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Plot Summary:
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, classic horror, tense, serious, psychotronic, independent film, erotic, sexy, gothic
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Howling: New Moon Rising (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gary Brandner's horror novels come to life again in this sequel to "The Howling." A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like the work of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in another nearby town, police are hot on the trail of a killer they believe is a werewolf. This is "Howling" with a country-western angle.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, scary, rough, serious, cult film
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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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The Beast Must Die (1974)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychotronic, classic horror, psychological, psychological thriller, gothic horror, independent film, freeze frame
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Plot Summary:
Throughout his upbringing, unnatural phenomena surround Leon. He is plagued with a terrible curse, over which he exercises no control. During the full moon he changes into a ferocious beast, initiating an orgy of indiscriminate killing. His love for Cristina enables Leon to suppress his lycanthropic feelings - until the engagement is broken off, which precipitates a tragic conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense, dark, creepy, serious, suspenseful
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Night Shadow (1989)
Plot Summary:
Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than man--continue... until Alex comes face to face with the evil itself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, slasher horror
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Werewolf (1995)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists with unplaceable accents unearth a skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. The Native Americans on the dig instantly recognize it as the remains of a werewolf, so the team leaders immediately take it to their lab and stare at it. Natalie, one of the team members, thinks it's absolutely fascinating, but Yuri siezes on greater ambitions when one of the dig assistants, who injured themself on the remains, becomes infected and turns into a werewolf in full view of hospital personnel. Yuri then conducts an experiment infecting other people in town to see if they turn into werewolves as well. When Paul arrives at the lab to assist in analyzing the remains, Yuri infects him, too. After Paul's transformation (under a week-long full moon), Natalie tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, cult classic, independent film, semi serious, surprise ending, spooky
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Late Phases (2014)
Plot Summary:
When deadly attacks from the forests beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a grizzled veteran to figure what the residents are hiding.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mumblecore, disturbing, grindhouse
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Moon of the Wolf (1972)
Plot Summary:
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: detective, creepy, cult horror, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense
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Wild Country (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wild Country is a low budget British horror film which was shot on location in and around Glasgow, Scotland in October.The cast was made up of mostly unknown actors with the exception of Martin Compston and a cameo appearance by Peter Capaldi. The budget of the film was an estimated £1 million. The film was released in selected cinemas in Scotland in February 2006. The film was also screened at film festivals worldwide, including the Cannes Film Festival and the London FrightFest Film Festival. The film will get a 2007 release in the U.S. due to Lionsgate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, crying
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The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987)
Plot Summary:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, classic horror, surprise ending, horror comedy, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, erotic
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Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, scary, funny, brutal, sensual, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, psychotronic
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The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Scotland Yard Detective (Peter Cushing) must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, mind bending
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Werewolf Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, grindhouse, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, detective, banned film
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Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
Plot Summary:
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Beast of Bray Road (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual accounts of werewolf sightings in Walworth County, Wisconsin, the film follows a local sheriff who is finally forced to accept that a string of horrifying deaths is linked to a predator which possesses DNA of both man and wolf.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, perverse, offbeat, surprise ending, splatter, postmodern
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Never Cry Werewolf (2008)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Loren (Nina Dobrev) doesn't like her new neighbor, Jared (Peter Stebbings), or his vicious dog. Along with her friend Steven (Sean O'Neill), Loren spies on Jared and begins to suspect he's a werewolf, responsible for a rash of disappearances. But Jared is watching her just as closely, because Loren reminds him of his dead wife. As a full-moon night nears, Loren enlists the help of TV star Redd Tucker (Kevin Sorbo), who knows how to hunt -- and who believes her werewolf theory.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Wolf (2003)
Plot Summary:
A hip, very erotic twist on the werewolf thriller, this atmospheric horror film adds a a wickedly sexy appetite to the bloodthirsty cravings of its monster. A vicious werewolf stalks the streets of Los Angeles. Between killings, its desperate goal is to mate with unsuspecting Josie, who is unaware of her special power attracting the beast. Forced to take over an investigation involving werewolves after his partner is killed, an LAPD Detective is led to the trail of this ravenously deadly hybrid werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, talky, suspense, slasher
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Vampire Circus (1972)
Plot Summary:
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, gothic, enigmatic, suspense, terrifying, psychotronic, sexy, classic 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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Boggy Creek (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her father in a terrible accident, sweet, yet troubled Jennifer and her friends decide to check out her dad's cabin that's located in the deep woods of Boggy Creek, Texas. While staying at said cabin for a week, Jennifer and company run afoul of an evil and vicious monster of local legend that kills men and abducts women.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, independent film
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Jaws of Satan (1981)
Plot Summary:
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, satanic, natural horror, independent film, serious, psychotronic
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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The Beast Within (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the beginning of the movie you see a woman getting raped by a man-creature of some sort. The movie takes place years later when the child that was a result of that rape is on the rampage looking for a girl to rape to start the process all over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, retro, cult classic, classic horror, terrifying, grindhouse
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Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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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
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The Howling (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, gothic, slasher, creepy, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror
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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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Bad Moon (1996)
Plot Summary:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, retro, psychological horror, creepy, classic horror, serious
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized, tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense