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The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Ray Bradbury Theater

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Series Age rating: 9 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

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Chapelwaite

Chapelwaite

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Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles wi...

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Homecoming

Homecoming

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Political satire in which the reanimated corpses of soldiers killed in Iraq return in an attempt to sway the presidential election.

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Haeckel's Tale

Haeckel's Tale

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.1

While on his way to see his sick father, a man takes shelter with an elderly man and his young wife but soon discovers their horrible secret.

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The Washingtonians

The Washingtonians

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 5.5

A family man unearths an old letter, claiming that historical figure George Washington was a cannibal, and that a colonial-era reenactment group may be upholding that way of life.

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We All Scream for Ice Cream

We All Scream for Ice Cream

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 5.3

Years ago, they pulled a disastrous childhood prank on the neighborhood ice cream delivery man that got him killed, but now as they've become adults with families of their own, the last thing anyone e...

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Dance of the Dead

Dance of the Dead

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 5

In a post apocalyptic society, seventeen year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When two couples of punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an inter...

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