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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A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
A manga or anime from the 90s where the protagonists have gems on their forehead and their hands can burn faces. Might be vampires?
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Story in which most people in town are reanimated dead people and don't know it
I have vague memories of a story. I am pretty sure it is a short story. I can't think how it would be fleshed out to be a novel, or movie. It is possible it might have been an episode of a TV show ...
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Science fiction or horror anthology book/audiobook about a science project robot that takes over a town
I'm looking to find the name or title of this book/audiobook from my childhood (I listened to it 1000 times in 1997). The main site was that 2 siblings have to fight one of their science projects (...
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Black and white horror movie where people have a mark on their palm and become voodoo-resurrected
I'm searching this movie for years. It starts inside a cafe, I think, on a rainy night. The protagonist sees his recently deceased brother passing outside. It has to do with a voodoo cult, people ...
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Horror webcomic about a sleepover where a girl is dared to kiss a boy but she's attacked by monsters in his room
I stumbled on a YouTube short. The comic is about a girl sleepover playing truth or dare until it was a tall black haired girl's turn and she was dared to kiss the hostess' brother. She accepts it and ...
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movie about vampire and a hunter
I recall seeing a movie on VHS from Blockbuster many years ago. It was about a vampire and a hunter, and there was also a young girl involved (perhaps because she fell in love with the vampire). In ...
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Help IDing an 80's Sci Fi movie featuring a helmet device that could identify any life form viewed from it
I was only allowed to watch the opening scene then was sent to bed.
A man had the helmet on and they were testing it by putting different animals in front of it.
The man took off the helmet and laid ...
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Horror movie in a desert town where people start to kill each other and there was a nearby destroyed radar dish station
I must have either watched it on Netflix or Shudder. Some main things I remember seeing was a satellite dish that gets destroyed, a dog that got sick, and some surviving teens had to hide out on a ...
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From what horror film does this clip of a man flying behind another originate?
I recently watched Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched, a documentary on the folk horror genre. It features clips of over 100 films, not all of which are flagged up to the viewer.
Toward the beginning ...
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From what horror film is this clip of a grey-skinned, clawed hand emerging from a tree root?
There are a lot of film clips used in the folk horror documentary, Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror, and as far as I can tell, not all them are identified for the viewer.
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Scifi horror book where nuclear war literally causes Hell on Earth
I believe it was published in the 2000s. Book starts off with a woman who gets to interview the president of the United States. While she is at the White House, Russia launches a bunch of nukes. The ...
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1990s horror movie, possibly starts with the letter 'P'. Contains a winged demon that kills people
The film is about a winged creature (a Demon?) that kills quite a lot of people in the film.
The film contains a woman with long red hair I think who at the end of the movie speaks 'Greek'(I think) to ...
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Story about a cartoonist drawing a fictional man under trial and finding out the man exists and has sculpted his gravestone
I have suddenly remembered with a painstaking level of detail a supernatural short story I have read in the late '90s or early '00s, most likely in Italian or - less likely - in English in a school ...
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'70s/'80s young adult supernatural horror novel set in the real world where sculpted goblin models come to life [duplicate]
I have a vague memory of a young adult supernatural horror novel from the '70s or '80s in which a late high school/early college-aged male is a sculptor/toymaker and three of his creations, a trio of ...
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'70s movie about a night flight during the Night of the Witches
This was a horror/supernatural American movie from the '70, or not later than early '80s, that I saw as a child. Most likely, it was a TV movie.
During a nocturnal commercial flight, strange and scary ...
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Horror movie where three cave explorers get picked off by a man or creature who looks like he is burned and escapes into a city
The movie seemed to be set in the late '60s. Colour film. I remember the cave explorers open up a part of a cave that was sealed and the person (or creature?) trapped in there kills them, then escapes ...
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A horror film (scene) where a couple escape from a house with demon woman
A horror film (scene) where a couple escape from a house from a woman who changes into a demon (or possibly a vampire) in a well lit bathroom. They get into a car and think they have escaped, but it’s ...
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2000s horror sci-fi movie where unearthed prehistoric creature absorbs the DNA of its victims
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I watched this movie on Netflix or Hulu, most likely between 2007 and 2013. It looked like it probably came out in a similar time period. Live action, B-movie, so-so CGI. No well-...
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Movie about scientist trying to find evidence of soul
I am trying to find the name of a English movie set in the present.
The scene I remember is of a female doctor discovering her elderly dying patient is missing. She follows an ambulance to a ...
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Horror novel with demons or monsters living in the walls of a house
I read a horror book in the late 80s. The general idea is a house that has demons/monsters living in the walls and are dragging people in.
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Horror story: only people who smoke could see some monsters
Decades ago I read a book (in Brazilian Portuguese, so a part may be different) about people that were able to see some monsters... but these people only saw such monsters (perhaps they would see ...
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80s/90s YA horror book about an all-girls school taking a trip to an amusement park and being stalked by a killer
I can’t remember title or author but the plot is about an all girls school trip with the nuns to a theme park. The protagonist and her friend go on a ride and it stops halfway round. The girls then ...
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What were the plans for Bad Dreams as the start of a film franchise?
TV Tropes mentions an unsourced claim about Bad Dreams that "20th Century Fox was hoping for this to be their own supernatural horror franchise akin to A Nightmare on Elm Street, and even signed ...
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Creepy Horror film with one crewmate/character being grabbed by tentacle worms that engulf his limbs
Like the title says, I vividly remember this Sci-Fi/Thriller/Horror movie where its a group of characters escaping through a room similar to the trash compactor on the Death Star (Star Wars), but when ...
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Movie about a woman trapped in a room trying to put together clues with a countdown clock [closed]
I only remember a few things about this movie and I’m hoping someone recognizes it.
There was a woman trapped in a room and she had to try to figure out clues while on a countdown. She came across ...
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Short horror story I read in the 70's where the protagonist witnesses a monster disguised as a human eat someone
A guest at a hotel or bed and breakfast accidently sees into an open door in another room. He sees a human turn into a monster and devour another guest. The monster turns back into a human and is ...
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Sci-fi horror short story about alien that wants to be eaten
In 2017/18 I was really into story podcasts, and heard one that I cannot find again, and do not know what podcast I heard it on.
It was a sci-fi/horror short-story about a group of people who went ...
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Children's horror story where there are cold spots in a garden where someone is stealing life force
I am looking to get the name of a children's horror story (might be an RL Stine or similar kind of book) where there are cold spots in a garden where someone (or maybe something) is stealing life ...
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Short story where man was mauled by dogs in dream
I remember reading this story in an old High School literature textbook years ago (2009-2010 timeframe), but the story itself is probably a lot older. The entire story is framed in a series of letters ...
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Book about a guy playing a cursed video game that took place in his town
There was a book I read back in middle school (I'm 23 now) that I can't remember the name of and I've been trying to track it down for years.
From what I can remember (and my memory is not that good), ...
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Sci fi anthology book with a story about a lizard alien who comes to Earth, and another about a commune of humans being led by tentacle aliens [duplicate]
I am looking for a book -- I think from the '70s or '80s -- that was a collection of scifi stories that usually had some kind of horror element to them.
I know the first story was about a man who ...
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Trying to find the title of a 70s or 80s werewolf horror / murder mystery novel with a mountain lion "red herring"
This was a paperback I'd picked up secondhand, I'd say it's from 1970s-1980s (90s at the latest). It was a werewolf horror novel, with the main character trying to figure out who the werewolf/murderer ...
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Anime/cartoon with a man whose shirt rips off and eyes glow red when he activates two metal objects
I've been searching for this anime/cartoon for about 15 years. My local VHS library had this anime (I guess) movie. I can only remember this one scene.
On a hill, near a dojo-like house with those ...
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Horror manga with umbrella woman
I've already asked to find a different manga a while ago so pardon if this may be excessive.
I recall a manga where the main character is walking home to his apartment in a rainy day or night, and ...
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Anime about a ghost girl that is some kind of urban myth who shows up and helps people
I don't really remember much, but it is called something "bigaboo phantom". It is an older supernatural/horror anime from the 1990s and recently got a reboot or something in the end of the ...
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Horror/Fantasy novel set in the UK town of Grimsby
I am looking for a novel, which I believe ultimately ended in a trilogy that is set within the town of Grimsby in the UK.
I believe that the story was written in the last 7 years and was a horror/...
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'80 sci-fi horror movie featuring an incorporeal alien that passes from human body to body like electricity
The movie begins with a truck transporting a metal coffin with a child inside being cryopreserved. An accident follows and the refrigeration system is damaged releasing an incorporeal alien from its ...
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Sci-fi or horror, guess from Mars
When I was young, I saw a movie from space. I remember just this scene:
bloody red sand, astronauts building a white oxygen tent. Inside, they take off their helmets, and from behind the tent window ...
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Black and white movie where a reptilian creature dropped on people and gave them boils
I’m trying to recall the name of a black and white movie I watched as a child. I assume it was a film from the 50s or 60s. I remember a reptilian-looking creature that hid in trees and whenever ...
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Anthology book with a short story about a genetically-modified person escaping alongside other captives from imprisonment in a genetic mod. facility
I’m trying to find a book I read, possibly during 2018 or 2019. It’s a young adult book with a collection of short stories about bioengineering and genetic modification.
One of the short stories was ...
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How do Necromorphs grow extra body parts?
In Dead Space, the zombies created by Markers are called Necromorphs. Supposedly, the Marker manipulates cells to turn them into monsters. However, this results in the Necromorphs having long limbs ...
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Short horror film about about a vampire woman who kills a man who followed her home at night
I watched a short horror film on Shorts TV years ago about a woman followed home at night from a restaurant or bar. The man follows her all the way into a gondola / travel lift. When the lift reaches ...
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Manga: a boy suffers an accident and after waking in hospital his vision gets better and no longer needs glasses to see
A boy suffers an accident and after waking in hospital his vision gets better and no longer needs glasses to see. Downside of that is that he is now able to see strange shapes instead of human heads, ...
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Help finding a horror/sci Fi trilogy about bugs that go down people's throats as larvae and take over their bodies
I don't remember the name or year or studio, but I'll give all the info I know.
The first one started off with lower class individuals at the DMV in I think New York, the main characters were random ...
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Anime style movie about mutated people that gain murderous abilities such as projectile-shooting limbs and limbs with blades on the ends
I saw this movie years ago when I was very young (too young to remember much). I can only remember parts of it, it is an animated horror movie, about mutated people that gain murderous abilities such ...
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Horror/sci-fi book about a silicon based life form that eats certain minerals in the human skeleton
Looking for the name of a book I read about .. oh, must've been 25-30 years ago or so. Would be fun to find the name, and re-read it to see if I still think it is good (I liked it a lot back when). ...
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Help needed identifying a science fiction piece that was published in the National Lampoon?
A story published (I'm pretty sure) in National Lampoon magazine when I was a teenager, so 50 years ago, give or take.
The main thing I remember about it: A man has sex with a woman whose vagina (...
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Horror movie with an alien tentacle coming out of a man's mouth, female possession, and a man trying to escape by car
So I was surfing on Youtube and came upon this video [content warning: rape]. It's age-restricted so a simple process to bypass the security measure might be needed to view.
To summarize, a woman in ...
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Book about a younger girl who lost her mother/child and was sad so she sat at a tree and became became it
Okay, so there's a movie I remember I watched when I was younger, maybe like 8-10 years ago. So, I don't remember much, but I think it was a kind of horror movie. It was animated and more for kids, so ...
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