent a drug to change a parent's personality for the better.
Refused help from his university due to his drug's illegal ingredients, he decides to experiment on himself.
Under the influence of the drug, he becomes violent and predatory.
Soon, he starts to slowly lose control of his life, as he become addicted to the drug, and his alter ego takes over more and more.

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Madison County (2011)

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As part of a college project, James arranges an interview with author David Randle. Randell's book is about Damien Ewell, who the author claims is Americas biggest untraced serial killer, having killed at least 30 people over the last decade.
Along with 4 freinds, James travels to Madison County, Upon arriving at the town the locals, clearly not keen on outsiders, tell them that Damien is fictional, and that David Randle left the area years ago.
Determined not to waste the trip, the teens go searching for Randle, but are picked off one by one, by a man wearing a pig mask.

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A Wrong Way To Die (2012)

Aka: A Hole in the Desert, MoniKa, MoniKa: A Wrong Way To Die

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Reagan Tyler receives a phone-call from his friend JJ, inviting him to meet at a motel in Las Vegas, where JJ has met a girl, and promises to hook Reagan up with the girls friend, who is staying in the room next to their own.
For lack of anything better to do, Reagan flies to Vegas, only to find JJ and his companion not answering their room door, he does however meet the promised friend, Monika ("with a K") who turns out to be the woman of his dreams. They go out, have a great time, and spend the night together.
The following morning, Ragan calls on JJ, and is told why he and his lady friend were unavailable the day before. It turns out that yesterday, before Ragan arrived in town, Monika was murdered...Not a earning a "recommended" but only the 2nd movie so far this year to go in my "keep" pile.

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The Bagman (2002)

Not to be confused with, The Bag Man (2014),or  Bagman: The Movie (year unknown)

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5 years after Jack Marshall's house burned down, killing both his parents and disfiguring Jack, he is chased into the woods by classmates bulling him, one of the bullies gets carried away, and kills Jack.
10 years later, the friends have a get together... And one by one they start disappearing.

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The Bogus Witch Project (2000)

Tonight on TV Chanel "The Woods"; 6 short films, all spoofs of "The Blair Witch Project", separated by commercials.

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Do You Like My Basement? (2012) (aka "The Basement")

Stanley Farmer fancies himself a film-maker, and dreams of making a horror movie about people spending the night in a basement in order to win a cash prize. During the course of the night, the maniac running the competition will subject his 'guests' to torture.
After acquiring a shooting location, Stanly puts out a casting call. Little do the applicants know that Stanly will be making his film the authentic way, and by the time they turn up for audition, they've already been cast...

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Curfew (1989)

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2 brothers on death row escape from prison and decide to punish the men they hold responsible for their sentence.
They quickly dispatch the psychiatrist who testified against them, and the judge who passed down the sentence, but for the District attorney, they have bigger plans.
Stephanie, the DAs daughter, gets home just in time to be embroiled in the brothers' violent revenge.

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The Terror Within (1989)

On post apocalyptic earth, supplies are running low for a group of survivors living deep underground in a military research bunker. Trips to the surface are fraught with danger thanks to "Gargoyles" - monstrous humanoid creatures which now roams the earth.
When the team rescue the sole survivor of a camp of humans who have somehow until recently survived above ground, they unwittingly let a Gargoyle into their bunker.

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The Cave. (2005)

When archeologists discover a complex cave and river system under the ruins of an abbey, a team of underwater caving experts are brought in to explore.
It isn't long before something living in the shadows starts to pick off the team.

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El Chupacabra (2003)

A captured chupacabra destined for a research lab is accidentally released in Los Angeles, and a hired good is sent to recapture it.

Meanwhile, a skeptical animal control officer investigating a series of animal mutilations is approached by an author and cryptozoologist who claims the culprit can only be a chupacabra, and a pair of police detectives investigate a grizzly murder, in which they believe the victim was mutilated by a psychopath with a modified garden rake.

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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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