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Plot Summary:
A vampire hunter who has the quest to kill vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Maria Labo (2015)
Plot Summary:
A popular urban legend about a woman "aswang" who cooked and ate her two children. The legend is popular in the Visayas and in Mindanao.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, psychotronic
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Mang Kepweng Returns (2017)
Plot Summary:
A remake of a funny quack doctor who was originally portrayed by the late comedian Chiquito in 1979. Its a story of the quack doctor's son and his adventures with the magical bandana.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Impaktita (1989)
Plot Summary:
The people of a small Indonesian village believe they have an evil creature called an Impaktita living among them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: biting, suspense
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Agimat, Anting-anting Ni Lolo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Pao is a young schoolboy who inherits an amulet from his grandfather. butt before he can use its power, he must first past three formidable test to prove his strength and determination. After passing the two test , Pao comes face to face with Paolo his grown-up alter-ego and battles him in a difficult duel. Although bruised and weak Pao still manages to pass the last test. With the power of the amulet no on his side Pao must fight the evil creatures led by Queen Manananggal, Evil Queen and Ancient Evil. Together Pao and Paolo must ruin these evil beings' plan of destroying mankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Winterbeast (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a wintery kind of town somewhere, people are being killed off by possessed totem poles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: claymation, psychotronic, independent film
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Shake, Rattle & Roll X (2008)
Plot Summary:
This anthology features three chilling horror movies that include tales of supernatural beings and other beasts, such as "Nieves" in which a local hero must save her hometown from rampaging nature spirits known as Engkanto. In "Emergency," ghoulish creatures attack a remote hospital, and in "Class Picture," the ghost of a sadistic nun attacks a group of college friends. Mike Tuviera and Topel Lee direct these hair-raising films.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Spirit Warriors: The Shortcut (2003)
Plot Summary:
Taking from where they last left off, the Spirit Warriors stumble upon a black hole to the Netherworld in their search for an ancient mystical and powerful amulet. Now that they found a way in, comes the problem of how to get back. Especially as the Netherworlds dark denizens spring into action to give the spirit warriors a taste of their gruesome never-land hospitality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental, splatter, avant garde
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Qodrat (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former clergyman finds himself back in his old boarding school where the disturbances experienced by its community might help him regain his faith and tie up loose ends in regards to his son's death by a deadly spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Malaysia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark
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Vampire War (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a series of mysterious killings in the German countryside, it is discovered that vampires with origins in the Middle Ages are to blame for the attacks. The condemned vampire clan leader and his followers created a new master to replace him, one to rule over the present day, unless he an his minions can be stopped by a group of modern vampire killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: slasher, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic
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The Black Fables (2015)
Plot Summary:
4 stories with 4 great Brazilian directors!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, dark fairy tale
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Leonor (1975)
Plot Summary:
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Fantasy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, philosophical, atmospheric, classic horror
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Spirits (1990)
Plot Summary:
A priest, trying to regain his standing in the church after "falling" and sleeping with a woman, teams with a group of ESP experts to investigate a haunted house. It doesn't help that one of the experts is a beautiful young woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious
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All the Moons (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eternal forests and snow-capped mountains... It is the last third of the 19th century and in some valley in the north of Navarra the death throes of the last Carlist war are experienced... A projectile destroys a girls' hospice and only one girl survives, how badly injured she is rescued by a beautiful woman who cares for her until she is cured. However, fate is not on her side, and as a result of an unexpected attack on her hiding place, the girl is left alone and isolated in the mountains. It will be then that she will discover her new and strange condition, which will prevent her from seeing the light of day, and from having an ordinary life like any other girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, bleak
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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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Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master (2001)
Plot Summary:
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei (Mansai Nomura), a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Doson (Hiroyuki Sanada), in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, epic, offbeat, serious, stylized, psychotronic
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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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Voodoo Possession (2014)
Plot Summary:
Imagine an insatiable demon that feeds on blood, thrives on pain, and reaches from beyond the grave to torment the living...and the dead. For believers and skeptics alike, there is nothing in this world or the next to rival the relentless evil of a Voodoo Possession. Burdened since childhood with a gnawing sense of guilt, cynical Aiden Chase journeys to a Haitian insane asylum in search of his missing brother. Upon arriving, he discovers all the inmates and the hospital administrator (Danny Trejo, Machete) are seemingly possessed by a bloodthirsty voodoo spirit. Now, Aiden must abandon reality and descend into a terrifying spirit world to try to rescue his brother - or they will both be damned for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, demonic, captivating, psychotronic
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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, 70mm 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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Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf tendencies surface in puberty, forcing the family to relocate to their famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, gothic, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
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Mr. Vampire (1985)
Plot Summary:
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, exciting, semi serious, slapstick, horror comedy, slapstick comedy, spooky, weird, corny
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The Keep (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, scary, atmospheric, dark, cult classic, gothic horror, lovecraft, suspenseful, allegory
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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, gothic horror, perverse
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Perfect Creature (2006)
Plot Summary:
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, dark, neo noir, psychotronic, detective
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BloodRayne (2005)
Plot Summary:
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. Two vampire hunters, Sebastian and Vladimir, from the Brimstone Society persuade her to join their cause.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bloody, gothic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, cult classic, action packed
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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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The Howling: Reborn (2011)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, teen horror
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The Company of Wolves (1984)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, dark fantasy, scary, dark, cult classic, disturbing
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Dracula Untold (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 205000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful, serious, fairy tale, epic, intense, psychotronic