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Plot Summary:
When, Birdie, fragile teenager with an overactive imagination is placed in an isolated Midwestern convent on the brink of closure, her strange and in some cases grotesque obsessions begin to consume her attention. Outside life beckons when she meets Julia, the confident, spirited maintenance girl, inspiring a growing infatuation. But privately, Birdie can’t turn away from her fascination with the gory and whimsical hallucinations that plague her. Birdie sets off on her spiritual quest to discover if the source of her visions is something saintly or a dark heresy. The convent itself holds ghosts of nuns who’ve met untimely deaths. Are they calling Birdie to the same fate?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film
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Sorceress (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman raised in the US returns to her birth country in Eastern Europe after a devastating tragedy. Questioning her sanity and her sexuality, she starts believing she possesses supernatural powers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: queer horror
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Medusa (2021)
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By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min
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Good Manners (2017)
Plot Summary:
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, suspense, post-horror, horror musical, twisted, queer horror, fairy tale, queer cinema
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Plot Summary:
A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When an innocent teen discovers that she is being stalked by her evil stepsister, the mirror's demonic power is again unleashed. As the mirror gains strength from the blood of the damned, the ultimate battle between good and evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Return of the Evil Fox (1991)
Plot Summary:
1391: The good Chiang Su-Su manages to defeat the evil spirit Elf Fox, but has her soul transferred to a jasper incense holder and remains dormant for hundreds of years. In 1991 the Elf Fox returns to lethal life to wreak havoc on modern Hong Kong. The Elf Fox needs to absorb the souls of 108 men in order to obtain her full power. It's up to Su-Su's sweet descendant Yi, grouchy monk shopkeeper Chiang Wu, dashing, handsome foster son Wang Hsa, sassy ghostbuster Yu, and several others to defeat the Elf Fox before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
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Plot Summary:
Four folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark, folk tale, fable, asian horror
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Plot Summary:
Follows a group of superstar Internet influencers who are drawn to a reclusive billionaire’s mansion only to find themselves trapped in the lair of a horrifyingly evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer and an old school vampire hunter, who is set in his ways.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark, horror comedy
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After Blue (2021)
Plot Summary:
On After Blue, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna, a hairdresser and her teenage daughter hunt a notorious killer by the name of Kate Bush.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, dark
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Bear Creek (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, queer horror
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The Demons (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, queer horror, sexploitation film
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Blood of the Tribades (2016)
Plot Summary:
A vampire named Bathor turned an entire village to vampires, stuck around long enough to teach them to survive, and then promised to return in 2000 years after conquering the rest of the continent. The only problem with this plan is that the vampires, although immortal, have only a limited capacity for memory. As time passes, they forget their utopian society and led by the totalitarian zealot Grando, become paranoid, superstitious fundamentalists, splitting their society by race and gender lines, seeking to destroy those who are deemed sinful. Long-forgotten lovers Élisabeth and Fantine find that, with the help of those who were banished in the past, it is their fate to piece together the past and help preserve the little that remains before Bathor’s impending return.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, disturbing, independent film, hood, classic horror
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Plot Summary:
Brighter in Darkness tells the sexy tale of Toby Brighter, a cute young Englishman, who after a disastrous relationship, is set up on a blind date by his sister Charlotte. Toby's date, Lucas Delmore, is charming, charismatic, and physically flawless. He is everything Toby could have wished for except the fact that Lucas is a 1500 year old Vampire. Before long, Toby is plunged into the dark world of demons, black magic and the supernatural, where nobody is safe and nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gay cinema
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Snakewoman (2005)
Plot Summary:
Via 10K Bullets: "A company is interested in acquiring the rights to a cult movie icon's estate, so they send a representative who is given the task of persuading the heirs to sell the rights to the cult movie icon's estate. What appears to be a routine task quickly becomes difficult when the eccentric heirs reveal their intentions regarding the estate." Also, there's lesbians and vampires and a naked chick with an enormous snake tattoo. (It's a Jess Franco film, after all.).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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My Animal (2023)
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Heather, an outcast teenage goalie in a small northern town, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Carmilla (2019)
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Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine. Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, period piece, costume drama, dark drama, queer horror
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Plot Summary:
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized
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The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, fairy tale, exciting, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, Hungary, Austria, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
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Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min
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Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three vixens have meditated for 1,000 years to able to shed their animal natures and become human. For the final month of their rigors, they have moved near a village where women pray to a god of fertility. One sister visits the god's temple and thinks lustful thoughts. As she leaves, a priest confronts her, warning of dire consequences and of demons that will try to stop the vixens' transformation. Soon, the youngest sister saves a poor scholar from bandits and becomes enamored of him. Each sister visits him, and before long, the youth has made love to all three. After they invite him to stay with them, the playfulness takes a scary turn. Where can they turn for help?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, sexy, sex comedy, hot, cult film
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Wendy is a prostitute who lives with her girlfriend - who wants her all to herself. Wendy meets Alexis and becomes her sex slave and soon finds out that Alexis not only seduces girls but drinks their blood too.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, scary, suspenseful, slasher, spooky, interesting, wild, weird
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Dead Night (2017)
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A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, dark, psychological, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore
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The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 76 min
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Two Orphan Vampires (1997)
Plot Summary:
A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, sexual, suspense, atmospheric, serious
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The Mortuary Collection (2019)
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In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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