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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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One Minute Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on a work by Edgar Alan Poe. A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Also known as The Oval Portrait.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror
Similar in 75%
Bad Building (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Desmond - the building's pleasant sounding name hides a troubled past. The high rise has a long history of fires, murders, madness and even colonial era genocide upon the site. The towering building has stood empty for the better part of a century and even squatters dare not enter it's fortress like walls. But now Johnny Craig, the host of the popular TV paranormal investigation show 'America's Most Haunted' is planning to do a prime-time special from inside The Desmond. With no known way in, or out, Craig has contacted a group of urban explorers to help him and his film crew enter the building. But when Craig and his team set foot inside The Desmond the events that caused the building to be abandoned in the first place begin to repeat.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic
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Haunted House (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two filmmakers enlist four college students to partcipate in exploring a haunted house, while being filmed. The Filmmaker's plan goes awry when a malevolent ghost is awakend from an ancient slumber.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: teen horror
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Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, offbeat, suspense, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 79%
Ghost Story (1974)
Plot Summary:
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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Fertile Ground (2011)
Plot Summary:
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, serious, dark, grindhouse, psychotronic
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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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Hallow's End (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eight college students become trapped in an Annual Haunted House when an ancient spell turns them into their Halloween costumes. By night's end, a group of survivors will have to take one final stand against ghouls, ghosts, zombies and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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
Similar in 87%
The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Plot Summary:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
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The Ghost (1963)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Plot Summary:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, cult film
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
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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Web of the Spider (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
The Visitors (1988)
Plot Summary:
Frank, Sara and their two children have recently moved into the house of their dreams on the countryside. Frank is disturbed by mysterious sounds and somebody tears down the wallpaper from the walls. He contacts a ghost-hunter, Allan, to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: splatter, creepy, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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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
Similar in 81%
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Plot Summary:
Throughout his upbringing, unnatural phenomena surround Leon. He is plagued with a terrible curse, over which he exercises no control. During the full moon he changes into a ferocious beast, initiating an orgy of indiscriminate killing. His love for Cristina enables Leon to suppress his lycanthropic feelings - until the engagement is broken off, which precipitates a tragic conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense, dark, creepy, serious, suspenseful
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The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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
Similar in 79%
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, demonic, slasher, gothic horror, horror comedy
Similar in 77%
The Haunting (1963)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, black and white, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, cult classic
Similar in 77%
The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 78%
The Innocents (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, black and white, scary, suspense, atmospheric, dark, gothic horror, psychological, tense, creepy
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Prince of Darkness (1987)
Plot Summary:
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, satanic, lovecraft
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The Black Cat (1981)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, psychological, mind bending, serious, demonic, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic