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Plot Summary:
An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers, and bizarrely over make-over'ed vampires. The moody undertones and well chosen locations are certainly a bonus, as is the comically funny finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, creepy, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, crying
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Midnight Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, psychological horror, atmospheric, clever, offbeat
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Death Tunnel (2005)
Plot Summary:
For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, dark, terrifying, awful
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Fear Clinic (2014)
Plot Summary:
A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention which induces and controls hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, offbeat, serious, stylized
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Midnight Mass (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of people fight for their small town after vampires take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, serious, futuristic, independent film, gothic
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Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)
Plot Summary:
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, disturbing, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, crying
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Countess Dracula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Based on the story of Elisabeth Bathory, the 18th century Countess who indulged herself in an orgy of murder and vampirism before before being walled up in her room by the authorities. The ageing Countess Dracula discovers that the blood of young virgins has a restorative effect on her celebrated beauty. Years later, she becomes engaged to a handsome young Hussar and is forced to repeat vile atrocities with ever-increasing regularity to hold off old age.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, supernatural thriller, scary, serious
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Requiem for a Vampire (1972)
Plot Summary:
A vampire lures beautiful young women to his castle in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, sensual, creepy, terrifying, queer horror, scary, fairy tale
Similar in 78%
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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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, weird
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Plot Summary:
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, classic horror, cult classic, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, satanic, rough, serious
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Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Uffizi and Luke travel to the remote reaches of war torn Romania to rescue Elizabeth and finish the vampire once and for all. Along the way, they encounter TV news journalist and a corps of rebels trying to fight the vampire uprising which plagues their country.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, gothic, suspense, gloomy, surprise ending
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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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Fiancee of Dracula (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone follows her to Dracula's seaside castle, on the way dealing with a baby-eating ogress and a wolf-woman (Brigitte Lahaie in a cameo), witches and madwomen. The bizarre wedding ritual commences.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, scary, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers… Three pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night. Instead, they tumble into nightmares – and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the Bed!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, rough, independent film, psychotronic, cult classic, slasher, disturbing, horror comedy
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Asylum (2008)
Plot Summary:
The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted. Madison befri.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, scary, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, bloody, psychological horror, spooky, serious
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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, surprise ending, gloomy, independent film
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The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Plot Summary:
Honeymooning in Bavaria, the young couple become stranded and are forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this family of vampires who seek to initiate them into their diabolical creed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, crying
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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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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, serious, sexy, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, terrifying
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Vampire Journals (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, gothic, independent film, tense, 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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Baron Blood (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody
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A Taste of Blood (1967)
Plot Summary:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Lust for Dracula (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mina Harker isn't the happiest of Hollywood Hills wives - even though she's married to wealthy pharmaceuticals magnate Jonathan Harker. The repressed Mina longs for Jonathan's love and the happiness a child would bring them, yet the arrival of the beautiful and mysterious Dracula - seductive vampire servants at her side - will change their lives forever. Dracula offers Mina the sensual existence she so desperately craves - one that is immediately threatened by Mina's sister, Dr. Abigail Van Helsing. Van Helsing seeks to not only destroy the monstrous vampire but covet Mina's seemingly perfect life and husband Jonathan, too. As these troubled characters move ever closer toward their destinies and a final battle with Dracula, blood will be spilled, souls will be destroyed, and love will become undying.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, erotic, sexual, biting, sexy, suspense
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, bleak, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic