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Plot Summary:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white, atmospheric, stylized, scary, underground film, horror comedy
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Lovely Molly (2011)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, creepy, atmospheric, dark, satanic, disturbing
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The Last Circus (2010)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological, surreal, suspense, twisted, serious, horror comedy
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Reflections of Evil (2002)
Plot Summary:
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob who now in the '90s is an obese watch seller suffering with sucrose intolerance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychedelic, suspense, dark
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, black and white, grindhouse, dark comedy, horror comedy, scary, disturbing, creepy, psychological, suspense
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Trash Humpers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast, not serious, realistic, cynical, black comedy, disturbing, controversial, experimental, surreal
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Careful (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, atmospheric, experimental, disturbing, stylized, mindfuck, avant garde, mind bending, psychedelic
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The ABCs of Death (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the motion picture is comprised of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death. Provocative, shocking, funny and ultimately confrontational; THE ABC's OF DEATH is the definitive snapshot of the diversity of modern horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, surreal, scary, disturbing, grindhouse, harsh, stylized, rough, suspenseful, semi serious
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House (1977)
Plot Summary:
A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, horror comedy, slasher, art house, creepy, avant garde, disturbing, cult classic
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Society (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy, cult horror, erotic, horror comedy, atmospheric, bloody
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Plot Summary:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic, talky, stylized, black comedy, humorous, psychedelic
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Palindromes (2004)
Plot Summary:
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, controversial, cynical, humorous, art house, independent film, dark comedy
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, dark, clever
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Brain Damage (1988)
Plot Summary:
A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious, bloody, splatter, cult classic, slasher, dark comedy
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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Plot Summary:
An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, dark comedy, psychological horror, absurd, dark fantasy, black comedy, postmodern, surreal, interesting
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Gummo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film, art house, bleak, psychedelic, offbeat, erotic
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The Acid House (1998)
Plot Summary:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, absurd, independent film, clever, controversial
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Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by their overbearing and tyrannical mother while their father, a scientist and inventor, works away secretively in the basement. When new adoptive parents discover mysterious head wounds on their children, teen detectives Wendy and Chance Hale - brother and sister sleuths known as the "Lightbulb Kids" - visit the island to launch an investigation. As the investigation progresses, the kids are led into the darkest regions of revelation and repression as the terrible secrets of Guy's family are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, avant garde, experimental, psychological, atmospheric, black and white, cerebral, mind bending, psychedelic
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A Field in England (2013)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic, art house, experimental, avant garde, disturbing
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Plot Summary:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, disturbing, art house, black and white, creepy, tense, dark
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, dark, atmospheric, psychological, art house, mindfuck, creepy, cult classic
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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Eraserhead (1977)
Plot Summary:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, disturbing, psychedelic, experimental, atmospheric, black and white, dark
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Tideland (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, cult classic, mindfuck
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Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
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Taxidermia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic, offbeat, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, twist ending, psychological, disturbing, scary, bleak, surprise ending, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological thriller