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Plot Summary:
A man is plagued by recurring nightmares, and when he wakes up he finds that the nightmares he just dreamed of keep coming true.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Night Terror (1989):
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Nightmare Zone (1998)
Plot Summary:
Horror anthology consisting of three stories: a bored young woman phones a friend, and is terrified when she hears her own voice pick up on the other end, a woman's noisy electric carving knife angers one of her neighbors, and a man who has had the same dream every night for ten years, possibly from a previous life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology
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V/H/S/99 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, mumblecore, splatter, social
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Nightmare Alley (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: A gory anthology of seven separate tales of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, bleak, disturbing, anthology
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The Perfect House (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three unique horror stories connected by a bookend story tells of the horrifying past a young couples potential dream house has endured.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, controversial, dark fairy tale, scary, serious, realistic
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Return of the Dead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
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The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)
Plot Summary:
"O Estrano Mundo de Zé do Caixão" tells three macabre tales, all delightfully demented, perverted and grotesque.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, weird
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Drive-In Horrorshow (2009)
Plot Summary:
A low-budget horror anthology made of 5 short films, each belonging to a different horror sub-genre. These segments are introduced by a ghoulish host of the sort that used to present late-night horror movies on TV. The five films are Pig, The Closet, Fall Apart, Meat Man, and Watcher.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, slasher, independent film, dark comedy, campy, cult film
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Shake Rattle and Roll VI (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shake, Rattle & Roll VI is the sixth installment of the Shake Rattle & Roll franchise. With three segments "Ang Telebisyon" directed by Maurice Carvajal, "Ang Buwan" directed by Anton Juan and "Ang Tulay" directed by Frank Rivera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology
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Fright House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in town knows the old Vincent place is haunted, but when the local Frat inherits it, we find out if the rumors are true. Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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Blood Bath (1975)
Plot Summary:
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Terror 66 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chapter One : Motel 666 - This rural desert motel offers the final check-out for many late night Route 66 travelers. Chapter Two : The Road To Hell - A small desert town harbors a dark secret in the form of a serial murderer destined to discover the most brutal and horrifying ways of killing human beings. True to an unspoken community truce, his voracious appetite for torture and death is relegated to outsiders traveling through town via Route 66. Chapter Three : The Grave of Bleu Chambers - Throughout the years, urban legend has it that the ghost of a small boy, killed by a speeding car decades earlier, is responsible for the sporadic disappearances of Route 66 travelers near an adjacent cemetery of which his body is interred.
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Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, suspense, anthology
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Rock-A-Die-Baby (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother tells her daughter three scary bedtime stories. A small platoon in the jungles of Vietnam encounter a horror other than the war, a group of college friends decide to play a prank on a prudish girl they know from school, and the woman tells her daughter about what happened shortly after she and the girl's father were married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Chillers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Five passengers in a bus depot are waiting for a bus that is overdue. To pass the time, they start telling each other horror stories.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, grindhouse, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Visions of Horror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Horror - Prepare yourself for seven of the most horrifying short films ever. Too sick and too disturbing for the faint of heart, Visions of Horror consists of critically acclaimed gore masterpieces. This collection is a must for a true gore guru. - Tony Simmons, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Gabriel Sigal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Actress Shirley Latanya Jones returns from the director's first film (Black Devil Doll from Hell) to be in front of Turner's camcorder, and reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby. The second story features a zombie clown from Hell. When we finally return to Shirley, she kills her hot-headed boyfriend, and there's a bloody finale as the cops arrive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Scary Tales: Last Stop (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a train wreck, four passengers from different walks of life are trapped together and share their recent nightmares. Masked killers, Bigfoot, crazed lovers and a Satanic cult are just the beginning of the terror as this group quickly realizes that they may have experienced more than a dream and the true nightmare is about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, realistic, dark fairy tale, asian horror
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Campfire Tales (1991)
Plot Summary:
A grizzled derelict tells a quartet of horror tales to a trio of young campers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, dark fairy tale, independent film, slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the macabre footsteps of the first VAULT OF TERROR installment, this sequel anthology film tells six more evil, demonic, hellish tales of dread and horror by some of the genre's best filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, suspense, scary, psychotronic, dark fairy tale
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Scarewaves (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow comes terror in a new frequency with SCAREWAVES. Join radio host Amos Satan as he lets his hungry listeners in on four of the most terrifying and true stories he's heard over his years in show business.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Barrio Tales (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Dark, Deadly & Dreadful (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fun Size Horror Presents "Dark, Deadly & Dreadful", an anthology of short films from Fun Size Horror's community of filmmakers. Each film explores different themes in the horror genre all from the unique perspective of its creator. Featuring work from a diverse group of filmmakers, shorts include submissions to Fun Size Horror, world premiers, and festival winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, horror spoof
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Charles (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves in to their first apartment and encounters a red-headed freckled doll. Soon they discover that their home and doll reveal an evil presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bloody, suspense, slasher
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Scare Us (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chilling horror anthology comprising five short stories, penned by an unlikely group of aspiring writers, in Sugarton - a small town plagued by the apparent return of an infamous serial killer, dubbed "Cutthroat." They've come to share their scary stories (with each other and the bookstore owner, Peter, who leads the group), but soon discover they've become the stars of a sick killer's own twisted tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
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Scary or Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
The creation of filmmaker Michael Emanuel, SCARY OR DIE tells five interwoven horror stories that take place in and around the “City of Angles”. A flesh-eating clown desperately trying to protect the person he craves the most; a dirty cop and a hit gone wrong with a vengeful Necromancer; a beautiful but mysterious woman and a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places; a gruesome, blood-splattered uprising of illegal Mexican zombies; and a Cajun conjurer grandfather whose gift of never-ending love goes terribly awry…SCARY OR DIE is a unique experience in horror filmmaking certain to fulfill all your twisted horror film experience needs.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, serious, psychological, brutal, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, dark fairy tale, horror musical, psychological
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Killer Shorts 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Faux Pas Films' third feature length film "KILLER SHORTS 2", the second installment in the horror anthology series. This movie is another throwback to the old days of horror hosts such as Elvira and the Twilight Zone that introduced the macabre scenes in frightful and comedic ways. Features 3 new shorts: "The Killer's Meow" - A group of friends decide to party in an old abandoned house but the house isn't as abandoned as they thought. When they encounter the crazy cat lady, members of the group begin to disappear. Can those remaining figure out the mystery before they too fall victim to the killer's meow? "The Last Rendezvous 2: Retribution" - We continue the story of Wendell and Samantha as a masked killer once again stalks and kills all around them. A huge cast filled with mysteries comes to light in the conclusion to the film that began in Killer Shorts 1. "The Opportunist" - Aden is struggling with kidney stones yet trying to be somewhat sociable. When he meets Melinda, spark fly.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Tom Holland's Twisted Tales (2014)
Plot Summary:
Horror legend Tom Holland dares you to join him for nine nerve-shredding, totally Twisted Tales. Serving up a mind-bending assortment of the macabre, it’s an anthology fine-tuned to keep you on the edge of your seat. A new drug offers users a glimpse of the future… with beastly consequences. A murderous husband is stalked by his own cell phone. A jilted lover wreaks satanic vengeance. The nightmarish action then leads to worlds haunted by dark magic, demonic possession, vampires, witches and more in this seriously freaky festival of fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological
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All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark, psychotronic, scary, psychological, slasher, dark fairy tale, slasher horror
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Last American Horror Show (2018)
Plot Summary:
A trifecta of 80s throwback terror with mauling monsters, home invasions gone haywire and stomach-turning human sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse