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Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually...

Two sisters live secluded in a large manor and care for their deranged uncle. The rest of their family died five years before, under suspicious circumstances. When a cousin arrives for a visit, family secrets and scandals unravel.

It's l968 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 of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.

The evolution of Hollywood horror films gets an affectionate appreciation from one of the recent genre maestros, as the AMC documentary series by writer/director Eli Roth slashes into the on-screen odysseys of zombies, vampires, ghosts, and more.

Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her 'safely' behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target, the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

Lugosi plays zombie master Murder Legendre in what is surely one of the most visually interesting horror films ever made. Dialogue is kept to a minimum, and cinematographer Arthur Martinelli employs camera tricks with obvious relish -- White Zombie doesn't tell us a story when it can show us one.

A group of college students who set out to debunk an urban legend in Joshua Tree for their anthropology thesis, only to find that they become part of the gruesome legend themselves.

When a single mother witnesses terrifying symptoms of demonic possession in her eleven-year-old son, a Vatican representative calls on wheelchair-bound scientist Dr. Seth Ember to rid him of the evil spirit. Driven by a personal agenda rooted in his own tragic past, Ember enters the boy's unconscious mind where he confronts a demon as ferocious as it is ingenious. Includes the PG-13 theatrical and unrated versions.

A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.