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Plot Summary:
When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Nightmare Zone (1998)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology consisting of three stories: a bored young woman phones a friend, and is terrified when she hears her own voice pick up on the other end, a woman's noisy electric carving knife angers one of her neighbors, and a man who has had the same dream every night for ten years, possibly from a previous life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Night Terror (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man is plagued by recurring nightmares, and when he wakes up he finds that the nightmares he just dreamed of keep coming true.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, independent film
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Tiki (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Amy moves from her beloved Hawaiian Islands to study drama on the mainland, she has little cause to rejoice as a gang of vicious co-eds plots to make her life a living hell. With the aid of their boyfriends, the girls set Amy up as the target of a horrendous prank that results in the young girl falling victim to a brain seizure from which she may never recover. Seeking answers, her aunt Maelea arrives with a special Tiki doll -- specially designed to kill! Through magic, she coaxes Amy's subconscious spirit to enter the idol's body and bring it to hideous life. Now the idol tracks down the students one by one to exact its grisly revenge in a relentless assault of Tiki terror!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Puppet Show (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ringmaster Rick rose to success with his children's show, Circus Town, by making a deal with a demon to bring his marionette, Charlie Chowderhead, to life!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Returning (1991)
Plot Summary:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Doll House (2020)
Plot Summary:
Doll House is the story of an 11-year-old runaway who arrives at a care home with her only possession a dolls house. She refuses to speak and won’t ever let go of her doll. The other children tease her. People start to disappear and seem to appear as tiny dolls inside the doll house. An evil entity haunts the doll and doll house and is collecting the souls of the children for its ultimate cause, to be alive.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller
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Amityville Toybox (2016)
Plot Summary:
A cursed antique toy monkey from the original DeFeo home wrecks havoc and possesses a father after being gifted during an annual family reunion.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Blood Thirst (1971)
Plot Summary:
A sex-crimes specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend, a Manila homicide detective, solve a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Revenge of Robert (2018)
Plot Summary:
Germany, 1941. Two secret agents, one working for British intelligence and the other working for the Nazis, board a train. Their mission is to find a Toymaker who is in possession of a mystical book which gives life to the inanimate. As the two secret agents close in and the Toymaker has no idea who to trust, he uses the magical tome to bring a vintage doll called Robert to life...and Robert will stop at nothing to protect his puppet master.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, bleak, suspenseful
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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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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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Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter gruesome, flesh-eating Beast Creatures!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Shake Rattle and Roll VI (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shake, Rattle & Roll VI is the sixth installment of the Shake Rattle & Roll franchise. With three segments "Ang Telebisyon" directed by Maurice Carvajal, "Ang Buwan" directed by Anton Juan and "Ang Tulay" directed by Frank Rivera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology
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Robert Reborn (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1951 USSR, as the Cold War intensifies, infamous dictator Joseph Stalin is suffering with illness and his death is imminent. Meanwhile, KGB agent Stoichkov discovers a mysterious stage show in the Baltic region featuring three creepy dolls - Robert, Kalashnikov and Miss Cyclops. Spellbound by the lifelike animation displayed by the dolls on stage, Stoichkov investigates the show's host and discovers he is a German Toymaker who owns a mystical book which holds the key to eternal life. Believing the Toymaker and his book will help Stalin escape death, Stoichkov kidnaps him and they board a plane to Moscow. But the Toymaker's living creations have followed them. When the plane is in mid air all hell breaks loose as Stoichkov and his team of KGB agents realize the three dolls are on board and will stop at nothing to rescue their puppet master. Fasten your seat belt and prepare for blood soaked toy terror at 30,000 feet.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, psychotronic, captivating, scary
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Night Ripper! (1986)
Plot Summary:
A guy who does glamour shots for models and the like gets mixed up in a series of mutilation killings. The murders bare a resemblance to those committed by Jack the Ripper, and the victims are all models. Naturally, the photographer becomes a suspect. He also falls for one of his models and must try to protect her from the true killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror, low-budget
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Tiny Terrors (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Manny Velazquez underground independent horror film about a teenager who visits a burial ground and finds a Egyptian cross that awakens an evil curse that takes on the form of demented looking puppets that kill.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, creepy
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
Plot Summary:
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, horror comedy, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse
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The Toymaker (2017)
Plot Summary:
In Germany, 1941, the Nazis pursue a Toymaker who has acquired a mystical book which gives life to inanimate objects.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Power (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man comes into possession of an ancient Aztec doll. However, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, which takes over his body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, eighties
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The Curse of Robert the Doll (2016)
Plot Summary:
A student who starts working the night shift at a Museum suspects that one of the exhibits, a creepy vintage doll named Robert, is alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful
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The Jack in the Box (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it's new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it's own.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, rough, suspense
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The Dollhouse Murders (1992)
Plot Summary:
While staying at her Aunt Clare's country home, Amy Treloar discovers a doll-house with a secret only the dolls know.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Heidi (2014)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Evil Little Things (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young boy finds a mystical toymaker with stories to tell. The first is of a leprechaun seeking revenge on a defenseless family. The second is of a doll who works evil on her fragile owner. The toymaker gives the boy a clown named Giggles. Clowns are supposed to be the guardians of happiness, right? These Evil Little Things will cause you many sleepless nights.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Dolls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Tales From The Dark 1 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong horror writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Tales from the Dark Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Charles (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves in to their first apartment and encounters a red-headed freckled doll. Soon they discover that their home and doll reveal an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bloody, suspense, slasher
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The Curse of Humpty Dumpty (2021)
Plot Summary:
An old doll seemingly returns to life to wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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The Elf (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nick is haunted by night terrors stemming from a tragic murder he saw when he was young. After inheriting an old toy shop, he discovers a cursed elf doll sealed inside an ancient chest with a naughty list of his family's names written on it. He soon discovers that the elf was an evil conduit meant to unleash a supernatural killing spree during the Christmas Holidays by whomever set it free.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy, slasher horror, scary