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Horror movies
Silent Night, Bloody Night
On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler runs out of his rural house and appears to
have been set on fire. He collapses in the snow and is believed to be dead.
Years later, lawyer John Carter and his assistant Ingrid arrive in a small
Massachusetts town on Christmas Eve. John meets with the town's nobles, Mayor
Adams, Tess Howard, Sheriff Bill Mason and Charlie Towman. John is revealed to be
the lawyer of Jeffrey Butler, Wilfred's grandson, and is trying to sell the Butler
mansion for $50,000 by noon the next day. After a call to his wife, John is revealed
to be having an affair with Ingrid, his assistant. The two stay the night at the Butler
mansion, unaware that they are being watched. After dinner, the two go upstairs to
a bedroom to have sex. The mysterious person walks in on them and kills them
both with a felling axe. The killer calls the police and reveals himself to be
"Marianne."
After Tess, who is the town's phone operator, intercepts the call, she leaves her
assistant in charge and drives out to the Butler mansion. Marianne greets Tess, who
is visibly frightened. She is knocked over the head repeatedly with a candle holder.
At the same time, Sheriff Mason is heading to the mansion, but stops at the nearby
cemetery after seeing a disturbed gravesite from the road. Upon approaching the
grave, he discovers it is Wilfred Butler's, and that the grave has been dug up and
Butler's body removed. He is struck over the head and killed, and falls into the
grave.
Mayor Adams receives a strange phone call asking him to go to the Butler
mansion; he leaves his adult daughter Diane at home alone. Not long after Adams
leaves, a man arrives at the house and says his name is Jeffrey Butler, Wilfred's
grandson. Jeffrey says he found the sheriff's car abandoned at the cemetery and
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"borrowed" it. After a brief conversation, Diane and Jeffrey go up to the cemetery to
look for the sheriff. They stumble upon Wilfred's disturbed grave, but find no sight
of the sheriff. The two go into town to Towman's to see if they can find out what is
happening.
Jeffrey takes Towman to the mansion and leaves him there to go back and retrieve
Diane. Jeffrey hits and kills Towman, who had been stabbed in the eyes. Diane's
suspicions of Jeffrey start to grow after this incident. The two enter the house and
Jeffrey finds an old diary. The diary reveals that Wilfred had an incestuous
relationship with his daughter, Marianne, and Jeffrey was the result. Wilfred turned
the mansion into an asylum and admitted his own daughter. He soon regretted his
decision and set loose the inmates. The inmates killed all the doctors and Marianne
in the process. Jeffrey reveals that Towman, Mayor Adams, Tess Howard and Sheriff
Bill Mason were inmates that stayed behind in town.
Mayor Adams finally arrives to the mansion and finds Diane and Jeffrey there.
Adams and Jeffrey hold each other at gunpoint, believing the other to be the killer.
The two open fire, killing each other. A distraught Diane is greeted by "Marianne,"
who is really Wilfred Butler. Butler went after John Carter, Mayor Adams, Tess
Howard, and Sheriff Bill Mason to get revenge for his daughter's death and used
his grandson/son as a decoy. Diane grabs Jeffrey's gun and shoots Butler. A year
later, Diane takes one last look at the Butler mansion before it is destroyed by a
bulldozer crew.
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Fire in the Sky
On November 5, 1975 in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton (D. B. Sweeney),

and his co-workersMike Rogers (Robert Patrick), Allan Dallas (Craig Sheffer), David
Whitlock (Peter Berg), Greg Hayes (Henry Thomas) and Bobby Cogdill (Bradley
Gregg)head to work in the White Mountains.
Driving home from work, the men come across an unidentified flying object.
Curious to learn more, Walton gets out of the truck and is struck by a bright beam
of light from the object and is sent flying several feet backwards as if pushed by an
unseen force. Fearing Walton was just killed, the others flee the scene. Rogers
decides to go back to the spot to retrieve Walton, but he is nowhere to be found.
Making their way back to town to report the incident, the loggers are met with
skepticism, as they relate what sounds like a tall tale to Sheriff Blake Davis (Noble
Willingham) and Lieutenant Frank Watters (James Garner). They are suspected of
foul play despite no apparent motive or knowledge of Walton's whereabouts.
After interviewing the men, Lieutenant Watters realizes there is a lot of tension
between Walton and Dallis, leading him to believe this might be a murder
investigation. The Lieutenant also discovers a tabloid newspaper in their truck with
headlines about aliens, hinting that they used the article to concoct their story. The
men are accused of murder and are threatened by Travis's brother Dan Walton
(Scott MacDonald). The men are offered a lie detector test and take it. After the
testing is complete, Rogers is outraged that the results aren't shared and he and
his guys refuse to come back the next day to take it again. However, after the men
leave, the man who administered the tests tells the Sheriff and Lieutenant that with
the exception of Dallas' test (which was inconclusive), the other men seem to be
telling the truth.
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Five days later, Rogers receives a call from someone claiming to be Walton. He is
found at a Heber gas station, alive but naked,dehydrated, and incoherent. A
ufologist questions Walton but he is thrown out and Walton is taken to a hospital.
Rogers visits Walton while in the emergency room and ends up telling Walton that
he left him after he was struck by the light but came back to get him. Walton
appears very angry by this and turns away from Rogers who blames the whole
incident on Walton for getting out of the truck. During a welcome home party,
Walton suffers a flashback of the abduction by the extraterrestrials.
He suddenly remembers waking up confused and finds himself inside a slimy
womb-like cocoon for storage inside an alien spacecraft. As Walton breaks out of
the cocoon, he quickly becomes disoriented when he learns the environment
around him has no gravity. In a state of shock, he attempts to find a way to escape
only to discover other cocoons filled with the decomposing corpses of other human
beings. Terrified, he wanders (or rather floats) around aimlessly until the aliens
catch him. Walton is unwillingly dragged down dark corridors cluttered with items
from earth, such as keys, shoes, books and eye glasses, etc (collected junk most
likely belonging to the previous people abducted). He is taken to a strange exam
room for experimentation. Here, he is immediately stripped down and covered
with a white elastic sheet, which tightly pins him to an examination table under a
blinding white light. Despite Walton's frantic cries, the aliens do not acknowledge
his suffering. Instead, they look at him with great curiosity and disdain. They show
Walton no mercy and without speaking a single word, subject him to an extremely
painful and horrific experiment in which tubes are slid down his throat, a jelly-like
substance is shoved into his mouth, a sharp device is inserted into his neck, and a
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needle goes through his eye. Afterwards, Walton loses consciousness until finding
himself back on earth and severely traumatized.
While interviewing Walton, Lieutenant Watters expresses his doubts about the
abduction as merely a hoax. He notes Walton's new found celebrity because of the
tabloids' attempts to profit from his tale. The film culminates with a denouement
between Walton and Rogers. The closing titles state that in 1993 the loggers were
resubmitted to additional polygraph examinations, which they passed,
corroborating their innocence.
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When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)
Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is babysitting the children of Dr. Mandrakis (Carmen
Argenziano) at their home. When the children are asleep, Jill receives a telephone
call from a man who asks her if she has checked the children. At first, Jill dismisses
the telephone calls as a practical joke; however, as the calls become more frequent
and threatening, Jill becomes frightened and decides to call the police, who
promise to trace the caller if Jill keeps him on the telephone line long enough. Jill,
frightened to extreme measures, arms herself as she receives one final call from
the nefarious stalker. Soon after the conversation, Jill receives a call from the
police, only to find out that the stalker is calling from inside the house. A light
comes on at the top of the staircase, and Jill sees the stalker's shadow. She
immediately runs to the front door to scream for help.
Afterwards, Officer John Clifford (Charles Durning) investigates the matter. It turns
out that the children were murdered by the perp several hours earlier. The killer is
identified as an English merchant seaman named Curt Duncan (Tony Beckley), and
is subsequently sent to an asylum.
Seven years later, Duncan escapes from the asylum, still psychopathic. Dr.
Mandrakis hires Clifford, now a private investigator, to find Duncan. Not knowing
Clifford is after him, Duncan is now a homeless, vagrant loner. He gets into a fight
and is beaten after disturbing a middle-aged woman, Tracy (Colleen Dewhurst), in a
tavern, and later follows her to her apartment. Feeling sorry for his disastrous
appearance and for the fact that his attempts at conversation with her started the
fight in the first place, Tracy makes light conversation with him. While they are in
the doorway talking, Tracy's phone rings. As she goes to answer it, Duncan lets
himself into her apartment. Tracy does not tell him to leave right away nor does she
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explicitly rebuff his awkward proposal to visit her for coffee the next night,
assuming or hoping it will be the last of him she will see.
Meanwhile, an increasingly obsessed and vindictive Clifford, having confided to a
former partner (Ron O'Neal) that his intention is to kill Duncan rather than arrest
him, follows the trail to the tavern where the fight took place, then to Tracy's
residencethe same night Duncan is likely to arrive for his visit. Clifford goes there
and tells Tracy just how dangerous her situation has become, revealing that
Duncan literally tore and hacked up Mandrakis' children with his bare hands,
rendering them virtually unrecognizable. Tracy reluctantly accepts to be Clifford's
bait at the tavern that evening, but Duncan does not arrive and she decides to
return home. Clifford then leaves Tracy's place, but she is then attacked by Duncan,
who was hiding in her closet. Tracy screams for help, and Clifford returns and
chases Duncan away from the scene. In the streets of downtown Los Angeles, he
loses Duncan's trail.
Jill Johnson is now an adult, married with two young children. One night, she and
her husband Stephen go out to dinner in celebration of a promotion, and a friend
named Sharon babysits her children. At the restaurant, Jill gets a telephone call
from someone asking, "Have you checked the children?" Jill panics and calls
Sharon. It appears that nothing is wrong at first, but then the call is suddenly
disconnected. The police arrive and escort Jill back home and finds that everything
was fine. Clifford tries to call Jill, but finds that the line was disconnected. Jill and
Stephen sleep. Later, Jill goes down for a glass of milk, when the lights go out. She
goes back upstairs and gets in bed once again. She picks up the phone and realizes
the phone line is dead. The closet door opens a little, and she hears the voice of
Curt Duncan. She tries to awaken Stephen, who turns around, revealing that Curt is
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actually in the bed. He rips Jill's nightgown and chases her around the room.
Clifford arrives and shoots Curt, killing him. Stephen is revealed to be in the closet,
alive but seemingly unconscious. As Clifford comforts Jill, the last view is of the
house, in view of the frightening eyes of Curt Duncan.
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The Amityville Horror (1979 film)
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George and Kathy Lutz are a young married couple who have recently purchased a
home and move into the property. George appears not to be strong of faith, but
Kathy is at least a nominal Catholic. The couple turn to Father Delaney to bless the
home, but Delaney encounters troubles in trying to bless the home, including a
room full of flies, out of season; violent stomach sickness; and later, blisters on his
palm when trying to make a phone call to Kathy at their home.
As he continues to help the Lutz Family, Delaney experiences more strange events
(his car brakes and steering malfunction) and frustrations (lack of support by his
superiors in the diocese). He ultimately appears to lose faith, becoming blind and
having a breakdown.
George begins to be more sullen and angry over perceived cold in the house, and
obsesses with splitting logs and keeping the fireplace stoked. One of the two boys
suffers a crushed hand when a sash window falls on it, and the little girl has an
imaginary friend, Jody, who seems to be of a malevolent nature. Kathy catches a
glimpse of two red, swine-like eyes outside the daughter's second-story bedroom
window. Even the family dog obsesses over a secret room in the basement.
George's land surveying business begins to suffer with his lack of attendance, and
his partner is concerned. The business partner's wife, very sensitive to the
paranormal, is at once both repulsed and intrigued by the things she feels when at
the house.
The Lutz Family witness a black, bubbling substance coming up in the toilets; an
"ooze" coming down from nail holes in the walls; a babysitter being trapped in a
closet despite it not having a locking doorknob; the disappearance of $1,500 in
cash; and Kathy's aunt, a nun, running from the house and vomiting. Throughout
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the strange incidents, Kathy observes George's persistent waking up at 3:15 am,
feeling he must go check on the boathouse. She also has nightmares in which she
is given details about the killings of the home's prior family.
Research at the library and county records office suggest that the house is built
atop a Shinnecock burial ground and that a known Satanic worshipper named
John Ketchum had once lived on the land.
Finally, the paranormal events come to a head one stormy night and drive the
family to flee, abandoning their home and belongings. The final titles reads:
"George and Kathleen Lutz and their family never reclaimed their house or their
personal belongings. Today they live in another state.
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Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
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After finishing a long shift, nurse Ana returns to her suburban neighborhood and
her husband, Luis. Caught up in a scheduled date night, they miss an emergency
news bulletin. The next morning, a neighborhood girl enters their bedroom and
kills Luis, who immediately reanimates as a zombie and attacks Ana. She flees in
her car but crashes and passes out. Upon waking, Ana joins with Police Sergeant
Kenneth Hall, electronics salesman Michael, petty criminal Andre and his pregnant
wife, Luda. They break into a nearby mall and are attacked by a zombified security
guard, who scratches Luda. They are also confronted by three living guards C.J.,
Bart, and Terry who make them surrender their weapons in exchange for refuge.
They split into groups to secure the mall and then go to the roof, where they see
another survivor, Andy, who is stranded alone in his gun store across the zombieinfested parking lot.
The next day, a delivery truck carrying more survivors enters the lot, with zombies
in close pursuit. C.J. and Bart wish to turn them away but are overruled and
disarmed. The newcomers include Norma, Steve Marcus, Tucker, Monica, Glen,
Frank and his daughter, Nicole. Another woman is too ill to walk; she is wheeled
inside via wheelbarrow only to die and reanimate. After she is killed, the group
determines that the disease is passed by bites. Andre leaves to see Luda, who has
kept her scratch hidden from the group. They realize that Frank has been bitten and
is a potential threat. After some debate, Frank elects to be isolated. When he dies
and turns, Kenneth shoots him.
Over time, Kenneth and Andy start a friendship by way of messages written on a
whiteboard; romance also buds between Ana and Michael, and Nicole and Terry.
One day, the power goes out. CJ, Bart, Michael, and Kenneth enter the parking
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garage to activate the emergency generator and find a friendly dog inside.
Zombies attack and kill Bart, forcing the others to douse the zombies in gas and set
them ablaze. Meanwhile, Ludatied up by Andregives birth and dies. She
reanimates as Norma checks on the couple, killing the zombified Luda. Andre
snaps; they exchange gunfire and both are killed. The others arrive to find a
zombie baby, which they kill immediately.
The group decides to fight their way to the local marina and travel on Steve's yacht
to an island on Lake Michigan. They begin reinforcing two shuttle buses from the
parking garage for their escape. However, they also need to pick up Andy, who is
starving. They strap food and a walkie-talkie onto the dog, Chips, and lower him
into the parking lot; the zombies have no interest in him. Chips gets into Andy's
store safely but a zombie follows through the dog door. Nicole, fond of Chips,
crashes the delivery truck into the gun store, where she is trapped by a zombified
Andy. Kenneth, Michael, Tucker, Terry, and C.J. reach the gun store via the sewers
and kill Andy, rescuing Nicole. They grab ammunition and go back to the mall.
When Tucker breaks his legs and C.J mercy kills him. Once inside, they are unable
to lock the door, forcing an evacuation.
Everyone boards the buses. Glen loses control of a chainsaw, accidentally killing
himself and Monica; blood splatters on the windshield, causing the bus to crash.
Surviving the crash, Steve tries to run but is ambushed by a zombie. While several
others looks for survivors, Ana kills the undead Steve and retrieves his boat keys.
After taking the remaining bus to the marina, C.J. sacrifices himself so the others
can escape. Michael reveals a bite wound and kills himself as Ana, Kenneth, Nicole,
Terry, and Chips flee on the yacht.
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Footage from a camcorder found on the boat begins with Steve's escapades before
the outbreak and concludes as the group runs out of supplies before finally
arriving at an island, where they are attacked by another swarm of zombies. The
camcorder drops, recording dozens of zombies chasing them, leaving their fate
unknown.
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The Mothman Prophecies
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Newspaper columnist John Klein and his wife Mary are involved in an accident
when Mary swerves to avoid a black, flying figure. John survives the crash
unscathed, but Mary is hospitalized. After Mary dies of an unrelated brain tumor,
John discovers mysterious drawings of the creature that she had created prior to
the night of the accident.
Two years later, John becomes lost and inexplicably finds himself hundreds of
miles off his route in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Driving in the middle of the
night, his car breaks down, and he walks to a nearby house to get help. The owner,
Gordon Smallwood, reacts violently to John's appearance and holds him at gun
point. Local police officer Connie Mills defuses the situation while Gordon explains
that this is the third consecutive night John has knocked on his door asking to use
a phone, much to John's confusion. John stays at a local motel and considers how
he ended up so far from his original destination.
Officer Mills mentions to John that many strange things have been occurring in
the past few weeks, and people report seeing a large winged creature like a giant
moth with red eyes. Connie tells John about a strange dream she had, in which the
words "wake up, number 37" were spoken to her. While conversing with Gordon
one day, it is revealed to John that he had heard voices from his sink telling him
that in Denver, "99 will die". While discussing the day's events at a local diner,
John notices that the news is showing a story on an airplane crash in Denver that
killed all 99 passengers aboard. The next night, Gordon frantically explains that he
had met the voices in his head, a being named Indrid Cold.
Later that night, Gordon calls John and says that he is standing with a character
named Indrid Cold. While John keeps Cold on the line, Officer Mills checks on
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Gordon. Cold answers John's questions, convincing him that he is a supernatural
being. This episode starts a string of supernatural calls to John's motel room. One
tells him that there will be a great tragedy on the Ohio River. Later, John receives a
call from Gordon and rushes to his home to check on him. He finds Gordon
outside, dead from exposure.
John becomes obsessed with the being, dubbed Mothman. He meets an expert on
the subject, Alexander Leek, who explains its nature and discourages John from
getting further involved. However, when John learns the Governor plans to tour a
chemical plant located on the Ohio River the following day, he becomes convinced
the tragedy will occur there. Mills and the Governor ignore his warnings, and
nothing happens during the tour. Soon afterwards, John receives a mysterious
message that instructs him to await a call from his deceased wife Mary back in
Georgetown, and returns home.
On Christmas Eve, Officer Mills calls and convinces him to ignore the phone call
from "Mary," return to Point Pleasant, and join her. Though anguished, John
agrees. As John reaches the Silver Bridge, a malfunctioning traffic light causes
traffic congestion. As John walks onto the bridge to investigate, the bolts and
supports of the bridge strain. The bridge comes apart, and John realizes that the
prophesied tragedy about the Ohio River was about the bridge. As the bridge
collapses, Officer Mills's car falls into the water. John jumps in after her and pulls
her from the river and up to safety. As the two sit on the back of an ambulance, they
see that 36 people have been killed, making Connie the "number 37" from her
dream. The epilogue displays a series of graphics that state the cause of the bridge
collapse was never fully determined. It also states that although the Mothman has
been sighted in other parts of the world, it was never seen again in Point Pleasant.
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Evil Dead II
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The film begins with a new beginning similar to the first film. Ash Williams and his
girlfriend, Linda, take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the
woods. While there, Ash plays a tape recorder from the cabin's previous inhabitant
Professor Knowby. The tape features Knowby reciting passages from the
Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (or Book of the Dead), which he has discovered during an
archaeological dig. However, the recorded incantation unleashes an evil force
which kills and later possesses Linda, forcing Ash to decapitate his girlfriend with a
shovel when she attacks him, he then buries her.
The film then picks up where the first film ended, where Ash is attacked by an evil
force and is thrown across the forest, becoming possessed by the demon. However,
when the sun appears, the spirit is forced out of him returning Ash to normal. In an
attempt to flee the property, Ash speeds away in his car only to discover the bridge
leading out of the woods is destroyed. As night falls, the evil force chases Ash back
to the cabin. Linda then returns from the dead and attacks Ash, biting his hand with
her severed head. Ash brings Linda's head to the shed, where her headless body
attacks him with a chainsaw. Ash gains the upper hand and slashes the body before
turning the chainsaw on Linda's head, finally killing her. Later, Ash discovers
Linda's bite has caused his own hand to become murderously possessed, and he is
forced to dismember it. When he finds that it still lives on after being severed, he
seemingly kills it with a shotgun he finds in the cabin.
Meanwhile, Knowby's daughter, Annie, returns from a dig with more pages of the
Necronomicon in tow. Having been unable to contact her father at his isolated
cabin, Annie, with her research partner Ed Getley in tow, drives there, only to find
the destroyed bridge blocking her route. The pair enlist the help of two road
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workers, Jake and his girlfriend Bobby Joe, to guide them along an alternate trail
to the cabin. In the cabin, demonic attacks begin to erode Ash's psyche after he is
attacked by his own reflection in a mirror an inanimate objects around the house
begin laughing at him. As Annie and her party arrive at the cabin, Ash, mistaking
them for an evil presence, fires at them with a shotgun, wounding Bobby Joe.
Believing that Ash murdered Knowby, he is beaten unconscious by Jake and
thrown into cabin's cellar. Annie then listens to her father's recording in which he
describes how his wife, Henrietta, was possessed by a demon and he, unable to
bring himself to dismember her, buried her in the cellar.
Suddenly, Henrietta rises from the cellar floor and attacks Ash. The group releases
Ash before locking the cellar door once again in order to trap Henrietta. Ed is soon
possessed and subsequently dismembered by an axe-wielding Ash. The group is
then visited by the spirit of Annie's father, who tells her that, by using the pages of
the Necronomicon that she brought with her, she can save the group. Bobby Joe is
attacked by Ash's still-living hand and attempts to flee, but is attacked by the
demon trees in the woods and dragged to her death. Annie translates two of the
pages, learning that, by reciting incantations that they hold, she can first force the
evil presence to manifest itself in the flesh, before opening a rift in time and space
to send it away. Before she can begin translating and reciting the incantations, Jake
turns on them and throws the pages into the cellar, holding them at gunpoint to
force them to go looking for Bobby Joe. Outside the relative safety of the cabin, Ash
is once again possessed and turns on his remaining companions, incapacitating
Jake. Annie retreats to the cabin and, mistaking him for the demon, accidentally
stabs Jake. She drags him to safety, only to accidentally leave him near the cellar
door, where he is dragged into the cellar by Henrietta and killed. The possessed
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Ash tries to kill Annie, but stops when he sees Linda's necklace, reminding him of
her. He is freed from the possession, and manages to convince Annie that he is
normal again.
Ash, with Annie's help, modifies the chainsaw and attaches it to where his right
hand had been. Arming himself with both the chainsaw and his shotgun, Ash
journeys into the cellar to find the missing pages of the Necronomicon. He finds
them (and Jake's skeleton), before proceeding to leave. However, as he is going up
the steps to safety, Henrietta surprises him and temporarily disables him, before
going after Annie. Ash then recovers as Henrietta transform into a demonic form
with a much longer neck. Annie recites a song that Henrietta used to sing to her as
a child. Distracted, the deadite is dismembered by Ash, before he blasts the head
apart with the shotgun.
Annie chants the first incantation. The incantation causes the evil to manifest and
attack the cabin, but, before she can recite the second, Ash's possessed hand kills
her with a dagger. As Ash fends off the evil by impaling it in the eye with the
chainsaw, Annie uses her dying breaths to recite the second incantation, opening
up a whirling temporal portal which draws in not only the evil force, but nearby
trees, the Oldsmobile, and Ash himself. Ash and his Oldsmobile fall through the
portal and out of the sky and he is immediately confronted by a group of knights
who initially mistake him for a being called a "deadite", but they are quickly
distracted when a real one appears. Ash blasts the harpy-like deadite with his
shotgun. The knights begin cheering as Ash realizes he has been brought to the
past and cries out in horror.
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Paranormal Activity
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Young couple Katie and Micah move to a new house in San Diego. Katie claims an
evil presence has been haunting her since she was a child, so Micah sets up a
camera in their bedroom to record any paranormal activity that occurs while they
sleep. Katie hires psychic Dr. Fredrichs, who assesses that Katie is being haunted by
a demon that feeds off of negative energy and is intent on tormenting Katie. He
advises them not to communicate with the demon and to contact demonologist Dr.
Johann Averies if needed. Katie seems interested, but Micah does not take this
seriously.
The camera manages to capture many strange occurrences, which are minor at
first, such as noises, flickering lights and doors moving on their own. On the
thirteenth night they awaken to the sound of the demon screeching. During the
fifteenth night, Katie, in an apparent trance, stands beside the bed and stares at
Micah for two hours before going outside. Micah tries to convince Katie to go back
inside, but she refuses and appears to remember none of it the next day.
One day Micah brings home a Ouija board, which infuriates Katie. When they leave
the house, the camera records an unseen force moving the planchette to form an
unknown message on the Ouija board, which then spontaneously catches fire.
Katie sees the video and pleads with Micah to contact the demonologist, but again
he refuses. During the seventeenth night, Micah sprinkles talcum powder in the
hallway and bedroom. The couple are awakened by creaks, and find non human
footprints leading to the attic, where Micah finds a burnt photograph of a young
Katie, previously thought to have been destroyed in an unexplained house fire.
Katie finally calls the demonologist, Dr. Averies, but he is unavailable.
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They eventually call Dr. Fredrichs back to the house, but he is overwhelmed by the
demonic energy upon entering. He apologetically leaves despite their pleas,
stating that his presence only makes the demon angrier. During the twentieth
night, Katie is pulled out of the bedroom by an unseen force. When Micah rushes
to help her, the demon slams the door on him. Micah eventually rescues her but
feels the demon's presence still lurking upstairs, so they head downstairs to sleep
on the couch. The following morning Micah discovers bite marks on Katie's back.
Later, Micah finds a catatonic Katie sitting in the hallway, gripping a cross so tightly
that it bloodies her palm. He angrily burns the cross and photograph in the
fireplace, and packs to head for a motel. Just as they are set to leave, Katie,
seemingly out of touch with reality, insists they will be okay now.
The following night, Katie gets out of bed and stares at Micah for two hours before
going downstairs. After a moment of silence, Katie screams Micah's name, and he
abruptly rushes to help her. Katie's screaming stops and heavy footsteps are heard
coming up the stairs. Micah's body is violently hurled at the camera, which is
knocked off the tripod, revealing Katie standing in the doorway. She slowly walks
into the room, stained with blood. She crawls to Micah's body and then looks up at
the camera with a grin. As she lunges toward the camera, her face takes on a
demonic appearance, just as the scene cuts to black. An epilogue text states that
Micah's body was discovered by the police on October 11, 2006, and Katie's
whereabouts remain unknown.
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The People Under the Stairs
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Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto. He and his family
are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords, the Robesons.
Leroy, his associate Spencer, and Fool sneak into the Robeson's household by
using Spencer to pose as a municipal worker. The Robesons leave the home shortly
but Spencer doesn't return. Fool and Leroy, break into the house to find Spencer,
and find his dead body and a large group of strange pale children in a locked pen
in a dungeon-like basement.
The Robesons return and Fool flees while Leroy is shot to death by Daddy. Fool runs
into another section of the house, where he meets Alice. She tells him that the
people under the stairs were children who broke the "see/hear/speak no evil" rules
of the Robesons. The children have degenerated into cannibalism to survive and
Alice has avoided this fate by obeying the rules without question. A boy named
Roach whose tongue was removed also evades the Robesons by hiding in the
walls.
Fool is discovered by Daddy and is thrown to the cannibalistic children to die.
However, Roach helps Fool escape but succumbs to his wounds. As he dies, he
gives Fool a small bag of gold coins and a written plea to save Alice. Fool reunites
with Alice and the two escape into the passageways between the walls. Daddy
releases Prince into the walls to kill them. Fool tricks Daddy into stabbing Prince
and he and Alice reach the attic where they find an open window above a pond.
Unfortunately, Alice is too afraid to jump and Fool is forced to go without her. He
promises to return for Alice.
Fool finds out the gold he has is enough to pay his rent and for his mother's
surgery. He also finds out that Mommy and Daddy are brother and sister coming
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from a long line of crazy inbred people. They started out as a family that ran a
funeral home selling cheap coffins for expensive prices, then they got into real
estate. Making a lot of money the family got greedy and the greedier they got the
crazier they got. Fool vows to help right the wrong.
Mommy attempts to kill Alice but the cannibal children charge on her. Daddy finds
Fool at the vault, where Fool sets off the explosives, which demolishes the house
and causes the money to blow up through the crematorium chimney and into the
crowd of people outside. Daddy is killed in the explosion and Alice and Fool reunite
in the basement. Meanwhile, the people outside claim the money distributed by
the blast, and the freed children venture into the night.
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Session 9
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Gordon Fleming is the owner of a small asbestos removal company. The stresses of
work and being a new father are causing problems between him and his wife,
Wendy. He is in a desperate financial bind and makes a bid to remove the asbestos
of the Danvers State Hospital, closed fifteen years ago, within one week. His team
consists of Mike, a law schooldropout who is knowledgeable about the asylum's
history; Phil, who is filled with bitterness after losing his girlfriend and finds solace
in smoking marijuana; Hank, whom Phil lost his girlfriend to; and Jeff, Gordon's
nephew, who suffers from severe nyctophobia.
As work begins inside the asylum, Mike finds a box containing nine taped sessions
with a patient named Mary Hobbes, who had dissociative identity disorder. The
purpose of the sessions, which Mike becomes increasingly engrossed in, is to
unveil what happened on Christmas night in Lowell, her hometown, twenty-two
years before. One of her personalities, "the Princess", is childlike and innocent,
knowing only the Christmas presents - a china doll for Mary and a knife for her
brother, Peter - and that they played hide-and-seek after their parents went to bed.
Another personality, "Billy", is both childlike and protective. He lives "in the eyes"
and saw what happened, but refuses to let Mary find out. The doctor repeatedly
asks about the third personality, "Simon", whom "the Princess" knows nothing
about and "Billy" fears.
In the tunnels beneath the property, Hank finds a cache of antique Morgan dollar
coins and other silver items, scattered from the crematory nearby. He returns that
night to steal the artifacts and finds an orbitoclast. He hears odd sounds in the
tunnels and discovers an empty peanut butter jar. He hears someone behind him
and tries to escape the tunnels, but he is attacked by an unseen assailant. The next
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morning, the other four learn that Hank abruptly broke up with his girlfriend and
left town. Gordon, who frequently calls his wife and saw Phil speaking to two
unknown men during one telephone call, suspects that Phil had something to do
with Hank's disappearance, causing tension between the group. He later opens up
to Phil and admits that he hit Wendy after she accidentally spilled a pot of boiling
water on his leg; he has been trying to apologize over the phone ever since.
Phil calls in Craig McManus to replace Hank and tells Mike that he thinks Gordon
has become a liability. Jeff finds Hank alive and goes to tell the others, but Hank is
gone again when Jeff returns with the others. They split up to find him, but Mike
quickly returns to the session tapes. "Billy" refuses to awaken "Simon", admitting
to the doctor only that "Simon" was behind whatever happened that night. Phil
finds Hank in one of the tunnels, half-naked and wearing sunglasses. The power
goes out at that point, trapping Jeff in a pitch-black tunnel and stopping the ninth
session tape short. Mike returns the power and the ninth session continues with
"Simon", the same voice Gordon has been hearing since the job began, taking
over. It is revealed that Peter scared Mary while they were playing and she fell on
her doll, breaking it and badly scarring herself. "Simon" then took her over and
killed Peter and their parents with the new knife. As the recording continues, Phil
finds Gordon in Mary's former room, staring at his own photos stuck to the wall. A
shaken Jeff returns to the van, where he is attacked by an unseen assailant.
The next day, Craig arrives at the asylum. Gordon finds Hank, with the orbitoclast
protruding from his eye, in one of the larger rooms. Phil is also present and tells
Gordon to wake up when Gordon accuses him of attacking the others. As Craig
finds them, it is shown that Phil's presence was in Gordon's mind. Possessed by
"Simon", Gordon enters a dissociative state and kills Craig with the orbitoclast. It is
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shown that he attacked Hank that night and, when found by Phil in Mary's room,
killed Phil before finding and killing Mike and Jeff. It is also shown that he killed
his wife and baby when the pot of boiling water was spilled on him. He breaks
down and uses his broken cell phone to apologize to Wendy. The film ends with the
doctor asking, "And where do you live, Simon?" and "Simon" answering, "I live in
the weak and the wounded, Doc.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
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The movie opens in a mental institution where a girl named Su-mi is being treated
for shock and psychosis. She is questioned by a doctor who asks if she can speak
about the day that led her to being admitted to the hospital.
The next scene shows her returning with her father and younger sister, Su-yeon, to
the family's secluded estate. At a tense family dinner, their stepmother announces
she has invited the sister's uncle and his wife to dinner the next day. Su-mi tells her
stepmother she will not eat with them and the two sisters leave the table. That
night, Su-yeon experiences frightening visions, and Su-mi later has a disturbing
dream of a ghost in her room.
Su-mi finds several family photos that reveal that their stepmother was once a
nurse her father worked with and was also a live-in nurse for the girls' mother. Sumi discovers bruises on Su-yeon's arm, and angrily confronts her stepmother about
it. That night, the sister's uncle and his wife arrive for a visit. The uncle's wife has a
violent attack; when she recovers, she tells the uncle that she saw a girl under the
kitchen sink. The stepmother also sees this girl and tells the father that ever since
the sisters returned home, bizarre things have been happening in the house. Later,
the stepmother finds one of her birds dead in its cage. Infuriated, she goes into Suyeon's room, where she discovers mutilated photos of her, and finds her other bird
dead. She throws Su-yeon into the closet and refuses to let her out until she
apologizes. Su-mi lets her sister out and comforts her.
The father blames Su-mi for the trauma the family has been going through since
she returned. Su-mi retorts that her stepmother is to blame because she has been
attacking Su-yeon. The father tells her twice that Su-yeon is dead but Su-mi refuses
to believe him. The next morning, the stepmother is seen dragging a large
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bloodied sack through the house. Believing that Su-yeon is inside, Su-mi goes to
find a knife to open the bag with. Her stepmother ambushes her and a violent fight
ensues. Su-mi stabs her stepmother in the hand with scissors, but is hit by her and
falls unconscious.
As Su-mi awakens, her stepmother taunts her. Su-mi quietly asks her stepmother
to help her. Her stepmother obliges and goes to kill Su-mi, who looks at peace. The
stepmother is interrupted by the sound of the father returning home. He discovers
Su-mi unconscious and notices a bloody wound on her hand. He then finds the
stepmother in another room, who appears confused and reacts with shock. It is
revealed that Su-mi has in fact been alone in the house with her father, and the
events that transpired between Su-yeon and the stepmother were merely
manifestations of her multiple personalities.
The father and real stepmother take Su-mi back to the hospital. Later, the
stepmother hears someone running upstairs in Su-yeon's bedroom. She enters the
room, which is extremely cold. A ghost appears, and the stepmother looks terrified
as something is approaching her. Her scream is heard off-camera and she is
presumably killed by the ghost.
Flashback scenes reveal that the father had come with the stepmother after what
was an apparent marriage or engagement. His ex-wife, the uncle and the uncle's
wife are also there. Tensions at the dining room table cause Su-mi and Su-yeon to
leave. The sisters's real mother comforts Su-yeon, then hangs herself in the closet
when Su-yeon goes to sleep. Su-yeon awakens and finds her mother's body. She
shakes the lifeless body in an attempt to revive it, and pulls the closet down on top
of her, weakly calling for help.
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The stepmother discovers the wardrobe, and is startled when she sees Su-yeon's
hand underneath, scratching the floor. She does nothing to help her and quickly
leaves the room. She changes her mind and attempts to go back, but encounters
Su-mi. The two have a heated confrontation as Su-yeon is slowly crushed to death
by the weight of the wardrobe. Su-mi leaves the house. For a brief moment, she
looks back as though sensing something is wrong, but sees her stepmother and
continues her walk, unaware of what has happened.
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Suspiria
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Suzy Bannion, an American ballet student, arrives from her flight in Munich,
Germany on a stormy night to enroll in a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg.
After Suzy is unable to gain access into the academy, she spends the night in town.
Pat Hingle, a student who is expelled from the academy is seen by Suzy leaving
and looking frightened. Pat finds refuge at a friend's apartment in town. After she
locks herself in the bathroom, a mysterious arm smothers her against the glass.
Her friend hears this and tries to scream for help but Pat is repeatedly stabbed and
bound with a cord before she is hung in mid-air. Her friend is killed directly below
by the falling glass and metal.
Upon Suzy's arrival at the academy the next morning, she is introduced to
Madame Blanc, the vice-directoress, and Miss Tanner, one of the instructors. She is
escorted to the ballet students' locker room, where she meets Sarah and Olga, the
latter with whom she has arranged to stay off-campus. After a strange encounter
with the academy's cook, Suzy faints during a lesson. Later that night, she awakens
to discover that she has been moved into a dormitory room against her wishes. The
doctors tell her that she is to be "medicated" with a glass of wine daily. Suzy
befriends Sarah after the two are roomed together. As the students prepare for
dinner, hundreds of maggots fall from the ceiling. The students are told this was
due to spoiled food boxed in the attic. The girls are invited to sleep in the practice
hall overnight. During the night, Sarah identifies a distinctive whistling snore as
that of the school's director, who is not due to return to the academy for several
weeks.
The next morning, Tanner orders the school's blind piano player, Daniel, to leave
the academy immediately after his guide dog bites Albert. Later that night, Sarah
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overhears the teacher's footsteps and begins to count them whilst Suzy becomes
drowsy and falls asleep. While Daniel and his guide dog cross a plaza, Daniel
senses a strange presence. Suddenly, his seemingly calm dog lunges at Daniel and
tears his throat out, killing him. The next day, Suzy recalls the words "iris" and
"secret" from Pat's mumbling. Later that night, Suzy and Sarah go for a swim while
Sarah reveals to Suzy that she and Pat were close friends, and recalls that Pat had
been "talking strangely for some time". The two girls search for Pat's notes, but
they appear to have been stolen. Suzy suddenly becomes drowsy and falls asleep
before Sarah flees after hearing footsteps. Sarah is chased by an unseen pursuer
and, thinking she will be able to escape through a window into another room, falls
into a huge pile of razor wire. She struggles in anguish until a mysterious blackgloved hand of a dark figure appears and slits her throat.
The following morning, Blanc and Tanner inform Suzy that Sarah has abruptly left
the academy. Confused and suspicious, Suzy goes to meet one of Sarah's
acquaintances, a psychologist, Frank Mandel, who explains that the academy was
founded by Helena Markos, a cruelGreek migr who was widely believed to be a
witch. Dr. Mandel's colleague, Professor Millus, then tells Suzy that a coven can
only survive with their queen. Upon Suzy's return, she discovers that all of the
students have gone to the theater. She overhears the footsteps Sarah identified
before and follows them to Blanc's office. She suddenly recalls Pat's mumbling
after discovering irises painted all over the walls of Blanc's office. After entering a
hidden passage, she discovers Blanc, Tanner and the staff forming a ritual where
they plot Suzy's death. Unseen, Suzy then turns to find Sarah's body nailed to a
coffin. Frightened, Suzy then sneaks into another room, where she accidentally
awakens a shadowy figure who reveals herself as Helena Markos. Helena then
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orders Sarah's nearby corpse to rise from the dead to murder Suzy. Suzy then stabs
Helena through the throat with one of the room's decorative knives, which appears
to kill her (she fades from view screaming) and Sarah's reanimated corpse.
Helena's demise causes the building to set alight. As the academy is slowly
destroyed with the coven inside, Suzy manages to escape before the entire
building catches on fire.
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Signs
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The Hess family lives on an isolated farm in Doylestown, Bucks County,

Pennsylvania. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) is a former priest whose wife, Colleen,
died in a horrific traffic accident caused by a town local, Ray Reddy (Shyamalan). No
longer practicing religiously, Graham lives with his asthmatic son, Morgan (Rory
Culkin), daughter Bo (Abigail Breslin), who leaves water glasses all over the house
claiming that the water tastes funny, and Graham's younger brother, Merrill
(Joaquin Phoenix), a former minor league baseball star who never made it to the
major leagues because he swung too hard and struck out too often. Graham
discovers a huge crop circle in his field, reports of violent animal behavior have
spread across town, and one of the Hess' dogs tries to attack Bo and Morgan.
Graham discovers that the farm is being watched at night, and he and Merrill
chase a tall, dark figure from the roof of the barn and into the crops, where it
quickly disappears. Meanwhile, crop circles similar to the one in Graham's field
appear around the world. Morgan hears a strange noise on a baby monitor, but it
stops before he can investigate further. That evening, Graham goes to the crop
circle, and hears the sound again. After spotting a green leg sticking out of the
cornrows, he flees to the house. A news report reveals that strange lights in the sky
have been spotted over Mexico City.
That night, Graham reveals to Merrill that he lost his faith after the death of his
wife. A flashback shows Graham approaching the scene of an accident. He sees his
wife pinned to a tree by a truck, and the officer tells him that his wife won't live.
The following morning, Graham visits Ray Reddy's house, whom he finds bleeding.
Ray apologizes for the accident, and tells Graham that he is fleeing to a nearby lake
as he believes "they don't like water." Graham sadly and kindly accepts his
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apology, and Ray leaves. Meanwhile, Merril watches the news, and sees a video
taken at a child's birthday party in Brazil. The footage shows an alien crouching
behind bushes, then slowly walking from out the bushes and across a small alley
where it disappears. Merril is shocked as the footage is shown. Back at Ray's house
Graham goes into the kitchen, where Ray has an alien locked in his pantry. Graham
uses the blade of a kitchen knife to try to see the alien's reflection under the door.
When the alien attempts to grab at him through the crack at the floor, Graham
reacts by cutting off some of the alien's fingers, causing the creature to scream in
pain. Back at the Hess farm, Merril resorts to joining Morgan and Bo with their tin
foil hats. Graham returns home and the family decides between going to the lake
or staying at the farm, opting to board up all the doors and windows and remain in
the house. While Graham and Merrill do this, Morgan and Bo watch a news report
on the growing number of sightings around the world. The baby monitor again
starts emitting the alien noises, and the television loses its signal. They finish
boarding up the windows, and all move into the living room. One of the dogs,
called Isobel, left tied up outside, barks loudly and is silenced, and an alien is
heard climbing up the house and onto the roof, where it breaks into the attic. The
family moves to the basement and props the door closed with a pick axe. Graham
and Merrill ward off an alien that attacks Morgan, who then has anasthma attack.
The news channel declares that the aliens have seemingly left earth.
The next morning, Graham decides to leave the basement and find Morgan's
medicine. The family follows, and to their horror, find an alien still inside the
house. It is revealed that it is the same alien from the pantry whose fingers Graham
had cut off. The unconscious Morgan is again attacked by the alien and taken
hostage. The alien acts as a predator and attempts to poison Morgan by releasing a
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toxin from its body, but because he is having an asthma attack (which prevents him
fully from breathing), the poison doesn't get into his lungs. Graham remembers
his wife's dying words, which were "Tell Merrill to swing away". He tells Merrill to
"swing away" and Merrill attacks the alien with a baseball bat, and it releases
Morgan. They discover that water reacts like acid with the alien's skin, and Merrill
smashes all the water glasses Bo had left all over the house. Finally, Merrill hits the
alien into furniture and water splashes on its face, killing it. Graham administers
Morgan's medication, and the boy recovers.
Some time later, the Hess family has recovered from the incident and they appear
to be doing much better than before. In the final scene, Graham is shown returning
to his priestly duties, apparently having regained his faith.
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The Beyond
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In Louisiana's Seven Doors Hotel in 1927, a lynch mob murders an artist named
Schweick, whom they believe to be a warlock. This opens one of the Seven Doors of
Death, allowing the dead to cross into the world of the living. Several decades later,
Liza, a young woman from New York, inherits the hotel and plans to re-open it. Her
renovation work activates the hell portal, and she contends with increasingly
strange incidents. A plumber named Joe investigates flooding in the cellar and a
demonic hand gouges out his eye. His body and another are later discovered by a
hotel maid, Martha.
Liza encounters a blind woman named Emily, who warns that reopening the hotel
would be a mistake. Joe's wife Mary-Anne and their daughter Jill arrive at the
hospital morgue to claim Joe's corpse. Jill finds her mother lying on the floor
unconscious, her face burned by acid. Liza meets with Dr. John McCabe, and
receives a phone call informing her of Mary-Anne's death. After the funerals, Liza
encounters Emily at the hotel. Emily tells Liza the story of Schweick, and warns her
to not enter room 36. When Emily examines Schweick's painting, she begins to
bleed and flees the hotel.
Liza ignores Emily's advice, and investigates room 36. She discovers an ancient
book titledEibon. She sees Schweick's corpse nailed to the bathroom wall. She flees
the room in terror, but is stopped by John. She takes him to room 36 but both the
corpse and the book are gone. Liza describes her fearful encounters with Emily, but
John insists that Emily is not real. While in town, Liza spots a copy of Eibon in the
window of a book store. The shop owner denies the book's existence, and it is no
longer there when Liza looks for it. At the hotel, a worker named Arthur attempts to
repair the same leak as Joe, but is killed off-screen by ghouls.
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Liza's friend Martin visits the public library to find the hotel's blueprints. He is
struck by a sudden force and falls from a ladder, resulting in paralysis. Spiders
ravage his face and kill him. Martha is cleaning the bathroom in Room 36 when
Joe's animated corpse emerges from the bathtub. Joe pushes her head into an
exposed nail, killing her and destroying one of her eyes. The walking corpses of
Schweik, Joe, Mary-Anne, Martin and Arthur invade Emily's house. She pleads with
them to leave her alone, and insists she will not return with Schweik. She
commands her guide dog to attack the corpses, but the dog turns on Emily, tearing
out her throat.
At the hotel, spirits terrorize Liza. John breaks into Emily's house, which appears to
have been abandoned for years, and finds Eibon. He returns to the hotel and tells
Liza that it is a gateway to Hell. They flee to the hospital, but it has been overrun by
zombies. Liza is attacked, but John gets a gun out of his desk and shoots the
shambling corpses. Only Harris and Jill are found still alive, but Harris is killed by
flying shards of glass. Jill, having shown signs of possession since the funeral,
finally attacks Liza. John is forced to kill Jill.
Escaping the zombies, John and Liza rush down a set of stairs but find themselves
back in the basement of the hotel. They move forward through the flooded
labyrinth and stumble into a supernatural wasteland of dust and corpses. No
matter which direction they travel, they find themselves back at their starting point.
They are ultimately blinded just like Emily, succumb to the darkness, and
disappear.
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Cujo
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The film begins with a rabbit hopping out of its hole, when a St. Bernard playfully
chases it, until it stops and curiously sticks its nose in a bat cave, and a rabid bat
bites its nose.
The Trentons Vic, Donna and their son Tad are an upper-middle-class suburban
family. Vic works in advertising, Donna is a housewife and Tad is a sensitive little
boy who has a fear of monsters in his closet. One day, the Trenton family takes their
car to the rural home of abusive mechanic Joe Camber for some repairs, where
they meet Cujo (the dog in the beginning) the Camber family's easy-going St.
Bernard who still has the bite on his nose received from the bat while chasing the
rabbit in the cave. Donna notices the bite but thinks little of it. Vic and Donna's
marriage on the rocks is tested when Vic learns that Donna is having an affair with
her ex-boyfriend from high school, Steve Kemp, while Vic's advertising for a cereal
commercial is failing and he tries to save his marriage with Donna.
After Joe's wife, Charity, and her son, Brett, leave for a week to visit her sister, Holly,
Cujo's bite from the rabid bat drives him mad, and he kills the Camber's alcoholic
neighbor, Gary Pervier, and the abusive Joe in the garage, who attempts to call the
authorities for help and fails to defend himself from his now rabid dog.
Meanwhile, Vic goes out of town on a business trip as Donna and Tad return to the
Cambers' house for more car repairs where Cujo attacks them. Donna and Tad take
shelter in their Ford Pinto as Tad tries to convince Donna to drive home, but the
alternator dies and the two are trapped. Therefore, they are forced to stay inside
their car while Cujo attacks repeatedly. The hot sun makes conditions nearly
unbearable and Donna knows that she must do something, before they both die
fromheatstroke or dehydration. Attempts at escape, however, are foiled by the mad
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Cujo's repeated attacks. Vic returns home to rekindle his marriage, only to find
Donna and Tad missing. He suspects the possessive Steve Kemp of kidnapping, but
then realizes his wife and son might be at the Camber's residence. The local Sheriff
comes to the house for a brief standoff, before Cujo brutally kills him.
Meanwhile, Donna takes advantage of a momentary distraction and hits Cujo with
a baseball bat until it breaks off, leaving only a jagged handle. Cujo jumps at her
and is impaled in thestomach by the broken bat. Donna then breaks the back
window of the Pinto with the sheriff's revolver and retrieves Tad, as Cujo broke all
of the door handles. As Donna revives the dehydrated and over-heated Tad in the
house, a recovered Cujo breaks through the kitchen window and tries one final
attempt to kill them, but Donna fatally shoots him just as Vic arrives and is reunited
with Donna and Tad.
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The Crazies
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In the town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant), the local
sheriff is enjoying a baseball game. His deputy, Russell Clank (Joe Anderson), spots
Rory Hamill, a local resident (and the town drunk who's has been sober for two
years), entering the outfield holding a shotgun. David, knowing his history, and
owing to his behaviour, believes he has started drinking again. David is forced to
shoot and kill the unresponsive Rory when he raised his weapon and aimed it at
the Sheriff. David and his wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), the community doctor, begin
to notice other town residents exhibiting bizarre behavior, including listlessness
and repetitive speech. The next night, a local farmer burns his house down with his
wife and son trapped inside, killing them. By the time firefighters and other
townspeople arrive, he is found mowing his lawn while his house burns.
While investigating the discovery of a pilot's body in a swamp, David and Russell
discover a large military aircraft that crashed into the river few days before, which
David realizes has contaminated the drinking water and caused the town residents'
odd behavior. Against the mayor's direct orders, he shuts off the town's water
supply. Soon after, communication services are lost in town, and soldiers arrive to
take all residents to quarantine at the high school. Everyone is examined for
symptoms of infection. Judy does not pass the examination and is separated from
David. She explains her fever is due to pregnancy, but is sedated anyway. She
wakes strapped to a gurney as the perimeter of the facility is breached by the
infected townspeople in an effort to escape. The military personnel evacuate,
abandoning Judy and the other civilians. David is nearing evacuation, but escapes
and rejoins Russell. They rescue Judy and her hospital assistant, Becca (Danielle
Panabaker) from the killing fury of the school director that was slaughtering with a
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pitchfork all the quarantined people that, inside a classroom, were bound to
stretchers.
David, Judy, Russell, and Becca make their way out of town on foot, unable to find
a working vehicle. They encounter Becca's boyfriend, Scotty, when they pass
through his farm. Soldiers raid the farm, shoot Scotty and his mother, and burn the
bodies. They learn that the soldiers have been ordered to shoot all civilians who
have potentially been exposed. The group repair an older patrol car being stored in
David's and Judy's garage, and are ambushed by the infected family of Rory. After
a struggle, Russell shoots the infected multiple times, and then claims it was to
ensure they were dead. This greatly disturbs Judy, who argues with David about
Russell's state of mind. Once on the road, they are spotted by an attack helicopter
and drive into a car wash for cover. The infected attack and kill Becca by hanging
her as the car drives out, and the helicopter destroys the car as the rest of the group
runs back to try to help Becca. On foot, Russell disables a passing government SUV
with a police spike strip. The driver, presumably a government agent, reveals the
cargo plane contained "Trixie," a "Rhabdoviridae prototype" biological weapon. It
was en route to Texas to be destroyed by incineration when the plane crashed.
Enraged, Russell shoots the driver and threatens Judy and David. When confronted
about his behavior, Russell realizes he is infected and, after being disarmed, begs
to go on with Judy and David. He later dies while distracting soldiers at a
roadblock, so that Judy and David can sneak past.
David and Judy arrive at a truck stop to search for a vehicle, discovering that the
military have also executed those who were evacuated. Fending off three infected,
they escape in a semi-truck. Ogden Marsh is destroyed in a massive explosion as
they flee, and their truck flips in the passing shockwave. As the couple walk towards
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Cedar Rapids, a view from a military satellite highlights first the couple, then the
city, and the words "Initiate containment protocol" appear, signifying a new
containment attempt.
In the credits, Bruce Aune, a real newscaster from KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
reports that an explosion originating from the Dakon Pendrill chemical plant
started a massive fire in Ogden Marsh. He says a perimeter has been set and
civilians are not being allowed into the area. A Trixie-infected individual appears on
camera just before the signal is lost.
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The Hills Have Eyes
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A group of scientists are killed by a mutant named Pluto (Michael Bailey Smith).
Later, Bob Carter (Ted Levine) and his wife, Ethel Carter (Kathleen Quinlan) are
traveling fromCleveland, Ohio to San Diego, California for their silver anniversary.
With them are their teenage children Bobby (Dan Byrd), and Brenda (Emilie de
Ravin), eldest daughter Lynn (Vinessa Shaw), Lynn's husband Doug Bukowski
(Aaron Stanford), their baby daughter Catherine (Maisie Camilleri Preziosi), and
their German Shepherds, Beauty and Beast.
In the New Mexico desert, they encounter a gas station attendant named Jeb (Tom
Bower), who tells them of a short-cut through the hills. Taking the supposed shortcut, their tires are punctured by a hidden spike strip. Doug and Bob go look for
help, while the rest of the family stays behind. Bobby chases a panicked Beauty
into the hills and finds her mutilated body; frightened, he runs and falls, knocking
himself unconscious. A young female mutant namedRuby (Laura Ortiz) finds him
and protects him from her brother Goggle (Ezra Buzzington). Bob goes back to the
gas station for help, and upon investigation finds news clippings detailing various
disappearances that have occurred in the area. He realizes that the attendant
purposefully led them to danger by suggesting they take an alternative route
through the hills. When Bob exits he finds the hysterical Jeb, who commits suicide
in front of him. In fear, Bob attempts to flee, but is attacked by the mutant leader,
Papa Jupiter (Billy Drago), and dragged into the mining caves by Jupiter, Jupiter's
eldest son Lizard (Robert Joy), and Pluto.
Bobby returns to the trailer, but doesn't mention Beauty's death not wanting to
frighten the rest of the family. Later that night, the family is awakened by Bob's
screams, and they all rush from the trailer, except for Brenda and the baby, who are
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left behind. Outside they find Bob being burned alive on a stake and frantically try
to save him, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Pluto and Lizard use the distraction to
ransack the trailer, where Lizard beats and rapes Brenda. When Lynn returns to the
trailer she is greeted by Lizard and Pluto, and forced to let Lizard drink from her
breasts while her baby is held at gunpoint. When Ethel returns she is shot by
Lizard, and Lynn stabs Lizard in the leg, prompting him to shoot Lynn in the head.
Lizard and Pluto flee with the baby after Lizard attempts to shoot Brenda.
Doug and Bobby return to the trailer and discover Lynn and Ethel, who die shortly
afterward. Goggle, who is watching the Carters with a pair of binoculars, is attacked
by Beast, who tears his throat out, killing him. The next morning, Doug and Beast
set off to rescue Catherine. Doug finds an abandoned nuclear testing village, and is
knocked unconscious by Big Mama (Ivana Turchetto) during his search. Upon
awakening, he escapes an ice box filled with human body parts and continues his
search, only to encounter Big Brain (Desmond Askew). After Big Brain tells him the
mutants' origins, Doug is attacked by Pluto, who severs two of his fingers with an
axe. Pluto almost kills Doug, but Doug manages to gain the upper hand while
Pluto is distracted, and kills him with his own axe.
Outside, Doug kills the mutant Cyst (Gregory Nicotero) and continues to search for
Catherine. After ordering Lizard to kill Catherine, Big Brain is mauled to death by
Beast. Lizard takes a cleaver and prepares to kill Catherine, but finds that Ruby has
taken her. Doug sees Ruby running through the hills with Catherine and follows
her. At the trailer, Brenda and Bobby prepare an explosive trap, which destroys the
trailer, apparently killing Papa Jupiter.
Doug catches up with Ruby, but before she can return Catherine, Lizard attacks
him. Lizard and Doug fight, and Lizard is presumed dead. When Doug turns his
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back Lizard aims a shotgun at him, but Ruby tackles Lizard off a cliff, killing them
both. Bobby and Brenda find that Papa Jupiter managed to survive their trap, and
Brenda finishes him off. They are then reunited with Doug, Catherine and Beast. As
they celebrate their apparent victory, an unknown mutant watches through
binoculars from the hills.
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28 Days Later
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In Cambridge, three animal liberation activists break into a medical research

laboratory with the intent of freeing captive chimpanzees. They are interrupted by a
scientist, who desperately warns them that the chimps are infected with a highly
contagious rage-inducingvirus that is spread through blood and saliva. Ignoring
the scientist's pleas, the activists release a chimpanzee, who attacks one of them
and immediately infects her leading her to attack and infect everyone else
present.
28 days later, in London, Jim (Cillian Murphy), a bicycle courier, awakens from a
coma in St Thomas' Hospital. He finds the entire hospital deserted and wanders on
the streets of London, finding it deserted as well, with signs of catastrophe
everywhere. Desperate, he wanders into a church, where he finds a priest. Jim tries
to approach him, only to be attacked by the priest who turns out to be infected. He
is soon attacked by more infected as well, but is rescued by Selena (Naomie Harris)
and Mark (Noah Huntley).
Selena and Mark take Jim to their hideout, a small store in London Underground,
where they explain that while Jim was in a coma, a virus spread among the
populace, resulting in societal collapse. They also claim the virus has been reported
in Paris and New York City as well, suggesting the infection has spread worldwide.
The next morning, Selena and Mark accompany Jim to Jim's parents' house in
Deptford, where he discovers they have committed suicide. That night, the three
are attacked by more infected. Mark is bitten, prompting Selena to kill him; she
later explains that the virus overwhelms its victims in 10 to 20 seconds, and should
Jim become infected she will kill him "in a heartbeat". They leave and eventually
spot some blinking Christmas lights from Balfron Tower, discovering two more
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survivors cab driver Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and his teenage daughter Hannah
(Megan Burns) who allow them to take shelter. Frank informs them the next day
that their supplies particularly water are dwindling and plays them a prerecorded radio broadcast from a military blockade near Manchester, which claims
they have "the answer to infection" and promises to protect any survivors who
reach them.
The group board Frank's cab in search of the signal' source, and throughout the
trip they bond with one another through various situations. When the four reach
the deserted blockade, Frank is infected when a drop of blood from a dead body
falls into his eye. As he succumbs he is killed by arriving soldiers, who take the
remaining survivors to a fortified mansion under the command of Major Henry
West (Christopher Eccleston). During the group's stay, West reveals that his
"answer to infection" entails waiting for the infected to starve to death and luring
female survivors into sexual slavery, so that West's platoon can repopulate the
country. The group attempts to flee, but Jim is captured by the soldiers, along with
the dissenting Sergeant Farrell (Stuart McQuarrie). While imprisoned, Farrell
speculates that the virus has not spread beyond Great Britain and that the country
is being quarantined.
