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Plot Summary:
A coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, satanic, christmas horror, grindhouse, independent film, scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Lurkers (1987)
Plot Summary:
A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, weird, cult film
Similar in 76%
Family Reunion (1989)
Plot Summary:
Satan has a special way of bringing people together! Forty years ago Henry Adams rescued his son Tom from the hands of a satanic cult. Now, on holiday with his family, Tom finds himself mysteriously dragged back to Sutterville, the scene of his attempted murder all those years ago. Trapped in this chilling ghost town, the Andrews family must fight for their lives. Earthquakes, levitation and the darkest forces of the supernatural are thrown against them as they find themselves in a pitched battle against the power of Satan himself!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Demon Hunter (2005)
Plot Summary:
After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) and they realize that the demon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring. Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his women.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, suspense, demonic, independent film, surprise ending
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Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, suspense, dark, mystic, serious
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Mask Maker (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, realistic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, entertaining, creepy
Similar in 75%
The Unholy (1988)
Plot Summary:
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, satanic, splatter, independent film, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
The Devil's Rain (1975)
Plot Summary:
Satanists in the middle west terrorize and sometimes melt the terrified locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: satanic, surprise ending, scary, independent film, serious, psychotronic, suspense, surreal, demonic, art house
Similar in 82%
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
Plot Summary:
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychotronic, grindhouse, tense, rough, serious, cult film
Similar in 79%
The Curse of El Charro (2005)
Plot Summary:
n California, Maria has awful nightmares with and visions of her sister that committed suicide one year ago. Her roommate Chris invites Maria to travel with her and her friends Tanya and Rose on vacation to her uncle's house in Saguaro, Arizona, to relax. When the group arrives in the house, they immediately go to a night-club to have fun and chase some local guys for sex; however, the evil El Charro is seeking Maria killing her friends with his machete.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film, sexual, sexy, wild
Similar in 77%
The Devil's Hand (1961)
Plot Summary:
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satanic, suspense, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Abby (1974)
Plot Summary:
When a minister's wife becomes posessed by Eshu, the Nigerian god of sexuality, an exorcist is called in to drive the evil spirit away.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: satanic, demonic, psychotronic, grindhouse, funny, mockbuster, supernatural thriller, independent film, scary, mind bending
Similar in 85%
Doctor Dracula (1983)
Plot Summary:
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
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The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Plot Summary:
A university student is pursued by a man with a demonic secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, surprise ending, satanic, atmospheric, gothic, demonic, horror comedy, creepy, cult classic
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Netherworld (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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Born (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty one year old virgin, and wakes up the next morning pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill, for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth's dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child's deadly evil cravings.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mystic, serious, surprise ending, dark, twist ending, slasher
Similar in 79%
Evilspeak (1981)
Plot Summary:
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, demonic, homoerotic, cult classic, terrifying
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Mummy Lives (1993)
Plot Summary:
An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Daughters of Satan (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, satanic, grindhouse, independent film, talky, psychotronic
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Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, cult horror, queer horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
Similar in 87%
12/12/12 (2012)
Plot Summary:
When baby Sebastian is born on 12/12/12 everyone around him starts to die. Soon, his mother realizes that her son is the spawn of Hell.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, tense
Similar in 81%
Alucarda (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, gothic, splatter, suspense
Similar in 89%
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Plot Summary:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Plot Summary:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy
Similar in 88%
Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
Similar in 81%
Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Dracula 2000. Father Uffizi [Jason Scott Lee] hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula (revealed as Judas Iscariot in Dracula 2000), absolve Dracula's sins against Jesus, set his soul free, and end his unholy existence. So, when Dracula's charred body turns up in the New Orleans morgue, Uffizi heads there. Medical students, Liz Blaine [Diane Neal] and Luke [Jason London] are charged with autopsying the body. When they open the abdominal cavity, they find that the liver and other organs are white, suggesting to Luke that the person did not produce his own blood but got it elsewhere, i.e., a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, exciting, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
Similar in 77%
Jaws of Satan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, satanic, natural horror, independent film, serious, psychotronic