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Plot Summary:
After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monsters, spooky apparitions, beastly crocodile skeletons, flying human heads, a sexy female zombie with long talons, and demonic bats lie in store for our hero.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychedelic, controversial, psychotronic, mystic, dark comedy, spooky, weird, bizarre
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Centipede Horror (1982)
Plot Summary:
A crazed evil wizard uses his powers to take revenge on beautiful women by making them vomit up live centipedes, which then proceed to eat their victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, transgressive, bizarre
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Black Magic Part II (1976)
Plot Summary:
A doctor suspects black magic on his hospital after experiencing some bizarre incidents and sends for two doctors (who are a couple) from Hong Kong. The wife is very skeptical and places volunteer for a spell. It became obvious that here is an evil wizard who stay young by including drinking human breast milk. A Shaw Brothers production.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Red Spell Spells Red (1983)
Plot Summary:
An evil dwarf sorcerer sealed in a stone coffin of good magicians. After many years, a television crew to the scene to investigate the legend, and happen to open the chest again.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vena Norris and her parents get jobs at Mr. Malatesta's carnival running a midway games booth. But they are really part of the traveling show circuit under incredibly false pretenses. Vena's brother disappeared one night while visiting the evil attraction, and his kinfolk are convinced they can discover what happened to him by scamming teenagers out of their allowances. What they do learn is pretty strange indeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, spooky, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Gong Tau (2007)
Plot Summary:
CID detective Rockman was sent to Thailand to investigate a case involving the Hong Kong and Thai underground syndicate. During his visit he met a sexy table dancer called Elli, they had a brief but hot steamy affair. Unexpectedly Rockman was ordered to return to Hong Kong. Before leaving he promised Elli he would return. But he never did. Heart broken Elli felt she was deceived. Rockman never expect his affair would bring the worst luck for him and family. Three years later in Hong Kong, when Rockman was busily investigating a murder case one stormy night, a senior policeman was murdered by a most wanted fugitive Lam Chiu. On the other hand, Rockman's wife broke down after their son died mysteriously. All the major newspapers headlined the two cases, saying the murder and the baby's death are related. Frustrated Rockman worked closely with Brother Sum well seasoned detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, weird
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Black Magic (1975)
Plot Summary:
A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
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Skin Crawl (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful
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Human Lanterns (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps from, yes, the skin of his enemies' sisters, mistresses, and wives. Although insanely conceived, it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung-fu favorites.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, weird, cult film
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Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
Plot Summary:
A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, atmospheric, controversial, poliziottesco, cult film
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Bewitched (1981)
Plot Summary:
While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, poliziottesco, lovecraft
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida) , a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for the murder of a circus girl, he spots the photo of a recently deceased man, Genzaburo Komoda, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. By pretending to have been resurrected, Hirosuke assumes the dead man's identity, fooling everyone, including Komoda's widow and mistress. Whilst at the Komoda household, Hirosuke recalls memories that convince him to travel to a nearby island, home of Jogoro, the web-fingered father of Genzaburo. Whilst on the island, Hirosuke not only discovers Jogoro's plans to build his 'ideal community' (by transforming perfectly normal humans into hideous freaks), but also the awful truth behind his own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, experimental, gothic horror, disturbing, controversial, art house, grindhouse, creepy
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House of Madness (1973)
Plot Summary:
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, cult horror, black comedy, scary, mind bending, offbeat
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Things (1989)
Plot Summary:
THINGS is a 1989 low budget independent feature length B-movie grade horror exploitation film written and produced by Andrew Jordan & Barry J. Gillis. Marking the 1989 mainstream film debut of porn star Amber Lynn, the film has a cult following of fans who call themselves "Things-ites".
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, absurd, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film, weird, bizarre, cult film
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Thanatomorphose (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thanatomorphose is a french word meaning the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl a wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, brutal, surreal, controversial, avant garde
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Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Witchcraft VII: Judgement Hour (1995)
Plot Summary:
Will Spanner is at it again battling sex starved beautiful demon vampires in the seventh installment of this series. Will enlists the help of cops Lutz and Garner to bring down the evil vampire Martin and his beautiful erotic demonic slaves.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, controversial, scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surreal
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Bone Sickness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, medical horror, terrifying, independent film, weird, cult film
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Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973)
Plot Summary:
Novice witch Cindy is transported into a world of safe sex by the voice of Abigail from the 17th century.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, weird
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Terror (1978)
Plot Summary:
A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, silent
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Superstition (1982)
Plot Summary:
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, bleak, atmospheric, gothic, bloody, suspense, satanic
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Incubus (1966)
Plot Summary:
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, satanic, cerebral, philosophical, gothic, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, independent film, black and white
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Alucarda (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, gothic, splatter, suspense
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Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Plot Summary:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, satanic, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, psychotronic
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Baby Blood (1990)
Plot Summary:
A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, controversial, demonic, mystic, perverse
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Beyond the Door II (1977)
Plot Summary:
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, satanic, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, slasher, mystic
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The Sentinel (1977)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, satanic, slasher, surreal, disturbing
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Three... Extremes (2004)
Plot Summary:
“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. In "Box" a soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. In "The Cut" a successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, creepy, surreal, rough, controversial
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The Beyond (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal, disturbing, bleak, bloody, gothic horror, atmospheric