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A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, wh...

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Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.1

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is inte...

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Body Double

Body Double

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.8

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope on...

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Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After the...

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Child's Play

Child's Play

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

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Roadgames

Roadgames

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.6

It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her a...

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Stage Fright

Stage Fright

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A troupe of struggling stage actors rehearsing for a small-town production of a play panic after finding out they are locked in the theater with a killer wearing an owl mask.

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Amsterdamned

Amsterdamned

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that...

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Psycho II

Psycho II

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.6

After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soo...

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