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Plot Summary:
A trilogy of horror stories with ironic twists: a teenager tries out a love potion, a waitress gets involved in a kidnapping plot, two brothers plan to cheat an insurance company by faking their death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Horror, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Vendetta (1993)
Plot Summary:
A robber is arrested and his two siblings are shot dead by a cop. Same day, the cop's wife gives birth to twins. The babies have birthmarks on their foreheads, which just like the wounds on the two dead robbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Criminals, Part 3: Arson (1977)
Plot Summary:
Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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Tied Up (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five friends get mixed up in a life-changing night of deceit, betrayal, and murder when a simple heist goes wrong and turns into cold-hearted revenge. As the darkness descends, no one can escape this steamy and twisted tale of sexual deviancy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976)
Plot Summary:
A witch resurrects a murdered Vietnam vet and takes revenge on his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, psychotronic, erotic, hot
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The Criminals, Part 4: Assault (1977)
Plot Summary:
Part 1 : 'Maniac' - A gang is kidnapping and raping young women. Part 2: 'Queen of Temple Street' - A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides (1976)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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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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The Haunted Museum (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: anthology
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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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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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The Infernal Coffin (1962)
Plot Summary:
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
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Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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American Nightmare (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Applecart (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is no normal. We all wear masks. Applecart is a portmanteau film featuring stories dealing with the perversions, shame, rage, and secrets we all keep hidden. Applecart is presented to you as an experimental silent film with a unique sound design and stunning black and white cinematography. It is graphic, transgressive, and honest.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anthology, psycho sexual, art house, rough, disturbing, experimental, controversial, avant garde, dark fairy tale
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Fearful Interlude (1975)
Plot Summary:
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, gothic horror
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The House That Vanished (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young model and her petty thief boyfriend find their way through the English fog to a backwoods manor in hopes of looting it. What they find instead is murder, and when the model attempts to find the house again, her efforts come to naught.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Criminals (1976)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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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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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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Freakshow (1989)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Campfire Stories (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman having car trouble. Their search for help only gets them lost, deep in the woods, where they meet Forest Ranger Bill with a penchant for scary stories. The campfire flickers long into the night as the ranger uses words to weave his tapestry of terror, filling their young minds with a host of horrific images that will be burned into your consciousness long after the fire's last embers have gone out. Insane doctors, Indian ghosts, bad drugs, a deranged handyman with shiny new shears - all that and more awaits anyone brave enough to stay until sunrise... if you live that long! - Written by Schleppy.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Crime, Horror, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, slasher, surprise ending
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Killer's Moon (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, offbeat, mysterious, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Grindsploitation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Exploitation anthology from the twisted minds of established and up and coming directors from across the globe.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, captivating, suspense, retro, dark fairy tale, independent film, grindhouse
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Nightmare in Psycho Town (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three teens are forced to spend the night at the house on Hollow Road. They eventually learn that each one of them has been having recurring nightmares. Nightmares that could only take place in the mind of a psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, anthology
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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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Green River Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, independent film