Questions tagged [horror]
For questions looking to identify a story in the horror genre that also contains elements of science-fiction and fantasy. Always use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag. Also use for questions about the genre as a whole. Do NOT use to classify works of fiction.
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What's the title of the movie where flesh and muscle monsters eat humans
These flesh/muscle like monsters walk very fast and can even run. They can hear noises and are strong. Most establishments' doors and windows are blocked. I remember parts of the movie where
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Name of film with a little girl with an alien inside her body?
I want to know the name of a film with a little girl, (a child or perhaps 12 years old, tops) with an alien inside her body.
This little girl still acts like a normal girl her age, in other words she'...
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Books about twin girls that are captured and surgically experimented on
I read a young adult book several years ago that was about twin girls that had been captured by either fictional Nazis or it was set in a dystopian world. They were experimented on by being injected ...
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Short horror story where man's subconscious gives him phone-calls
So I was reading "I Am Legend" and when I finished it I found a couple more extra short horror stories tied in within the book so I assume they were also written by Richard Matheson. The ...
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A manga about a homeless girl and her little brother finding a house that connects to another world
A manga about a girl and her little brother having to stay in other people's houses, then finding a house that connects to another world that's full of evil.
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Horror, thriller manga/manhwa about a girl who suicided ended up being a ghost, hoping to escape the realm by achieving the specific time
I can vaguely remember seeing this Manga/Manhwa on a Facebook page about 4, 5 years ago and I haven't finished reading it so I only remember the first few parts. Also I tried to search the page for it ...
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UK horror movie involving a team of University students studying and documenting a possessed girl they keep locked in room
I believe this horror movie was based in the UK. The movie began on a University campus. A team of university students and their professor take this possessed girl to an isolated house in the country ...
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Horror movie where a girl gives a boy a necklace for protection against an entity that ends up killing his mother
I was seven or eight and I believe it was in 2011. It was on the Syfy channel. I believe there was a sequel as well. All I remember is the scene from the beginning.
A young girl goes into a boys house ...
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Manga in which a bus or car crashes, leaving three survivors in a cursed forest or island
I remember seeing this manga, I think on Tapas, but I'm not sure.
I don't remember too much of it, though I strongly remember this scene: a bus crashes/car crashes and the people fall into this river ...
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Horror film involving a haunted house and a girl with powers who makes giant rocks fall into a house
The film is about a haunted house. In it appears a girl with powers. There is a scene where the dog next door is barking at her and she makes giant rocks fall into the house.
The movie ends with ...
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In Camp Slaughter, does Mario discuss being gay with Ruben?
In Camp Slaughter, a Groundhog Day style slasher film involving a group of teens from the 2000s getting stranded in a summer camp trapped in the 1980s, there is a character named Ruben who exhibits a ...
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Old horror/sci-fi/cult/campy movie, cabin in woods with a big monster with one eye & white hair
I'm looking for this old horror movie, cult or campy, maybe sci-fi and possibly independent. Definitely before the year 2000.
Cabin setting in the woods, the monster was big, one cyclopean eye, huge ...
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Looking for children’s scary story/anthology book, published before 2001, with a girl taken away by owl creatures
The only story I can remember in the book was about a girl who was warned not to open/look out of her window at night or she would be taken. And she was taken by scary owl creatures that carried her ...
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Horror movie that takes place on a Nazi ship
This starts on a cruise liner whose captain (I think played by George Kennedy) for some reason was disillusioned with his lot in life. One night, something crashes into and sinks the liner; only the ...
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Pre 90s sci-fi horror media with a teenager finding a machine in foreign neighbour's trash that created orbs that burnt through people
This is something that has been plaguing me for years, I have a rough memory of it as I saw it as a child. It was playing on daytime television in Australia in the early 90s.
American suburbia, main ...
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Old black & white horror movie (maybe on Shock Theater) where a man escapes a mansion then a lightning rod impales him
I watched a movie in the mid 1970s as a child and would really love to see it again with my 13 year old son. It could have been on Shock Theater. It was a very old black and white movie, possibly 30s ...
