A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

The Zero Boys

1986

English

5.2

♡ 6

42%

Action

Horror

paintball

plastic bag over one's head

Nico Mastorakis Director

Kelli Maroney as Jamie

Joe Estevez as Killer

Trudy Adams as Secretary

Stephen Kay as Soldier #2

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.

The Raven

1935

English

6.8

♡ 6

79%

Lew Landers Director

June Gittelson as Autograph Hound

Ian Wolfe as Col. Bertram Grant

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Richard Vollin

Irene Ware as Jean Thatcher

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.

Bloody Pit of Horror

1965

Italian

4.5

♡ 1

21%

Massimo Pupillo Director

Gino Turini as Anderson's Henchman #1

Femi Benussi as Annie

Alfredo Rizzo as Daniel Parks

Mickey Hargitay as Travis Anderson

A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.

Witchhammer

1970

Czech

7.7

♡ 11

Action

based on novel or book

Otakar Vávra Director

Jaroslava Obermaierová as Líza

Jan Pohan as (uncredited)

Jirí Lír as (uncredited)

Karel Belohradský as (uncredited)

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

Taxi to the Dark Side

2007

English

7.4

♡ 6

100%

Alex Gibney Director

Alex Gibney as Narrator

George W. Bush as Self

John McCain as Self

Brian Keith Allen as Soldier - New York Studio Shoot Reenactment

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

Scream of the Demon Lover

1970

Italian

5.2

♡ 4

José Luis Merino Director

Ezio Sancrotti as Driver Turning Rapist

Enzo Fisichella as Igor

Erna Schurer as Ivanna Rakowsky

Cristiana Galloni as Olga

When a beautiful biochemist arrives at a foreboding castle to work for a sinister baron, she unlocks a nightmare of dark romance, sexual violence, and grisly family secrets.

Devil's Possessed

1974

Spanish

4.6

♡ 6

20%

León Klimovsky Director

Francisco Nieto as

Simón Arriaga as (as Simón Arriaga 'Garibaldi')

Fernando Rubio as Estebáno

Norma Sebre as Georgelle

An evil ruler uses witchcraft and evil spirits to keep his subjects in line, but the his reign of terror prompts the people to revolt.

The Pit and the Pendulum

1991

English

6.0

♡ 12

50%

Stuart Gordon Director

Oliver Reed as Cardinal

Frances Bay as Esmeralda

Jeffrey Combs as Francisco

Lance Henriksen as Torquemada

Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.

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