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Plot Summary:
Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic surgeon, has evolved from a yeti-like creature to accommodate her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative, music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish, pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychedelic, experimental, cult film
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Soul Maid (2007)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the classic story of Sleeping Beauty, this irreverent fairy tale for modern audiences follows a man named Moses (Joe Schneck), whose frequent seizures are characterized by the appearance of Glintentica, a spurned Goddess planning her return to earth. Problems arise when Glintentica becomes determined to take over the soul of David (Tom Bailey), Moses' new love interest. Enlisting the help of a priest, his roommate (Becca Connolly), and David, Moses embarks on a fantastic quest to find the key to destroying Glintentica once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Let Us Go and Burn Her Body; Or, The Devil Done Let Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young female paranormalist is pursued by a man claiming to be the devil in human form.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: mystic, fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, expressionism, detective, post modern
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The Commune (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jenny Cross has to spend summer vacation with her deadbeat dad in his creepy commune, she thinks clean living and boredom will kill her. But some fates are worse than death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, avant garde, dark comedy, suspense
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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are places you go, where the things you do will matter to a lot of people. Then there are places you will go, where the things you will do matter only to a very few. But to those few, they will matter - a lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychosexual thriller, black comedy, dark comedy
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Watcher in the Attic (1976)
Plot Summary:
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, weird
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The Seduction of Dr. Fugazzi (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Anna Fugazzi is a young, attractive psychologist with a loving and devoted (albeit freakish) boyfriend, plenty of stimulating friends, and a bright future ahead of her. But beneath her perfect life and calm exterior lies a deadly secret that she herself cannot imagine, much less confront!!! There is a delicate balance between reality and illusion, between conscious and the subconscious, and for Dr. Fugazzi, the truth lies somewhere in between the beauty of her present life and the horror of the not-too-distant past!!! Shocked by hallucinations and deadly images, tantalized by familiar, eerie voices, provoked by her deranged and knowing patients, and daily nightmares that awaken her in a strange, white room, Dr. Fugazzi takes an inhuman journey into her very psyche!!!!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, cult film
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The Mutilation Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, underground film, avant garde, spoof, parody, weird, cult film
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Paranoia (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is terrorizing a small town. Mark Bishop (Brad Jones) has just killed an intruder who attacked him in his home. Only he's not sure if he killed the real serial killer, but knows he doesn't want the attention. Mark has to get rid of the body and avoid the authorities. But he can't shake the feeling that the real killer is still out there.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Haunting Fear (1990)
Plot Summary:
Victoria can't sleep: she's having bad dreams about being buried alive. Her husband Terry makes her go see Dr. Carlton, who she blames for her father's death. Unable to help her, he asks Dr. Harcourt to try and unlock Victoria's mental block with hypnotism. Meanwhile Terry continues an affair with his secretary, and worries about paying off a huge gambling debt. Terry could pay off his debt and be with his secretary if he could just get his hands on Victoria's money somehow.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Olivia (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, dark, surprise ending, neo noir, psycho sexual, independent film
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Mortal Sins (1989)
Plot Summary:
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: detective
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Black Ribbon (2007)
Plot Summary:
A writer buys a typewriter which brings out his deepest and darkest desires.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Mantis in Lace (1968)
Plot Summary:
A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with. She does it with a twist, however; she kills them with garden tools.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, slasher, psycho sexual, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, hot, cult film
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Day-Dream (1964)
Plot Summary:
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy, weird
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Plot Summary:
A traveling sideshow called the Cavalcade of Perversion draws in and terrorizes unsuspecting spectators. The leader of the troupe of misfits is Lady Divine, who goes out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: underground film, dark comedy, slasher, black and white, independent film, cult classic, bloody, disturbing, controversial, horror comedy
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Mad Cowgirl (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, rough, serious, retro, slasher, experimental, independent film, offbeat
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The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, applies make-up on her, and breaks down and cries in the fetal position. In the end the girl gets free and has her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, controversial, disturbing, freeze frame, avant garde
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Voodoo Dollz (2008)
Plot Summary:
An exclusive finishing school serves as the setting for this sexy shocker from cult icon Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Bikini Drive-In). For as many girls who enroll at Collinsport School for Girls, it seems curious that few ever make it to graduation day. When a new girl arrives and begins studying up on the supernatural, sex rituals, and dark art of voodoo, a gateway is opened and.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, lovecraft
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Inner Sanctum II (1994)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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Exit to Eden (1994)
Plot Summary:
Elliot is going to the island of Eden to live out his submissive fantasies, but inadvertently photographs diamond smugglers at work. Smugglers, and detectives, follow him to the island, where they try to retrieve the film. Elliot begins falling in love with Lisa, the head mistress of the island, and Lisa must evaluate her feelings about Elliot and her own motivations.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, teen sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Bullets, Fangs and Dinner at 8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A vampire posing as a priest creates a cult of blood thirsty humans and is responsible for a number of killings beginning with a massacre at a church.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark comedy, independent film, experimental, black comedy
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Play Motel (1979)
Plot Summary:
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, psycho sexual, detective
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Amuck! (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young American girl arrives on an island near Venice to begin her new job as secretary to famous novelist Richard Stuart. However, it turns out that her predecessor disappeared without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sexy, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, independent film, cult film
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Piercing (2018)
Plot Summary:
In this twisted love story, a man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, slasher, surreal, sexy, emotional, post-horror, psychosexual thriller, twisted, psychological thriller
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Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elliot (Peter Tullio), Warren (Philip Marlatt) and Terry (Melanie Rose Wilson) dabble in Satanism and hold a ritual in an abandoned woods. When nothing happens, they return to their car only to find that it won't start. An accident happens, leaving Terry injured. Seeing a distant light through the trees, Elliot hikes toward the light to seek assistance, leaving Warren to watch over Terry. Terry disappears and Warren becomes frightened. He hikes into the woods seeking Elliot and encounters hillbilly seductress Jenny (Vanity Meers) and her inbred father Ned (Michael Q. Schmidt)... but things are not what they appear as they meet the entity raised by their earlier ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, experimental, psychedelic, bleak, offbeat, surreal, semi serious, independent film
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Malpertuis (1971)
Plot Summary:
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, experimental, gothic horror, cult classic, phantasmagoric, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Horns (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, serious, dark comedy, visual, tense, scary, mind bending
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Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, rough, suspense, serious, suspenseful, detective, mystical, neo noir, satanic
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Psychosis (2010)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, scary, atmospheric, serious, slasher, realistic, psychotronic
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Red Riding Hood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, suspenseful, gothic horror, surprise ending, scary, romantic, suspense, stylized