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Plot Summary:
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, psychotronic, retro, grindhouse, atmospheric, serious
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Freakdog (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, suspense, twisted, slasher, interesting
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Ghost from the Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power and Cody's deepening obsession threaten the safety of his only remaining family: his younger brother, James (Max Hauser). Matt Osterman directs this ghostly sci-fi thriller that also stars Matthew Feeney.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, captivating, tense, suspenseful, independent film, weird
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Plot Summary:
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, queer horror, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Plot Summary:
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, queer horror, scary, atmospheric
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The Bride (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, fairy tale, dark, cult classic, humorous
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Tom Baker also star.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, stylized, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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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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Riddles of the Sphinx (2008)
Plot Summary:
An astronomer and a cryptographer uncover a series of ancient tunnels, unwittingly unleashing a deadly Sphinx. In order to trap the Sphinx back in its tomb and stop impending destruction, our explorers must solve a series of complicated and possibly deadly riddles.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Saint Sinner (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating
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Riverworld (2003)
Plot Summary:
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, contemplative, surprise ending
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Dead Still (2014)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary, gothic, mind bending, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Demon Warriors (2007)
Plot Summary:
Opapatika is a special power that makes one become practically invincible. The power remains alive so long as that person is remains alive. In this film, five Opapatikas, each with their own unique power, are brought together. They meet in the middle of a great assassination that finally brings them loss, but a new start of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, inspirational, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Voodoo Moon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Voodoo Moon takes place in the mid-west United States, where a demonic figure murders the entire population of a small town, save for one young boy and his sister. Twenty years later, the boy has been consumed with trying to track the devil down and now he thinks he's found him. His sister is now an artist who has developed psychic abilities which enable her to sense disaster, visions she expresses in her art. The two siblings work together in fighting the devil, and also get the assistance of several people they have helped over the years.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic
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Monster of Terror (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror
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Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, scary, exciting, serious, independent film
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror, terrifying, serious
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, demonic, cult horror, terrifying, ridiculous
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The Haunting (1963)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, black and white, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, cult classic
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Monster Ark (2008)
Plot Summary:
This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they approach discovery. He is completely ignorant of how military personnel think, how they process situations, how they act, and how they carry themselves. O'Brien even misses the most basic tenets of Christianity.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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The Ghostmaker (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, scary, independent film, campy
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Brain of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, offbeat, serious
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Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Perfect Creature (2006)
Plot Summary:
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, dark, neo noir, psychotronic, detective
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At the Earth's Core (1976)
Plot Summary:
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, classic horror, independent film, atmospheric, serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, futuristic
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Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Plot Summary:
When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, scary, exciting, psychotronic
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I, Frankenstein (2014)
Plot Summary:
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, exciting, stylized, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, fairy tale, psychological, gothic horror