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When she set out to throw the ultimate Halloween party, Angela (Shannon Elizabeth) picked the spookiest site she could find: the rumored-to-be-cursed Broussard Mansion. But by “ultimate,” she didn’t mean for it to be her last. Still, thanks to gates that have inexplicably locked, Angela and her friends (Edward Furlong, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther, John F. Beach, Michael Copon and Diora Baird) are now trapped inside with no way out.

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On Halloween night a group of teens head off to the abandoned Hull House – former funeral home, and of course rumored to be haunted by the family that was slaughtered there on Halloween night years before. A small party is being thrown by Angela, the local “weird” girl. After a little dancing the group decide to hold a séance which unleashes demons who quickly “lock up” the house so they can’t escape. The demon’s kill and possess the party-goers one by one.

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A chilling prequel to the forthcoming horror movie Playback, starring Christian Slater, Alessandra Torresani, and Toby Hemingway, in which a group of high-school students accidentally awakens an evil that possesses its victims through video. The dark curse dates back to turn-of-the-century New York, and begins with a grudge surrounding the birth of film itself. While fooling around with the movie camera invented by his murdered grandfather, a rich young playboy is overcome with bloodlust—and sets out to kill one of history’s most beloved figures.

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Despite his conviction that demonic possession is just so much superstitious mumbo jumbo, Catholic priest-in-training Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue) journeys to Rome to attend a special exorcism school being taught at the Vatican. Before long, true-believer Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins) introduces the young cleric to the devil’s power firsthand. Director Mikael Håfström helms this graphic supernatural thriller inspired by a true story.

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Hapless home buyers George and Kathy Lutz discover their dream home is possessed by evil spirits in this terrifying remake of the 1979 horror classic, based on Jay Anson’s popular book — and a reportedly real-life haunting. As it turns out, the Lutzes home has a bloody history – a former occupant killed his entire family there – so it doesn’t take long for terror to come knocking.