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Plot Summary:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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Big Monster War (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bizarre
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Human (1962)
Plot Summary:
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Snake Woman's Curse (1968)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, gothic, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, psychotronic, weird
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Demons (1971)
Plot Summary:
Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: avant garde, art house, black and white, creepy, cult film
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The Heirloom (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, offbeat, detective
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The Maid (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, surprise ending, gothic, gothic horror, sinister
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Kaidan (2007)
Plot Summary:
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Olalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla" tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Violation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, transgressive, weird
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Black Sabbath (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, dark, suspense
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The Entity (1982)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, splatter, sexual, slasher, terrifying
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Heks (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic
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Count Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, suspense, perverse, twisted, scary, atmospheric
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The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Plot Summary:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, controversial, stylized
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Devil Woman (1964)
Plot Summary:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, black and white, scary, surreal, art house, psychological, disturbing, sexual, creepy, psychotronic
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets in motion their destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, bleak, enigmatic, dark, cult classic, scary, stylized, surreal, scenic
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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
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Empire of Passion (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, atmospheric, sexual, sexy, disturbing, art house, eros, poetic, serious
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Kwaidan (1964)
Plot Summary:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak, surreal, tense, art house, meditative
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Temple (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense, demonic
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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 79%
Viy (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized, gothic, bleak, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, suspense, psychological, satanic, gothic, dark, creepy
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, cult classic, psychological horror, disturbing, scary, suspense
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing, black comedy
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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The Beyond (1981)
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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The Hunger (1983)
Plot Summary:
Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts. Miriam is immediately drawn to Sarah, desiring her as her next immortal companion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, erotic, scary, cult classic, atmospheric, visually stunning, queer horror, visually appealing, visual
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The Shining (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, intense, disturbing, psychedelic, psychological horror, demonic