21 Jun, 2018

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90,000 Insect bites everyone needs to know

Have you ever seen a bite on your body and could not understand who bit you? Or maybe you were sure that it was a mosquito bite, but after a few hours you began to be bothered by strange symptoms? One way or another, it is better to be able to understand the insects that like to bite people in order to navigate the treatment plan.

Ticks

The most annoying part about a tick bite is that you probably won’t even feel it when it bites you. These pests know how to look for “food” unnoticed by humans. Typically, their bites cause redness and appear as a red circle around a black or red dot. Do not forget that if you are bitten by a tick, you must immediately remove the entire insect before it has time to infect you with something.

Mosquitoes

A mosquito bite has the appearance of a red swelling on the skin.Typically, the swelling is in the shape of a circle or a drop. However, the most important thing is not to scratch mosquito bites, although this is difficult. Scratching will make the affected area more irritated.

Wasps

Wasps bite rather painfully and often fly away immediately, leaving the person in the dark about what happened. As a rule, wasp bites are very itchy, cause swelling and redness. The area of ​​the bite is wider than that of a mosquito, and the place where the sting penetrates under the skin is clearly visible.

Bees

If a honey bee stings a person, it loses its life. After the sting, the sting penetrates the skin and remains inside, but together with the sting, the bees leave part of the abdomen and digestive tract, which is the cause of their death. Because of this, bee stings are very easy to recognize, but the sting must be removed immediately so that the venom does not enter the bloodstream.

Hornets

And although it is difficult to distinguish a wasp and a hornet outwardly, their bites are completely different.Hornets are poisonous insects and the bite area instantly turns red and swells. Sometimes the bite can cause blistering. If you experience numbness after a bite or your skin starts to turn blue, see a specialist immediately.

Fleas

Fleas, as a rule, bite feet. And their bites are easy to spot, because they often bite several times. The bites itch more than a mosquito bite and sometimes look like little balls on the skin.

Red Ant

Most ant species are not poisonous and the most they can do is irritate the skin.However, if you notice a red ant on your body, remove it immediately. The saliva of these ants contains a toxin that often causes an allergic reaction in the human body. The bite area turns red and looks like a flea bite. But the difference is in sensitivity: you will definitely notice the ant bite.

Horsefly

The horsefly bite is very painful, so you will not miss the moment when you are bitten. Typically, a large mark remains at the site of the bite, the area around which is swollen and sometimes blistered.Because of its soreness, the bite can cause dizziness and, in rare cases, lead to infection. If you are bitten by a horsefly, disinfect the bite site and attach an ice pack to relieve irritation.

Deer bloodsucker

As a rule, flies cause damage to others only by annoying them with their buzzing. But some flies can transmit diseases, and the deer bloodsucker belongs to them. Their bite is painful, and a red bump remains at the site of the bite. Some of the bloodsuckers can transmit tularemia.If sores begin to appear on your body, and the high temperature is accompanied by a headache, see your doctor.

90,000 Dangerous insects and their bites – blog of the ON Clinic medical center

Summer gives not only warm days and the opportunity to relax in nature, but also stinging, biting insects. Due to our negligence, a hike in the mountains, a picnic or a vacation can be ruined, and the health consequences will have to be settled for more than one week.

Ticks

Outdoor activities can lead to unpleasant exposure to ticks.It doesn’t matter where we are located: in the yard, in the city park or in the forest. Every year these insects conquer more and more green areas, and cases of infection with borreliosis or encephalitis are increasing.

Tick season lasts as long as warm weather costs. Fortunately, in our country, most diseases transmitted by ticks are not spread due to the small number of dangerous tick-like species compared to other countries. For example, in the United States, Canada and Brazil, more than 600 people are infected with Rocky Mountain spotted fever every year.It is a disease caused by a tick that carries rickettsia bacteria. However, Lyme disease, caused by ticks, can also be contracted in Ukraine.

Tick bites

Ticks are carriers of many infectious diseases, including typhus. As soon as a tick hits our skin, it is able to move around the body, looking for more comfortable places to live. Closed clothing without folds in light shades and insect repellent help prevent tick bites in high-risk areas (in the forest, among the wild).

Tick bites are not immediately detectable. Sometimes there is no inflammation, allergic or toxic reaction on the skin. Infectionists explain this by the fact that by piercing the skin, the tick injects an anesthetic that acts as a pain reliever. For this reason, the bitten person does not feel pain.

Lyme disease

The most dangerous ticks are considered to transmit Lyme disease. Its symptoms are reduced to the appearance of red circles on the skin, headache, skin rash, fatigue, fever.In the absence of treatment, the work of the nervous and cardiovascular systems is disrupted, the joints suffer. In most cases, the disease is successfully treated with antibiotics. The sooner you see a doctor, the less the threat to your health.

Specialists of the ON Clinic network of medical centers advise to develop a useful habit: after relaxing in nature, go to the bathroom and carefully examine all the attractive places for ticks (scalp, face, area behind the ears, armpits, area under the knees, chest , upper and lower limbs).

After each walk, take a shower, wash your clothes thoroughly. If an insect is found, contact a dermatologist or infectious disease doctor. Removing the insect yourself can increase the risk of infection. For example, due to:

• insufficient disinfection;
• incomplete tick extraction;
• low immunity;
• the presence of other infectious diseases or inflammatory processes in the body.

Spider Black Widow

These spiders are also called karakurt – they are the heroes of many films.The most dangerous are the females of these predatory arthropods. Poisonous spiders can bite and pose a threat to human health and life. By nature, they are not aggressive and only bite for self-defense purposes (for example, after being accidentally pressed down). The widow spider is able to move quickly and attack at the most unexpected moment. Karakurt live mostly in the south of Ukraine (Azov, Black Sea, Kherson region).

Black Widow Bites

Spider venom can cause pain shock, increased blood pressure, nausea, vomiting and muscle cramps, as well as feelings of fear.Redness forms at the site of the bite. Doctors recommend immediately calling an ambulance and reporting a suspicion of a karakurt bite in order to prevent the possible development of hypertension, bronchorrhea or seizures. Poisonous substances quickly spread throughout the body and can cause irreparable harm to health.

Lice

The favorite place of lice is hair. You can pick them up using a comb, headdress, scarf of an infected person. If your head starts to itch, don’t ignore it.Ask any family member to check your nape, neck, and behind the ears. If you find parasites, try not to scratch your scalp. The wounds contribute to the rapid penetration of infection into the bloodstream.

How to get rid of lice

To get rid of nits (lice eggs that adults lay on clothes or hair), use lice remedies in accordance with the instructions and as directed by a dermatologist (lotions, shampoos, creams). During the treatment of head lice, you need to keep your clothes, underwear, bedding, and hygiene items clean.For those who are not infected, it is important to be careful when dealing with infected people and take preventive measures:

• observe the rules of personal hygiene;
• to use only their own things and not to give them to the infected for temporary use;
• Vacuum blankets, pillows, carpets and change bedding daily.

Fleas

Fleas can annoy not only pets, but also people. They bite painfully, resulting in itchy blisters.Sometimes a person may experience an allergic reaction: swelling and even purulent inflammation on the skin.

Flea bites

You need to start getting rid of parasitic organisms by purchasing protective equipment for animals. Disinfectants will help reduce the discomfort after a bite in a person. Dermatologists advise treating bite sites with disinfectant solutions or ointments purchased from a pharmacy, specialized medical institutions.

To prevent re-infection, take care of the sterility of the pet’s habitat, follow his social circle while walking.First of all, prohibit contact with stray animals.

Bee, wasp, hornet

In case of bee stings, it is important to quickly remove the sting. But a wasp or hornet can inflict two or more bites at once – they do not lose their sting at the first bite, so their attack is more dangerous. As a rule, redness and swelling appear at the site of the bite. And only after a while, side effects can occur: nausea, headache, weakness.

Treatment of a sting of a bee, wasp, hornet

If there is no allergic reaction, it is enough to pull out the sting (if any), and treat the bite site with an antiseptic and apply cold.If you experience an atypical reaction or if you are bitten in the face, larynx, tongue, genitals, seek immediate medical attention. If you ignore what happened, anaphylactic reactions of varying severity can occur, which can even lead to death.

Scabies

Sarcoptes scabei (Scabies itch) can be contracted through direct contact with an infected person or using common hygiene products.The incubation period for infection is from several hours to 1-2 weeks. The bite of the parasite causes severe itching on the skin, often worsening towards night.

Treatment of scabies

A dermatologist will help get rid of scabies after examining the patient and making a diagnosis. It is advisable to wash the patient’s clothes in hot water, to keep the bedding sterile. At the doctor’s discretion, the patient is prescribed antihistamines to relieve itching. The method of treatment is aimed at destroying the pathogen by using drugs with acaricidal action.These are drugs aimed at fighting ticks (acaricides are ticks: ancient Greek ἄκαρι – tick and Latin caedo – I kill).

Bed bugs

Bed bugs can be found in bed linen in hotels. They can even settle in your luggage or on your pet’s belongings. They become most active at night.

On average, the life expectancy of these bloodsucking is about a year. They can be easily confused with other small insects and can often be identified by small red blood stains on your bedding in the morning.After quenching their thirst, they become clumsy, move slowly, and therefore during sleep it is easy to crush them with the weight of their body.

Bedbug bites

Red bites on the arms or shoulders are bug marks. In no case should you comb them (you can make an infection). An effective antihistamine can be used as directed by a dermatologist.

Contaminated bed linen, decor items, toys or other furniture must be thoroughly treated to prevent re-infection.This can be done in dry cleaning, using heat treatment or special means. Be sure to ensure the cleanliness of things in the house, refuse to use other people’s bedding and towels.

Flies

Flies live everywhere and carry such dangerous diseases as pneumonia and intestinal infections. During epidemics, they are able to carry pathogens over long distances, increasing the focus of infection.

Fly bites are painful and cause redness.The bitten place must be immediately treated with an antiseptic solution, and also not to eat the food and drinks on which representatives of the diptera have landed. Flies, like midges, like to settle near garbage cans and dead animals.

Mosquitoes

You must always be saved from mosquitoes, because they are carriers of malaria and other diseases. Mosquito repellents, protective clothing, gazebo window screens and scented sticks are suitable for this.When using skin sprays or creams, be sure to do an allergic reaction test. If available, it is better to select a remedy with your doctor.

As observations show, some people who are in the same place where mosquitoes gather, bite with different strength and frequency. This can be explained by the fact that each insect perceives the smell of a person differently: for him it is more or less attractive. This is tantamount to susceptibility to bites: some have a strong reaction, others weaker.And this depends on the toxicity of the saliva composition of the mosquito that inflicted the “blow”.

Cockroaches

You can meet these six-legged comrades not only outside the house, but also within it. They can go without food for a long time, can damage the integrity of food, leather goods, books. Cockroaches are omnivorous and can feed on garbage or feces. Many of them move through the sewers, garbage chute or attic. Therefore, their lifestyle can negatively affect any person: they threaten gastroenteritis, dysentery or diarrhea.

Certain species of cockroaches, for example, yellow cockroaches, can bite (in the neck, bends of the limbs). As a result, a wound with a small crust appears, which can become inflamed. Cockroaches carry many pathogenic microorganisms on their legs and abdomen. When combing the blister, they can get inside and parasitize in the human body. Cockroach bites must be treated with an antiseptic.

Make an appointment with a dermatologist at the ON Clinic network of medical centers in your city if you are bitten by an insect.An experienced doctor will help you effectively and quickly deal with the consequences of any bite.

Enjoy the summer, but be attentive and careful!

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90,000 Why do red papules appear on my legs?

Did you notice red papules on your legs? A rash like this can be itchy and annoying, but few people will panic.Although sometimes papules are a sign of a serious illness. These skin lesions can be caused by allergies, insect bites and certain skin conditions. The causes of papules and rashes often depend on age and health.

There are about ten common causes of red papules.

• If the red papules do not itch or itch slightly, it may be follicular keratosis.
• Pass without treatment – folliculitis or urticaria.
• Forms spots from which clear liquid oozes – eczema.
• Whiten when pressed – urticaria.
• Severe itching – insect bites or eczema.
• Accompanying skin peeling – psoriasis or eczema.
• Shine and look like ulcers – skin cancer.
• Accompanied by intense night sweats and weight loss – vasculitis.

Let’s talk about these diseases in more detail.

Follicular keratosis

Occurs when skin pores become clogged with keratin.This protein is found in skin, nails and hair.

If you have small red or white papules on the fleshy areas of your thighs and arms that resemble goose bumps, but do not itch (or itch very weakly), it may well be follicular keratosis.

People with dry skin or eczema are more likely to develop this condition.

Although follicular keratosis is harmless, you may want to consult your doctor regarding the use of medicated creams.

He can recommend preparations containing:

• salicylic acid;
• alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) such as lactic acid;
• urea.

Healing creams are especially useful when used in combination with thick moisturizers.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for getting rid of follicular keratosis. But keeping the skin hydrated should help alleviate the condition.

Folliculitis

Usually results from an infection of hair follicles on the scalp or other exposed areas of the body.The most common cause is bacteria of the genus staphylococci. Folliculitis can also be caused by ingrown hairs, viruses, or fungi.

Typical root causes of folliculitis:

• shave,
• tight clothing,
• overheating,
• sweating.

Small red papules or pustules form on the skin, also called “razor burn”.

Folliculitis affects people of any age. But certain factors can increase the likelihood of it occurring.

In particular, the risk of folliculitis is higher if you have:

• a condition that adversely affects the immune system, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), diabetes, HIV infection, or AIDS;

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• skin damage resulting from hair removal, for example, after shaving against hair growth or waxing;
• curly facial hair;
• ingrown hair;
• tight or breathable clothing.

Folliculitis may cause itching and discomfort. However, it is not a serious medical condition. Unless it progresses to severe conditions, in which boils, carbuncles and cellulite appear (acute diffuse purulent inflammation of the subcutaneous fat).

Folliculitis usually goes away on its own. If this condition lasts more than 10 days or worsens, you should see a dermatologist.

Antibiotics in the form of tablets or creams are commonly used to treat persistent or severe folliculitis.

But do not resort to self-medication – it often aggravates the situation.

Eczema (atopic dermatitis)

If the red spots merge and itch badly, you may have eczema, or atopic dermatitis (AD), a common skin condition.

It can cause the skin to become dry, cracked, and flaky. Or become covered with blisters from which clear liquid oozes.

Eczema may worsen.

Common triggers for BP:

The causes of eczema are not fully understood, but some general patterns have been established:

• Eczema often occurs in certain families, which means that there is a genetic predisposition to this disease.
• You are more likely to develop eczema if you or a member of your family have asthma or seasonal allergies.
• Children born to older mothers are more likely to suffer from this condition.
• Eczema is more common in highly polluted cities and in colder climates.

Although eczema can occur in anyone of any age, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that 85% of cases occur in children under 5 years of age.

Another study showed that 50% of people who had eczema in childhood have some signs of the disease in adulthood.

Like most skin conditions, eczema carries a risk of infection: scratching can introduce bacteria or fungus into the wound.

Also, if you have eczema (especially a child), avoid people with herpes and chickenpox. The viruses that cause these diseases put you at risk of contracting herpes eczema, a severe and rapidly spreading infection.

Medicines for the treatment of eczema – topical corticosteroids and topical calcineurin inhibitors. When the itching is severe, antihistamines are used.

If the wound is infected, the doctor may prescribe both antibiotics and antifungal agents.

In any case, you cannot prescribe medication yourself. This can only be done by a doctor after an appropriate examination. If a specialist thinks an allergic reaction is the cause of your condition, they will suggest an allergy test.

Also, regular use of non-drug moisturizers and ointments is usually recommended for the treatment and prevention of exacerbations of eczema.

Your doctor will identify the factors of eczema and give advice on how to reduce their influence.

Urticaria (urticaria)

According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), approximately 20% of people develop hives during their lifetime.

This condition, also called urticaria, is a rash or flat, itchy blisters that are red or flesh-colored.They may turn white when pressed.

Urticaria appears on any part of the body and at any age

as a response to a wide range of triggers:

Urticaria is also associated with certain conditions, including:

• colds or other viral infections;
• sinusitis , angina or other bacterial infections;
• mononucleosis;
• hepatitis
• Autoimmune diseases.

Urticaria, as a rule, is not a threatening condition for humans.But only when it is not accompanied by a systemic allergic reaction – anaphylaxis.

Get immediate medical attention if you have:

• trouble breathing or swallowing;
• sudden hoarseness of voice;
• cough,

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• dizziness;
• severe abdominal pain or vomiting;

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Urticaria often goes away without treatment, unless there is an allergic reaction.Most commonly, antihistamines are used to treat urticaria.

In some cases, oral steroids are prescribed.

However, both the order of administration and the dose of drugs are determined by the doctor.

Insect and tick bites

Your little red papules on your legs may be insect bites. Itching often indicates this origin of the rash.

Mosquitoes

Mosquito bites usually itch a lot. Traces from them can be located both separately and in groups.Bite sites may turn red, but not always.

Itching can be relieved by topical use of witch hazel or hydrocortisone cream.

Fleas

A flea bite looks like a small red spot or papule. Sometimes it itches. May be dark red in the center with a light red circle around it. These areas can bleed.

If pus begins to ooze from the site of the bite, you should immediately consult a doctor.

Hydrocortisone cream and antihistamines are usually sufficient to relieve itching.

Pliers

Tick bites have a bright red dot in the center. They are painful, may turn red, swell, itch.

Hydrocortisone cream helps relieve itching.

Lice

Lice bites can be localized on the head, pubis or other parts of the body. They look like red or pink clusters. Eggs may even appear at the bite sites.

To get rid of lice, you need to remove excess hair and use special products.

Bed bugs

Bed bug bites appear as red lines of dots, flat or raised.

Itching can be relieved with hydrocortisone cream and antihistamines.

Scabies (scabies)

Scabies results in red bumps that accumulate in spots or wavy lines.

An anti-scabies cream with permethrin is needed for treatment. It destroys scabies mites and their eggs.

General tips

For itching caused by most insect and tick bites:

• oral or topical corticosteroids;
• Various over-the-counter or prescription antihistamines that can be taken by mouth or used topically;
• applying ice or cold compresses to the bite site;
• Calamine lotion application.

If you suspect you have any of these conditions that require treatment, be sure to see your doctor.Because it is very difficult to determine some skin diseases on your own at home.

Psoriasis

This is a chronic condition in which the skin develops characteristic red, pale or gray scaly patches.

Guttate psoriasis is one of the forms of the disease. It is accompanied by the formation of small reddish or pink spots that can flake off. Most often it manifests itself on the trunk and limbs.

Guttate psoriasis is the second most common type of psoriasis after plaque psoriasis.May cause hundreds of spots to appear at once.

Triggers or risk factors for guttate psoriasis:

• tonsillitis;
• streptococcal pharyngitis (tonsillitis) or other streptococcal infections;
• upper respiratory tract infection

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• medicines such as beta-blockers or antimalarial drugs;
• high stress level.

Topical steroids in the form of ointments may be effective in reducing disease outbreaks.Zinc-based ointments are no less effective. In particular, activated compounds containing it, such as “Skin-Cap”.

If the lesion is significant, use the phototherapy procedure. This treatment involves the use of ultraviolet light alone or in conjunction with photosensitive drugs such as psoralen.

Skin cancer

There are several different types of skin cancer that can appear as red papules on the skin. In particular, basal cell carcinoma and Bowen’s disease.

Basal cell carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma, or basalioma, is the most common form of skin cancer. It is an abnormal overgrowth of cells in the basal layer of the skin. May look like red papules or an open wound.

Bowen’s disease

This condition is considered a precancerous skin. Appears on its surface.

Appears as reddish scaly patches, may ooze, crust and itch.

Many experts attribute Bowen’s disease to squamous cell carcinoma in the initial stage (in situ).

In addition to sun exposure, bowen disease can be caused by arsenic or human papillomavirus 16 (HPV 16). HPV 16, together with HPV 18, are oncogenic viruses and can also cause cervical cancer.

Vasculitis

This is an inflammation of blood vessels: arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules and veins. It leads to a change in the structure and functions of the organs to which the blood flows through the infected vessels.

The disease has a wide range of symptoms, including:

• pain,
• weight loss,
• night sweats,
• rash,
• symptoms of kidney damage.

There are many types of vasculitis, most of which are rare. The symptoms of some of them are the appearance of red papules on the legs and more.

Hypersensitive vasculitis

Also known as allergic vasculitis. It manifests itself as red spots on the skin, often in the lower leg area.An outbreak can be caused by an infection or an adverse reaction to medications such as antibiotics, gout medications, and anticonvulsants.

In most cases, no treatment is required. Some people may be prescribed anti-inflammatory medications, including corticosteroids, to relieve joint pain.

Kawasaki disease

Also called mucocutaneous lymphatic syndrome. Most often seen in children under the age of five.

Symptoms include skin rash, swelling of the tongue, redness of the eyes, mucous membranes of the mouth, lips , enlargement of one or more cervical lymph nodes, fever. The cause of Kawasaki disease is unknown.

This condition can become dangerous if it is not diagnosed in time and treated early. Therapy usually consists of the administration of immunoglobulin, the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Signs of infection

Usually small red papules on the legs are not a cause for concern.But skin conditions carry the risk of serious infections.

Treat rash as directed by your healthcare professional. And watch for signs of infection such as:

• formation of edema around papules;
• redness that spreads from a rash;
• pain;
• fever;
• Blistering or discharge from papules.

Remember that red papules on the legs or other parts of the body can be signs of a number of diseases.

Some of them are life-threatening or even fatal. Therefore, we advise you not to self-medicate, but to see a doctor if the symptoms persist. And especially if they get worse.

90,000 Diseases of a Soviet child

My son! in your illness, do not be negligent, but pray to the Lord, and He will heal you.
Book of Sirakh, 38: 9

This is this night light “with a cockerel”, bought in Leningrad in 1961. They lit it whenever I got sick and I had insomnia.So then I always tried to shove it somewhere far away so that it would not remind me of these sad circumstances … But it has survived to this day, however
The history of Soviet everyday life. This topic was suggested to me by one of the VO readers. And yes – indeed, the topic is very interesting. But at the same time time consuming and very, very extensive. Requiring significant volumes of photo-illustrative material. And it’s not so easy to assemble. Therefore, to begin with, we will do it much easier, namely this: I will just talk about what concerns myself, and everyone who reads this will be able, in turn, to supplement the story with his own impressions.This will be our own story, from our distant Soviet childhood and its everyday life!

Now, when all of us, as never before, are concerned about the problem of our health, there is every reason to remember how children in the USSR were ill before. It is clear that the study of health problems in the Soviet Union draws on more than one doctoral dissertation and would require many years of research. But as mentioned above, all the material in this case is just my continuous memories. And now, remembering the past, I can say that I started to get sick … very early.Even when our family lived in a wooden house, where there were only two living rooms: a large hall in which my grandmother slept on the sofa, and a small bedroom where my mother’s bed was located, my crib, an old oval mahogany table on which stood a kerosene a lamp with a bulb in the style of Bernard Palissy and a glass container with a disgusting-looking kombucha, the tincture of which I needed to drink daily. Also in this room there was a large and also old wardrobe and … that’s it. Well, my grandfather even slept in a cubbyhole near the door in the vestibule, even though he was in charge of the city council during the war years and was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Badge of Honor.However, then on our street so many lived. And some still live like that.

And in this room I fell ill for the first time when I was about five years old, no more, that is, somewhere in 1959. I got sick with a viral flu and everyone around me walked and repeated: “He has a viral flu!” So I remember it. All my childhood illnesses began the same way – high fever and vomiting, so I really did not like to get sick. What good is it when every now and then turns you inside out. The sunlight hurt my eyes, so the window was curtained and I had to lie in a semi-dark room.

They treated me with norsulfazole tablets. I could not swallow them, and they pushed them to me and gave them on a teaspoon with a slice of apple. The taste is disgusting! Even with an apple! And then my grandmother and my mother switched to herring. With a piece of herring, I still agreed to chew this muck.

Influenza smoothly turned into pneumonia. A nurse began to come to my house to give injections of penicillin. And it was … very painful. So my mother and grandmother had to hold me, and I screamed like a cut. Well, that’s how I was then a boy – “a delicate flower on a thin stem.”

The left leg ached very badly from time to time. “At least endure the saints!” I could start to get sick in the middle of the game (and then I had to urgently run home!), I could have lunch … But I didn’t even stutter about it to my family. I don’t know how anyone, but at that time (both in my family and in the families I know) there was a strict rule for children: they should not cause trouble for adults. That is, they should have been seen, but not heard. And God forbid to make adults bother about you. Fever sickness is a good case.And the same green snot, stretching from nose to lip, in our street and did not pay attention: “And so it will pass!” And then, after all, I was very afraid of injections and … stoically endured pain, lying on the couch under a blanket – running, they say, and tired. And – thank God, no one paid attention to me.

Meanwhile, it was clearly neuralgia, a consequence of difficult childbirth, and just a few massage sessions were enough to fix everything. But … who at that time gave the child a massage? It walks after all … Now, if there was polio … By the way, it was then that nurses from the polyclinic went to all the houses where the children were and gave “peas” for this disease.So, fortunately, no one on the street got sick with this disease. But I saw children who had had it in Penza.

In 1961, my mother took me to Leningrad. We stopped at Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue, at the apartment of our relative, General Konoplev, and … after our “Penza hut” his three-room apartment with all the amenities made an amazing impression on me. The general himself lived in the summer at his dacha, so he invited us to his place. In the first three days we walked around the Hermitage, visited Petropavlovka, the house of Peter the Great, the Summer Palace, the Aurora, and then in the Summer Garden my mother treated me to breakfast of sandwiches with black caviar and ice cream with frozen strawberries.On the Nevsky in Petrovsky passage, I asked her to buy a night light in the form of a tower based on Pushkin’s fairy tale about the golden cockerel. There was another one in the form of a Japanese pagoda, painted with golden bamboo shoots against a background of blue sky, white clouds and dragons, but my mother said: “Choose!”, And I, after thinking, chose “cockerel”. I didn’t think then that I would need it that very night.

Because on the same night I started having “follicular sore throat”, and … I had to give injections again, and to support my heart I drink grape juice.Mom alone could not cope with me and called my grandmother by telegram. So the two of them began to look after me. Due to the constant high temperature, I did not sleep at night, and this is where living in the general’s house came in very handy. He had the entire Adventure Library of that time – books with a gold spine and embossed on the cover, and my mother began to read them to me. And she began with “The Mines of King Solomon.” I remember that I almost died of fear, hearing about the witch Gagula, and how she left Allan Quartermain and his friends to die in the treasury behind the White Death, but still did not die.And then I recovered, and they began to take me for walks, and sometimes quite far from home. They didn’t bother me with strict morality, they scolded me a little for pranks and took me for a walk to the Summer Garden …

After the sore throat I was thin as a skeleton, and the neighbors, naturally, very kindly asked my grandmother: “You don’t feed him at all?”

And then I have to go to school, and in 1962 my mother took me to recover in the Crimea by the sea. In all respects, it was a remarkable trip. But the main thing is that in the fall I finally (from the age of eight) went to school and for some time I really did not get sick.And then, then sore throat again covered me. In the third grade I studied like this: a day at school, two (with a temperature) at home. Doctor Gorshkov – the luminary of the local throat surgery, said: “We need to remove the tonsils,” and … they tied me with a rope, like a mummy, and removed both the tonsils and, at the same time, the adenoids. So he cut me 35 minutes, although my mother (she also had them removed at one time) and promised me 15 oaths. Oh, how I got offended at her when I left the operating room.

However, after that I really did not get a sore throat.However, the “luminary” touched my vocal cords, and since then I have two voices left in memory of my childhood – an ordinary male and a thin one. You can easily switch from one to the other. So a pranker, I think, I could make a great one too.

School means regular medical examinations, vaccinations. At this point I endured the injections, did not cry, and even laughed at those who cried. But what about – “push the falling!” But already in the first grade, at the examination at the dentist, it turned out that I had the wrong structure of the jaw and the bite.The lower teeth go beyond the upper ones, but vice versa. They sent me for a consultation to the city dental clinic, put on a plastic “mouth guard”, and had to eat, drink and talk with her. Inconveniently scary. But after two weeks she flew off.

In the second grade, everything was repeated. Examination, diagnosis, referral and … a new, only now metal prosthesis for the lower teeth. True, I, like Tom Sawyer with his cut finger (and a pulled out tooth!), Was lucky in this case. Now all the boys, both at school and on the street, asked me to show their “golden teeth”.They straightened my jaw, but they warned me not to box. And, of course, even then I had to get acquainted with a Soviet drill with a pedal drive. The dentist shook him with his leg and at the same time drilled your tooth, and without anesthesia, anesthesia (novocaine) was done only when removed. To say that I didn’t like it is to say nothing. And the word “bitches” was the most … pronounced of all those that I then awarded my doctors. The women “zubikhi” (as we, the boys called the dentists then) were offended and reprimanded their grandmother: “The boy is from a decent family, but he swears like that …” But what if I was in great pain?

It must be said that we, the inhabitants of Proletarskaya Street, were very lucky that a former zemstvo doctor, Doctor Milushev, lived there.As soon as one of our children fell ill, mothers and grandmothers ran not to the clinic, but to him, and if they only found him at home, then he never refused anyone. He came with an old-fashioned bag, and always … healed our children very well.

However, you will read about exactly how this happened next time. It has been proven that articles that are too large are usually poorly read!

To be continued …

The best recipes of the III quarter of 2021 »IA” RUSNORD “

SALADS

“Cyprus noon”
Cut sweet ripe tomatoes into slices.Remove the tails from the strawberries and cut into 6-8 slices, depending on the size of the berry. Cut the halloumi cheese into 5–6 mm slices and fry on a grill or frying pan until golden brown. Mix olive oil with lemon juice and season with rucola. Put the seasoned rucola on a dish, top with tomatoes, lay out strawberries and cheese beautifully on them. Apply the ornament with balsamic sauce.

“San Sebastian”
Peel off orange slices and cut in half. Cut the peeled avocado into wedges.Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Cut the fresh cucumber into semicircles. Cut the red onion into feathers. Add cilantro and boiled or canned squid. Put the prepared food on the salad mix and pour over the dressing of vegetable oil and orange juice.

Spanish Bowl
Cut lightly salted salmon into slices. Peel the avocado and cut into thin slices. Cut cherry in half, cucumber – half slices, red onion – half rings. Put the prepared product on a dish in sectors, adding green peas to the cucumber.Serve separately the dressing of Greek yogurt, olive oil and lemon juice.

“Gadzhi”
Cut eggplants into slices and fry in vegetable oil. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Boil chicken fillet until tender, disassemble into fibers. Fry the mushrooms with onions until golden brown. Chop the walnuts with a knife. Mix mayonnaise with garlic. Cover the form with cling film. Put one slice of eggplant on the bottom of the mold. Lay the rest around the perimeter of the form with a little overlap.Put the chicken fillet in the first layer, tamp well, grease with dressing. Then in turn – carrots, mushrooms, nuts, greasing each layer. Cover with eggplant slices, foil, tamp and refrigerate overnight. Take out, turn into a dish. Cut like pie.

SNACKS

Greek style tomatoes
Cut off the caps of the tomatoes, scrape the insides, do not shrink the walls. Squeeze the insides of the tomato from the juice, finely chop the resulting cake with a knife.Put canned beans out of the jar. Crumble the feta with a fork or cut into small cubes. Pass the garlic through a press. Stir the products, add herbs and spices. Stuff the tomatoes, place in a baking dish, cover with the remaining lids. Drizzle with olive oil mixed with wine vinegar and bake for 20-30 minutes.

“Caprice Mimi”
Grate chicken fillet with salt and pepper and fry for 3 minutes on each side over high heat in olive oil. Wrap in foil.Chop blue cheese, chop almonds with a knife, add finely chopped fried chicken fillet. Cut the pears in half, cut out the core and spoon out the pulp with a spoon, so that the walls remain strong. Chop the pulp and add to the chicken with cheese and nuts. Mix. Cover a baking sheet with parchment, put pear boats on it and fill each with minced meat at the rate of 1 boat = 1.5 tsp. minced meat. Then pour 1 tsp on each boat. olive oil. Grate mozzarella on a coarse grater and sprinkle all the stuffed boats on top.Send to the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, until browned.

SOUPS

Mediterranean Soup
Prepare green salsa with chopped basil, parsley, crushed walnuts, white wine vinegar and olive oil. Remove the fillet from the chicken, from the rest prepare a strong broth with roots. Prepare meatballs from ground chicken fillet with the addition of raw eggs, onions, salsa, white bread crumbs and grated Parmesan.Fry in vegetable oil. Put the finely chopped tomatoes in a skillet, add the meatballs, simmer together. Put in soup along with noodles, boil. At the very end, add spinach leaves (basil, nettle, sorrel). Season with the remaining salsa.

“Chrianteli” (Georgian cold soup)
Ripe cherries to be pitted. Punch the berries in a blender along with the garlic, basil, tarragon and red chili. Dilute with cold, still mineral water to the desired consistency.Season with salt and sweeten to taste. Pour into bowls. To each add a little grated fresh cucumber and small balls of mozzarella. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

HOT DISHES

Johnny Fish
Wash the fish, dry with paper towels and cut into portions. Place in a bowl and cover with dark beer. Cut the garlic into slices. Add spices. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut the onion into half rings.Carrots and eggplant – cubes. Chop the dill. Remove the fish from the marinade, pat dry with paper towels and fry in butter for 2-3 minutes on each side. Put vegetables to the fish, fry for 2 minutes, add dill, add marinade, bring to a boil and simmer until tender (15 minutes).

Rostov-style rabbit
Pour boiling water over dry mushrooms and let stand, drain the water through a sieve and save. Cut the onions into half rings. Cut the garlic into slices. Season the rabbit meat and fry in a pan in a mixture of oils.Transfer to a baking sheet, and fry the onion and garlic in the same pan. Cut oyster mushrooms and mushrooms into slices and add to onions and garlic. Finely chop the soaked mushrooms, add to fresh mushrooms with onions, pour in dry white wine and let the alcohol evaporate over high heat. Pour in the water in which the mushrooms were soaked, mix everything and put in a mold with a rabbit. Top with cream. Bake in a preheated oven for 45-50 minutes, periodically pouring over the sauce.

Bulgarian chicken
Boil rice.Cut the bell pepper into cubes, plum into quarters. Chop the garlic. Cut the chicken into “one bite” pieces. Pour oil into a cold frying pan, add spices and garlic. Turn on heating. When the oil is well heated, lay out the meat and fry for 10 minutes until golden brown. Remove the prepared meat from the pan, and put the vegetables in the remaining oil and fry with high heat for 5 minutes. When serving, put the rice on a plate, on top – the meat, and on top of it – the vegetables.

Texas-style potatoes
Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices.Grease an ovenproof dish with vegetable oil. Lay the potato slices upright. Peel and cut onions into half rings, bacon or brisket into small pieces. Spread the onion and bacon between the potato circles. Melt the butter and mix with the crushed garlic and seasonings. Drizzle over potatoes and bake in preheated oven for about 40 minutes.

90,000 Test: How crazy do you go for horror movies? Find out your diagnosis!

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• Question from

  Poltergeist

  They’re here. They appear ghostly at first, playing hide and seek at the Freelings’ country house. But then it gets really scary! Clouds gather, revived trees attack, and little Carol Ann Freeling is sucked into the spectral void. And while her family is struggling with a string of nightmares and trying to save the girl, in the neighborhood, something lurks somewhere nearby …

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  Something (1982)

  A team of scientists at the American research base in Antarctica will face an inexplicable, monstrous nightmare.Cut off from the whole world, polar explorers enter into an unequal battle with an alien creature, awakened after a thousand-year hibernation in the ice, a merciless creature that woke up and … got hungry.

• Question from

  Blair Witch: Coursework from the Beyond

  In October 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared into the woods of Maryland while filming a documentary … A year later, their footage was found.They came to the forest in the Black Hills in Maryland to shoot a documentary about a local legend – the Blair Witch, who tortured and killed anyone who wandered into her domain. The legend speaks of an age-old curse, ritual murders of children, sinister artifacts and supernatural phenomena.

• Question from

  Suspiria

  Young American dancer Suzy comes to Germany to study at a prestigious ballet school.Upon arrival, she sees a young girl running out of the school building in panic. The next day, Suzy learns that this girl has been brutally murdered.

