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Plot Summary:
A mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: natural horror
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Help Me... I'm Possessed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they'll fit in the caskets.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, perverse
Similar in 89%
Frankenstein '80 (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Bloody Sex (1981)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian couple on vacation ends up staying with a sinister woman and her strange son in this Spanish giallo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexploitation film
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The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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The Traveller (1979)
Plot Summary:
The devil, following in the footsteps of Christ, decides to become flesh and take a stroll around Earth to see how humans have progressed, and have a little fun creating havoc and mayhem in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, sex comedy
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The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
Plot Summary:
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, terrifying, psychotronic, biting
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Heartbeat (1983)
Plot Summary:
Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense
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Deviation (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a nocturnal car accident on the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious manor occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden, UK, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Sinthia: The Devil's Doll (1970)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: she's wanted her father to love only her. Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but nightmares plague her so she seeks psychiatric help. The doctor asks her to describe a dream: it's long and elaborate with dreams within dreams of Lucifer, Hell, and her parents in various guises. To shed her guilt, the shrink recommends that she commit suicide in her next dream. In it, she falls in love with an artist who reminds her of her father, responds to a woman who finds her attractive, and celebrates her first school-yard kiss. The dream takes her back to her parents' bedside. Is any cure possible?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, cult film
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Jackhammer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, awful
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Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973)
Plot Summary:
John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Bikini Party Massacre (2002)
Plot Summary:
Your Wildest Fantasy Will Become Your Worst Nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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Exorcism (1975)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing them to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, sensual, perverse, classic horror, twisted, sexploitation film
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Vampire Blues (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is unknowingly stalked by the vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Tomb of the Werewolf (2004)
Plot Summary:
A reality TV crew visits Castle Daninsky to search for a hidden treasure in the dungeons. Instead of finding treasure, they unearth a tomb and unleash a cursed servant.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, queer horror, surprise ending
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Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
Plot Summary:
This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the flesh pots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul... Top grade Euro-horror and definitely the craziest werewolf film ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Curse of the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
The great inquisitor Ireneus Daninsky has Countess Bathory burned alive and her female followers hanged. Before perishing in the flames the countess puts a curse on Daninsky and his descendants. Four centuries later, Waldemar Daninsky accidentally shoots a gypsy while hunting a wolf. The angry gypsies, who knew of the curse, summon up the Satan and the beautiful Ilona is chosen to seduce the young lord. During a night of love, Ilona bites Waldemar who turns into a werewolf killing his preys on full moon nights. His murders are first attributed to a mad killer escaped from the asylum. Waldemar, who suspects the killer is none other than himself, falls in love with Kinga, the daughter of a professor from Budapest. When Maria, Kinga's jealous younger sister, manages to seduce Waldemar and sleep with him, she is killed by the young man, once again turned into a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: satanic, gothic, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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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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Vampira (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ancient sect of she-vampires is preparing to wipe out all the young males in the city; two men endeavor to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Dracula Saga (1973)
Plot Summary:
Count Dracula's pregnant granddaughter arrives at his castle, along with her husband, who is not a vampire. While she prepares to give birth to a new member of the Dracula line, her husband secretly launches into a series of affairs with the Count's resident "brides.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic
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Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Southern California 1897: While Dumas is in the parlor cleaning his gun, his sister Roxanne is in the bedroom being seduced by the lusty vampiress.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Caress of the Vampire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young woman moves into a home and is immediately seduced by her neighbor, a lesbian vampire who is also an alien. Much faux-lesbian action commences.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film
Similar in 87%
Hot Vampire Nights (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mina (Shelly Jones), is a lesbian vampire prowling the streets of Miami in search of fresh, young victims to seduce and then feed upon.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, independent film
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Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)
Plot Summary:
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, disturbing, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, crying
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The Wolfman Never Sleeps (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man has had a werewolf curse cast upon him. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, sadistic, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, mind bending, psychotronic, cult film
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Hunchback of the Morgue (1973)
Plot Summary:
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He is in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, lovecraft, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Devil's Kiss (1976)
Plot Summary:
Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Andorra
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, satanic, classic horror, gothic, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Night of the Werewolf (1981)
Plot Summary:
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film