HOOPLA HORROR, a list by AUWBOYZ

5.1

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Mia, a mourning daughter, attempts to lay her father to rest, only to uncover the dangerous demons he was battling. As she struggles to make sense of a world without him, grief gives way to a chilling truth.

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6.4

/90/

65

/2/

A man with a haunted past takes a job repairing an abandoned lighthouse that's only reachable by boat. His feelings of isolation and uneasiness grow as he starts to see the strange apparition of a young girl that he somehow recognizes.

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5.3

/31/

55

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Explorers in Mexico uncover the ruins of an ancient snake-worshiping civilization. Celebration turns to horror when they awaken an ever-growing anaconda, starved of human sacrifices for centuries. Now, the team must band together to survive.

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3.4

/182/

50

/8/

25

/2/

age 15+

A group of violent and misguided young offenders are experimented on using brutal AI technology at a sinister institute.

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3.5

/238/

53

/32/

Frankenstein’s secrets did not die with him. As graves are torn up and patience disappear from asylum, William Browning sets out to find who stole his father’s body - and finds horrors close to home as his mother descends into madness.

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4.2

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53

/45/

50

/1/

3.0

/803/

83

/12/

91

/8/

In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

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5.3

/74/

50

/2/

Many people want their five minutes of fame but for some, it comes at the ultimate price - their life!' Meet John Abbott, narcissistic host of infamous real-crime show Lights, Camera, KILL. Known for its lurid re-enactments of the darkest of trespasses, it has made him rich by exploiting pain and suffering. Yet while Abbott basks shamelessly in the limelight, one victim has seen enough. Broken by his loss, the man has a burning thirst for revenge - and now he wants to make Abbott bleed.

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4.7

/925/

53

/86/

52

/17/

2.5

/3783/

68

/19/

44

/24/

age 16+

A filmmaker documents her boyfriend's violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods.

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4.8

/123/

20

/2/

Two years have passed since the first infected walked the earth and the corn virus has spread across the globe. A group of survivors fight their way through a zombie infested world to reach a sanctuary named Homestead that can be their only hope for survival.

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5.4

/35/

70

/1/

A wounded narrator finds refuge in an abandoned Italian chateau and discovers a lifelike portrait of a young woman.

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8.1

/12/

50

/1/

As a gay actor’s friends are murdered one by one, he is recruited by a private investigator to help set a trap for the killer responsible: The Bedroom Butcher.

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5.5

/408/

50

/1/

25

/2/

Life brings Luke Wolf back to his hometown where his sister, who has Down Syndrome, is. Things are different, or maybe it's just that now he's different. After years of running from his problems, Luke must face his monsters.

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10

/1/

64

/5/

This special presentation of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) pairs the original silent film with Radiohead’s “KID A (2000) / Amnesiac (2001) as its score, courtesy of Silents Synced. Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music, partnering with independent cinemas to create memorable, new silent film experiences. "Nosferatu x Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film" is directed and remixed by Josh Frank.

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4.5

/110/

61

/15/

80

/2/

Miles Mako is a professional exorcist who takes on a new client after she encounters a demonic presence who may have links to the detective's dark past.

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7.4

/34/

100

/2/

Alisha encounters a strange and mysterious couple forcing her to think she may not be who she thinks she is.

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6.5

/31/

70

/1/

69

/4/

In 1960s Bengal, a young man, Gouranga, is tormented by grief and guilt after his wife’s tragic death. Venturing into a mysterious forest, he confronts his past and a looming supernatural menace in this chilling tale of loss and dread.

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5.3

/10/

In a remote cabin, Penny lives under Claire’s strict rules. Told it’s for her safety, Penny begins to question everything as dark secrets emerge, unraveling the truth her mother tried to hide.

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4.1

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/4/

50

/1/

An obsessed man follows and films women with his camera, but when he begins to pursue a mysterious woman, his strange hobby soon turns deadly.

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Tulsa Terrors follows the direct-to-home-video movie boom of the late 1980s, which began in part due to some tenacious Oklahomans. "Thanks to RSU TV – northeastern Oklahoma’s public-television station – and its senior producer-director, Bryan Crain, I was recently able to co-produce and direct a documentary that I’ve been itching to do for a long time. I was on the scene as a Tulsa World entertainment writer at the time, so I was lucky enough to have witnessed firsthand the start of the whole phenomenon and how it impacted home entertainment across the country and even the world.

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6.4

/23/

60

/1/

It’s Christmas Eve and Fern is driving home for the holiday. But when she stops for a break she is killed by a mysterious blood-soaked man. Soon the killer happens upon another traveler and a game of cat and mouse ensues. Is everything as it seems?

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5.3

/7082/

59

/767/

68

/202/

2.8

/13934/

65

/23/

86

/154/

age 16+

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

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Eliza was emotionally abused by her stepfather and her mother, Claire. She tries to live with the traumatic experiences. However, this gets exponentially harder because of a terrifying entity, which is a creation of her increasing psychotic depression.

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6.2

/24/

A family gather to spend Thanksgiving at an isolated cabin, unaware that the site has a horrific history of murder and cannibalism and that the Priest responsible did not rest in peace. Now they are on the menu for Thanksgiving dinner.

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100

/1/

A quiet suburban man reports his neighbor to the police, convinced he is a serial killer. However, the suspect is released due to lack of evidence. The man begins to fear that the neighbor will find out who told the police...

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4.1

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55

/126/

65

/25/

2.8

/322/

After a terrifying encounter at an abandoned government test site, a small town family man begins seeing haunting visions of a past that threatens to destroy his present.

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5.0

/86/

50

/7/

2.6

/297/

A group of popular game streamers are mysteriously matched together to play an unreleased survival horror game, Sweet Home. The game, rumored to have been abandoned by its developer due to strange incidents, seems like the perfect stunt to draw in viewers. However, as they progress, glitches and eerie occurrences escalate into terrifying encounters. They discover Sweet Home is haunted by an entity known as The Whistler, a malevolent force tied to the game's origins.

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4.5

/88/

55

/2/

48

/4/

95

/84/

72

/35/

An influencer couple buys an old home to remodel for their DIY social media channel, but when the husband’s sleepwalking turns violent, they’re forced to investigate his psychological past and the home’s dark history.

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5.5

/31/

90

/1/

100

/1/

Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions. He decides to take his own life, but as he struggles to come to terms with his choice and reality, a chance encounter changes everything.

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6.1

/126/

70

/3/

55

/2/

3.5

/237/

A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.

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60

/3/

A surreal reflection on authoritarianism, ritual, and the immigrant experience---told through a visual language of repetition, dread, and illusion.

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4.6

/1120/

60

/167/

50

/28/

2.5

/1708/

32

/31/

Metacritic

39

/6/

RogerEbert

1.0

age 16+

In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.

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6.4

/95/

70

/1/

40

/1/

A group of cosplaying friends trigger a zombie apocalypse and are forced to traverse a zombie-infested Los Angeles to save their loved one.

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4.6

/21/

50

/2/

In a dystopian future, death row inmates are used like lab rats by a private company who use memory implants to revolutionise the correctional system. Two prisoners who become subject to the experiment must escape or risk losing their minds forever.

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2.8

/186/

40

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25

/8/

After falling overboard during a cruise, a young woman washes ashore – injured, stranded, and stalked by sharks – as her desperate mother races to find her.

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2.2

/202/

48

/63/

50

/47/

In the aftermath of a devastating defeat by his archnemesis Admiral Smee, Captain Hook finds refuge in the coastal town of Eldritch Landing.

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A Super 8 adaption of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.

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4.7

/168/

48

/10/

39

/8/

2.8

/334/

After the death of their birth mother, two young children are placed in the care of prospective adopter parents, however, it's not long before the new family begin to question if something more sinister is at play.

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3.7

/203/

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30

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Sky just wanted to avoid her estranged grandmother with Alzheimer’s—but when she finally visits, she uncovers a haunting mystery. Surrounded by ghostly figures that vanish from memory the moment they’re unseen, Sky and her friends find themselves trapped in a terrifying cycle of forgotten horrors.

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4.2

/132/

44

/5/

57

/3/

A college documentary project goes awry when a group of film students stumble on a strange, wooded homeless community, and slowly discover they’re the ones being watched.

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2.9

/76/

23

/3/

23

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When a family's camping trip turns into a nightmare, they must confront a sinister witch-turned-demon known as Lechuza, who seeks to tear them apart. Can they survive the horrors and break the curse, or will they become her next victims?

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Three friends drive out to a lonely countryside house for a big weekend away only to realise far too late that the house has a fourth guest stalking them throughout their trip, a creature that can only be seen when it wants to be.

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3.8

/168/

48

/16/

44

/8/

In this thrilling sequel to The Jurassic Games, 10 death row inmates enter a deadly VR show to battle dinosaurs for a second chance at life. But when the system malfunctions, the carnage turns real. With a new host and higher stakes, survival is no longer just a game.

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2.4

/302/

36

/14/

45

/14/

2.7

/429/

50

/401/

70

/7223/

When cutting-edge research leads to the creation of living dinosaurs, a team of scientists on a secluded island must risk their lives and confront the now-growing creatures to prevent the animals from escaping and attacking the mainland.

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4.6

/357/

30

/2/

A young woman takes a job at an autumn camp in the woods, only to arrive to find that all the children have mysteriously disappeared. But as night falls, much to her dismay, some of them return.

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3.5

/273/

39

/20/

31

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2.5

/581/

The wealthy and religious Eden family make dreams come true for people in need. But dreams can often become nightmares.

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20

3.6

/403/

53

/63/

58

/29/

2.5

/645/

Things go awry when Astrid doesn't share the same feelings for her longtime best friend, Darcy.

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3.9

/243/

55

/16/