The next day, the girls are being prepared for gang-rape as two soldiers lead Jim
and Farrell to execution. When his escorts quarrel after killing Farrell, Jim escapes
and spots a NATO aircraft flying overhead, proving Farrell's theory is correct. Jim
lures West and another soldier to the blockade, where Jim kills the latter and
leaves West stranded for arriving infected. He then runs back to the mansion and
releases Mailer, an infected soldier West kept for observation, who attacks the rest
of the platoon. Amidst the mayhem, Jim reunites with Selena and Hannah, and
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they run to Frank's cab, where West is waiting and shoots Jim in the stomach.
Hannah reverses the cab towards Mailer, who grabs West through the rear window
and kills him. The trio finally leaves the mansion.
Another 28 days later, Jim is recovering at a remote cottage. Downstairs, he finds
Selena sewing large swaths of fabric when Hannah appears. The three rush outside
and unfurl a huge cloth banner, adding the final letter to the word "HELLO" laid out
on the meadow. A loneFinnish jet flies over the landscape, and the infected are
shown dying of starvation. The film ends with the jet flying over the three survivors
and the pilot calling in a rescue helicopter.
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The Changeling
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John Russell (George C. Scott), a composer living in New York, New York, moves
cross-country to Washington state following the deaths of his wife and daughter in
a traffic accident while on a winter vacation in upstate New York. In suburban
Seattle, John rents a large, old and eerie Victorian-era mansion and begins piecing
his life back together.
However, John soon discovers that he has unexpected and unwelcome company in
his new home: the unhappy ghost of a murdered young boy. The ghost makes its
presence felt by various phenomena such as shattering windows, abruptly opening
and shutting doors, and manifesting itself dramatically during a seance. John
investigates the identity of the dead child and finds that the mystery is linked to a
powerful local family, the heir of which is a wealthy United States senator, Joseph
Carmichael.
John subsequently discovers that the real Joseph Carmichael was murdered by his
father, Richard. Joseph was a crippled, sickly child, and in the event of his death
before his 21st birthday, the family fortune (which he inherited from his late
maternal grandfather) would pass to charity. Desperate to keep control of the
fortune, Joseph's father drowned young Joseph in the bathtub, secretly replaced
him with a healthy orphan, and took him to Europe in the guise of seeking a
treatment or cure. He returned several years later with the impostor, now grown
and "cured" of his illness, and continued as if nothing had happened.
Now, the ghost of the real Joseph haunts the house, making great efforts to
persuade John to investigate his murder, and give him some form of justice.
John's investigation leads him to a property that was once owned by the
Carmichael family, and after convincing Mrs. Gray (the owner of the property and
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whose daughter has seen Joseph's ghost), John discovers the skeletal remains of
Joseph in a well, as well as his birth medal.
After refusing to hand the medal over to the police, John attempts to speak to
Senator Carmichael as he is about to depart by plane but is restrained by police. It
is then revealed that the Senator has an identical medal to the one John found. The
Senator then sends a policeman, Captain Dewitt to John's home in an attempt to
retrieve the medal, John refuses and when Dewitt leaves to obtain a search
warrant, his vehicle "mysteriously" crashes, killing him.
After hearing of Dewitt's death, the Senator finally agrees to listen to John's story
and meets with him. John reveals the entire story to the Senator, that his father
murdered his natural son and replaced him with a changeling, which is the
Senator. The Senator refuses to believe the story and angrily berates John for
accusing his father, whom he claims was a "loving man", of murder. John then
leaves the Senator Joseph's medal, files and the only copy of the seance recording
and apologizes. The Senator threatens John that there will be consequences if he
has told anyone else of his story.
Meanwhile, John's realtor and friend, Claire, goes to the house alone in an attempt
to find John and is chased by Joseph's wheelchair until she falls down the stairs.
Meanwhile the house begins to shake and rumble. John arrives, and escorts Claire
outside, and then goes back inside to try and stop the ghost of Joseph. A strong
wind causes John to fall from the second story, but he survives. Joseph then lights
the house on fire.
Meanwhile, back at the Senator's home, he is observing the two birth medallions,
and throws Joseph's away while placing his own on a portrait of his father.
Suddenly, the picture and the desk start shaking violently and an illusion of the
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Senator is transported to the house and begins to climb the stairs which then
crumble. John sees the Senator's illusion walking up the main staircase, and
narrowly escapes being crushed by a chandelier. Meanwhile the Senator's illusion
then climbs the stairs to Joseph's attic room where he witnesses how his father
murdered the real Joseph by drowning him. Meanwhile, back at the mansion, the
Senator himself suffers a heart attack and dies as Joseph's attic room explodes.
John and Claire arrive and see the Senator's body being hoisted away. The
ambulance then passes the Carmichael mansion which is now completely
engulfed in flames.
The next morning, at the ruins of the mansion, Joseph's burnt wheelchair is seen
sitting upright and his music box then opens and begins playing a lullaby, possibly
signifying that the justice he wanted has finally been served.
Carmichael.
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the house on fire.
engulfed in flames.
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Carmichael.
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the house on fire.
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engulfed in flames.
Carmichael.
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the house on fire.
engulfed in flames.
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The Sixth Sense
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Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night
with his wife, Anna, after having been honored for his work. Anna tells Malcolm
that everything is second to his work, and that she believes he is truly gifted.
Just then, a young man appears in their bathroom, and accuses Malcolm of failing
him. Malcolm recognizes him as Vincent Grey, a former patient whom he treated as
a child for hallucinations. After Malcolm realizes he did fail him, Vincent shoots his
former doctor before killing himself.
The next fall, Malcolm begins working with another patient, 9-year-old Cole Sear,
whose case is similar to Vincent's. Malcolm becomes dedicated to the boy, though
he is haunted by doubts over his ability to help him after his failure with Vincent.
Meanwhile, he and his wife seldom, if ever, speak or do anything together.
Malcolm feels he must help Cole in order to rectify his failure to Vincent and
reconcile with his wife. Cole's mother, Lynn, who truly loves him, worries about his
social stamina, especially after seeing signs of physical abuse. Cole eventually
confides his secret to Malcolm: he sees dead people, who walk around like the
living unaware they are dead.
At first, Malcolm thinks Cole is delusional and considers dropping him.
Remembering Vincent, the psychologist listens to an audiotape from a session with
Vincent in 1987, then a child. On the tape, when Malcolm leaves the room, and
then returns, Vincent was crying. Turning up the volume, Malcolm hears a weeping
man begging for help in Spanish, and now believes that Cole is telling the truth
and that Vincent may have had the same ability. He suggests to Cole that he should
try to find a purpose for his gift by communicating with the ghosts and perhaps aid
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them with their unfinished business. At first, Cole is unwilling since the ghosts
terrify and sometimes even threaten him, but he finally decides to do it.
Cole talks to one of the ghosts, Kyra Collins, a young chronically ill girl who recently
died. He goes with Malcolm to her funeral reception at her home, where Kyra
directs him to a box holding a videotape, which he then gives to her father. The
tape shows Kyra's mother putting a cleaning fluid in her soup. By proving she was
a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Cole has saved Kyra's younger sister,
the mother's next victim.
Learning to live with the ghosts he sees, Cole starts to fit in at school and gets the
lead in the school play, which Malcolm attends. The doctor and patient depart on
positive terms and Cole suggests to Malcolm that he should try speaking to Anna
while she is asleep. Later, while stuck in a traffic jam, Cole confesses his secret to
Lynn, saying that someone died in an accident up ahead and he knows because the
person is right next to him. Lynn does not see the recently deceased, but Cole sees
a woman cyclist with blood dripping down her face. Although his mother at first
does not believe him, Cole proves his ability to her by talking about how his
grandmother visits him. He describes how his grandmother saw his mother in a
dance performance, even though Lynn thought her mother was not there. He
further relays the answer to a question his mother privately asked at her mother's
grave. When Cole says that his grandmother feels proud of Lynn, his mother
tearfully accepts the truth and they hug each other.
Malcolm returns home, where he finds his wife asleep with their wedding video
playing. While still asleep, Anna asks her husband why he left her, and drops
Malcolm's wedding ring, which he suddenly discovers he has not been wearing.
He remembers what Cole said about ghosts and realizes that he was actually killed
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by Vincent that night, and was unknowingly dead the entire time he was working
with Cole. Because of Cole's efforts, Malcolm's unfinished business rectifying his
failure to understand and help Vincent is finally complete. Malcolm fulfills the
second reason he returned: to tell his wife she was never second, and that he loves
her. His goal complete, he is free to leave the world of the living.
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In the Mouth of Madness
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Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) visits John Trent (Sam Neill), a patient in a psychiatric
hospital, and asks Trent to recount his story:
After exposing an arson-fraud scam, Trent, an insurance investigator, has lunch
with a colleague who preps him on his next assignment, investigating a claim
made by New York-based Arcane Publishing. During their conversation, Trent is
attacked by a man wielding an axe who, after asking him if he reads Sutter Cane, is
shot dead by a police officer before he can harm Trent.
Trent later meets with Arcane Publishing director Jackson Harglow (Charlton
Heston) who tasks him with investigating the disappearance of popular horror
novelist Sutter Cane (Jrgen Prochnow), and recovering the manuscript for Cane's
final novel. He assigns Cane's editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), to accompany
him.
Linda explains the stories are known to cause disorientation, memory loss, and
paranoia in "less stable readers." Trent remains skeptical, convinced that the
disappearance is merely an elaborate publicity stunt. Trent notices a series of red
lines on Cane's book's covers that, when aligned properly, form the outline of New
Hampshire and mark a location alluded to be Hobb's End, the fictional setting for
many of Cane's works.
As they set out to find the town, Linda experiences bizarre phenomena during the
late-night drive, inexplicably arriving at Hobb's End in daylight. Trent and Linda
search the small town and begin encountering people and landmarks described as
fictional in Cane's novels. Trent believes it all to be staged, but Linda disagrees. She
admits to Trent that Arcane Publishing's claim was indeed a fraudulent stunt to
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promote Cane's book, but the time distortion and exact replica of Hobb's End were
never part of the plan.
Linda heads to a church to confront Cane, who exposes her to his final novel, In The
Mouth of Madness, which drives her insane, embracing and kissing Cane
passionately. A man approaches Trent in a bar and warns him to leave, then
commits suicide. Outside the bar, a mob of monstrous-looking townspeople
descend upon him. Trent attempts to drive away from Hobb's End but is repeatedly
teleported back to the center of town. After crashing his car, Trent awakens inside
the church with Linda, where Cane explains that the public's belief in his stories
have freed an ancient race of monstrous beings that will reclaim the Earth. Cane
reveals that Trent himself is merely one of his characters who must follow Cane's
plot and return the manuscript of In The Mouth of Madness to Arcane Publishing,
ushering the end of humanity.
After giving Trent the manuscript, Cane tears his face open, creating a portal to the
dimension of Cane's monstrous masters. Trent and Linda flee down a long tunnel
as monsters chase them; Linda offers to stay behind, to delay the unseen monsters
and because she has already read the entire book. Trent continues running and
suddenly finds himself lying on a country road, apparently back in reality. During
his return to New York, Trent destroys the manuscript. Back at Arcane Publishing,
Trent relates his experience to Harglow. Harglow claims complete ignorance of
Linda; Trent was sent alone to find Cane, and the manuscript had already been
delivered months previously. In The Mouth of Madness has been on sale for weeks
with a film adaptation in post production. Trent is arrested after he murders a
reader of the newly released novel, who has altered eyes and a nosebleed; Trent
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asks if he is enjoying the book, and when the dazed reader nods, Trent tells him he
should not be surprised before swinging the axe.
After Trent finishes telling his story, Dr. Wrenn judges it a meaningless
hallucination. Trent wakes the following day to find the asylum abandoned. He
departs as a radio announces that the world has been overrun with monstrous
creatures, and that outbreaks of suicide and mass murder are commonplace. Trent
goes to see the In the Mouth of Madness film and discovers that he is the main
character in the film. As he watches his previous actions play out on screen,
including a scene where he insisted to Linda "This is reality!", Trent begins
laughing hysterically before breaking down crying.
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The Brood
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Psychotherapist Hal Raglan runs the Somafree Institute where he performs a

technique called "psychoplasmics", encouraging patients with mental
disturbances to let go of their suppressed emotions through physiological changes
to their bodies. One of his patients is Nola Carveth, a severely disturbed woman
who is legally embattled with her husband Frank for custody of their five-year-old
daughter Candice. When Frank discovers bruises and scratches on Candice
following a visit with Nola, he informs Raglan of his intent to stop visitation rights.
Wanting to protect his patient, Raglan begins to intensify the sessions with Nola to
resolve the issue quickly. During the therapy sessions, Raglan discovers that Nola
was physically and verbally abused by her self-pitying alcoholic mother, and
neglected by her co-dependent alcoholic father, who refused to protect Nola out of
shame and denial. Meanwhile, Frank, intending to invalidate Raglan's methods,
questions Jan Hartog, a former Somafree patient dying of psychoplasmic-induced
lymphoma.
Frank leaves Candice with her grandmother Juliana, and the two spend the
evening viewing old photographs; Juliana informs Candice that Nola was
frequently hospitalized as a child, and often exhibited strange unexplained wheals
on her skin that doctors were unable to diagnose. While returning to the kitchen,
Juliana is attacked and bludgeoned to death by a small, dwarf-like child. Candice is
traumatized, but otherwise unharmed.
Juliana's estranged husband Barton returns for the funeral, and attempts to
contact Nola at Somafree, but Raglan turns him away. Frank invites his daughter's
teacher Ruth Mayer home for dinner to discuss Candice, but Barton interrupts with
a drunken phone call from Juliana's home, demanding that they both go to
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Somafree in force to see Nola. Frank leaves to console Barton, leaving Candice in
Ruth's care. While he is away, Ruth accidentally answers a phone call from Nola,
who, recognizing her voice, insults her and angrily warns her to stay away from her
family. Frank arrives to find Barton murdered by the same deformed dwarf-child,
who dies after attempting to kill Frank.
The police autopsy reveals a multitude of bizarre anatomical anomalies: the
creature is asexual, supposedly color-blind, naturally toothless, and devoid of a
navel, indicating no known means of natural human birth. After the murder story
reaches the newspapers, Raglan reluctantly acknowledges that the murders
coincide with the sessions relating to their respective topics. He closes Somafree
and sends his patients to municipal care with the exception of Nola.
When Candice returns to school, two dwarf children attack and kill Ruth in front of
her class, and abscond with Candice to Somafree. Frank is alerted of the closure of
Somafree by Hartog. Mike, one of the patients forced to leave the institute tells
Frank that Nola is Raglan's "queen bee" and in charge of some "disturbed
children" in a property work shed. Frank immediately ventures to Somafree. Raglan
tells him the truth about the dwarf children: they are the accidental product of
Nola's psychoplasmic sessions; Nola's rage about her abuse was so strong that she
parthenogenetically bore a brood of children who psychically respond and act on
the targets of her rage with Nola completely unaware of their actions. Realizing the
brood are too dangerous to keep anymore, Raglan plots to venture into their
quarters and rescue Candice, provided that Frank can keep Nola calm to avoid
provoking the children.
Frank attempts a feigned rapprochement long enough for Raglan to collect
Candice, but when he witnesses Nola give birth to another child through a
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psychoplasmically-induced external womb, she notices his disgust. The brood
awakens and kills Raglan. Nola then threatens to kill Candice rather than lose her.
The brood goes after her, Candice hides in a closet, but the brood begins to break
through the door and try to grab Candice. In desperation, Frank chokes Nola to
death, and the brood dies without its mother's psychic connection. He carries
Candice back to his car and they drive off, but it is hinted that the events she
endured result in the same phenomenon her mother experienced: a pair of small
bumps are seen growing on her arm.
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Hellraiser
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In Morocco, Frank Cotton buys a puzzle box from a dealer. In a bare room, Frank
solves the puzzle box. Immediately, hooked chains emerge from it and tear into his
flesh. Later the room is filled with swinging chains spattered with the remnants of
Frank's body. A black-robed figure picks up the puzzle box and returns it to its
original state, restoring the room to normal.
Frank's brother, Larry, has decided to move into his childhood home in an attempt
to rebuild his strained relationship with his second wife, Julia, who had an affair
with Frank shortly after marrying Larry. Larry's teenage daughter, Kirsty, has chosen
not to live with her stepmother and moves into her own home.
The abandoned home shows traces of Frank's recent presence, but Larry assumes
Frank has fled the authorities. Larry cuts his hand on a nail, and drips blood on the
attic floor, which conceals the remnants of Frank's body. The blood resurrects Frank.
That night, Julia finds Frank in the attic. Still obsessed with him, she agrees to
harvest blood for him so that he can be fully restored and they can run away
together. Julia begins picking up men in bars and bringing them back to the
house, where she murders them. Frank consumes their blood, regenerating his
body. Frank explains to Julia that he had exhausted all sensory experiences and
sought out the puzzle box on the promise that it would open a portal to a realm of
new carnal pleasures. When solved, the box opened up a portal to the realm of the
"Cenobites", who subjected him to the extremes of sadomasochism.
Kirsty spies Julia bringing men to the house and, believing her to be having an
affair, follows her to the attic, where she interrupts Frank's feeding. Frank attacks
her, but Kirsty throws the puzzle box out the window, creating enough of a
distraction for her to escape. Kirsty retrieves the box and runs away, but, shaken by
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her experiences, collapses shortly thereafter. Awakening in a hospital, Kirsty solves
the puzzle box, summoning the Cenobites and a two-headed monster, which Kirsty
narrowly escapes from. The Cenobites' leader, Pinhead, explains that although the
Cenobites have been perceived as both angels and demons, they are simply
"explorers" of the carnal experience, and they can no longer differentiate between
extreme pain and extreme pleasure. Although they attempt to force Kirsty to return
to their realm with them, she lets their leader know that one of their "subjects" has
escaped, and suggests giving them Frank in exchange for her freedom. They
accept.
Kirsty returns home, where Frank, posing as Larry, tells her he had to kill a
deranged Frank. Julia shows her a flayed corpse in the attic, locking the door
behind her. The Cenobites appear and demand the man who "did this". Kirsty runs
out of the room and tries to escape, but is held by Julia and Frank. Frank reveals his
true identity to Kirsty, and, when his sexual advances are rejected, he decides to kill
her to complete his rejuvenation. He accidentally stabs Julia instead and drinks her
blood without remorse.
Frank chases Kirsty to the attic, and when he is about to kill her, the Cenobites
appear. Now sure he is their prey, they ensnare him with chains and tear him to
pieces. They then attempt to abduct Kirsty. Ripping the puzzle box from Julia's
dead hands, Kirsty defeats the Cenobites by reversing the motions needed to open
the puzzle box, sending them away in a burst of electricity. Her boyfriend shows up
and helps her escape the quickly deteriorating house.
As Kirsty looks back at the house, it bursts into flames, and Kirsty throws the box
into them. A vagrant who has been stalking Kirsty walks into the fire and retrieves
the box before transforming into a winged creature and flying away. The box ends
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up in the hands of the merchant who sold it to Frank, who offers it to another
prospective customer.\
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The Devils Backbone
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Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a small home for
orphans in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Helping the couple
mind the orphanage are Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), the groundskeeper, and
Conchita (Irene Visedo), a teacher who is also involved with Jacinto. Casares and
Carmen are aligned with the Republican loyalists, and are hiding a large cache of
gold that's used to back the Republican treasury; perhaps not coincidentally, the
orphanage has also been subject to attacks from Franco's troops, and a defused
bomb sits in the home's courtyard. One day, a boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve)
arrives at the home, looking for a place to stay after being left behind by his
parents. Casares and Carmen take him in, and the boy soon strikes up an unlikely
friendship with Jaime (igo Garcs), a boy with a reputation for tormenting other
kids. But Carlos soon begins having visions of a mysterious apparition he can't
identify, and hears strange stories about a child named Santi who went missing the
day the bomb appeared near the orphanage.
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Pet Sematary
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The Creed family Louis, Rachel, and their children Ellie and Gage move from
Chicago toLudlow, Maine, where they befriend elderly neighbor Jud Crandall, who
takes them to an isolated pet cemetery hidden behind the Creeds' new home.
