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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps...
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English
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1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. within five years three more people die on the property--...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial. And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she's moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister's killer and a courtroom full...
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
The bat: Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a remote mansion for the summer. One night, a prowler tagged "The Bat" invades the guarded house, terrorizing Cornelia and her maid. The resourceful novelist decides to set a trap to capture "The Bat."
House on haunted hill: The owner of a haunted house offers five strangers $10,000 to spend the night there. They soon regret accepting his offer.
The last man on earth: Thinking himself the only...
5) Frailty
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death
6) Lost souls
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], 2000
Language
English
Description
For 2000 years, he has feasted on pain, sown the seeds of chaos ... and waited. But now, the Devil will take human form and plunge humanity into eternal darkness-- unless one woman can stop him. Maya Larkin (Ryder) must race against time and all the forces of evil to convince a born skeptic (Chaplin) that he's the unwitting, chosen pawn in a shocking Satanic conspiracy that will end the world as we know it
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English
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"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
8) Silent Hill
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Rose cannot accept the medical diagnosis that her daughter, who suffers nightmarish trances, is going insane. Over the protests of her husband, Rose flees with their child, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill. There, Rose is hoping that Sharon's trances can be explained. It is revealed that the town had been evacuated thirty years earlier due to an unstoppable, still burning underground coal fire. A local motorcycle cop ends up pursuing Rose and Sharon...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
After his wife is found dead, David decides to take his child, Emily, to live in a house upstate. She finds a weird imaginary friend named Charlie. He likes to play games, and is jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad.
10) Silver nitrate
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English
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
11) The Wraith
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Supernatural tale pitting The Wraith against a bizarre and brutal band of young, drag-racing delinquents who have been wreaking havoc on a small Arizona town
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When an archaeological expedition opens anc ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh, Talos, is unleashed. Sir Richard Turkel sacrifices his own life to destroy the tomb and contain Talos before he all the team is lost. Years later, Sir Richard's granddaughter sets out to finish Sir Richard's work, and rewakens the supernatural terror of the mummified Talos
Series
Shout select volume 17
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront...
14) The Bride
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Dr. Frankenstein builds the perfect woman and lives to regret it, as Frankenstein's creations look for their place in the world
15) The lighthouse
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) fight each other for survival and sanity on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind horror masterpiece The Witch. Nominated for an **Academy Award**. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
16) Hereditary
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more she discovers, the more he family finds themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a...
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English
Description
What could possibly be more suited to the always-quotable wisecracks of beloved SOL captive Joel Robinson and his faithful robot sidekicks Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot than a monster movie about a giant flying turtle? The answer is 4 other movies about same flying turtle! Behold all five Gamera episodes from the particularly fertile third season of the long-running cult comedy television series! Episodes include: Gamera, Gamera vs Barugon, Gamera vs...
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Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on very real and practical commentary, life experience, and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek-misfortunes of horror legends, Necessary Death explores how the horror genre, its motifs and characters, offer individuals a unique opportunity for insight and understanding of their own lives. Necessary Death looks back on several iconic horror films and finds that maybe the genre wasn't ever really just about men in hockey masks chasing good looking...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's...
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