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Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, rough, melancholic, perverse, weird
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Cameron's Closet (1988)
Plot Summary:
A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, psychological horror
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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
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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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Knights of the Damned (2017)
Plot Summary:
The King has sent his best Knights to defeat the Dragon besieging his castle. Along their epic adventure they encounter malicious sirens, warrior women on a mission of revenge and an unstoppable army of the undead.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, dark fantasy
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Hell Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, manga, spooky
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Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Sexy Bite (2011)
Plot Summary:
Time-traveling Emmanuelle and her crew wind up in a world of lusty vampires who want to make their fantasies come true in this blistering erotic fantasy. Brittany Joy, Russia Hardy, Harper Issacs and Seth Gamble star. Emmanuelle and her crew travel back in time to Romania to find a place where erotic vampires exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, sexy, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Lost Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
As they approach the end of childhood, three elementary school kids must brave the woods on Halloween to face a monster born from their nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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Witch Graveyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four travelers innocently decide to rest in a wooded area off an old freeway. Unbeknown to them, they are at an old abandoned and haunted cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Tomb (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Horror, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Dark Harvest (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, scary, suspenseful, slasher, spooky, interesting, wild, weird
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Dead Night (2017)
Plot Summary:
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, bleak, dark, psychological, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mumblecore
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Skull: The Mask (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, splatter
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Cruel Peter (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, psychological, rough, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Ogre (2008)
Plot Summary:
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Axiom (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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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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Deep Dark (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, lovecraft, spooky, weird
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Dark Relic (2010)
Plot Summary:
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, suspenseful, baroque
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A Brilliant Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
Where do you get those brilliant ideas? A question which plagues all creators. They say success comes with a price, but for the story of Mitch Stockridge, an author of self-help books, that price feeds a bigger monster inside of us all. Into the stressful depths of the creative mind, the lengths that one goes through for success, and the anxiety to keep on producing while on top.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Monster Ark (2008)
Plot Summary:
This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they approach discovery. He is completely ignorant of how military personnel think, how they process situations, how they act, and how they carry themselves. O'Brien even misses the most basic tenets of Christianity.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Plot Summary:
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, saga, rough
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The Minion (1998)
Plot Summary:
New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templer - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas (Dolph Lundgren) to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses its body like a parasite and host. Lukas arrives just in time to rescue Karen and despatch the Minion. The Minion takes hold of another host - revealing that it is immortal. As it cuts a path of destruction through the city, decimating a parking garage and leaving a trail of death, Karen realizes that the Minion can't be killed - but only delayed from finding a new host.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, dark fantasy, detective, christmas horror
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Cellar Dweller (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidentally, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, independent film, psychological, retro, psychedelic, dark, mysterious, creepy, rough
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Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak, retro, folk tale, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
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Sleepwalkers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, sexy, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, cult classic
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Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)
Plot Summary:
The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, scary, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, parody, horror comedy, bloody, suspense
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Viy (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized, gothic, bleak, suspense, surreal, gothic horror
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Solomon Kane (2009)
Plot Summary:
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, gothic, dark, atmospheric, gothic horror, bleak, exciting, stylized, visually stunning, rough