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Plot Summary:
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn't happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he's 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic
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The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983)
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His family cursed by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) seeks the help of a Jewish doctor to cure him of his annoying habit of turning into a werewolf. The doctor is attacked by some local Christians in hoods and, before he dies, he tells Waldemar to head to Japan to seek out another doctor who can surely help him. So the Daninsky family head to the land of the rising sun to battle his curse of the full moon. This is a pretty fascinating take on the werewolf myths Naschy had been building for over a decade in his native Spain. Apparently the Waldemar flicks were big in Japan and a company offered to co-produce this movie if he set it in Japan. The end result is really unlike any werewolf movie. Where else can you see a werewolf and ninjas (besides your nightmares)? (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Horror, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
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Devil's Kiss (1976)
Plot Summary:
Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Andorra
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, satanic, classic horror, gothic, psychotronic
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
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After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, lovecraft
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The Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
In nineteenth century Poland Kacper is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric
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Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
Plot Summary:
Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse
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Leonor (1975)
Plot Summary:
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Fantasy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, philosophical, atmospheric, classic horror
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Death Moon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that's where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn't know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo clan. Every night he transforms into a werewolf and horribly slays young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Mysterious World of Elias Paniki (1989)
Plot Summary:
A vampire hunter who has the quest to kill vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Schalcken the Painter (1979)
Plot Summary:
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, dark, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Wolfman (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man finds out that his family has a werewolf curse put apon them.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic
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Lycan Colony (2006)
Plot Summary:
Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor's family are about to find out this town's darkest secret...the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Night of the Werewolf (1981)
Plot Summary:
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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To Hell with the Devil (1982)
Plot Summary:
A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs around him to try and convince him that he screwed up and he needs to get his soul back or he'll be damned for eternity. Well, everything goes bad for the shmo and he wants his soul back. But, the devil's lacky doesn't want to give it back. So the priest and the devil's lackey go at it mano y mano.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Covenant (1985)
Plot Summary:
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tv series pilot
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What Waits in the Red (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Derelicts, The Physiologist and The Salesman. All are trapped; prisoners of circumstance. The Bell. A gateway to another place; the chance to escape. But at what cost? Each must give something in return, and risk coming face to face with What Waits in the Red. The choice is simple: Would you sell your soul to save your life?.
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Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, twisted
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Wildling (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sentimental, spooky, scary, bloody, twisted, psychotronic
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A Holy Place (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. All the while supernatural forces are trying to grab him from the Holy Circle drawn on the church floor. Kadijevic adapts and enriches 'Viy' by inventing a new backstory for the witch-girl and her father. The dead girl, Catherine (unwittingly killed in the prologue, while in the shape of a hag), is referred to as a 'saint' and her father is a harsh and unpleasant man. Kadijevic departs further from the original story, and introduces an excess of perversity and horror more reminiscent of the Anglo-American gothic than the milder Slavic attempts in a similar mode.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, queer horror, creepy
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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, 70mm film
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
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The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Charlotte's Song (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl with a special gift comes of age during one of the most desolate periods in American history in this dark Dust Bowl fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid.".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fantasy
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The Bear (1970)
Plot Summary:
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Estonia is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, disturbing, enigmatic, absurd, grindhouse
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The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic
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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)
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Based on a Basque folk tale, ”Patxi herrementaria,” collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological diabolic creatures, battling to capture the souls of the unwitting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, mystical, suspense, dark fantasy, period piece, exciting, suspenseful, spooky, folk tale
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Meridian (1990)
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Catherine Bomarzini returns to the family castle in Italy after her father's death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle: a man who is at times repulsive, at others enchanting; and a creature of the night whose gentle eyes and touch reveal his infinitive love and devotion. With the help of Martha, her faithful childhood nanny, and the ghost of a slain young girl, Catherine discovers the medieval curse that threatens their lives and only she can dispel.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, fairy tale, sexy, erotic, slasher, grindhouse, sensual, independent film
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Mockingbird Lane (2012)
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Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf tendencies surface in puberty, forcing the family to relocate to their famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, gothic, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Keep (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, scary, atmospheric, dark, cult classic, gothic horror, lovecraft, suspenseful, allegory
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Viy (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized, gothic, bleak, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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The Company of Wolves (1984)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, dark fantasy, scary, dark, cult classic, disturbing
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November (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam, the villagers’ main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. Amongst the disorder, a young farm girl hopelessly and forlornly in love with a village boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Estonia, Poland, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, art house, surreal, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, black and white, scary, philosophical, psychedelic
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Dracula Untold (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 205000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful, serious, fairy tale, epic, intense, psychotronic