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Short story about a man who synthetizes a drug that turns him into an underground monster?
I read this short story sometime between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. I read it in an anthology of weird or sci-fi horror fiction that included translated stories rather than original English ...
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Short horror story about a glass monster
I have been searching for a story I read in the early 2000s. I have a vague memory about the story being about a glass blower finding a weird spot of sand on the beach and making something out of it. ...
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Horror short story about a man looking into another world of always happy people. He eventually enters, and they rush him and eat him
It's a short story, by a very well-known but not recent horror writer. It's at least 25 years since I read it, and it wasn't new then.
It was about a man, perhaps a scientist, who discovered a portal ...
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Can anyone identify this early 90s horror story about a monster using a grapling hook to catch people
I bought this book in 1993/1994 from a cheap book store.
It was a grisly horror about some "monster" creature that lived on top of buildings in a New York like city. It would swing a ...
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Horror movie where girls are held captive by a man who is white, in good shape, and can crawl on ceilings and walls
Girls are held captive. Man who is holding them is white, in good shape, and can crawl on ceilings and walls. Creepy guy. What is the movie name?
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1980s or early 90s horror movie featuring a sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti
I've been searching for this movie for many years now. I was born in 1989 and I was under 10 years old when I watched it on TV, so I assume it's a movie from the 80s or early 90s.
I'm gonna describe ...
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Very old telefilm about an invisible monster
This is very very old, probably from the '80s, if not before. I happened to watch it several years ago and it is extremely probable it is a telefilm, part of some sort of series.
Unfortunately, only ...
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Horror movie involving a mirror and someone cutting themselves with scissors [duplicate]
So I don't remember much beyond these three scenes:
A bathroom and scissors, someone cutting themselves with it.
A car where someone gets their neck pierced from behind.
A piece of a mirror stuck to ...
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Can anyone identify this reposted artwork of a Grey alien?
I love spooky paranormal stuff (though I don't believe a lick of it) and am curious to know the origins of this eerie illustration of a Grey alien. I've seen it reposted online a lot, but with no ...
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Short story where the protagonist is hired by a necromancer
Looking for the identity of a short story. Heard it on a podcast 5 or so years ago and I know there is a short story written somewhere.
A man is hired as an assistant to a necromancer because of his ...
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Horror movie where the hero is knowingly resurrected each day to kill and be killed
Every new day the guy (our hero is some sort of zombie or vampire) gets up from the dead to kill and be killed knowing that he is going to be resurrected the next day to kill again. A reverse Ground ...
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People in a rural area hide in warehouse, at end it’s 2 people left, guy leaves her for dead - she lives, then she leaves him to die on road
I saw this movie on Netflix when I was pretty young and the year it came out was maybe around 2012-2017 to be safe but I think mostly 2012-2015.
The main character was a girl with short brown/black ...
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What is the origin of the "suddenly you have no mouth" trope?
A fairly common trope in the fantasy/science fiction/horror genre is the sudden absence of one's mouth and the inability to breathe and/or scream.
Off the top of my head:
Neo in The Matrix and Black ...
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Horror Short Story from Dramatic Reading YouTube Channel
About a year ago, my wife and I were on a road trip and listened to a bunch of "Dramatic Readings" of various horror stories. Some were novelettes, like "The Dunwich Horror", some ...
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Comic book where giant alien creature is explored underground
The comic is about a group of scientists exploring a cavern filled with strange neonish colored bugs. They eventually figure out the cavern and creatures are parts of a giant alien creature that is ...
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Movie where a mad doctor creating an Frankenstein-type monster gets bitten by his creation
I saw this horror movie in the 80s when I was a kid. There was this scene where a doctor tries to revive a patient, kind of Frankenstein type, and puts his fingers inside the patient mouth only to get ...
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Looking for short horror story about two kids and a spell book
I’ve been looking around for a collection of short stories that contained one in particular. A brother and sister discover a book of magic in their grandparents’ basement. The girl begins using the ...
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Which horror film has this basement?
