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Plot Summary:
A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Spiritual Agony (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eric is in his mid twenties and suffers from severe anxiety. He spends his days trying to get rid of his inner demons , this is by consuming lots of alcohol and the drugs he comes across . Why does Eric feel and act like this, and will his behavior never end? That's the question his film friend Jeppe wants to find an answer to, but rarely get any response when Eric mostly keeps to himself or with his drug buddy Jonas . Eric also has a sister who he is trying to strengthen its relationship with now and then , but that's easier said than done when she is busy to fit up his DJ Genius for boyfriend, Johannes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration:
Plot tags: controversial
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Dolly Deadly (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young boy from the trailer park can't take another moment of ridicule from his family and peers. With support from his beloved dollies, he sets out for blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: controversial
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The Magic Toyshop (1987)
Plot Summary:
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Mister Designer (1987)
Plot Summary:
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, art house, visual, mystical, psychological, sinister, mystic, esoteric, weird
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Guttersnipes (1974)
Plot Summary:
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Shanks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, weird, mad, bizarre
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Tiki (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Amy moves from her beloved Hawaiian Islands to study drama on the mainland, she has little cause to rejoice as a gang of vicious co-eds plots to make her life a living hell. With the aid of their boyfriends, the girls set Amy up as the target of a horrendous prank that results in the young girl falling victim to a brain seizure from which she may never recover. Seeking answers, her aunt Maelea arrives with a special Tiki doll -- specially designed to kill! Through magic, she coaxes Amy's subconscious spirit to enter the idol's body and bring it to hideous life. Now the idol tracks down the students one by one to exact its grisly revenge in a relentless assault of Tiki terror!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Puppet Show (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ringmaster Rick rose to success with his children's show, Circus Town, by making a deal with a demon to bring his marionette, Charlie Chowderhead, to life!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Sleep of Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Doll House (2020)
Plot Summary:
Doll House is the story of an 11-year-old runaway who arrives at a care home with her only possession a dolls house. She refuses to speak and won’t ever let go of her doll. The other children tease her. People start to disappear and seem to appear as tiny dolls inside the doll house. An evil entity haunts the doll and doll house and is collecting the souls of the children for its ultimate cause, to be alive.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller
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Life After Life (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Auton 2: Sentinel (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two years have passed since the Nestene creature vanished from UNIT's top secret Warehouse... Suddenly and without warning the Nestene strikes, once again using Autons as its deadly foot soldiers. As mysterious UNIT operative Lockwood struggles to unearth the Nestene plan, he finds himself drawn to remote Sentinel Island. There, the population have been caught up in a bizarre frenzy of religious activity. Lockwood is joined by Natasha Alexander, a new scientific advisor with her own, sinister agenda. To defeat the Nestene menace they must both face the terrifying power of a creature from before the dawn of Mankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Heist (1961)
Plot Summary:
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Bethany (2017)
Plot Summary:
Claire and her husband find themselves moving back into Claire's childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come back to haunt her. As her husband starts to get more work, Claire finds herself mixed up in a fog of past and present with a mysterious figure haunting her memories. What is this small figure that is trying to reach out to her, and what does it want?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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Dream City (1973)
Plot Summary:
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: dark, experimental, surreal, disturbing, weird
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Pinocchio's Revenge (1996)
Plot Summary:
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surprise ending, dark, independent film, surreal, ambiguous ending
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Demonic Toys: Personal Demons (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, terrifying, offbeat, ridiculous, cult film
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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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Ann and Eve (1970)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (1994)
Plot Summary:
The puppets battle their most powerful enemy yet as they protect the new puppet master from the demon God that created the Secret of Life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark, controversial, cult horror, terrifying, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, scary
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Puppet Master 4 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there's a mysterious case containing the puppets of the "puppet master". When the puppets are brought to life, they help destroy the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, dark, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, serious
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Face to Face (1976)
Plot Summary:
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: art house, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, depressing, surreal, action adventure, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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The Dark (2018)
Plot Summary:
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Austria, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, scary, psychological horror, weird
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Lamb (2021)
Plot Summary:
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development, and the prospects of a new family, brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, scary, psychedelic, thought provoking, surreal, mindfuck, psychological, suspenseful
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Magic (1978)
Plot Summary:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, classic horror, psychological thriller, emotional
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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Tideland (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, cult classic, mindfuck
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May (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, creepy
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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 342000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, melancholic, visually appealing, dark, surprise ending, captivating, gloomy
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 225000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, captivating, dark, dark fantasy, creepy, disturbing, suspense, splatter, cult classic