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Halloween season usually comes with masked killers, angry spirits, and haunted basements. But sometimes, the most chilling horror doesn’t come from the supernatural. It comes from the very systems people live under every day. In these films and series, fear isn’t delivered through ghosts or demons, but through betrayal, cover-ups, negligence, and the terrifying consequences of unchecked power. If you’re looking for a pre-Halloween watch list that hits harder because it feels disturbingly possible, here are seven titles on Lionsgate Play that expose the kind of horror that exists in boardrooms, back-alley deals, and everyday lives. Baghdad Central – A Father Against A Broken System In post-invasion Iraq, a former police inspector searches for his missing daughter while navigating a city riddled with distrust, shifting alliances, and political manipulation. Every step forward feels dangerous not because of monsters in the night, but because of the uncertainty of who is truly in control....

  What happens when admiration turns into obsession and mentorship crosses a dangerous line?  Miller’s Girl follows the unsettling dynamic between Cairo Sweet ( Jenna Ortega ), a gifted teenage writer, and her English teacher, Jonathan Miller ( Martin Freeman ). With her parents often away traveling the world, 18-year-old Cairo is left to her devices living in a big mansion with only literature to keep her company. Cairo ends up taking Miller’s creative writing class, and the two have an instant intellectual connection. She begins to blossom creatively under his mentorship, and he finds joy in spending time with her, rather than his emotionally unavailable wife, Beatrice. But almost too quickly, the line between inspiration and intimacy begins to blur between teacher and student, and with it comes devastating consequences. What begins as a story about talent and mentorship slowly spirals into an emotional tug-of-war filled with manipulation, desire, blurred boundaries, and th...