While working at the University of Maine, Louis meets Victor Pascow, who is
brought in with severe injuries from a car accident. He warns Louis about the pet
cemetery before he dies, calling Louis by name despite the fact they have not
previously met. After he dies, Pascow comes to Louis in a dream to tell him about
the dangers inherent at the cemetery. Louis awakens assuming it was a dream, but
notices his feet are covered in dirt, indicating he had gone to the cemetery. During
Thanksgiving while the family is gone, Ellie's cat Church is run down on the
highway by the house. Jud takes Louis beyond the cemetery and buries Church
where he says the real burial ground is. Church comes back to life, though a shell
of what he was before; he now seems more feral. Sometime later, Gage is killed by
a truck along the same highway. When Louis questions Jud on whether humans
have been buried in the cemetery before, Jud recounts a story of a friend named
Bill who buried his son Timmy who died in World War II at the site, but he came
back changed. Realizing the horror he brought to the townsfolk, Jud and some
other friends tried destroying Timmy by burning him to death in the house, but Bill
refused to get out without Timmy and both perished.
Rachel and Ellie go on a trip while Louis remains home. Despite Jud's warnings
and Pascow's attempts to stop him, Louis exhumes his son's body and buries him
at the ritual site. Pascow appears to Rachel and warns her that Louis has done
something terrible. She tries telephoning Louis, then Jud, informing him she is
returning home. She hangs up before Jud can warn her not to return. That night,
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Gage returns home and steals a scalpel from his father's bag. He taunts Jud before
slashing his Achilles tendon and killing him. Rachel returns home and begins
having visions of her disfigured sister Zelda before she died, only to discover that
she is actually seeing Gage, holding a scalpel. In shock and disbelief, Rachel
reaches down to hug her son and he kills her.
Waking up from his sleep, Louis notices Gage's footprints in the house and discovers that
his scalpel is missing. Getting a message from Gage that he has "played" with Jud and
"Mommy" and wants to play with him now, he fills two syringes with morphine and heads
to Jud's house. Encountering Church, who attacks him, he kills the cat with an injection.
Gage taunts him further within Jud's house and Louis discovers Rachel's corpse, falling
hanged from the attic before he is attacked by his son. After a brief battle, Louis kills Gage
with the morphine injection. He then lights the house on fire, leaving it to burn as he
carries Rachel from the fire. Despite Pascow's continued insistence not to, Louis, now griefstricken to the point of insanity, believes that because Rachel was not dead as long as Gage
was, burying her to bring her back "will work this time". Pascow cries out in frustration and
vanishes as Louis passes through him.
That night, Rachel returns to the house and she and Louis kiss. Unknown to him, she takes
a knife from the counter and stabs Louis.
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The Descent
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Juno (Natalie Mendoza), Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) and Beth (Alex Reid) are
whitewater rafting in Scotland. Sarah's husband Paul (Oliver Milburn) and their
daughter Jessica (Molly Kayll) wave and cheer from the bank. Juno is seen talking
intimately with Paul by Beth. On the drive back to their hotel, Paul gets distracted,
causing a collision. Paul and Jessica are killed, but Sarah survives.
One year later, Juno, Sarah, Beth, Sam (MyAnna Buring) and Rebecca (Saskia
Mulder) are reunited at a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina,
USA. Holly (Nora-Jane Noone), Juno's new friend, is introduced. As they reminisce
over an old photo of Juno, Sarah, and Beth, Sarah says "Love each day", explaining
that it was a saying of her late husband's.
The next morning the group goes spelunking. When the group breaks for lunch in
a huge gallery, Juno tearfully apologises to Sarah for not being there for her after
the accident, but Sarah is distant. As the group moves through the next passage it
collapses behind them, with Sarah barely making it through. After a heated
discussion, Juno admits that she has led them into an unknown cave system,
instead of the fully explored cave system they planned for. The only people who
were told about their expedition think they are at the other cave system, making
rescue impossible. They are trapped, and the chance of another exit is very low.
Privately, Juno tells Sarah that she led them into the unknown cave hoping to
restore their relationship, but Sarah rebuffs her. As the group presses forward, they
discover climbing equipment from a previous visitor, and a cave painting that
suggests a second exit exists.
Holly, thinking she sees sunlight, runs ahead, and falls down a hole and breaks her
leg. Sam sets Holly's fracture with a splint and they carry her. As the others help
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Holly, Sarah wanders off and observes a pale, humanoid creature drinking at a
pool. It scampers off into the darkness when Sarah gasps. The others think Sarah
imagined it, but Sarah insists that she saw someone. Soon after they come across a
den of animal bones, and are suddenly attacked by one of the creatures. The group
scatter, and the crawler rips out Holly's throat. Sarah trips and falls and passes out.
Seeing Holly is still alive, Juno tries to defend her from the crawlers, but Holly is
ultimately dragged away. After a brutal fight, a frenzied Juno hears something
approaching behind her and whirls around, only to stab Beth through the neck
with her pickaxe. Beth grabs Juno's pendant as she drops to the ground, but Juno
stumbles away in shock as Beth reaches out to her.
Sarah awakens to find herself in a den of human and animal carcasses, where
Holly's body drops from a hole in the ceiling. Sarah is forced to hide and watch
crawlers feast upon her corpse before pressing forward. Juno discovers markings
pointing to a specific path through the caves. She eventually locates Sam and
Rebecca and rescues them from a crawler. Realizing that the creatures are blind
and hunt through sound, Juno deduces that there is a second entrance where the
crawlers bring down their prey to eat. Juno tells them the markings she discovered
may point to the way out, but she will not leave without Sarah. Meanwhile, Sarah
encounters the mortally wounded Beth, who tells Sarah that Juno wounded her
and left her. Sarah does not believe her until Beth gives her Juno's pendant, which
Sarah finds out to have the words "love each day" inscribed on it revealing Juno's
affair with Sarah's husband. Beth, in extreme pain, asks Sarah toeuthanize her, and
Sarah reluctantly complies, smashing her head with a rock. Sarah is soon set upon
by a family of crawlers, and in the ensuing struggle, falls into a pool of blood.
Managing to kill the entire crawler family, Sarah descends into a feral state of
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survival, letting out a scream of madness. Elsewhere, Juno, Sam and Rebecca are
pursued by a large group of crawlers. Crawlers kill Sam and Rebecca, and Juno
leaps into a chasm to escape.
Juno climbs out of the chasm and is helped onto a ledge by a bloodsoaked Sarah,
who asks her if she saw Beth die. Juno, in shock, nods. The two push through the
caves until they encounter a group of crawlers and defeat them. Sarah then faces
Juno, and shows that she has Juno's pendant, revealing that she knows that she
wounded and left Beth for dead and also about her affair. Sarah cripples Juno with
a pickaxe. Juno pulls the pickaxe from her leg and turns to face a large group of
crawlers while Sarah leaves her behind, Juno's fighting screams fade as Sarah goes
further. Sarah falls down a hole and is knocked unconscious. She awakens,
scrambles up a huge pile of bones towards daylight, squeezes through a narrow
opening onto the surface, runs to her vehicle and speeds off. She pulls over to
vomit and sees Juno sitting next to her, her face streaked with blood. Sarah
screams and reawakens to find herself still in the cavern, revealing that the events
since her previous awakening were a dream. She sees her smiling daughter close
by and a birthday cake between them. The field of view widens to reveal that Sarah
is hallucinating and she is actually staring at a torch. The calls of the crawlers grow
louder as the movie ends, but Sarah is oblivious.
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)
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In the summer of 1958, two camp counselors, Barry and Claudette, sneak away
from a campfire to have sex. An unknown assailant follows them and is recognized
before brutally attacking and killing them.
Twenty-one years later, Annie arrives at the town of Crystal Lake asking for a ride
out to the camp. Despite warnings from the town crazy, Ralph, about "camp blood",
a truck driver gives her a ride. On the way he too warns her of a death curse
supposedly on the camp after a drowning in 1957, two murders in 1958, and
several non-fatal incidents following that. She heeds his warning but cannot back
out. He drops her off halfway to the camp, and she finds a ride in a Jeep. She
becomes panicked when the unspeaking driver drives past the camp's entrance
and she tries to flee, but the driver surprises her in the forest and slashes her
throat. Meanwhile, three new counselors, Marcie, Ned, and Jack, arrive at the camp
and meet the camp's owner, Steve Christy, two of his hands, Bill and Alice, and
another counselor, Brenda. After setting them up, Steve leaves for supplies. The
sheriff arrives shortly after, looking for Crazy Ralph, who appears shortly after he
leaves, disturbing them by proclaiming they are "all doomed" before leaving.
As a storm rolls in, Ned spots someone in one of the cabins and investigates.
Meanwhile, Marcie tells Jack about a recurring dream of rain turning into blood. As
the storm moves in on them, they go to a nearby cabin to have sex, unaware that
Ned is in the upper bunk, dead from a slashed throat. After Marcie leaves the cabin
to wash up, Jack is impaled in bed, and someone kills Marcie in the bathroom with
an axe. Bill, Alice, and Brenda are playing strip Monopoly when Brenda realizes her
cabin windows are open and lies down. She hears what sounds like a child calling
for help and is lured out onto the archery range where she is killed. At the main
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cabin, Alice hears Brenda's screams; she and Bill go searching for their friends, but,
discovering the axe in a bunk, they are left with more questions than answers. Bill
convinces Alice that it is a prank, and they return to the cabin. Meanwhile, Steve
returns to the camp on foot and recognizes someone at the entrance before being
stabbed and killed. The attacker then turns off the generator, and Bill leaves alone
to fix it.
Alice awakens sometime later and goes searching for Bill, only to find his body
pinned to the generator room door by arrows. She flees back to the main cabin,
and Brenda's body is hurled through the window. A jeep pulls up and she runs out
for help and encounters a woman named Mrs. Voorhees, an old friend of the
Christy family. She discovers Brenda's body and recalls losing her own son Jason,
who drowned in 1957 because the counselors watching him were having sex and
not paying attention. She then grows unstable and pulls abowie knife on Alice and
attacks her with it. Alice bludgeons her with a fireplace poker and runs out of the
cabin, discovering Annie and Steve's bodies as she flees. Mrs. Voorhees finds her
again, and again Alice escapes, eventually hitting Pamela with a frying pan so hard
this time she believes she is dead. Retreating to the lake, Mrs. Voorhees attacks
again with a machete. After a violent battle on the beach, Alice gains control and
decapitates her attacker. Stricken with shock, Alice then pushes a canoe out onto
the lake and falls asleep.
The next morning, police investigating see Alice on the lake and call to her.
Suddenly, the decomposing body of Jason leaps from the lake, dragging her under
the water. She wakens in the hospital, having recalled the murders and the boy in
the lake, but the sheriff claims they did not find any boy. After a pause of confusion
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she then proclaims that "he's still there" before the camera returns to the lake, now
at peace.
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1408
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Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a cynical, skeptical author who, after the death of his
daughter Katie (Jasmine Jessica Anthony), writes books appraising supernatural
events in which he has no belief. After his latest book, he receives an anonymous
postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City
bearing the message, "Don't enter 1408." Viewing this as a challenge, Mike forces
the hotel to allow him to book the room, referencing a law that any hotel room in
New York can be requested as long as it meets safety standards. The hotel manager,
Gerald Olin (Samuel L. Jackson) tries to dissuade Mike from checking into the
room, explaining that 56 people have died in the room over the past 95 years, and
that no one has lasted more than an hour inside it. Mike, who does not believe in
the paranormal, insists on staying in the room, and asks Olin if he thinks it is
haunted; Olin replies that it is "evil" rather than haunted.
Once inside the room, Mike describes on his mini-cassette recorder the room's dull
appearance and its unimpressive lack of supernatural phenomena. During his
examination, the clock radio starts playing "We've Only Just Begun". Mike
assumes that Olin is playing a trick to scare him. At 8:07, the song plays again and
the clock's digital display changes to a countdown starting from "60:00". Mike
experiences a series of supernatural events. A window sash slams down on his
hand, the hotel operator calls about food he didn't order, and spectral
manifestations of the room's past victims and members of his family, particularly
his daughter, appear on the TV set. Mike's attempts to leave the room are in vain;
the doorknob breaks off, climbing through the air ducts prompts an attack from the
corpse of a former room victim, and climbing onto the window ledge reveals the
windows of the other rooms have disappeared.
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Mike uses his laptop to contact his estranged wife, Lily (Mary McCormack), but the
sprinkler system short circuits his laptop. The room temperature drops to subzero
when the laptop suddenly begins to work again, and Lily tells him the police have
entered 1408, but the room is empty. A doppelgnger of Mike appears in a video
chat window and urges Lily to come to the hotel herself; it gives Mike a diabolical
smile. The room shakes violently and Mike breaks a picture of a ship in a storm.
Water pours from the broken picture, flooding the room. He surfaces on a beach
and relives a surfing accident seen earlier in the film. His life continues from this
point, and he reconciles with Lily. Eventually he assumes his experience in 1408
was just a dream. Lily persuades him to write a book about it. When visiting the
post office to send the manuscript to his publisher, he recognizes members of a
construction crew as the Dolphin Hotel staff. They destroy the post office walls,
revealing Mike is still trapped in 1408. A vision of his deceased daughter Katie
appears to Mike, and after some reluctance he embraces her; she crumbles to dust.
The clock radio begins playing "We've Only Just Begun" again, and Mike looks for
it in the rubble. It counts down the final seconds. When the countdown ends, the
room is suddenly restored to normal, and the clock radio resets itself to 60:00.
The "hotel operator" calls Mike again. When Mike begs to be released, she informs
him that he can relive the hour over and over again, or use their "express checkout
system"; A hangman's noose appears and Mike has a vision of himself hanged, but
he refuses to kill himself. Mike improvises a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of
cognac given to him by Olin, and sets the room on fire. The fire alarm sounds, the
hotel is evacuated, and Lily is prevented from entering. Mike breaks a window,
causing a backdraft. Mike lies down upon the floor and covers his ears. A group of
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firefighters enter the room and drag Mike out before the room collapses on them.
Mike tells the firefighters, "Don't go in that room... It's evil."
Mike and Lily move to Los Angeles, California. They are unpacking as Lily moves
about the house. Mike begins to think again that his experiences were just a bad
dream. He finds his tape recorder in a box and plays it. The sound of Mike's
encounter with Katie is on the tape. Lily and Mike realize that the ordeal was real.
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Nightmare on Elm Street
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A mysterious man walks into a decrepit boiler room, where he makes a sharp
clawed glove.
High school student Tina Gray has a nightmare in which she wanders about in the
same boiler room stalked by a killer with a burnt face. She wakes up to find slashes
in her nightgown reminiscent of the killer's glove. The next day, Tina's best friend
Nancy Thompson consoles her, and recalls a nursery rhyme, "One, Two, Freddy's
Coming for You". Nancy's boyfriend Glen Lantz advises her that it is just a dream,
which works for him when he has nightmares. That night, Nancy and Glen stay at
Tina's. During their conversation, Tina discovers Nancy dreamed about the same
killer. Tina's boyfriend Rod Lane crashes the sleepover in order to apologize for an
argument they had earlier. They sleep together while Glen and Nancy sleep in
adjacent rooms. Tina falls asleep and is again stalked by the killer, who pins her
down in her back yard. Her struggles and screams awaken Rod, who witnesses her
being stabbed by an invisible killer, before she is dragged up the wall and across
the ceiling. Her screams alert Nancy and Glen who are unable to enter the room.
When Tina falls dead onto the bed, Rod flees through a window. At the police
station, Nancy is questioned by her father, Lieutenant Don Thompson, and she
explains Tina dreamed someone was trying to kill her.
The next day, Rod grabs Nancy on her way to school and proclaims his innocence
before he is arrested by Don. At school, Nancy falls asleep during class and follows
Tina's bagged body into a boiler room where the killer, who calls himself "Freddy"
attempts to kill her until she burns her arm on a hot pipe, and wakes up in class.
She discovers a similar burn on her arm, and becomes afraid of falling asleep. She
falls asleep in her bathtub and Freddy tries to pull her under water, but Nancy
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escapes. Hearing from Rod that he has dreamed of the same killer, she suspects he
is real and can kill people in their dreams. She has Glen watch her while she sleeps,
and sees Freddy going after Rod, but he attacks her instead. She runs back to her
room but is unable to wake herself up. When Freddy attacks her again, her alarm
goes off and she wakes up. Nancy and Glen go to the police station, but are too late
to save Rod, who is hanged in his cell in an apparent suicide, although it was
actually an invisible Freddy who wrapped a bed sheet around his neck while he
was asleep. After Rod's funeral, Nancy's mother Marge insists on taking Nancy to a
dream clinic. While there, she has another nightmare and wakes up with a gash in
her arm. She also discovers that she pulled out the killer's hat, which Marge
recognizes. Marge begins drinking heavily, and fortifies their house with security
bars. When Nancy begs her to tell her what happened, Marge says that she and
several parents in the neighborhood soughtvigilante justice against a child
murderer named Fred Krueger when he was released on a technicality, and they
burned him to death.
Nancy, having been awake for seven days, decides to try to pull Freddy into the real
world and convinces Glen to be there to knock him out. Glen's parents, concerned
about Nancy's influence, prevent the two from meeting. Glen falls asleep and
Freddy kills him by pulling him into his bed mattress. While Lt. Thompson is
investigating, he receives a call from Nancy who tells him to break into her house
in twenty minutes. She sets up booby traps and tucks her drunken mother in for
the night. After falling asleep, Freddy does not reveal himself until the last ten
seconds of her dream and she tackles him, pulling him into the real world. He
chases her around the house, falling into Nancy's traps, and is lit on fire. When Don
arrives, they discover Freddy has gone upstairs and is smothering Marge with his
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burning body. Nancy knocks Freddy out by hitting him with a chair. Don comes into
the room and puts out the fire. Freddy disappears, and Marge's body vanishes into
the bed. Sending Don away, Nancy follows Glen's advice to turn her back on
Freddy. Freddy rises out of Marge's mattress, and she weakens him, calling him
nothing and refusing to believe in him; Freddy vanishes before he can attack her.
Emerging from her front door in broad daylight, Nancy finds her mother sober and
wanting to give up drinking. Glen, Tina and Rod pull up in Glen's car and Nancy
gets in to go to school. The car develops a life of its own and traps them. Nancy
screams for her mother, but the car drives away with the four. Marge is grabbed
through the window of the front door by Freddy and pulled inside.
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Dawn of the Dead
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The United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon which reanimates

recently deceased unburied human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Despite the
best efforts by the U.S. government and local authorities to control the situation,
society is beginning to collapse and the remaining survivors are given to chaos.
Some rural communities and the military have been effective in fighting the
zombies in open country, but cities are helpless and largely overrun. Confusion
reigns at the WGON television studio in Philadelphia by the phenomenon's third
week, where staff member Stephen Andrews and Francine Parker are planning to
steal the station's traffic helicopter to escape the zombies. Meanwhile, police SWAT
officer Roger DiMarco and his team raid an apartment building where the residents
are defying the martial law of delivering their dead to National Guardsmen. Some
residents fight back with handguns and rifles, and are killed by both the
overzealous SWAT team and their own reanimated dead. During the raid, Roger
meets Peter Washington, part of anotherSWAT team, and they partner up together.
Roger tells Peter that his friend Stephen intends to take his network's helicopter,
and suggests that Peter come with them. The matter is decided when they are
informed of a group of zombies sheltered in the basement, which they execute
with grim determination.
That night, Roger and Peter escape Philadelphia with Francine and Stephen in the
helicopter. Following some close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes
across a shopping mall, which becomes their sanctuary. To make the mall safe for
habitation, they block the entrances with trucks to keep the undead masses outside
from building up enough cumulative force to break through; they also craft a
wooden "false wall" to hide the access to their living space. During the blockade
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operation, Roger becomes reckless and is bitten and infected. After clearing the
mall of zombies, the four enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle with all the goods in the
shopping mall available to them. Francine reveals that she is pregnant. Peter offers
to abort the child, but this is rejected. Stephen teaches Francine how to operate the
helicopter in case of emergency. Roger eventually succumbs to his infection, soon
reanimates and is shot in the head by Peter. All emergency broadcast transmissions
eventually cease, suggesting that civilization as they know it has completely
collapsed.
