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Plot Summary:
A horror movie duology: "The Black Veil" is set in 1888, as the widow of a psychiatrist visits a college friend who is performing in a theatre that enacts gruesome mutilations and torture. In "Listen to Midnight" a photographer recounts the events leading up to his murder, which is linked to a story he had heard in Japan about a female dragonfly luring the male to his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film
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With Friends Like These (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three short stories about three extraordinary friendships gone wrong; An antique car comes into the life of the young couple of Alex and Kathleen. The young bachelor Frank finds a new friend within his refridgerator. While hard working Susan seeks a dating agency to find her perfect match. - Written by I. B. Fenstad.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
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A New York Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six romantic stories unfold in a New York hotel during the week leading up to Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Haunted Museum (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Night Terror (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man is plagued by recurring nightmares, and when he wakes up he finds that the nightmares he just dreamed of keep coming true.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, independent film
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V/H/S/99 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, mumblecore, splatter, social
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Psycho Street (2011)
Plot Summary:
A psycho housewife (Tiffany Shepis) spins three tales of horror in this anthology.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
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A Feast of Flesh (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is seduced into joining a brothel of lusty vampires, she unwittingly shatters a truce between the vampy hookers and a band of vampire slayers who agreed to let the women live as long as they left the locals unmolested. Now that the fangs have come out, it means war. Mike Watt directs this bloodbath, starring scream queen Debbie Rochon and Matt O'Neill.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, independent film
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Escapes (1986)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of five tales of terror, each originally produced for video. The titles are "Something's Fishy," "Coffee Break," "Who's There," "Jonah's Dream," and "Think Twice.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending
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Return of the Dead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
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The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)
Plot Summary:
"O Estrano Mundo de Zé do Caixão" tells three macabre tales, all delightfully demented, perverted and grotesque.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, weird
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Teenage Exorcist (1991)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a repressed, neurotic grad student, who moves into a cursed mansion only to be possessed by the house's demonic master. She is then transformed into a raven-haired, leather and lingerie-clad seductress, who seeks a virgin sacrifice for her master. Meanwhile her sister, brother-in-law, a priest, and a pizza boy try to rescue her while avoiding the demon's wrath.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, independent film, cult film, cult movie cast
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Tomie: Another Face (1999)
Plot Summary:
Known as the girl who will not die, Tomie is the main character in a Japanese manga series. First, Tomie rises from the dead out of jealousy when an opportunistic young woman jumps at the chance to rekindle a relationship with Tomie's newly single boyfriend. In the second vignette, Tomie meets a man in the park and conjures memories in his mind of a girl he once knew. Lastly, Tomie becomes a coroner's object of obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, serious, anthology
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Shake Rattle and Roll VI (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shake, Rattle & Roll VI is the sixth installment of the Shake Rattle & Roll franchise. With three segments "Ang Telebisyon" directed by Maurice Carvajal, "Ang Buwan" directed by Anton Juan and "Ang Tulay" directed by Frank Rivera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology
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Fright House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in town knows the old Vincent place is haunted, but when the local Frat inherits it, we find out if the rumors are true. Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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3 Scream Queens (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alexis, Sylvia and Ellen are a trio of legendary scream queens. After the head of a motion picture studio invites them out to a very special screening in exchange for the possibility of a lead role in an upcoming horror film, the three women slowly become suspicious... not only of their circumstances, but also each other. They begin to realize that the horrific footage they are watching might be real and that they might be trapped in the deserted studio with a bonafide killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, homoerotic, independent film, hot, campy
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Blood Bath (1975)
Plot Summary:
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Terror 66 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chapter One : Motel 666 - This rural desert motel offers the final check-out for many late night Route 66 travelers. Chapter Two : The Road To Hell - A small desert town harbors a dark secret in the form of a serial murderer destined to discover the most brutal and horrifying ways of killing human beings. True to an unspoken community truce, his voracious appetite for torture and death is relegated to outsiders traveling through town via Route 66. Chapter Three : The Grave of Bleu Chambers - Throughout the years, urban legend has it that the ghost of a small boy, killed by a speeding car decades earlier, is responsible for the sporadic disappearances of Route 66 travelers near an adjacent cemetery of which his body is interred.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, suspense, anthology
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Freakshow (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being ditched by her cameraman because of her manipulative behavior at a murder scene, a reporter wanders through town looking for a phone she can use. She finds a small museum, where the proprietor invites her in to have a look around before leaving. In one room, she encounters a strange jar which causes her to have strange visions, visions that are supposedly drawn from her own mind. These 'visions' make up the rest of this four- part anthology, which includes horror and suspense stories about a junkie chasing a dog for his runaway fix, a pizza delivery boy who gets a Halloween surprise, a living but paralyzed OD victim forced to undergo her own autopsy because everyone thinks she's dead, and a deal between a golf course owner and a gravedigger that has some unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending
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Dead Teenagers (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Autumn eve, a college student finds a mysterious book in his campus library. Within its pages, he finds four gruesome tales of ghosts, werewolves, vampires and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Rock-A-Die-Baby (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother tells her daughter three scary bedtime stories. A small platoon in the jungles of Vietnam encounter a horror other than the war, a group of college friends decide to play a prank on a prudish girl they know from school, and the woman tells her daughter about what happened shortly after she and the girl's father were married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Chillers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Five passengers in a bus depot are waiting for a bus that is overdue. To pass the time, they start telling each other horror stories.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, grindhouse, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, independent film
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The Three Faces of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes a werewolf curse to him! The second one is about a woman who wants to look like her best friend and goes to a plastic surgeon, which is the biggest mistake she's done. The third story is about three friends and a very dangerous sea monster eating its way through their camping site! The wrap-around story is set on a train where John Phillip Law plays a mystical hypnotist who claims that he can see the past of the passengers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Actress Shirley Latanya Jones returns from the director's first film (Black Devil Doll from Hell) to be in front of Turner's camcorder, and reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby. The second story features a zombie clown from Hell. When we finally return to Shirley, she kills her hot-headed boyfriend, and there's a bloody finale as the cops arrive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, realistic, dark fairy tale, asian horror
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Campfire Tales (1991)
Plot Summary:
A grizzled derelict tells a quartet of horror tales to a trio of young campers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, dark fairy tale, independent film, slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Barrio Tales (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Death 4 Told (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four horror stories occur in sequence connected by time and space. The first deals with a writer and his wife who move into a large house only to find it is already occupied. The second follows three college couples on a weekend camping trip where tall tales and legends are more real than fiction. The third segment follows a TV crew as they prepare for the taping of their hit show, "World's Most Haunted Places". The final story is about a hack psychic who discovers that practice really does make perfect.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays (2005)
Plot Summary:
Come join the Old Crone one more time in this chilling sequel! This time around, the Crone takes you on a year's holiday journey. Watch what happens when Valentine's Day becomes a blood bath. The luck of the Irish will be the only thing that will save you on St. Patrick's Day. Be careful of the curse of the mummy on Halloween night. On Thanksgiving, a turkey never tasted so good as Stanley does. And on Christmas, find out how Dorothy finally gets her angel. Come gaze one more time in the crystal ball and see how the "Holidays" can be so fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, dark fairy tale
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All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark, psychotronic, scary, psychological, slasher, dark fairy tale, slasher horror
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An Erotic Vampire in Paris (2002)
Plot Summary:
When young Caroline learns of her mother's death in Paris, she travels to the City of Lights for the funeral. Sad and alone, Caroline wanders the exotic city in search of answers, finality, and peace of mind. But only misfortune is in stock, as Caroline is attacked and robbed by a French thug. Coming to her rescue is Isabelle, a mysterious and voluptuous woman who offers her food and shelter. Little does Caroline realize that this Parisian beauty is a modern-day vampire looking for vulnerable victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, biting, suspense