Stephen King Movies, a list by Michael Mcdermott

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4.6

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3.5

age 15+

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

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7.3

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74

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72

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3.5

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85

/391/

84

/6100/

69

/49/

3.0

age 15+

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

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8.4

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81

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82

/18472/

4.2

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84

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93

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68

/26/

4.0

age 15+

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 prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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5.8

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63

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60

/4637/

2.6

/232097/

51

/184/

44

/2955/

53

/34/

3.0

age 17+

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

68

7.1

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71

/11880/

69

/5641/

3.4

/421899/

74

/152/

65

/23167/

58

/29/

age 16+

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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6.8

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69

/9822/

66

/4727/

3.2

/240783/

80

/176/

61

/60577/

64

/27/

age 16+

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

39

4.5

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56

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47

/1111/

1.9

/19625/

11

/56/

17

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38

/15/

2.5

age 17+

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

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7.8

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78

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77

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4.0

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91

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90

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75

/23/

3.0

age 17+

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

80

7.4

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73

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73

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3.9

/795479/

94

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77

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86

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3.5

age 15+

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

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6.5

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67

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65

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3.1

/125198/

46

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65

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46

/34/

3.0

age 16+

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

61

6.6

/187349/

69

/6160/

65

/2686/

3.2

/154234/

59

/124/

61

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45

/12/

2.5

age 16+

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

63

6.2

/77509/

63

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59

/2855/

2.8

/142831/

92

/48/

58

/313/

70

/8/

2.0

age 17+

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

59

6.5

/122807/

67

/4114/

66

/2316/

3.2

/164803/

58

/40/

60

/3512/

38

/12/

age 15+

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

66

7.2

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73

/2563/

73

/1981/

3.5

/108657/

57

/42/

69

/405/

49

/13/

age 17+

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

68

6.8

/101185/

70

/3461/

68

/2155/

3.5

/173016/

72

/113/

65

/2042/

57

/10/

3.0

age 15+

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

68

6.8

/57128/

69

/2081/

69

/1112/

3.5

/83574/

66

/76/

69

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59

/9/

3.0

Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

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5.4

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62

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58

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2.5

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14

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50

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24

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When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

58

6.1

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64

/1667/

61

/1096/

3.0

/65674/

60

/45/

46

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57

/8/

age 16+

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

57

5.5

/50833/

57

/1269/

56

/846/

2.5

/26338/

62

/128/

41

/4985/

66

/29/

3.0

age 18+

A group of young filmmakers encounter real zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.

59

6.7

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67

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65

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3.1

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54

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56

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53

/21/

2.0

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

74

7.4

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74

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72

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3.7

/30786/

86

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82

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62

/19/

3.0

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

54

6.1

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64

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62

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2.9

/27827/

40

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52

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50

/7/

2.0

age 15+

Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?

45

5.8

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62

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58

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2.7

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19

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31

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33

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An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.

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6.4

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68

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65

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3.2

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43

/23/

56

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26

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3.0

age 16+

The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…

43

5.3

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58

/917/

53

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2.4

/8878/

32

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21

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43

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1.5

age 17+

After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

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6.3

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66

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67

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3.2

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54

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70

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3.0

Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.

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6.9

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69

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67

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3.2

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49

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64

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55

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3.5

age 15+

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

51

5.7

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63

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56

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2.7

/2632/

50

/10/

31

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Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

47

5.4

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60

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60

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2.8

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32

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38

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Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.

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5.4

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62

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61

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2.6

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20

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49

/1395/

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

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6.2

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66

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62

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3.2

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48

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45

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54

/13/

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

45

4.9

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58

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51

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2.2

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27

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46

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A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.

50

49

5.3

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60

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55

/221/

2.5

/3700/

33

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When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

44

4.8

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53

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56

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2.5

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23

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33

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42

/21/

2.0

A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.

44

5.0

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58

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53

/279/

2.6

/13316/

24

/247/

28

/11/

John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

50

6.0

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64

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59

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3.1

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33

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41

/180/

36

/7/

For cynical tabloid journo Richard Dees, facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial killers, UFO abductions, tales of molestation, mayhem and murder. To some the tales are mere sleazy fantasy – but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story: The Night Flier. What is it that travels by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airfields and murders local residents? Dees begins to track the unknown killer in a Cessna of his own, uncovering clues that reveal a pilot more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

60

5.7

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61

/481/

58

/264/

2.8

/9331/

67

/12/

61

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Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.

43

5.2

/11411/

58

/357/

51

/215/

2.6

/4796/

23

/22/

34

/299/

37

/8/

In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.

36

4.4

/10344/

50

/403/

47

/269/

2.4

/9622/

30

/10/

20

/196/

18

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When a tabloid reporter and his son travel to a quiet Midwestern town to investigate a gruesome massacre, they fall victim to a possessed orphan named Micah.

36

35

4.5

/10680/

55

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49

/265/

2.7

/9754/

27

/11/

19

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8

/10/

A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

37

35

3.8

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48

/318/

45

/206/

2.0

/4798/

16

/196/

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

48

39

5.4

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62

/188/

54

/76/

2.8

/908/

17

/6/

50

/147/

Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...

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41

4.3

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49

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47

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2.6

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26

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After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.

45

42

4.3

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51

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59

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2.6

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22

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Anthropologist Joe Weber takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot, unaware of its vampire population. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they seek Weber to write a bible for them.

67

62

6.3

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67

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61

/119/

3.5

/8935/

80

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61

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69

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A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their so-called king's delusions of grandeur.

40

37

4.3

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45

/239/

44

/168/

2.2

/4938/

25

/109/

A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.

45

39

4.3

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53

/175/

47

/111/

2.4

/2185/

34

/38/

Jon Porter returns to his hometown after the sudden and bizarre death of his mother. He hopes to leave as soon as the funeral is over but it's too late. The sinister forces that caused his sister's brutal murder 30 years ago are back. Jon knows the nightmare can't continue. He must stand up to his fear and exorcise the demons who have risen again to take posession of his beautiful teenage daughter - body and soul.

32

30

3.9

/5651/

40

/242/

41

/178/

2.0

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14

/7/