What Lies Below
2020 Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction, MysteryLiberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her mother’s fiancé, John Smith, whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.
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#1
X-Men: Apocalypse
Synopsis:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender,
Oscar Isaac,
James McAvoy
Plot:
mutant,
x men,
superhero team,
superhero,
year 1983,
1980s,
based on comic book,
marvel comics,
comic book,
good versus evil
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#2
Watchmen
Synopsis:
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Starring:
Stephen McHattie,
Billy Crudup,
Jackie Earle Haley
#3
The Invisible Man
Synopsis:
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Starring:
Aldis Hodge,
Storm Reid,
Elisabeth Moss
Plot:
domestic abuse,
invisibility,
mad scientist,
murder,
throat slitting,
escape,
teenager,
restaurant,
evil man,
sadist
...
#4
Scream
Synopsis:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Starring:
David Arquette,
Courteney Cox,
Dylan Minnette
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#5
Don't Breathe
Synopsis:
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Starring:
Stephen Lang,
Christian Zagia,
Jane Levy
#6
Bird Box
Synopsis:
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Starring:
Trevante Rhodes,
Tom Hollander,
Rosa Salazar
Plot:
suicide,
survival,
dystopia,
supermarket,
interracial romance,
violence,
blindfold,
bald man,
gun,
river
...
#7
A Quiet Place Part II
Synopsis:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Starring:
John Krasinski,
Cillian Murphy,
Emily Blunt
#8
Annihilation
Synopsis:
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Starring:
Natalie Portman,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Gina Rodriguez
Plot:
scientist,
coma,
expedition,
biologist,
lighthouse,
mutation,
genetics,
secret mission,
mutant,
based on novel
...
#9
Super 8
Synopsis:
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrify…
Starring:
Elle Fanning,
Bruce Greenwood,
Kyle Chandler
#10
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Synopsis:
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
Starring:
David Koechner,
Halston Sage,
Logan Miller
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#11
Lolita
Synopsis:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Starring:
Jeremy Irons,
Dominique Swain,
Melanie Griffith
#12
Legion
Synopsis:
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Starring:
Dennis Quaid,
Tyrese Gibson,
Paul Bettany
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#13
Critters
Synopsis:
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Starring:
Lin Shaye,
M. Emmet Walsh,
Dee Wallace
#14
A Quiet Place
Synopsis:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Starring:
John Krasinski,
Emily Blunt,
Millicent Simmonds
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#15
Alien: Covenant
Synopsis:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world—which has a sole inhabitant: the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender,
Danny McBride,
Katherine Waterston
Plot:
xenomorph,
android,
alien,
future,
stasis,
alien technology,
scientist,
sequel,
space travel,
outer space
...
#16
War of the Worlds
Synopsis:
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Starring:
Miranda Otto,
Yul Vazquez,
Lisa Ann Walter
Plot:
alien,
survival,
underground,
mass death,
escape,
paranoia,
near death experience,
cult film,
disaster,
destroyed city
...
#17
Venom
Synopsis:
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
Starring:
Woody Harrelson,
Jenny Slate,
Scott Haze
#18
Truth or Dare
Synopsis:
A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.
Starring:
Gary Anthony Williams,
Landon Liboiron,
Aurora Perrineau
Plot:
forced suicide,
gay kiss,
male male kiss,
college,
broken hand,
pool table,
demon,
immolation,
severed tongue,
closeted homosexual
...
#19
The Thing
Synopsis:
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
Starring:
Keith David,
Kurt Russell,
Wilford Brimley
Plot:
antarctica,
isolation,
paranoia,
alien creature,
body horror,
shapeshifting,
cult film,
ambiguous ending,
1980s,
ancient astronaut
...
#20
The Purge
Synopsis:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Starring:
Lena Headey,
Edwin Hodge,
Adelaide Kane