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Plot Summary:
A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life before taking it, and during the course of the evening they discuss their differences, their fears, and their lifestyles. As the moment of truth approaches, the woman becomes less sure that she wants to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, philosophical, gothic, depressing, slasher, independent film
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Best tv shows and movies like Dance of the Damned (1989):
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Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls (1989)
Plot Summary:
When the razor blade slasher begins his reign of terror in the alleys behind the Los Angeles strip clubs, the most famous stripper in the spotlight must walk a tightrope between her own fragile sanity and the inescapable murderer's blade.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, hot, cult film, sequel to cult film
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Cryptz (2002)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring rappers Tymez Skwair, Fuzzy Down, and Likrish cross paths with stripper Stesha, they follow her to a mysterious strip club where the sexy ladies are really vampires in disguise. Things go from bad to worse when the vampires' leader Kulada (Ty Badger) finds out that Tymez holds the key to the bloodsuckers' world domination in this urban horror film that plays like "Vampire Strippers in the Hood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Horror, Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Midnight Tease II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Brennan gets a job at a strip club to try and find out who killed her sister. She works with undercover cop John Donnelly and befriends other strippers some of whom also get murdered by a very unhappy murdering murderer.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Family Blood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. Unfortunately, new friends, a new job, and the chance of a new life, can’t keep Ellie from slipping once again. Her life changes when she meets Christopher – a different kind of addict – which forces her daughter and son to accept a new version of Ellie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, neurotic, atmospheric, thrilling, psychotronic, sadistic
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Vamps 2: Blood Sisters (2002)
Plot Summary:
A vampire stripper battles other vampire strippers with the help of a defrocked priest-turned-vampire strip club owner. Vampire strippers! Just wanted to say that again.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic
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Club Vampire (1998)
Plot Summary:
Enter the club where your wildest desire and most frightening dreams come true. The price of admission is your soul.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: gothic, independent film
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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Stripped to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles policewoman's partner has her pose as a stripper to lure a killer of strippers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, neo noir, detective, independent film, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a policeman. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic, bloody, dark, detective, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic
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Blind Alley (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer traps and taunts a young dancer inside a laundromat that located down an isolated alley.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, dark, suspenseful
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Southern Gothic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hazel Fortune works in a strip club in the small Southern town of Redemption. Haunted by the death of his only daughter, Fortune has become a self-destructive, suicidal alcoholic, until he meets Starla Motes. Hazel's downward spiral is interrupted when is befriended by Starlas daughter, Hope. But when Hope is kidnapped by Enoch Pitt, a ruthless, psychotic preacher on a bloody crusade, Hazel must make the decision to rejoin the living and risk life and limb to save her from a terrible end.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, independent film
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Way of the Vampire (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is granted immortality by the Catholic Church until he can hunt down the last vampire prince.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, independent film
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Embrace the Darkness III (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic, sexploitation film
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Haunted Boat (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the young Kevin gets the boat of his dead uncle as a gift, he invites five friends of him to a trip to Catalina Island for the weekend. While in the journey, they drink booze, have sex and play games, with each one of them telling his or her greatest fear. Later Kevin drowns in the open sea, the engine stops, and they are haunted and murdered by their greatest innermost fear.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, scary, serious, mind twisting
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Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
Plot Summary:
San Diego, present day: The murders are starting again. A girl has been found with two holes in her neck and her body totally drained of blood. Lt Dan Richardson [Shane Pliskin] knows what it is but doesn't believe it, so he calls in blind art-dealer Micah [Gary Busey]. Micah confirms the lieutenant's suspicion that a vampire is at work and reminds him of the previous lesson learned by Jack Frost, who was forced to kill his best friend Nat McKenzie when Nat became a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, cult film
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To Die For (1988)
Plot Summary:
L.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood Hills where he wants to live and doesn't want to be disturbed. It doesn't take long for Kate to fall in love with her new client and to learn that he's a real vampire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dracula Rising (1993)
Plot Summary:
Witness the romance and tragedy of one man's undying passion that led him to sell his soul. In this epic horror, Vlad Dracula exchanges salvation for immortality so that he may avenge the brutal death of his true love. Now he journeys to the twentieth century to lay claim to the woman he so desperately loves.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, independent film, cult film
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Alucard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, has been sent to the furthest reaches of Transylvania to help an old count with his move to the more populated Nilbog.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, bleak, tense, captivating, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, modern day adaptation
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Decadent Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
A fallen foot tall Homunculus called Marvin (a part human/part reptile creature) is imprisoned in a birdcage by a vengeful lover who is bidding to become the world's most powerful vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, semi serious, suspense, scary, offbeat, fast, campy, cult film
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To Sleep with a Vampire (1992)
Plot Summary:
Scott Valentine is a vampire who is torn between his need to feed and his desire to learn about the world of humans. But when he kidnaps Nina, a beautiful but troubled stripper, his world is turned upside down. For after she discovers that he cannot be hurt physically, Nina tries a new tactic... seduction.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film, scary, sexual, crying, sexy, cult film
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Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, tense, suspenseful, stylized, classic horror, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, scary
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Habit (1995)
Plot Summary:
It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, mumblecore, sensual, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual
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Vampire (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy, gothic, bleak, gloomy
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The Thompsons (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense, captivating, erotic, psychological, gothic, dark
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Dracula 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, gothic, suspense, creepy, period piece
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We Are the Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop. When she resolves to turn her back on the bloodsucking band of sisters, Louise fury knows no bounds. Lena will have to choose between immortal love and immortal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, exciting, stylized, captivating, queer horror, serious, disturbing, mockumentary, sexy, suspenseful
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Let Me In (2010)
Plot Summary:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting, dark, creepy, scary, bleak, dark fantasy
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Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, dark, sexy, enigmatic, talky, serious
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Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, gothic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, erotic
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, surreal, stylized, black and white, art house, bleak, creepy, suspense, serious