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Plot Summary:
A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, bizarre, cult film
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Legacy of Blood (1978)
Plot Summary:
Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs are dispatched by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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New York Vampire (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man (Tommy Sweeney) who's depressed about his failed suicide attempt, winds up going to a friends party anyway. Although his friends seem insensitive about his plight, he meets a model who sheds a different light on death.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, hot
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The Witch Chronicles (2019)
Plot Summary:
After 300 years of seeking revenge on the Hekate Family through The Hekate Chronicles, Bertrand Guilladot's ghost, a Catholic Priest from Dijon, France in 1742, who sold his soul to the devil through witchcraft, has finally met his match. Azar Francis Hekate, today's most powerful sorcerer, feeds souls to the demon, Paymon, the master of infernal ceremonies, who lives within his wife, Sabazios. When Bertrand stumbles upon his witchery, Azar is in for the battle of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure
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Sinthia: The Devil's Doll (1970)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: she's wanted her father to love only her. Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but nightmares plague her so she seeks psychiatric help. The doctor asks her to describe a dream: it's long and elaborate with dreams within dreams of Lucifer, Hell, and her parents in various guises. To shed her guilt, the shrink recommends that she commit suicide in her next dream. In it, she falls in love with an artist who reminds her of her father, responds to a woman who finds her attractive, and celebrates her first school-yard kiss. The dream takes her back to her parents' bedside. Is any cure possible?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Jackhammer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, awful
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Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, disturbing, independent film
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Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973)
Plot Summary:
John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Torture Dungeon (1969)
Plot Summary:
In Medieval England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim he title crown for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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The Weirdo (1989)
Plot Summary:
After years of torment and torture, a disturbed young man snaps and takes out his frustration in particularly violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Edgar Allan Poe's Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young actors adapt an Edgar Allan Poe tale into a theater production, the line between truth and fiction becomes terrifyingly blurred as elements from the harrowing story begin to bleed over into reality. The ensemble soon comes to the horrifying realization that life has begun to imitate art, and their collective descent into madness has reached a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Ghastly Ones (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, hood, gay cinema, weird
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A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Carnage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Nurse Sherri (1977)
Plot Summary:
A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: medical horror, slasher, slasher horror, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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Blood Feast (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run a American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bloody, splatter, bizarre
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Last Rites (1980)
Plot Summary:
A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, low-budget
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Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Nightmare in Blood (1977)
Plot Summary:
Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, humorous, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, parody, horror spoof
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The Body Beneath (1970)
Plot Summary:
A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, gay cinema, weird
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The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Witchcraft VII: Judgement Hour (1995)
Plot Summary:
Will Spanner is at it again battling sex starved beautiful demon vampires in the seventh installment of this series. Will enlists the help of cops Lutz and Garner to bring down the evil vampire Martin and his beautiful erotic demonic slaves.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Children of the Night (1991)
Plot Summary:
Cindy and Lucy are eighteen and going away to college. As a ritual they must rid themselves of the dirt of their small home town (Allburg) by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. They jump in and begin talking about sex when Lucys crucifix falls into the water and drifts down to land on Czakyr's (an ancient vampire) head, apparently waking him up. Some time onwards a school teacher from a nearby town, Mark, gets directed to Allburg to help Lucy and her grandmother, who are suspected to be in trouble. Lucy becomes the target of a town turned vampire because of her 'virgin blood'. Mark, Lucy and an old wino shack up in an abandoned building outside of town but eventually get lured back to Allburg by the locals. There, with a giant glowing cross spearing the front of their Toyota, they take the town on and battle Czakyr.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973)
Plot Summary:
Novice witch Cindy is transported into a world of safe sex by the voice of Abigail from the 17th century.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, weird
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The Naked Witch (1967)
Plot Summary:
College student Stephen accidently awakens Beth, a witch put to death back in the 1800's who begins a wave of killing as well as terrorizing him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, brutal, bleak, bloody, suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, surreal
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Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie' bakery who abducts a number of customers from the barber shop and kills them and helps the couple make "meat pies" out of the dead victims for sale.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, psychological thriller, slasher, sadistic, splatter, independent film, gay cinema, psycho film, awful
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter