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List: 2026 Movie Bingo: Thriller or Horror


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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

"Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town's most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girls, an unusual love story begins to blossom...blood red. ... A joyful mash up of genre archetypes and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films and the Iranian New Wave ... the first Iranian Vampire Western."-- Container.

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Lady Vengeance = Chinjeolhan geumjassi

After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.

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Night of the Living Dead

There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.

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Get Out

A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.

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Good Time

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.

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Jigoku

"After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell... literally." -- Container.

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Serial Mom

Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.

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A photo of The Birds

The Birds

When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.

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Les yeux sans visage = Eyes without a face

A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.

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La Llorona

While standing trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities, a former military dictator is haunted by a series of disturbing visions. Inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity.

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The Spine of Night

An ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, those who stand against him are a daring tomb robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.

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Super 8

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

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I Saw the TV Glow

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

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Pearl

Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.

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Little Shop of Horrors

In this musical, business booms at Mushnik's Flower Shop when an exotic potted plant called Audrey II arrives. People are rushing in to see it--and disappearing.

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The Exorcist

A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.

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Memento

An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.

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Companion

A group of old friends reunite at a secluded mansion, but their weekend getaway goes sideways when someone is not what they seem.

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Cosmos

Witold has just failed the bar exam, his partner Fuchs has just recently quit his job and now they are staying at a so-called family guesthouse. It's when they discover a bird hung in the woods near the house that they become concerned with their safety. After, they find a piece of wood just as they had found the bird. They receive another omen in the form of forewarning signs on their ceiling and in the garden. What will happen next as Witold falls for a newly wed woman?

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Hereditary

When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

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Kyua : Cure

Set in and around a bleak, decaying Tokyo, a series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions. Detective Kenichi Takabe puts his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the terror.

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Nocturnal Animals

Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was lost.

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Antebellum

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

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Nosferatu

"A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake"-- Container.

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The Evil Dead

"The ingenuity and gore-gushing havoc of The Evil Dead from mastermind director Sam Raimi set an absolute standard for modern horror. Cult legend Bruce Campbell stars as twenty-something Ash Williams, whose relaxing trip away with three pals and girlfriend Linda turns into a disaster when they stumble across The Book of the Dead, unleashing evil spirits that possess the living. Ash goes from zero to hero as he faces demons and possessed friends in a battle to the ends of the Earth and back. In Evil Dead II, gun-toting, chainsaw-armed Ash must once again battle the legions of the damned if he wants to make it to dawn."--Container.

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Weapons

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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Madŏ = Mother

A mother desperately tries to overturn her son's murder conviction, find the killer who set him up, and have him released from prison.

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A photo of As Tears Go By = Wangjiao kamen

As Tears Go By = Wangjiao kamen

Stretched to breaking in a loyalty tug of war between Triad bosses and a loose cannon partner, a rising film star in the HK underworld finds himself saddled with his beautiful cousin. The fascination is his last chance to escape a violent past.

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Scanners

Supernaturals with the power to destroy human beings through telepathy are bent on taking over the world while a young artist races against time to stop them.

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High and Low

A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.

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A photo of Amores perros = Love's a bitch

Amores perros = Love's a bitch

Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.

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Drop

Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone. She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet's young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die. Her unseen tormentor's final directive? Kill Henry.

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