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Plot Summary:
A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from the Orient to give to her elderly relative. Meanwhile the deranged uncle of the protagonist, who supposedly killed the protagonist's mother (his own sister) and cut out her eyes, is wandering the catacombs spying on everyone. When one of the guests is murdered and her eyes subsequently disappear, suspicion naturally falls on the mad uncle. But is he being set up?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Darkness Surrounds Roberta (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, detective
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Naked and Lustful (1974)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt businessman obtains a castle through surreptitious means. He has a series of affairs while his ill wife remains bed-ridden and after her death he marries one of his mistresses. But she was the daughter of the man from whom the castle was stolen and she has her own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
Plot Summary:
Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Death Haunts Monica (1977)
Plot Summary:
The marriage between Federico and Monica is on the rocks. Federico has a mistress named Eva. There is a conspiracy between Monica's friend Elena and Eva to take over the company Eurozone owned by Federico. The situation becomes complicating when Diego appears, Federico's former associate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
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Death Steps in the Dark (1977)
Plot Summary:
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Death Carries a Cane (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ketty,a photographer living in Rome,accidentally witnesses the murder of a young woman at the hands of a razor-wielding black-gloved killer.Ketty and her fiance,Alberto,go to the police-only to learn that two other witnesses to the crime have been slashed to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, slasher horror, cult film
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The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive (1972)
Plot Summary:
A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Blood Moon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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The Monster of Venice (1965)
Plot Summary:
A mad killer is loose in Venice's catacombs. He attacks the beautiful women, releasing them into the underworld, kill them and then stop them and add them to his "collection".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic
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The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
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Sex of the Witch (1973)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: naughty, gothic, sexploitation film
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Formula for a Murder (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film opens in 1960 Boston with an 11 year old girl encountering a faceless maniac dressed as a priest who gives her a doll. As is the way in the modern world that’s not all he wants to give her and whilst trying to escape, the girl (off screen) falls down a flight of steps, breaking her back which confines her to a wheelchair. 25 years later the victim, Joanna (Christina Nagy), is revealed as being a wealthy heiress who has put some of her funds into establishing a sports centre for paraplegics. She plans to also donate a substantial sum to the local church. However, someone else fancies the cash and will flash a razor in anyone's face to get it. Father Peter (Loris Lodi), a close friend of Joanna's and the priest who will be accepting the generous cash donation, is murdered in his confessional box, his throat slit.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Lust for Vengeance (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five women obsessed with sex & drugs pay for their sins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective, grindhouse
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Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Killer is on the Phone (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Eyeball (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Tropic of Cancer (1972)
Plot Summary:
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Haiti
Duration: 95 min
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The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
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Reflections in Black (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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Death Kiss (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jim Preston receives a yacht as an anniversary present from his wealthy wife Ellen. He plans to kill her for her entire fortune. To carry out the murder plan, he makes a contact with Mike, a crazed rape killer who has been terrorizing the city. Mike agrees to be the assassin for a large quantity of heroin. However he suspects that Preston will kill him as soon as his assignment is complete, so he finds a woman who looks exactly like Ellen and kills her instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, independent film, grindhouse
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Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Plot Summary:
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
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Toe Tags (2003)
Plot Summary:
The high rent district of Valley Creek apartments, seems to be a magnet for beautiful people....those who can afford to live there. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, serious, realistic, slasher
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Double Face (1969)
Plot Summary:
A millionare is unwittingly led into murder by his lesbian wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The French Sex Murders (1972)
Plot Summary:
The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after the suspect's ironic-if-he-were-actually-guilty demise, his suspicions are confirmed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, scary, atmospheric, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Cursed Lesson (2020)
Plot Summary:
Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While relying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Plot Summary:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, gothic, slasher
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The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, classic horror, grindhouse, erotic, suspense
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The Card Player (2003)
Plot Summary:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspense, detective, grindhouse, cult horror, scary
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Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
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