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Plot Summary:
A Norse runestone is discovered in Western Pennsylvania. The prophecy upon it tells of the Norse great wolf Fenrir (Fenris), and that its release from the stone will bring about Ragnarok --- the end of the world. Archaeologist Sam Stewart and wife Marla find it has some connection to their friend Martin. A young boy named Jacob is haunted by terrifying nightmares of what is to come, and his family explains these dreams through stories from Norse legend, which says that the only one who can destroy Fenrir is Tyr, the Norse god of war, who is prophesied to return to fight the creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, retro, independent film, neo noir
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Cadaverella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cinder knew her life was over when her father came home from a business trip with a new wife and her 2 daughters when she was only 6. When her father dies soon afterwards, she pretty much has to care for herself, as her stepmother whittles away her father's money and possessions. Cinder bides her time by hanging with her best friend Justin, working at the library with the unbearable Lenore, and crushing on Cash, the psycho who tends the lawn, until her 21st birthday, when she inherits the trust fund her father left for her. When she makes off with Justin's clay doll of the voodoo god Baron Samedi, the god visits her to help "make things happen" for her--including landing a night with Cash. Little did she know, however, that Cash was in cahoots with her step-mom to do away with her so they could get her trust fund money. Little did Cash and Step-mom know, that Baron Samedi was going to help Cinder get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Sands of Oblivion (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, epic
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Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, fast, computer animated, splatter
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic
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Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
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The Boneyard (1991)
Plot Summary:
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Soulkeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious
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Blood of the Samurai (2001)
Plot Summary:
Action Adventure starring Bryan Yamasaki, Shawn Forsythe, Michael Ng.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, humorous, independent film, fast, cult film
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Jinn (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us and only under dire or unusual circumstances were our paths ever meant to cross.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mysterious
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Werewolf Warrior (2004)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat, splatter
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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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Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, hilarious
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Hellbinders (2009)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural battle for souls plays out on the streets with lots of guns and knives.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, campy
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Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (2005)
Plot Summary:
Near an isolated beach on California's coast, a sinister plan is underway in a laboratory of horror. Three renegade scientists have resurrected the Frankenstein Monster. . . legendary indestructible dead man come to life. . . and they have also created a biogentically engineered half-man, half fish abomination. . . to use as secret weapons in the fight against terrorists worldwide. However, disaster strikes when the terrifying monsters chemical brainwashing fails and the entire plan goes to hell! Instead of stopping terror, these invincible monsters spread terror! The first victims. . . young people on a glamour photo shoot are attacked by the amphibious beast of evil! Rescued and held hostage by the scientists, the survivors must find a way to escape the madmen and the monsters!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, black and white, cult horror, campy
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The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis (2004)
Plot Summary:
The fourth generation of the virus SARS is found in Africa! It's more dangerous and causes the patients to transform into bloodthirsty zombies. The virus quickly lands to Thailand, Dr. Bryan Thompson who creates the anti-virus, ends up getting infected while doing his experiment and soon the virus is spreading to all the residents of his same building. At that time, Khun is trying to help a young girl who's being kidnapped in the building... He ends up trapped in the building with only his precious sword as a weapon. Surrounded by the zombies, he has to find the girl and escape from the building before the government drops a bomb to destroy the virus and the building.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, scary, exciting, suspenseful, not serious, suspense, horror comedy, rough, fast
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Ghoulies IV (1994)
Plot Summary:
While in pursuit of cop Johnathan Graves, his demonic nemesis, Faust, sends his disciple Alexandria to hunt down the amulet that will set him free. Meanwhile, the Ghoulies find their way through an open porthole and onto the streets of L.A., creating madness and mayhem as they search for a way to get back home. As the body count rises, it becomes an ultimate battle between a demonic killer, a rule-breaking cop, and our favorite creatures from the netherworld!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, independent film, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, detective, ridiculous, campy, cult film
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The Demon's Rook (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young boy named Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. Dimwos raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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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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Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
The evil Djinn is back at again, this time wreaking havoc on the students of Illinois' Baxter University. His victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, retro, psychedelic, suspense, dark, disturbing
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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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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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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, scary, exciting, computer animated
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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End of Days (1999)
Plot Summary:
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist called Jericho Cane.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: satanic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, biblical, rough, serious, scary, action packed
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological