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Plot Summary:
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, rough, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, splatter, grindhouse, surprise ending
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Death Tunnel (2005)
Plot Summary:
For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, dark, terrifying, awful
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Living Hell (2000)
Plot Summary:
Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gore and the atmospheric Hammer films. Chiyo, an old woman and her granddaughter, Yuki, are the sole survivors of a horrendous crime which wipes out an entire family. They find solace under the roof of far-removed relatives. The family's son, confined to a wheelchair, has a terrible premonition when the two women arrive, which will be verified in the most horrifying way. Because, when the house is empty, the boy is made to suffer sadistic games at the women mercy, which become more and more violent making his life a living hell... Written by Leo Urbina.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, disturbing, suspense, controversial, extreme horror, scary, serious, realistic
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The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Plot Summary:
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, surprise ending, bloody, detective, independent film, psychological, suspense, controversial, splatter
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The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mindfuck, independent film, slasher, slasher horror, awful
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Asylum (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, anthology, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, creepy
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Seance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over Thanksgiving weekend, all but five students in an old Manhattan building that's now a college dormitory leave for home: staying on one floor are roommates Lauren, Melina, and Alison, plus her boyfriend Diego and Grant, a loner in a room down the hall. Lauren's been seeing things in her bathroom: a silent child of about six. Diego has written a paper on parapsychology, so he holds a séance with the disbelieving co-eds. Something goes awry, because bad things start to happen and the students' only defender is an aging campus cop named Syd. What's the silent ghostly girl's secret, and can Alison discover what's going on before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror, scary, slasher, semi serious
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Seed (2006)
Plot Summary:
After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, rough, serious, suspense, twisted, psychological, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Cradle of Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A gruesome homage to the cult Amicus anthology Asylum, Cradle of Fear unfolds four screamplays all linked by the unspeakable need of an incarcerated child killer to wreak vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. Helped by deranged angel Dani Filth, who leaves a trail of charnel house death in his crimson wake, the cannibal convict forces two Goth vamps to endure a one night stand from hell, two tough female robbers to see through each other, an obscenely rich coke-head to chop up more than a few lines and an internet surfer to descend into madness when he uncovers the ultimate web depravity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, gothic, scary, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, splatter, slasher, controversial
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Hellborn (2003)
Plot Summary:
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, contemplative
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Dark Remains (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, slasher
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Devour (2005)
Plot Summary:
Friends become increasingly addicted to a video game that has an evil agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, satanic, mind bending, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, slasher
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Snuff-Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors to take part in an audition at his country manor house - blurring the lines of what is real and what is fiction. Written by Alex L (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic, suspense
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Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Experiment in Torture (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lured by the smell of easy money, beautiful, exotic dancers agree to spend the weekend at the remote mountain getaway of a wealthy voyeur. Once there, the girls are drugged, tied up and slowly tortured to death with everything from a blowtorch to an electric drill by a killer who uses their bodies as a canvas for his sadistic, twisted art.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, slasher
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Darkness (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gothic, suspense, splatter, creepy, atmospheric, lovecraft, clever
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The Orphan Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister Audrey what it means to have family loyalty. His lessons are taught in massive doses of vulgar and unimaginable pain. Throughout her brutal torture we learn that Marcus is not the only Miller with Killer in the bloodline as Audrey proves to be a formidable adversary.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, independent film
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Asylum (2008)
Plot Summary:
The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted. Madison befri.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, scary, atmospheric, slasher, psychological, bloody, psychological horror, spooky, serious
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Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, bleak
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100 Tears (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, bloody, suspense
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Pig (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, controversial, extreme horror, weird
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Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Halloween II (2009)
Plot Summary:
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Plot Summary:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, spooky, independent film
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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
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, brutal, sexy, bloody, disgusting
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Hostel: Part III (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, brutal, sexy
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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
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, scary, brutal, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, grindhouse
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense