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Plot Summary:
Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, offbeat
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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, arthurian, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Pegasus Vs. Chimera (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two mythological creatures battle each other.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, computer animated
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Blood Legend (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find neither are really what she expected. The resurrected lover is not exactly the beautiful woman her uncle talked of in years past and the rewards her uncle had in mind for her are not made of a princes' fairy tales. The young witch finds the real truth of the "Blood Lengend".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)
Plot Summary:
The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, fairy tale, exciting, captivating
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Monsterwolf (2010)
Plot Summary:
A creature of ancient legend manifests, bound to protect the ecological balance of the land and killing anyone that threatens it. This elusive guardian is initially both feared and celebrated by the locals, but when a deadly curse affects them all, they must unite and recapture the monster wolf’s spirit or face their ultimate doom.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, psychotronic, computer animated
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Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Plot Summary:
When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending
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Alone in the Dark 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, offbeat, semi serious
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Orcs! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, independent film
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, serious
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The Tomb (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Horror, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008)
Plot Summary:
A team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Aladdin and the Death Lamp (2012)
Plot Summary:
Aladdin the adventurer and his friend Ali accidentally uncover a lamp that contains a genie. But unlike the story we know, this genie does not grant three wonderful wishes. This genie destroys everything in its way by turning the keeper’s thoughts into living nightmares. After witnessing the death of his fellow adventurers when the genie is released, Aladdin and surviving friend Ali turn to the village elder to uncover the history of the lamp, only to find the evil Shahir has been following them, hoping to take hold of the lamp and fulfill his own diabolical plans to have unlimited power. destroy their friend along with the ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, disturbing, light, melancholic
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Journey to Promethea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. This is the action-packed journey of one boy that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of can emerge alive and victorious.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, intense
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Aragami (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, exciting, minimal cast, scary
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Red Reaper (2013)
Plot Summary:
For a thousand years, the Reapers guarded mankind from the demons that wait in the dark. Now, at the beginning of a new age, the Reapers are betrayed and slaughtered. Only one Reaper remains - Red, and she's out to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, slasher, dark fantasy
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Subspecies: The Awakening (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Haunted Forest (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, tense, serious, slasher, suspense, offbeat
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Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the twenty years since the fall of Camelot, Merlin has become a recluse known as "the wild man of the woods." He is now summoned by a charge of young knights as they quest to destroy an evil wizard who rules the land from a throne of a "New Camelot.".
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, arthurian, tense, suspense, atmospheric, offbeat, stylized, semi serious
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The Big Bad (2011)
Plot Summary:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, serious, surreal, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat
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Werewolf Warrior (2004)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat, splatter
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Dark Relic (2010)
Plot Summary:
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, suspenseful, baroque
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Knight of the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights escort the holy grail through a valley of black death where they must hack and slash their way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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Vampire Journals (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, gothic, independent film, tense, cult film
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Exit 38 (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting, rough, serious
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Alucard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, has been sent to the furthest reaches of Transylvania to help an old count with his move to the more populated Nilbog.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, bleak, tense, captivating, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, modern day adaptation
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The Open Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, serious, independent film
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Decadent Evil (2005)
Plot Summary:
A fallen foot tall Homunculus called Marvin (a part human/part reptile creature) is imprisoned in a birdcage by a vengeful lover who is bidding to become the world's most powerful vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, semi serious, suspense, scary, offbeat, fast, campy, cult film
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The Demon's Rook (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young boy named Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. Dimwos raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Plot Summary:
King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as The Isle of the Mists. Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, fairy tale, serious, computer animated