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Plot Summary:
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Beyond the 7th Door (1987)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con and his girlfriend who rob a rich guy's castle, but get trapped in seven chambers of horror, which they must conquer or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Dream Home (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young pair of migrant workers find that the home that they have fallen in love with harbors a dark secret malevolent evil. When the Cromiers stumble across a beautiful antebellum home situated in the deep recesses of Louisiana, their excitement of finding such a perfect home to raise a family leaves them filled with joy.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Book of Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
A film about one book that makes the world in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: spiritual, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, psychotronic
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Vengeance of the Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Visiting his Grandpa in the small town of Harvest, Eric is haunted in his dreams by Julia, a ghost who falls in love with him, appearing first as a little girl and later as an adult. In the dreams, Julia reveals that she was burned alive and her mother murdered by hooded men. He is soon unable to distinguish these dreams from reality, and finds himself desecrating the grave of one of the killers, and burning alive those that are still alive, all while sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
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Vampire Resurrection (2003)
Plot Summary:
Buried deep beneath the earth for a hundred years Jonathan had to sacrifice his own soul and become a vampire in order to find his true love. Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman, Victoria, wakes from recurring dreams of a time when she was in love. It is clear that Victoria is Jonathan's true love and when they finally meet, they realize that their souls are forever intertwined. Victoria finds herself caught between her immortal love and her mortal ties. Jonathan has made the ultimate sacrifice for her - his own mortality. Will she now do the same for him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 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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Face of the Devil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful
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The Summer of the Massacre (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on supposable true life events set in the English outback. Four teenagers take a shortcut across the countryside on their way home from college. They arrive in an obscure town named Blackwood where they are terrorized by notorious serial killer, Hammerhead, who hunts humans and devours their flesh. His favored tool of death is a large hammer.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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Siege of Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Logan decides to dabble in EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) using a tape recorder to record the voices of the dead from haunted locations. After visiting an old satanic church, she returns home to find threatening voices on the recorder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic
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Shake Rattle and Roll VI (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shake, Rattle & Roll VI is the sixth installment of the Shake Rattle & Roll franchise. With three segments "Ang Telebisyon" directed by Maurice Carvajal, "Ang Buwan" directed by Anton Juan and "Ang Tulay" directed by Frank Rivera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology
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The Bonesetter Returns (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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Frightworld (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film
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The Bloodletting (2004)
Plot Summary:
For Amanda Deter and her friends, life seems to be going great. Until one night when they cross paths with a mysterious vagrant, who warns them, a terrible evil is coming. The group disregards his warnings as nothing but drunken nonsense. But the next day when they find the vagrant dead, it is already to late to heed his warnings... Now Amanda and Derek must try and save their friends from the brutal killings of an elusive vampire. With several friends already dead or missing and Amanda's boyfriend Jonathan no where to be found, they are running out of options... and time! - Written by Shaun Paul Piccinino.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 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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Sanguivorous (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments is horrified to discover that she’s descended from generations of vampires. When with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it’s in her blood….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, black and white, silent, silent film
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The Harsh Light of Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing his wife's brutal murder, Daniel Shergold makes the ultimate sacrifice and accepts the help of a dark and mysterious stranger in order to reap vengeance on those responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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Apparition (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of millennials experimenting with a spiritually guided app successfully connect to the other-world and are ultimately guided to The Preston Castle. This ominous, historic site of murder and torture is connected to each of them in ways they’ll soon discover, thanks to the dead. The film is based on the shockingly true events of The Preston School of Industry.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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Vampyres (2015)
Plot Summary:
Victor Matellano directs this tale set in a stately English manor inhabited by two older female vampires and with their only cohabitant being a man imprisoned in the basement. Their lives and lifestyle are upended when a trio of campers come upon their lair and seek to uncover their dark secrets, a decision that has sexual and blood-curdling consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sexy, gothic, suspense
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Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (2021)
Plot Summary:
England, 1897. Abraham Van Helsing receives a letter from his former student Dr John Seward requesting his urgent assistance in the northern town of Whitby, where his fiancée Lucy is showing all the signs of vampirism. Van Helsing follows the bloody trail to the coffin of Count Dracula himself. Van Helsing is a fresh take on the legend of Dracula through the eyes of his greatest enemy.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
Plot Summary:
The 1800s: scholarly Karl Schiller believes he's found the ring of the Nibelungen, which holds great power. It's at Castle Dracula. His twin, Franz, a gambler, asks if vampires frighten Karl; Karl shows him an Egyptian amulet, which may protect him. Franz takes the amulet and sets out ahead of his brother, arriving at the castle first. There he finds a countess who invites him to dine. Later that night, Karl arrives. Coincidently, it's the Night of the Virgin Moon, a night that falls every fifty years and draws five virgins from the surrounding village to the castle not be heard from again. Can Karl protect his brother, find the ring, and rescue any of the women?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, gothic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, serious
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Plot Summary:
A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, psychological, bleak
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Trapped Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories, setting the stage for five tales from directors Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta. This anthology includes spine-tingling tales of sexy succubi, possessed breast implants, nightmarish dream hauntings and more. Jayce Bartok, Lara Harris and Henry Gibson star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale
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616: Paranormal Incident (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Special Agent Watts and his Investigation Unit are called to the derelict Woodburrow Prison he thinks it's business as usual. But there's nothing usual about Woodburrow. A mysterious woman is found attempting to flee the scene and things begin to spiral out of control as an evil force picks the team off one by one. Soon Agent Watts is left alone to face what might be the world's most powerful evil... The Devil.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, surprise ending, gloomy, independent film
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Vampire in Vegas (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Las Vegas, the powerful three hundred year old vampire Sylvian hires Dr. van Helm to research a cure to survive in the sun. She uses three vampire women as guinea pigs to test the serum in the desert and a couple that is camping witnesses the failure and calls the police. Detective Stanton and his partner Detective O'Hara are assigned to investigate the case. Meanwhile, Jason, who is going to marry Rachel, and two friends travel to Las Vegas for his bachelor party with a couple of strippers, but the women are actually vampires that attack them. Out of the blue, Rachel and her friend Nikki decide to travel to Las Vegas to surprise her boyfriends. The group is captured by Sylvian that uses them to feed the pack vampires and test the new research.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious, independent film, detective
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Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire (2004)
Plot Summary:
It's a face-off against two of the most evil supernatural forces: vampires fueled by bloodlust and zombies who've come back from the dead to prey on the living. The two camps are bent on proving their superiority, so it's a race to the gory finish. Whoever wins will decide the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, exciting, feel good, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, dark drama
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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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Fascination (1979)
Plot Summary:
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, creepy, sexy, suspense, slasher, art house, classic horror