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Plot Summary:
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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Necropolis (1970)
Plot Summary:
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, weird
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Count Dracula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Dampyr (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by nightmares, con artist Harlan Draka wanders through the war-torn Balkan countryside, making money out of ridding superstitious villagers of imaginary monsters. But after being hired by soldiers who are under attack by actual vampires, Harlan discovers the truth: he's a Dampyr, half-human and half-vampire. While trying to stop a Master of the Night and his undead army, Harlan will have to learn to manage his newfound powers and uncover his origins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Vamps 2: Blood Sisters (2002)
Plot Summary:
A vampire stripper battles other vampire strippers with the help of a defrocked priest-turned-vampire strip club owner. Vampire strippers! Just wanted to say that again.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic
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The Dracula Saga (1973)
Plot Summary:
Count Dracula's pregnant granddaughter arrives at his castle, along with her husband, who is not a vampire. While she prepares to give birth to a new member of the Dracula line, her husband secretly launches into a series of affairs with the Count's resident "brides.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic
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Dracula 2012 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dracula 2012 is a 2013 Indian 3-D horror film directed by Vinayan, starring Sudheer Sukumaran, Prabhu, Monal Gajjar, Nassar, Shraddha Das and Thilakan. The film was shot in the Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil languages simultaneously, with additional scenes and songs featuring Tamil and Telugu actors.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, gothic
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Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Southern California 1897: While Dumas is in the parlor cleaning his gun, his sister Roxanne is in the bedroom being seduced by the lusty vampiress.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Vampyres (2015)
Plot Summary:
Victor Matellano directs this tale set in a stately English manor inhabited by two older female vampires and with their only cohabitant being a man imprisoned in the basement. Their lives and lifestyle are upended when a trio of campers come upon their lair and seek to uncover their dark secrets, a decision that has sexual and blood-curdling consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sexy, gothic, suspense
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Leonor (1975)
Plot Summary:
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Fantasy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, philosophical, atmospheric, classic horror
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Dracula and Son (1976)
Plot Summary:
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, psychotronic, spoof, parody, vampire comedy, urban fantasy
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Dracula Reborn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror about three journalists who travel from Vancouver to Transylvania to uncover the true story of Dracula. As they visit the area's historical sites and libraries to decipher the various clues behind the famed vampire's existence, the trio's determination to get their article may end up costing them their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychotronic
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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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Fiancee of Dracula (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone follows her to Dracula's seaside castle, on the way dealing with a baby-eating ogress and a wolf-woman (Brigitte Lahaie in a cameo), witches and madwomen. The bizarre wedding ritual commences.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, scary, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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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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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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Castle of Blood (1964)
Plot Summary:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, neo noir, black and white, creepy, classic horror
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Subspecies: The Awakening (1998)
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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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, 70mm film
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Twins of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, satanic, sexy, slasher, demonic
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Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1962)
Plot Summary:
On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, odd
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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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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 Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Plot Summary:
Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Canada, India, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic horror, gothic, period piece, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, psychotronic
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The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic
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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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Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a dying Voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her true heir is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Blacula the vampire off of a dealer, and uses voodoo to bring the vampire back to do his bidding. In turn, Blacula turns him into a vampire and makes him his slave. Meanwhile, a police officer with a large collection of African antiques and an interest in the occult investigates the murders caused by Blacula and his vampire horde.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, bloody, slasher, creepy, cult classic, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, independent film, 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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Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Plot Summary:
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Dr. van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the count.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, absurd, slapstick, horror comedy, cult classic, hilarious, gothic