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Night of the Living Dead opens with chaos-the brains of the recently deceased have become mysteriously reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. While visiting their father's grave, Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner) are attacked by a strange shuffling man. Barbra runs into a farmhouse where she encounters Ben (Duane Jones), and they must find a way to save themselves from the horde of zombies. Hailed...
2) Them!
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Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing...
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Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr is the world-famous originator of zip-lock, screw-top brain surgery. Into his empty love life runs Delores Benedict, a stunning beauty with whom he falls in love while poking inside her gray matter. Unfortunately, the cranium cutter sweeps his patient into marriage before discovering that her gorgeousness hides a calculating heart of stone.
5) Ice pirates
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In the future, as the galaxy's water supply starts to run out, a band of pirates search for a new water source.
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'Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!' From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives.
7) Rage
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A conspiracy of army officers, doctors, and politicians try to keep from an Arizona sheep farmer the truth that he and his son have been sickened by the accidental spraying of their farm with poison.
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Henry has a vested interest in studying the dead: He is immortal, and only his best friend and confidant, Abe, full of life at age 75, knows Henry's secret. Henry hasn't aged at all since the clock stopped 200 years ago, but he's managed to be discreet without anyone finding out his affliction. That task becomes increasingly difficult when he meets NYPD detective Jo Martinez, who is fascinated by Henry after learning he was the sole survivor of a...
10) The power
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Who has The Power? The Power to control minds, move objects, and murder by telekinesis? That's what scientists at a space lab want to know when they realize they are targeted by one of their own, someone who possesses a superhuman power and a terrifying secret agenda.
11) D.A.R.Y.L
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"Everyone in town is in awe of young Daryl's extraordinary talents and abilities, and so are his foster parents. He can perform advanced mathematics, master complex video games at first try, and hit home runs in his very first baseball game. Add to that his genuinely charismatic appeal and you have a special child. Very special... A child in jeopardy, too, because the military has a top secret interest in Daryl that threatens his very existence. The...
12) The frozen dead
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A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich --IMDb.
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Twenty-seven years after scaring the daylights out of everyone as the lumbering monster in Frankenstein, Boris Karloff is at the other end of the laboratory switches and gizmos. He's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an aging, hulking shambles of dignity and menace who agrees to let a TV crew shoot a horror flick at the family castle. The crewmembers don't know it yet, but they're just what the doctor ordered: fresh body parts, ready for harvesting!
14) The terminal man
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"Computer scientist Harry Benson has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Electrodes are attached to forty terminals of his brain to counteract his violent impulses. But there's no escaping his own mind. The experiment has backfired and the seizures return -- with a vengeance"--Container.
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He's the lone survivor of a lost civilization thrust into ours and soon begins helping with undersea research.
"Go deeper below the surface than ever before with the adventures of the being who is both human and aquatic. Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures and wields superhuman strength"--Container.
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