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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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Hood of the Living Dead (2005)
Plot Summary:
Death is only the beginning for the young victim of a drive-by shooting. Devastated at the loss of his younger brother Jermaine, scientific older sibling Ricky uses the situation as an opportunity to test an experimental serum designed to breathe new life into dead cells. Though Ricky's reanimation serum does indeed help to get his previously deceased younger brother back on his feet, Jermaine's insatiable hunger for human flesh soon spreads like wildfire throughout the neighborhood, leaving his older brother to find a way to halt the epidemic before the army of flesh-eaters become too powerful to be contained.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, experimental
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Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Plot Summary:
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, demonic, psychotronic, independent film
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Decadent Evil II (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sugar the good vampire, her boyfriend Dex, and Marvin the homunculous attempt to hunt down a powerful vampire in order to resurrect Marvin's dead son.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Lifeblood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fueled by vengeance and nightmares, Carl Spencer seeks out his wife's killer. Across town, two sisters are dying of a rare blood disease. In a darkened warehouse, an ancient vampire has spawned a clan of servants that unite the destiny of all.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, bleak, independent film, computer animated
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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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Dark Town (2004)
Plot Summary:
The vampires have taken over suburbia, and the only hope for escape is to dismantle the white picket fences and drive them through the hearts of the undead in this tale of bloodlust.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, dark, independent film
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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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Death Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she starts to become unhinged and her paranoia overtakes every aspect of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, sexy
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The Ghouls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eric Hayes is a stringer. One notch below the lowest rung of the journalistic ladder. A video vulture preying on police chases, ambulance runs, and random street violence, selling his footage to the highest bidder and living on a steady diet of cigarettes and bloodlust. For years, Eric has lived off of other people's pain and misery. But he's about to discover something beneath the streets of Los Angeles even hungrier for blood than he is. He's about to discover THE GHOULS.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, crying, cult film
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Bath Salt Zombies (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a punk-rock homage to "Reefer Madness," two plot threads intertwine: a hapless junkie falls victim to "Bath Salts" addiction, while a police detective attempts to uncover and stamp out a new strain of designer drug products.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Dark Places (2005)
Plot Summary:
Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she can to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, surreal
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Slayer (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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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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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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The Damned (2006)
Plot Summary:
A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan and a skeptic, join him with the help of a private investigator, who's had a run-in with these bloodsuckers before. Together they join forces to stop the bloody, fanged carnage before it's too late! With a fast-paced punk-rock soundtrack and non-stop gore, The Damned will have you afraid to blink!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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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 Reverend (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fresh from seminary school, a new Reverend embarks on his first parish: A small, low-maintenance chapel based in the idyllic setting of a quiet country village. While on the surface the village seems to be a peaceful parish, with perfect residents, soon it becomes apparent that something more sinister lurks beneath the façade of a local businessman. On a wet, cold night, a mysterious girl visits the Reverend at the chapel. She is welcomed in warmly, but soon it becomes apparent that her visit is not for sanctuary but to deliver a message, a message in the form of a deep, bloody bite... Awoken with an unknown, uncontrollable thirst, the confused Reverend can't find any evidence of the girl from the night before. With nothing but his thirst and memory of the bite, the Reverend embarks on a mandate to clean up the village and the neighboring estate...by preaching or feasting.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Bled (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood to cross over from his world to hers.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sexy, tense, captivating, scary, serious, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
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Alucard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, has been sent to the furthest reaches of Transylvania to help an old count with his move to the more populated Nilbog.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, bleak, tense, captivating, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, modern day adaptation
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The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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A Taste of Blood (1967)
Plot Summary:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Decadent Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
A fallen foot tall Homunculus called Marvin (a part human/part reptile creature) is imprisoned in a birdcage by a vengeful lover who is bidding to become the world's most powerful vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, semi serious, suspense, scary, offbeat, fast, campy, cult film
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Lust for Dracula (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mina Harker isn't the happiest of Hollywood Hills wives - even though she's married to wealthy pharmaceuticals magnate Jonathan Harker. The repressed Mina longs for Jonathan's love and the happiness a child would bring them, yet the arrival of the beautiful and mysterious Dracula - seductive vampire servants at her side - will change their lives forever. Dracula offers Mina the sensual existence she so desperately craves - one that is immediately threatened by Mina's sister, Dr. Abigail Van Helsing. Van Helsing seeks to not only destroy the monstrous vampire but covet Mina's seemingly perfect life and husband Jonathan, too. As these troubled characters move ever closer toward their destinies and a final battle with Dracula, blood will be spilled, souls will be destroyed, and love will become undying.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, erotic, sexual, biting, sexy, suspense
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Flesh for the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, anthology, disgusting, independent film, scary
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Edges of Darkness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three interconnected tales of terror set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic, anthology, exciting, splatter