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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Summer Special 2013 features five chilling reenacted tales: 1. Terror on the Second Floor: Ryu (Suzuki Fuku) sees a spooky woman at home, but his warnings are ignored until a terrifying encounter changes everything. 2. X Hospital: Intern Naoki (Fujigaya Taisuke) faces eerie events at a hospital rebuilt in a cross shape, where horrors lurk at its ends. 3. Hint of a Shadow: Miwa (Fukada Kyoko) sees black shadows that signal tragedy, including her grandfather's death, and one appears during her job interview. 4. Girls High School Major Panic: Teacher Yosuke (Sakaguchi Kenji) investigates a ghost video and a growing crack at school as strange events escalate. 5. The Doll That Moves: Rina (Sashihara Rino) buys a creepy doll, which seems to move and causes sinister happenings, forcing her to confront its dark secret.
A couple loses their only child in an accident and subsequently unknowingly adopts an innocent looking little girl with paranormal powers that she uses to fulfill her twisted desires.
After Claire and Nathaniel's wedding, everything goes wrong once the sun goes down.
A trip to Freewill Forest amongst friends goes awry as the past begins to repeat itself and the women realize what "Free Will" really is.
Waking in a hospital, bruised and beaten, a young man struggles to piece together the events of a horrifying weekend. Amid flashes of relaxing with friends, the image of a killer begins to emerge - creeping ever closer. Somewhere within his memories and the madness lies the key to the killer’s identity, which, once discovered, may be more horrific than the murders themselves. Set in rural southern Louisiana Jake’s Road is a tale of family and how one moment can rip loved ones apart or bind them forever. With enough twists and turns to keep viewers guessing until the very end, we discover what drives a man to kill all that he loves and fight for all that he has.
After graduating from university, İrem returns to her family home in the countryside, unprepared to face dark secrets. This house is home not only to her bedridden mother, her withdrawn father, and her cousins Nida and Esma, with whom she grew up, but also to buried pain and old fears fed by silence. On the night of Irem’s return, the sudden death of her grandmother Mukaddes triggers unexplained oddities in the house. Though the young women attribute their unease to Mukaddes’s death and the haunting of three-lettered beings, the walls of the house whisper of a darker truth.
When an escaped prisoner seeks refuge in a nearby forest, he unknowingly becomes host to a strange and eerie metamorphosis.
Haselwurm is a short fantasy/horror film inspired on the one hand by some mythical stories of the region of Trentino, Italy, on the other hand by the narrative literature of Howard Philip Lovecraft. The main characters are a woman and a man striving to unveil a mystery as old as the mountains where the story is set. With the recklessness of a rifle shot, they make the mistake of killing a creature unlike any other. The consequences of this reckless act will soon reveal themselves and the price will be high ...
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse…
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!
While in the process of helping Sompob, who was robbed by Kuya, Rawin finds that he must battle Ngachang. However, on the day of the battle the village is attacked by a gang of thousand-year-old zombies, led by Panna Rittikrai, and everyone must join forces to defeat them.. This is an extremely rare Panna Rittikrai zombie film with elements of The Goonies and The Lost Boys. It was later released on VCD by Lepso, who changed the name from เถื่อนอัดดิบ (Tooan Ad Dib) to พายุเดือด (Payu Dued).
After a coven of witches known as “The Brides” murder an innocent girl during a ritualistic sacrifice, a vengeful spirit in a mysterious mask and bloody dress called “The Dovely Thing” is awoken to reap their souls. Now the Brides must come together to fight for their lives and the fate of the coven before it's too late! Witness this madcap, folk horror odyssey jam-packed with curses, rituals, demons, spells, invocations and more! “Brides of Boogeymen”: Witches have never been this unleashed!
Palestinian-Syrian teenager Nasser and his older brother Yassin have been living in a Greek refugee camp, awaiting a decision on their asylum application. They pass the time recording comedy sketches, fantasizing of making zombie films and moving to Sweden. Nasser, however, feels increasingly trapped in this no-man’s-land. With nowhere to escape, Boiling tensions in the camp push Nasser to another world.
Thorold Stone, a police officer in search for answers, joins a rebel group of Christians to thwart the Antichrist's plan to use virtual reality to solidify its power.
Anna is a rich Hong Kong woman who marries Kan Chok-Leung, an impoverished young man. After a couple of years of bliss, Anna accuses her husband of infidelity, so they divorce. Not determined to let his fractured nuptials get him down, Chok-Leung decides to rekindle his romance with an old flame and they really hit it off. Anna's failing business leaves her heavily in debt, however, so she decides to patch things up with her ex-husband. Now Chok-Leung has to make a choice between the two women.
A guy experiences paranormal activities in his house. He thinks it might be a ghost or a dark spirit, but the actual situation is worse then it seems.
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
Brothers Felipe and Eduardo spend a quiet weekend with each other's girlfriend. They like the girls' grandmother's old house. The deceased grandmother's old house plunges them into a nightmare when they discover a dark family secret hidden for generations in The Countess.
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Lucía and Adrián take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Lucía uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Responding to an urgent call for help, a police officer becomes trapped by the evil spirits of a cursed house.
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
When a group of young Spanish tourists travel to Venice for a bachelorette party, they are met by angry locals who are not keen on foreigners and soon they find themselves fighting for their lives.
Follows an "ultra-violent and intelligent" psychopath who challenges the police by leaving a white paper rabbit at each crime scene, connecting them all.
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
A man returns to his father's cabin where he spent a good part of his childhood and where his younger sister drowned.