A gang of nomadic motorcyclists, having seen the helicopter during one of
Francine's flying lessons, break into and start looting the mall, destroying the
barriers and allowing hundreds of zombies inside. Stephen starts a gun battle with
the bikers and is shot in the arm. He tries to escape through an elevator shaft, but is
cornered by the undead and bitten several times. As some of the bikers, shot by
Peter, are consumed by the zombies, the rest retreat with their stolen goods. A
reanimated Stephen (apparently knowing enough to remember the false wall)
breaks through it and leads the undead to Francine and Peter. As Stephen enters
their hideout, Peter kills him while Francine escapes to the roof. Peter then locks
himself in a room and contemplates suicide. When zombies burst into the room,
he has a change of heart and fights his way up to the roof, where he joins Francine.
The two then fly away in the partially fueled helicopter to an uncertain future.
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Deliverance
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Four Atlanta businessmen, Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds), Ed Gentry (Jon Voight),
Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox), decide to canoe down a
river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and witness
the area's unspoiled nature before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is
flooded by construction of a dam. Lewis, an experienced outdoorsman, is the
leader. Ed is also a veteran of several trips but lacks Lewis' machismo. Bobby and
Drew are novices.
On Friday afternoon, the foursome, traveling in two cars, arrive at a poor,
Appalachian residential area near the river. It is apparent the people are povertystricken and likelyinbred. Lewis tries to find someone who can drive their cars to a
take out point at Aintry to be picked up on Sunday. Drew, who has a guitar, engages
a local boy with a banjo in a friendly "duel." When Drew tries to shake the boy's
hand, he turns away.
Traveling in pairs, the foursome's two canoes are briefly separated. The occupants
of one canoe (Bobby and Ed), land briefly and encounter a pair of grizzled
hillbillies emerging from the woods, one wielding a shotgun. Following a verbal
altercation, Bobby is forced at gunpoint to strip, his ear twisted to bring him to his
hands and knees, and then ordered to "squeal like a pig" before being raped while
Ed is bound to a tree and held at gunpoint by the other man.
Hearing the commotion, Lewis sneaks up and kills the rapist with an arrow from his
recurve bow; meanwhile, the other mountain man quickly escapes into the woods.
After a brief but hotheaded debate between Lewis and Drew about whether to
inform the authorities, the men vote to side with Lewis' recommendation to bury
the dead mountain man's body and continue on as if nothing had happened.
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Lewis tells them that they will be arrested and that they wouldn't receive a fair trial,
as the local jury would be composed of the dead man's friends and relatives;
likewise, Bobby doesn't want what had happened to him to be known. Lewis also
reasons the grave would soon be covered by hundreds of feet of water from the
dam project. Drew is the only one opposed to their action and is troubled by the
decision. The four continue downriver but soon disaster strikes as the canoes reach
a dangerous stretch of rapids. As Drew and Ed reach the rapids in the lead canoe,
Drew shakes his head and falls into the water. It is unclear why.
After Drew's fall into the river, the survivors' canoes collide on the rocks, spilling
Lewis, Bobby and Ed into the river. Lewis breaks his femurand the others are
washed ashore alongside him. Encouraged by the badly injured Lewis, who
believes Drew was shot and that they are being stalked by the other mountain
man, Ed climbs a nearby rock face in order to dispatch the other mountain man
using his bow while Bobby stays behind to look after Lewis. Ed reaches the top and
hides out until the next morning, when a mountain man appears on the top of the
cliff with a rifle, looking down into the gorge where Lewis and Bobby are located.
Though they look alike, it is unclear whether this is the same mountain man that
ran away from them. Ed clumsily shoots and manages to kill him, accidentally
stabbing himself with one of his own spare arrows in the process. Ed and Bobby
weigh down the mountain man's body in the river to ensure it will never be found,
and repeat the same with Drew's body which they encounter downriver.
Upon finally reaching the small town of Aintry, they get the injured Lewis to the
hospital. The men carefully concoct a cover story for the authorities about Drew's
death and disappearance being an accident, lying about their ordeal to Sheriff
Bullard in order to escape a possible double murder charge. The sheriff advises
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them one of the locals is missing, having not returned from a hunting trip. The
sheriff clearly doesn't believe them, but has no evidence to arrest them and simply
tells the men never to come back. They readily agree. The trio vow to keep their
story of death and survival a secret for the rest of their lives. In the final scene, Ed
awakens screaming from a nightmare in which a dead man's hand slowly rises
from the lake.
Salem's Lot
The prologue shows a church in Guatemala in which a man and a boy, Ben Mears
and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles
begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Petrie "They've found us
again." Knowing an evil presence is there, they decide to fight it.
The story then flashes back two years, to the small town of Salem's Lot (formally
known as Jerusalem's Lot) in Maine in the United States. Ben Mears, an author, has
returned to the town after a long absence to write a book about the Marsten House,
an ominous old property on a hilltop which has a reputation for being haunted.
Mears attempts to rent the house but finds that another new arrival in town, the
mysterious Richard Straker, has recently bought it. Straker also opens an antique
shop with his oft-mentioned but always absent business partner, Kurt Barlow.
Meanwhile, Mears moves into a boarding house in town run by Eva Miller, and
develops a romantic relationship with a local woman, Susan Norton. He befriends
Susan's father, Dr. Bill Norton, and also renews his old friendship with his former
school teacher, Jason Burke. Mears tells Burke that he feels the Marsten House is
somehow inherently evil, and recalls how he was once traumatized inside the
house when he was a child.
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After a large crate is delivered to the Marsten House one night, an increasing
number of the townsfolk begin to disappear or die in strange circumstances. Both
Mears and Straker are initially the main suspects as they are new in town, but it
becomes clear that the crate contained Straker's mysterious business partner, Kurt
Barlow, an ancient master vampire who has come to the town after having sent
Straker to make way for his arrival. Straker kidnaps a young local boy, Ralphie Glick,
as an offering to Barlow, while Barlow himself kills local realtor Larry Crockett. The
Glick boy then returns as a vampire to claim his brother, Danny, who himself
becomes undead. In turn, Danny infects the local gravedigger, Mike Ryerson, who
was entranced by the undead child's open eyes. Danny then attempts to prey on
his schoolfriend Mark Petrie. However, Mark is a horror film buff who manages to
repel Danny with a crucifix.
Slowly, the vampires spread as Mears, Burke, and Bill Norton figure out what is
happening to the town and attempt to do something to stop it. They are attacked
by the presumed dead Marjorie Glick (Ralph and Danny's mother) after she
awakens on the mortician's table. Mark's parents are both killed by Barlow, though
Mark is allowed to escape when the local priest, Father Callahan, holds him at bay.
Jason Burke, however, falls prey to a heart attack following an encounter with the
newly vampirised Mike Ryerson. In the end, Susan Norton and Mark Petrie are
captured by Straker after breaking into the Marsten House. Mears and Dr. Norton
head over to the house to destroy Barlow when they run into Mark who has
managed to escape. Inside the house, Dr. Norton is killed by Straker, who is himself
then killed by Mears using a pistol. Afterwards, Mears and Petrie find Barlow's
coffin in the cellar and destroy him by driving a stake through his heart. They then
escape from the other vampires in the cellar (the various townsfolk), and set fire to
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the house. However, Susan is nowhere to be found. As the house burns, the wind
begins to carry the fire towards the town itself. Mears and Petrie then flee Salem's
Lot knowing that the fire will drive all the other vampires from their hiding places
and purify the town from the evil that has engulfed it.
The story then returns to Mears and Petrie at the church in Guatemala two years
later. It quickly becomes clear that they are on the run from the surviving vampires
from Salem's Lot, who have been relentlessly pursuing them. Their supplies of holy
water glow whenever a vampire is nearby. Realising that they have been tracked
down yet again, Mears and Petrie return to their lodgings to collect their
belongings. However, once there, Mears finds Susan lying in his bed. Now a
vampire, she prepares to bite him as he leans down to kiss her, but he drives a
stake through her heart. Filled with grief, he and Petrie leave, knowing that
vampires are still hunting them.
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The Mist
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The morning after a violent thunderstorm, David Drayton (Thomas Jane), a graphic
artist, and his wife Stephanie (Kelly Collins Lintz) check the damage. They find a
large tree planted by David's grandfather has fallen on the house and another tree
belonging to his next door neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braugher) has
demolished their boat-house and landing pier. David goes to ask the neighbor for
his insurance details to pay for the damage to the boat-house. As he is leaving the
lakeside, he and Stephanie notice a strange mist floating across the surface of the
lake towards their property.
David decides to go to the local grocery store to buy supplies, bringing his eightyear-old son Billy (Nathan Gamble) and Norton along. On the way, they see a
convoy of military trucks. When they arrive at the store, they find it crowded with
people who are also recovering from the storm. As the town's tornado sirens go off,
a panicked man with a bloody nose, Dan Miller (Jeffrey DeMunn), runs into the
store warning of something dangerous in the oncoming mist, though a man
disregards his warnings and is attacked when running to his car. Shortly after, the
mist envelops the store, making it impossible to see outside, and a violent,
earthquake-like tremor hits.
Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a religious fanatic, believes that this is the
beginning of Armageddon. A shaken woman (Melissa McBride), against objections
from the others, leaves the store to get her children, who she left at home alone.
David and others investigate the loading bay generator and find that the exhaust
vent is plugged. A bag-boy named Norm (Chris Owen) volunteers to go outside
and unplug the vent, but as he steps outside, he is snatched and devoured by an
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unseen monster, despite the efforts of David and assistant store manager Ollie
Weeks (Toby Jones) to save him.
After David returns to the main store and tells everyone what happened, Norton
doesn't believe his claims and is certain that David is playing a joke on him and the
other men are backing him up, as pay-back for the lawsuit Norton filed against
David last year. Later, Norton and several others head outside for help, only to be
attacked and presumably killed by an unseen creature, prompting the rest of the
survivors to barricade the shop-front windows. That night, enormous flying
scorpion-like insects land on the windows and pterodactyl-like animals devour
them, eventually causing the glass to break and allowing the insects to enter the
store, where they kill two and badly injure one. One of the insects lands on Mrs.
Carmody, but she is spared when she prays. As a result, she starts preaching more
and more and quickly gains followers among the distraught survivors.
The following day, a trip to the neighboring pharmacy to gather medical supplies
goes horribly wrong and two people are killed by giant spiders. Following this, Mrs.
Carmody gets nearly everyone in the market on her side. That night, two soldiers
commit suicide, and the remaining soldier, Private Jessup (Samuel Witwer), reveals
that the local military base was filled with rumors about the Arrowhead Project, the
government's attempt to look into other dimensions, and the scientists responsible
for the experiment may have inadvertently opened a doorway into a dimension
containing the creatures that are now invading the town. Mrs. Carmody convinces
her followers that it is Jessup's fault and he is repeatedly stabbed until Mrs.
Carmody tells them to feed him to the creatures. He is then thrown out of the store,
grabbed and devoured by a large praying mantis-like creature.
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David and a handful of other survivors secretly gather supplies to flee. The next
morning, however, they are intercepted by Mrs. Carmody, who destroys the
supplies and attempts to have David and his group sacrificed, but Ollie shoots and
kills her with Amanda Dumfries' (Laurie Holden) gun, horrifying her followers and
forcing them to stand down and allow David's group to leave. As the group runs to
David's car, Ollie and two others are killed by the creatures and one runs back to
the market in a panic and is allowed back in. The remaining members of David's
group, consisting of David, Billy, Dan, Amanda, and Irene (Frances Sternhagen),
make it to the car, retrieve Amanda's gun, and leave.
Driving through the mist, David returns home to find his house destroyed and his
wife dead. Heartbroken, he drives the group south, seeing destruction (including a
school bus and one of its occupants wrapped in webbing) and a gigantic multilegged, tentacled beast. When they run out of gas hours later, the group decides
there is no point in going on. With four bullets left in Amanda's gun and five
people in the car, David shoots the others rather than have them suffer from the
beasts. Distraught and determined to die, David gets out of the car to sacrifice
himself to the monsters. However, the mist recedes, revealing that the U.S. Army
has killed the monsters, got things under control, and rescued whatever survivors
of the disaster. Among the survivors is the woman who left the store at the
phenomenon's onset, accompanied by her two children who she left to save.
Realizing that they were only moments from being rescued and had been driving
away from help the entire time, David falls to his knees screaming while two
soldiers look on in confusion.
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Psycho
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During a lunchtime tryst in Phoenix, Arizona, a real estate secretary named Marion
Crane discusses with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, how they cannot afford to get
married because of Sam's debts. After lunch, Marion returns to work, where a client
drops off a $40,000 cash payment on a property. Her boss asks her to deposit the
money in the bank, and she asks if she can take the rest of the afternoon off.
Returning home, she begins to pack for an unplanned trip, deciding to steal the
money and give it to Sam in Fairvale, California. She is seen by her boss on her way
out of town, which makes her nervous. During the trip, she pulls over on the side of
the road and falls asleep, only to be awakened by a state patrol officer. He is
suspicious about her nervous behavior but allows her to drive on. Shaken by the
encounter, Marion stops at an automobile dealership and trades in her Ford
Mainline, with its Arizona license plates, for a Ford Custom 300 that has California
tags. Her transaction is all for naught - the highway patrolman sees her at the car
dealership and witnesses her purchase of the newer car.
Driving on, a sudden rainstorm causes Marion to take a wrong turn, and she
decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where the proprietor, a young
Norman Bates, invites her to a light dinner after she checks in. She accepts, but
then hears an argument between Norman and a woman she presumes is his
mother. Instead of dining at his home behind the motel, they eat in the motel
parlor, where he tells her about his hobby of taxidermy and his life with his mother,
Norma, who is mentally ill. Returning to her room, Marion decides to go back to
Phoenix to return the stolen money. She prepares to take a shower, unaware that
Norman is spying on her from a peephole. As she is showering, a female figure
suddenly appears and stabs her to death with a butcher knife. Norman appears
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moments after the attacker flees and believes his mother to be responsible for the
murder. He meticulously cleans up the crime scene, putting Marion's corpse and
her possessions including the embezzled money into the trunk of her car and
sinking it in the swamps near the motel.
A week later, Marion's sister Lila arrives in Fairvale and confronts Sam about the
whereabouts of her sister. A private detective named Arbogast approaches them
and confirms that Marion is wanted for stealing the $40,000 from her employer.
He eventually comes across the Bates Motel, where Norman's behavior arouses his
suspicions. After hearing that Marion had met with Norman's mother, he asks to
speak with her, but Norman refuses. Arbogast calls Lila and Sam, informing them
of what he has discovered and saying he intends to speak with Norman's mother.
He goes to the Bates' home in search of her; as he reaches the top of the stairs, a
figure suddenly appears from the bedroom and murders him. When Lila and Sam
do not hear from Arbogast, they go to the local sheriff, who informs them that
Norma Bates has been dead for ten years, following the murdersuicide of her and
her lover. Concerned, Lila and Sam make their way to the motel. Meanwhile,
Norman takes his unwilling mother from her room, telling her he needs to hide
her for a while and ignoring her objections.
At the motel, Lila and Sam meet Norman. Sam distracts him by striking up a
conversation while Lila sneaks up to the house. When Norman eventually realizes
this, he knocks Sam out and rushes to the house. Lila sees Norman approaching
and attempts to hide by going down steps that lead to a cellar. There she finds a
seated female figure and is shocked to discover that it is the skeletal remains of
Norman's mother. Lila's scream alerts Norman, who runs to the cellar brandishing
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a butcher knife while dressed in his mother's clothes and a wig. He tries to attack
Lila but is subdued by Sam.
Sitting in a detention room at the local courthouse, Norman is now permanently
trapped in the persona of his mother, whose personality he had adopted after
murdering her and her lover out of jealousy ten years prior. Guilty over her death,
and wanting to erase it, he exhumedher corpse and began to treat it as if she were
alive again. Whenever he became sexually attracted to any other woman, the
abusive Norma would take full control of his mind and kill the woman. In this state,
Norman had killed two missing girls prior to Marion, as well as Arbogast. While
Norman sits in the room, Norma's voice is heard protesting that the murders were
Norman's doing and that she "wouldn't even harm a fly." As the film ends,
Marion's car is pulled out from the swamp.
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Silence of the Lambs
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Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at
Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the Bureau's Behavioral
Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and
incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the
pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims'
corpses.
Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she
is led by Frederick Chilton (Anthony Heald) to Lecter's solitary quarters. Although
initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starling's attempts at
"dissecting" him and rebuffs her. As she is leaving, one of the prisoners flicks
semen at her. Lecter, who considers this act "unspeakably ugly", calls Starling back
and tells her to seek out an old patient of his. This leads her to a storage shed
where she discovers a man's severed head with a sphinx mothlodged in its throat.
She returns to Lecter, who tells her that the man is linked to Buffalo Bill. He offers
to profile Buffalo Bill on the condition that he be transferred away from Chilton,
whom he detests.
Buffalo Bill abducts a U.S. Senator's daughter, Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith).
Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Lecter a fake deal promising a prison transfer
if he provides information that helps them find Buffalo Bill and rescue Catherine.
Instead, Lecter demands a quid pro quo from Starling, offering clues about Buffalo
Bill in exchange for personal information. Starling tells Lecter about the murder of
her father when she was ten years old. Chilton secretly records the conversation
and reveals Starling's deceit before offering Lecter a deal of Chilton's own making.
Lecter agrees and is flown to Memphis, Tennessee, where he verbally torments
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Senator Ruth Martin (Diane Baker) and gives her misleading information on
Buffalo Bill including the name "Louis Friend".
Starling notices that "Louis Friend" is an anagram of "iron sulfide"fool's gold. She
visits Lecter, who is now being held in a cage-like cell in a Tennessee courthouse,
and asks for the truth. Lecter tells her that all the information she needs is
contained in the case file. Rather than give her the real name, he insists that they
continue their quid pro quo and she recounts a traumatic childhood incident where
she was woken by the sound of spring lambs being slaughtered on a relative's
farm in Montana. Starling admits that she still sometimes wakes thinking she can
hear lambs screaming, and Lecter speculates that she is motivated to save
Catherine in the hope that it will end the nightmares. Lecter gives her back the case
files on Buffalo Bill after their conversation is interrupted by Chilton and the police
who escort her from the building. Later that evening, Lecter kills his guards,
escapes from his cell and disappears.
Starling analyzes Lecter's annotations to the case files and realizes that Buffalo Bill
knew his first victim personally. Starling travels to the victim's hometown and
discovers that Buffalo Bill was a tailor, with dresses and dress patterns identical to
the patches of skin removed from each of his victims. She telephones Crawford to
inform him that Buffalo Bill is trying to fashion a "woman suit" of real skin, but
Crawford is already en route to make an arrest, having cross-referenced Lecter's
notes with hospital archives and finding a man named Jame Gumb, who once
applied unsuccessfully for a sex-change operation. Starling continues interviewing
friends of Buffalo Bill's first victim in Ohio while Crawford leads an F.B.I. tactical
team to Gumb's address in Illinois. The house in Illinois is empty, and Starling is
led to the house of "Jack Gordon", who she realizes is actually Jame Gumb, again
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by finding a sphinx moth. She pursues him into his multi-room basement, where
she discovers that Catherine is still alive, but trapped in a dry well. After turning off
the basement lights, Gumb stalks Starling in the dark with night-vision goggles
but gives his position away when he cocks his revolver. Starling turns around just in
time and kills him, firing all the rounds in her revolver at him.
