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Plot Summary:
Professor Brecht finds out his wife Lisa have an affair with his twin brother Giordano. The brother disappears under mysterious circumstances while the professor his place and pretend to be Giordano, driving his wife mad.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror
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The Bloodstained Lawn (1973)
Plot Summary:
A couple of wandering hippies meet a man by the name of Antonio who takes them to the home where he lives with his sister and brother-in-law. There they meet several strange characters: a gypsy woman, a prostitute and a disturbing drunk. The host tells them that he is a producer of wines and loves to entertain strange people. In fact he is a madman who has created a mechanism that can suck blood from human bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic
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The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
Plot Summary:
A doctor kidnaps young couples and performs bizarre experiments on them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, bizarre
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The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (1964)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Austria, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, classic horror, gothic horror, psychotronic
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The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
Plot Summary:
Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult classic, entertaining, odd, vintage
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The Comeback (1978)
Plot Summary:
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, gothic horror, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, weird, cult film
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Erotic Ghost Story III (1992)
Plot Summary:
The once mighty Tang Dynasty is in its decline. The big land of China is being visited by famine, natural disasters and devils. Chu Chung is such a person. Everywhere he goes, beautiful Suzie follows. So they meet Wick, a monk endowed with magic powers. Chu Chung sees a picture of an exceedingly beautiful girl and falls in love with her. He begs Wick to help him cross the human-spiritual barrier to enter the picture. Chu Chung meets the girl Yi-meng. They make love. Little does Chu Chung realize he has fallen into arch demon Vixen's trap. Unwittingly, he kills the upright god of justice. Suzie helps a repentant Chu Chung escape into the human world. She herself is incarcerated. Wick and Suzie reluctantly help Chu Chung enter the spiritual world again. Righteousness prevails. Vixen loses the war. And Yi-meng is transported to the human world. Unfortunately, Suzie dies. But she may not have died after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Monster of the Opera (1964)
Plot Summary:
A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, independent film
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The Murder Clinic (1966)
Plot Summary:
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, slasher, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film, period piece, slasher horror
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Momentos de Prazer e Agonia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a photographer of the ultimate in trendy soft core. Her ex, George, who makes bondage films, hooks Diane up with the muscular Teagan in exchange for a favor with a well-heeled client. Diane asks Teagan to model in her next shoot. When Teagan turns up bound, gagged, and dead, a rough policeman, Lt. Arnold, focuses his suspicions on George. When a second model dies and video disks show up depicting the murders, Arnold is certain he has his man - except that the killer we see in the videos is a red-headed woman. Diane's assistant, Valerie, can't keep her eyes off Diane, and Diane's mixer, Paul, also tries to be her protector. Do the cops have the wrong person?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mysterious, detective, weird, sexploitation film
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Blood Moon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sex of the Witch (1973)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: naughty, gothic, sexploitation film
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The Coffin Footage (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man slowly realizes that he has become the chosen target of an ominous supernatural presence. As he scrambles to stop it, he realizes there is more to this haunting than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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The Bloodsucker Leads The Dance (1975)
Plot Summary:
A rich count invites a theatre troupe to his home on an isolated island... but soon people start getting murdered. Has the family curse struck again?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, queer horror, gothic horror
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The Erotic Ghost (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Fear Chamber (1968)
Plot Summary:
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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An Angel for Satan (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror
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The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, psychotronic
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Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, psychotronic
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The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964)
Plot Summary:
Horror film written and directed by Joseph Stefano, focused on the life of paranormal investigator Nelson Orion (Martin Landau).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, crying, psychotronic, tension, weeping, suspense
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Angels of Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, suspenseful, tense, spooky, gothic horror, post modern
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Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
Plot Summary:
This Mexican horror film concerns about a group of college students, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also consists of a hanged woman's body. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the teacher has seen her ghost.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, splatter, creepy, psychotronic, weird
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Reflections in Black (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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Death at the Villa (1972)
Plot Summary:
A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, controversial, scary, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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XX: Beautiful Prey (1996)
Plot Summary:
This Japanese thriller finds a beautiful policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, classic horror, grindhouse, erotic, suspense
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The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic, slasher, costume drama, psychotronic, mind bending, period drama