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My Best Friend's Exorcism [Film Adaptation]
In this darkly comedic horror-thriller set in 1988, teen best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) grapple with an otherworldly demon that takes up residence in Gretchen’s body. (Adapted from: Amazon.com)
The Shining [Film Adaptation]
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. (Adapted from: IMBD.com)
The Silence of the Lambs [Film Adaptation]
A young F.B.I. cadet named Clarice Starling must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer named Hannibal Lecter to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims known to the F.B.I. as Buffalo Bill.…
Psycho [Film Adaptation]
A secretary embezzles money from her employer and goes on the run. She checks into a motel run by a strange man who is under the control of his domineering mother. (Adapted from: IMDB.com)
The Ritual [Film Adaptation]
A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a forest in Sweden, Northern Europe, but encounter a menacing presence there stalking them. (Adapted from IMDB.com)
Children of the Corn [Film Adaptation]
A young couple (Linda Hamilton, Terminator 2, and Peter Horton, thirtysomething) find themselves stranded in the rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, where they encounter a mysterious religious sect of children. The horror grows to a blood-curdling climax…
Hellraiser [Film Adaptation]
Based on his own novella The Hellbound Heart, Barker's Hellraiser sees Larry (Andrew Robinson) and his wife Julia (Clare Higgins) move into their new home, unaware that something evil lurks beneath the floorboards of the dilapidated house - something…
The Hunger [Film Adaptation]
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire (Catherine Deneuve), her cellist companion (David Bowie), and a gerontologist (Susan Sarandon). (Adapted from: IMDB.com)
Rosemary's Baby [Film Adaptation]
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. (Adapted from: IMDB.com)
It [Film Adaptation]
In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown. (Adapted from: WorldCat.org)
The Ring [Film Adaptation]
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it. (Adapted from: WorldCat.org)
World War Z [Film Adaptation]
Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that is endangering the existence of humanity. (Adapted from: WorldCat.org)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark [Film Adaptation]
It's 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge…
Interview With the Vampire [Film Adaptation]
Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his…
Frankenstein [Film Adaptation]
This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [Film Adaptation]
This remake of the classic horror film is set in San Francisco. Matthew Bennell assumes that when a friend complains of her husband's strange mood, it's a marital issue. However, he begins to worry as more people report similar observations. His…
The Amityville Horror [Film Adaption]
Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house. (Adapted from:…
Bird Box [Film Adaptation]
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. (Adapted from: IMBD.com)
Carrie [Film Adaptation]
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. (Adapted from: IMBD.com)
Misery [Film Adaptation]
After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing…