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List of arthouse horror movies

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Black Sabbath (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, vengeance, murder, macabre, afterlife, ghost, lesbian subtext, family in danger, visceral, supernatural horror, death, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century
Place: russia
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This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, controversial, serious, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, monster, surrealism, arthouse horror, love letter, witchcraft, supernatural horror, virus, violent, supernatural power, exploitation, killer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: brazil, latin america
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 8.1
 130K
Persona (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style: minimal cast, psychological, surreal, sexual, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, surrealism, medical, actress, mute character, dream, patient, silence, art, insanity, alienation, nurse ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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Lesbian Vampires (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Style: erotic, gothic, grindhouse, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: lesbian vampire, vampire, lesbian, sexploitation, lesbian sex, supernatural, murder of a nude woman, female protagonist, obsession, sexy female vampire, sex show, striptease ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: spain, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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 8K
Images (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental breakdown, mental illness, surrealism, hallucination, adultery, countryside, husband wife relationship, loneliness, delusion, country house, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, journalism, obsession, amateur detective, small town, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, milan italy
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 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
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 2K
Symptoms (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.
Style: queer horror, psychological thriller, pastoral, offbeat, disturbing ...
Plot: arthouse horror, folk horror, mental disorder, female psychopath, terror, mental illness, darkness, illness, woman, lesbian, countryside, mirror ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style: scenic, atmospheric, surreal, stylized, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, unsolved mystery, coming of age, adolescence, sexuality, boarding school life, private school, folk horror, wilderness, surrealism ...
Time: 1900s, year 1900, victorian era, near future, edwardian era ...
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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 7.5
 42K
Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to ...
Style: surreal, scary, serious, tense, psychological ...
Plot: female nudity, supernatural horror, transvestism, attempted rape, obsession, murder, painting, obsessive quest, mentally unstable, unlikely criminals, twists and turns, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, killer child, island, children, murder, pregnancy, isolation, danger, haunted by the past, manhunt, stranded, creepy child ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, fictional island
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style: gothic, bleak, enigmatic, dark, scary ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, blood, loneliness, death, insanity, castle, surrealism, obsession, transformation, life & death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1800s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: romania, bulgaria, europe, germany, black sea ...
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Phantasm (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum, hearse, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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The Elephant Man (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph ...
Style: emotional, touching, psychological, surreal, poignant ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: disability, hospital, freak, dignity, melancholy, disfigurement, social misfits, biopic, cruelty, isolation, life is a bitch, exploitation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, near future, ancient times ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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 24K
Inferno (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Style: dark, slasher, psychological, scary, gothic ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, gory, death, serial killer, witchcraft, danger, riddles and clues, amateur detective, supernatural ability, woman in danger, dead animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, rome italy, italy
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The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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The Beyond (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, gory, blindness, violence, murder, macabre, zombie attack, surrealism, afterlife, monster, revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, italy, usa
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 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
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The Company of Wolves (1984)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into ...
Style: gothic, fairy tale, sexy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: werewolf, legends and myths, surrealism, woman in danger, beast, dangerous animal, little red riding hood, grandmother, wolf, dangerous attraction, dream, girl ...
Time: 18th century, year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, europe, england
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StageFright (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, psychopath, survival, theater, blood, woman in danger, macabre, mental institution, rehearsal, theatre group ...
Time: 80s
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Opera (1987)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, female nudity, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, nude girl, sadistic psychopath, cruelty, masked villain ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: europe, italy
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The Church (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. It is now present day, and this elaborate cathedral still stands. But when its sealed crypt is ...
Style: atmospheric, satanic, surreal, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot: church, supernatural, zombie, devil, demon, ghost, witch, occult, witchcraft, monster, macabre, buried alive ...
Time: medieval times, 13th century, middle ages
Place: germany
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style: gothic, slasher, scary, splatter, demonic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hell, supernatural, demon, gory, monster, hellraiser, torture, maze, violent, body horror, doctor, puzzle ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: europe, england
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Baby Blood (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
Style: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, controversial, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, murder, pregnancy, body horror, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, mutant, human prey, monster, vampire, baby ...
Time: 90s, 80s
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 9K
Parents (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on ...
Style: dark comedy, slasher, scary, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, suburbs, dysfunctional family, dark humor, youth, blood, nightmare, satire, american horror ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 50s, year 1954, 1950s
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 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.7
 44K
Inside (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, suspense, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, home invasion, female psychopath, danger, survival, torture, murder, insanity, extreme ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000
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 1K
Observance (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, characters in danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, hunting, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, vengeance, loss, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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