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Plot Summary:
An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, exciting, realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, scary, suspense
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
Plot Summary:
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending, suspense, satirical, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, hood
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Armed Response (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, surprise ending, gothic, dark, psychotronic, independent film
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Versus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, bloody, serious, psychotronic, splatter
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Night Hunter (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jack Cutter is the last in long line of vampire hunters. After killing few vampires in one L.A. restaurant, he is chased both by police and by other vampires. In the process he meets an attractive woman-reporter.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, retro, independent film, exciting, serious, fast, surprise ending
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The Forsaken (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, road movie, rough, cult classic, teen, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher, serious
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Night Watch (2004)
Plot Summary:
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, dark fantasy, atmospheric, dark, exciting, stylized, bleak, absurd, serious, confusing
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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Plot Summary:
The group will face a new zombie threat as a new breed of zombie has developed. This new super-zombie type is faster, bigger, and stronger than the previous strain of zombies and harder to kill. These super-zombies have started grouping up into a horde going from city to city leaving a path of destruction behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: road movie, apocalyptic, parody, funny, horror comedy, psychotronic, scary, action comedy, tense, captivating
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The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group of corrupt cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, harsh, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, gothic, entertaining, scary
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Cuervo is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on a reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation. With his time nearly finished, he plans to start a new life with his girlfriend Lily , and leave the town for good. But Luc Crash and Lola Byrne head up a local gang of local Satanists who murder Jimmy and Lily in a brutal ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, serious, futuristic, slasher, suspense, neo noir, independent film
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Renfield (2023)
Plot Summary:
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, spooky, surprise ending, gothic, psychotronic, black comedy, freeze frame, southern gothic, grindhouse, dark comedy
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy, creepy, cult classic, horror comedy
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Hellbound (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two Chicago police officers are sent to investigate the brutal murder of a rabbi. As the investigation begins, Shatter and Jackson are summoned to Israel for questioning. Upon arrival they realize that they are, in fact, pursuing a supernatural being.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, funny, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film
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The Mother (2023)
Plot Summary:
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, interesting
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The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Plot Summary:
After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's cult comic.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, dark, rough, bleak, serious, scary, epic
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Project X-Traction (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American former Marine to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy
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Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, horror comedy, scary, semi serious, detective, gothic, entertaining, neo noir, humorous
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Dracula 2000 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, sexy, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, cult classic, exciting, fairy tale, dark
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Drive Angry (2011)
Plot Summary:
Milton is a hardened felon who has broken out of Hell, intent on finding the vicious cult who brutally murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby. He joins forces with Piper, a sexy, tough-as-nails waitress with a 69 Charger, who's also seeking redemption of her own. Caught in a deadly race against time, Milton has three days to avoid capture, avenge his daughter's death, and save her baby before she's mercilessly sacrificed by the cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, bloody, absurd, stylized, cult classic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, grindhouse
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The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Navy SEAL, Michael Adams, (Matthew Reese) was captured during a raid to free Japanese prisoners from a North Korean prison camp. He endures the North Koreans torture for three years -- seen only as flashbacks -- then released back into civilian life. A renegade North Korean General wants revenge for the raid on his camp, he follows Adams back to the United States with a plot to manipulate the former soldier into assassinating the leader of the raid, now a United States senator, Mason Chambers (K. Danor Gerald). The General targets Adams' estranged wife, Rachel (Jennifer Klekas) has her attacked so a doctor on the North Koreans payroll can insert a bomb into her head. Then Adam is captured, given the assignment and warned he must assassinate the senator within 12 hours or the bomb will detonate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, independent film, detective, freeze frame, surprise ending
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Message Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired assassins past catches up with him and his brutality surfaces as he goes on a final killing spree to make things right.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Dead Trigger (2017)
Plot Summary:
2021 - 5 years after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that turned humans into bloodthirsty, undead beasts much of the world’s population has been decimated. When governments were unable to keep the disease at bay, the Contagion Special Unit was formed with the toughest soldiers and best specialists to fight the infected. Because of the rapidly decreasing number of soldiers, a popular online video game Dead Trigger that mirrors the terrifying events was created. The best efforts of the gamers are monitored by the CSU who recruit the highest rated zombie killers. The young recruits are called “Dead Triggers”. The movie follows a group of young recruits who must travel to the origin of the outbreak to find a missing team of scientists who were searching for a cure.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, independent film
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Blade II (2002)
Plot Summary:
A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that would wipe out both humans and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, exciting, entertaining, suspense, action packed, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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Vampires (1998)
Plot Summary:
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, rough, suspense, splatter, cult classic, exciting, stylized, gothic, retro
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Project Power (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, action thriller, suspenseful, intellectual, enigmatic, mystic, hood, perverse, surprise ending
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Priest (2011)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, rough, bleak, gothic, psychotronic
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The First Purge (2018)
Plot Summary:
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, hood, slasher, psychological, scary, retro, intellectual
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Nightbreed (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, creepy, suspense
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Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
Plot Summary:
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, stylized, dark, bloody, splatter, saga, exciting, tense, captivating
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Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, scary, exciting, action packed, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, saga
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Hellboy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria, Canada, Portugal, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, action adventure, bleak, enigmatic, epic, captivating, suspense, mystical, slasher, mystic