My Obscure Horror Gems
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1. Dig Two Graves (2014)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After her brother's tragic death, a young girl is approached by three men who claim they can bring her brother back to life.
Director: Hunter Adams | Stars: Ted Levine, Samantha Isler, Danny Goldring, Troy Ruptash
Votes: 3,366
2. Killers (1996)
TV-MA | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
Director: Mike Mendez | Stars: Dave Larsen, David Gunn, Damian Hoffer, Nanette Bianchi
Votes: 1,331
3. The Nature of Nicholas (2002)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
After discovering that he is attracted to a classmate, an adolescent boy begins seeing and experiencing strange things.
Director: Jeff Erbach | Stars: Jeff Sutton, David Turnbull, Ardith Boxall, Tom McCamus
Votes: 549
4. Wild Flowers (2000)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Seven unrelated Czech fairy tales from 1853 by Karel Jaromír Erben, united by folklore, atmosphere, and visuals, form this anthology film exploring themes through a series of poetic vignettes without a cohesive narrative.
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková, Anna Bezousková
Votes: 1,485
5. Born of Fire (1987)
R | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A musician searches for the Master Flautist, a supernatural creature who is planning to blow up the world.
Director: Jamil Dehlavi | Stars: Peter Firth, Suzan Crowley, Stefan Kalipha, Orla Pederson
Votes: 651
6. Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006)
Unrated | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
In a distant future, a cult forms around the Manson Family, when Charles Manson is mistaken for the messiah. Meanwhile, in 1969, Manson convinces his followers to murder Sharon Tate.
Director: John Roecker | Stars: Nick 13, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Rob Aston
Votes: 706 | Gross: $0.01M
7. White of the Eye (1987)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Somebody's killing rich married women in their homes - latest in a rich desert community outside Tucson. A married sound expert is prime suspect.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Art Evans
Votes: 2,995 | Gross: $0.23M
8. Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ben hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.
Director: Jay Woelfel | Stars: Nick Baldasare, Rick Kesler, Susan Pinsky, Norm Singer
Votes: 886
9. Ballet (1989)
101 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 825
10. La machine (1994)
96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The psychiatrist Marc Laxroix is a studious scientist of the brains of criminals. He has an unhappy and loveless marriage with his wife Marie Lacroix and they have a boy, Léonard Lacroix. ... See full summary »
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Wörner
Votes: 745
11. Spider (1992)
98 min | Drama, Horror
A young woman agrees to model for an artist as Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.
Director: Vasili Mass | Stars: Aurelija Anuzhite, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Algirdas Paulavicius, Mirdza Martinsone
Votes: 390
12. Close Your Eyes (2002)
R | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A hypnotherapist is caught up in the pursuit of a serial killer.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Miranda Otto
Votes: 3,238 | Gross: $0.04M
13. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
PG | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
Director: Richard Blackburn | Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke
Votes: 2,465
14. La peau blanche (2004)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires.
Director: Daniel Roby | Stars: Marc Paquet, Marianne Farley, Frédéric Pierre, Jessica Malka
Votes: 885
15. Lo (2009)
80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A man uses a demon to save his girlfriend but the demon has a nefarious plan.
Director: Travis Betz | Stars: Jeremiah Birkett, Sarah Lassez, Ward Roberts, Devin Barry
Votes: 2,835
16. Blackaria (2010)
70 min | Horror
Tormented by erotic visions of her mysterious neighbour, Angela discovers the object of her desire brutally mutilated in her flat. Now, she can see the deranged killer's next victim. Can she escape from a violent destiny written in blood?
Directors: François Gaillard, Christophe Robin | Stars: Aurélie Godefroy, Clara Vallet, Anna Naigeon, Julie Baron
Votes: 193
17. Afraid of the Dark (1991)
R | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Director: Mark Peploe | Stars: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Clare Holman
Votes: 1,323
18. Paperhouse (1988)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly
Votes: 6,283 | Gross: $0.24M
19. Psychos in Love (1987)
Unrated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family ... See full summary »
Director: Gorman Bechard | Stars: Carmine Capobianco, Patti Chambers, Carla Bragoli, Carrie Gordon
Votes: 1,471
20. Pin (1988)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
Isolated by his strange parents, Leon finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father's doctor office. Unfortunately, the doll begins to take over Leon's life, and his sister's life as well.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn, Bronwen Mantel
Votes: 5,292
21. Hotel (2004)
76 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Irene gets a job as a hotel maid she soon finds out that the previous girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Strauß
Votes: 1,792
22. Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher, William Prince
Votes: 2,997
23. The Pit (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
Director: Lew Lehman | Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth
Votes: 3,521
24. The Haunting of Julia (1977)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After her daughter's death, wealthy American homemaker Julia Lofting moves to London to restart her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the ghosts of other children while mourning for her own.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett
Votes: 3,011
25. Evil Ed (1995)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A mild-mannered film editor is assigned to cut a series of infamous slasher films and is driven murderously insane by the miles of extremely violent footage he edits.
Director: Anders Jacobsson | Stars: Michael Kallaanvaara, Olof Rhodin, Hans Wilhelmsson, Anders Ek
Votes: 4,011
26. The Cat with Hands (2001)
16+ | 4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The dark, surreal story of a cat who wants to be human.
Director: Robert Morgan | Stars: Livy Armstrong, Daniel Hogwood-Kane, Victoria Hayes
Votes: 2,039
27. The Convent (2000)
R | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.
Director: Mike Mendez | Stars: Joanna Canton, Richard Trapp, Dax Miller, Renée Graham
Votes: 3,183
28. Monster Man (2003)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.
Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks, Michael Bailey Smith
Votes: 5,180
29. Immortality (1998)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to redeem him.
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport
Votes: 6,151 | Gross: $0.02M
30. The Dark Hours (2005)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
A beautiful but burnt out psychiatrist goes to the family's winter cottage for a weekend with her husband and sister, which is interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives, a violent sex offender and patient of the doctor.
Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi
Votes: 5,593
31. The Johnsons (1992)
103 min | Horror
According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf van den Berg | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Esmée de la Bretonière, Kenneth Herdigein, Rik van Uffelen
Votes: 845
32. Living Doll (1990)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Howard, a shy morgue worker, falls in love with a girl who ends up in the morgue, but he doesn't let that stop him.
Directors: George Dugdale, Peter Mackenzie Litten | Stars: Mark Jax, Katie Orgill, Gary Martin, Freddie Earlle
Votes: 332
33. Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young autistic man living in a prop warehouse becomes involved in crime as he tries to win the heart of a beautiful set designer.
Director: Aaron Woodley | Stars: Michael Pitt, Paige Turco, Gale Harold, Matt Servitto
Votes: 758
34. The Daisy Chain (2008)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson, David Bradley
Votes: 1,608
35. Red Nights (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A woman steals an ancient artefact and flees to Hong Kong in order to sell it. Little does she know that the box contains an ancient vial of poison and the people she is dealing with will go to any lengths to obtain it.
Directors: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud | Stars: Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing
Votes: 677
36. Fear of the Dark (2003)
PG-13 | 86 min | Horror
Twelve year old Ryan Billings has been diagnosed with an acute fear of the dark. He spends each night lying awake in torment, waiting and watching as the evil in the darkness grows stronger... See full summary »
Director: K.C. Bascombe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Jesse James, Rachel Skarsten, Charles Edwin Powell
Votes: 3,139
37. Red Riding Hood (2003)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
This evocative chiller from director Giacomo Cimini follows the fortunes of a young 12yr-old girl named Jenny (Francesca). Abandoned in Rome by her careless mother, Jenny has to fend for ... See full summary »
Director: Giacomo Cimini | Stars: Kathleen Archebald, Susanna Satta, Roberto Davide, Marc Fiorini
Votes: 683
38. Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl (2002)
8 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A darkly twisted comedy about a lonely dead girl who tries to bring herself back to life in order to make new friends.
Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Nadia Litz, Maurice Dean Wint, Joshua Close, Heidi Ford
Votes: 363
39. Kissed (1996)
R | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
Director: Lynne Stopkewich | Stars: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Natasha Morley
Votes: 3,994 | Gross: $0.47M
40. The Listening Dead (2006)
14 min | Short, Horror
After one rejection too many, a loving wife will inadvertently tie her composer husband with a fiendish black spell, unaware that the restless and everlasting spectres of the departed are always close, listening.
Director: Phil Mucci | Stars: Peter Scriba, Sarah Hund, Karen Miller
Votes: 151
41. Spellbinder (1988)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich, Audra Lindley
Votes: 2,825 | Gross: $1.94M
42. Possessed (1999)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man is found in an airport, dead of a mysterious disease. A race begins to save humanity from what could be a global plague.
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Stars: Ole Lemmeke, Kirsti Eline Torhaug, Ole Ernst, Niels Anders Thorn
Votes: 821
43. Anguish (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové
Votes: 4,307 | Gross: $0.23M
44. Valley of Shadows (2017)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery
In this mystery drama we follow Aslak (6) in a quest for answers about recent tragic events. Valley of Shadows is a film in the tradition of the Scandinavian Gothic.
Director: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen | Stars: Adam Ekeli, Kathrine Fagerland, John Olav Nilsen, Lennard Salamon
Votes: 1,067
45. The Demon's Rook (2013)
TV-MA | 103 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
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.
Director: James Sizemore | Stars: Ashleigh Jo Sizemore, James Sizemore, John Chatham, Melanie Richardson
Votes: 441
46. Revenge of Billy the Kid (1991)
87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The horny farmer McDonald has his wicked way with a goat. Life returns to normal for the family, until the goat gives birth! The mutant off spring, called Billy, is tormented by the ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Groom | Stars: Michael Balfour, Samantha Perkins, Jackie D. Broad, Bryan Heeley
Votes: 446
47. Faceless (1988)
98 min | Horror, Thriller
When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum
Votes: 1,833
48. Star Time (1992)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A delusional misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes "The Baby Mask Killer."
Director: Alexander Cassini | Stars: John P. Ryan, Michael St. Gerard, Maureen Teefy, Dana Dantine
Votes: 428
49. The New Kids (1985)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin
Votes: 4,058 | Gross: $0.20M
50. The Reflecting Skin (1990)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore
Votes: 9,350
51. Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his mother one year after her death, but things take an unexpected turn.
Director: Jonathan Wacks | Stars: Eric Christmas, Steve Buscemi, Harper Roisman, Sam Sorbo
Votes: 2,384 | Gross: $0.00M
52. The Big Shave (1967)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Drama, Horror
In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Star: Peter Bernuth
Votes: 8,714
53. The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young man who has spent his life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult loses his parents and becomes disoriented, wandering into a forest and meeting a coffin transporter, a caring woman, her mute boyfriend, and his mother.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen, Loren Dean
Votes: 4,212
54. Evil Words (2003)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In Montreal, on the same day that a policeman shot eleven children, killing ten, without any reason, the successful writer Thomas Roy amputates his fingers and tries to commit suicide. ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Tessier | Stars: Michel Côté, Patrick Huard, Catherine Florent, Albert Millaire
Votes: 1,319 | Gross: $2.01M
55. Retribution (1987)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery
A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Leslie Wing, Suzanne Snyder, Jeff Pomerantz
Votes: 1,203
56. Hellmouth (2014)
PG-13 | 87 min | Horror
A throwback to the genre films of the '50s, Hellmouth is about a grave-keeper who is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman.
Director: John Geddes | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Siobhan Murphy, Ari Millen, Tony Burgess
Votes: 520
57. Bajo la sal (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
SET IN MEXICO! A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Víctor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father funeral home.
Director: Mario Muñoz | Stars: Humberto Zurita, Plutarco Haza, Emilio Guerrero, Irene Azuela
Votes: 1,184
58. The Atrocity Exhibition (1998)
102 min | Drama, Horror
A university professor is fascinated with humankind's history of violent self-destruction.
Director: Jonathan Weiss | Stars: Victor Slezak, Anna Juvander, Michael Kirby, Mariko Takai
Votes: 463
59. Habit (1995)
Unrated | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Set in a gritty, real life New York City, alcoholic Sam meets up with a modern day succubus who marks him and controls his will. As his world unravels he slowly figures out what is happening and has to figure out what to do.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman
Votes: 2,102
60. Eyes of Fire (1983)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Western
A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of French colonists controlled by evil.
Director: Avery Crounse | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein
Votes: 2,265
61. Puzzlehead (2005)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Post apocalyptic Frankenstein-ish fantasy
Director: James Bai | Stars: Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, Mark Janis, Mark Lampert
Votes: 826
62. Scream for Help (1984)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Marie Masters, Rocco Sisto
Votes: 1,274
63. Lisa (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A flirtatious teenager with an eye for older men gets more than she bargained for when the handsome stranger she's pursuing turns out to be a serial killer.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Tanya Fenmore
Votes: 2,327 | Gross: $4.35M
64. The Appointment (1982)
90 min | Horror
A British horror film that starts with a bang, then settles into a slow-moving examination of one day in the life of a British family--a day full of tension and foreboding.
Director: Lindsey C. Vickers | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow, Samantha Weysom, John Judd
Votes: 929
65. No Telling (1991)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
In the name of medical research, a man experiments on animals. His relationship with his wife becomes stressed when she becomes inquisitive about his work.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Miriam Healy-Louie, Stephen Ramsey, David Van Tieghem, Richard Topol
Votes: 428
66. Black Night (2005)
90 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown. Oscar is a conservator at the Natural Science Museum, and spends most ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Smolders | Stars: Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, Philippe Corbisier, Iris De Busschere
Votes: 627
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