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Plot Summary:
The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a Shinigami.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime
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Miss Zombie (2013)
Plot Summary:
A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat. The family is concerned, of course, but she seems harmless enough. Perhaps she can help clean up outside?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, psychological horror
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense
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666: Kreepy Kerry (2014)
Plot Summary:
A recent transplant to Bradbury Academy is finding it difficult to contain his deadly empathic powers, soon resorting to using his gift in order to exact revenge when the other guys gang up on him.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, sexual, homoerotic
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The Watcher in the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spooky, psychotronic
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Hana-Dama (2014)
Plot Summary:
Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. With a guy named Shibanai (Syun Asada), Mizuki and Kirie decide to stand up to their tormentors. Mizuki though is badly beaten by Aya. Kirie and Shibanai are assaulted by teachers and endure shocking violence. Mizuki decides to get revenge. She wanders the street at night. At that time, Mizuki becomes possessed by a poisonous flower spirit. Madness of the flower spirit begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, weird, asian horror
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Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)
Plot Summary:
An effective little pinku affair, it tells of a lovely young teacher who heads off to teach fencing in a school in the countryside, only to run into a good deal of the expected rape and abuse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, queer horror
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Chronicle of the After-School Wars (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is not Tag. It is not Battle Royale. It is Battle Royale Tag. Sena walks up to the school rooftop to return Yudachi's handkerchief. Yudachi is not there and Sena falls asleep waiting. It is dark, she is confined and locked up at her school when Sena wakes up. The school has turned bloody red and the girls have to fight to the death. Who will survive the carnage is up to the girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, unusual plot structure, asian horror
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Man Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is kidnapped by a mysterious figure, and then taken to a cabin in the forest. The kidnapper, his face hidden under a hood, then pushes the girl to escape. He catches up, however, after a few hours fixes her up before letting her escape again.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Tomie: Replay (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her name is Tomie, and she is in the process of regenerating herself. Though you may try, Tomie cannot be killed. She will return to seduce and to kill. Infected with Tomie's blood, the surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, tense
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Liverleaf (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy, mindfuck, crying, psychotronic
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Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, sadistic, controversial, anime, transgressive, weird, asian horror
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Present (2005)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green becomes blood red when the plot is different from the naughty children they please.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, surprise ending
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Corpse Party (2015)
Plot Summary:
Facing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to close after a series of gruesome murders. What fate awaits Naomi and her friends at the cursed school...?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, manga
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at first, but when one of her female students dies after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada's intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, computer animated
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Tomie vs Tomie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Partially based on "The Gathering" in the Tomie manga. A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attention of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, perhaps a genetic one-off, in that he feels no particular attraction to Tomie. This of course intrigues Tomie, and she begins to become obsessed with him. Soon, he is caught in a vicious struggle between two rival Tomies. And neither Tomie will die.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, corny
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Tomie: Unlimited (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back. Little by little, Tomie will start to show her darkest side to Tsukiko, making her nightmares come to life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, disturbing, splatter, corny, asian horror
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground. Soon Hideo winds up a bloody mess in the bathroom stall, and his two compatriots are assaulted with a series of bizarre events in which Tomie possesses other girls' bodies, winds up a yammering severed head with claw-like arms, and taunts them no matter how often they kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, surprise ending
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Voice (2005)
Plot Summary:
While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in school, is able to hear her voice. After the suicide of their music teacher, Sun-min, aided by her mate Cho-Ah, finds that another student, Hyo-Jung, died in the same elevator trunk some time ago. Meanwhile Young-Eon recalls details of her life, disclosing why she died.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, suspense, queer horror, tense
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Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Plot Summary:
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, crying
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, serious
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet (2005)
Plot Summary:
When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, anthology, detective, weird
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The Werewolf Game: Mad Land (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abducted teen Moe Koike is thrust into the Werewolf Game, where a role playing fight to the death plays out with nine other unfortunate souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ayano, Miyu, Yuri and Mei are high school students. They learn about a fatal gas accident which occurred at a school in the past. The girls then experience unusual occurrences like hearing breathing from closed classrooms and seeing a person's shadow. Hitomi then sneaks into an abandoned school to shoot a horror video for the internet. Hitomi hears from her colleague Kimio about a fox's window which leads to the spirit world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Humanoid Monster, Bem the Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one more powerful than they have ever encountered. The story will also focus on Belo's first love, and his increasing desire to become human. In the meantime, Bem and Bela have found a way to become human, but are conflicted about whether to let just Belo turn human, or along with Belo, become humans themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, anime
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Prom Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, slasher, rough, bloody, teen, dark, teen horror
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Premonition (2004)
Plot Summary:
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, scary
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Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Plot Summary:
Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, bloody, disturbing, surreal, controversial, psychological horror
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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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Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Plot Summary:
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, neo noir
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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Plot Summary:
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, manga, queer horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter