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Plot Summary:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Snapshot (1979)
Plot Summary:
Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychological, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Doomwatch (1972)
Plot Summary:
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, depressing, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Murder by Phone (1982)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird, eighties
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Left Bank (2008)
Plot Summary:
A chilling thriller about a woman, who upon moving in with her new boyfriend, becomes obsessed with the fate of the previous tenant and descends into madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, deep, scary, mind bending
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The Pyx (1973)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Patrick (1978)
Plot Summary:
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: medical horror, grindhouse, mystical, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, surprise ending, suspense, mind twisting, gothic, psychological thriller, erotic, psychedelic, slasher
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror
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Split Image (1982)
Plot Summary:
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spiritual, retro, independent film, weird
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The Night of the Hunted (1980)
Plot Summary:
"The Night of the Hunted" - A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, erotic, scary, fairy tale, rough
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Dead of Night (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young soldier who was thought to be killed in the line of duty in Vietnam returns home shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of his family. Upon his return, he exhibits strange, withdrawn behavior and begins wandering the streets at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, scary, independent film, disturbing, intellectual, bad ending, suspense, surreal
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Dead Still (2014)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary, gothic, mind bending, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Next of Kin (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, bloody, phantasmagoric, serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Pin (1988)
Plot Summary:
A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, surprise ending, sexy, suspense, slasher, surreal, controversial, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
God Told Me To (1976)
Plot Summary:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, grindhouse, suspense, slasher, surreal, disturbing, detective
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Dead End Drive-In (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because they are fed and they have a place to live which is, in most cases, probably better than the outside. Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen are put into the camp and all Crabs wants to do is escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological, slasher, surreal, disturbing, apocalyptic, intense, cult classic, bleak, serious
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The Boogens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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Castle Freak (1995)
Plot Summary:
John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become the castle freak and is out to wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, suspenseful, lovecraft, independent film, gothic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy
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To Sleep with a Vampire (1992)
Plot Summary:
Scott Valentine is a vampire who is torn between his need to feed and his desire to learn about the world of humans. But when he kidnaps Nina, a beautiful but troubled stripper, his world is turned upside down. For after she discovers that he cannot be hurt physically, Nina tries a new tactic... seduction.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film, scary, sexual, crying, sexy, cult film
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Dracula 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, gothic, suspense, creepy, period piece
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House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Plot Summary:
The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, classic horror, suspense, dark, grindhouse, creepy, scary, serious
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Xtro (1982)
Plot Summary:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, retro, slasher, classic horror, spooky, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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The Believers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, tense, suspenseful, bloody, intense, serious, slasher, gothic
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a strange mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal Cochran, wants to return Halloween to its darker roots using his masks -- and his unspeakable scheme would unleash death and destruction across the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, creepy, suspense, splatter, cult classic, psychological, suspenseful, cult horror
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Long Weekend (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, natural horror, retro, atmospheric, depressing, surreal, disturbing, splatter, art house
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The Borderlands (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, lovecraft, suspense, slasher, disturbing
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Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, gothic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, erotic
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Afflicted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, dark, intense, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, bloody, mockumentary