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  The Shining (1980)

  The protagonist – Jack Torrance – has come to an elegant secluded hotel to work as a caretaker during the off season with his wife and son. Torrance had never been here before. Or is it not entirely true? The answer lies in the darkness woven from a criminal nightmare.

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  Classic Universal Monster Films (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Wolfman)

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  Rosemary’s baby

  A young woman, Rosemary Woodhouse, is expecting her first child. She does not yet know that her future child is a child of the devil …

• Question from

  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

  College student Nancy and her friends have nightmares.In a dream, they are pursued by a killer with a burnt face. But his right hand is wearing a glove with long sharp blades and he calls himself Freddie. After several brutal murders of her acquaintances, Nancy realizes that if Freddie kills someone in his sleep, then this person really dies. Having learned the terrible truth about the past of the residents of Elm Street, Nancy decides to end the nightmarish maniac once and for all …

• Question from

  Friday 13 (1980)

  They were warned … They were cursed … On Friday, the 13th … nothing will save them … The cozy camp “Crystal Lake” reopens! The counselors are looking forward to the summer shift with exciting activities and fun games for the young guests.True, a new game has appeared, which counselors do not yet know about: it will be very popular this season. The game is called – “Kill the counselor!”

• Question from

  Halloween (1978)

  Psychopathic killer Michael Myers, as a child, committed the murder of his own sister on Halloween – All Saints Day. 15 years later, the killer maniac has taken up the old again and is terrorizing a small town. He escaped from a psychiatric asylum to deal his killing blows again on Halloween.

• Question from

  The exorcist

  Trouble comes to the family of the famous actress – her minor daughter begins to behave in an inappropriate way. The mother believes that this is a consequence of her personal tragedy, doctors suspect a mental illness and are unable to make a diagnosis. A specially invited priest suspects that the girl is possessed by the devil. However, in the modern atheistic world, no one believes that a person can be possessed by an unclean spirit, even the church itself.Nevertheless, the last surviving exorcist (“exorcist”) Father Lancaster Merrin is called from Asia by the Vatican, who arrives, not knowing that he is going to meet his death …

• Question from

  Silence of the Lambs

  The psychopath kidnaps and kills young women throughout the American Midwest. The FBI, confident that all the crimes were committed by the same person, instructs agent Clarissa Sterling to meet with a maniac prisoner who could explain the psychological motives of the serial killer to the investigation and thereby lead him to his trail.The inmate, psychiatry doctor Hannibal Lecter, is serving a sentence for murder and cannibalism. He agrees to help Clarissa only if she treats his sick imagination with the details of her complex personal life.

• Question from

  Living carrion

  1957. A monkey was taken from the island of Sumatra, because of one bite of which the natives cut off both hands and then the head of the zoologist who came to catch it. Already in our time, this creature has bitten the evil mother of our hero, who does not allow him to meet with his girlfriend.The consequences of the bite are terrible, the picture is gradually inhabited by creepy zombies …

• Question from

  Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2

  Young people rent a country house for the weekend. It is located in an impassable wilderness, it looks gloomy, and there is not a soul around. Rent costs a penny, but not because it will fall apart … Earlier, an archaeologist lived here, after whom various mystical artifacts remained in the basement. For example, the book of the dead, objects of unknown magical cults and a tape recorder with a spell recording in an incomprehensible language.The guys listened to the recording … With the onset of darkness they will have to meet the spirits they have awakened!

• Question from

  Psycho (1960)

  A young girl, Marion Crane, an employee of the company, escapes with a large sum of money – 40 thousand dollars, which she was entrusted to put in the bank. Wanting to hide from the police, she stops at a secluded motel, unaware that she is in even greater danger. She meets the owner of the motel Norman Bates – a young man who lives as a hermit with his sick mother.

• Question from

  Jaws (1975)

  The film takes place over five days – on the island of E’mity, where a small resort town is located. In this quiet and sunny place, terrible tragic events took place, which began in the early morning when the chief of the local police Martin Brody and his assistant find the remains of the girl’s body on the shore. She became the first victim of a huge great white shark that appeared off the coast of Amity … Every day the number of victims of the bloodthirsty shark continues to increase.

• Question from

  Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

  1974. Concerned about rumors of vandalism at the cemetery where their grandfather is buried, Sally Hardesty, her disabled brother Franklin and their three friends travel to Texas. During a forced stop, they find themselves near an old farm, where a maniac “Leatherface” armed with a chainsaw and his family of psychopathic cannibals live. One by one, our heroes fall into their hands …

• Question from

  Hostel

  Several overage boobies travel around Europe in search of adventure.Having obeyed a random fellow traveler, they go to Slovenia, where student hotels are cheap, and girls are just waiting for Americans with dollars … Everything turns out to be so, but while the guys started hunting for girls, something started hunting them.

• Question from

  Carrie (1976)

  Quiet, timid and trusting Carrie is bullied and bullied at school and at home. A child, naturally kind, becomes withdrawn and gloomy. At the same time, the girl discovers strange and terrible forces in herself … And her peers are preparing another sophisticated joke on Carrie, not even suspecting how it will end for them …

• Question from

  Report

  Quiet, timid and trusting Carrie is bullied and bullied at school and at home.A child, naturally kind, becomes withdrawn and gloomy. At the same time, the girl discovers strange and terrible forces in herself … And her peers are preparing another sophisticated joke on Carrie, not even suspecting how it will end for them …

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  Phantasm

  Few are given to meet with otherworldly forces. Surviving after such a meeting is even more difficult. Two brothers, Mike and Jody, witness unexplained, mysterious phenomena in the city cemetery.They see ghosts that roam the graves at night. Before the brothers’ eyes, small but powerful demons are born; a mysterious rustle is heard in the sealed crypts. Mike and Jody manage to find out that the reason for these phenomena is the Gateway to a mysterious, frightening, alien world. The Gate has a Guardian, the “Bigger”, armed with a flying silver sphere that bores the heads of intruders.

• Question from

  Blood Red

  During a congress of parapsychologists, a woman-medium falls into a trance and declares that there is a killer in the hall who has killed before and will surely kill again.In the evening of the same day, she is found dead. The murdered woman’s neighbor, a conservatory teacher with a dark past, is taken to investigate the crime.

• Question from

  Children’s Games (1988)

  Nobody believed 6-year-old Andy Barclay when he said that his new doll named Chucky was alive. And when the boy’s nanny died, falling out of the window, he told his mother and the investigator the honest truth: “Chucky did it.” When the soul of a murderer enters an innocent looking doll, no one except little Andy realizes that Chucky is guilty of a wave of terrible murders that swept the city.But the real horror comes when the villain’s spirit intends to move from a doll to a living person.

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  Hellraiser

  Frank opens a box that conceals all the way to forbidden pleasures. Thus, he frees the demons who tear him apart – in the literal sense of the word. And this was only the beginning of his torment in the hands of the wise and cruel Cenobites, the demons that the box commands.Years later, Frank, thanks to his brother’s blood accidentally spilled over his ashes, manages to resurrect in the form of a skinless monster. Now, in order to start life anew and escape from his tormentors, he needs more blood. His brother’s wife, Julia… becomes his ally.

• Question from

  Saw: A Survival Game

  Two strangers wake up in a strange basement room. In the center of the room is the corpse of a man with a bullet through his head and a weapon in his weakened hand.They are chained to the walls by the ankles. Both do not know how they got there. Through simple assumptions and answers hidden around them, like pieces of a puzzle, they will at least find out why they are here and what exactly is expected of their Kidnapper. The voice from the found tape broadcasts dispassionately: “If you want to save your wife and children, kill the other.” You can kill another only by reaching for the weapon. It is impossible to reach the weapon otherwise than by getting rid of the chain. You cannot get rid of the chain otherwise than by sawing off the leg.Time is short. But enough to reconstruct the chain of strange events that brought each of them to where they are now.

• Question from

  American werewolf in London

  American parachutists David and Jack travel to Europe for a three-month vacation. While walking through the desolate countryside in England, they meet locals who give them strange, blood-curdling advice: “Stick to the roads and stay out of the swamps” and “Beware of the full moon.”In the dark, the guys hear a terrifying howl coming from the swamp. Then they realize that they are being pursued by a mysterious creature hungry for fresh blood. Those whom this creature kills gain immortality and are doomed to wander the earth forever, but the one who managed to escape at a fatal meeting awaits a different, also unusual fate …

• Question from

  Gremlins

  Funny fluffy animal Maguay can work wonders! If you pour water on it at a certain time of the day, it can turn into a fierce Gremlin monster.These amazing transformations will make viewers squint their eyes in fear, then clutch their tummies with laughter.

• Question from

  Night of the Living Dead (1968)

  All over the world, the dead begin to rise from their graves. Insatiable, they pursue people and mercilessly eat those caught. A group of survivors take refuge in a farmhouse. At night they will have to withstand the siege of several dozen living corpses thirsty for human flesh.

• Question from

  Dawn of the Dead (1978)

  Escaped from the horror of the dead in a helicopter, four travelers are forced to land on the roof of a supermarket.There they find food, shelter, and trouble. The multi-storey store is crammed with stupid walking corpses from top to bottom. Entertaining themselves by shooting the dead, people do not even suspect that in just a few hours one of them will become the one they kill so easily – a carnivorous zombie, and a little later a gang of thugs will come to the store, making no distinction between the living and the dead, whose only desire is the lust for profit and violence.

