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Plot Summary:
Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, horror comedy, cult horror, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, dark comedy
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Grotesque (1988)
Plot Summary:
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher, perverse, independent film, surprise ending, slasher horror
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Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil (2002)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel, two juvenile detention officers must escort a group of criminally-inclined urban kids to the country where they are being forced to renovate a shelter for teens as punishment for their crimes. After one of them is shot by a local, the survivors seek refuge in the home of a voodoo woman, where they mistakenly summon legendary clown-faced demon Killjoy who begins hunting them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, scary, rough, bleak, semi serious, splatter, black comedy, dark comedy
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Axeman at Cutter's Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nine vacationing twenty-somethings are hunted by an axe-wielding local legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, suspense
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Killjoy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Deep in an inner city hell, a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante, or a demon? For the beautiful high school student, Jada, that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, brutal, bloody, suspense, surprise ending, slasher horror, horror comedy
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The Axiom (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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The Boneyard (1991)
Plot Summary:
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Rawhead Rex (1986)
Plot Summary:
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, cult horror, classic horror, funny, slasher, demonic, twisted
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Nailbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky
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Boggy Creek (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her father in a terrible accident, sweet, yet troubled Jennifer and her friends decide to check out her dad's cabin that's located in the deep woods of Boggy Creek, Texas. While staying at said cabin for a week, Jennifer and company run afoul of an evil and vicious monster of local legend that kills men and abducts women.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, independent film
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It Waits (2005)
Plot Summary:
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary, splatter, psychotronic, corny
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Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Plot Summary:
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, splatter, classic horror, cult classic, psychological, psychological thriller, retro, bloody, controversial
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Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark, disturbing
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Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak, retro, folk tale, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Leprechaun 6: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, witty, hood, suspense, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror
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Leprechaun 3 (1995)
Plot Summary:
It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a statue of a hideous looking Leprechaun. The owner claims it's a good luck charm. The statue also wore a medallion around it's neck. The careless pawn shop owner took off the medallion setting the Leprechaun free.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, psychological thriller, sexy, controversial, cult horror, independent film, humorous, suspenseful
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The Gingerdead Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer, and this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, slasher, horror comedy, cult horror, scary, psychological, funny
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Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
A thousand years ago, the Leprechaun left a bloody trail when he ripped through the countryside in search of his stolen gold. Now he's back in the big city using all of his deadly tricks to snare the girl of his nightmares. His bloody quest becomes more deadly when her boyfriend steals one of the Leprechaun's gold coins. The town soon discovers two dead bodies and a trail of gold dust leads them to the Leprechaun's lair.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, fairy tale, psychological thriller, mysterious, controversial, cult classic, cult horror, rough
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Leprechaun Returns (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, semi serious, bloody, suspenseful, cult horror, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)
Plot Summary:
The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, scary, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, parody, horror comedy, bloody, suspense
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Creepshow 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, slasher, black comedy, suspense, splatter, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic
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Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Butch, Postmaster P, and Stray Bullet loot the local hip-hop mogul's studio to fund their demo album, the threesome unwittingly ends up with the secret of Mack Daddy's success: a magical flute. Their gigs instantly turn golden but a blood-thristy Leprechaun and an angry Mack Daddy are hot on their trail, leaving a wake of destruction tainted by politically incorrect limericks.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, humorous, parody, slasher, entertaining, intense, light, melancholic, suspenseful
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Pumpkinhead (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, melancholic, intense, rough, serious
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Pet Sematary II (1992)
Plot Summary:
The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, classic horror, suspense, splatter, retro
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Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, splatter, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, tense, classic horror, thrilling
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological
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Krampus (2015)
Plot Summary:
A horror comedy based on the ancient legend about a pagan creature who punishes children on Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, scary, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, dark, dark comedy, creepy, horror comedy, atmospheric