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The Shining

The Shining

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prep...

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.8

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural p...

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Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of decea...

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Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.5

After an untimely death, a newly dead New England couple seek help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

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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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Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.9

When Shaggy inherits an old Southern estate from an uncle, he and his sleuthing hounds take a road trip. But they don't even make it to the mansion before the haunting starts. Amid headless horsemen,...

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Scrooged

Scrooged

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas E...

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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

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Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school...

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The Fog

The Fog

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town'...

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The Entity

The Entity

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother, is raped in her bedroom by someone — or something — that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked by this invisible force...

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