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Plot Summary:
When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, scary, exciting, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like Tale of the Mummy (1998):
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The Snow Queen (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious presence has threatened humanity for hundreds of years as it lurks in the frozen wastes people avoid. Nearly unnoticed as its power grows, she's been slowly draining the planet of one of its most precious resources. It takes two groups of adventurers, separated in time, to defeat her and the army of demons and monsters she can summon- one with swords and shields of iron, the other with assault rifles and body armor. Written by Barry Massoni.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, non-linear
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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
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Legend of the Mummy (1998)
Plot Summary:
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, gothic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, perverse, spooky, independent film, scary, atmospheric
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Rise of the Mummy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of archaeology students awaken an ancient mummy. After being trapped in a time loop, the only way they can escape, is to defeat the mummy. As the body count rises, it seems the Mummy has to collect the souls of those who woke him to be able to walk the earth - for good.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, tense, disturbing
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Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Six young archaeology students discover the remains of an ancient Aztec mummy and accidentally unleash the fury of an evil god.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher horror, gay cinema
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The Awakening (1980)
Plot Summary:
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, intense, suspense, psychotronic, serious, erotic, psychological, sexy
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Day of the Mummy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises from the dead with a blood-lust that cannot be quenched and a raging fury that will shred flesh from bone, bringing terrible and tormented death to all who dare witness the Day of the Mummy.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Venezuela
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, serious
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The Tomb (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Horror, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Fallen Ones (2005)
Plot Summary:
An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, captivating, dark, semi serious, fast
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Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, disturbing, scary, psychotronic
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Plot Summary:
There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman (Kari Wuhrer). Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, mystical, suspense, epic
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)
Plot Summary:
Robert "Tank" begins to work for Dr. Magrew sculpting a puppet for the Doctor to bring to life using the work of Andre Toulon. Robert begins to fall in love with the Doctors daughter, Jane. Unbeknownst to Robert the Doctor is trying to create a "perfect race" of puppet humans. Jane discovers a "matt puppet" which is from his first assistant. She comes back just in time to see her father, cut up by the puppets, has succeeded in putting a living human, Robert, into the puppet he carved.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, controversial, cult horror, terrifying, independent film, slasher, surprise ending
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Soulkeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious
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Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, demonic, cult horror, terrifying, ridiculous
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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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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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, cult classic, scary, cult horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic, rough, serious
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
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Alone in the Dark (2005)
Plot Summary:
Edward Carnby is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world, searching for truth in the occult remnants of ancient civilizations. Now, the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark, splatter, detective, suspense, gothic, cult classic
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, psychotronic
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Phantoms (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, lovecraft, serious, retro, dark, slasher
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, mystical, dieselpunk, scary, suspense, saga, intense
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Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
Plot Summary:
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. Meanwhile, Reggie battles the spheres and the undead in a quest to find Mike before the Tall Man can complete his transformation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult horror, terrifying, relaxing, saga, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Hellboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 345000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, action packed, mystical, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, futuristic, visual, cult classic
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn't above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis' otherworldly army.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 341000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action adventure, psychotronic, dark fantasy, feel good
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The Mummy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspense, light, entertaining, intense, action packed, psychotronic, tense, captivating
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The Mummy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for all eternity as a punishment for a forbidden love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, entertaining, funny, suspense, semi serious, cult classic, horror comedy, dieselpunk, humorous