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Plot Summary:
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, spooky, atmospheric, suspenseful, nostalgic
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Boo (2005)
Plot Summary:
The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspense, independent film, suspenseful, rough, slasher, surprise ending
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Phenomenon II (2003)
Plot Summary:
George Malley lives in a small town and is well-liked. One day he sees a strange flash of light in the sky and his life is radically changed. George has mysteriously become highly intelligent.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, intellectual, action adventure, tragic ending
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Sands of Oblivion (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, epic
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The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, nostalgic
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The Nightmare Room (2001)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series centered on teens facing supernatural threats, many based on the books by R.L. Stine.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, tense, dark fairy tale, spooky, mystical
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The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Secret World of Alex Mack is an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up. It also aired on YTV in Canada and NHK in Japan, and was a popular staple in the children's weekday line-up for much of the mid-to-late 1990s on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Repeats of the series aired in 2003 on The N, but it was soon replaced there. The series was produced by Thomas Lynch and John Lynch of Lynch Entertainment, produced by RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment and Nickelodeon Productions and was co-created by Tom Lynch and Ken Lipman. For home video releases, it was released under the Hallmark Home Entertainment label, making it the first Nickelodeon show not to be released by Paramount Home Video or Sony Wonder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, sincere, melancholic, sweet
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Deadtime Stories (2012)
Plot Summary:
A baby-sitter tells a different 'Deadtime Story' to the kids she is babysitting. The stories are scary and chilling.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, dark fairy tale
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Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sabrina goes to Rome, with Salem stowaway-ed in her backpack, to free her 16th-century aunt Sophia who was banished for divulging her powers to a non-witch.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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My Date with the President's Daughter (1998)
Plot Summary:
Duncan Fletcher is an average teenager in search of a date to his school's spring dance. While at the mall with his friends, he meets a girl, Hallie, who just happens to be the daughter of the President of the United States, George Richmond. Duncan, not realizing this, asks her to his school's dance. They encounter many obstacles throughout the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, political, teen, feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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The Worst Witch (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, spooky, offbeat, humorous
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Mostly Ghostly (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him transform from a social nobody to the most popular kid in school.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, light, scary, psychotronic, tripping
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The Scream Team (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, horror comedy, spooky
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The Evermoor Chronicles (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, light, nostalgic
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Kindred: The Embraced (1996)
Plot Summary:
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, scary, serious, suspenseful
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H2O: Just Add Water (2006)
Plot Summary:
When three normal teenage girls stumble upon a ancient cave they undergo a transformation that will change their lives forever. H20 - Just Add Water, sees three very different girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist - they're mermaids with incredible powers over water.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, sitcom, juvenile, teen, semi serious, feel good, humorous
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Wizards of Waverly Place (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, not serious, sitcom, teen, slapstick, parody, urban fantasy, nostalgic
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Toothless (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, stylized, fairy tale, nostalgic
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The Haunted Hathaways (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Haunted Hathaways" follows the adventures of a not-so-typical blended family. When Michelle Hathaway relocates to New Orleans, LA., to open a bakery with her daughters Taylor and Frankie, they quickly learn that life in the “Big Easy” is very different. Unbeknownst to them, their new home is already occupied by a ghost family comprised of jazz musician father Ray Preston and his sons Miles and Louie. After agreeing to live under one roof, they come to care about and rely on one another while driving each other crazy – just like any normal family would. Though leery at first, the Hathaways soon discover how much fun life can be when living with ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, feel good, semi serious, funny, spooky, captivating
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Just Add Magic (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kelly Quinn and her two BFF's, Darbie and Hannah, stumble upon her grandmother's mysterious cookbook in the attic and discover some far from ordinary recipes. When the Shut'em Up Shortcake silences Kelly's pesky little brother and the Healing Hazelnut Tart heals Darbie's ankle, the girls discover they have the power of magic. A single-camera live-action pilot based on the popular book.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, thought provoking, spooky, light hearted
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The Shining (1997)
Plot Summary:
John Torrance is a writer & recovering alcoholic, who ends up taking a job as a winter caretaker for a remote Colorado hotel which he seeks as an opportunity to finish a piece of work. With his wife and son with him, the caretaker settles in, only to see visions of the hotel's long deceased employees and guests. With evil intentions, they manipulate him into his dark side which takes a toll on he and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, mysterious, splatter, anthology, mystic, creepy, cult classic, tense, atmospheric
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R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010)
Plot Summary:
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, spooky, dark, dark fantasy, horror comedy, dark fairy tale
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Amazing Stories (1985)
Plot Summary:
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, retro, dark, twist ending, sitcom, dark fairy tale
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Flight 29 Down (2005)
Plot Summary:
Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale. The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull. The first two seasons aired on Discovery Kids. The "third season" of the series, which started filming February 5, 2007, was produced as a four-part film, instead of the episodic format of the first two seasons. A promo debuted for Flight 29 Down: The Movie during the second season finale. The show was filmed in O'ahu, Hawaii.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining
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Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over. The sentimental drama is 'inspired by the work of medium James Van Praagh.'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, serious, spiritual, dread, thrilling, suspenseful, whimsical, nostalgic
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Eerie, Indiana (1991)
Plot Summary:
Eerie, Indiana is an American television series that originally aired on NBC from 1991 to 1992. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant. A total of nineteen episodes were produced. The final episode aired for the first time in 1993, when the series was syndicated on The Disney Channel. In 1997, the show generated a new fan base, when Fox's children's programming block Fox Kids aired the series, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity in the series, encouraged Fox to produce a spin-off Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, lasting only one season in 1998.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, anthology, sitcom, detective, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, urban fantasy, weird
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
Plot Summary:
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in Richmond, British Columbia and in Montreal, Quebec including their suburbs. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, semi serious, spooky, exciting, bleak, sitcom, dark, slasher
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Halloweentown (1998)
Plot Summary:
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic, psychotronic, scary, teen, spooky, terrifying
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
Plot Summary:
In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" Curtis was buried in a locked crypt, along with a sculpture so evil, that unearthly fates were said to await anyone who looked at it. Now, 20 years later, the Walker men have returned to Walker Falls. They start a chain of events that unleashes an army of zombies on the town. Has Curtis Danko risen from the grave to exact his revenge? And will the people of Walker Falls make it through the night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky, scary, semi serious
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Halloweentown High (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, spooky, offbeat
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High Spirits (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American tourists arrive - along with some real ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, semi serious, offbeat, cult classic, slapstick, gothic, horror comedy