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Plot Summary:
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira (Hisato Izaki) and Ryo (Yusuke Izaki) wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, manga, romantic, scenic, anime, perverse, futuristic
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The Doorway (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four young college students agree to fix up an abandoned home for rent, only to discover the demons within and an open doorway... to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, erotic, independent film, scary, serious, slasher
Similar in 89%
The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic, suspense, slasher, independent film, gay cinema, campy
Similar in 77%
Alone in the Dark 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, offbeat, semi serious
Similar in 84%
Aragami (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, exciting, minimal cast, scary
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
Similar in 75%
Fading of the Cries (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jacob, a young man armed with a deadly sword, saves Sarah, a teenage girl, from Mathias, a malevolent evil that has begun plaguing a small farmland town while in search of an ancient necklace that had belonged to Sarahs Uncle. Jacob sets out to get Sarah home safely, running through streets, fields, churches and underground tunnels, while being pursued by hordes of demonic creatures. Along the way, both come to terms with the demons within themselves - Sarah begins to understand her hatred towards her mother and sister may be unjustified and Jacob discovers the secrets of his past, realizing the only way to truly defeat the demons is to return to the very place his family was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, serious, independent film
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The Dead One (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battle awaits him when the Aztec god demands the soul of Maria, the girlfriend Diego left behind.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master II (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime, exciting, epic, futuristic, suspenseful
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Invincible (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Shadow Men are immortal beings of darkness and destruction. One such Shadow Man, Os (Zane), is confronted by the White Warrior, a being of light, and given the chance to change his ways or die. After the White Warrior bests Os in combat, she opens his heart to the power of love, and charges him to find the warriors who are the representation of the five elements and will save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, detective, serious
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Slaughter Night (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen-year-old Kristel survived a car accident in which her father dies. Tormented by nocturnal visions she begins to care for her father's investigation of serial killers - especially Andries Martíns, a killer of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 85%
The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Plot Summary:
There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman (Kari Wuhrer). Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, mystical, suspense, epic
Similar in 76%
Soulkeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious
Similar in 79%
Jinn (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us and only under dire or unusual circumstances were our paths ever meant to cross.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mysterious
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Webs (2003)
Plot Summary:
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, man-eating, spider-like monsters. The bloodthirsty arachnid-human hybrids stalk and kill their victims one by one, leaving the dwindling group of survivors to fight back with just their wits and a handful of primitive weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
Similar in 77%
Werewolf Warrior (2004)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat, splatter
Similar in 89%
Knight of the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights escort the holy grail through a valley of black death where they must hack and slash their way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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Hellbinders (2009)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural battle for souls plays out on the streets with lots of guns and knives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, campy
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
Similar in 77%
Survival Island (2002)
Plot Summary:
Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, mythical, independent film, fast, psychotronic, slasher
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Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark, disturbing
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
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Perfect Creature (2006)
Plot Summary:
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, dark, neo noir, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 81%
Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
Similar in 79%
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Plot Summary:
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, manga, queer horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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Dororo (2007)
Plot Summary:
The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." His warlord father gave the originals to 48 demons in exchange for power. When Hyakkimaru kills a demon, he wins back a body part. He is spotted in one of these battles, with a giant spider demon, by Dororo, a scrappy female thief who is fascinated by not only Hyakkimaru's prowess with the sword blade poking out of his arm but the new leg he grows after dicing his opponent. Is he a man -- or a monster? After hearing his story from an old minstrel, she decides to join him on his travels and find out for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, psychological, exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, weird
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Tokyo Ghoul: 'S' (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ken Kaneki is a university student. He is also half-ghoul and half-human. He agonizes over his situation. Trying to avoid other ghouls, he shelters himself at Anteiku Cafe and spends time with Toka Kirishima. One day, a ghoul, Shu Tsukiyama, appears at Anteiku Cafe and he is called the "Gourmet.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful, seinen
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Skinwalkers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, erotic, dark, psychotronic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Constantine (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, supernatural thriller, humorous, epic, detective, anime, horror comedy