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Plot Summary:
Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Hellish Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Romance, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags:
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Farewell to the Ark (1984)
Plot Summary:
A remote village has its own norms, rites and traditions. Sue and Sutechiki are a couple and cousins. Their sex life had been better: Sutechiki is impotent and Sue have a magical chastity belt. Themes such as time, memory, modernization and social conventions included in the story of Sue, Sutechiki, the village's mad women and rape gay men.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight (2020)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins innocently enough - a group of technology addicted teenagers finds themselves in an off-line camp. However hiking in the woods with no smartphone in sight will not go as planned. They will have to fight for their lives against things they never have seen before, even in the darkest reaches of the Internet. Faced against the dangers lurking in the forest, they will find true friendship, love and sacrifice. Will they come out of it in one piece, or in bloody bits?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, splatter, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, stylized, bloody, creepy, perverse
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Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sad, crying
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Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ten college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Celluloid Nightmares (1988)
Plot Summary:
A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist.The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. Hisayasu Sato's regular Kiyomi Ito begins to investigate the videotape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, pink cinema
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Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988)
Plot Summary:
One of the infamous "Four Devils" of the Japanese pink movie scene, Hisayasu Sato delivers an original and thrilling whodunit that moves through the layers of reality. Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted tastes, Kihara. Sensing a bigger story, Nukada uncovers a link between Midori and the late Kihara's wife and realizes that the situation is much more complex than he imagined. And in this world of blood-play and electro-sex, the biggest shock has yet to be announced.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Illusion of Blood (1965)
Plot Summary:
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: jidai geki
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Majin the Monster of Terror (1966)
Plot Summary:
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, grindhouse, psychotronic, natural horror, cult film
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Zoom In: Rape Apartments (1980)
Plot Summary:
Saeko, a woman with a mysterious past, is hit with a rock and brutally raped by a man wearing a dark mask and black gloves. Her life is spared, but soon brutal murders befall the residents of the Kibougahara Apartment building. The victims are beaten, killed, and their genitals are set on fire. Saeko has her suspicions about the killer’s identity, but will she live long enough to unmask the pyromaniac?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, cult film
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Macumba sexual (1983)
Plot Summary:
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, queer horror, psychotronic, disgusting, hot
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The Amazing Transplant (1970)
Plot Summary:
Exploitation auteur Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go to Hell) provides the most over-the-top entertainment of her career with this film about a nice guy who turns murderous after undergoing a penis transplant. As it turns out, the well-endowed donor was a serial rapist who preyed on women with gold earrings -- a habit that our unfortunate hero (João Fernandes) has inherited along with the man's penis.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, detective, independent film, erotic, scary, rough, sexy, serious, slasher, realistic
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The Covenant (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation (2013)
Plot Summary:
There's something strange happening inside Buffalo Central Terminal. A group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Rowing with the Wind (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark, manga, costume drama, independent film, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying, period drama
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The Dolls (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man is having repeated nightmares about dolls trying to kill him. The dreams continues and the nightmares starts to escalate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, hispanic, grindhouse
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Olga O's Strange Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a near miss with a murderous motorcyclist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, sexploitation film
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Inugami (2001)
Plot Summary:
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, erotic, tense, serious, experimental, avant garde
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Black Kiss (2004)
Plot Summary:
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Kaidan (2007)
Plot Summary:
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Somebody's Darling (2016)
Plot Summary:
A fraternity president becomes obsessed with a young coed but his hopeful courtship decays into sinister pursuit as unnatural secrets surface about his brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Murder Obsession (1981)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror
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Haunt (2013)
Plot Summary:
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that is family has unknowingly just purchased.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, serious
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Rows (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rows is a psychological thriller, a Gothic fantasy inspired by Grimm's tales. A young woman, Rose, is tasked by her developer father to deliver an eviction notice to a reclusive woman in a ramshackle farmhouse. The woman has strange powers, derived from the house itself. The enchantress puts Rose and her friend, Greta, under a spell. They become lost in a seemingly infinite cornfield and must repeat a series of surreal or terrifying events in order to solve the mystery and break the spell. Rose's father is drawn into the mystery, and Rose's relationship with him is tested. A series of shocking reversals leads to a haunting climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, fairy tale, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dagon (2001)
Plot Summary:
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, satanic, tense, serious, dark
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The Cursed (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus’s son Edward goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but visiting pathologist John McBride warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, atmospheric, gothic, bloody, slasher
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The Black Cat (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, anthology, psychotronic, allegory, post modern
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Apocalyptic (2014)
Plot Summary:
A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Plot Summary:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 379000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, fairy tale, suspenseful, surreal, captivating