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The Amityville Horror (1979) | Stuart Rosenberg
The Amityville Horror is based on a popular novel by Jay Anson with a little longer title, "The Amityville Horror - A True Story". The true story is, at this point, well known to be fictitious, but it did give the public quite a rise for a while.
Poltergeist III (1988) | Gary Sherman
Heather O'Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein are the only players from the first two films to cross over into the light of Poltergeist III. Here, O'Rourke's character, Carol Anne, seemingly dumped by her parents for reasons unknown,
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) | Brian Gibson
Poltergeist II: The Other Side seeks to give more back story to the events of the first film, why the youngest child in the Freeling family had been wanted by the spirits, and the nature of the cult from which the spirits culminated,
Poltergeist (1982) | Tobe Hooper
In the film, a family of five known as the Freelings lives in idyllic suburbia – or so they think. Strange things begin to occur in the house shortly after their cherubic 5-year-old daughter (Heather O'Rourke) begins receiving communication from someo...
Beetlejuice (1988) | Tim Burton
Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) love the little home in the country they've built for themselves, but after they are killed in a freak accident and come back as ghosts, they are appalled to find that their house has been sold to ...
Ghostbusters II (1989) | Ivan Reitman
Five years after the events of Ghostbusters, the heroes are zeroes again, bankrupt after getting sued by the city for the destructive aftermath of clearing out the city of spooks. There’s also a Federal restraining order prohibiting them from continue...
Ghostbusters (1984) | Ivan Reitman
Ghostbusters centers on three university researchers (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis) of paranormal activity who go into business of their own once they get into trouble for their uncouth antics, and their grant money runs out.
Prince of Darkness (1987) | John Carpenter
The diary of a reclusive priest named Father Carlton reveals a centuries-old secret sect in the Church called the Brotherhood of Sleep. Carlton was on the verge of revealing their existence to the Archbishop that Brotherhood is guarding an ancient cyl...
The Stuff (1985) | Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen concocts this comedic horror-thriller involving an ex-FBI agent turned industrial spy hired by a desperate ice cream industry, trying to steal the secret formula from a corporation pushing a newly marketed yogurt-like food substance called ...
The Blob (1988) | Chuck Russell
The Blob suddenly appears after crashlanding in a rural area outside of the fictional ski resort town of Arborville, CA. It attaches itself to the hand of a vagrant, Star high school wide receiver Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and his cheerleader crush ...