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To what extent are child actors exposed to the violent aspects of the movie they perform in?

Some movies feature child characters put in violent situations. This can range from crude language to extreme horror (e.g. torture, gore, etc.). As an example, Child's Play and its sequel has plenty ...
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Identify this movie: man's wife turns back into a monster when he talks about it

I'd say it's a movie from the 80's or 90's. At one point the main character sees a monster in the street (I'd say at night, in an alley). It's quite a big monster and the monster can talk. They ...
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Was the original Evil Dead meant to be funny?

In The Evil Dead series of Sam Raimi movies, the two sequels are meant to be funny. But was that the intent of the original movie?
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Why is it 'Elm' in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'?

What does Elm depict in A Nightmare on Elm Street? Does Elm tree represent something bad in the horror context?
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Cultural Basis of Asian Ghost Lady

In a lot of Asian horror movies (particularly Japanese ones) a common motif is the ghost lady in white, with long black hair covering her face. The wide spread use of this image has led me to wonder ...
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Identify a movie where boy controls his family

I saw a movie when I was little. A woman hits a little boy with her car. The little boy took her home. He then turned out to have his whole family under his control. His sister locked in her room with ...
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Identify thriller/horror movie with mirrors

I remember watching parts of a movie on tv some years ago. I missed the beginning, and saw some parts from the middle and the end. I didn't really understand what was happening, but I can provide some ...
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Identify a horror movie: waitress

This movie was probably released around Titanic (1997), but not very sure. A young waitress was serving in a bar/night club and some drunk men put her on the table and asked her to dance. Then ...
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Why do many of the Hollywood horror movies use a mirror as a ghost's sign?

I've seen lot of Hollywood horror movies, and most of the directors using a mirror as a ghost's sign or ghosts using mirror as a medium to talk with humans. I couldn't understand what would be the ...
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What horror movie is this?

Approximately 30 years ago, I watched a horror movie which I have been trying to identify for years. The problem is that after so many years I don't remember a lot about the movie and the only things ...
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Why did Jigsaw choose Zep in Saw?

In Saw, at the end of the movie we learn that Zep was forced to hold the Gordons captive to obtain an antidote for the slow-acting poison in his body. However, this scene confuses me, because Zep ...
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Dead Alive relation with Evil Dead

Was Dead Alive influenced by Evil Dead ? I see that Dead Alive have a lot of the ideas of Evil Dead such as exaggerated blood bath, monster puppets and stuff. Is Evil Dead the pioneer of this type ...
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Why was the movie The Wicker Man dedicated to Johnny Ramone?

At the end of the movie The Wicker Man (the Nicholas Cage version not the original) after the fade to black and before the credits there is a screen that says "For Johnny Ramone" What was the reason ...
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How did Toshio die?

In the movie, The Grudge, near the end it is shown that- the father of the Japanese family have killed the mother (by chasing and stabbing her?) and have drowned the black cat. He has done this in ...
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Did Neil Marshall deliberately reference The Matrix in Dog Soldiers?

In the film Dog Soldiers by Neil Marshall, the following dialogue occurs between two characters: Where is Spoon? There is no Spoon The Spoon refernced int he dialogue was one of the ...
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A Horror movie where skeleton falls from tree and scratches woman's face [closed]

When my sister and I were younger we watched a lower quality horror movie with our uncle that had an impact on us, but we can't remember what the movie was called. We watched it in the early 90s, and ...
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Identify horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital

I tried googling this movie but couldn't find it out. I saw it originally around 2007 if I recall correctly, it's a horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital. The plot starts when a new ...
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Identify this movie about ghost bar/casino

I have tried to identify this movie since a long time. It seems like a 90's movies but I'm not sure. It's about different ghost like creatures, who come to a bar/casino where they play cards and ...
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Identify this movie with an insect-like evil creature

I watched a movie approx 5/6 years ago on TV and I don't remember its name and watched it only for 5 minutes. Now I want to watch it in full but do not know its name or any other detail. I only ...
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Identify a horror movie with a girl on a boat

I remember watching a small piece of a movie in which a girl is on a boat and she keeps on doing the same weird things. She then sees a note that she has written for herself and when she dies, she ...
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Why is it 9 in Psych:9?

Why is it 9 in Psych:9? I thought the film was a sequel to previous 8 films, but apparently there are no 8 prequels.
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Horror story writer moves with his family into a house where the previous family was murderered

I watched a movie a few months back. The movie starts with four people hanging on a tree. The hero is a writer of horror stories. He comes to a house along with his family. He finds a projector with ...
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Help identifying this vampire film

Genres- horror,slasher Story Start- The movie starts with a priest trying to kill two vampire girls but before he kills them, they cut him in the neck. Before turning into a bloodsucking vampire, ...
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What's causing the hauntings/posessions?

In Paranormal Activity 3, it is either alluded to or outright stated what is actually causing the hauntings/posessions that occur in the entire series. I can't for the life of me remember if it was ...
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Horror movie about man with hallucinations

Possible horror movie. A man with a beard (and maybe glasses), walks alone at night suffering from hallucinations and remembering things from his past too. We see a flashback of him as a child, ...
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Identify a Horror film about bees which convert human into zombies

I watched a horror movie approx 6 years before on TV about some kind of bee's which can turn human into Zombies by entering into their body mostly through their mouth or injuries . Many people become ...
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Movie about a haunted couple at their honeymoon in a cabin

I watched a horror movie about 4~5 years ago that it was a story about newly married couple who would spend their honeymoon in a remote house/cabin. Then strange things start to happen. They hear the ...
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Why does Tommy wear a hockey mask in the end of Friday the 13th:A New Beginning?

In the movie Friday the 13th:A New Beginning Roy is the one who is pretending to be Jason Vorhees and is the killer of the movie. But in the last scene of movie why is Tommy seen with a knife and ...
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I need the Title to this zombie film

A small group of teens are going to or leaving prom nite and they get hit by a truck transporting chemicals or something and it brings them back as zombies. I think it's a late 80S early 90s film and ...
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Which movie is this? It starts like a classic horror movie

Last year I've watched a trailer which starts like a classic horror movie; youth people go to a camp in a rural area and all the classic boring things happen. Then they find a building and an elevator ...
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Identify this film where boy chooses his life over his mothers in front of a ghost

Genre - horror Story - A boys journey throughout a road is shown. Where he faces different things. A dog(May be German Shepard ) which attacks him and many other weird things. The main plot is about ...
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The Burrowers: What happened in the end

What happens at the end? I watched it a few times but I don't understand it. Was it just a dream?
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Which horror movie is this?

It is about a few prisoners that are transported in a small van in to the country side, they managed to let the van stop and kill the cops with a big rock on his head (you see a dent in the head I ...
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I dentify this movie where son takes revenge of his father's death

A famous Marathi stage actor acts in this movie as a millionaire and owns several tea estates. His son and heir, 'Munna Babu' is mentally retarded and is always busy playing "kabaddi" and ...
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Understanding the end of YellowBrickRoad

The critics gave this movie some pretty bad ratings, but I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. However, the end bothers me to no end -- I just don't understand it. Is it that the main character was ...
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Scary movie, characters get stabbed at the end?

I saw this movie some years back, new at the time, so probably around 2008. At the end of the movie I found it very strange. Instead of something happening to save the main characters at the last ...
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Horror movie with Blind Ghosts

Posting for a friend. He saw this movie featuring "blind ghosts" on American broadcast television late at night sometime in the '70s. The ghosts were transparent, and had some sort of "film" over ...
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Children in Horror Movies [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: To what extent are child actors exposed to the violent aspects of the movie they perform in? Am I correct in thinking that children who make films which are rated at a ...
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Identify this thriller/horror movie

The scene depicts a father, who I believe has a shotgun slung around his back, searching for his son in what I believe is a house. He hears his son calling for him, shouting for help in a ghostly ...
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Explanation for why Jon Kramer says he is responsible for Jeffs kids death

In Saw 3 during the end and the paralelled Saw 4 movie, Jon said the reason he told Jeff that the reason he could kill him was because he ( Jon Kramer or Jigsaw) was the one responsible for his ...
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Horror movie where people get drunk on and forced to drink blood

This is a horror movie that I can't remember the title of. All I can remember is that the action happened in a castle or mansion. The people of this place got seemingly drunk on blood for some reason. ...
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Question about what happened to a door in the inn

At the end of the movie, The Innkeepers, why did the door to the room, where Claire was staying in, close? What did it symbolize?