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Plot Summary:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal, disturbing, bleak, bloody, gothic horror, atmospheric
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Similar in 84%
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Plot Summary:
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, satanic, lovecraft
Similar in 76%
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, scary, splatter, atmospheric, bloody, surreal, demonic, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 80%
Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the professor. Out of the blue, the zombies attack them and they seek shelter in the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, bloody, slasher, disturbing, cult classic, atmospheric
Similar in 75%
Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
Similar in 79%
Baron Blood (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody
Similar in 81%
Manhattan Baby (1982)
Plot Summary:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Dead & Buried (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense, surreal, cult classic, frightening, suspenseful, scary
Similar in 87%
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the thirteenth century, the region around the city of Berzano was ruled by a legion of Templar Knights, who sought eternal life through the ingestion of human blood. They terrorized the region by harvesting the land and committing human sacrifices. They eventually got imprisoned and executed, left hung out for the crows to peck out their eyes. In modern day Portugal, a group of people visits the abandoned city, which awakens the Templar's corpses, terrorizing the region again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, slasher, gothic, satanic, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, epic, suspense
Similar in 77%
Beyond the Door II (1977)
Plot Summary:
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, satanic, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, slasher, mystic
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
Plot Summary:
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh after government officials conduct pest control experiments using subsonic waves in the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, detective, gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, depressing, bloody, gothic horror
Similar in 79%
Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, erotic, suspense, dark, bloody
Similar in 82%
Demons (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspense, splatter, slasher, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult horror
Similar in 84%
The Black Cat (1981)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, psychological, mind bending, serious, demonic, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
Similar in 87%
Demons 2 (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, grindhouse, classic horror, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, entertaining, surreal, horror comedy
Similar in 89%
The Church (1989)
Plot Summary:
In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. It is now present day, and this elaborate cathedral still stands. But when its sealed crypt is accidentally reopened, a group of people trapped inside the church become possessed by the fury of the damned! Can the blood of the innocent survive this unholy communion, or will the ultimate demonic evil be unleashed upon the world?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, satanic, surreal, grindhouse, creepy, scary, bleak, demonic, gothic, mind bending
Similar in 87%
Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977)
Plot Summary:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, satanic, suspense, surreal, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark, cerebral
Similar in 76%
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, splatter
Similar in 76%
The Sentinel (1977)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, satanic, slasher, surreal, disturbing
Similar in 87%
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Plot Summary:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody, psychotronic, gothic, rough, lovecraft, controversial
Similar in 83%
Salem's Lot (1979)
Plot Summary:
Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, scary, rough, gothic, suspense, cult classic, gothic horror
Similar in 77%
Dolls (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, demonic, gothic, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse
Similar in 86%
Zombie (1979)
Plot Summary:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, slasher, splatter, atmospheric, gothic, brutal, creepy
Similar in 88%
The Exorcist (1973)
Plot Summary:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, satanic, psychological, demonic, frightening, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy
Similar in 80%
Inferno (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, psychological, scary, gothic, suspenseful, grindhouse, suspense, atmospheric, surreal
Similar in 77%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic
Similar in 90%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Plot Summary:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, demonic, splatter, stylized, rough, psychological, slasher
Similar in 79%
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, gothic, rough, creepy
Similar in 89%
Evil Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the discovery of a Book of the Dead unwittingly summon up dormant demons which possess the youngsters one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, splatter, creepy, demonic, atmospheric, rough
Similar in 79%
The Evil Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, psychotronic, bloody, grindhouse, creepy, controversial, dark, lovecraft, independent film
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, disturbing, bloody, creepy, dark, spooky