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Plot Summary:
The tale begins on the freighter Dragon King, which has been taken over by a motley band of good-for-nothings looking to get their hands on the cargo of gold the ship is carrying. The passengers and crew, their legs bound by shackles and chains, are gathered on deck, where they are gleefully massacred by the thieves. With the witnesses dead and the gold theirs, the murderous thugs set the Dragon King drifting out across the vast Pacific.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, surreal, cult film
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Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vena Norris and her parents get jobs at Mr. Malatesta's carnival running a midway games booth. But they are really part of the traveling show circuit under incredibly false pretenses. Vena's brother disappeared one night while visiting the evil attraction, and his kinfolk are convinced they can discover what happened to him by scamming teenagers out of their allowances. What they do learn is pretty strange indeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, spooky, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Zombie Attack: Museum of the Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
One night a year, a museum opens it's doors to exhibit a collection of cursed artifacts... But something hideous is roaming these halls, feasting on the flesh of the innocent. A cannibalistic horror is alive! The hunger is spreading, and the only escape is through the hordes of the damned.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Dead Country (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Raving Maniacs (2005)
Plot Summary:
At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Evil Face (1974)
Plot Summary:
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror
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The Haunted Castle (1969)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745, and focuses on a noble Lord Nabeshima Tango-no-kami (note the name). He rides out one day and sees a parasol on the distance. His friend, the blind Mataichirou, is having tea served by his sister Sayo. Nabeshima joins them and comments on her beauty.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Graveyard Shift (1986)
Plot Summary:
Night brings out the hunger in people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. When a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, suspense, surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, Victor uses his mechanically-enhanced reanimated corpse to murder young women in order to furnish "raw parts" for her new body, among other devious things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, art house, retro, psychedelic, expressionism, independent film
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Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hide and Go Kill 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online of hide and seek, she begins to wonder if it could be related to her disappearance somehow. Ryoko then discovers that the game is more sinister than it appeared at first. It is linked to demonology and the supernatural. Will she be able to get past her fears and superstitions to discover what secrets the game of hide and seek might hold?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, asian horror
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Devil Story (1986)
Plot Summary:
A zombie wearing a Nazi SS uniform terrorizes the French countryside.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, weird
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Bombshell Bloodbath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Carter losts his wife and devotes his life to resurrecting her. However, every test of his C-900 formula creates hungry, flesh-eating zombies. Then, his daughter Cara contracts the virus and she and her sister strive to obtain the anti-serum.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic, 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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Zombie Christ (2010)
Plot Summary:
Druids resurrect the partially mummified remains of Jesus. They force the zombified Christ to commit unspeakable acts as their sect prepares to rule a new age of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, bleak, suspense
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Doomed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds).
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Forever Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But things have a way of backfiring. . .don't they? So don't be surprised if Clare and Julie wind up on tonight's menu!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, 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 Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)
Plot Summary:
A busload of tourists stops in to visit a small European town. What they don't know is that the town is completely inhabited by vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Horror of the Zombies (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, epic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, campy
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Blood Is the Color of Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Dr Marco's most beloved Katrina has died. As a vampire, Marco has devised a plan to bring her back from the dead. It requires large amounts of human blood and will eventually necessitate the transplantation of a human heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Grapes of Death (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, suspense, art house, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, mad
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The Demoniacs (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, disturbing, suspense, controversial, grindhouse, queer horror, scary, atmospheric, offbeat
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Snake Woman's Curse (1968)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, gothic, suspense, surreal, gothic horror, psychotronic, weird
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Terror of the Living Dead (1973)
Plot Summary:
Upon his uncle's death, Serge Chekov journeys to a spooky Scottish village for the reading of the will. But when he inherits the estate, Serge runs afoul of his uncle's jealous wife , his business partner , his maid and others. It's not long before zombies join the fun in this Italian supernatural thriller, also starring Paul Naschy as a nutso gravedigger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Thirst (2006)
Plot Summary:
Maxx and his girlfriend Lisa are a pair of recovering drug addicts whom are recruited by a clan of sex & violence crazed vampires led by the egotistical and charismatic Darius. But to become members, Maxx and Lisa have to give up their humanity and become vampires themselves. As Maxx and Lisa adopt to their new lifestyle of immortality with all the advantages and disadvantages, their addiction to drugs now turns to addiction to human blood and each new 'fix' leads them deeper into debauchery. Will these two rookie vampires find salvation, or be damned to all eternity of their latest thirst for blood?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, dark, independent film, serious, low-budget
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Visions of Suffering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, psychedelic, dark, controversial
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Zombie (1979)
Plot Summary:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, slasher, splatter, atmospheric, gothic, brutal, creepy