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Plot Summary:
Having just been fired and dumped by his wife, life couldn't possibly be worse for independent artist GORDON HAUGE (Mark Redfield)--until he wrecks his car and finds himself in purgatory that is. Once there, he is attacked by fanatic Shadowmen and legions of Ragmen--souls being enslaved and bent to some dark purpose. Gordon is rescued by an eccentric band of freedom fighters, people from different times of history who lost their lives in noble sacrifice. They recruit the reluctant and befuddled Gordon and set off on a wild adventure through the surreal landscapes of purgatory to battle the Despiser--an evil being who now reigns in this seemingly God-abandoned halfway house north of hell and south of heaven. Dealing with shifting reality, annoying monsters, armies of Ragmen and hair-raising car chases across bridges spanning oceans of lava our heroes battle their way to the dark macabre fortress of the Despiser. Written by Philip Cook [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, 3d animation
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Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, suspense, cerebral
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Mid-Century (2022)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher horror
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The Chosen One (2009)
Plot Summary:
Witness the psychedelic horror of "THE CHOSEN ONE", a gorgeously shot B+W film featuring music by legendary doom metal band ELECTRIC WIZARD and beautiful classical score by Anthony DiLorenzo! The twisted story follows the tragic end of dreams for a happily married couple and their unfortunate plunge into a fiendish nightmare! A fun and entertaining ride through the annals of art horror, internal medicine, science, superstition, religious fever and politics that you will never forget!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, slasher, independent film
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Near Death (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Dreamier: An American Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Manny Velazquez Psychological Thriller about a young detective (played by Alen Rios) finds a handcrafted Indian sculpture in an alley, and takes it home with him, but he soon realizes that the sculpture is bringing his worst fears to life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, scary, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, sexy, independent film, detective, hispanic
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Dark Silence (2016)
Plot Summary:
Craig moves with his daughter, Jennifer, into a new home after the death of his wife. It’s not long before the pair discover the house is haunted by a dark presence that wants to take over the child. One day Jennifer disappears and Craig must face a terrible truth in order to find his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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1313: Haunted Frat (2011)
Plot Summary:
During Spring Break, a fraternity built atop the burned ruins of an insane asylum is haunted by a sinister visitor.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, homoerotic, independent film
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Abomination: The Evilmaker II (2003)
Plot Summary:
Action-packed sequel to THE EVILMAKER. A family member of the victim in part 1 tries to figure out what happened at that cabin in the woods not long ago. Before you know it, the body count begins and a supernatural being makes its presence known.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense
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June (2015)
Plot Summary:
June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be different. June has a new foster home and she really likes her new parents. She will have to face the force within her to protect her new parents and to save herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, scary
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Vampire Sisters (2004)
Plot Summary:
These sexy sirens bring a whole new meaning to "Ladies of the Night" as they lure victim after victim to their VampSisters.com website. Utilizing the web to entice victims to their lair, they seductively work their beauty and their bodies to fulfill an unholy desire to feed on human blood! Once the kinky fun begins, the sisters bare their fangs and the feeding frenzy begins! After these sensual bloodsuckers are finished, they drag the bodies to a hideous creature they keep locked in their shed. As the Missing Persons pile up, two undercover vice squad detectives pose as a kinky couple to infiltrate the Vampire Sisters' home. A chilling battle between the sisters and the undercover cops leads to a mind-blowing finally climax; Iggy -- the creature in the shed -- is finally released.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, erotic, disturbing
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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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Filthy McNasty (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bookish women, whom crave adventure and bad taste, suddenly turn into sexy ladies after being zapped with a spell by a sex-starved ghost.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: funny, suspense, spoof, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, horror comedy, parody
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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, arthurian, psychotronic
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The Forever Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Bloodletting (2004)
Plot Summary:
For Amanda Deter and her friends, life seems to be going great. Until one night when they cross paths with a mysterious vagrant, who warns them, a terrible evil is coming. The group disregards his warnings as nothing but drunken nonsense. But the next day when they find the vagrant dead, it is already to late to heed his warnings... Now Amanda and Derek must try and save their friends from the brutal killings of an elusive vampire. With several friends already dead or missing and Amanda's boyfriend Jonathan no where to be found, they are running out of options... and time! - Written by Shaun Paul Piccinino.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Grace's Room (2016)
Plot Summary:
Billie, a twenty something burnout, is tasked with house-sitting for her aunt and uncle, but after inviting some friends over, becomes convinced her teenage cousin Grace has stolen a notebook containing her latest screenplay. While hunting for the book in "Grace's Room", the gang uncovers a bloody trove of occult paraphernalia. Unbeknownst to Billie and her friends, said cult has been watching them from the nearby woods, and now must kill them for discovering too much. A gruesome assault on the house ensues as the gang struggles to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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WitchSlayer Gretl (2012)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, offbeat
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Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
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Plot Summary:
In this sequel, two juvenile detention officers must escort a group of criminally-inclined urban kids to the country where they are being forced to renovate a shelter for teens as punishment for their crimes. After one of them is shot by a local, the survivors seek refuge in the home of a voodoo woman, where they mistakenly summon legendary clown-faced demon Killjoy who begins hunting them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, scary, rough, bleak, semi serious, splatter, black comedy, dark comedy
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Vampire Obsession (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wendy is a prostitute who lives with her girlfriend - who wants her all to herself. Wendy meets Alexis and becomes her sex slave and soon finds out that Alexis not only seduces girls but drinks their blood too.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Witch Graveyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four travelers innocently decide to rest in a wooded area off an old freeway. Unbeknown to them, they are at an old abandoned and haunted cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Ouija Craft (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two witches use a Ouija board to resurrect their friend after she dies in a tragic accident.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Killjoy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Deep in an inner city hell, a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante, or a demon? For the beautiful high school student, Jada, that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, brutal, bloody, suspense, surprise ending, slasher horror, horror comedy
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
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The Grudge (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, harsh, demonic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, detective, esoteric, non-linear
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Sleepwalkers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, sexy, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, cult classic
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Thinner (1996)
Plot Summary:
A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, bad ending, splatter, cult classic, slasher, serious
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Pumpkinhead (1988)
Plot Summary:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, melancholic, intense, rough, serious
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological