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The Sadist 1963 James Landis 6.3 Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking... IMDB
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 1962 Jesús Franco This plodding, sadistic horror film from director Jesus Franco concerns an Austrian legend about a ghostly Baron who supposedly rises from the swamps and murders women. When real murders are discovered, Inspector Borowsky (Georges Rollin) is immediately suspicious of the Baron's descendant, Max von Klaus (Howard Vernon), who lives in a creepy castle with his nephew Ludwig (Hugo Blanco) and sister Elisa (Maria Frances). Ludwig whips a pretty woman named Margaret (Gogo Rojo) and burns her with a heated poker in the film's only remotely shocking sequence, which has been excised in several of the release prints. A slow-moving story based on Franco's novel La Main d'Une Homme Mort leaves Godofredo Pacheco's cinematography and a deft performance by Howard Vernon as the film's only attractions. — Robert Firsching All Movie Guide
Sadomania 1981 Jesus Franco 5.0 Jess Franco is no stranger to sleaze, and SADOMANIA may be his most glorious achievement in that category (directed under the alias "Robert Griffin"). Alluring young bride Tara (PLAYBOY model Ursula Fellner) arrives at a terrifying prison camp, led by the beautiful, but quite sadistic, warden Magda Urtado (transsexual adult star Ajita Wilson). In a whirling mix of lesbianism, bestiality, white slavery (including a cameo by Franco), and violence, Franco creates one of his most controversial sexploitation flicks. Completely banned in the United Kingdom, and released only in tamer versions in the United States, this cult film cuts to the heart of the exploitation genre. IMDB
Saint Sinner 2002 Joshua Butler; Josh Butler 3.7 In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage. IMDB; DVD Empire
Salem's Lot 2004 Mikael Salomon 6.2 In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. There, he had the misfortune of discovering the corpses resulting from a scandalous murder/suicide. Decades later, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques dealer (Donald Sutherland) and his unseen business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Soon, townspeople begin disappearing and dying, only to return, floating outside the windows of their loved ones and begging to be let in. Only Ben and a few newfound allies suspect the awful truth: that something unholy has overtaken their town...something with links to the sinister mansion of Ben's nightmares. Originally broadcast June 20 and 21, 2004, on the TNT cable network, Salem's Lot was scripted by Peter Filardi, who previously penned The Craft and Flatliners. Shot on-location in Australia, this is the second television adaptation of Salem's Lot, and it follows Tobe Hooper's 1979 version. Hauer and Sutherland are old vampire buddies, having previously co-starred in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer film. — Brian J. Dillard All Movie Guide; IMDB
Salo 120 Days Of Sodom 1976 Pier Paolo Pasolini 6.1 Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. IMDB
Salon Kitty 1976 Tinto Brass 5.0 Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been... IMDB
Samhain 2002 Christian Viel Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain... IMDB
Sangre eterna 2002 Jorge Olguín; Jorge Olguin 4.6 Carmilla, A journalism student, meets a group of kids that play a role-game called "Eternal Blood". She gets interested in this hobby by "M"... IMDB; DVD Empire
Santa's Slay 2005 David Steiman 4.9 Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways. IMDB; DVD Empire
Santo and Dracula's Treasure 1969 René Cardona 6.9 IMDB
Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter 1971 Miguel M. Delgado 7.0 This entertaining entry in the long-running Mexican fantasy series stars Gina Romand as Frankenstein's daughter, who remains eternally youthful thanks to the blood of young virgins. She's also a mad scientist who mummifies her own aunt (Lucy Gallardo), creates a Frankenstein-like monster called Ursus, and uses a gorilla-like henchman to try draining the superhuman blood of Santo (Rodolfo Guzman Huerta). The heroic, masked wrestler must team up with the hulking, disgruntled Ursus to foil her evil plans. Roberto Canedo co-stars with Carlos Suarez, Carlos Agosti, and Gerardo Zepeda. Director Miguel M. Delgado would contribute several films to the Santo series, including the same year's monster-mash Santo y Blue Demon contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo. — Robert Firsching All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK; IMDB
Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo 1973 Miguel M. Delgado 5.8 The Legend Continues After facing defeat at the hands of Cristaldi the magician, Dracula is back to seek revenge and rule the world in Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dracula & The Wolfman. With the help of the Wolfman and his legion of followers, victory seems imminent. Professor Cristaldi, a descendant of the magician, is warned about Dracula's plans and calls upon El Santo and Blue Demon in the hopes that they can put the infamous count and the werewolf down for good. IMDB; DVD Empire
Satan In The Suburbs 2004 Scott Hillier IMDB
Satánico pandemonium 1975 Gilberto Martínez Solares 5.8 In the spirit of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS and Juan Lopez Moctezuma’s ALUCARDA, this is one of the most subversive, violent and shocking films ever made about the religious life. With a stunning performance from the often naked Cecilia Pezet, the film inspired the Salma Hayek character in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN.<br><br> Sister Maria (Pezet) is known in the convent for her good works and charity. But, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world, Satan is her master.<br><br> As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil himself to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell.<br>,br> Only the Devil knew the dark secrets of her tortured soul! IMDB; DVD Empire
Satan's Children 1974 Joe Wiezycki 4.4 IMDB
Satans Dance 1962 Grisha Dabat 7.2 IMDB
Satan's Little Helper 2004 Jeff Lieberman 5.4 Jeff Lieberman, celebrated by horror film buffs for his imaginative cult favorites Squirm and Blue Sunshine, returns to filmmaking with this offbeat shocker. It's late October, and Douglas (Alexander Brickel), like most nine-year-olds, is looking forward to Halloween, especially trick or treating. Doug's mother (Amanda Plummer) has made him a costume based on a character from his favorite video game, Satan's Little Helper, and his big sister Jenna (Katheryn Winnick) will be home from college to collect candy with him. But Douglas is angry when Jenna's new boyfriend, Alex (Stephen Graham), tags along, and he soon ditches his sister to go trick or treating alone. While making the rounds, Douglas happens upon a serial killer (Joshua Annex) dressed up like a monster from his video game; Douglas admires the killer's grisly handiwork, and offers to act as his assistant, just like in the game. First Douglas leads the maniac to Alex, whom he soon kills, and then he brings him home, where Jenna and Mom think the masked killer is just Alex in his Halloween costume. Shot on digital video, Satan's Little Helper was screened at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. — Mark Deming IMDB; All Movie Guide
Satan's Lust 1971 IMDB
Satan's School for Girls 1973 David Lowell Rich 4.8 A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a satanic cult. IMDB
Satan's Slave 1976 Norman J. Warren 4.2 A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her. IMDB
Savage Harvest 1994 Eric Stanze 5.5 The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe... IMDB
Savage Man... Savage Beast 1974 Antonio Climati; Mario Morra 5.5 A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves. IMDB
Savage Terror 1978 Sisworo Gautama Putra 5.0 Captured by Flesh-Eating Savages! Primitives is an extremely rare cannibal film filmed in Indonesia, and although it is a blatant take on Cannibal Ferox, it is unique in odd ways. The soundtrack is stolen Kraftwerk! Yes, I kid ye not, the film actually opens to "We are the robots"! IMDB
Saw 2004 James Wan 7.6 With a dead body laying between them, two men (Whannell and Elwes) wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. IMDB; DVD Empire
Saw II 2005 Darren Lynn Bousman 7.0 Jigsaw locks a few unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also. IMDB; DVD Empire
Scar 2005 Rahil Bhorania IMDB
Scarecrow Gone Wild 2004 Brian Katkin 3.1 He's The Death Of The Party! When a group of oversexed college kids decide to head for the beach on Spring Break, they get carried away and tie one of their friends to a scarecrow in a cornfield as a joke. Accidentally life out overnight, the boy lapses into a coma, awaking the scarecrow. That's when the scarecrow begins to strike, turning the co-eds' scary practical jokes into an even deadlier game. One by one, the kids turn victims as the scarecrow has a sharp axe to grind. IMDB; DVD Empire
Scarecrow Slayer 2003 David Michael Latt 2.1 He Cuts To The Chase When Dave and Karl attempt to steal the Scarecrow from Farmer Caleb's field, Dave is shot and his soul is given new life as the terrifying Scarecrow. One by one the Scarecrow dispatches anyone who stands between him and the object of his desire-Mary, his former girlfriend. As the bodies pile up, the Scarecrow kidnaps Mary, dragging her back to the field to resurrect her soul inside a Scarecrow body. Karl races to the rescue but is killed-then resurrected as another Scarecrow! Now as the two Scarecrows battle, Mary must stop the creature determined to make her his bride! IMDB; DVD Empire
Scared to Death 1947 Christy Cabanne 3.7 From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist... IMDB
Scarlet Diva 2000 Asia Argento 5.3 Anna Battista is a young, popular, 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress who engages herself... IMDB
Scarred 2005 Jon Hoffman; Dave Rock 3.2 Local legend has it that a woman roams the woods in search of a pretty face to replace the vacant hole where her own was brutally torn off... IMDB; DVD Empire
Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination 1923 Arthur Robison 7.3 During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision ? IMDB
Schizophreniac 2 Necromaniac 2004 Ron Atkins 3.3 Overview Of part 1 & 2 In the tradition of such fringe atrocities as Bride of Frank, Schramm, and pretty much everything by Troma, this pair of nutso, shot-on-video efforts chronicles a serial killer's plunge into the depths of dementia. Granted, that's one of the more common themes for low budget filmmakers, but you have to give these guys credit for not pulling any punches and turning out a body of work that, um, speaks for itself. After receiving a creepy Howdy Doody ventiloquist doll named Rubberneck from his girlfriend Drew, fledgling serial killer Harry Russo (John Giancaspro) is driven over the edge by ranting voices in his head and goes on a frenetic rampage, beginning with Drew but soon expanding out to anyone within driving distance. While not raping, murdering, dancing to disco music in drag, and leaping around naked in parking lots while screaming at the camera, he takes time out to pee on a neighbor's bushes, shoots up in porno theaters, and drives around endlessly in his car on a one way trip to oblivion. And that's about it, plot-wise. Best viewed straight through as one film, Schizophreniac (which has the demure onscreen subtitle, The Whore Mangler) and Necromaniac (Schizophreniac 2) douse the viewer in a cascading river of video nastiness, with plenty of fast cutting and flashy visual effects to keep the pace moving along briskly. Giancaspro is one seriously fearless actor to say the least, going from shrieking gibberish and gouging gory holes in his victims to borderline hardcore sex in a variety of seedy situations. The packaging dubs these "the vilest piece of filth ever to be filmed," and while that might be debatable (heck, did they ever see Forrest Gump?), it's definitely up there in the shock-for-shock's-sake home video pantheon. Fortunately there's also a lot of sick humor to lighten the experience; one early scene in the first film finds him angrily trying to order a Big Mac at a Wendy's, with profane results. Both discs come in two-disc special editions (believe it or not), with similar bonus features: deleted scenes (most of them fairly tame and easily expendable), trailers, and video interviews with director Atkins, who also pops up in the second film as Jesus. (Really!) The film film also contains "A Walk with Harry," in which the lead actors goes on a tour of his neighborhood and reveals a little of his, uh, personality. (Watch it back to back with the "day in the life of Roger Watkins" featurette on The Last House on Dead End Street for maximum effect.) The second film also contains a music video, much in the style of those Necrophagia clips. You have been warned, and keep a warm bath handy after viewing. IMDB; Site; IMDB
Schizophreniac The Whore Mangler 2002 Ron Atkins 2.0 Demented necrophiliac murderer Harry Russo, with the help of his ventriloquist's dummy, Rubberneck, helps himself to a smorgasbord of Vegas hookers and assorted lowlife. Director/screenwriter/star Atkins also edited, shot, and composed the score, in perhaps the most efficient behind-the-scenes turn since gore auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis provided his epic "Blood Feast" with a gripping tympani soundtrack. IMDB
School Killer 2001 Carlos Gil 3.4 This stylish Spanish horror film stars Paul Naschy, the legend of international horror who has played countless monsters and villains, garnering a reputation as the Spanish Lon Chaney. In the tradition of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, the story unfolds as a group of former students from the Monte Alto International High School return to pass a night in it's now-shuttered confines; the proceedings are recorded by the tech-savvy Jordi (Zoe Berriatua), who wears a mini-cam in his hat. The school has been closed down since a brutal bloodbath perpetrated by an insane security guard years earlier. The group is a motley bunch, led by the confident and logical Ramon, whose motivations as the night progresses are cast in an ever more doubful light. As the kids are picked off one by one, they encounter visions of the previous massacre, and the question presents itself: is the murderer human or not? Naschy's evil night watchman is played with characteristic aplomb, making this late-career performance a resounding testament to a lifetime spent perfecting villainy. The gut-wrenching suspense and well-executed gore make this chiller a truly terrifying experience. IMDB
School Night Massacre 2005 Daniel Lehmussaari 2.4 A couple of friends break into their school late one night to solve a mystery hidden in the past, only to realize that they are trapped inside with a masked serial killer. IMDB
Schoolgirl Killer 1968 Antonio Margheriti 5.4 IMDB
Schoolgirls in Chains 1973 Donald M. Jones 5.0 They were abducted and abused... ...but worse was yet to come!! Two very disturbed brothers kidnap women, take them to their secluded farmhouse and lock them in the basement. They seemingly do it for their mother (a la PSYCHO), who is only seen from behind, sits on a rocking chair and says, "Ah, it's good to have two fine boys!" IMDB
Schramm 1993 Jörg Buttgereit 5.7 Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as... IMDB
Scrapbook 2000 Eric Stanze 5.8 A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his "life story" by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims... IMDB
The Screaming 2000 Jeff Leroy 5.0 IMDB
Screaming Dead 2003 Brett Piper 3.7 Down Dark Corridors...Evil Awaits Mortal Flesh. An abandoned psychiatric hospital looms dark and foreboding on the horizon. Into it pass six individuals who are about to discover its terrifying secrets and come face to face with its blackest horrors. Sleaze photographer Roger Neale and three beautiful models take up residence in the reportedly haungted old building - an ideal location for Neale's photographic "study in terror." The hospital was financed by a depraved industrialist who built a hidden vault under the basement where he tortured and murdered hundreds of patients. Neale himself is a sadist, and he takes great pleasure in exploiting the helpless young women. But when he discovers a secret passageway, it leads to a blood-splattered dungeon...and into a supernatural world where pain and evil await mortal flesh. IMDB; DVD Empire
Screamtime 1983 Stanley A. Long 4.0 An unholy trinity of terror, three times the horror, three times the murders. IMDB
Secret Window 2004 David Koepp 6.3 A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice". IMDB
Seed of Chucky 2004 Don Mancini 5.3 Chuck (Brad Dourif) and Tiff (Jennifer Tilly) return, resurrected by their son (Billy Boyd), and hit Hollywood in the fifth film of the CHILD'S PLAY series. IMDB
Seeds of Evil 1975 James H. Kay 2.8 Garden of LOVE... Garden of DEATH, He Plants the Seeds of Evil A sinister landscaper turns into a tree and learns to communicate with his fellow plants. IMDB
Seeds of Sin 1968 A broken family comes together for a Christmas dinner that degenerates into an orgy of incest, suicide, and murder. Carol (Candy Hammond) invites her estranged brothers and sisters to the house she shares with her mother (Maggie Rogers), a bitter, reclusive wheelchair-bound alcoholic who flies into a rage when she hears the news. The mother hates each of her children and is convinced that they're all after her considerable fortune. The siblings and their spouses arrive and the dinner begins peacefully as they all catch up on each other's lives. However, their mother refuses to mask her contempt, and her drunken recriminations raise tempers to a fever pitch and set the tone for an ugly evening. Later that night, a furtive incestuous dalliance is followed by a bathtub electrocution and a desperate act of hari-kari. A young military academy student is revealed to be a homosexual, an arsonist, and a blackmailer, and subsequently slashes his wrists in the backyard. The beautiful eldest sister is disfigured with acid, while her husband receives an axe in his forehead. Meanwhile, Carol is trying to resurrect her own incestuous relationship with her brother Michael (Robert Service), which ended when he moved away from home. His reluctance pushes her over the edge, and she takes violent retribution against their hateful matriarch. — Fred Beldin All Movie Guide
