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Plot Summary:
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Subspecies V: Blood Rise (2023)
Plot Summary:
Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, Radu (Anders Hove) has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire. Trained and exploited by a brotherhood of mystic monks to slay all enemies of the church, fate brings him back one night to the castle of his father, armed with the monster-slaying Sword of Laertes, to destroy the vampire Vladislas and reclaim a holy relic: The Bloodstone. The events of that night turn Radu from a noble man into a vampire with no master, setting him on a centuries-long quest for sustenance, and companionship, for the treacherous one who stole him from the sun, and for the Bloodstone he hopes will bring him peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Lifeblood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fueled by vengeance and nightmares, Carl Spencer seeks out his wife's killer. Across town, two sisters are dying of a rare blood disease. In a darkened warehouse, an ancient vampire has spawned a clan of servants that unite the destiny of all.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, bleak, independent film, computer animated
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Doctor Dracula (1983)
Plot Summary:
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Vlad (2003)
Plot Summary:
Death and spiritual torment stalk three American students visiting the Carpathian mountain homeland of Vlad Tepes.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, gothic, scary
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Shriek (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, queer horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema, cult film
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Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Uffizi and Luke travel to the remote reaches of war torn Romania to rescue Elizabeth and finish the vampire once and for all. Along the way, they encounter TV news journalist and a corps of rebels trying to fight the vampire uprising which plagues their country.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, gothic, suspense, gloomy, surprise ending
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The Dead Matter (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
Plot Summary:
Still in the thrall of the evil vampire Radu, Michelle yearns to be taught the skills of the vampire. Meanwhile, her sister Becky tries to free her from his evil clutches, and this time, she's brought some help.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Ice from the Sun (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
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Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be to late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, dark, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Ragdoll (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged rapper uses his Gran's magic powders to help him in his revenge against those who put her in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, cult film
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Metamorphosis (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, Hungary, Austria, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic, independent film
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The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Plot Summary:
There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman (Kari Wuhrer). Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, mystical, suspense, epic
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Hellbinders (2009)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural battle for souls plays out on the streets with lots of guns and knives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, campy
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Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Dracula 2000. Father Uffizi [Jason Scott Lee] hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula (revealed as Judas Iscariot in Dracula 2000), absolve Dracula's sins against Jesus, set his soul free, and end his unholy existence. So, when Dracula's charred body turns up in the New Orleans morgue, Uffizi heads there. Medical students, Liz Blaine [Diane Neal] and Luke [Jason London] are charged with autopsying the body. When they open the abdominal cavity, they find that the liver and other organs are white, suggesting to Luke that the person did not produce his own blood but got it elsewhere, i.e., a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, exciting, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, medical horror
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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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Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
Plot Summary:
San Diego, present day: The murders are starting again. A girl has been found with two holes in her neck and her body totally drained of blood. Lt Dan Richardson [Shane Pliskin] knows what it is but doesn't believe it, so he calls in blind art-dealer Micah [Gary Busey]. Micah confirms the lieutenant's suspicion that a vampire is at work and reminds him of the previous lesson learned by Jack Frost, who was forced to kill his best friend Nat McKenzie when Nat became a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic, cult film
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Vampire Journals (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, gothic, independent film, tense, cult film
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The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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Alucard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, has been sent to the furthest reaches of Transylvania to help an old count with his move to the more populated Nilbog.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, bleak, tense, captivating, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, modern day adaptation
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A Taste of Blood (1967)
Plot Summary:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Decadent Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
A fallen foot tall Homunculus called Marvin (a part human/part reptile creature) is imprisoned in a birdcage by a vengeful lover who is bidding to become the world's most powerful vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, semi serious, suspense, scary, offbeat, fast, campy, cult film
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Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
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Subspecies (1991)
Plot Summary:
The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him. Meanwhile two American schoolgirls teams up with a local girl for a work on Roumanian culture. Radu becomes attracted to them but runs into trouble when his brother Stephan helps the girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic, retro, dark, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird