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Plot Summary:
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, gothic horror, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Neverlake (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, gothic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, spooky
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their arrival in a town coincides with savage killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, suspense, black and white, scary, tense, mind bending, serious
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The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Plot Summary:
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, frightening, horror musical, scary, atmospheric, serious
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may not be a vampire. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her, making her wonder: Are the visions real or is she slipping back into madness?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, slasher, creepy, cult classic, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
Plot Summary:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, scary, atmospheric
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Gallery of Horror (1967)
Plot Summary:
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock", The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires" deals with a slight-figured killer, called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he OD's on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker, as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Plot Summary:
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, silent, stylized, suspenseful, surreal, visual, creepy
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The Haunting of Julia (1977)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, suspense, sad, gothic horror, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, spooky, scary
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Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Plot Summary:
An 18th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, gothic horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspense, terrifying
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Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, surreal, gothic, scary, erotic, art house, cerebral, visual, cult classic, gothic horror
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The Terror (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes him to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. How can he save the mysterious girl?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, serious, cult classic, classic horror, scary, stylized
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Premature Burial (1962)
Plot Summary:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychological, mind bending, bleak, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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The Haunted Palace (1963)
Plot Summary:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, tense, serious, classic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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Dracula (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, period piece, creepy, cult classic, terrifying, scary, rough
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, serious, sexy, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, terrifying
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest heir to the Baskerville estate. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective, suspense, natural horror, scary, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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Count Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, suspense, perverse, twisted, scary, atmospheric
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Dracula (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their marriage. Arthur has laid his hopes of being cured on the enigmatic count; as it is said that Dracula has extraordinary powers. But these supernatural powers have sinister origins. The Count is a vampire. Soon Arthur realizes his serious mistake as all hell breaks loose and the Count infects others with his ancient curse. But Dracula has not counted on the young Lord acquiring the assistance of the Dutch Vampire expert Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic, period drama
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets in motion their destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, bleak, enigmatic, dark, cult classic, scary, stylized, surreal, scenic
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, psychotronic
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Plot Summary:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Plot Summary:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, twist ending, scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, dark, disturbing
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The Woman in Black (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, terrifying, dark, slasher
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious
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Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, dark, sexy, enigmatic, talky, serious