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Plot Summary:
After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings through the city of Sao Paulo he leaves behind a trail of horror as he faces unnatural laws and popular beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, psychotronic
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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
Plot Summary:
Coffin Joe terrorizes a small peasant community in his search for the perfect woman to bear him a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, black and white, suspense, slasher, controversial, splatter, psychotronic, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic
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Hellish Flesh (1977)
Plot Summary:
Dr. George Medeiros is a brilliant scientist who does not find timr for beautiful wife Rachel. She falls in love with Oliver, the best friend of her husband, and soon after the two plan to kill George and inherit his fortune. Benefiting from the distraction of her husband in the laboratory, Raquel throws acid on George's face, disfiguring it. As he recovers in the hospital, Raquel and Oliver spend all his money. After months in the hospital, Dr. George comes home with a plan for revenge in mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead Nude Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man obsessed with bird-watching takes on a new hobby, killing young ladies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, controversial
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Asmodexia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eloy de Palma is an exorcist pastor roaming the darkest corners of the country with his granddaughter Alba. Their mission is to help those possessed by The Evil One, an infection of the soul that is spreading fast. Each exorcism is tougher than the one before, and every battle reveals a piece of Alba’s forgotten past – an enigma that if unconcealed could change the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, spooky, serious
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This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, controversial, scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surreal
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Chain Reaction (2006)
Plot Summary:
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, independent film
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The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)
Plot Summary:
The director José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in the small farm where they live and write the story of his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force. Sooner he learns that the matriarch of the family had made a deal with a local witch Malvina to get pregnant and save her marriage. In return, Malvina should indicate who would marry the girl. However, her daughter Wilma is engaged of her beloved fiancé and Malvina wants her to get married with Eugenio, who is the son of Satan. Further, José Mojica Marins discovers that his fictional creation Zé do Caixão (a.k.a. Coffin Joe) is ready to collect the souls of Wilma's family and only and exorcism may save the doomed family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, satanic, psychotronic
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Seed (2006)
Plot Summary:
After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, serious, suspense, twisted, psychological, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Born (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty one year old virgin, and wakes up the next morning pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill, for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth's dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child's deadly evil cravings.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, mystic, serious, surprise ending, dark, twist ending, slasher
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Knock Knock (2007)
Plot Summary:
Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The problem is his dad is an undertaker. Some popular high school Students thought he was weird because of it. Rico kept to himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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Kill the Scream Queen (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, independent film
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Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Plot Summary:
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) decided to make an appearance. Dead bodies are piling up, and Mary seems to be calling the shots. But there are secrets about her past that have yet to be uncovered. Nate Dushku co-stars in this slasher flick.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, dark, teen horror, independent film
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The Orphan Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister Audrey what it means to have family loyalty. His lessons are taught in massive doses of vulgar and unimaginable pain. Throughout her brutal torture we learn that Marcus is not the only Miller with Killer in the bloodline as Audrey proves to be a formidable adversary.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, independent film
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Cross Bearer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Heather is broke. She has a soul sucking job as a stripper. Her live-in girlfriend Victoria has a baby and a coke problem. Her boss Harry is an abusive maniac. Life cannot get much worse... or so she thought. Determined to get out of this living hell, Heather and her lover, Bunny, plan to rip off Harry, ditch Victoria, and leave town to live out their days on the Greek islands in peaceful bliss. One big score is all they need, and Harry gives them the opportunity when he asks them to take care of a drug deal with one of his clients at an old warehouse.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, retro, controversial, anime, dark drama
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Pinup Dolls on Ice (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Pinup Dolls are a hot retro act who put the tease back in striptease. But when an old friend (Suzi Lorraine) hires them to put on a show at a secluded campground, the girls find themselves being stalked by a homicidal maniac with a sick obsession with ice. As they're hunted one-by-one, they soon realize they'll have to rely on more than just their looks to survive this nightmare named Moe.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter
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Lizzie Borden's Revenge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of sorority girls are having a slumber party at their house. One of the new sorority girls is Leslie Borden, a descendant of the infamous Lizzie Borden family. They believe that they are holding a harmless séance to conjure the ghost of Lizzie. But they get locked in the house with an evil, vengeful spirit as Lizzie Borden returns to wreak havoc with her axe. One by one, the girls are murdered as they try to figure out how to put an end to the return of Lizzie Borden.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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I Drink Your Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. After raping a local girl, her grandpa goes after them, only to be beaten and forced to take LSD. His grandson then plots revenge on the satanists by feeding them meat pies infected with blood from a rabid dog. They turn into crazed lunatics and begin killing and/or infecting everything in their path.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, satanic, controversial, slasher horror, cult classic, pastoral, terrifying, independent film
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House of Whipcord (1974)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, creepy, serious, realistic, independent film
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Offspring (2009)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire's despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, rough, psychological, suspense, underground film, grindhouse, atmospheric, bleak
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Plot Summary:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, scary, bloody, disturbing, southern gothic, rough, suspenseful, splatter, gothic
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Baby Blood (1990)
Plot Summary:
A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, controversial, demonic, mystic, perverse
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Live Feed (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults are about to find themselves in a fight for their lives, pitted against evil itself! While on vacation in a foreign city, one of the five makes a seemingly innocent albeit ignorant mistake and soon all of them will realize the cost of such an inconsequential action. A stranger appears to help them, but is this too little, too late?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, avant garde, suspense, erotic
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Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
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Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
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Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, erotic, suspense, dark, bloody
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Hostel: Part III (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, brutal, sexy
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, splatter, brutal, scary, stylized
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Frontier(s) (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing, brutal, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sadistic, disturbing, scary, controversial, bad ending, bloody, brutal, suspense, disgusting, surreal