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Carrie, a shy and awkward high school girl with telekinetic powers, faces relentless bullying from her classmates. When she is pushed to the breaking point, Carrie unleashes her powers in a horrifying act of revenge.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a horror anthology film consisting of three separate stories tied together by a wraparound story. The film features dark comedy elements and explores themes of revenge, transformation, and the macabre. It includes segments involving a killer cat, a cannibalistic artist, and a reanimated corpse.

Cat's Eye is an anthology film consisting of three stories connected by a mysterious cat. The cat becomes a companion to a little girl, helps a man quit smoking, and saves a woman from a sadistic troll. The stories explore themes of addiction, menace, and the power of pets.

In Lunacy, a young man gets himself admitted to a strange asylum where he is subjected to bizarre and sadistic treatments. As he navigates the twisted world of the madhouse, he begins to question his own sanity. The film combines elements of animation and live-action to create a unique and unsettling visual experience.

Allan Kolman, a man with psychosomatic blindness, becomes the prime suspect in a fire that claims the life of his father and leaves his sister disfigured. As he tries to regain his eyesight and prove his innocence, he uncovers a web of deception and betrayal.

In this animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a mentally ill man tells the story of how he murdered an old man and hid the body.

A woman with a traumatic past returns to her childhood home, only to discover a dark secret hidden within its walls. As she unravels the mystery, she is confronted with her own demons and the horrifying truth about her family.

The Fall of the House of Usher is a surreal horror movie based on the classic short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It follows a brother and sister who are cursed by their family's dark past and the supernatural events that unfold in their ancestral mansion.

In this French horror film, a monk must escape from the clutches of the Inquisition and the horrors of a torture chamber, including a deadly pendulum and a pit filled with rats.

In a small town, the residents are terrified by a series of murders committed by a mysterious hangman. As the body count rises, the community is consumed by fear and the bystander effect takes hold. The film is a powerful allegory for the Holocaust and McCarthyism, exploring themes of punishment, morality, and the consequences of silence.

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not have been so strange if it had not been for the fact that he had never played the piano in his life and he himself had no idea that he could.

A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

The story of how a desperate loner who has grown up with a butterfly and the Bible for company one day seizes his chance and makes good his escape, only to face his worst fears head-on at an all-nighter in the company of strangers. Based on H. P. Lovecraft's weird tale of the same name.

Specialty of the House is a dark comedy that revolves around a restaurant that serves gourmet food, but with a sinister twist - they secretly serve human flesh to their unsuspecting customers. The story follows the unsettling events that unfold as a new employee discovers the horrifying truth about the specialty of the house.

Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

Disillusioned with his marriage which has ended in divorce, Petr Leroy goes off to the Riviera to the place where he first met his wife and where he hopes to be spiritually revived. Here he meets his friend Jan and together they enjoy the joys the Riviera has to offer. Jan meets a charming girl at the casino and he takes her off into the mountains. On his return he speaks of the beautiful Olga with whom he has spent a wonderful three days. Olga, however, does not appear for a meeting they had arranged, so Jan goes to look for her in the mountains. Then he sees her in a village and tries to catch up with her in his car. He has an accident. Olga takes him to the nearest sanatorium where everyone behaves very strangely to the newly-arrived patient.

Inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart," this is the story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.

A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it.