• Question from

  Return of the Living Dead

  Military containers with zombies were stored in a provincial medical warehouse, which had been there by mistake many years ago.One day, far from being a fine day, the tightness of the package was broken, a poisonous gas burst out, and now the dead from a neighboring cemetery are leaving their quiet haven to feast on the brains of the living.

• Question from

  With the arrival of darkness

  A young guy meets a charming girl who, on closer inspection, turns out to be a vampire. “Vampirism” is a contagious disease, and after a passionate kiss, the guy should gradually become a vampire too.The girl, as it turned out, is part of a whole vampire clan that drives an old van along the roads of Texas. During the day, vampires sleep in motels, and at night they go out on a “quiet hunt.” The police are powerless against them, because the bullet does not take them: they are only afraid of sunlight. Vampires are ready to accept a guy into their clan, but for this he must kill his first victim himself.

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  A zombie named Sean

  Sean’s life is like an endless, dreary dream: tedious work, domestic squabbles, “showdown” with a girlfriend and problems with his mother.Our guy’s only outlet is a local pub, where he “meets” after work with his friend named Ed. Believe it or not, the dead lay in their graves: they decided to diversify their boring existence and were going to “rush” through the city, feasting on fresh living flesh! A zombie epidemic begins with the participation of a huge number of unbelted living corpses that are very hungry and eager to gnaw human meat!

• Question from

  Drag me to Hell

  Bank employee Christine Brown refuses to renew a loan to a strange old gypsy woman.The old woman puts an old spell on the girl – Christine has three days to remove it, otherwise she will be dragged away to hell. But when the heroine comes to the witch’s house, she is already buried …

• Question from

  Troll 2

  The film follows a family trip in which a boy named Joshua is chased by cannibalistic goblins in a town called Nilbog.

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  Night of Fear (1985)

  A young horror fan, Charlie, discovers that his neighbor is a vampire.Even worse: the neighbor does not like that someone knows his secret, so Charlie’s life is in question. Completely desperate, Charlie turns to Peter Vincent, the host of the “Fear Night” program, for help, who supposedly knows everything about vampires …

• Question from

  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

  Lonely vagrant Henry engages his dumb prisoner in Otis’ prison in a series of senseless murders. Choosing their victims at random, they invent new ways of killing each time.Otis’s sister Becky comes to Chicago to stay and falls in love with Henry.

• Question from

  Seven

  Detective William Somerset is a veteran criminal detective who dreams of retiring and moving away from the city and sinful inhabitants. 7 days before retirement, two troubles fall on Somerset: a young partner Mills and a particularly sophisticated murder. The keen mind of an experienced detective immediately determines that this crime is likely to be followed by others.The news confirms his guess. Realizing that the killer is punishing his victims for their mortal sins, the detective is faced with a choice: return to work, or leave and hand over the case to his less experienced partner?

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  Slug

  Grant Grant, a resident of the small town of Wilsa, discovers a fallen meteorite in the forest. A certain substance is expelled from this cosmic body, which immediately settles in Grant’s chest.After that, strange metamorphoses begin to occur to him. He is constantly experiencing severe hunger, and his body undergoes transformations. When Grant realizes his new mission, he rushes to turn other residents of the town into insatiable zombies just like him. First of all, Grant wants to do this with his own wife Starla, but the local sheriff Bill Purdy is doing everything to protect her and the whole city from the space plague …

• Question from

  Demons

  A young girl Cheryl and her friend receive an invitation on the subway from a strange man in a silver mask to the premiere screening of a new horror film about demons, whose invasion was allegedly predicted by Nostradamus.The show is to take place in one of the newly renovated Berlin cinemas called the Metropol. In its foyer, one of the visitors sees a mannequin in a silver demon mask and jokingly tries on this mask to take a picture in it. Having kicked about something sharp inside the mask, the girl with a displeased look goes into the hall. What is happening on the screen strangely resembles what actually happened before the session – the same mask and one of the heroes hurt himself about it … Just at the moment when a young man on the screen reads an excerpt from the book of Nostradamus, which tells that everyone, put on a mask, will turn into a demon, the injured visitor becomes ill, and she goes to the women’s room only to … for the prophecy of Nostradamus to come true.

• Question from

  Cannibal Hell

  Several young reporters travel to the Amazon to shoot a sensational film about the last cannibals left on Earth. Once in a place where no European has ever been, they disappear without a trace. What happened to them? What terrible secrets does the Amazonian selva keep?

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  Paranormal Activity

  A young couple lives in a house they suspect is being visited by some evil force.To record paranormal activity, they set up a video camera to record evidence of the existence of this force, which appears exclusively at night when they sleep. This is where the fun begins … and the scariest!

• Question from

  Oldboy (2003)

  1988. An ordinary man named Oh Dae-su, a caring father and loving husband, is kidnapped right on the way home. He wakes up in a strange room, which is a makeshift prison.Dae-su is tormented by the question “why”, but does not find an answer. A year later, he sees a report on the death of his wife on the news. The worst thing is that he is considered the killer. After fifteen years of imprisonment, the poor man is finally released.

• Question from

  28 days later

  A group of green extremists invade a primate research center and release a monkey infected with a virus of unstoppable aggression from a secret science laboratory.A deadly virus, transmitted through blood in a matter of seconds, leads to instant infection, and, in contact with any living creature, turns it into a bloodthirsty monster. After 4 weeks, all of England is engulfed in a terrible epidemic: many people are evacuated, others are looking for safe places, hoping to escape. Those who were lucky enough not to get infected, together with a group of military men, are hiding in an abandoned house. Together they will have to figure out the situation and try to fix it …

• Question from

  Alien

  In the distant future, a cargo spacecraft returning to Earth intercepts a weak SOS signal from an unknown planet.The crew decides to land and figure out what the matter is. Once on the planet, astronauts everywhere find unidentified objects that look like giant cocoons or larvae. Unfortunately, they do not even realize that in these cocoons disgusting ruthless creatures await their time, the raison d’être of which boils down to the destruction of all living things. They are ideal killers: they are covered with an impenetrable shell, acid flows in their veins, and they only need a second to tear a person to pieces.Having woken up from hibernation, these creatures arrange a bloody massacre, in which only one person manages to survive – Lieutenant Ripley – a woman who has proven that the human brain is the most terrible weapon.

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  Scream

  The small Californian town of Santa Rosa is terrorized by a maniac – a murderer. The maniac is a movie fan, and he draws his devilish ideas from movies. Young victims chosen by him can avoid death, if only they follow the rules that prescribe tapes, which he has seen enough: do not open the door to strangers and do not ask `who is there? use drugs, not have sex.And most importantly – never, under any circumstances, shout!

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  Drop (1988)

  A fatal meteorite brought a terrible substance to the earth. Liquid plasma devours everything in its path, and the more victims are in its bottomless depths, the more this clot of black energy, bringing death, becomes. The inhabitants of a small American town do not believe in scary stories about a devilish substance. Meanwhile, the bloody mass is already approaching its outskirts.

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  Haze

  A supernatural fog covers the small town, cutting off people from the outside world. A group of heroes who find themselves at this moment in a supermarket have to enter into an unequal battle with monsters living in the fog.

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  Fly (1986)

  Talented and slightly eccentric scientist Seth Brundle studies the problems of teleportation.Starting with the movement of inanimate objects in space, the genius from science decides to experiment with living things. Inspired by the successful outcome of the monkey teleportation experiment, he himself wants to become the object of the experiment. But by chance, a fly flies into the sterile chamber. This little insect changes Seth’s life forever – he becomes different. Another creature.

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  Descent

  A group of desperate friends goes on vacation to explore remote mountain caves.Everything goes according to plan until a mysterious grotto is encountered on their way. The alluring secrets of the underworld make them forget about caution and find themselves deep underground, where all paths back are cut off. Darkness, cold, hunger, despair and fear are not the only fellow travelers in this adventurous adventure … The long-awaited vacation turns into a chilling horror, and the mysterious cave turns into a crypt.

• Question from

  Let Me In (2008)

  Twelve-year-old Oscar lives in a small village near Stockholm.During the day, he is ridiculed and patiently endures humiliating kicks and slaps, but at night he dreams of revenge. Raised without a father, Oscar, escaping the supervision of his mother, describes in paints in a notebook inventive and merciless murders of his offenders. On paper, he ties people up, breaks their necks and sucks the blood out of them. He also practices throwing knives in his backyard. But one night he meets a girl named Eli. She is his new neighbor. The two outcasts instantly become friends, Eli teaches Oscar bravery, and Oscar awakens her thirst for love.But Ali, alas, is not enough – she is tormented by a thirst for blood.

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  Dinosaur Invasion

  Right in the middle of Seoul, in the Han River, a huge monster wound up. Alarmed by onlookers, the beast climbed ashore and arranged a uniform orgy. One of the victims of the monster was the girl Hyun So, whom the muddler father could not save from the clutches of the monster. The government isolated the river, and quarantined everyone who came into contact with the monster, as carriers of the devastating virus.And at this moment, the phone of the main character receives a call from Hyun Seo – it turns out that she is still alive: the beast left her among the corpses, intending to eat it later.

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  Film test

  A man who lost his wife seven years ago decides to find a life friend. With the help of a friend close to show business, he organizes screen tests, which, in fact, become bridegrooms of girls of different ages and their bad habits.And he finds what he was looking for.

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  Nosferatu, a symphony of horror

  A young clerk Hutter from Bremen in the first third of the 19th century goes for three nine lands, in the Carpathian forests, to the infernal Count Orlok, the owner of the castle, who decided to move to a large city. The guest discovers that Orlok, also known as Nosferatu, is a vampire, and only his wife Nina saves him from his infectious bite, Nina, who is supernaturally deeply in love with a modest and weak-willed employee of a real estate office.It is she who understands what evil the gloomy count carries in herself.

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  Fire in the sky

  One autumn evening, a group of woodcutters working in the thicket of northeastern Arizona noticed an unusually bright source of light. Curious hard workers, among whom was Travis Walton, decided to look at the strange fire up close. This was their fatal mistake. Travis Walton disappeared in front of his comrades. Paralyzed by horror, the lumberjacks reported that the unfortunate man had been abducted by a UFO.But they did not believe these people and began to suspect them of murder. Local authorities have announced an official wanted list for Travis Walton. The police, together with civil defense units, combed the surroundings day and night. However, attempts to find the missing worker were in vain.

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  In the mouth of madness

  The works of Sutter Kane have broken all popularity records – Stephen King never dreamed of such a thing. The effect produced on some admirers of Kane’s talent is complete disorientation and loss of memory, massive outbreaks of violence, schizophrenics, overcrowded clinics.The author of the horror novels, which bring in a huge profit to publishing houses, disappeared already two months ago. To find him, the publisher hires insurance agent John Trent, and the search leads him to the city described in the book, but not on the map …

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  The Serpent and the Rainbow

  Dennis Alan, an anthropologist from Harvard University, travels to the homeland of Voodoo black magic, the island of Haiti, to find the place where the strange powder was made.Local legend says that this powder is able to bring the dead back to life. On the island, Alan will have to face a terrible science, the history of which goes back centuries, a science that subverts all human ideas about life and death.

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  Horror Kaleidoscope

  Anthology of five stories. A father sees his son looking at a horror comic magazine. He takes the “harmful” magazine from him, throws it into the trash bin, and sends the little boy to sleep.Suddenly, in the window, the boy sees the good-natured face of a ghost who calls him with him. He leads him down the street to the trash bin where the magazine is …

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  Misery

  Writer Paul Sheldon does not remember the heavy snowfall that caused him to crash his car somewhere in the mountains. He also does not remember how a woman found him and saved him from certain death. All he remembers is how he woke up in the house of Annie Wilks, an ardent admirer of his novels.Not wanting to part with her beloved author, she breaks his legs so that he does not run away and forces Paul to create a new book, thus making him his own “tame” writer. Cursing his school teachers for teaching him how to write, he tries to regain his freedom by running away from Annie’s house. But it is not so easy to escape from the tenacious hands of a cruel manic fanatic.

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  A Story of Two Sisters

  Two sisters return to their father and stepmother’s home after an extended stay in a psychiatric hospital.The situation in the house is tense, since the condition of the stepmother is very unbalanced. Soon strange things begin to happen in the house, it seems to the sisters that there is someone else inside.

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  I saw the devil

  A National Secret Service agent is on the hunt for the serial killer who brutally murdered his fiancée. The desire for revenge became the goal of his life for the unfortunate man. At the same time, he does not think at all about the means to achieve it – the border between good and evil is erased, blood is shed, at any moment the hunter himself can become a victim.

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  Martyrs

  France, early 70s. Lucy, a little girl who has been missing for almost a year, is found wandering down a country road. The child is in a state of deep shock and cannot tell about what happened. The police quickly find the place of her imprisonment – an abandoned slaughterhouse. But everything suggests that the girl never left her prison. There are no signs of sexual abuse on the child’s dirty, emaciated, dehydrated body: it was not a crime committed by a pedophile, but something much more bizarre.What happened in this place? And how did Lucy manage to escape?

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  Call (1997)

  Screen adaptation of Koji Suzuki’s novel. A young female reporter investigates a mysterious superstition about a deadly videotape. In the house of the one who looks at her, at first a strange call is heard on the phone, a little later he is found dead. After, apparently, the same death dies her niece, the reporter decides to take up the investigation and watches the ill-fated cassette herself.A little later, a bell rings in her apartment.

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  Reanimator

  The assistant to the brilliant scientist comes to an American college to continue experiments on creating a serum to revive the dead. He rents a room from an excellent student, and together, secretly from everyone, they begin to experiment with a life-giving substance. And the dead do rise! But at the same time they sow destruction and death …

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  The Omen (1976)

  Robert Thorne and Catherine Thorne have everything you can dream of.Robert is the US ambassador to Italy, and Catherine is expecting her first child. However, the birth turns into a tragedy and Robert is informed that his child was born still. Unable to tell his wife about this, he agrees to the dubious proposal of the priest – to take the newborn orphan and present Catherine as their own son. Everything went great at first. Damien (as the Thorns named the boy) grew up cheerful and healthy, and Robert became ambassador to England. But the terrible events that began to take place after Damien’s fifth birthday make Robert think that the child he adopted is none other than the Antichrist.

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  April Fool’s Day

  Muffy invites his college friends to his parents’ island estate, but simply forgets to warn them that this could be the last invitation of their lives. As soon as friends arrive on the island, someone begins to slowly “adjust” the list of invitees – and the guests disappear one by one. Innocuous rallies, traditional on April Fools’ Day, turn into a bloody survival marathon.

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  Howl

  Numerous murders of women are committed. The maniac is known – this is a certain Eddie, who asks the pretty journalist Karen White to meet him. They meet, but at the sight of her interlocutor suddenly transforming into a terrible monster, Karen is frightened and begins to call for help. Eddie is killed by the police. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Karen agrees to undergo treatment at the clinic of Dr. Waggner.But gradually Karen begins to notice that some strange things are happening around.

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  Birds

  A classic film by A. Hitchcock, in which a horrifying picture of a bird attack on an American village is intertwined with the story of a love relationship between a young woman and a man she likes.

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  The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

  Sentenced to death, Baron Frankenstein insistently demands a priest and tells him his story.After the death of his mother, when he was still a young man, since he lost his father at the age of ten, he inherited his parents’ fortune and settled in a Swiss village, getting a job with Professor Krump, so that he passed on his knowledge in the field of biology. Together they conducted numerous experiments and one day they managed to revive a dead dog. As an adult, Frankenstein already knew that his life would be devoted to science. He had an ambitious idea to create a living being from organs taken from corpses …

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  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

  San Francisco, 1970s.After a heavy downpour, mysterious flowers bloom throughout the city. Biologist Elizabeth Driscoll brings one of them home. And soon she notices that her friend Jeffrey is behaving strangely. Elizabeth turns to her friend Matthew Bannell for advice, and is surprised to learn that she is not the only one facing such a problem. It seems that a lot of people in the city are beginning to do things that are unusual for them.

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  Candyman

  Inhabitants of remote areas of Chicago have a legend about a mysterious maniac named Candyman, an inhabitant of a parallel world.He does not need a knife to inflict wounds: a hook-shaped prosthetic hand is the perfect weapon of crime. While Candyman is beyond reality. But if you stand in front of the mirror and say his name five times in a row, he will cross this shaky line. And then no one will be able to escape. A group of young scientists who do not believe in the mysterious Candyman are taken up to study this legend. But at any moment, instead of being reflected in the mirror, they can see the killer …

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  Curse (2002)

  Many years ago, a tragedy occurred in this house: a man killed his wife, and the fate of their six-year-old son Toshio remained unknown, the boy disappeared.While dying, the unfortunate woman cursed the killer and the place where she met death. Now the furious ghost brings death to all who dared to approach his possessions and the death of the family that now lives in this house was only a link in the chain of bloody murders and mysterious disappearances.

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  Devil’s Lair

  To test the mysterious nature of Hill House, built over a century ago for his new wife and child by millionaire Hugh Crane, Dr. Markway invites three people.This is the heir of the house, Luke Sanderson, a young man, Eleanor the nymphomaniac, who subconsciously feels guilty for the death of her mother, and Theodora, a lesbian, with the powers of a medium. They learn that Crane’s first wife died during a trip to the estate, falling out of a wagon. The second wife died already inside the house, falling down the stairs. Hugh Crane himself drowned. The remaining one daughter, Abigail, died when a nurse did not respond to her cry for help. The nurse who inherited the house soon also committed suicide.Doctor Markway and his companions arrived at such a “funny” place.

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  Border

  A criminal gang, after a series of daring robberies, is hiding from justice in the nearby forests. Wandering in search of a temporary refuge, they come to a factory long abandoned and forgotten by all, which, to the surprise of the guests, turns out to be inhabited. The owners of the rescue shelter are not distinguished by their hospitality. But even the most terrible fantasies are unable to match the reality awaiting the unfortunate.Very soon, the failed bandits will realize that they have become prisoners of the cannibals, who have prepared a terrible death for their guests.

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  Strangers

  A young couple took refuge from the whole world in a forest house at the end of the world. It seems that no one in the world knows about their existence … except for three intruders … in masks.

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  Inside

  Having become the culprit in the car accident, Sarah lost her husband.Now her whole life is dedicated to the child she is about to give birth to. However, each time falling asleep, the woman plunges into a nightmare, which will soon become a reality for her, but much more terrible …

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  The Amityville Horror (1979)

  In bright daylight, the Amityville home is a lovely three-story building surrounded by a manicured green lawn. But it sells for a very low price because its previous owners died a terrible death.Unaware of this, a young married couple with three children, Kathleen and George Lutz, buys the house. The happy owners ask the local priest, Father Delaney, to consecrate their new home, but a sudden illness prevents him from completing the ceremony. And the Lutz family remains in the “house of their dreams”, where incomprehensible and frightening events begin to take place. Every night rustle brings inexpressible horror to the inhabitants of the house …

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  Trick or Treat

  In four overlapping stories, the heroes break the tradition of Halloween by getting themselves into big trouble.We will meet a teacher who is in fact a serial killer; a virgin student waiting for her prince; a married couple in which the husband adores All Saints Day, and the wife does not share his admiration; and a group of teenagers planning a cruel prank.

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  Night people

  The main character, Booney, is being treated by a psychiatrist. One day the doctor informs him that he is not just a patient, he is a serial killer. Booney decides that he has no place among people and immediately fate brings him to the monsters living in the old cemetery.But still people turn out to be more terrible …

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  Death Row

  The catastrophe in the Ukrainian capital left the body and soul of the former British Army soldier Jay the worst scars. Cruelty and ruthlessness becomes a new, unexpected for everyone who knew Jay before, a quality of personality. He, an exemplary family man and loving father, becomes a hired killer and, together with his new partner Gall, goes on the first mission.Gradually, fear and paranoia that enveloped his consciousness – plunges him into the very depths of darkness.

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  Shakma

  A group of medical students are planning to stay on campus after class and play Dungeons & Dragons. They and the host of the game, Professor Sorenson, will be locked in an empty building until all the riddles are solved and the beautiful princess is released. However, the students did not know that they would have to fight not with mythical monsters, but with a very real monster.The experimental baboon escaped from the student laboratory and he is thirsty for blood….

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  Silent Hill

  A young mother, desperate to find a cure for the mysterious illness of her daughter Sharon, refuses to send her to a psychiatric hospital. Together with Sharon, she goes to Silent Hill, a city whose name her daughter constantly repeats in her dreams. Despite her husband’s resistance, Rose is convinced that she will find the answers she needs so badly.But when they approach the abandoned city, a mysterious figure appears on the road, Rose brakes sharply, and the car crashes … When she regains consciousness, she discovers that Sharon has disappeared …

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  Destination

  Alex flies to have fun with the whole class in Paris for 10 days. The father says that childhood is over. At the airport, he learns that the departure time coincides with his birthday. Then, obeying a bad feeling, Alex leaves the plane with seven other people.And then their plane explodes. But later the surviving passengers perish one after another, and Alex understands: death cannot be fooled – this is only a reprieve …

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  Wrong turn

  Lost in the woods of West Virginia as a result of a fateful coincidence, a group of young people are trying to get to the nearest phone. But instead of a telephone, they are destined to find a house in the mountains, hung with terrible weapons and disgusting trophies … Who or what lives in this house? Young people begin to understand that all their misadventures are a way to drive the game into a trap, where they are game, and sinister hunters are the inhabitants of the house …

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  Mirrors (2008)

  Ben Carson knew times better.Almost a year has now passed since the unstable detective was suspended from his job at the NYPD for the murder of another intelligence officer, an accident that not only cost him his job, but also reawakened his alcohol cravings and aggressiveness. for which his wife and children moved away from him, and he himself found refuge on the sofa in his sister’s apartment in Queens. Having lost hope of returning to normal life and reuniting with his family, Carson is hired as a night watchman of the burnt-out ruins of the Mayflower department store.What was once a symbol of prosperity and luxury is now slowly crumbling into darkness, like a rotting ghost ship ravaged by a gigantic fire that has consumed many innocent lives.

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  Cube

  A group of people who are not connected with each other in any way suddenly find themselves in a strange cube room, each face of which is equipped with a hatch leading to another room of the same kind. The only difference between the rooms is their color and the presence of a variety of deadly traps.Together, these five are trying to find the key to the exit from this gigantic structure.

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  Jeepers Creepers

  They were alone. It is not known where. It is watching. It is waiting. It is hungry. This grim statement, appearing in the intimidating commercial for this macabre horror, does not clarify anything about the plot. Two teenagers on their way home from college encounter something terrible in the basement of a church. Everything else is suspense, exciting the imagination, and goosebumps from not knowing what lies ahead.Every 23rd spring for 23 days it comes out to eat.

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  Resident Evil

  In the giant underground laboratory “Anthill” a dangerous virus breaks free, instantly turning its victims into gluttonous zombies. One bite or scratch of their terrible claws is enough for a person to become a maddened devourer of living flesh. The military sends a group of special forces to a secret complex teeming with terrible mutated animals and hungry monsters, which is joined by charming Alice and brave police officer Matt.They only have three hours to destroy the virus before it spreads across the Earth …

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  Jacob’s Ladder

  Jacob (Jacob) Singer, wounded in Vietnam, returns home to New York. Tormented by the memories of his son and the horrors of war, Jacob gradually loses control of reality. But in the end it turns out that only his friend Louis is the only person Jacob can count on.Things take a darker turn when he learns that his comrades in arms are suffering from similar hallucinations.

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  Angel Heart

  1955, New York, a certain Louis Cypher turns to private detective Harry Angel with a request to find the talented musician Johnny Favorite. In 1943, Mr. Cypher signed one contract with Johnny, but Favorite, after returning from the war, ended up in a psychiatric hospital, from where he later disappeared … his way.And there is no turning back: everyone from whom the detective tried to find out at least some information about the missing Johnny died after talking with Angel …

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  Viy (1967)

  Based on the story of Nikolai Gogol. The first Soviet horror film. Theological student Homa Brutus must spend several nights at the coffin of a deceased lady in an old church in a distant village. Will he be able to overcome his fear, or will he have to face evil spirits?…

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  Videodrome

  Television producer Max Renn, searching for fresh and original porn for his cable channel, accidentally stumbles upon Videodrome – a broadcast about sex and murder from nowhere, repeated viewing of which corrupts not only the psyche, but also the human flesh.

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  Videodrome

  From the 17th century, a sorcerer falls into our days, whose goal is to put together the Great Book of Spells and, thereby, arrange an Armageddian.Behind him in our time is also a hunter for sorcerers. An ordinary modern girl is involved in their showdown – thanks to the spell, she is destined to age by 20 years every day.

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  Freaks

  Cleopatra is a beautiful acrobat. The dwarf Hans is in love with her, to whom she preferred the strongman Hercules … When Cleopatra learns that Hans is the heir to a huge fortune, she decides first to marry the unfortunate midget, and then poison him.But after an unsuccessful attempt at poisoning, circus freaks (Siamese twins, an armless girl and a hermaphrodite) decide to take revenge on Cleopatra …

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  It (1990)

  From the realm of death, a new chilling embodiment of horror has emerged. IT lurks in the shadows everywhere. And here are some school friends, returning home, should meet with THIS face to face. IT knows all their fears, no matter how deeply hidden they are, IT draws strength from hatred and disappointment.A creature that does not have a name and a clear form, feeding on the nasty and evil that lurked in them.

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  Zombie 2

  An unmanned yacht belonging to a famous scientist arrives in New York. The two policemen who boarded were attacked by a man who looked like a half-decayed corpse and did not react to the shots. The journalist Peter West, who became interested in this case, meets the scientist’s daughter, Anna Bowles, who has not received news from her father for more than a month and is very worried about him.Together they go to the Antilles to find out what happened to Anna’s father and what kind of strange man sailed on a yacht. On the way, they meet Brian and Susan, and together they disembark on the island, where a zombie epidemic is in full swing …

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  Others

  Beauty Grace takes her sick children to a mansion on an island off the coast of England to await the end of World War II. The war with which her husband will return.Her daughter and son suffer from a strange disease: they cannot stand direct daylight. When three new servants appear in the house, they must learn the vital rule: all rooms should always be in the twilight, you cannot open the door until the previous one is locked. The strict order established by Grace will be challenged. Grace, the children and those around them will take the crucial, fatal step.

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  From dusk to dawn

  Fleeing from the police, the Gecko brothers take the priest and his children hostage.Near the Mexican-American border, they decide to spend the night at a roadside bar …

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  Outside (1986)

  Dr. Pretorius discovered a way to see the inhabitants of other dimensions. Only they also saw the doctor – and killed him. The young assistant of Praetorius, accused of his murder, is forced to return to the house where the experiment is taking place and repeat their experiments in front of witnesses. As it turned out, the doctor is not completely dead, and experiments are even more dangerous than they thought at the beginning …

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  Lumi

  Half-wolf, half-human over two meters in height, it appears once every hundred years.Moved by the voice of their ancestors, the werewolf goes to the intended goal, knowing no mercy, sweeping away everyone in its path …

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  Faust

  Archangel Michael and Satan argued: good and evil – which is stronger? At the center of the bet of the higher powers is Doctor Faust, the learned elder, nobility itself and embodied knowledge. Desperate to save his city from the plague, he nevertheless turns to dark forces for help, summoning Satan from the Darkness – and he will grant him miraculous power, and Faustus heals a dying patient.But the very first patient, in whose hands the holy cross is found, becomes an obstacle for Faust; and the inhabitants, realizing that the matter is unclean, drive the careless physician away.