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Plot Summary:
An anthology of five tales of terror, each originally produced for video. The titles are "Something's Fishy," "Coffee Break," "Who's There," "Jonah's Dream," and "Think Twice.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending
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V/H/S/99 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, mumblecore, splatter, social
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Search for the Beast (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dr. David Stone is a scientist with a special interest in legends about the Okaloosa wilderness, where a violent, man-like beast is said to dwell, and where many campers have disappeared over the years. When local moneyman Milton St. John offers to fund an expedition to look for the monster, Stone readily accepts, not realizing that St. John's son was one of those missing campers, and that his financier is not interested in science, but in getting revenge on the beast!.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ten college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Psycho Street (2011)
Plot Summary:
A psycho housewife (Tiffany Shepis) spins three tales of horror in this anthology.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
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Terrorgram (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are "Heroine Overdose", "Pandora" and "Veteran's Day".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Stephen King's Golden Tales (1985)
Plot Summary:
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, surprise ending, twist ending
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Creature from Black Lake (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, psychotronic, independent film
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Beneath the Flesh (2009)
Plot Summary:
Beneath the Flesh is an anthology of four nightmares. In Id, a man is tormented by love and a twisted creature in his apartment. In The Basement, two men confront each other in a damp, filthy basement. In The Child, a withered man nurtures a growing creature. In The Insides, a man believes something is growing inside him. Finally, in Boxhead, an old man is visited by a childhood friend that could be his darkest nightmare. The victim in each story is forced to confront a fear that is eating them from the inside out. Their choice? Deal with the fear or die with it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Strangeness (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, lovecraft, cult film
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Terror 66 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chapter One : Motel 666 - This rural desert motel offers the final check-out for many late night Route 66 travelers. Chapter Two : The Road To Hell - A small desert town harbors a dark secret in the form of a serial murderer destined to discover the most brutal and horrifying ways of killing human beings. True to an unspoken community truce, his voracious appetite for torture and death is relegated to outsiders traveling through town via Route 66. Chapter Three : The Grave of Bleu Chambers - Throughout the years, urban legend has it that the ghost of a small boy, killed by a speeding car decades earlier, is responsible for the sporadic disappearances of Route 66 travelers near an adjacent cemetery of which his body is interred.
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Country: USA
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Plot tags: dark fairy tale, suspense, anthology
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Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
B-movie director Billy D'Amato has made a career out of horror movies...but when he meets a real "monster in the woods" on a shoot, he is forced to re-evaluate, and fight for, his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, fake documentary
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Curse of Bigfoot (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students on an archaeological dig discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave. Removing the mummy, it soon comes back to life, revealing itself to be an inhuman beast that terrorizes a small California town.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Night Claws (2012)
Plot Summary:
A small town is being terrorized by a killer Bigfoot. One that is blood thirsty, vicious and kills without warning and without discrimination. A scientist by the name of Sarah Evans (Leilani Sarelle) shows up to help the town's sheriff (Reb Brown) and his deputy girlfriend Roberta (Sherrie Rose) hunt this thing down and put an end to the killings. At the same time, Hunter Crawford (David Campbell) is a thug-like character who along with his two henchmen, is hunting the creature himself, for his own personal gain and he does not care who he has to go through to accomplish his goal.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper (2014)
Plot Summary:
When several young hunters arrive at a secluded lodge in the Pacific Northwest little do they know that they will become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, natural horror, homoerotic, cult film
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Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
Plot Summary:
Three children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film, spooky
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Monstrous (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, NY, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that hiding in the woods is an evil more sinister than she could ever imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, dark drama
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CreepTales (2004)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, gothic, psychotronic, campy
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Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, dark, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, wild, cult film
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Heebie Jeebies (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Scarewaves (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow comes terror in a new frequency with SCAREWAVES. Join radio host Amos Satan as he lets his hungry listeners in on four of the most terrifying and true stories he's heard over his years in show business.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Sightings (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family under suspicion of murder after three bodies mysteriously appear on their ranch are terrorised by what they can only describe as Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Medusa (2020)
Plot Summary:
After being bitten by a lethal snake, a young woman experiences changes in her senses and appearance, as she sheds her old self and slowly turns into a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Unseen Evil 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, Kate. But first they have to get her released from the mental institution she's been confined to since the horrific attack. Written.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Clawed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after the incidents in Black Claw Mountain, a group of students are prey to a monster part human, part bear and part liquid.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surprise ending, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Skookum: The Hunt for Bigfoot (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Louisiana swamp lives a legend. In the fall of 2013, the legend comes to life. Many have seen, some have heard, and none have forgotten: the giant hairy creature with glowing red eyes that locals refer to as the Beast of Bayou Dorcheat. When the long dormant Bigfoot monster seemingly begins a brutal reign of terror, a glamorous talk show host, Dr. Anna Rock, must leave her highly coveted position to search for her younger sister Megan, a Bigfoot researcher, in the swampy wilderness of northern Louisiana.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Last American Horror Show (2018)
Plot Summary:
A trifecta of 80s throwback terror with mauling monsters, home invasions gone haywire and stomach-turning human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse
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Under the Bed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mystical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious