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Plot Summary:
Shunned by his church, a seminary student (Stefano Dionisi) takes refuge with an excommunicated priest (Carlo Cecchi) who teaches him wizardry and black magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, surprise ending, surreal, gothic horror, twisted
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The Monster of the Opera (1964)
Plot Summary:
A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, independent film
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Revenge of the Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and notices that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who, in the 1950s, discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them. Stefano's investigations bring him into contact with a group of renegade scientists who are still carrying out experiments in an effort to prove Zeder's theories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious
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Vampire (1979)
Plot Summary:
An architect builds a new church in San Francisco that ultimately displeases the local vampire community so its leader, Anton Voytek, kills the man's girlfriend to show his displeasure. The architect then teams with a local cop to get even.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic, psychotronic
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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 Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Plot Summary:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, classic horror, psychotronic, perverse
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The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, psychotronic
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The Doll of Satan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth travels to the family castle to hear her uncle's will. Once there, she encounters a crazy woman in a wheelchair, a murderer and has nightmares about the legendary ghost who is said to be in the castle. As if that were not bad enough, Elizabeth was abducted by a hooded sadist and tortured in the castle dungeon until her fiancé argues that it may be a conspiracy to eliminate his fiancée and claim her share of the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror
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The Ghost (1963)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Plot Summary:
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor;Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident outside the castle forces her to stay. They become close friends until Laura becomes convinced the spirit of Carmilla is forcing her to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, psychotronic, cult film
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Plot Summary:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, cult film
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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The Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
In nineteenth century Poland Kacper is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric
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Night of the Werewolf (1981)
Plot Summary:
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Dracula Reborn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror about three journalists who travel from Vancouver to Transylvania to uncover the true story of Dracula. As they visit the area's historical sites and libraries to decipher the various clues behind the famed vampire's existence, the trio's determination to get their article may end up costing them their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychotronic
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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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Vampire in Venice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark, gothic, enigmatic, dark fantasy, splatter, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic
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Castle of Blood (1964)
Plot Summary:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, neo noir, black and white, creepy, classic horror
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Black Sabbath (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, dark, suspense
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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, surprise ending, gloomy, independent film
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The Haunted Palace (1963)
Plot Summary:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, tense, serious, classic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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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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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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Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1962)
Plot Summary:
On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, odd
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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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The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Plot Summary:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody, psychotronic, gothic, rough, lovecraft, controversial
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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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Inferno (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, psychological, scary, gothic, suspenseful, grindhouse, suspense, atmospheric, surreal
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The Beyond (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal, disturbing, bleak, bloody, gothic horror, atmospheric