Avant-Garde/Experimental Horror films
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1. The Neon Demon (2016)
R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller
An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman
Votes: 103,988 | Gross: $1.33M
2. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,625 | Gross: $0.40M
3. Eraserhead (1977)
Not Rated | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 127,587 | Gross: $7.00M
4. Friend of the World (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott
Votes: 89
5. Thane of East County (2015)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A backstage romance leads a pair of actors down a dark path, as they discover their lives beginning to mirror the story of Shakespeare's bloodiest play.
Director: Jesse Keller | Stars: Carr Cavender, Molly Beucher, Connor Sullivan, Karl Backus
Votes: 27
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 105,262 | Gross: $4.16M
7. House (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba, Ai Matsubara
Votes: 33,767
8. Santa Sangre (1989)
NC-17 | 123 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou
Votes: 23,352
9. We Are the Flesh (2016)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter | Stars: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Jonathan Miralda
Votes: 3,295
10. Begotten (1989)
Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia
Votes: 11,770
11. Trash Humpers (2009)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson, Harmony Korine
Votes: 5,480
12. Amer (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D'Amato
Votes: 6,583
13. Poison (1991)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Millie White
Votes: 5,039 | Gross: $0.61M
14. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener, Birgit Yew
Votes: 4,363 | Gross: $0.01M
15. The Third Part of the Night (1971)
107 min | Drama, Horror, War
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski
Votes: 2,703
16. 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: 887
17. Dementia (1955)
Not Rated | 61 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
Directors: John Parker, Bruno VeSota | Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron
Votes: 2,574
18. Naked Blood (1996)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe
Votes: 2,264
19. Wild Zero (1999)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
Director: Tetsuro Takeuchi | Stars: Guitar Wolf, Drum Wolf, Bass Wolf, Masashi Endô
Votes: 3,803
20. Inugami (2001)
Unrated | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Yûki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, Eugene Harada, Shiho Fujimura
Votes: 908
21. Ranpo jigoku (2005)
134 min | Fantasy, Horror
This four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo.
Directors: Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Suguru Takeuchi | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Yûko Daike, Chisako Hara, Masami Horiuchi
Votes: 1,195
22. Necropolis (1970)
124 min | Fantasy, Horror
Bizarre Art Movie which purports to be a 'statement about life'. The longer 120 minutes 35mm. version includes bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory (here called Marthory), the Frankenstein ... See full summary »
Director: Franco Brocani | Stars: Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Jabara
Votes: 136
23. Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) (2015)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex. She meets Junior online, he's an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Daniel F. Molero | Stars: Muki Sabogal, Terom, Liliana Albornoz, Michel Lovón
Votes: 182
24. Org (1979)
177 min | Fantasy, Horror
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile,... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Terence Hill, Lidija Juracik, Isaac Twen Obu, Nolika Pareda
Votes: 114
25. 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
26. The Klatos Paradox (2020)
117 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An incompetent time traveler must team up with his unpredictable alternate self, to fix a paradox which is now slowly destroying the universe.
Director: Mars Fargo | Stars: Mars Fargo, Kennedi Hobbs, Reagan Kacmar, Blake Laisure
Votes: 94
27. Way Down Low (2007)
Not Rated | 60 min | Horror
Mister Ricky lives in the basement of a woman he calls "Grammy," who may or may not be poisoning him, thereby creating delusional yearnings within Ricky to channel the spirit of the long-departed "Gramps."
Director: Ryan Standfest | Stars: George Basso, Clarice Bradley, Morris Drape
Votes: 42
28. Re HaiVaan (2018)
Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A nearly-reformed psychopathic shooter with a history of violence is assigned to hunt down a psychopathic killer who's on the run and plans to flee the country.
Director: Achyut Prashast Singh | Star: Achyut Prashast Singh
29. Jabondang seoneon: Mangukui nodongjayeo, chukcheothara! (2003)
115 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A strange and yet unique story about hoodlums who spend most of their times either on gambling or dealing pornography's, high school students who sell their bodies, and prostitutes.
Directors: Gok Kim, Sun Kim | Star: Kim Min-jin
Votes: 27
30. The Lowborn (2009)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Dale Dugay, a young IRS agent who gets a chance for promotion must travel out to the sticks and audit some troublesome locals. The task seems simple, but he soon finds that the natives are a degenerate band of sadistic maniacs.
Director: Matt Hewitt | Stars: Ryan Abernathy, Travis John Adams, Frankie Alvarez, Nate Bernot
Votes: 14
31. The Bigmoon Nights (1990)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The film "Nights full moon" shows the tendency of moral decay in society. The main character is torn apart by internal contradictions, leading him to the path of Evil. Bans on ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitri Frolov | Stars: Oriza Triznyak, Igor Arsenyev, Aleksey Frolov, Vladimir Ignatyev
Votes: 66
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