
Gothika
2003 · MovieMiranda Grey wakes up inside the psychiatric facility where she works, accused of killing her husband, with no memory of the crime.
The city has its own mythology. Alleyways, rooftops, subway platforms at midnight, curated urban horror uses dense, populated environments to isolate its characters in plain sight. Being surrounded by people has never been a guarantee of safety in these films.

Miranda Grey wakes up inside the psychiatric facility where she works, accused of killing her husband, with no memory of the crime.

Riley and her suburban high school friend group encounter the Grimcutty, a digital boogeyman that seems to influence teenagers to self-harm in ways their parents can't identify.

Michael Myers works through Haddonfield on Halloween night while the town turns on itself.

Pinhead ends up trapped inside a sculpture at a nightclub. A journalist and a reckless club owner make decisions that let him out.

Three backpackers follow a tip to a hostel in Slovakia and find that the facility has a very different business operating in its lower levels.

The third Hostel entry moves the setting to Las Vegas and the torture tourism business adapts to its new environment.

Four friends cover up a hit-and-run accident and spend a year not thinking about it. Then a note arrives proving that wasn't possible.

Maddie follows her friend into the subculture around a children's television show called The Pink Opaque and finds that the show's dreamlike world has a literal dimension its creator designed with specific intentions.

The Creeper returns in a soft reboot that ignores the events of the previous sequels.

Eloise can access the past through her dreams and finds herself experiencing the life of Sandie, a young woman trying to break into the London music industry in 1965.

Jack Delroy's show Late Night with the Devil broadcasts from Studio 6B on Halloween night 1977. The special's escalating content is recovered on videotape years afterward.

Dr. Susan Tyler engineered an insect to wipe out a disease killing New York children, but years later the species has been surviving and changing in the subway system.

Rachel Yoder is a new mother feeling disconnected from domesticity when something begins changing about her at night.

Lestat wakes from a long sleep, becomes a rock star, and draws the attention of an ancient vampire queen who's been dormant for centuries.

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into a storied Manhattan apartment building and their charming elderly neighbors take an unusually strong interest in Rosemary's pregnancy.

Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.

Smoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.

Hallie and her friends call on the Slender Man through an online ritual and start losing members of their group.

Dr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.

Al Simmons is betrayed by his own organization, cut a deal in hell, and came back from the dead as something neither side fully planned for.
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