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Plot Summary:
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, independent film, scary, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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The Item (1999)
Plot Summary:
Four felons are contacted by an anonymous client via the internet. They are instructed to go to a remote desert island and pick up an "item" and keep it safe for 24 hours. It will then be picked up and they will be paid. However, upon getting it back to their apartment, their curiosity gets the better of them and they decide to investigate their package. They discover that they have a telepathic worm connected to a life support system. The film then disintegrates into a slasher film as one by one the protectors are killed in grisly fashion.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, horror comedy
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Hallows Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in an abandoned schoolhouse with an evil they helped create, but cannot defeat, the students are ill prepared for their last lesson...in terror!.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bug Buster (1998)
Plot Summary:
After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by a lethal species of large cockroach. After some of the town's inhabitants are killed, the mayor enlists the help of eccentric pest exterminator General George S. Merlin in order to prevent further harm to the local dwellers.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy
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CreepTales (2004)
Plot Summary:
On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, gothic, psychotronic, campy
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Campfire Tales (1997)
Plot Summary:
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, surprise ending, mind twisting, twist ending, erotic, mind bending
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Tales from the Crapper (2004)
Plot Summary:
Anthology of horror stories from Troma Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, anthology, not serious, humorous, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, queer horror, offbeat, psychotronic, spoof
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Bugged (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bugged! tells the story of a group of bumbling exterminators who are called over to the house of an attractive young novelist to rid her house of insects. Unfortunately, due to a horrible chemical mix-up, the poison spray causes the bugs to grow to enormous sizes, and pretty soon everyone's trapped inside the house and have to find a way to stop the dastardly pests before they start multiplying and take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, natural horror, scary, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, campy
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Nightmares (1983)
Plot Summary:
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic, dark fairy tale, cult horror, classic horror
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Deformed Monsters (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster to life... but there's a problem and they end up three feet tall.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, meta
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Blood Beach (1980)
Plot Summary:
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, stylized, natural horror, spoof
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Deadtime Stories (2009)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Gorge" hikers are trapped in a cave-in must make a gruesome choice. In "On Sabbath Hill," a woman is driven to suicide but remains to torment her lover. In "Dust," a security guard is driven to murderous measures to use a strange dust that cures his wife's cancer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale, serious
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Rock Monster (2008)
Plot Summary:
A college student, traveling with his friends to a remote eastern-European village, unwittingly releases the Rock Monster from it's ancient slumber to wreak havoc on the surrounding countryside.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, disturbing, scary, offbeat, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Hematic Web (2020)
Plot Summary:
An Anthology feature film with webs of evil and murder. Shorts "FEM", "On The Hunt", "Dark Psychosis", and "Cop A Kill" intertwine with blood and death to form a dark hematic web.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, dark fairy tale, independent film
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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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Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Plot Summary:
Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt Gummer. Add to that team a young punk out for cash and a fearless scientist, and the critters don't stand a chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror, horror comedy, cult horror, exciting, suspenseful, fast
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Inhabited (2003)
Plot Summary:
After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil 'fairies' are equally dismissed, but get worse. Self-appointed handyman warns Iver Hagen them for 'things worse than ghosts' and ever scarier things happen. Ma irrationally believes the house bad yet refuses long to have Gina examined by Dr. Werner, who has a patient Olive obsessed by similar trolls. By the time the pieces are fitted, it may be too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense
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Deadtime Stories 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, psychological, suspense, dark fairy tale
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13th Child (2002)
Plot Summary:
People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Unseen Evil (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Under the Bed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mystical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
He’s one of the hardest working filmmakers in the genre business.......So what’s HATCHET man Adam Green been up to this past year apart from working on his sit-com ‘Holliston’, writing KILLER PIZZA and prepping EXORCISM ON CROOKED LAKE? The answer is this documentary starting out exploring genre-based monster art and then taking an odd turn into the blurring of fantasy and reality. Because halfway through producing this treatise with cinematographer Will Barratt at his L.A. ArieScope Pictures offices, they are contacted by former policeman William Dekker who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. That they live in world just below our own named The Marrow and he knows where one of the entrances to this dark hidden universe is. Green of course is intrigued and so the monster hunting expedition begins… to become something else far more frightening than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, scary
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Boogeyman (2005)
Plot Summary:
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to explain why his father abandoned his family?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, christmas horror, slasher, demonic, teen horror
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Late Fee (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, humorous, satanic
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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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R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010)
Plot Summary:
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, spooky, dark, dark fantasy, horror comedy, dark fairy tale
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Plot Summary:
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark fairy tale
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
Plot Summary:
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in Richmond, British Columbia and in Montreal, Quebec including their suburbs. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, semi serious, spooky, exciting, bleak, sitcom, dark, slasher
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Thale (2012)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a huldra? A seductive forest spirit who appears from the front to be a beautiful young woman, but who also has a cow's tale and whose back appears to be like a hollowed out tree. The huldra has been known to offer rewards to those who satisfy them sexually, while death to those who fail to do so and are also prone to stealing human babies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric, suspense, scenic, disturbing, dark fantasy, grindhouse
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Ghoulies (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, sexy, light, splatter, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, horror comedy