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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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Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)
Plot Summary:
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
Similar in 78%
Ice from the Sun (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
Similar in 76%
Something Weird (1967)
Plot Summary:
An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Goblin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, tense, captivating, demonic, serious, suspenseful, computer animated
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Plot Summary:
The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, splatter
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Ragdoll (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged rapper uses his Gran's magic powders to help him in his revenge against those who put her in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, cult film
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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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The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order to save the human race.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, scary, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Army of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
The filming of a hit reality TV show goes horribly wrong when a group of small town cops respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, domestic disturbance.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, detective
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Subspecies: The Awakening (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Zombie Farm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, cult film
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Jinn (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us and only under dire or unusual circumstances were our paths ever meant to cross.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mysterious
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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, 70mm film
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Knight of the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights escort the holy grail through a valley of black death where they must hack and slash their way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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Hellbinders (2009)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural battle for souls plays out on the streets with lots of guns and knives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, campy
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Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
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Vampire Journals (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, gothic, independent film, tense, cult film
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The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 77%
Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Exit 38 (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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A Taste of Blood (1967)
Plot Summary:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
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Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a dying Voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her true heir is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Blacula the vampire off of a dealer, and uses voodoo to bring the vampire back to do his bidding. In turn, Blacula turns him into a vampire and makes him his slave. Meanwhile, a police officer with a large collection of African antiques and an interest in the occult investigates the murders caused by Blacula and his vampire horde.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, bloody, slasher, creepy, cult classic, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, independent film, rough
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Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological