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Penny Dreadful

November 2006 •English

Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.

A Taste of Phobia

May 2018 •English

For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.

Boogeyman 2

October 2007 •English

A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear.

Room 6

June 2006 •English

A schoolteacher with a phobia of hospitals finds herself searching for her boyfriend inside one while teaming up with a man suffering the same ordeal that she's in.

Fear Clinic

October 2014 •English

A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention which induces and controls hallucinations.

Aversion

March 2021 •English

8 People with different phobias are locked away. They have to try and overcome them to survive.

Phobic

December 2020 •English

A homicide detective sees similarities between herself and the victims of a killer who is murdering clinical phobics by exposing them to their fears.

Phobias

February 2021 •English

Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.

Phobia

September 1980 •English

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

STAGE FRIGHT

October 2023 •French

Lily is a young actress going on stage for the first time. Unfortunately, she is late for the representation… but she faces stage fright, forgotten lines and battles with the people around her. That is only the beginning of her nightmare.

Beyond Darkness

June 2023 •English

After a power cut one night, Stan thinks he is seeing things. All alone, he must face what lurks in the dark.

Somniphobia

March 2021 •English

A doctor with the ability to visit people's dreams helps a young woman confront the terrifying reality of her nightmare

Hyde's Secret Nightmare

January 2012 •Italian

An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare combines the two genres and mixes them in equal parts. Cross-cut erotic and horror scenes are kept together by a thread of dramatic force bordering on obsession, paranoia, phobia, perversion, and lack of self-acceptance. Everything unfolds in an extreme world where sex seems the only way to attain a state of well-being.

Phobia

August 2013 •English

In 1885, a female doctor helping a group of people with their phobias becomes embroiled in a murder mystery surrounding a patient that may or may not be a vampire.

The Devil’s Trap

November 2024 •English

In the quiet nighttime corridors of a city hospital, Abigail (Nistratova) consoles her traumatized brother, Billy (Davi) who is now a paraplegic. Billy suffers from horrible nightmares in which he revisits his childhood, where we meet his alcoholic and violent father. Sharing Billy’s hospital room is a dying man, Mr. Cohen (Dern) who seems to know everything about Billy and Abigail. There’s also another horrific presence roaming in the hospital terrifying patients and staff alike.

The Aviator

December 2004 •English

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Jeep, Pavilion and Love

February 1957 •Greek

Thomas in Love

September 2000 •French

Thomas Thomas is agoraphobic, has a computer-generated girlfriend, and hasn't left his home in years. Can a prostitute convince him to leave cyberspace and his home for the real world?

The Fear Inside

August 1992 •English

An agoraphobic children's book illustrator is trapped inside her home by two young psychos-in-love, who terrorize her. It is only when her young son is threatened that she manages to overcome her paralyzing fears and attempt to leave her home to save him...

Titus & Mirabella

September 2020 •English

A romantic comedy about the first date between two people who have never had a relationship before but who desperately want one. A movie about fear and love.