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Plot Summary:
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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Good Manners (2017)
Plot Summary:
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, suspense, post-horror, horror musical, twisted, queer horror, fairy tale, queer cinema
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Hypersomnia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, unusual plot structure, bleak, contemplative, erotic, psychological horror
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The Book of Birdie (2017)
Plot Summary:
When, Birdie, fragile teenager with an overactive imagination is placed in an isolated Midwestern convent on the brink of closure, her strange and in some cases grotesque obsessions begin to consume her attention. Outside life beckons when she meets Julia, the confident, spirited maintenance girl, inspiring a growing infatuation. But privately, Birdie can’t turn away from her fascination with the gory and whimsical hallucinations that plague her. Birdie sets off on her spiritual quest to discover if the source of her visions is something saintly or a dark heresy. The convent itself holds ghosts of nuns who’ve met untimely deaths. Are they calling Birdie to the same fate?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film
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The Samurai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, surreal, detective, grindhouse, dark drama
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Stage Fright (1980)
Plot Summary:
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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See You in Hell, My Darling (1999)
Plot Summary:
What is Hell for others is home for us. This is the story of Vera, Elsa, a Man, and the great love that united them. They started out growing up together but they didn't get very far. Leaving behind a desolate world, full of traps, they will begin a hallucinogenic journey of tenderness and violence. The story of three lovers who in a devious and gruesome manner try to destroy each other, to gain a solitary entrance to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: weird, cult film
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Friendly Beast (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, minimal cast, entertaining
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A Feast of Flesh (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is seduced into joining a brothel of lusty vampires, she unwittingly shatters a truce between the vampy hookers and a band of vampire slayers who agreed to let the women live as long as they left the locals unmolested. Now that the fangs have come out, it means war. Mike Watt directs this bloodbath, starring scream queen Debbie Rochon and Matt O'Neill.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, independent film
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Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)
Plot Summary:
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s girlfriend vanishes, she is forced to question the very existence of monsters in a final showdown with the enigmatic count.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, surprise ending, twist ending
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The Mutilation Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, underground film, avant garde, spoof, parody, weird, cult film
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, queer horror, non-linear, art house, weird
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Massacre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute is brutally killed by the road side by a maniancal killer. Nearby a horror film is being produced but the director is worried that the script is too passé for a modern audience and so he plans to include a séance scene - he hires a real medium to carry out a ceremony with the cast and crew to help inspire the script but she is attacked by an evil spirit. Meanwhile members of the cast are being picked off one by one and police detective Walter is desperate to stop his girlfriend, the lead actress Jennifer, becoming the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
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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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Terminal Choice (1985)
Plot Summary:
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, psychotronic, tech noir, surprise ending, independent film, slasher horror
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The Mailman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly Mailman in a small, placid suburban town. Darius Foxx scarred for life as a young boy by seeing his parents brutally murdered, comes back to town as the new Mailman to torment his younger brother, Daniel, and Daniel's adopted family.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Suckers (1972)
Plot Summary:
A rich and powerful big-game hunter tires of tracking and killing animals, and gets an idea--he will invite the owners of a model agency he knows and two of their models to be guests on his estate for the weekend, and use them as the objects of his latest hunt.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Blood of the Tribades (2016)
Plot Summary:
A vampire named Bathor turned an entire village to vampires, stuck around long enough to teach them to survive, and then promised to return in 2000 years after conquering the rest of the continent. The only problem with this plan is that the vampires, although immortal, have only a limited capacity for memory. As time passes, they forget their utopian society and led by the totalitarian zealot Grando, become paranoid, superstitious fundamentalists, splitting their society by race and gender lines, seeking to destroy those who are deemed sinful. Long-forgotten lovers Élisabeth and Fantine find that, with the help of those who were banished in the past, it is their fate to piece together the past and help preserve the little that remains before Bathor’s impending return.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, disturbing, independent film, hood, classic horror
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Sorceress (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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But Deliver Us from Evil (2017)
Plot Summary:
A demon (Succubus) wreaks havoc on a U.S city. Lilith, Adams first wife according to Jewish mysticism seeks revenge against all of God's creation. God expelled Lilith from the Garden of Eden because of her refusal to obey Adam, the man. Scorned she returns present day with a vengeance against man and his offspring.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: crying, detective
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Kill Me Please (2015)
Plot Summary:
Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth slowly begins to spoil away at their lives. Among them is Bia, a fifteen year old girl. After an encounter with death, she will do anything to make sure she's alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Portugal
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, post-horror, queer horror
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The Heretics (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, sexy, bleak, psychological, queer horror, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Watermen (2012)
Plot Summary:
A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, rough, bleak
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Bad Dreams (1988)
Plot Summary:
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, creepy, cult classic, atmospheric, surprise ending, brutal
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The Bushwhacker (1968)
Plot Summary:
A crazy mountain-man shoots down a small passenger plane. He then proceeds to stalk, torture and kill the survivors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, biting, slasher
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Night of the Demons III (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of young criminals accidentally shoot a police officer. To avoid being arrested they hide out in an abandoned house. When they realize that the house is haunted, they start to wish that they had turned themselves in when they had a chance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cat People (1982)
Plot Summary:
After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator (John Heard) is drawn to her. Soon, Irina's brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, scary, cult classic, suspense, disturbing, visual, visually stunning, atmospheric
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The Wicked (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, demonic, teen, independent film
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
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Midnight Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970's, a slasher flick was released named The Dark Beneath. The director and star of the movie Ted Radford suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. His doctor attempts to cure him by showing him his movie, which he is obsessed with. Dr. Wayne, a psychiatrist, is skeptical about this idea, but leaves for the night. When he comes back the next morning, its a bloodbath, however none of the bodies were recovered. The film changes to five years later at local theater where a midnight horror movie being shown is The Dark Beneath, the first time the movie has been shown since the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, rough, serious, bloody, suspense, entertaining, splatter, cult classic
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The Lure (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, horror musical, suspense, scary, bleak, dark, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychological thriller, bloody