I remember a few years ago watching a horror film. I think a family of the mum and 2 sons had just moved in.
There was a trapdoor in the garage (I think) that was nailed down and they were told not to ...
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Horror story compilation, including a story about a child who looked out his window at night and saw a creature that had eyes like car headlights
I am trying to find a story compilation from the late '70s or early '80s.
The only story I can remember is about a child who looked out his window at night and saw a creature in the (bog , forest, ...
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A video poem/story about a stranded astronaut digesting himself
This only recently came back up in my memory, and for the life of me I cannot find it anywhere.
The video consisted of an increasingly worrying situation based around an astronaut, I believe male, who ...
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Movie about killer army ants, involving a partially devoured cow in a barn and a scene with a man driving around dropping dynamite into ant hills
In the 90's, I watched part of a color movie about a swarm of killer army ants. These were normal sized ants, it's just there were so many and they were so voracious that they were dangerous. I ...
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Movie about putting stones together or taking them apart to turn a father into a monster
I saw this movie along time ago when I was a kid. It’s a scary movie about a stone you can put the stones together and the father will turn into a monster or you could break the stone and the dad ...
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Sci-fi film about a fast-spreading black root infestation [duplicate]
This movie aired on SyFy during the mid-2000s. The basic plot was as follows:
The main character was a man in his thirties and the son of a scientist.
He had a map written on his body leading him to ...
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Cartoon/anime about kids exploring a haunted house/school
I hope paranormal/horror fiction is counted as fantasy here.
I am pretty sure it came out sometime in the 2000s or maybe like very late 90s even though I remember coming across this show in 2014 I ...
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Anime about a kid and ghost mother in a shrine or cemetery
I must have watched this somewhere around 2004-2007, at most 2010 but I doubt it. I don’t know if this is a short movie or an episode.
Its about a kid that gets to hang around in a forest-like place ...
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Supernatural book in which the main character was trapped in the cellar of a house, because his master was dating a witch who regained her memories
It’s a supernatural book. It took place in the medieval era. I remember reading it in middle school.
It had to do with a boy who got mentored by an old guy. These details are vague because I don’t ...
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Movie where they could extract people's memories through their eyes [duplicate]
I think I saw the trailer of this movie when I was a kid, so I could say it's from the early 2000s. I don't remember much about it, but I was both intrigued and terrified. I remember some kind of ...
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Manga/graphic novel where a girl is cursed and has to enter the memories of spirits to save them
Some 8 years ago I read some manga volumes in a very distinct style. Some words I think describe the style best is gothic and steampunk. It was in black and white but I vaguely remember the covers ...
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In what game do you play as a knight inside a ghost castle and you're supposed to save a girl
You're a knight fighting ghosts (white) in a ghost castle and you need to save a girl I think her hair is white and she is white too (kinda pale I think) It's probably in ps1 or ps2.
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Movie with a monster made from balls/spheres [duplicate]
I remember watching this movie somewhere around the 2000s (2000-2003 I think).
There was a humanoid monster looking like some kind of robot, made from white/silver balls or spheres. It moved between ...
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Looking for werewolf horror book where werewolves have to feed on graveyard corpses
Looking for a book I once found. Published late 70s, early 80s? Horror story where people killed by werewolf return to life as werewolves but find that they are cursed to feed on graveyard corpses.
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Movie where AI or robot wears skin of person and asks for spare parts
I have a distinct image in my head of a horror Sci fi movie from when I was little. I don't know specifics but I vaguely remember a scene where this group was hiding in this room where this killer ...
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Horror story about noblemen hunting creatures in a cave under a mansion
I am trying to identify a horror short story/novella I've read in a vampire-themed Italian anthology in the mid 2000s. The story was probably much older and written by a British or American author, ...
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Movie or TV episode about a possessed doll that a boy puts in a doll house with a necklace on it to contain it
Answered!!
It's called Shadow Zone Teacher ate my homework
A boy has a possessed doll. The doll makes the mom fall off a chair. The boy puts the doll in a doll house and put a necklace on the doll ...
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