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Plot Summary:
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, weird
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Shanks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, weird, mad, bizarre
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Org (1979)
Plot Summary:
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychedelic, experimental
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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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Count Dracula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Dreamwood (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anthology, experimental, avant garde, independent film
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Dampyr (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by nightmares, con artist Harlan Draka wanders through the war-torn Balkan countryside, making money out of ridding superstitious villagers of imaginary monsters. But after being hired by soldiers who are under attack by actual vampires, Harlan discovers the truth: he's a Dampyr, half-human and half-vampire. While trying to stop a Master of the Night and his undead army, Harlan will have to learn to manage his newfound powers and uncover his origins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental, splatter, avant garde
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Dracula in Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Leila, a lonely young soul spends the night partying with her friends Nancy, David and Nash in a warehouse. As the boys drink up and smoke pot all social barriers between the sexes crumble. Leila, hit on by both men, hides away from them. Alone she senses there is someone else who wants her and certainly he is not of this world. A 200 year old Dracula escapes from a crate and reveals himself to Leila and tells her that she is his lost love. For him to live again and be with her, she must bring him the blood of her friends to drink and make love to him. Hypnotized by his sexual powers, Leila does as she is told. Leila and a handsome young Dracula get away and live happily ever after.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, psychotronic
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Vampire Sisters (2004)
Plot Summary:
These sexy sirens bring a whole new meaning to "Ladies of the Night" as they lure victim after victim to their VampSisters.com website. Utilizing the web to entice victims to their lair, they seductively work their beauty and their bodies to fulfill an unholy desire to feed on human blood! Once the kinky fun begins, the sisters bare their fangs and the feeding frenzy begins! After these sensual bloodsuckers are finished, they drag the bodies to a hideous creature they keep locked in their shed. As the Missing Persons pile up, two undercover vice squad detectives pose as a kinky couple to infiltrate the Vampire Sisters' home. A chilling battle between the sisters and the undercover cops leads to a mind-blowing finally climax; Iggy -- the creature in the shed -- is finally released.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, erotic, disturbing
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Vampire Blues (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is unknowingly stalked by the vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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The Inner Scar (1972)
Plot Summary:
A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but Garrel had already thought up the eventual title ('the scar inside'). This title was an obsession for him, every shot had to be an expression of 'the scar inside'. Apart from Garrel himself and actor Pierre Clementi, Garrel's former partner Nico, member of the legendary Velvet Underground, played a role in the film. Another important role was for the landscape. Garrel, 23 when he made the film, was compared with Jean Vigo because of his age and talent. La cicatrice intérieure even led Claude Mauriac to call him the Rimbaud of film. (from https://www.iffr.com/en/films/la-cicatrice-int-rieure/).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, avant garde, weird
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Tender Dracula (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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Dream City (1973)
Plot Summary:
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: dark, experimental, surreal, disturbing, weird
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Sexandroide (1991)
Plot Summary:
Story one of three sees a sexy young woman in a bar unaware that someone is out to do her harm via a voodoo doll; when she pays a visit to the ladies room, unseen forces rip off all her clothes, make her bleed profusely, and tear open her throat. In tale number two, a naked goth chick in a gloomy dungeon is tortured by a snaggle-toothed zombie who pushes needles through her tongue and breasts (a sequence that looks far too convincing for comfort); he then gouges out her eye and stabs her in the chest. Finally, the ghoul cuts into his own arm with a knife, slices open his stomach and pulls out his guts. The final story is perhaps the strangest of all: a female mourner is attacked by a cheesy looking vampire who rips off all of her clothes and bites her on the neck, transforming her into a sexy bloodsucker who proceeds to dance badly to a couple of Tina Turner tracks.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: controversial, anthology, erotic, experimental, avant garde, weird
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Rampo Noir (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychedelic, avant garde, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, inspirational, clever, suspense
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Vamps 2: Blood Sisters (2002)
Plot Summary:
A vampire stripper battles other vampire strippers with the help of a defrocked priest-turned-vampire strip club owner. Vampire strippers! Just wanted to say that again.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic
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The Dracula Saga (1973)
Plot Summary:
Count Dracula's pregnant granddaughter arrives at his castle, along with her husband, who is not a vampire. While she prepares to give birth to a new member of the Dracula line, her husband secretly launches into a series of affairs with the Count's resident "brides.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic
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Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Southern California 1897: While Dumas is in the parlor cleaning his gun, his sister Roxanne is in the bedroom being seduced by the lusty vampiress.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Caress of the Vampire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young woman moves into a home and is immediately seduced by her neighbor, a lesbian vampire who is also an alien. Much faux-lesbian action commences.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film
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Hot Vampire Nights (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mina (Shelly Jones), is a lesbian vampire prowling the streets of Miami in search of fresh, young victims to seduce and then feed upon.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, independent film
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, experimental, disturbing, controversial, artsy, slow cinema, aesthetic
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Dracula Reborn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror about three journalists who travel from Vancouver to Transylvania to uncover the true story of Dracula. As they visit the area's historical sites and libraries to decipher the various clues behind the famed vampire's existence, the trio's determination to get their article may end up costing them their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychotronic
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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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Subspecies: The Awakening (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, anthology, bloody, suspense, experimental, controversial, extreme horror
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Begotten (1989)
Plot Summary:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, disturbing, experimental, atmospheric, independent film, controversial, black and white, postmodern, mindfuck
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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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Gothic (1986)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, mind bending, gothic horror, dark, art house
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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Eraserhead (1977)
Plot Summary:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, disturbing, psychedelic, experimental, atmospheric, black and white, dark