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Plot Summary:
Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is in reality a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, gothic, humorous, serious, suspenseful
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Blood Bath (1966)
Plot Summary:
A crazed artist who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a murderous vampire kills young women, then boils their bodies in a vat.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surreal, cult film
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Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
Plot Summary:
A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, bizarre
Similar in 77%
Mask Maker (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, realistic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, entertaining, creepy
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Nightmare in Blood (1977)
Plot Summary:
Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, humorous, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, parody, horror spoof
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The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
Plot Summary:
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, humorous, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Requiem for a Vampire (1972)
Plot Summary:
A vampire lures beautiful young women to his castle in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, sensual, creepy, terrifying, queer horror, scary, fairy tale
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The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Plot Summary:
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, creepy, cult horror, queer horror, scary
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Pale Blood (1990)
Plot Summary:
A vampire pretender who is murdering women runs into a real vampire who is out to stop him because he is casting too much of a spotlight on the vampire community.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
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The Thirst (2006)
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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Female Vampire (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Irina of Karlstein resides quietly in a hotel on the island of Madeira, where she sustains her immortality by feeding on the life essence of men and women. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, twisted, sensual, perverse, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, gothic, serious
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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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The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young husband's sexual fantasies frighten his new wife and cause her to seek advice from Carmilla, a descendent of Mircalla de Karnstein. Carmilla seduces the young bride and forces her to commit gory acts of mutilation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, queer horror, gothic, psychotronic, controversial, mondo
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Razor Blade Smile (1998)
Plot Summary:
A 19th century woman, who has become one of the undead, acts as a hired killer in modern times. When she starts knocking off part of the elite businessmen, "The Illuminati", who secretly are taking over business and the government, she becomes the target of a hired Scotland Yard detective. Of course, the head of "The Illuminati" is the vampire who first gave her immortality.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, erotic, sexy, grindhouse, sensual, queer horror, independent film
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The Nude Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
A suicide cult led by a mysterious figure known as The Master. Oliver Martin is the hero, who tries to rescue pretty Caroline Cartier from the cult, only to find out that yet another group of vampires wants to save her too.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, surreal, suspenseful, scary, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, atmospheric
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Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, sensual, queer horror, scary, slasher, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, terrifying
Similar in 77%
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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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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Deathmaster (1972)
Plot Summary:
Quarry is a mysterious stranger with cult like following of hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them as he is a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Fiancee of Dracula (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone follows her to Dracula's seaside castle, on the way dealing with a baby-eating ogress and a wolf-woman (Brigitte Lahaie in a cameo), witches and madwomen. The bizarre wedding ritual commences.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, scary, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror
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Night Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A legendary she-demon, in the updated guise of a beautiful model, infiltrates the offices of a successful fashion magazine with the aim of corrupting the world via mass media.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer horror, independent film, scary, rough, slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, cult film
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Twins of Evil (1971)
Plot Summary:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, satanic, sexy, slasher, demonic
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, serious, sexy, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, slasher, terrifying
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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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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Killing Ariel (2008)
Plot Summary:
One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally Rick kills Ariel. But she won't stay dead. He soon realizes that she is the demon that first attacked him. He defends himself by killing her again. And again. But no matter how many times he kills her, she keeps coming back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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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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The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, queer horror, sexy, grindhouse, psychotronic, creepy
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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
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Vampyres (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian vampire couple haunt an abandoned castle and the English country side around it. They prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, grindhouse, gothic horror, cult classic, phantasmagoric
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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