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Plot Summary:
When Jenny Cross has to spend summer vacation with her deadbeat dad in his creepy commune, she thinks clean living and boredom will kill her. But some fates are worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, avant garde, dark comedy, suspense
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Terror Tract (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him only to be killed by his spouse and her boyfriend in which she begins having dreams of her husband not staying dead. The second story "Bobo" involves increasing fear and paranoia from a kindly family man whose young daughter finds and adopts a stray monkey who turns out to be more than meets the eye. The third story "Come To Granny" involves a trouble teenager with psychic abilities who visits a therapist to warn her that she happends to be the next victim of a vicious serial killer called The Granny.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, suspense, dark, dark fairy tale, slasher, independent film
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Private Parts (1972)
Plot Summary:
Teenage runaway Cheryl splits from Ohio and ends up in Los Angeles staying at an old rundown hotel full of weirdos. The weirdest of all is George and he has a crush on Cheryl.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, allegory, psychosexual thriller, scary, dark comedy, horror comedy, surprise ending, psychological thriller, retro, controversial
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The Three Trials (2006)
Plot Summary:
Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic surgeon, has evolved from a yeti-like creature to accommodate her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative, music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish, pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychedelic, experimental, cult film
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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are places you go, where the things you do will matter to a lot of people. Then there are places you will go, where the things you will do matter only to a very few. But to those few, they will matter - a lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychosexual thriller, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Scorned (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a hidden beach house on the Malibu shore, a 'twenty something' couple have a 'spitting mad' lover's quarrel. The boyfriend storms out, and into the arms of their house mate. When the infidelity is discovered, horrible violence ensues, ending with the house mate soaked in blood, the boyfriend crying in the corner of the room and his girlfriend apparently dead in the hot tub. 17 Months Later: A group of attractive twenty somethings move into the abandoned beach house, unaware of the tragedy that had kept the house vacant all these months. One by one, temptation seduces the house mates into betraying their romantic relationships and they are punished for their infidelities, by an avenging angel of death. Movie created during a reality show called "Kill Reality" which ran on the E! network.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, crying
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Broken Hearts (2010)
Plot Summary:
A twisted psychopath figures that the only way to win the girl of his dreams on Valentine's Day is to eliminate the competition around him - for good.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: slasher, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, spoof, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, retro
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Killers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Creep (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angus Lynch, a psycho, escapes from prison and hooks up with his stripper sister named Kascha. Some death ensues eventually leading Angus to cross paths with a police captain named David who has a daughter named Jackie and whose wife was murdered when she was a child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
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The Curse of Blanchard Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
Victor McShane disappeared on Blanchard Hill in the spring of 1985. No one knows what happened to him... Twenty years later, a group of campers take a hike on Blanchard, unaware that a killer is on the loose, killing people without mercy. Two detectives are called up to Blanchard Hill to solve the mystery and locate the campers before they suffer a fate worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, detective, slasher horror, horror spoof
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Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three drama students revive three witches, who want to open a gate to hell; Will Spanner and Kelly get involved, while Detectives Lutz and Garner investigate.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, bleak, queer horror, independent film
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Rush Week (1989)
Plot Summary:
When Toni Daniels, an ambitious student reporter, goes in search of an exciting story, she discovers the dark secrets of Tambers College. Three beautiful coeds have disappeared, leaving behind some bizarre clues. Are the disappearances somehow related to the fraternity rituals of Rush Week? Are they lined to the tragic death of the dean's daughter? Skeletons pop up from every closet and veiled threats fly as Toni follows the twisting trail of clues that leads to an intense and shocking surprise ending.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological thriller, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, detective
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Boardinghouse (1982)
Plot Summary:
Resembling a cross between "The Amityville Horror" and a Playboy Playmates video, this film tells the terrifying tale of a cheesy video special effect that stalks bikini-clad women. In between scenes of them playfully splashing each other and wrestling with each other's bathing suit tops, they're murdered and/or terrorized by horrific hallucinations. These hallucinations include seeing blood in the shower stalls (while they're trying to lather up), having giant monsters jump out of the hall closet, and seeing their faces temporarily turn into rubber halloween masks.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody
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Olivia (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, dark, surprise ending, neo noir, psycho sexual, independent film
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Bleed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, awful
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The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Plot Summary:
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, anthology, surreal, scary, serious, rough, lovecraft, psychological, suspense, controversial
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Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: witty, cynical, semi serious, christmas horror, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, biting, independent film
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The Wolf and the Baby (2016)
Plot Summary:
Strange circumstances lead a young mother to become surrounded by evil forces that are all after the unborn child. A satanic gynecologist, a homicidal vagrant, a mysterious priest, a morally skewed Nazi, the local sheriff and his wife, and Santa Claus all enter a battle royale to claim the baby. Blood will be shed. Who will survive The Wolf and the Baby?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Ghost Lake (2004)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, experimental, psychotronic
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The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
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The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Plot Summary:
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, disturbing, lovecraft, suspense, horror comedy, terrifying, independent film, scary, tense
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The Initiation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered illegally. Trapped in a new nightmare, Kelly must fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, sexy, bloody, suspense, disturbing, splatter, psychological thriller, independent film
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The Love Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, art house, horror comedy, tense, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, black comedy, retro, romantic
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The Wicker Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, scary, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, surreal
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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: satanic, atmospheric, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, horror musical, scary, tense, mind bending
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Ready or Not (2019)
Plot Summary:
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 175000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, horror comedy, surprise ending, brutal, slasher, gothic, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny
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Teeth (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, biting, black comedy, satirical, bloody, controversial, sexual, suspense
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Cherry Falls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, teen, independent film, bloody, suspense, dark
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Detention (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, funny
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The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Plot Summary:
When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, cult classic, surreal, disturbing, grindhouse, dark comedy, horror comedy, rough
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Odd Thomas (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, stylized, serious, horror comedy, dark fantasy, touching, sad, surreal