Serial Killing 101 2004 Trace Slobotkin 4.9 Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem... IMDB
Series 7: The Contenders 2001 Daniel Minahan 6.7 A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for the top cash prize. IMDB
The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988 Wes Craven 6.0 Dennis Allan is an scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recepient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug's effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead. Could this be the origin of the "zombie" legend? Alan embarks on a surprising and often surreal investigation of the turbulent social chaos that is Haiti during the revolution which ousted hated dictator Papa Doc. Often a pawn in a greater game, Alan must decide what is science, what is superstition, and what is the unknown in a anarchistic society where police corruption and witch-doctory are commonplace. IMDB; DVD Empire
Session 9 2001 Brad Anderson 6.7 Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back. IMDB
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids 1972 Umberto Lenzi 6.9 IMDB
Seven Deaths In The Cat's Eye 1973 Antonio Margheriti 5.0 International sex symbol Jane Birkin (of Blow-Up and "Je t'aime..." fame) stars as Corringa, a beautiful young girl who returns from a convent school to her family's ancestral castle. But within these walls seethes unspeakable evil, including religious fervor, depraved desires, and sudden, sadistic murder. Now, someone with a taste for terror is slaughtering the castle's demented guests. Six have already met their deaths...and for delicious Corringa, the ultimate torment is still to come! Anton Diffring (Circus Of Horrors), Hiram Keller (Fellini Satyricon) and the infamous French superstar Serge Gainsbourg co-star in this luridly gothic giallo co-written and directed by Antonio Margheriti (Cannibal Apocalypse, Castle Of Blood), featuring an intense score by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane), and presented uncut, uncensored and fully restored from original European vault materials. DVD Empire; IMDB
Seven Murders For Scotland Yard 1971 José Luis Madrid 4.7 In this version of the famous story of the London serial killer, Jack not only likes to kill prostitutes but he is a cannibal as well. IMDB
Seven Women For Satan 1976 Michel Lemoine 4.1 Michael plays a descendant of the original count Zaroff who leaves his Paris flat every weekend to hunt humans on his isolated estate. IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
The Seventh Victim 1943 Mark Robson 6.9 Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband... IMDB
Severe Injuries 2003 Amy Lynn Best 4.9 Melvin Hubble is the last in a long line of unsuccessful serial killers. Fulfilling his father's dying wish... IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
Severed 2005 Carl Bessai 5.3 A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest... IMDB
Sex and the Single Vampire 1970 Modunk Phreezer 4.1 Count Spatula's house is invaded by a group of swingers wanting to have sex in a haunted house. IMDB
The Sex Killer 1967 Barry Mahon 4.8 Lonely Tony switches from being a Peeping Tom to becoming The Sex Killer and blissfully stalks Manhattan looking for ladies to strangle. One of the most demented skinflicks of the ‘60s, this is so hilariously odd it’s downright surreal ! IMDB
Sex Psycho 1970 Walt Davis 6.4 The main plot line of Sex Psycho revolves around a couple who are cheating on each other. Jerry is cheating on his wife with Eva... IMDB
Sex Wish 1975 Tim McCoy; Zebedy Colt 4.8 A man is shaken out of his contented, middle-class existence when his wife is raped and murdered by a crazed serial killer who has been terrorizing New York City. IMDB
Sex World 1978 Anthony Spinelli 6.4 A bus tour takes its passengers to a place called Sex World where they can live out their most secret desires during a weekend. IMDB
Sexo caníbal 1981 Jesus Franco 4.2 Jesús Franco appears briefly as an American "parasite" businessman. An explorer returns to an island... IMDB
Sexy American Idle 2003 John Paul Fedele 4.8 Seduction Cinema's Sexy Spoofs Of TV's: American Idol, The Osbournes & Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Featuring an all-star cast of Seduction Cinema beauties and an outrageous roster of hilarious characters straight out of the looney bin, Sexy American Idle is a laugh-out-loud spoof that gives new and painful meaning to the phrase ".. 15 minutes of fame." Northeast Westover is putting on a splashy talent competition to end all talent competitions. Hosted by the obnoxious duo Neil and bob and lorded over by a panel of delectable judges (Julian Wells/Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde and Anoushka/Play-mate of the Apes) and drunken British rocker Glitter Bolan, all manners of bizarre personalities, inept acts and talentless hacks are encouraged to take the stage to do what they do worst! In the midst of the carnival atmosphere and dog-eat-dog competition, there's more than ample time for the luscious and promiscuous hopefuls (Misty Mundae, Darian Caine, A.J. Khan, C.J.) to discover where their true talents lie. They can't carry a tune or dance a lick, but these gorgeous women know how to "perform," and it makes for Reality TV at its uncensored best. IMDB; DVD Empire
Sexy Sisters 1976 Jesus Franco 4.7 IMDB
Shadow: Dead Riot 2005 Derek Wan 3.4 A practitioner of blood rituals whose execution sparks a prison riot that leads to the penitentiary being closed down. When it reopens 20 years later as a women's prison, an inmate gifted with both psychic and martial arts abilities senses Shadow's lingering presence, and he eventually resurrects, along with an army of flesheating ghouls. IMDB
Shadows of the Dead 2004 Carl Lindbergh 3.4 A couple's weekend getaway turns into a nightmare after they are stranded in the woods and discover what they assume to be a dead body... IMDB
Shakma 1990 Tom Logan; Hugh Parks 4.6 A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game. IMDB
Shallow Ground 2004 Sheldon Wilson 5.4 A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl... IMDB; DVD Empire
Shapeshifter 2005 Gregory Lemkin 3.2 Sent From Hell... To Feed On Flesh Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh. As the creature's power multiplies with every kill, their only chance for survival is to uncover the ancient mystery that holds the power of The Shapeshifter. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon 2002 David Worth 3.3 When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shark Zone 2003 Danny Lerner 2.6 A man must hunt down ferocious sharks that are threatening a small beach community. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shatter Dead 1994 Scooter McCrae 3.6 Depressing tale about a world of the undead and a woman's trek to get home to her boyfriend's house. IMDB
Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 7.9 Gathered together at their local pub for a night of drinking and conversation, a group of friends find themselves thrown into a battle against hell-bent zombies. IMDB
The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 8.3 An abusive husband, his wife and their psychic son take care of a haunted hotel over the winter, but the isolation becomes too much pressure. IMDB; DVD Empire
The Shining 1997 Mick Garris 6.0 A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shiver Of The Vampires, The 1970 Jean Rollin 5.4 A surreal film featuring gorgeous vampires, Gallic vampire hippies and lashings of lesbian sex. Beautifully macabre, with eerie medieval castles, coffins and a strange woman who emerges from a clock, The Shiver Of The Vampires is director Jean Rollin’s third vampire fairytale. Remastered from the inter-negative with its original theatrical trailers. Teeth, they were like bloody tent pegs! DVD Empire; IMDB
Shivers 1975 David Cronenberg 6.4 The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites which turn them into mindless, sex-crazed, fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shock 1977 Mario Bava 5.8 After Jessica Barrett had her demoniacal son Marco (David Colin Jr.) in the first film, it all goes wrong when he is sent to live with new parnets... IMDB
Shock Waves 1977 Ken Wiederhorn 5.4 This horror movie concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander (Peter Cushing) who had been in charge of a crew of zombies. IMDB; DVD Empire
Shocking Asia Part 1 1974 Rolf Olsen 4.7 A documentary about asia's shocking cultures. IMDB
Shocking Dark 1990 Bruno Mattei 5.2 Bruno Mattei’s really cheesy Aliens knock-off about an evil corporation that has, under the guise of a philanthropic scientific experiment, has caused Italy to become submerged by water and the inhabitants to become mutant monsters. Sporting some incredibly heinous acting, staggeringly moronic dialogue and shoddy production values, this one is a minor classic of bad Italian cinema. In very good quality (if kinda dark in some scenes). IMDB
Shogun Assassin 1980 Robert Houston; Kenji Misumi 7.2 Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile... IMDB
Short Cut Road 2003 Marc Selz 2.6 Four couples take a short cut to an annual rock festival to celebrate the last day of college when they start to encounter strange things. Something happened during the previous year's festival that the couples were unaware of and, one by one, things start to happen to them...very unpleasant things. The music will rock but the heads will roll. IMDB
Short Night Of The Glass Dolls 1971 Aldo Lado 6.7 IMDB
Sick-o-pathics 1996 Brigida Costa; Massimo Lavagnini 4.0 Sick o pathics is a homemade (shot on video) trashy Horror"/Exploitation Comedy that features Cameos of several Exploitation-vips. The Focus of interest here is of course the presence of the master himself: Renato Polselli enriches this product indeed enormously . The makers of it Massimo Lavagnini and Brigida Costa (servants" for magazines as Draculina" and Trauma") did it quite shameless: the third and last Episode of this „anthology" is an assault on the Intellect of every human being. A (fart)parody of joe d´amatos Antropophagus" but the first two Episodes starting with Hello Dolly" and The poor, the flesh and the bag" are quite entertaining. It all starts great: Massimo Lavagnini with priceless rasta wig walking on the street , before him shit with a table typical italian movie" on it (!) he jumps through it and goes further- attacking every Person who comes along his way. IMDB
sideFX 2005 Patrick Johnson Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll will never be the same after a medieval sex drug makes a comeback on the college party scene... IMDB
The Signalman 1976 Lawrence Gordon Clark 8.4 IMDB
Silver 1999 Takashi Miike 3.5 IMDB
Silver Bullet 1985 Daniel Attias 5.6 Werewolf terrorizes small city where lives Marty Coslaw, - a paralytic boy - his uncle and his sister - the narrator of the story. IMDB; DVD Empire
Simon, King of the Witches 1971 Bruce Kessler 4.1 Simon, a young man with magic power, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge of a man who cheated him with a bad cheque. IMDB; All Movie Guide
Sin in the Suburbs 1964 Joseph W. Sarno 7.3 After discovering that her mother is involved in an adulterous affair, a pretty high school student seeks help from a neighbor... IMDB
Sin Sisters 2003 Tony Marsiglia 4.2 These Sisters Share Everything... Sisters Cynthia and Morgana (real-life sisters Misty Mundae and Chelsea Mundae) share a tense love/hate relationship that has reached its breaking point. Cynthia is sexually promiscuous, crass and flamboyant, Morgana - quiet and repressed. The accidental murder of a young woman (Andrea Davis) sends them on a panic-stricken journey with the dead body stuffed in the trunk. Heading for the hills in search of a burial site, they discover a deserted cabin... and a sexy femme fatale named Juli (Julian Wells) with a gun and a bizarre idea for some hot ultra-sensual "fun". Juli puts Cynthia and Morgana through a series of ever-intensifying seductive tests with a mysterious beauty to determine how far each will go in the struggle to survive. Soon all secrets are revealed and all hell breaks loose in an orgy of uninhibited lesbian eroticism and kinky menace that pits female against female, prey against predator. It's a game fraught with criminal danger and dark sexual appetites where only the strongest and naughtiest will make it out alive. IMDB; DVD Empire
The Sinful Dwarf 1973 Vidal Raski 4.9 Olaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep... IMDB
Singapore Sling 1990 Nikos Nikolaidis 5.8 Two women kidnap a man looking for a woman who he's obsessed with, a woman they have killed. They force him to be their sex slave and commit various atrocities with him. IMDB
Sixteen Tongues 1999 Scooter McCrae 2.9 Independent director Scooter McCrae follows up his zombie flick SHATTER DEAD with the unusual science fiction film SIXTEEN TONGUES. The near future is saturated with pornographic imagery, and people live among desperate conditions in dilapidated buildings. Three people in the Sappho Hotel are about to collide, with disastrous results: Adrian Torque, whose skin graft made of tongue allows him to taste all over his body; murderous, pleasure seeking assassin Ginny Chin-Chin; and vengeance-fueled hacker Alik. With the entire film taking place inside the hotel set, SIXTEEN TONGUES presents a dystopic future where claustrophobia, violence, and anesthetized sex have led inhabitants to seek out ever more twisted pleasures. IMDB; DVD Empire
The Skeleton Key 2005 Iain Softley 6.3 A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid... IMDB; DVD Empire
Skeleton Man 2004 Johnny Martin 2.0 A co-ed group of Special Forces agents search the wilderness for a predator type creature that has been on a killing spree. IMDB
Skinned Alive 1989 Jon Killough 3.6 This is the tale of a crazed family of weirdos led by Crawldaddy who like to kill people and remove their skin. IMDB
Skinned Deep 2004 Gabriel Bartalos; Gabe Bartalos 3.9 A flat tire in the middle of nowhere forces the Rockwell family to seek shelter in a ramshackle diner. The diner is run by Granny who is actually the insane matriarch of mutants led by the imposing and meta-faced Surgeon General. The entire Rockwell family is murdered with the exception of the teenaged Tina, who "Brain" has chosen to be his future wife. When a gang of aging but still murderous motorcycle punks enter the picture, Tina has to choose sides to save her life - and clearly, this is a tough choice. IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide
Skinner 1995 Ivan Nagy 4.7 A decent-looking lad called Dennis Skinner rents an appartment in Kerry's and Geoff's house.At night... IMDB
Slash 2002 Neal Sundstrom 3.9 Where Blood Is Sown, Evil Is Grown. Slash isia rock band onitheiedge of fame, fortune andinow death itself. At theimoment, they're onitheiroadito nowhere playing dingy clubs andismelly venues. But when theilead singer, Joseph Macdonald isicalled home foria family funeral, theiband beginsia spiral into madness. Evil isiall relative andiit seems that Joseph has been called backito bury more than one coffin. On one terrifying night theiband realizes theitruth behindia family legend andifightsito escape theihorrifying "harvest of blood." IMDB; DVD Empire
Slash Dance 1989 James Shyman 2.4 Lovely young dancers are vanishing when they answer casting calls at an old vaudeville theatre in Hollywood. Tori Raines, a feisty and beautiful detective, goes undercover to find the killer. Her beauty lands her a part in the chorus line, where she can conduct her investigation among the costumes and glitter. Despite romance, twists, and terror, Tori tracks down the deadly threat in a chilling chase. IMDB
Slashers 2001 Maurice Devereaux 5.5 Japan's number one extreme reality show is having it's first all-American special! Six lucky contestants... IMDB
Slaughter Disc 2005 David Quitmeyer 4.3 Mike loves porn. Unfortunately he is blinded by his addiction to XXX entertainment as it slowly eats away at every aspect of his life... IMDB
Slaughter Hotel 1971 Fernando Di Leo 5.4 A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women. IMDB
Slaughter Studios 2002 Brian Katkin 4.3 IMDB
Slaughterhouse 1987 Rick Roessler 4.8 The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property. IMDB; DVD Empire
The Slaughterhouse Massacre 2005 Paul Gagné; Paul Gagne 2.9 "More frightening than 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'." - Independent Film Quarterly Marty Sickle was accused of murdering a young girl inside the old slaughterhouse where he quietly lived. Soon after, four college kids brutally hung Marty in revenge. Legend has it that every year on the anniversary of his death, Marty comes back to kill anyone who sets foot in his slaughterhouse. IMDB; DVD Empire
Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun 2005 Vin Crease Nobody Gets Out Alive The year is 1971. Jennifer, a troubled actress, is institutionalized following psychotic visions on the set of her latest film. upon her release, Jennifer becomes stranded in the desert only to be rescued by a colorful band of nomadic rebels. Helpless and alone, Jennifer has no choice but to follow them and is subtly but swiftly introduced into their family. That night, a local desert dweller tells hem of an abandoned house and warns them to stay away. The family ignores the warning and uses the house as their latest crash pad. Jennifer becomes further plagued by sinister visions that reduce her ability to separate reality from fantasy. Soon members of the family are mysteriously killed one by one in the legend known as the "Slaughterhouse Of the Rising Sun"... IMDB; DVD Empire
