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The Exorcist

1973 · Horror · William Friedkin · 2h 2m

A film star's twelve-year-old daughter starts behaving strangely in Georgetown, and the doctors run out of tests. Slow for an hour, and clinical about it.

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    A boy is left at an orphanage in the last year of the Spanish Civil War, with an unexploded bomb in the yard and something in the cellar. More sad than frightening.

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    Describe: The Devil's Backbone

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  • The Shining

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    1980 · Horror

    A writer takes a job as winter caretaker of an empty Colorado hotel and moves his wife and son in. Slow, enormous corridors, and something is wrong from early on.

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    Describe: The Shining

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  • His House

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    2020 · Horror

    A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.

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    Describe: His House

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