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Anthology Movies
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Mostly horror anthologies, from genre classics that defined a generation to direct to VHS trash forgotten for a reason.
Creepshow 3 forever remains the worst anthology I’ve subjected myself to.


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Movie: Creepshow ( 1982 )
Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
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Movie: Creepshow 2 ( 1987 )
"Creepshow 2" is divided into three stories, conducted by a leading segment where a boy that loves the horror comic book Creepshow buys seeds of carnivorous plant and is bullied by four teenagers. Meanwhile the Creep tells the tales of Creepshow: (1) "Old Chief Wood'nhead" - The elders Ray (George Kennedy) and Martha Spruce (Dorothy Lamour) have lived their whole life and raised their family with their small store in an Arizona town. Now the town is economically decadent and Ray gives credit to his customers; including the Indians of Ben Whitemoon's tribe. When Ray is repairing the wooden statue of an old chief in the front door, Ben (Frank Salsedo) arrives and asks him to keep the jewels of his tribe as a guarantee for their debts. However, Ben's nephew Sam (Holt McCallany) unexpectedly arrives with two other punks to steal Ray, and he kills the elders. They expect to travel to Hollywood, but the Old Chief Wood'nhead will not let them go. (2) "The Raft" - The teenagers Deke (Paul Satterfield) and Randy (Daniel Beer) travel with Laverne (Jeremy Green) and Rachel (Page Hannah) to a lake expecting to smoke weed, swim and get laid. They swim to a raft that is floating in the middle of the lake, but they discover a carnivorous blob in the lake that is hungry. (3) "The Hitchhiker" - In Maine, the unfaithful Annie Lansing (Lois Chiles) stays too long having sex with her escort and is late to meet her husband in the airport. She drives her Mercedes Benz in a hurry and loses control on the road. Annie runs over a hitchhiker, but she does not help the man and hit-and-run, questioning whether she can live with the situation. She discovers that the hitchhiker will not leave her.
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Movie: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie ( 1990 )
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Movie: Twilight Zone: The Movie ( 1983 )
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
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Movie: Dead of Night ( 1977 )
This anthology tells three stories: one of time travel, one of vampires, and one of a mother wishing her drowned son back to life.
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Movie: Trilogy of Terror ( 1975 )
Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.
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Movie: Trilogy of Terror II ( 1996 )
Three short tales of terror including: woman's encounter when attempting to rob a grave; the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and tale of an African doll who comes to life.
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Movie: Memories ( 1995 )
"Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose," four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman's memories. In "Stink Bomb," a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tôkyô. The final episode, "Cannon Fodder," depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.
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Movie: Trick 'r Treat ( 2007 )
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
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Movie: Tales from the Crypt ( 1972 )
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
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Movie: The Vault of Horror ( 1973 )
An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.
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Movie: Cat's Eye ( 1985 )
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
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Movie: From a Whisper to a Scream ( 1987 )
In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.
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Movie: Tales from the Hood ( 1995 )
A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
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Movie: Deadtime Stories ( 1986 )
A babysitting uncle tells his nephew three horror stories about killer witches, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
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Movie: Tales of Terror ( 1962 )
Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.
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Movie: Twice-Told Tales ( 1963 )
Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In t...Read all
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Movie: Asylum ( 1972 )
In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.
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Movie: Tales That Witness Madness ( 1973 )
A psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.
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Movie: The Uncanny ( 1977 )
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.
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Movie: Dead of Night ( 1946 )
An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.
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Movie: Torture Garden ( 1968 )
An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.
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Movie: Extraordinary Tales ( 2015 )
An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
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Movie: Books of Blood ( 2020 )
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Movie: Tale of Tales ( 2016 )
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
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Movie: Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics ( 1994 )
Two stories written by Rod Serling and intended for his seminal television anthology series are presented.
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Movie: Body Bags ( 1993 )
Three short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player.
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Movie: Two Evil Eyes ( 1991 )
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
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Movie: Necronomicon: Book of Dead ( 1994 )
H.P. Lovecraft, the well-known horror writer, is looking in the late thirties after the book 'Necronomicon'. He finds it guarded by monks in an old library. He then copies some stories from it, which unfold for our eyes- and his...
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Movie: After Midnight ( 1989 )
Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
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Movie: The Willies ( 1990 )
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.
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Movie: Grim Prairie Tales ( 1990 )
A cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.
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Movie: Nightmares ( 1983 )
Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.
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Movie: Screams of a Winter Night ( 1979 )
An anthology in which a group of college coeds spending a winter's night in a remote cabin pass time by telling scary stories to each other.
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Movie: Screamtime ( 1985 )
A trilogy of three improbable stories of horror and the supernatural are combined into this low budget thriller: "That's the Way to Do It," "Dreamhouse,," and "Do You Believe in Fairies?"
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Movie: Dark Whispers: Volume 1 ( 2021 )
A young woman inherits her mother's Book of Dark Whispers only to discover 10 disturbing tales within its pages. Starring Andrea Demetriades, Asher Keddie and Anthony LaPaglia, the Dark Whispers anthology is brought to you by 11 female filmmakers from across Australia.
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Movie: Campfire Tales ( 1997 )
A group of teens entertain themselves by telling an anthology of famous urban legends with a modern twist; including make-out-point, monsters, psychopaths, and ghosts.
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Movie: Tales of Halloween ( 2015 )
Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.
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Movie: Lore ( 2023 )
Four friends arrange a ghostly excursion, their guide asks them each to tell the scariest story they have ever heard, but little do they know, those stories would have major consequences for them and others.
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Movie: The Mortuary Collection ( 2020 )
A creepy old mortician manages a very strange mortuary all alone until a young woman shows interest in working for him. The mortician tells the young apprentice a series of stories about those that have died in the town.
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Movie: A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio ( 2019 )
Rod, radio DJ, hosts a popular horror-themed show packed with tales of terror for eager listeners. When he receives alarming calls from a horrified child things start to feel off.
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Movie: Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker ( 2022 )
Candy is a late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories. One of her listeners begins to call her insistently. Candy quickly discovers that there is a strange connection between them. Soon she will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.
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Movie: Terror Tract ( 2001 )
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.
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Movie: Blood Immortal ( 2019 )
Follows three generations of vampire women that find their lives put into jeopardy by their environmental and economic surroundings.
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Movie: Termination ( 2019 )
A faulty prototype of man-engineered human, whose systematic flaw causes her to kill people when she loses control, has to convince her reluctant Creator to terminate her.
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Movie: The Penny Dreadful Picture Show ( 2013 )
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House."
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Movie: Tales from the Hood 3 ( 2020 )
As William, a lumbering man in his 50s, and Brooklyn, a six-year-old child, try to outrun an unseen evil, Brooklyn decides to tell William four moralistic but deeply horrific stories to distract herself from the impending danger. The first story deals with a greedy real estate agent, David, who burns down an apartment to drive its last remaining tenants, The Bradford Family, out of their home. The second story concerns some frat boys who throw a white supremacist party, and the American Terrorist, Psycho Johnny, who puts a violent end to the party. The third story revolves around a struggling singer, Chela, and her rich employer, Miss Marie Bastille, who Chela wants to kill and use her money to further her career. The fourth story is about a petty thief who ends up killing one of his victims and becomes cursed in the aftermath of his sin.
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Movie: Evil Little Things ( 2020 )
A young boy finds a mystical toymaker with stories to tell. The first is of a leprechaun seeking revenge on a defenseless family. The second is of a doll who works evil on her fragile owner. The toymaker gives the boy a clown named Giggles. Clowns are supposed to be the guardians of happiness, right? These Evil Little Things will cause you many sleepless nights.
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Movie: The Invoking 2 ( 2015 )
"Although hundreds of disturbing paranormal events occur every year, most of these chilling encounters go unreported - until now. Bear witness as hapless victims experience the unspeakable terror of confronting demonic forces, murderous poltergeists and other evil entities that are dead set on claiming their souls. Descend into an abyss of waking nightmares as these bloodthirsty, malevolent spirits seek to possess their prey and drag them-kicking and screaming-down to hell."
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Movie: Invoking 5 ( 2018 )
In the latest chapter of the chilling horror franchise, The Invoking 5: phantoms, paranormal events are captured around the globe in what might be the largest scale haunting ever recorded in human history.
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Movie: Strange Frequency ( 2001 )
A Rock 'n Roll version of the Twilight Zone, with stories featuring a talent agent with an ironic curse, a homicidal hippie and the Disco Club from Hell.
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Movie: Two-Fisted Tales ( 1992 )
Stories of an Old West gunfighter's last stand, a drag racer whose past comes back to haunt him, and WWI soldier's cowardice are introduced by the foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush. All segments were also in "Tales from the Crypt."
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Movie: Creepshow 3 ( 2007 )
This second sequel to Creepshow (1982) features five new tales of horror: "Alice", "The Radio", "Call Girl", "The Professor's Wife", and "Haunted Dog".