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Plot Summary:
Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, surreal, psychedelic, dark fantasy, art house, weird, cult film
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The 4th Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychedelic, gothic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, surreal, contemplative, neo noir, independent film
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The Samurai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, detective, grindhouse, dark drama
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Shanks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, weird, mad, bizarre
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The Mask (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, gothic horror, lovecraft, bizarre
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The Night Child (1975)
Plot Summary:
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, classic horror, terrifying, psychotronic
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The Mutilation Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, underground film, avant garde, spoof, parody, weird, cult film
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, queer horror, non-linear, art house, weird
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The Book of Stone (1969)
Plot Summary:
This classic film tells the story about a little girl Silvya (Lucy Buj) that because of her behaviour is required to be nursed by a special teacher Julia (Marga López) at home. This teacher is experienced in the field and starts looking after the child´s behavior and her friendship with Hugo,a statue of a little boy with a book that is 1,000 years old and supposedly talks to her and make her do things, Her wealthy father Eugenio Rubalcaba (Joaquin Cordero) is very disturbed about his daughters way´s and his new wife Mariana (Norma Lazareno) is trying to cope with her step daugters ideas but fears of the statue. All these characters play their parts well and the atmosphere in this movie is so thick that you can cut it with a knife, locations are well used and the fright factor is there all the time, This is a timeless piece of art that should be taken seriously now a days for next wave horror movie creators.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, gothic horror, creepy, vintage, weird
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The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Still/Born (2017)
Plot Summary:
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, melancholic, suspenseful, serious, emotional, atmospheric, dark fantasy, weird
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All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jane lives in London with her boyfriend Richard. Her mother was murdered when she was young, she recently lost a baby in a car crash and she's plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding man. Richard thinks that the cure is vitamins, while Jane's sister recommends psychiatric help. But a new neighbour promises that if she participates in a Black Mass, all her fears will disappear, instead it just seems to bring her nightmares to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sadistic, scary, disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, surreal, suspense, demonic, art house
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Mystics in Bali (1981)
Plot Summary:
Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan; a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck. It is now up to the local holy men who are then enforced to do battle with the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Plot Summary:
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, suspense, gothic, bleak, mind bending, slasher, disturbing
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The Iron Rose (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, grindhouse, sad, existential, creepy, cult classic, psychological thriller, scary
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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a Basque folk tale, ”Patxi herrementaria,” collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological diabolic creatures, battling to capture the souls of the unwitting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, mystical, suspense, dark fantasy, period piece, exciting, suspenseful, spooky, folk tale
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Chronos (1992)
Plot Summary:
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark, disturbing, splatter, creepy, cult classic
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Poison for the Fairies (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that she's put into her new friend to get Fabiola to carry out her orders. As their games grow more serious, the two girls find themselves involved in murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, suspense, folk tale, disturbing, art house, deep, terrifying, scary, psychological
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Pet Sematary (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, bloody, psychological
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Hideaway (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, light, cult classic, serious, psychological thriller, gothic
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, suspense, creepy, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, sensual, psychological, splatter
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The Keep (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, scary, atmospheric, dark, cult classic, gothic horror, lovecraft, suspenseful, allegory
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The Hallow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, creepy, tense, disturbing, light, fairy tale
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Plot Summary:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Children of the Corn (1984)
Plot Summary:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, rough, classic horror, psychological
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Viy (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized, gothic, bleak, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Plot Summary:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, neo noir, suspense, lovecraft, scary, suspenseful, dark
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The Woman in Black (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, terrifying, suspenseful, twist ending, dark, creepy
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Hellraiser (1987)
Plot Summary:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, slasher, demonic, suspense, disturbing, creepy, psychological, splatter, dark fantasy
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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The Company of Wolves (1984)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, dark fantasy, scary, dark, cult classic, disturbing