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Plot Summary:
An estranged couple's vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they find themselves under attack from the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, apocalyptic, scary, independent film, interesting
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Walking the Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
His latest offering from serial horror movie director, Melanie Ansley is sure to send a chill down your spine. Charles, a western reporter, is exiled to a small village in south china where he discovers the most extraordinary story... He finds a small town whose folk move in an eerily slow manner, carrying out the strangest of deeds. Weirdly enough, the town cemetery is entirely barren. With only his wits about him, he must survive this, quite literally, dead town... and break the story to the rest of the world. The answers he finds will take him on an epic journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003)
Plot Summary:
Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Devil's Tower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Abused, broke and down on her luck, Sarah is given a new shot at life when she moves into a new apartment. At first the apartment seems to have been the right choice for Sarah, she even meets some new friends including Sid (Jason Mewes). But before long tenants begin disappearing, when Sarah and Sid go looking for them, they discover an evil lurks, hell bent on not only taking over their building, but the city as well. As Sarah and Sid fight for survival, the bitter and vengeful ghost begins inhabiting the bodies of the tower’s tenants turning them to bloodthirsty zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, sexy, scary, rough, humorous, suspenseful
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Beneath Still Waters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft, scary, offbeat, slasher
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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Eaters (2011)
Plot Summary:
The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new "guinea-pigs" for Gyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and a mysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsman of the epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, brutal, apocalyptic, psychological, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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Zombie Dawn (2011)
Plot Summary:
2006. A mysterious mining accident in a remote territory unleashes an unspeakable horror that creates a zombie horde with an appetite for human flesh. It decimates large portions of the country. The only course of action is to rapidly enclose the infected areas and seal them off from the rest of the remaining, living population. NOW. 15 years later the tattered remains of the government and the mining corporation responsible where the initial event took place commit themselves to finding out what may have happened at the mining complex. The solution is to send in a group of mercenaries and scientists into the quarantined zone to find answers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, War
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspense
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All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
Plot Summary:
During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living. In the remote Mexican village of Santa Bonita, a nightmare lay buried for over a century. But when a group of hard-partying students from the OC are stranded in this strange town, they discover an innkeeper with a dark secret (Laura Harring of Mulholland Drive) a sheriff with a shocking past (David Keith of Firestarter) and a holiday that demands the most horrific sacrifice of all. Now the ceremony can commence. The hordes of the undead have been unleashed. And on this day, an unstoppable feast of human flesh has begun!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, scary, tense
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Plaga zombie: Zona mutante (2001)
Plot Summary:
A small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks with some kind of disease, but of course it spread with disastrous results. And now, three oddballs have been dumped into the middle of this town as test subjects or something, and the race for survival is on. John West is a strongman, with a cowboy hat and leopard skin tights, Bill is a medical student, and Max is a mathematical genius, and it's them against the zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody, suspense
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Zombie Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
A car roars through the darkened country roads. Inside, a distraught Sarah, holding her stricken dad, Mark, is desperately trying to stem the flow of blood. Having been re-directed to an Evacuation facility on the edge of town, Steve, an off-duty Paramedic is in a race against time fully aware that Mark's chances of survival are rapidly slipping away. The scene that greets them on arrival is one of chaos. The floor, awash with blood, is covered with the bodies of the dying and injured, doctors dart back and forth, clearly overwhelmed. A violent convulsion causes Mark to lose consciousness, heart stopped he slumps to the floor. As the adrenalin needle slams into her Fathers heart Sarah stumbles back and her world fades to black. Upon regaining consciousness Sarah is greeted by the uneasy silence of a seemingly deserted building. Bleeding and dazed she stumbles through the darkened corridors unaware of the fate that awaits her.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, rough
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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Dr. Chopper (2005)
Plot Summary:
Five young friends head out to the country for a weekend at the family cabin and run afoul of a group of motorcycle riding madwomen led by the sadistic, knife-wielding plastic surgeon Dr. Fielding.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, rough, serious, sadistic
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Army of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
The filming of a hit reality TV show goes horribly wrong when a group of small town cops respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, domestic disturbance.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, detective
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The Dead Outside (2008)
Plot Summary:
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, saga, serious
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Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, bleak
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Mimesis (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen (2015)
Plot Summary:
To celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago – but an army of the undead and a brand new war.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, fake documentary
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Zombie Farm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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13 Eerie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts who systematically hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
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Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, remake of american film
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The Dead 2: India (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Plot Summary:
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, tense, serious, independent film, fast
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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, suspense, hilarious, independent film
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Zombie Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
There is a new evil, and you have no idea what's coming... When college roommates Mark and Tom go out for a night at the bar, the last thing they expected to find was a machete wielding stranger and a horde of the undead. With the help of amateur photographer and video store clerk Raven, the unlikely party fights their way into an epic conflict between the living... and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
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Devil's Playground (2010)
Plot Summary:
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, disturbing, futuristic, fast
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of the zombie diaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, mockumentary, suspense, futuristic, fake documentary