
Psycho(1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.


“Locked in the cold asylum of his mind – a sane man stalks his prey...”
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

Max von Sydow
Salem

Trevor Howard
Inspector

Liv Ullmann
Ester Jenks

Per Oscarsson
Dr. Anton Jenks

Rupert Davies
Mr. Clemens

Andrew Keir
Dr. Kemp
Jimmy Kennedy
Carl

Arthur Hewlett
Pop
Hanne Bork
Emmie

Gretchen Franklin
Mrs. Hansen
The Night Visitor is a thriller, mystery, horror film released in 1971 exploring themes of prison, asylum, parrot, prison escape, revenge, murder. Directed by László Benedek, it stars Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann. An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.

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Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.

When Cassie's father finds himself vulnerable and bedridden, she believes she has the perfect revenge for her mother's death.

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.