The Slayer 1982 J.S. Cardone 4.2 Four young people vacation on a barren island. One of them, a female artist, has dreams that depict ghastly murders... IMDB; All Movie Guide
Sleepaway Camp 1983 Robert Hiltzik 5.5 After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha... IMDB
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers 1988 Michael A. Simpson 5.2 Angela, the psycho from Sleepaway Camp, has been released from a mental asylum. She's had a sex change to become a woman... IMDB
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland 1989 Michael A. Simpson 4.8 Angela is back, in the form of an angry inner-city camper on the hunt for blood. Camp New Horizons, on the recycled grounds of the former murders... IMDB
Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (footage) 2002 Jim Markovic 3.0 IMDB
Sleepless 2001 Dario Argento 6.1 A retired detective with insomnia is called upon to solve a series of murders. His partner is a fresh... IMDB
Sleepwalkers 1992 Mick Garris 4.4 A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on. IMDB; DVD Empire
Smiling Maniacs 1974 Marcello Aliprandi 5.2 Grim, cynical Italian crime thriller.During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank.This is a film that belongs in the "Spaghetti Gangster" category. If it had been subtitled instead of dubbed it probably would have played in arthouses instead of grindhouses. There are some moments that don't really play to an American audience (such as the one in which the titular 'Smiling Maniacs' beat and rape Fernando Rey's mistress, a scene that swings schizophrenically back and forth between slapstick and ugly realism), but for the most part this is a pretty sturdy, involving drama of "corruption in the palace of justice". IMDB
Snakehead Terror 2004 Paul Ziller 3.8 A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead... IMDB
Snapped 2005 Jeff Prosserman; Julian Van Mil 3.2 Picture Yourself Dead Amy just landed a killer job. Amy, a young, attractive photographer, is commissioned by a mysterious gallery owner obsessed with death to create a collection of pictures of the dead. It's a bizarre assignment, but Amy is hungry and needs the work. A local serial killer is providing Amy subjects for her art. With every photo she snaps, Amy gets closer to the killer. Will life imitate art? Or art imitate life? As she continues her work, Amy descends into madness. As the body count rises, Amy discovers that art is murder...and murder is art. DVD Empire; IMDB; IMDB
Snowbeast 1977 Herb Wallerstein 4.2 A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes. IMDB
Snuff 1976 Michael Findlay; Roberta Findlay 2.4 Among the most notorious cult films in American history, SNUFF is famous for promoting the urban legend of the "snuff" film. In actuality, this is an Argentinean exploitation film loosely based on the Sharon Tate murder. The film follows the exploits of a bearded man named Satan who leads a gang of biker chicks in a series of killings. IMDB
Snuff Kill 1997 Doug Ulrich; Al Darago Doug and Ralis team up to make a gory horror movie. Doug is shocked at the amazingly lifelike special effects his partner is producing, until he realizes that they're actually real murders carried out for the movie. IMDB
Snuff Movie 2005 Bernard Rose 3.5 IMDB
Snuff Perversions: Bizarre Cases of Death 1999 D.J. Kary; Marcus Koch 4.2 This cavalcade of disturbing footage includes all sorts of horrifying deaths and is certainly not for the squeamish. There are impalings, shootings, beatings and more, all collected one tape not for the timid. The footage was reportedly found in a Kentucky farmhouse (also not for the faint of heart) IMDB
Snuff Trap [Russian lang] 2003 Bruno Mattei 5.0 IMDB
So Naked, So Dead 1972 Roberto Bianchi Montero 4.0 The rap on this giallo is that it is especially moralistic and misogynistic; however,I found the first charge to be untrue and the other greatly exaggerated. A crazed killer is murdering unfaithful wives and leaving photographic evidence of their dalliances next to the bodies. This certainly SEEMS pretty moralistic. But the betrayed husbands don't come off any more sympathetically than the wives. Many knew about their wives' infidelities and/or were playing around themselves (one husband of a murder victim is himself having an affair with another murder victim). Moreover, the killer doesn't turn out to be motivated by vengeance. He is killing these women because he can get away with it, because their high society husbands will thwart the investigation of the beleaguered inspector(Farley Granger) at every turn lest they themselves be publicly exposed as cuckolds! This kind of deep cynicism is typical of later period gialli and Italian poliziani films, but there's nothing especially moralistic about it. Viewed in this way, even the final actions of the detective, which are certainly appalling and take away the only remaining likable and sympathetic character in the movie, are clearly more a final act of despairing cynicism than of righteous anger. As for the misogyny charge, the raison d'etre of this movie seems to be to show a lot of attractive European actresses (Silva Koscina, Femi Benussi, Annabella Incontrerra, Nieves Navarro, Krista Nell) in various states of undress, and the filmmakers don't seem to care too much whether these women are alive, dead, or dying at the time. The movie lacks the flair, the garish delerium, and the stylized violence of better gialli, but it's not really all that different in it's attitude toward women--they're a decorative canvas for a painting of depravity and brutality. But just because the painting isn't very good doesn't make this film any more or less morally reprehensible than other gialli. In fact, the only really sympathetic character in the whole movie is the college-age daughter (Angela Covello) of one of the murder victims, who hilariously admonishes her boyfriend's "bourgeois politics" while he fumbles with the buttons on her blouse. The incompetent filmmakers, however, inexplicably drop this potential heroine halfway through. An appealing female protagonist would have done a lot to mitigate the lingering misogyny, but here this movie once again suffers from its own incompetence. -IMDB- IMDB
So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious... 1975 Silvio Amadio 4.3 Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be. IMDB
Soft for Digging 2001 J.T. Petty 5.9 Unlike many low-budget horror films, SOFT FOR DIGGING relies on a low-key premise and unique film style instead of gore and clichés. Told in a series of increasingly strange and suspenseful chapters, with an absolute bare minimum of dialogue, the film tells the story of Virgil, a hermit who lives in the woods on the edge of civilization. While traveling through the forest one morning, he witnesses a murder, but then later discovers no evidence and an unbelieving police force. Frustrated, Virgil begins to have haunting dreams about the murder that seem to be leading him towards a horrific conclusion. IMDB
Something Creeping in the Dark 1971 Mario Colucci 4.0 A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building. IMDB
Something Weird 1968 Herschell Gordon Lewis 3.7 An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes. IMDB
Sometimes They Come Back 1991 Tom McLoughlin 5.2 Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid. IMDB; DVD Empire
Sometimes They Come Back... Again 1996 Adam Grossman; Tom McLoughlin 3.3 A man returns to his hometown only to be haunted by ghostly teenagers. IMDB; DVD Empire
Sometimes They Come Back... for More 1999 Daniel Zelik Berk; Daniel Berk 3.1 On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces. IMDB; DVD Empire
Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 7.2 Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his fathers estate to claim his inheritance... IMDB
The Sorcerers 1967 Michael Reeves 5.9 The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations... IMDB
The Sore Losers 1997 John Michael McCarthy 4.7 Blackie (Jack Oblivian) is an immortal from the Killer Frequency. He was sent to Earth in 1954 to prove his worth as an assassin by killing exactly 12 random victims within a certain span of time, something he failed to do. Forty years later he has returned to take the remaining three lives — no more, no less — that he requires to fulfill his prophecy. A lot has changed since he's been gone, though, and there are forces conspiring to keep him Earthbound. He takes on a vicious, trigger-happy femme fatale (Kerine Elkins) who exceeds the quota when she murders both of her parents, so they must drive around with her mother's corpse in the backseat until a new victim can be chosen by the Elder of the Lo-Fi Frequency (veteran roadshow man David F. Friedman). Meanwhile, Blackie's insane best friend (Mike Maker) falls in love with Goliatha (D'Lana Tunnell), a motorcycle-riding sideshow girl with a very short attention span ("What did you say, anyway?") who might have something to do with the Apocalypse. Goliatha has been chosen as the final victim, but she's arrested by the Men in Black (played by all three members of Japanese trash-rockers Guitar Wolf) for the crimes that Blackie has committed, and if she dies in the electric chair before he can get to her, all hope is lost. This fast-paced sci-fi exploitation feature features a raw-boned musical score from a variety of high quality punk-garage bands including '68 Comeback, Mick Collins, and the Royal Pendletons. — Fred Beldin IMDB; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
The Soul Snatcher 1965 H.L. Zimmer 1.9 IMDB
Soul Vengeance 1975 Jamaa Fanaka 3.0 A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he... IMDB; DVD Empire
Space Butchers 1996 2.7 IMDB
Space Wolf 2003 Timo Rose 6.0 IMDB
Spasmo 1974 Umberto Lenzi 5.8 Christian (Robert Hoffman) and his girlfriend are taking a walk on a deserted beach when they discover a woman's body lying. A closer look proves that she's alive. The next day Christian meets her again at a yacht party and they fall in love. Later at a nearby motel, something weird happens as they prepare to go to bed together: An intruder breaks in and starts beating Christian who accidentally shoots him with his own gun. A few hours later they find out that the corpse is missing and a series of weird incidents takes place. IMDB
Special Effects 1984 Larry Cohen 5.2 A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed. IMDB; DVD Empire
Spermula 1976 Charles Matton 3.9 IMDB
Spider 2002 David Cronenberg 6.9 A mentally-disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood. IMDB
Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told 1964 Jack Hill 6.9 In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with... IMDB
The Spider Labyrinth 1988 Gianfranco Giagni 6.3 "The best supernatural oriented Italian horror film since Argento's INFERNO!" Professor Alan Whitmore is sent to Budapest to find out why a colleague working on an important worldwide research project has made himself so scarce. The project involves translating and understanding writing that is linked to an ancient religion soon found to be much less dead than anyone suspected. The followers know what the writing contains, the names of their deities, and there are no measures too ghastly to protect this secret. The world will know soon enough.Here is an absolutely stunning supernatural horror film that is filled with dark, color-accented, atmosphere. No surprise that this has been compared to Dario Argento’s work on a number of occasions. Lots of violent intensity and Sergio Stivaletti’s F/X work is beyond amazing! IMDB
Spiderbabe 2003 Johnny Crash 3.8 Two-Disc Collector's Edition DVD Seduction Cinema starlet Misty Mundae (Play-Mate of the Apes) is Patricia Porker, a shy and studious college girl with sweet dreams of tender romance with a handsome jock. When bitten by her science teacher's genetically engineered spider, she gets more than she could have ever wished for! Suddenly transformed into a wall-climbing, building-bounding beauty with superhuman strength and an e