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41) Monster family
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her monster family together and uncover the secret of their curse....
42) Slapface
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only "friends" being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures....
43) Wildling
Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl's coming-of-age arrives with a terrifying twist in this spellbinding take on the werewolf legend. Since birth, Anna has been raised in isolation by a man she knows only as Daddy. He has done everything possible to conceal the truth about her origins from her. But when the teenage Anna is suddenly thrust into the real world under the protection of no-nonsense police officer Ellen, it soon becomes clear that she is far from ordinary....
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Trish Jenner is now a mother of a teenage son named Darry, named after the brother she lost 23 years ago. Trish has a recurring nightmare where her son suffers the same fate as her brother did, killed by the Creeper. Determined to prevent this from happening, Trish, who is now a rich and powerful woman, sets out on a final quest with Jack Taggart Sr. and Jr. to end the Creeper's reign of terror once and for all.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Dare to dive into the deadliest seas of all time. The makers of the dazzling Walking with Dinosaurs invite you to swim with monstrously terrifying, and enormously fascinating, creatures from 100 million years ago. Time-travel through marine history with intrepid explorer Nigel Marven as he dives in the late Cretaceous Sea, the most frightening waters in history. Fight a deadly battle with sea scorpions and a giant tentacled orthocone.
46) Predator
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 1987
Language
English
Description
Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on Earth--because the Predator is not of this Earth.
47) Phantasm II
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The tall man is back with a vengeance in the second chapter in the cult classic Phantasm series. Released after seven years in a mental hospital, Mike convinces his old pal Reggie to join forces with him to hunt down and destroy the tall man once and for all. Mike's visions lead the two to a quiet little town where a horde of flying killer balls aim to slice and dice their gruesome way through each of them.
48) The Thing
Language
English
Description
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, those same monsters have returned and it's up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the last dragon in order to finally stop the Druun for good. However, along her journey, she'll learn that it'll take more than dragon...
Publisher
4K Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Yuya Sakaki's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps and become the greatest duel-trainer in history and he just might pull it off when he suddenly discovers Pendulum Summoning, a never-before-seen technique that lets him summon many monsters at once! But when countless rivals emerge to steal his spotlight, Yuya needs to gear up his game because dueling has evolved into a non-stop world of action.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the birthday of Beckett, Henry's loyal monsterdog; meet Sneeze-O, an adorable beastie with a trumpety beak who helps Henry learn a valuable lesson about taking good care of pets, and visit Rainbow Falls, where a real-life game of 'go fish' soon turns into an amazing case of 'GROW fish!'.
Publisher
4K Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Yuya Sakaki's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps and become the greatest duel-tainer in history, and he just might pull it off when he suddenly discovers Pendulum Summoning, a never-before-seen technique that lets him summon many monsters at once. But when countless rivals emerge to steal his spotlight, Yuya needs to gear up his game because dueling has evolved into a non-stop world of action.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dylan Dog is a world famous private detective who specializes in the supernatural. Armed with an edgy wit and carrying an arsenal of silver and wood-tipped bullets, Dylan must track down a dangerous artifact before a war ensues between his werewolf, vampire, and zombie clients living undercover in the monster-infested backstreets of New Orleans.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The new anthology series based on the 1982 horror-comedy classic, is still the most fun you₂ll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of vignettes, exploring terrors ranging from murder, creatures, monsters, and delusions to the supernatural and unexplainable. You never know what will be on the next page.
55) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns...
56) Jeepers creepers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a demented tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.
59) Monster trucks
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
60) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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