Some time later at her FBI Academy graduation party, Starling receives a phone
call from Lecter, who is at an airport in Bimini. He assures her that he does not plan
to pursue her and asks her to return the favor, which she says she cannot do. Lecter
then hangs up the phone, saying that he is "having an old friend for dinner" and
starts following a newly arrived Chilton before disappearing into the crowd.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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In deep space, a race of gelatinous creatures abandon their dying world. Pushed
through space by the solar wind, they make their way to Earth and land in San
Francisco. Some fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods
with pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), an employee at the San
Francisco Health Department, is one of several people who bring the flowers home.
The next morning, Elizabeth's boyfriend, Geoffrey Howell, DDS (Art Hindle),
suddenly becomes distant, and she senses that something is wrong. Her colleague,
health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), suggests that she see his
friend, psychiatrist Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy). While driving to a book party
Kibner is attending, they are accosted by a hysterical man (Kevin McCarthy, in a
direct homage to the original film). The man runs off, and is soon seen dead,
surrounded by a crowd of emotionless onlookers. At the party, Matthew calls the
police about the incident, and finds them strangely indifferent. An agitated party
attendee starts declaring that her husband is not her real husband. Kibner works to
reconcile them. He also suggests that Elizabeth wants to believe that Geoffrey has
changed because she is looking for an excuse to get out of their relationship.
Meanwhile, Matthew's friend Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum), a struggling writer
who owns abathhouse with his wife Nancy (Veronica Cartwright) discovers a
deformed body on one of the beds and calls Matthew to investigate. Noticing that
the body (which is adult sized but lacks distinguishing characteristics) bears a
slight resemblance to Jack, Matthew breaks into Elizabeth's home and finds a
semi-formed double of her in the bedroom garden. He is able to get the sleeping
Elizabeth to safety, but the duplicate body has disappeared by the time he returns
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with the police. The body at the bathhouse has also disappeared when Matthew
returns there.
Matthew realizes that what is happening is extraterrestrial, and that people are
being replaced by copies while they sleep. Matthew calls several state and federal
agencies, but they all tell him not to worry. In addition, people who had earlier
claimed that their loved ones had changed seem to have been converted as well,
including (unbeknownst to him) Dr. Kibner, and repudiate their earlier claims of
their loved ones being imposters.
That night, Matthew and his friends are nearly duplicated by the pods while they
sleep. The pod people try to raid Matthew's house, but he and his friends are able
to escape. During this, they discover that the pod people emit a shrill scream once
they learn someone is still human among them.
Jack and Nancy create a diversion within a crowd of pursuing pod people to give
Matthew and Elizabeth time to escape. Matthew and Elizabeth are chased across
San Francisco. They are eventually found by the doubles of Jack and Dr. Kibner at
the Health Department building. Kibner's double tells them that what the alien
species is doing is purely for survival and that they are even doing humanity a
favor by ridding them of emotion. Matthew and Elizabeth are injected with a
sedative to make them sleep. However, having already taken a large dose of speed,
the couple overpower them and escape the building.
In the stairwell, they find Nancy, who has learned to evade the pod people by
hiding all emotion. Outside, Matthew and Elizabeth are exposed as human when
Elizabeth screams after seeing a mutant dog with a man's face. They flee, and
discover a giant warehouse at the docks where the pods are grown. After Matthew
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and Elizabeth profess their love for each other, Matthew goes out to investigate,
only to discover a cargo ship being loaded with hundreds of pods.
Matthew returns to find that Elizabeth has fallen asleep. He tries to wake her, but
her body crumbles to dust and her naked double arises, telling him to embrace his
fate and sleep. Matthew returns to the warehouse and sets it on fire, destroying
many pods. He hides from the pod people under a pier, but they know he will have
to fall asleep eventually.
The next morning, Matthew watches dozens of children being led into a theater to
be replaced. At work he sees Elizabeth, but she is completely oblivious to him.
While walking towards City Hall, he is spotted by Nancy, who has avoided
conversion into a pod person. She calls his name, to which Matthew responds by
pointing to her and emitting the piercing pod scream. Realizing that Matthew is
now a pod person, Nancy, now the only human left in the city, screams in helpless
terror.
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ngela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), and her cameraman, Pablo, are covering the night
shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the documentary television series
While You're Sleeping. While they are recording, the firehouse receives a call about
an old woman, Mrs. Izquierdo, who is trapped in her apartment and screaming.
ngela and Pablo accompany two of the firefighters, lex and Manu, to the
apartment building, where two police officers are waiting. As they approach the old
woman, she becomes aggressive and attacks one of the officers, biting his neck.
As they carry the injured officer downstairs, they find the building's residents have
gathered in the lobby saying that the police and military have sealed off the
building and trapped them inside. As people begin to panic, lex, who remained
upstairs with the old woman, gets thrown over the railings of the staircase and is
left seriously injured. The old woman then kills a Colombian girl, and as she is
about to attack the camera crew, she is shot by the remaining officer, Sergio. ngela
and Pablo begin interviewing the residents including a little girl named Jennifer
who lives in the building. Jennifer is ill with what her mother claims istonsillitis,
and says her dog, Max, is at the vet because he is sick as well.
A health inspector wearing a hazmat suit arrives and attempts to treat the injured,
who suddenly become aggressive, and start biting who they can. The rest are forced
to flee, trapping an intern, Guillem, inside the building's textile warehouse with
them. The health inspector explains that they are infected with a virus similar to
rabies, and the time in which the disease takes effect varies by blood type. Some
time ago, a dog with the virus was taken to a local vet; the dog became violent and
attacked several other pets at the clinic. The dog waseuthanized, and traced back to
the apartment building, causing ngela to realize it's Jennifer's dog. The other
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residents confront Jennifer and her mother, Mari, when Jennifer suddenly bites
her mother's face, and runs upstairs screaming.
Sergio handcuffs Mari to the stairs and proceeds upstairs with Manu and Pablo.
They find Jennifer but she bites Sergio, who tells the others to leave him as he is
now infected. Manu and Pablo run outside where they find the remaining
residents running upstairs because the infected are trying to break into the main
hallway through the textile warehouse. They are forced to leave the handcuffed
Mari to be attacked, and run into an empty apartment along with ngela, a
resident called Csar, and the health inspector, who has been bitten. Csar
mentions that there might be another way out through the basement, where there
is a large drain that is connected to the sewers, but says the keys are in Guillem's
apartment. The infected health inspector then bites Csar, forcing ngela, Manu
and Pablo to escape and fight their way up to Guillem's apartment, located on the
fifth floor.
After finding the key, ngela and Pablo leave the apartment only to find Manu now
infected as well. He and the rest of the residents chase the pair upstairs, where they
are forced to take refuge in the penthouse. They discover a tape recorder which
explains that its owner was an agent of the Vatican who was tasked with
researching and isolating an enzyme believed to be the biological cause of
demonic possession, which was later confirmed to exist in a young girl named
Tristana Medeiros, who was raped by a group of priests. The agent kidnapped and
brought the girl to the penthouse to conduct his research and possibly cure her;
during this time the enzyme mutated and became viral. The agent, having no other
options, decided to seal her off, presumably to let her die of starvation.
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Pablo reaches up with his camera to record around inside the attic. An infected boy
swipes at the camera and breaks its light. Pablo turns on the night vision and
discovers the sealed door. Tristana, now a blind and horribly emaciated figure,
emerges and begins searching the penthouse, holding a hammer. ngela and
Pablo try to escape, but Pablo is viciously attacked and killed by Tristana, and
causes him to drop the camera. ngela then picks it up only to scream and run as
Tristana is eating Pablo, and then to fall and drop the camera as well. She searches
for it in the dark but is unable to find it, she also hears the screams of the young
Tristana from the tape recorder. The camera continues to record as ngela is
dragged into the darkness, screaming.
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The Shining
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Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado, interviewing

for the position of winter caretaker, planning to use the hotel's solitude to write.
The hotel, built on the site of a Native American burial ground, becomes snowed-in
during the winter; it is closed from October to May. Manager Stuart Ullman warns
Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, developed cabin fever and killed his
family and himself. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny Torrance, has a terrifying
premonition about the hotel, viewing a cascade of blood emerging from an
elevator door. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a doctor that Danny has an imaginary friend
named Tony, and that Jack has given up drinking because he hurt Danny's arm
following a binge.
The family arrives at the hotel on closing day and is given a tour. The chef, Dick
Hallorann, surprises Danny by telepathically offering him ice cream. To Danny, Dick
explains that he and his grandmother shared this telepathic ability, which he calls
"shining". Danny asks if there is anything to be afraid of in the hotel, particularly
room 237. Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel has a "shine" to it along with many
memories, not all of which are good. He also tells Danny to stay out of room 237.
A month passes; while Jack's writing goes nowhere, Danny and Wendy explore the
hotel's hedge maze. Wendy becomes concerned about the phone lines being out
due to the heavy snowfall and Danny has frightening visions. Jack, increasingly
frustrated, starts acting strangely and becomes prone to violent outbursts.
Danny's curiosity about room 237 overcomes him when he sees the room's door
open. Later, Wendy finds Jack, asleep at his typewriter, screaming in his sleep. After
she awakens him, Jack says he dreamed that he killed her and Danny. Danny
arrives with a bruise on his neck and traumatized, causing Wendy to accuse Jack of
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abusing him. Jack wanders into the hotel's Gold Room and meets a ghostly
bartender named Lloyd. Lloyd serves him bourbon while Jack complains about his
marriage.
Wendy later tells Jack that Danny told her a "crazy woman in one of the rooms"
tried strangling him. Jack investigates room 237, encountering the ghost of a dead
woman, but tells Wendy he saw nothing. Wendy and Jack argue over whether
Danny should be removed from the hotel and a furious Jack returns to the Gold
Room, filled with ghosts attending a ball. He meets the ghost of Grady who tells
Jack that he must "correct" his wife and child and that Danny has reached out to
Hallorann using his "talent". In Florida, Hallorann has a premonition that
something is wrong at the hotel and flies back to Colorado. Danny starts calling out
"redrum" and goes into a trance, referring to himself as "Tony".
While searching for Jack, Wendy discovers he has been typing pages of manuscript
repeating "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". She is confronted by Jack,
who threatens her before she knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat. She
drags him into the kitchen and locks him in the pantry, but she and Danny are
trapped at the hotel; Jack has sabotaged the hotel's two-way radio and snowcat.
Later, Jack converses through the pantry door with Grady, who unlocks the door.
Danny writes "REDRUM" on the outside of the bathroom door in the family's
quarters. When Wendy sees this in the bedroom mirror, the letters spell out
"MURDER". Jack begins hacking through the quarters' main door with a
firefighter's axe. Wendy sends Danny through the bathroom window, but it will not
open sufficiently for her to pass. Jack breaks through the bathroom door as Wendy
screams in horror. He leers through the hole he made, shouting "Here's Johnny!",
but backs off after Wendy slashes his hand with a butcher's knife.
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Hearing the engine of the snowcat Hallorann borrowed to reach the hotel, Jack
leaves the room. He kills Hallorann with the axe, and pursues Danny into the
hedge maze. Wendy runs through the hotel looking for Danny, encountering
ghosts and the cascade of blood Danny envisioned in Boulder. She also finds
Hallorann's body lying in the lobby. Danny lays a false trail to mislead Jack, who is
following his footprints. Wendy and Danny escape in Hallorann's snowcat, while
Jack freezes to death in the maze.
In a photograph in the hotel hallway dated July 4, 1921, Jack Torrance smiles amid
a crowd of party revelers
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The Ring
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Two teenage girls named Katie Embry (Amber Tamblyn) and Becca Kotler (Rachael
Bella) are bored at a sleepover and eventually, they discuss an urban legend that
involves a cursed videotape that kills the viewer 7 days after watching it. Katie
reveals that she had watched the cursed videotape with her boyfriend and a group
of friends last week whist staying in a cabin for a vacation but Becca believes she is
trying to scare her. Suddenly, the phone rings downstairs, which according to the
urban legend, occurs once the viewer has finished watching the cursed videotape,
which frighten both teenagers. However, it turns out to be Katie's mother (Lindsay
Frost) and Becca returns upstairs with annoyance.
Suddenly, the television in the living room turns on by itself on static and Katie
thinks Becca is playing a prank on her. Switching it off, the television turns on by
itself once again and Katie unplugs the wires of the television with frustration. An
unseen force is seen vibrating through the kitchen windows behind her on the
reflection of the television screen. The refrigerator door opens by itself and Katie
shuts it and nervously calls for Becca as she quickly runs upstairs. Katie notices a
puddle of water leaking out from her bedroom door and as soon as she opens it,
she sees an image of a well on her television screen, and an unseen force rushes
towards her, presumably killing her.
Three days later, a troubled journalist named Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) picks up
her son Aiden (David Dorfman) after school, where his concerned teacher tells her
that he had been drawing disturbing sketches of his cousin Katie's death a week
prior to her actual death. At Katie's funeral, Rachel discovers that the three friends
Katie watched the tape with all died at the same time as she did, and visits the
campsite where she finds the cursed videotape. Rachel watches it in the cabin
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where Katie and her friends stayed, and receives a phone call; a little girl on the
line whispers seven days to Rachel before hanging up.
Now cursed, Rachel enlists the help of Noah (Martin Henderson), her ex-boyfriend
and Aidans father. Noah is a video analyst, but is skeptical of the videos alleged
curse when he watches it. Afterwards, Rachel visits a traumatised Becca who has
been admitted into a mental hospital after witnessing Katie's death; she states that
"she" will show Rachel the truth, and that Rachel has four days left to live. Rachel
investigates the videos imagery, discovering footage of a lighthouse hidden on
the video feed. Researching the lighthouse reveals the identity of a woman seen in
the video as Anna Morgan (Shannon Cochran), a horse rancher living on Moesko
Island. A strange phenomena led to all of her horses drowning and she eventually
committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. Rachel starts to see hallucinations and
finds herself haunted by a strange girl with long soaking wet hair. She then
discovers Aidan has watched the tape, and Noah is experiencing similar
phenomena to her.
After leaving Aidan at her sisters house, Rachel boards a ferry to Moesko Island
while Noah ventures to Eola Psychiatric County Hospital to look up information on
Annas time there. Both individually discover that Anna had an adopted daughter
named Samara (Daveigh Chase), an eight-year old who possessed uncontrolled
psychic abilities that drove her foster parents near to insanity. Rachel learns that
Samara was responsible for the horse drownings, while Noah discovers that
Samara was sent to the same place as her mother and underwent sessions until her
father, Richard (Brian Cox), stopped them and locked her in the family ranchs barn.
Confronting Richard about Samaras location, he commits suicide in a bath tub in
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front of Rachel, horrifying her. Noah arrives and the two break into the barn, but
only find a burnt image of a tree in the loft the tree at Shelter Mountain.
Rachel and Noah travel to the camp, and discover a stone well beneath the cabin
floor. Rachel falls down the well and finds Samaras corpse in the water,
experiencing a flashback which reveals that Anna threw Samara down the well,
where she survived for seven days. Returning home, Rachel learns from Aidan that
she wasnt supposed to help Samara since she never sleeps. Meanwhile, at Noah's
apartment, the television switches on by itself on static which startles him but he
eventually turns it off. Suddenly, an image of a well appears on the screen as
Rachel tries to call Noah, after realizing he was the next one to die. Samara crawls
out of the well and walks towards the screen as water leaks out from the television.
She eventually emerges from the screen which causes Noah to trip and fall
backwards as he knocks down a glass cupboard. Bleeding from the cuts he received
from the shards, Samara reveals her decaying face which frightens Noah to death.
Rachel arrives too late as she discovers his rotten corpse on a chair and angrily
destroys the original tape. She soon realises that she was spared because she had
copied the tape and shown it to Noah. Realizing it was the only way to save Aidan,
Rachel copies the tape again, but remains silent when Aidan asks who they will
show it to.
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Alien
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The commercial spacecraft Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a sevenmember crew in stasis. Detecting a mysterious transmission, possibly a distress
signal, from a nearby planetoid, the ship's computer, MOTHER, awakens the crew.
Following standard company policy for such situations, the Nostromo lands on the
planetoid and Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, and Navigator Lambert head
out to investigate. They discover the signal is coming from a derelict alien
spacecraft. Inside, they find the remains of a large alien creature whose ribcage
appears to have exploded from the inside.
On the Nostromo, Warrant Officer Ripley determines that the transmission is not a
distress signal but a warning. In the alien ship, Kane discovers a chamber
containing hundreds of eggs. As he inspects one, a creature springs out, gets
through his space helmet and attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry
the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo. As acting senior officer, Ripley refuses
to let them aboard, citing quarantine regulations, but Science Officer Ash violates
protocol by overriding Ripley's lock and letting them in. The crew are unable to
remove the creature from Kane's face, as its grip is strong and its blood is an
extremely corrosive molecular acid. It eventually lets go, crawls away, and dies.
Kane awakens having suffered a nightmare involving smothering. During the
crew's final meal before re-entering stasis, Kane begins to choke and convulses in
pain before a small alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him, and escapes
into the depths of the ship. Since attacking the creature with conventional weapons
could result in its corrosive blood breaching the ship's hull, the crew attempts to
locate and capture it with motion trackers, nets, electric prods, and flamethrowers.
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Engineer Brett is sent to look for the crew's cat, Jones, and the now fully-grown
alien attacks him and disappears with his body into the air shafts. After a heated
discussion, the group devises a plan to jettison the creature out of the ship. Dallas
enters the Nostromo's labyrinthine ventilation shafts, intending to force the alien
into an airlock, but it ambushes him. Lambert, realizing the alien is killing the crew
one by one, implores the others to escape in the ship's shuttle. Now in command,
Ripley explains that the shuttle will not support four people, and recommends that
they continue with Dallas' plan of flushing the alien out.
Accessing MOTHER, Ripley discovers that Ash has secretly been ordered to return
the alien to the crew's employers, who consider the crew expendable. When Ripley
confronts Ash, he tries to choke her to death; Lambert and engineer Parker
intervene, decapitating Ash, revealing him as an android. Parker reanimates Ash's
head, and Ripley interrogates him. They learn he was assigned to the Nostromo to
convince the crew to capture the creature and return for analysis, even at the
expense of the human personnel. Ash taunts them about their chances of survival
against the "perfect organism." The crew then incinerates him.
Ripley, Lambert and Parker agree to set the Nostromo to self-destruct and escape in
the shuttle. However, Parker and Lambert are ambushed and killed by the alien
while gathering life-support supplies. Ripley initiates the self-destruct sequence
and heads for the shuttle with Jones, but the alien blocks her path. She retreats
and unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct sequence, then returns to
retrieve Jones, finding the alien gone. She narrowly escapes in the shuttle as the
Nostromo explodes.
As she prepares to enter stasis, Ripley discovers the Alien is aboard the shuttle. She
dons a spacesuit and opens the shuttle's airlock, causing explosive decompression
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which forces the Alien into the shuttle's open doorway. She propels it into space by
shooting it with agrappling hook, but the gun catches in the closing door, tethering
the alien to the shuttle. Ripley activates the engines, blasting the alien into space.
After recording the ship's final log entry, she places herself and Jones into stasis for
the voyage home.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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On August 18, 1973, five young adults, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boyfriend Kemper
(Eric Balfour) and their friends Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Andy (Mike Vogel), and
Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after
returning from Mexico to buymarijuana. While driving through Texas, they pick up
a distraught hitchhiker (Lauren German) they see walking in the middle of the
road. After trying to talk to the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about "a bad
man", she pulls out a .357 Magnum and shoots herself in the mouth.
The group goes to a nearby eatery to contact the police where a woman named
Luda Mae (Marietta Marich) tells them to meet the sheriff at the mill. Instead of the
sheriff, they find a little boy named Jedidiah (David Dorfman), who tells them that
the sheriff is at home. Erin and Kemper go through the woods to find his house,
leaving Morgan, Andy, and Pepper at the mill with the boy. They come across a
plantationhouse and Erin is allowed inside by an amputee named Monty to phone
for help. When Erin finishes, Monty asks her for help. Kemper goes inside to look
for Erin and is killed with a sledgehammer by Thomas Hewitt, also known as
"Leatherface" (Andrew Bryniarski). Leatherface drags Kemper's body into the
basement to make a new mask.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey) arrives at the mill and disposes of the
hitchhiker's body, wrapping her in cellophane and putting her in his trunk. When
Erin returns she finds that Kemper is still missing. Andy and Erin go back to
Monty's house, and Erin distracts him while Andy searches for Kemper. Monty
realizes Andy is inside and summons Leatherface, who attacks him with his
chainsaw. Erin escapes and heads towards the woods, but Leatherface slices Andy's
leg off and carries him to the basement, where he is impaled on a meat hook.
