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Plot Summary:
After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, lovecraft
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The Haunting of Seacliff Inn (1994)
Plot Summary:
Susan and Mark move to a seaside town to buy an old house and open an inn. They came to look at one house, but Susan is inexplicably drawn to another. The house is high on a cliff overlooking a lonely beach. Something eerie is going on. A scary black dog appears. One strange guest stays at the inn. Susan finds letters in the attic written long ago by a wife who was terrified of something.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, sensitive
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The Returning (1991)
Plot Summary:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Beyond Evil (1980)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Lord Shango (1975)
Plot Summary:
A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The House of Usher (1989)
Plot Summary:
An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, UK, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Devil's Partner (1960)
Plot Summary:
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Witchouse III: Demon Fire (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves her abusive boyfriend to go and stay with her two best friends, documentary makers Stevie & Rose. After an evening of sipping wine in the hot-tub, the three women decide to dabble in a bit of black magic as part of Stevie's latest project, an in-depth expose on contemporary witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic
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Cool Air (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Haunting of M. (1979)
Plot Summary:
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman's description of the "visitor", Marianna's sister decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn't know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Night-Time Winds (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Psychological Thriller. Estranged sisters reunite. In Glorious Black and White.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, bleak, suspense, black and white
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The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Plot Summary:
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic, odd
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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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What Waits in the Red (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Derelicts, The Physiologist and The Salesman. All are trapped; prisoners of circumstance. The Bell. A gateway to another place; the chance to escape. But at what cost? Each must give something in return, and risk coming face to face with What Waits in the Red. The choice is simple: Would you sell your soul to save your life?.
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Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, twisted
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Castle of Blood (1964)
Plot Summary:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, neo noir, black and white, creepy, classic horror
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The Unquiet (2008)
Plot Summary:
Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, both with differing opinions about the supernatural, stumble across some scary revelations about the facility's violent and abusive history.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018)
Plot Summary:
While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in an eerie, southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, surprise ending, suspense, southern gothic, creepy
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Agnes (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, psychotronic
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Dark Intruder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, psychotronic, suspense, detective, grindhouse, action thriller, weird
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Cookers (2001)
Plot Summary:
After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will hear their screams either. Turns out, they may not be alone after all. It seems this farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Now, holed up together with nothing to do but snort, smoke and shoot up, the strung-out "cookers" fall prey to paranoia, private demons and terrifying visions which, whether they are hallucinations or hauntings, are equally terrifying and just as deadly!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, independent film, realistic, cult film
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The Haunted Palace (1963)
Plot Summary:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, tense, serious, classic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, psychological horror, spooky, psychotronic, cult film
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Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
Plot Summary:
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn't happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he's 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Haunted (1995)
Plot Summary:
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, serious, spiritual
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Plot Summary:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Plot Summary:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, twist ending, scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, dark, disturbing
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We Go On (2016)
Plot Summary:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, scary, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, psychological, atmospheric, intellectual
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Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Plot Summary:
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fantasy, bleak
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, surreal, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic horror, serious