Just Before Dawn

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Just Before Dawn (1981)

Horror, Thriller

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Creep

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Friday the 13th Part III

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Alone in the Dark

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Rituals

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Friday the 13th

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Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Sleepaway Camp

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Bloodline

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