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Erin makes it back to the mill, but before she can leave the sheriff shows up. After
finding marijuana on the dashboard, he orders Erin, Morgan, and Pepper to get out
of the van. The sheriff forces Morgan back into the van, gives him the gun he took
from the hitchhiker, and forces him to reenact how she killed herself. Morgan,
scared and disturbed by the sheriff's demands, attempts to shoot him only to find
the gun is unloaded. Sheriff Hoyt handcuffs Morgan and drives him to the Hewitt
house (a drive which includes a brutal beating with a whiskey bottle), taking the
van's key with him. Erin manages to hot wire the truck but the wheels fall off.
Leatherface arrives shortly after and starts hacking through the roof.
When Pepper attempts to run she is chased and killed by Leatherface. After seeing
that Leatherface is wearing Kemper's face as a mask, Erin runs and hides in a
nearby trailer belonging to an obese middle-aged woman (known only as 'Tea
Lady') , and a younger woman named Henrietta, who offer her tea. The women act
strangely, and after telling Erin they don't have a phone, a telephone rings and
Henrietta tells someone on the other end "she's here". Erin discovers they have
kidnapped a child when she sees that the baby with them is the same child in a
photograph with the hitchhiker. However, the tea is drugged and she passes out
before she can leave the trailer. Erin wakes up at the Hewitt house surrounded by
the Hewitt family: Leatherface, his mother Luda Mae, Sheriff Hoyt, Uncle Monty,
and the little boy Jedidiah. Luda Mae tells Erin that her excuse for her son Thomas'
actions is that he was tormented his whole life because of a skin disease that left
his face disfigured, and she felt no one cared for her family besides themselves.
Erin is taken to the basement, where she finds Andy. After several failed attempts to
help him off the hook, she stabs him to end his suffering.
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Afterwards, she finds Morgan handcuffed in a bathtub. Jedidiah, who does not
agree with his family's actions, leads them out of the house. Jedidiah rejects Erin's
plea to come with them, and distracts Leatherface long enough for them to escape.
Erin and Morgan find an abandoned shack in the woods and barricade themselves
inside. Leatherface breaks in and discovers Erin but Morgan attacks Leatherface,
causing him to drop his chainsaw. Leatherface lifts Morgan, entangling his
handcuffs in the chandelier, and saws through his groin, killing him. Erin runs out
of the shack and escapes through the woods, pursued by Leatherface. She finds a
slaughterhouse and hides in a locker. Leatherface opens the locker across from hers
and she attacks him with a meat cleaver, chopping off his right arm. Erin runs
outside and flags down a trucker, who she tries to convince to drive away from the
Hewitt's house. He stops at the eatery, and Erin sees Luda Mae and Sheriff Hoyt talk
to the trucker, while Henrietta watches over the kidnapped baby in a highchair.
When Henrietta walks outside to join Luda Mae and Sheriff Hoyt, Erin sneaks the
baby out of the eatery and places her in the sheriff's car. Erin hot wires the car and
Hoyt tries to stop her, but she runs him over repeatedly until he is dead.
Leatherface suddenly appears in the road and slashes the car with his chainsaw, but
Erin manages to escape with the baby, and he watches in anger as she drives off.
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Halloween
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On the night of October 31, 1963, in Haddonfield, Illinois, 6-year-old Michael

Myers (Will Sandin) while dressed in a clown costume murders his older sister
Judith Myers (Sandy Johnson) by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years
later, on October 30, 1978, Michael escapes Warren County Smith's Grove
Sanitarium, where he had been committed since the murder. He steals the car that
was to take him to a court hearing, the intention of which was for him to never be
released.
The following day, Halloween, 21-year-old Michael (Nick Castle), now dressed in a
blue jumpsuit and a white mask, returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, and
begins stalking high school student Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Laurie
informs her friends, Annie Brackett (Nancy Loomis) and Lynda van der Klok (P. J.
Soles), that she believes someone is following her, but they dismiss her concerns.
Later at her house, Laurie is startled to see Michael outside in the yard staring into
her room. Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), having
anticipated Michael's return home, goes to the local cemetery only to discover that
Judith Myers' headstone is missing. Loomis meets with Sheriff Leigh Brackett
(Charles Cyphers), and the two search for Michael.
That night, Laurie babysits Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews), while Annie babysits
Lindsay Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from the Doyle house. When
Annie gets a call from her boyfriend Paul asking her to pick him up, she drops
Lindsay off at the Doyle house. Annie gets in her car to pick up Paul but Michael,
who was hiding in the backseat of her car, strangles her before slitting her throat,
killing her. At the Doyle house, while he plays hide-and-seek with Lindsay, Tommy
spots Michael carrying Annie's corpse and tries to tell Laurie, who doesn't believe
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in any "boogeyman" that Tommy says he saw. Later that evening, Lynda and her
boyfriend Bob enter the Wallace house and have sex in the upstairs bedroom.
While downstairs to get a beer for Lynda, Bob is attacked by Michael, who kills him
by pinning him to the wall with his knife. Michael then appears in the bedroom
doorway, pretending to be Bob in a ghost costume. Gaining no response from him,
Lynda becomes annoyed and calls Laurie, just as Michael kills her by strangling her
with the telephone cord.
Feeling unsettled, Laurie puts Tommy and Lindsay to bed and goes to the Wallace
house, where she discovers the corpses of Annie, Bob, and Lynda. She is suddenly
attacked by Michael. She falls down the staircase, but she quickly recovers. Fleeing
the house, she screams for help, but to no avail. Running back to the Doyle house,
she realizes she lost the keys and the door is locked, as she sees Michael
approaching in the distance. Laurie panics and screams for Tommy to wake up and
open the door quickly. Luckily, Tommy opens the door in time and lets Laurie
inside. Laurie instructs Tommy and Lindsay to hide and then finds the phone line is
dead and that Michael has gotten into the house through a window. As she sits
down in horror next to the couch, Michael appears and tries to stab her, but she
stabs him in the side of his neck with a knitting needle and he collapses.
Laurie goes upstairs telling Tommy and Lindsay she killed the "boogeyman", but
Michael reappears in pursuit of her. Telling the kids to hide and lock themselves in
the bathroom, Laurie opens the French windows to feign escape and hides in a
bedroom closet. Michael punches a hole in the closet door to get to her. However,
Laurie frantically undoes a metal clothes hanger to stick Michael in the eye, and
she then stabs Michael with his own knife. Michael collapses and Laurie exits the
closet, then tells the children to go find help. Dr. Loomis sees Tommy and Lindsay
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running away from the house screaming and suspects Michael could be inside.
Back inside, Michael gets up and tries to strangle Laurie, but Loomis arrives in time
to save her. Loomis shoots Michael six times, resulting in him falling from the
second-story patio onto the lawn below. Laurie asks Loomis if that was the
"boogeyman", which Loomis confirms. Despite his seemingly fatal injuries,
Michael is nowhere to be found on the lawn when Loomis looks down over the
balcony.
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Ju-on
The film is told in anachronistic order through six segments, each titled after a
character central to each segment. They are, in order: Toshio (
), Yuki (
Mizuho (
).
), Kanna (
), Kayako (
), and Kyoko (
),
Illustrator Takeo Saeki murdered his wife, Kayako, after discovering from her
journal that she had held a deep crush with her college friend, Shunsuke
Kobayashi. He also killed his son,Toshio Saeki, and the family cat, Mar, before
deserting his house. The anger and sorrow surrounding the murder created a curse
that turned its inhabitants into Onry. Whoever enters the house in Nerima, Tokyo,
or even those associating themselves with someone who has entered the house
will be affected and claimed by the curse, spreading its influence at the place they
die and claiming more victims. Kobayashi, who happens to be Toshio's elementary
school teacher, visits the Saeki house concerning Toshio's repeated absence from
school, leaving his pregnant wife, Manami, in their apartment. He only finds
Toshio, who refuses to speak with him, forcing him to wait for Toshio's parents to
come home. Kobayashi grows weary of the strangeness that surrounds the house,
and after accidentally stumbling upon Kayako's room, he learns of her unrequited
love for him as well as her bloody corpse, hidden in the attic. Panicking, Kobayashi
tries to escape with Toshio until he receives a call from Takeo, who has gone to his
apartment and forcefully aborted Manami's unborn fetus, killing her. In shock, he
is unable to act properly as Kayako's corpse suddenly moves and kills him.
Meanwhile, Takeo walks limply while carrying the dead fetus and is killed in the
street by Kayako who resurfaces from a dumpster nearby.
An unknown amount of time later, the Saeki house is occupied by the Murakami
family. Daughter Kanna is taught by her tutor, Yuki, until she remembers that she
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has to go to school to feed the school rabbits. Yuki, who has a phobia of cats, backs
up towards Kanna's closet when a black cat suddenly appears in the house.
Hearing strange sounds from the attic, she goes to investigate and is pulled by
Kayako. Kanna's brother, Tsuyoshi, however, is unaware of the incident and goes to
school to meet his girlfriend, Mizuho Tamura. Tsuyoshi never makes it to the school
and Mizuho is forced to wait in the teacher's room while a teacher inspects the
school once more. There, she is spooked by Toshio until she receives a call from
"4444444444" (the Japanese word for 4 (
, shi) is pronounced similarly to the
word for "death" ( , shi)), at which point Toshio appears directly beside her.
Meanwhile, detective Yoshikawa and his aide, Kamio, investigates a mutilated
body of a high school girl, Hisayo Yoshida, who is one of the two students
scheduled to feed the school rabbits, and an unrelated human jaw nearby. Back at
the Murakami house, mother Noriko has just returned home from shopping when
she notices a seemingly beaten up Kanna entering her house. She screams when
her daughter moves to face her, showing her without her jaw.
The Nerima house is taken over by the Suzuki Real Estate, owned by Tatsuya
Suzuki, for sale. Tatsuya contacts his spiritually-aware sister, Kyoko, to visit the
house. She immediately feels discomfort upon entering the house, sensing
Kayako's presence. After taking a gulp of sake, Kyoko tells Tatsuya that anyone who
want to purchase the house have to drink the sake; if they spit it out, they should
not buy it. She immediately makes a hasty escape from the house, leaving her
brother behind. Sometime later, Kyoko is informed that the house has been sold to
the Kitada couple. She visits the house once more and is shocked upon seeing the
wife, Yoshimi Kitada, realizing that she has been possessed by Kayako.
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Poltergeist
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Steven and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) live a quiet life in
an Orange County, California planned communitycalled Cuesta Verde, where
Steven is a successful real estate developer and Diane is a housewife who cares for
their children Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins), and Carol Anne
(Heather O'Rourke). Carol Anne awakens one night and begins conversing with the
family's television set, which is transmitting static following a sign-off. The
following night, while the Freelings sleep, Carol Anne fixates on the television set
as it transmits static again. Suddenly, a hand of a white apparition blasts from the
television screen and vanishes into the wall, triggering a violent earthquake in the
process. As the shaking subsides, Carol Anne announces "They're here'.
Bizarre events occur the following day: a drinking glass of milk spontaneously
breaks by its own, silverware bends by itself and furniture moves on its own accord.
The phenomena seem benign at first, but quickly begin to intensify. That night, a
gnarled backyard tree comes alive and grabs Robbie through the bedroom
window. While Steven rescues Robbie before the demon tree swallows him, Carol
Anne is sucked through a portal in her closet. The Freelings realize she has been
taken when they hear her voice emanating from a television set that is tuned to an
empty channel.
A group of parapsychologists from UC Irvine Dr. Lesh (Beatrice Straight), Ryan
(Richard Lawson), and Marty (Martin Casella) come to the Freeling house to
investigate and determine that the Freelings are experiencing a poltergeist
intrusion. They discover that the disturbances involve more than just one ghost.
Steven also finds out in an exchange with his boss, Lewis Teague (James Karen),
that Cuesta Verde is built where a cemetery was once located.
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After Dana and Robbie are sent away for their safety, Lesh and Ryan call in Tangina
Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein), a spiritual medium. Tangina states that the ghosts
inhabiting the house are lingering in a different "sphere of consciousness" and are
not at rest. Attracted to Carol Anne's life force, these spirits are distracted from the
real "light" that has come for them. Tangina then adds that there is also ademon
known as the "Beast", who has Carol Anne under restraint in an effort to
manipulate the other spirits.
The assembled group discovers that the entrance to the other dimension is
through the children's bedroom closet, while the exit is through the living room
ceiling. As the group attempts to rescue Carol Anne, Diane passes through the
entrance tied by a rope that has been threaded through both portals. Diane
manages to retrieve Carol Anne, and they both drop to the floor from the ceiling,
unconscious and covered in ectoplasmic residue. As they recover, Tangina
proclaims afterward that the house is now "clean".
Shortly thereafter, the Freelings begin the process of moving elsewhere by packing
up their belongings. During their last night in the house, Steven leaves for the
office in order to quit his job and Dana goes on a date, leaving Diane, Robbie, and
Carol Anne alone in the house. The "Beast" then ambushes Diane and the children,
attempting a second kidnapping by attempting to restrain Robbie and Diane.
Robbie is attacked by a clown doll in his bedroom and Diane is attacked by an
unseen force that moves her up wall and over the ceiling in her room. Diane and
the children eventually escape to the outside only to discover coffins and rotting
corpses erupting out from the ground in their yard and throughout the
neighborhood. As Steven and Dana return home to the mayhem, Steven confronts
Teague after realizing that rather than relocating the cemetery for the development
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of Cuesta Verde, Teague merely had the headstones moved and the bodies left
behind, desecrating the burial grounds. The Freelings flee Cuesta Verde while the
house itself implodes into another dimension, to the astonishment of onlookers,
while Teague laments the consequences of his greed and foolishness. The family
checks into a hotel for the night, and Steven shoves the room's television outside
onto the balcony
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The Exorcist
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Lankester Merrin is a veteran Catholic priest who is on an archeological dig in Iraq.

There he finds an amulet which resembles the statue ofPazuzu, a demon who
Merrin defeated years ago. Merrin then realizes the demon has returned to seek
revenge.
Meanwhile in Georgetown, actress Chris MacNeil is living on location with her preteen daughter Regan (Linda Blair). After playing with aOuija board Regan begins
acting strangely including making mysterious noises, using constant bad language
and exhibiting abnormal strength. Regan also causes her bed to shake, much to
her and Chris's horror. In response, her mother consults several physicians but
despite undergoing a series of diagnostic tests, Dr. Klein and his associates find
nothing medically wrong with her, unaware that she is now fully possessed by
Pazuzu.
One night Regan kills Chris's director, Burke Dennings. His murder is investigated
by Lieutenant William Kinderman, who interviews Chris as well as priest and
psychiatrist Father Damien Karras, who has lost faith in God after his frail mother
died.
After the doctors decide that an exorcism may be the only way to help Regan, Chris
arranges a meeting with Karras. Karras at first refuses to get permission to perform
an exorcism, despite Regan now being completely possessed by the demon. After
getting a recording of her talking in reverse and seeing the words "Help Me" on
her stomach Karras decides to perform an exorcism. Merrin is selected to do so
instead, but Karras is present to assist.
In Regan's bedroom both men try to exorcise the demon but a stubborn Pazuzu
toys with them, especially Karras, including insulting his late mother. After a break
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and hint of faltering, Karras is dismissed. Merrin attempts the exorcism alone.
Karras enters the room and discovers Merrin has died and confronts the mocking,
laughing spirit of Pazuzu. At Karras' plea, Pazuzu then possesses Karras, leaving
Regan's body. In a moment of self-sacrifice, the priest throws himself out of the
window before Pazuzu can compel him to harm Regan, and dies from his injuries.
A few days later Regan, who is now back to her normal self, returns home to Los
Angeles with her mother. Kinderman, who narrowly misses them, befriends Father
Dyer, an old friend of Karras, as he investigates how Karras died.
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173
The Thing
174
In the Antarctic, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an

American research station. Upon landing, one crew member accidentally drops a
thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian pursues the
dog, firing a rifle wildly, until he is killed by Garry, the station commander. The
Americans send a helicopter pilot, MacReady, and the station doctor, Dr. Copper, to
the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find that the base is a charred ruin and
all the personnel are dead. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a
disfigured corpse with a face that appears to have melted, which they bring back
along with some video tapes. The station biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on
the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs.
Clark kennels the Malamute with the station's sled dogs; it soon metamorphoses
into a bizarre creature and attacks them. When MacReady hears the commotion, he
pulls the fire alarm to summon all the others. The Thing begins immediately
assimilating the dogs and Childs incinerates it with a flamethrower. Blair performs
an autopsy on the partial remains of The Thing, which leads him to believe that the
Malamute was an unknown life form that can perfectly imitate other organisms.
The Norwegians' records lead the Americans to a buriedflying saucer that the
station's geologist, Norris, hypothesized has been buried for over 100,000 years.
Blair becomes increasingly paranoid and withdrawn, calculating that if the alien
escapes to a civilized area, all life on Earth will be assimilated within a few years.
Fuchs tells MacReady that he is worried about Blair, and that according to Blair's
journal, the creature's "dead" remains are still active on a cellular level, and that
just ingesting one cell would result in assimilation. The camp enacts safety
measures designed to reduce risk of assimilation.
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The creature assimilates Bennings, but Windows walks in during the assimilation
and alerts MacReady. They catch The Thing outside before his metamorphosis is
complete and MacReady burns the creature before it can escape. They discover that
Blair has destroyed all the vehicles and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team
corners Blair as he is destroying the radio and lock him in an isolated tool shed.
Copper recommends a blood-serum test to determine who is assimilated, but the
base's blood storage has been sabotaged, causing the paranoid men turn on each
other.
MacReady takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work, but Fuchs
disappears during a suspicious power outage. MacReady, Windows, and Nauls find
his burned body outside. Windows returns to warn the others while MacReady and
Nauls head to McCready's shack, because someone has turned his lights on inside,
after he had turned them off since the last time he was there. On the way back,
Nauls cuts MacReady loose from the tow line, since he believed that MacReady had
been assimilated when he found a ripped up shirt hidden in the shack's furnace,
with MacReady's name on it. As the team debates MacReady's fate, he breaks in
and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him.
Norris appears to suffer a heart attack after he and Nauls unsuccessfully attack
MacReady from behind.
Norris transforms while being defibrillated and kills Copper. MacReady incinerates
the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test. Clark lunges at
MacReady with a scalpel he had been concealing and forces MacReady to shoot
him. MacReady explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual
organism with its own survival instinct. One by one, MacReady tests everyone's
blood with a heated piece of copper wire. Everyone is still human except Palmer,
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whose blood flees from the hot wire. Exposed, Palmer metamorphoses and attacks
Windows, forcing MacReady to burn them both.
Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has
tunneled under the tool shed and made an underground room. They realize that
Blair is assimilated and has been constructing a small escape craft out of
scavenged parts from the helicopter and various other equipment. Discovering that
Childs is missing and the station's power generator is destroyed, MacReady
speculates that the Thing now intends to hibernate until a rescue team arrives.
MacReady, Garry, and Nauls decide to dynamite the complex, hoping to destroy the
Thing. While setting the explosives, Garry is killed by Blair and Nauls disappears. As
MacReady rushes to set the charges, a large monster emerges from below the floor
and destroys the detonator. MacReady triggers the blast with a hurled stick of
dynamite, and the base explodes.
As MacReady sits watching the camp burn, Childs reappears. He claims he got lost
in the storm while pursuing Blair. Exhausted and doomed, they acknowledge the
futility of their distrust and share a bottle of scotch.
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