Best movies like Children of the Night
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Plot Summary:
Cindy and Lucy are eighteen and going away to college. As a ritual they must rid themselves of the dirt of their small home town (Allburg) by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. They jump in and begin talking about sex when Lucys crucifix falls into the water and drifts down to land on Czakyr's (an ancient vampire) head, apparently waking him up. Some time onwards a school teacher from a nearby town, Mark, gets directed to Allburg to help Lucy and her grandmother, who are suspected to be in trouble. Lucy becomes the target of a town turned vampire because of her 'virgin blood'. Mark, Lucy and an old wino shack up in an abandoned building outside of town but eventually get lured back to Allburg by the locals. There, with a giant glowing cross spearing the front of their Toyota, they take the town on and battle Czakyr.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Midnight Mass (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of people fight for their small town after vampires take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, serious, futuristic, independent film, gothic
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Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Plot Summary:
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, demonic, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Doctor Dracula (1983)
Plot Summary:
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Deathmaster (1972)
Plot Summary:
Quarry is a mysterious stranger with cult like following of hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them as he is a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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The Norliss Tapes (1973)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, creepy, classic horror, spooky, scary, tense, mind bending, serious
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Plot Summary:
When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending
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Evil Spirits (1991)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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976-Evil II (1991)
Plot Summary:
After being bestowed with demonic powers following a phone call to Hell, a psychotic teacher begins a rampage of death and destruction in a small town, forcing a teen and her boyfriend to fight him off so that they can get away.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, dark, independent film, surprise ending, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird, cult film
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
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Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Plot Summary:
When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will compare to what they encounter in the depths of the forest. Neither Mr.Hill nor sheriff could ever hope to save them from what lurks in the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, independent film, splatter
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Aunt Rose (2005)
Plot Summary:
A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but what they didn't realize was that they had entered into the home of a truly terrifying family. But the folks downstairs are the least of their worries, because by the time these sadistic beasts discover the unearthly powers of the woman who dwells on the third floor, it's already too late for any hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, offbeat
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Witchouse (1999)
Plot Summary:
On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky, slasher, independent film, serious, gay cinema
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their past in the dark and desolate halls of their very own high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic, teen horror
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The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks (2001)
Plot Summary:
John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get back at them using witchcraft - but doesn't realise that the price of his new-found power may be his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, homoerotic, gay cinema, campy
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Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
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Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Dracula 2000. Father Uffizi [Jason Scott Lee] hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula (revealed as Judas Iscariot in Dracula 2000), absolve Dracula's sins against Jesus, set his soul free, and end his unholy existence. So, when Dracula's charred body turns up in the New Orleans morgue, Uffizi heads there. Medical students, Liz Blaine [Diane Neal] and Luke [Jason London] are charged with autopsying the body. When they open the abdominal cavity, they find that the liver and other organs are white, suggesting to Luke that the person did not produce his own blood but got it elsewhere, i.e., a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, exciting, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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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 Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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The Reverend (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fresh from seminary school, a new Reverend embarks on his first parish: A small, low-maintenance chapel based in the idyllic setting of a quiet country village. While on the surface the village seems to be a peaceful parish, with perfect residents, soon it becomes apparent that something more sinister lurks beneath the façade of a local businessman. On a wet, cold night, a mysterious girl visits the Reverend at the chapel. She is welcomed in warmly, but soon it becomes apparent that her visit is not for sanctuary but to deliver a message, a message in the form of a deep, bloody bite... Awoken with an unknown, uncontrollable thirst, the confused Reverend can't find any evidence of the girl from the night before. With nothing but his thirst and memory of the bite, the Reverend embarks on a mandate to clean up the village and the neighboring estate...by preaching or feasting.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Life Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Forty years ago a supernatural force vanquished Brooke and Rhea, a sexy lipstick lesbian couple, after they committed an inconceivable murder. Now, on New Year's Eve, they'll rise from the dead. Still hot and still a couple, they're back as vampires. Enamored with their newfound power, it's no longer a question of whether they will kill again, but of how.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, christmas horror, queer horror, offbeat
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Exit 38 (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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Jaws of Satan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, satanic, natural horror, independent film, serious, psychotronic
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Frostbitten (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten, Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, exciting, intense, horror comedy, surreal, disturbing, teen, rough
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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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Venom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Venom is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars. Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana - Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), Jonathan Jackson (Tuck Everlasting) and Meagan Good (Roll Bounce) are among a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they find is an evil force more deadly than anyone could have imagined ... now they are running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, rough, exciting, bloody, grindhouse, teen horror, anime, southern gothic
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Immortally Yours (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coven of Sexy, modern Day vampires ravage the American Midwest with the thirst for blood, while a romantic twist puts the vampires at odds among themselves and with the murderous Illuminati that seek to gain their immortality.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful