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Mick Garris

Mick Garris

Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.

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Movies Starring Mick Garris (49)

The Thing Expanded (2026)

The ultimate companion to John Carpenter's "The Thing", digging deep into the proverbial iceberg to enhance your viewing experience with new insights, stories, and revelations. ...

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In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024)

Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s. ...

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House of Ashes (2024)

Grieving widow Mia must survive psychological and supernatural horrors while under house arrest. ...

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The Last Podcast (2024)

From the director of THE McPHERSON TAPE, comes a twisted dark horror comedy about ambitious podcast host Charlie Bailey and his podcast 'ParaNormalcy', which takes the mickey out of those who believe in ghosts. His girlfriend, Brie, wishes he wasn't so mea ...

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King on Screen (2023)

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world. ...

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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (2023)

In 1978, CBS aired the "Star Wars Holiday Special" the week before Thanksgiving to an audience of 13 million people. Considered one of the worst shows in television history, it aired only once. George Lucas tried to bury it and an infamous camp legend was ...

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In Search of Darkness: Part III (2022)

The conclusion to the 'In Search of Darkness' '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always enter ...

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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! (2022)

A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year. ...

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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)

Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and more. ...

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The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2022)

Philipp Escott returns to the roots of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, accompanied by familiar filmmakers and critics, delving into the reasons behind the movie's impact on an entire generation and its perpetuating legacy. ...

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Tales of the Uncanny (2020)

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films. ...

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Sky Sharks (2020)

A team of Arctic geologists stumble across an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis developed an incredible and brutal secret weapon during the final months of WW2. Deep in the ice, they accidentally awake a deadly army of flying zombie sharks ridden by ...

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In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)

The ultimate '80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehen ...

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Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)

A newly produced, feature-length documentary by filmmaker Daniel Griffith, featuring interviews with John Landis, David Naughton, Joe Dante and more ...

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All Hail the Popcorn King! (2019)

Made in cooperation with Joe Lansdale, we explore his life growing up in 1950's east Texas and how he has used his experiences to create what can only be described as his own genre. Our interviews with Joe, his family, friends, fans and colleagues gives u ...

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In Search of Darkness (2019)

An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema. ...

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The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 (2018)

Documentary about the 1988 follow-up film Critters 2. Features interviews with director Mick Garris; actors Liane Curtis, Don Opper, Terrence Mann, and Lin Shaye; producer Barry Opper; critters designers; and more. ...

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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash (2018)

Join us for a night of celebration, packed with celebrity guests and Hocus Pocus throwbacks, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ...

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Gods & Monsters (2018)

An interview of director Stuart Gordon conducted by filmmaker Mick Garris. ...

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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018)

A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more. ...

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Cult of Terror (2017)

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic ci ...

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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted cr ...

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The Rift (2016)

The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As th ...

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Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy (2016)

An in-depth look at the hidden meanings and blistering truth buried within Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which has long been considered the worst movie ever made. ...

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Tales of Halloween (2015)

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmare ...

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Digging Up the Marrow (2015)

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters. ...

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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012)

A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and ra ...

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Naschy of the Full Moon (2011)

An affectionate look back at the life and career of Paul Naschy from those who worked with him, admired him and spent time with him. Produced for the Arrow DVD release of The Man with the Severed Head (AKA Crimson). ...

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Produce Your Own Damn Movie! (2011)

When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxic Avenger and founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. Over the years he has discovered talents such as Trey Parker and ...

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The Psycho Legacy (2010)

The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror series, and modern masters of horror reminisce on what the movies stirred in them. ...

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The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry (2010)

King of Horror, legendary actor, scriptwriter and director, Paul Naschy is regarded as the Spanish Lon Chaney and the most prolific filmmaker dedicated to the fantastic cinema in Spain. ...

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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films. ...

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Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr. (2010)

A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr. ...

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The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth (2010)

A documentary produced for Universal about their early Wolf Man film(s) ...

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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre. ...

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Tales from the Script (2009)

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penet ...

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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX (2008)

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. ...

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Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2008)

Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem ...

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Carícia Fatal (2007)

Comedy/horror short film shot during a 4-day workshop of filmmaking at 2007's MOTELx Lisbon International Horror Film Festival. ...

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Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005)

Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection. ...

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Gotham Cafe (2005)

With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome. ...

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Riding the Bullet (2004)

In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has h ...

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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King. ...

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The Stupids (1996)

An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage. ...

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The Quick and the Dead (1995)

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman. ...

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Hooray for Horrorwood (1991)

Forrest J. Ackerman styles himself as the number-one fan of science fiction and horror movies, and he has the collection to back it up: more than 350,000 books, publicity stills, lobby cards, props, posters and paintings related to his obsession. ...

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Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)

A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller's success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Fi ...

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Take One: Fear on Film (1982)

Mick Garris hosts this look at horror films with John Carpenter, John Landis and David Cronenberg all discussing their favorite scare films as well as what they think makes them work. ...

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The Howling (1981)

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem. ...

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Movies Made By Mick Garris (44)

Clownado (2023)

Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, Elvis impersonator, truck driver, teen runaway, and a dude get caught in the supernatural battle between femme fatal and the boss clown from hell. ...

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Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem befo ...

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Nightmare Cinema (2018)

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmari ...

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Unbroken (2014)

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. ...

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Dream Cruise (2007)

Absolutely terrified of the sea, an American lawyer reluctantly goes on an ocean cruise to be near the wife of a client, with no idea of the grim situation that awaits them all. ...

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The Washingtonians (2007)

A family man unearths an old letter, claiming that historical figure George Washington was a cannibal, and that a colonial-era reenactment group may be upholding that way of life. ...

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We All Scream for Ice Cream (2007)

Years ago, they pulled a disastrous childhood prank on the neighborhood ice cream delivery man that got him killed, but now as they've become adults with families of their own, the last thing anyone expected was for that man to come back in the form of a v ...

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Valerie on the Stairs (2006)

Taken from a Clive Barker original screen story, tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity in this sexually-charged tale of terror. ...

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The Screwfly Solution (2006)

A strange virus renders the entire human male population into homicidal maniacs who end up wiping out all females, leaving a woman and her daughter to fend for themselves. ...

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Pelts (2006)

Jake Feldman is a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession with a stripper. When a sadistic backwoods trapper kills a strange group of pet raccoons, Jake knows their luxurious hides could make a coat that will change hi ...

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Chocolate (2006)

After eating a chocolate, a lonely, newly divorced young man who creates artificial flavorings for a living begins having turbulent psychic visions of a beautiful woman that he has never met. ...

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The V Word (2006)

Two curious teenage boys break into an old mortuary looking for thrills, only to find themselves stalked by a former teacher who is a very real vampire looking to increase the ranks of the undead. ...

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Family (2006)

Harold is a seemingly peaceful neighbor in a quiet mid-western neighborhood, but underneath, he's a murderous psychopath who sets his eyes on a couple that have moved in across the street. ...

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The Damned Thing (2006)

Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between a mysterious, invisible force that made his father kill his mother back in 1981. He sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "dammed thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to ...

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The Fair Haired Child (2006)

A creepy couple kidnaps a teenage outcast and locks her in their basement with their seemingly kindhearted adolescent son - who harbors a terrifying secret involving the forces of evil. ...

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Desperation (2006)

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives. ...

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Haeckel's Tale (2006)

A grieving widower seeking the help of a necromancer is told the terrible tale of Ernst Haeckel, a man obsessed with reanimation. ...

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Pick Me Up (2006)

In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect to anywhere, recently divorced Stacia, a passenger on a broken-down bus, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers. ...

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Cigarette Burns (2005)

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane. ...

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Homecoming (2005)

A hotshot White House speech writer deals with the publicity nightmare of his life when recently deceased soldiers return from beyond the grave. ...

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Dance of the Dead (2005)

In a post-apocalyptic society, seventeen-year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an interest in her, Peggy makes a decision that will change her life forever. ...

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Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005)

While driving at night on a mountain road, Ellen gets distracted and hits an abandoned car. When she tries to get help, she is attacked by a backwoods killer and must fight to stay alive. ...

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Riding the Bullet (2004)

In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has h ...

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The Judge (2001)

When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando Acosta. Now the judge Madiani will defend his innocence. ...

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Virtual Obsession (1998)

If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to downl ...

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Ghosts (1997)

In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town. ...

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Quicksilver Highway (1997)

Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpoc ...

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Amazing Stories: The Movie IV (1995)

Four tales are compiled from the popular television series. After a death row inmate (Patrick Swayze) is struck by lightning, he discovers he's received the Christ-like ability to heal others, prompting a race to save him from the electric chair. An author ...

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Hocus Pocus (1993)

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all. ...

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The Nightmare Begins Again (1993)

When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track star haunted by her mother's untimely death receives her mother's amulet that unlocks her ambitions and un ...

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Sleepwalkers (1992)

Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while sea ...

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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)

When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story. ...

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The Fly II (1989)

Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state. ...

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Critters 2 (1988)

Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs. ...

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*batteries not included (1987)

In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out. ...

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Amazing Stories (1986)

A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy, and Go to the Head of the Class. ...

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Fuzzbucket (1986)

In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him. ...

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The Making Of The Goonies (1985)

In this vintage behind the scenes featurette, director Richard Donner and storyteller Steven Spielberg talk about fantasy and realities that went into making Goonies the quintessential adventure classic it is today. ...

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The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984)

A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). ...

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The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1982)

A featurette made in 1982 to promote the new film by David Cronenberg, including interviews with the cast and crew. ...

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Coming Soon (1982)

Director John Landis has combed the vaults of Universal Studios, Hollywood's preeminent producer of horror films and edited them into this retrospective documentary featuring clips from preview trailers dating from Lon Chaney's 1923 "The Hunchback of Notre ...

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Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling' (1981)

Making-of featurette for 'The Howling' (1981) ...

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