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Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Black Magic Mansion (1992)
Plot Summary:
An aging magician harboring a terrible occult secret and his daughter are taken hostage in their isolated mansion by teenage scumbags need- ing a place to hide out. When the captors refuse to listen to the magician's dire warning to release him unharmed, the mansion slowly releases its nightmare of horrors on the unsuspecting invaders.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, slasher, retro, suspense
Similar in 88%
House of the Damned (1982)
Plot Summary:
A couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic
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The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Skullduggery (1983)
Plot Summary:
Adam is cursed: one of his ancestors played a game and fell victim to a sorcerer or possibly Satan. The curse manifests through Adam and the game, making him attend strange amateur theatre where immensely talentless people try to do farce and a janitor wanders around with a game of Tic-Tac-Toe on his back.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Liechtenstein, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Dead Don't Die (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, psychotronic, weird
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Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Alchemist (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man seeks revenge on an evil magician who placed a curse on him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, lovecraft, independent film, eighties
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Devil Story (1986)
Plot Summary:
A zombie wearing a Nazi SS uniform terrorizes the French countryside.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, weird
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Carnage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Brackish (2015)
Plot Summary:
"If you could bring her back, would you?" This is the question burning deep within the mind of Jake, a man already torn apart by the brutal death of his fiancé Sarah. In an attempt to snap him out of his emotional tempest , Tila, his sister, convinces Jake to join her and her friends on a camping trip to an abandoned ghost town as a way to relax and get away from it all. However, things soon go wrong when Jake unknowingly discovers the dark secret of the town; a secret hinted within the warnings to stay away and leave from Merlock, the sheriff of a nearby town. Jake and the others ignore the warnings and press on, unaware of the events they are setting forth, and the fatal price that will have to be paid to answer this single burning question... "If you could bring her back, would you?" - Written by Mad Angel Films.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, cult movie cast
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Plot Summary:
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, independent film
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Stay Out of the Attic (2020)
Plot Summary:
A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers are convinced by their creepy client, Vern Muller, to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, which include boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more. Will they survive the night?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, weird
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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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The Witches' Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple traveling thorugh the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, psychotronic, cult film
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Zombie Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the two rise from their graves and return to the land of the living as zombies. Dr. Death is resurrected with a new mission in mind, to take over the world. The "zombie" cop enlists the aid of his old police buddies to stop the mad priest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Vampire (1979)
Plot Summary:
An architect builds a new church in San Francisco that ultimately displeases the local vampire community so its leader, Anton Voytek, kills the man's girlfriend to show his displeasure. The architect then teams with a local cop to get even.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic, psychotronic
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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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The Dark Power (1985)
Plot Summary:
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild
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The Demon Lover (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: satanic, psychotronic, independent film
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Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
Plot Summary:
Four strippers take a vacation and wind up at a Spanish resort complex that, despite the hotel receptionist's claims of it being fully booked, appears to be completely empty. After one of the girls mysteriously vanishes and another ends up dead in the pool, both accompanied by the tolling bell from a nearby monastery, Candy and Caty must try to solve the mystery that seems to involve the Spanish Inquisition.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Female Vampire (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Irina of Karlstein resides quietly in a hotel on the island of Madeira, where she sustains her immortality by feeding on the life essence of men and women. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, twisted, sensual, perverse, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, gothic, serious
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Plot Summary:
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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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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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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Manhattan Baby (1982)
Plot Summary:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
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The Black Cat (1981)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, psychological, mind bending, serious, demonic, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic