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Plot Summary:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, satanic, sexy, slasher, demonic
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Land of the Minotaur (1976)
Plot Summary:
A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satanic, independent film, scary, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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I, Monster (1971)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, medical horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious
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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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The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
Plot Summary:
The 1800s: scholarly Karl Schiller believes he's found the ring of the Nibelungen, which holds great power. It's at Castle Dracula. His twin, Franz, a gambler, asks if vampires frighten Karl; Karl shows him an Egyptian amulet, which may protect him. Franz takes the amulet and sets out ahead of his brother, arriving at the castle first. There he finds a countess who invites him to dine. Later that night, Karl arrives. Coincidently, it's the Night of the Virgin Moon, a night that falls every fifty years and draws five virgins from the surrounding village to the castle not be heard from again. Can Karl protect his brother, find the ring, and rescue any of the women?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, gothic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, serious
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The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young husband's sexual fantasies frighten his new wife and cause her to seek advice from Carmilla, a descendent of Mircalla de Karnstein. Carmilla seduces the young bride and forces her to commit gory acts of mutilation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, queer horror, gothic, psychotronic, controversial, mondo
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The Nude Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
A suicide cult led by a mysterious figure known as The Master. Oliver Martin is the hero, who tries to rescue pretty Caroline Cartier from the cult, only to find out that yet another group of vampires wants to save her too.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, surreal, suspenseful, scary, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, atmospheric
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The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Plot Summary:
A university student is pursued by a man with a demonic secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, surprise ending, satanic, atmospheric, gothic, demonic, horror comedy, creepy, cult classic
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Virgin Witch (1972)
Plot Summary:
Christine gets her big chance at modelling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a castle for the weekend for a photo shoot. Sybil has lured Christine to the castle for more than modelling: she is recruiting a virgin for induction into a witch's coven, led by the owner of the castle, Gerald. To their surprise, Christine is more than eager to join the coven, but begins her own secret battle for control.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, satanic, independent film, grindhouse, erotic, queer horror, psychotronic
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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 A.D. 1972 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Set in London in the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard. The culmination of the ritual, however, is the rejuvenation of Dracula from shrivelled remains. Johnny, Dracula' s disciple, lures victims to the deserted graveyard for his master's pleasure and one of the victims delivered is Jessica Van Helsing. Descended from the Van Helsing line of vampire hunters her grandfather, equipped with all the devices to snare and destroy the Count, confronts his arch enemy in the age-old battle between good and evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, classic horror, gothic horror, psychotronic, satanic, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, serious, slasher
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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Plot Summary:
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, medical horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, parody, bleak, horror comedy, classic horror, natural horror
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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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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Plot Summary:
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, satanic, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, suspense
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Terror (1978)
Plot Summary:
A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, silent
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, atmospheric, satanic, grindhouse, creepy
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The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Plot Summary:
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satanic, slasher, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, classic horror, demonic, pastoral, cult horror
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Alucarda (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, gothic, splatter, suspense
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Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Plot Summary:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, psychotronic
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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Plot Summary:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: satanic, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, sexy
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Vampire Circus (1972)
Plot Summary:
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, gothic, enigmatic, suspense, terrifying, psychotronic, sexy, classic horror
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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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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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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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Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Plot Summary:
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychotronic, sexy, grindhouse, perverse, classic horror
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The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, queer horror, sexy, grindhouse, psychotronic, creepy
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Fascination (1979)
Plot Summary:
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, creepy, sexy, suspense, slasher, art house, classic horror
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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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Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, dark, sexy, enigmatic, talky, serious