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Plot Summary:
A creepy three-part anthology which is actually constructed from a trio of German-produced independent short films that form a narrative around a mysterious cult in 1983 India as a wrap-around story. In the first story "Shakti", a reporter talks to an institutionalized cult survivor who claims to have murdered her boyfriend. In the second story "Devi", a man awakens from a therapy session to discover that he's been beaten senseless and held prisoner by his evil therapist. In the third story "Kali", a faith healer exorcises a spirit from a person only to discover that he has released it into his cellar.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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Someone's Knocking at the Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing, erotic, sexy, controversial
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The Three Faces of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes a werewolf curse to him! The second one is about a woman who wants to look like her best friend and goes to a plastic surgeon, which is the biggest mistake she's done. The third story is about three friends and a very dangerous sea monster eating its way through their camping site! The wrap-around story is set on a train where John Phillip Law plays a mystical hypnotist who claims that he can see the past of the passengers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, psychotronic
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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, arthurian, psychotronic
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Stitches (2001)
Plot Summary:
Combining the body parts and skin from her victims, a wicked sorceress stitches together her subjects.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense, independent film, semi serious
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Freakshow (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her seduce and marry the aging circus owner, Lon, in order to secure the entire circus fortune after he "suffers an accident". "People die all the time," Lucy says. The freaks are on to their scheme, however, and when the youngest of them is caught by the ruthless gang, they show no mercy to ensure her silence. When the circus folk find the child's remains, they swear vengeance, and no one is safe from their fury--least of all, the wily Lucy.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, realistic, weird
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P.O.E.: Project of Evil (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following up the successful "P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie", some of the original filmmakers regrouped for this newest experiment which aims to bring the tales of Edgar Allen Poe to life through the distinct lens of Italian horror with spoken English. While the original film's focus was the poetic and macabre dimension of the infamous Boston author, this sequel focuses instead on the bloody, violent and disturbing. Stories include 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'Solo', 'Loss of Breath', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The System of Dr. Tar and Prof. Feather', and 'The Premature Burial'... Like you've never seen before!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, rough, bleak, disturbing, stylized
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Antisocial Behaviour (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jakob Kelser is a lonely man living in a run-down house on the edge of a council estate. After enduring weeks of aggrevation and torment from local youths , Jacob, in a last-ditch attempt to once again lead a normal life, plots his revenge on his unsuspecting tormentors. One by one, they're be taught a lesson. One by one, they meet their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, disturbing
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Rampo Noir (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychedelic, avant garde, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, inspirational, clever, suspense
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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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Hoboken Hollow (2006)
Plot Summary:
As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow,a remote West Texas ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, realistic, slasher
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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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Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
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Something Weird (1967)
Plot Summary:
An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Goblin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, tense, captivating, demonic, serious, suspenseful, computer animated
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Ritual (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls Tom to help but now they've found a VHS tape that depicts a satanic ritual in which a woman is murdered. Lovely desperately wants to leave and they do, but Tom forgot his engraved lighter in the room, and when they go back to find it, the dead body appears missing.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, mumblecore, realistic
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
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The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order to save the human race.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, scary, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Snuff-Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors to take part in an audition at his country manor house - blurring the lines of what is real and what is fiction. Written by Alex L (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic, suspense
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Mimesis (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani's jaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspense, disturbing, controversial, offbeat
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Shattered Lives (2009)
Plot Summary:
Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her adulterous mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological thriller, powerful, scary, serious
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Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (2013)
Plot Summary:
A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, suspense, dark fairy tale, horror musical, psychological
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Dark Places (2005)
Plot Summary:
Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she can to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, surreal
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Death Factory (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary
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Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, anthology, bloody, suspense, experimental, controversial, extreme horror
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Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
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Nails (2003)
Plot Summary:
A professional hit man retires to his colorless apartment but soon starts to suffer from horrible headaches and hears voices. In order to cure himself, he hammers a nail into his skull.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychedelic, controversial, art house, realistic
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Poison for the Fairies (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that she's put into her new friend to get Fabiola to carry out her orders. As their games grow more serious, the two girls find themselves involved in murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, suspense, folk tale, disturbing, art house, deep, terrifying, scary, psychological
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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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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, suspense, creepy, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, sensual, psychological, splatter