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Plot Summary:
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, disturbing, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, crying
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Heartbeat (1983)
Plot Summary:
Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
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Last Caress (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five youngsters who just wanted to spend a nice weekend amongst friends in a manor will find a far less peaceful place than they expected when faced with a family curse and a sadistic ruthless killer. Blinded by their never-ending quest for carnal pleasures they will fail to perceive the flood of blunt violence about to engulf them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, retro, independent film
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Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
Plot Summary:
This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the flesh pots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul... Top grade Euro-horror and definitely the craziest werewolf film ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Inquisition (1977)
Plot Summary:
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic, scary, sexy, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Curse of the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
The great inquisitor Ireneus Daninsky has Countess Bathory burned alive and her female followers hanged. Before perishing in the flames the countess puts a curse on Daninsky and his descendants. Four centuries later, Waldemar Daninsky accidentally shoots a gypsy while hunting a wolf. The angry gypsies, who knew of the curse, summon up the Satan and the beautiful Ilona is chosen to seduce the young lord. During a night of love, Ilona bites Waldemar who turns into a werewolf killing his preys on full moon nights. His murders are first attributed to a mad killer escaped from the asylum. Waldemar, who suspects the killer is none other than himself, falls in love with Kinga, the daughter of a professor from Budapest. When Maria, Kinga's jealous younger sister, manages to seduce Waldemar and sleep with him, she is killed by the young man, once again turned into a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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Horror of the Zombies (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, epic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, campy
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Return of the Evil Dead (1973)
Plot Summary:
500 years after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during it's centennial celebration. Being blind, the Templars find their victims through sound, usually the screams of their victims. Taking refuge in a deserted cathedral, a small group of people must find a way to escape from the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, brutal, epic, suspense, perverse, classic horror, scary, rough, serious
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Night of the Seagulls (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Knight Templars return in this fourth installment of the Blind Dead seris. On this outing, the Templars haunt a fishing village, where they rise seven nights every seven years to claim their sacrificial offerings in return for the safety of the townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, classic horror, epic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Wolfman Never Sleeps (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man has had a werewolf curse cast upon him. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, sadistic, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, mind bending, psychotronic, cult film
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Hunchback of the Morgue (1973)
Plot Summary:
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He is in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, lovecraft, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Terror of the Living Dead (1973)
Plot Summary:
Upon his uncle's death, Serge Chekov journeys to a spooky Scottish village for the reading of the will. But when he inherits the estate, Serge runs afoul of his uncle's jealous wife , his business partner , his maid and others. It's not long before zombies join the fun in this Italian supernatural thriller, also starring Paul Naschy as a nutso gravedigger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Night of the Werewolf (1981)
Plot Summary:
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Forever Evil (1987)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, lovecraft, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Terror (1978)
Plot Summary:
A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, silent
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers… Three pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night. Instead, they tumble into nightmares – and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the Bed!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, rough, independent film, psychotronic, cult classic, slasher, disturbing, horror comedy
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Superstition (1982)
Plot Summary:
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, bleak, atmospheric, gothic, bloody, suspense, satanic
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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, surprise ending, gloomy, independent film
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Dark Intruder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, suspense, detective, grindhouse, action thriller, weird
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, 70mm film
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Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Plot Summary:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, psychotronic
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Twins of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, satanic, sexy, slasher, demonic
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Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Dracula 2000. Father Uffizi [Jason Scott Lee] hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula (revealed as Judas Iscariot in Dracula 2000), absolve Dracula's sins against Jesus, set his soul free, and end his unholy existence. So, when Dracula's charred body turns up in the New Orleans morgue, Uffizi heads there. Medical students, Liz Blaine [Diane Neal] and Luke [Jason London] are charged with autopsying the body. When they open the abdominal cavity, they find that the liver and other organs are white, suggesting to Luke that the person did not produce his own blood but got it elsewhere, i.e., a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, exciting, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, serious, sexy, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, terrifying
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Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into the the evil hands of a doctor….
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Baron Blood (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody
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The Black Cat (1981)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, psychological, mind bending, serious, demonic, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic