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Plot Summary:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing, black comedy
Best tv shows and movies like Shadow of the Vampire (2000):
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The Shout (1978)
Plot Summary:
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, slasher, mystic, deep, spooky
Similar in 83%
Magic (1978)
Plot Summary:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, classic horror, psychological thriller, emotional
Similar in 79%
Dracula (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Evil Eyes (2004)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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Vampire Clan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy raod trip. His behaviour begins to frighten his friends, though they went along with it at first. All end up in prison except Heather.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, dark, scary
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Martin (1977)
Plot Summary:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, creepy, cult classic, cult horror
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, period piece, creepy, cult classic, terrifying, scary, rough
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Plot Summary:
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, parody, atmospheric, satirical, grindhouse, cult classic, sexual, absurd
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Lesbian Vampires (1971)
Plot Summary:
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, gothic, grindhouse, atmospheric, surreal, disturbing, stylized, psychological, serious, sexy
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Count Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, suspense, perverse, twisted, scary, atmospheric
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Dracula (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their marriage. Arthur has laid his hopes of being cured on the enigmatic count; as it is said that Dracula has extraordinary powers. But these supernatural powers have sinister origins. The Count is a vampire. Soon Arthur realizes his serious mistake as all hell breaks loose and the Count infects others with his ancient curse. But Dracula has not counted on the young Lord acquiring the assistance of the Dutch Vampire expert Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, spooky, psychotronic, period drama
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Vampire (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy, gothic, bleak, gloomy
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Haunted (1995)
Plot Summary:
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, serious, spiritual
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Mary Reilly (1996)
Plot Summary:
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, gothic horror, stylized, suspenseful, costume drama, psychological, cult classic
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Thirst (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, Sang-hyun is torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), the wife of his childhood friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy, splatter, creepy, cult classic, bleak
Similar in 81%
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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The Lighthouse (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft, gothic horror, disturbing, psychological thriller, black and white, gothic
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The Innkeepers (2011)
Plot Summary:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, suspense, psychological, tense, spooky, stylized
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized, tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious
Similar in 84%
Session 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak, suspenseful, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
Similar in 75%
May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
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Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, dark, sexy, enigmatic, talky, serious
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Queen of the Damned (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light, suspense, stylized, dark, bleak, psychotronic
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, visually stunning, period piece, visually appealing, sexy, suspense
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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 342000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, melancholic, visually appealing, dark, surprise ending, captivating, gloomy
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Fright Night (1985)
Plot Summary:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandrige has set his sights on Charley's girlfriend (Amanda Bearse) in this clever spoof of the horror genre.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, cult classic, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, splatter, grindhouse
Similar in 79%
The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic