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Plot Summary:
A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late countess. In the village she meets a reporter who is investigating reports of the deaths of two young women who it is believed were killed by a creature that lives in the castle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Plot Summary:
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, gothic horror, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, weird, corny, campy
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The Monster of the Opera (1964)
Plot Summary:
A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, independent film
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Lover of the Monster (1974)
Plot Summary:
Kinski plays a retired doctor and jealous husband who returns with his wealthy wife (Katia Christian) to her family castle. He discovers his late father-in-law's basement laboratory, and angry at the attention his wife is paying to an old boyfriend, starts messing around and somehow turns himself into a slobbering, sex-crazed monster!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, gothic horror
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Bloody Sin (2011)
Plot Summary:
A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable Nazi experiments on innocent people. Riddled with history, the demonically possessed castle overtakes the crew turning their nightmares into a terrifying reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. She finds herself attracted to him, so immerses herself in her work to suppress her lusty desires. A rash of rather brutal murders occurs in the area and she soon discovers that the Baron is not what he seems. Not long thereafter, the Baron transforms into a demon, and the beautiful young woman becomes his very own love slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film
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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century baron. Von Klaus heir Ludwig is distantly related to the royal, which makes him the target of suspicion. Can he clear his name, or will he wind up giving in to his dark side?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, splatter, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, psychotronic
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Night of the Vampires (1964)
Plot Summary:
The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and the only clue the Chief Constable can give the detective is the fact that, each time a murder was committed, the electric lights in the whole neighborhood went out. The locals believe that the killings of the young girls are linked to the vague shadows in the caves under the local castle and to the mysterious Curse of the Green Eyes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective, odd
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The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, medical horror, classic horror, grindhouse, black and white, cult horror, scary
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Lady Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankensteins' daughter, who is in love with the aging lab assistant Marshall, continues with her fathers experiments and attempts to transplant Marshall's brain into a new body to prolong his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Nightmare Castle (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, black and white, scary
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The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Plot Summary:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, classic horror, psychotronic, perverse
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The Witch (1966)
Plot Summary:
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, noir
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The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspense, psychotronic
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The Doll of Satan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth travels to the family castle to hear her uncle's will. Once there, she encounters a crazy woman in a wheelchair, a murderer and has nightmares about the legendary ghost who is said to be in the castle. As if that were not bad enough, Elizabeth was abducted by a hooded sadist and tortured in the castle dungeon until her fiancé argues that it may be a conspiracy to eliminate his fiancée and claim her share of the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror
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The Ghost (1963)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Plot Summary:
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor;Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident outside the castle forces her to stay. They become close friends until Laura becomes convinced the spirit of Carmilla is forcing her to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, psychotronic, cult film
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Plot Summary:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, cult film
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Devil's Kiss (1976)
Plot Summary:
Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Andorra
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, satanic, classic horror, gothic, psychotronic
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Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, rough, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, gothic, psychotronic
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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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Web of the Spider (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Castle of Blood (1964)
Plot Summary:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic, neo noir, black and white, creepy, classic horror
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The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Scotland Yard Detective (Peter Cushing) must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, cult classic, independent film, scary, atmospheric, mind bending
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Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1962)
Plot Summary:
On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, odd
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Baron Blood (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody
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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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The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric, psychotronic
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic