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In Time enough at last: Burgess Meredith plays a bank teller and avid reader who is the lone survivor of an H-Bomb attack and finally finds the time to read. In The monsters are due on Maple Street: Hysteria grips a small community as residents suspect a power failure has been caused by invaders from outer space disguised as humans. In Nightmare at 20,000 feet: William Shatner sees a gremlin on the wing of his plane. In The odyssey of flight 33: Air...
62) Duel
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Steven Spielberg's first full-length movie, a traveling salesman is harassed by a menacing 40-ton truck on a remote desert highway.
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Steve Cochran stars as Dave Culloran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the serial rapist he is pursuing. The paths of the black-hearted cop and the black-gloved stalker converge when Culloran's wife is assaulted by the criminal, becomes pregnant and, not knowing which man is the father, must decide whether or not to keep the baby.
65) Tales of terror
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"Price stars in all three episodes, including Morella, in which a man is haunted after blaming his young daughter for the death of his wife. In The black cat, a pair of illicit lovers are buried alive by a jealous husband, and in The case of M. Valdemar, a sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell."--Container.
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Supernatural phenomena, baffling murders and offbeat humor mark this second Night Stalker offering with a great cast and suspense so palpable, it will feel like a presence right there in the room with you. Surfacing in Seattle, Kolchak uncovers another maddening mystery: Every 21 years, for the past century, a serial killer commits a spree of murders, drains his victims' blood and then quietly disappears.
67) Tales of terror
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Morella: When Doctor Patricia Morella becomes terminally ill and turns all her energies to a bizarre embryonic experiment, not even Dr. Lynden, her lover and collaborator, suspects her true intentions.
The black cat: A detective arrives to investigate a series of murders and finds a few tell-tale paw prints here and there.
The case of M. Valdemar: A sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell.
68) Jaws 3
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Everyone at Florida's Sea World is thrilled with the new "Undersea Kingdom", a maze of underwater plexiglass tunnels that permits visitors to get closer to marine life than ever before. The opening ceremonies include many important guests, and one uninvited baby shark that accidentally enters the park's lagoon through a faulty sea gate and subsequently dies. The young shark's 35-foot mother soon follows her offspring, creating the most horrifying...
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Investigating a series of Las Vegas murders, Carl Kolchak discovers that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of blood. Though Kolchak's outlandish theory about the murders gets him nowhere with the police, his initiative to apprehend the killer himself gets him into hot water with a modern-day vampire.
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Master of the World: Robur has at his fingertips an assortment of whiz-bang 19th-century whatchamacallits including the Albatross, a fantastic flying machine that's at once part zeppelin, part whirlybird, part resort hotel and completely lethal with its overwhelming combination of see-you-later speed and bombs-away firepower that can blast the armies of the world to their knees. Crafty Robur guides the Albatross over the continents, humbling nations...
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Amityville horror: A horror film about a young couple and their children who move into a house that was once the site of a horrific series of murders. Over the next 28 days, they find that the house might be haunted by a murderous presence.
Legend of Hell House: A physicist, his assistant, along with a medium and a survivor of an apparenlty paranormal attack are hired to investigate the case of a haunted mansion, which has already claimed the lives...
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"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... all three sequels from one of the most successful blockbusters of all time are featured in the Jaws 3-Movie Collection. Years after being terrorized by a giant white shark, the vacationers on Amity Island begin disappearing again in an all-too-familiar fashion and seek the help of Police Chief Brody (Roy Schneider) in Jaws 2. In Jaws 3, tourists marvel at the new Undersea Kingdom, a maze...
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Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to...
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The Raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help. The Comedy of Terrors: An undertaker starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
Tomb of Ligeia: A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. The Last Man on Earth: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
The Return of the Fly: Fifteen...
77) 4 film favorites: post-apocalypse collection, I Am Legend ; Logan's Run ; Dark City ; The Omega Man
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I am legend: Immune to an incurable virus, Robert Neville believes he is the last human on Earth and tries to find a cure to stop the mutant creatures that still roam New York City.
Logan's run: In the year 2274, everyone lives a wonderful life until they're 30 years old-- then they're executed.
Dark city: When John Murdoch wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his...
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The book you now hold contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. Robert Heinlein in "The Roads Must Roll" describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. "Country of the Kind, " by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. "Nightfall, " by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, imagines a planet where the sun...
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Pit and the pendulum: A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a bizarre and ghastly secret--and plunges him into a mightmarish torture devised by a notorious master of the Inquisition.
Abominable Dr. Phibes: Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes still lives, surrounded by art-deco bric-a-brac and attended by mute beauty Vulnavia. Outwardly normal in appearance, Phibes actually wears a rubber...
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House on Haunted Hill: "Frederick Loren [is] a baleful young tycoon who owns an ominous mental institution-turned-mansion. Loren throws a party that promises to be a hauntingly good time but turns into a murderous disaster. With his foes in attendance, Loren hands out party favors in the form of miniature wooden coffins that contain handguns. The ominous host has a few scary tricks up his sleeve that he hopes will provoke his guests into using their...