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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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Black Magic Part II (1976)
Plot Summary:
A doctor suspects black magic on his hospital after experiencing some bizarre incidents and sends for two doctors (who are a couple) from Hong Kong. The wife is very skeptical and places volunteer for a spell. It became obvious that here is an evil wizard who stay young by including drinking human breast milk. A Shaw Brothers production.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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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Insight of Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers go to party at summer cottage and are killed off by vengeful soul.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, slasher
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Sex Beyond the Grave (1984)
Plot Summary:
In order to pay off a massive debt, a gambling addict sells his ancestral home to a young couple, who soon discover that the building is haunted by the vengeful spirits of a murdered family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Night Terror (1989)
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
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Troublesome Night 4 (1998)
Plot Summary:
The fourth installment in the "Troublesome Night" series. As in the previous films, the film winds together an anthology of comedic horror tales all loosely linked together. In this one, all the stories involve tourists from Hong Kong visiting the Philippines on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Lady of the Lake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with a pretty ghost and travels back in time to save her soul from an evil knight.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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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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Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, offbeat, suspense, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Gut Instincts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gut Instincts contains four horrific little tales. Call Me is about a man who thinks a night of passion is in store, but when he gets home, what awaits him is far from passion. In Patterson Road, a group of teens ventures to a wooded area rumored to have a hidden cemetery. They should have been careful what they asked for because in this case, that's exactly what they got. Speaking Ill of the Dead has a basic theme that karma is a bitch. And Trip has Terra, a struggling alcoholic looking for anything to decrease her stress. In all of these tales, characters had a bad feeling, a gut instinct, about what they were doing, but they didn't listen and paid the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, anthology, independent 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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The Red Book Ritual (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three friends decide to play The Red Book game. What they don't know is that in the house evil is waiting to be released. A long time ago a witch died as part of a satanic ritual. Every question they ask, they get closer and closer to her. The book will reveal the answers to all your questions… but what if your host is an evil entity with a thirst for blood?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: New Zealand, Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, anthology
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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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Country: USA
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Plot tags: dark fairy tale, suspense, anthology
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Freakshow (1989)
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After being ditched by her cameraman because of her manipulative behavior at a murder scene, a reporter wanders through town looking for a phone she can use. She finds a small museum, where the proprietor invites her in to have a look around before leaving. In one room, she encounters a strange jar which causes her to have strange visions, visions that are supposedly drawn from her own mind. These 'visions' make up the rest of this four- part anthology, which includes horror and suspense stories about a junkie chasing a dog for his runaway fix, a pizza delivery boy who gets a Halloween surprise, a living but paralyzed OD victim forced to undergo her own autopsy because everyone thinks she's dead, and a deal between a golf course owner and a gravedigger that has some unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, surprise ending
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Doses of Horror (2018)
Plot Summary:
"In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly title cards over random abandoned asylum shots while long scenes from eleven different 70s and 80s horror films are edited in.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful
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Dead Teenagers (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Autumn eve, a college student finds a mysterious book in his campus library. Within its pages, he finds four gruesome tales of ghosts, werewolves, vampires and the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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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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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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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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Trapped Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories, setting the stage for five tales from directors Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta. This anthology includes spine-tingling tales of sexy succubi, possessed breast implants, nightmarish dream hauntings and more. Jayce Bartok, Lara Harris and Henry Gibson star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Lake Nowhere (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the vaults of the golden age of slasher films comes LAKE NOWHERE, a raucous, bloody romp which resurrects the thrill of gory midnight movies for an hour-long plunge into the depths of horror. Inspired by the dusty days of VHS, LAKE NOWHERE is preceded by original trailers & commercials, replicating the experience of watching a long lost bootleg tape. When a group of friends arrive at a desolate lakeside cabin, they are stalked and murdered by a Masked Maniac, whose lust for blood transcends our world. This age-old tale of senseless slaughter quickly spirals into the realm of supernatural horror and classic monster movies, as we learn the true power that lies within LAKE NOWHERE.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology, creepy, slasher horror, bizarre
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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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Tales from the Dark Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "Haunted Pillow," TVB starlet Fala Chen is still obsessed with her lover (Gordon Lam) after their breakup and invariably suffers from insomnia. She gets hold of a Chinese herbal pillow that eventually helps her fall asleep again but it also draws her near something unexpected. "Hide And Seek" casts a group of young newcomers into an abandoned school campus where they meet longtime janitor Mr. Chan who takes shelter at the school. Playing hide-and-seek after midnight, the teenagers go missing, one after another. In his self-directed piece "Black Umbrella," Teddy Robin makes solving conflicts on the street at night his mission and marks each closed case with his signature black umbrella. Before he calls it a day, he meets a prostitute who forcefully pulls him upstairs for business and unfortunately things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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A Night of Horror Volume 1 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, dark, ironic, dark fairy tale, psychotronic, weird