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Plot Summary:
Horror anthology with segments entitled: "See No Evil", "The Intruder", "Have a Nice Day" and "The Good Samaritan".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Blood Clan (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish girl is being adopted by the judge who has condemned all the members of her family to death. But as she remembers all of this she commits a lot of atrocities.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unholy Women (2006)
Plot Summary:
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, scary, dark fantasy, dark fairy tale, spooky, asian horror
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Twists of Terror (1997)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in the attic, Phillip, (Joseph Ziegler) recounts several different tales to an unknown listener in order to explain the dangers of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, surprise ending, slasher, dark fairy tale, twisted
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Journey to Midnight (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two episodes of the UK tv show 'Journey to the Unknown'. The episodes are 'Poor Butterfly' and 'The Indian Spirit Guide'.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology, psychotronic
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Parapsycho - Spektrum der Angst (1975)
Plot Summary:
Man kills his lovers using his psychic powers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology, psychotronic
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Tales from the Grave (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, fairy tale
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Love and Crime (1969)
Plot Summary:
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Heads or Tails (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense
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Terrorgram (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are "Heroine Overdose", "Pandora" and "Veteran's Day".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Escapes (1986)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of five tales of terror, each originally produced for video. The titles are "Something's Fishy," "Coffee Break," "Who's There," "Jonah's Dream," and "Think Twice.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending
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Fearful Interlude (1975)
Plot Summary:
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, gothic horror
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Horror Stories (2012)
Plot Summary:
The opening film of the 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PiFan) is HORROR STORY, the horror omnibus film of four episodes by five filmmakers including Jeong Bum Shik(EPITAPH), Kim Gok and Kim Sun(WHITE), Hong Ji Young(THE NAKED KITCHEN), Yim Dae Woong(MY TEACHER) and Min Gyu Dong(MEMENTO MORI, ANTIQUE), who finished the bridge cuts connecting all episodes. All four episodes are combined in a film-in-film structure provided by a story of a young girl who is kidnapped by a serial killer who cannot sleep until he listens to a story horrifying to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, rough, slasher, psychological, dark fantasy, dark fairy tale, crying, detective
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CreepTales (2004)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, gothic, psychotronic, campy
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The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Plot Summary:
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, anthology, surreal, scary, serious, rough, lovecraft, psychological, suspense, controversial
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The Devil's Messenger (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, detective, slasher, mind twisting, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse
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Historias violentas (1985)
Plot Summary:
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Deadtime Stories (2009)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Gorge" hikers are trapped in a cave-in must make a gruesome choice. In "On Sabbath Hill," a woman is driven to suicide but remains to torment her lover. In "Dust," a security guard is driven to murderous measures to use a strange dust that cures his wife's cancer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale, serious
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The Evil Touch (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode had a self-contained story and a new set of characters. Each episode feature a new cast of guest actors, although several guest stars appeared in more than one episode, playing different characters. Each story is a thriller or horror story of some variety, ranging from tales of the occult and the supernatural, science fiction horror stories, to more standard murder schemes and whodunits. Most stories feature a twist ending.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, dark fairy tale, spooky
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Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Collective: Unconscious (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, suspense, surreal, disturbing, mumblecore, dark fairy tale
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Deadtime Stories 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Bangkok Haunted (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not listed in the order from the truck of Transportation Company owned by Mr. Anake. She calls her former Professor Arkom, who identifies the markings for good luck that she describes and tells the story of the orphan Paga. In 1917, the renowned music teacher Jangwah-Chuem and his wife Peng raise the beautiful Paga with their deformed son Gnod. Paga is a good and loving sister and daughter and becomes a great beautiful dancer. When Paga falls in love for the handsome Fond, the jealous Gnod and she vanish from their village. Jieb investigates the mystery of their disappearance and discloses the eerie truth with tragic consequences. The second tale: The gorgeous Pam receives a sample from her next-door neighbor of a love potion that makes the user irresistible to men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, mind bending
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Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Plot Summary:
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, surprise ending, christmas horror, psychological, suspense, classic horror, tense, suspenseful, mind twisting
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Perversions of Science (1997)
Plot Summary:
Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997. It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series. The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome and then an individual episode would start. After the episode was complete, Chrome would conclude Perversions of Science. Most episodes focused on a part of science fiction such as alien invasion or space/time travel. The show featured a mix of established talent and young up-and-comers. "Panic", for instance, starred a young Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy opposite Harvey Korman. As of 2011 the series has not been released on DVD in the US. However in 2001 it was released in Japan by Pioneer Entertainment where it has since gone out of print subsequently becoming sought after by collectors.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, dark, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, twist ending
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Thriller (1973)
Plot Summary:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, dark, dark fairy tale, frightening, spooky, surprise ending, psychological horror
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American Horror Stories (2021)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, stylized, dark drama
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Plot Summary:
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark fairy tale
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Amnesiac (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, neo noir, exciting, rough, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending
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V/H/S/94 (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious VHS tape leads a police S.W.A.T. team to the discovery of a sinister cult whose collection of pre-recorded material reveals a nightmarish conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, enigmatic, mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing, mockumentary, psychological, slasher