Robert Englund

Robert Englund

Date of Birth: 06 Jun 1947

Country: USA

Biography: Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and voice-actor, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Englund is a classically trained actor. (Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 84 (Actor), 2 (Director)

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    Freddy Vs. Jason
    Get ready for the ultimate showdown! Freddy Krueger, the psychopath from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series resurrects Jason Voorhees, the equally iconic madman from the "Friday the 13th" film series. With a terrified town in the middle, the two titans of terror enter into a horrifying showdown of epic proportions, alternating between the world of dreams and the harsh reality of the living world. Who will win and who will lose in this battle to end all battles? (New Line Cinema)
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    Urban Legend
    A college coed suspects that murders around her campus are connected to Urban Legends. (imdb)
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
    Following up the previous Nightmare film, dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids (imdb)
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
    As Freddy Krueger continues his murdering, the kids, led by Freddie's main opponent in the first film, prepare to fight back. (imdb)
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy\
    A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world.
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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
    Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again... (imdb)
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    Freddy\
    Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager. (imdb)
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    Wes Craven\
    Freddy Kreuger, upset that he was killed off in the last "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie, attempts to murder his creators and actors from his previous films. (imdb)
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    Stay Hungry
    A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic"... (imdb)
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    Eaten Alive
    A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people whom upset him or his business, and feeds their bodies to a large crocodile he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel. (imdb)
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    Strangeland
    A schizophrenic sadist by the name of Captain Howdy lures teens through the internet into his painful traps... (imdb)
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    Dead & Buried
    A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life. (imdb)
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    Wishmaster
    A demonic djinn attempts to grant its owner three wishes, which will allow him to summon his brethren to earth. (imdb)
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    Python
    Python (2000) - TV Movie
    It's New Haven, California and there's a new visitor in town. Who is it? Why, it's a sixty-foot long serpentine death machine; a creature which strips all the living flesh from its victims, and grows stronger and more violent with every attack. So what are you going to do, citizens of N.H.? Are you going to run or are you going to fight?
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    2001 Maniacs
    Eight college students traveling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia where they are set upon by the residents whom are out to avenge their deaths by Union troops over 100 years earlier during the Civil War. (imdb)
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    Dance of the Dead
    Dance of the Dead (2005) - Season 1, Episode 3
    In a post-apocalyptic American society, the population has been decimated by nuclear terrorist attacks and flesh-dissolving nuclear fallout. Among the ruins, a naive young teenager named Peggy (Jessica Lowndes) gets involved with a drug-stoked biker (Jonathan Tucker) and his friends, against her overprotective mother's protests... (imdb)
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    Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    The world's next great psych-slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them. (Anchor Bay Entertainment)
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    The Mangler
    Detective John Hunton is investigating an iron folding machine that has found a taste for eating people. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill Gartley, the owner, wants to find new victims for his machine. (imdb)
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    Hatchet
    When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare. (imdb)
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    Dance Macabre
    A dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality--and his hidden personality is a serial killer. (imdb)
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    C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud
    A couple of teenagers break into a secret government science lab and steal a frozen corpse for a high school prank and accidently awaken the corpes which turns out to be a CHUD, ironically named Bud, who goes on a killing spree and making his victims also canabalistic CHUD's and its up to the teens to stop him. (imdb)
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    Galaxy of Terror
    As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence? (imdb)
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    The Paper Brigade
    The Paper Brigade (1997) - Direct-to-Video
    Gunther Wheeler, fourteen, a city tough-guy from New York moves to a small town called Pleasant Valley. Gunther isn't making very many friends in his new town. Until he meets Allison Robbins a beautiful blond girl his age, the girl of his dreams... (imdb)
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    Black Swarm
    Black Swarm (2007) - TV Movie
    After moving back to their hometown, a mother and daughter discover the town is under attack by mutant wasps which are turning all of their old friends into drones.
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    Zombie Strippers
    In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back. (IMDB)
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    V
    V (1983) - TV Mini-Series
    When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.
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    St. Ives
    Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents. (imdb)
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    Red
    A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
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    Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
    As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, Jack's Professor undergoes a transformation into something not-quite- human, and Jack is forced to confront some old demons... along with a few new ones.
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    The Phantom of the Opera
    Christine Day is a young Broadway singer in New York City. She is auditioning for a show and comes across a piece of music written by an unknown music composer named Erik Destler nearly 100 years before. Erik had made a pack with the devil so the world would love his music, but the devil had one condition: that Erik's face would be horribly disfigured forever. She is coached by this mysterious figure who will do anything to make her the star of the opera even if it means murdering people. (imdb)
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    Nobody Knows Anything!
    For Sarah Wilder making a movie in Hollywood looked easy. With the guidance of her has been screenwriter uncle this sexy aspiring filmmaker embarks on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she encounters crazy studio executives insane producers and a gangster who agrees to finance her film for a price. In an effort to find the universal truth about movies sex and life Sarah comes across a cast of zany characters and to her surprise discovers that NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING! (Amazon)
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    Mysterious Two
    Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them. (imdb)
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    Slashed Dreams
    A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists. (imdb)
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    Night Terrors
    A young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, and becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Chevalier, who is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade. (imdb)
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    The Fifth Floor
    Drugged disco waitress has her civil rights violated in a mental asylum. (Chas. Balun)
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    Starquest II
    Four brave warriors from earth must save the earth from being taken over by extraterrestrials who will do anything to save their own race, including exterminate the human race. (rottentomatoes.com)
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    Starflight: The Plane That Couldn\
    The fictional story of the first "hypersonic" commercial passenger plane, which can make the flight from New York to London in a mere four hours. On the maiden flight of this plane, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere... (imdb)
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    V: The Final Battle
    V: The Final Battle (1984) - TV Mini-Series
    The Battle begun in the Miniseries 'V' continues. The war is told from the view point of the resistance group based in Los Angeles, CA as they struggle to find weaknesses of the aliens they can exploit. In addition, not all the aliens feel their invasion was right, and also work to stop the war (imdb)
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    Wish You Were Dead
    Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper. (imdb)
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    The Great Smokey Roadblock
    Fonda plays a worn-out trucker named Elegant John. Anxious to make one last, big haul before retiring, Fonda loses his 18-wheeler to the repo men. He steals his rig back, then further thumbs his nose at the law by hauling a group of prostitutes across the border as a favor to his old flame, bordello madam Eileen Brennan. (allmovie.com)
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    Buster and Billie
    Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance. But when his buddies forget she's no longer the crew slut she once was, watch out!! (imdb)
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    Mind Over Murder
    A young woman begins to have nightmares where she believes that time stands still and she can see and hear future events. In her nightmares she keeps seeing an evil bald man. Her doctor can't figure out what is happening, but a government agent who hears about her visions tries to help her, as he is investigating a plane crash that appears to involve the bald man she keeps seeing. (imdb)
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    Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
    A documentary spanning the origins and life of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, from the first film up until Freddy vs. Jason.
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    Don\
    The story centers around Brian Anderson, a soldier who is only out for his own neck, who ends up drawn into taking care of orphans in a nearby orphanage, keeping a promise to a friend who was killed in action. At first, he views the task with a degree of annoyance, then slowly begins to warm up to the orphans, risking his life and his career to protect them. Robert Englund played the role of Tripper. Susan Saint James played a doctor and the love interest to Brian Anderson. (wikipedia)
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    The Perfect Scary Movie
    A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre. (imdb)
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    Scream: The Inside Story
    In 1996, the horror master Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) unleashed Scream, a slasher movie aimed at a whole new generation of teenage movie-goers. (imdb)
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    The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue
    A pet-eating Mole Man with a thirst for human blood is running amok amidst brothers Jarmon and Marion's apartment complex. The two slumlords must do whatever it takes to hunt down the elusive beast before the few remaining tenants catch on. (FilmBalaya.com)
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    Inkubus
    Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. (imdb)
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    Perfect Target
    Perfect Target (1997) - Direct-to-Video
    A soldier now a mercenary, has been brought to a foreign country by a former associate to aid in the security of that country's president. But it appears that he's been set up as the man to take the fall for the president's assassination. He escapes and joins the rebels to clear his name and to expose the true person behind the president's assassination. (imdb)
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    The Unspoken Truth
    A young wife and mother is convinced by her abusive husband to confess to a murder that he committed. When both are convicted and sent to prison, the woman's older sister tries to win custody of her niece and free her sister from jail. In the process, she must reveal a family secret that has been hidden for 20 years. Inspired by a true story. (TCM.com)
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    Strippers vs Werewolves
    When werewolf chief Jack Ferris is accidentally killed in a strip club the girls who work there have until the next full moon before his bloodthirsty wolfpack seek murderous retribution. (imdb)
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    Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
    Prequel follows Jim Bickerman, a poacher who discovers that his local lake is inhabited by man-eating crocodiles. (imdb)
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    Sanitarium
    Three stories of the mentally ill: 1. Artist begins taking orders from the dolls he exhibits. 2. Eight year old boy, cruel father, concerned teacher and hallucinatory monster come into conflict. 3. Professor convinced of the Mayan apocalypse prophesies, builds bomb shelter to save his family (imdb)
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    Bloodbrothers
    A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own. (imdb)
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    Heartstopper
    Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff. (imdb)
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    Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
    Inspired by the critically-acclaimed book, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th takes viewers behind the mask on an epic journey into the making of the landmark horror franchise-from its humble beginnings in 1980 at a New Jersey summer camp to the blockbuster release of its 2009 reboot. (imdb)
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    Good Day for It
    After being forced years before to abandon his wife and daughter, a man finds himself risking his life. (imdb)
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    I Am Nancy
    In the autobiographical I AM NANCY, the focus is squarely on Heather Langenkamp and her unique experience playing Wes Craven's legendary teen heroine Nancy Thompson. Heather asks the burning question: "Why Freddymania, and not Nancymania?" After personally experiencing the Freddy Krueger marketing craze, the rise of horror convention fandom and the phenomenon of eight Nightmare On Elm Street films, Heather reflects on the relevance of heroes in this modern age of monster lovers. (imdb)
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    Kantemir
    A group of actors gather in a remote Northeastern town to rehearse for a mysterious stage production, only to be plunged into a hellish world where their real lives mirror the grisly story of the play (imdb)
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    The Last Showing
    A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
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    Fear Clinic
    A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention which induces and controls hallucinations. (imdb)
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    Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
    Robert Englund is an actor of the rarest kind: someone who doesn't give a damn what people think of the kind of film he's in and will give you the best performance time after time. Like Frank Langella as Skeletor, Robert Englund as Freddy will always be remembered! (youtube.com)
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    Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
    A giant crocodile goes head to head with a giant Anaconda. The town sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town. (imdb)
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    Freddy\
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    V
    V (1984) - TV Series
    A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now some humans are knowingly working with them. (imdb)
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    The Sexy Dark Ages
    Coming soon to Showtime, the home of The Tudors and The Borgais, another new sexy, steamy show about the dark ages starring Robert Englund & Natalie Zea & Diora Baird who show us just how sexy those times were
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    Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
    Joseph Kennedy Jr. was the eldest son of the Kennedy clan. He grew up having to deal with being humiliated and the prejudices of being an Irish Catholic. His father then tells him that the best way to get back at them is make a big impact in politics, in other words to one day be the President of the United States, and he wishes to do so.
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    The Funhouse Massacre
    Six of the world's scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror. (imdb)
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    Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation
    Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund. (imdb)
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    Nightworld
    When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Once he begins to delve deeper into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world. (imdb)
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    The Horror Hall of Fame
    The Horror Hall of Fame was an annual Oscars-style award show hosted by Robert Englund which honored the best horror films, television series, actors, producers and special-effects designers. It ran for three years from 1990 to 1992. At the end of Horror Hall of Fame III, the host promised a Horror Hall of Fame IV, but it never happened. (wikipedia)
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    My Name Is Buck: A Look Back at \
    Interview with Robert Englund about shooting "Eaten Alive".
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    The Midnight Man
    A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them. (imdb)
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    Culto al Terror
    A documentary exploring the global horror festival circuit and the community around it. (imdb)
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    Never Too Young to Die
    A secret agent is murdered, and his son--a high school gymnast--teams up with a spy to catch the man who killed him. (imdb)
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    Meet the Deedles
    Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge. (imdb)
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    La lengua asesina
    This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. (imdb)
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    Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!
    A special featuring some of the most famous films along with Screenwriters, Academics and Critics as they guide through the funny, weird and controversial clichés which appear on the screens. (imdb)
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    Supernatural
    Supernatural (2005) - TV Series
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    To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
    The emotional story of Kane Hodder who survived a harrowing childhood and near-death accident to become one of films biggest and most beloved horror icons. (imdb)
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    Choose or Die
    After firing up a lost 80s survival horror game, a young coder unleashes a hidden curse that tears reality apart, forcing her to make terrifying decisions and face deadly consequences. (imdb)
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    Natty Knocks
    A small-town babysitter and the kids she is looking after struggle to survive a serial killer on Halloween Eve.
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    Justice League
    Justice League (2001) - TV Series
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