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Plot Summary:
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, cult film
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One Minute Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on a work by Edgar Alan Poe. A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Also known as The Oval Portrait.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror
Similar in 89%
Scream Baby Scream (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psycho artist kidnaps models and slices up their faces to create new mutant models.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Dream Home (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young pair of migrant workers find that the home that they have fallen in love with harbors a dark secret malevolent evil. When the Cromiers stumble across a beautiful antebellum home situated in the deep recesses of Louisiana, their excitement of finding such a perfect home to raise a family leaves them filled with joy.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Vengeance of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Visiting his Grandpa in the small town of Harvest, Eric is haunted in his dreams by Julia, a ghost who falls in love with him, appearing first as a little girl and later as an adult. In the dreams, Julia reveals that she was burned alive and her mother murdered by hooded men. He is soon unable to distinguish these dreams from reality, and finds himself desecrating the grave of one of the killers, and burning alive those that are still alive, all while sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
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A Taste of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Raving Maniacs (2005)
Plot Summary:
At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Evil Face (1974)
Plot Summary:
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
Plot Summary:
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a remote desert oasis, a fortune in gold was hidden by the Nazis during World War 2. 50 years later, a bunch of fortune-hunters converge on that selfsame oasis. Imagine their discomfiture upon discovering that the gold is being guarded by an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, gothic horror, grindhouse, perverse, classic horror, twisted, slasher
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Blood Slaves of the Vampire Wolf (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young vampire, named Selena, resides in Los Angeles and has her mute lackey Monk hunt down women to kill and drink their blood. Selena brings into her small group Antonio, a hulking wolf-man to assist and further terrorize the people of L.A. In the meantime, a dogged police inspector and a resourceful young woman try to piece together the strange murders and disappearances before more victims turn up.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Devil's Partner (1960)
Plot Summary:
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Siege of Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Logan decides to dabble in EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) using a tape recorder to record the voices of the dead from haunted locations. After visiting an old satanic church, she returns home to find threatening voices on the recorder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
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The Possessed (1977)
Plot Summary:
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spooky
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The Demon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, gothic horror, detective, grindhouse, psychotronic, odd
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Terror Night (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfortunates, using various weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Zombie Christ (2010)
Plot Summary:
Druids resurrect the partially mummified remains of Jesus. They force the zombified Christ to commit unspeakable acts as their sect prepares to rule a new age of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, bleak, suspense
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The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, medical horror, classic horror, grindhouse, black and white, cult horror, scary
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Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
Plot Summary:
This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the flesh pots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul... Top grade Euro-horror and definitely the craziest werewolf film ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Return of the Evil Dead (1973)
Plot Summary:
500 years after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during it's centennial celebration. Being blind, the Templars find their victims through sound, usually the screams of their victims. Taking refuge in a deserted cathedral, a small group of people must find a way to escape from the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, brutal, epic, suspense, perverse, classic horror, scary, rough, serious
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Haunts (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman haunted by psychosexual nightmares begins to believe her father is responsible for a series of scissor-murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
Plot Summary:
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, serious, independent film, cult film
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Cataclysm (1980)
Plot Summary:
Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, demonic, cult film
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The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Plot Summary:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
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The Ghost (1963)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Plot Summary:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, cult film
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The Norliss Tapes (1973)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, creepy, classic horror, spooky, scary, tense, mind bending, serious
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Dracula's Dog (1977)
Plot Summary:
Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird, cult film
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Halloween II (1981)
Plot Summary:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, slasher horror, tense, creepy, cult classic