Top Italian Horror Films (2000-2015)

Top Italian Horror Films (2000-2015)

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Here's the Italian Horror Movies list in which we focused on pure Italian horror feature films released 2000 to 2015. We have attempted to pick the most known movies as well as the independent ones directed by italian filmmakers. All these movies got a DVD/Blu-ray release.

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The Hideout

Score: 43%

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The Hideout - "The Hideout" is a mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hos...

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Colour from the Dark

Score: 36%

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Colour from the Dark - Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb...

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Wrath of the Crows

Score: 30%

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Wrath of the Crows - Wrath of the crows is very gory and brutal, but tied by a strong concept and the whole story is focused on the characters' development. So there's not only splatter sequences, but also atmospheric moments, a few dream-like sequences and a final twist that will shock you all.

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Across the River

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Across the River - After a wildlife biologist becomes trapped on the wrong side of the river while collecting data, he comes across an abandoned village. Taking shelter, he begins to suspect he may be sharing the grounds with more than just boar and deer.

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Symphony in Blood Red

Score: 24%

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Symphony in Blood Red - Symphony in Blood Red is an Italian 'giallo', a horror film inspired by the work of Dario Argento. It is the first feature movie directed by Luigi Pastore, and in collaboration with Antonio Tentori (Cat In The Brain), who co-wrote the screenplay.

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P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie

Score: 24%

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P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie - 15 international directors reunite to re-tell Edgar Allan Poe's most popular terror tales.

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Mad in Italy

Score: 23%

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Mad in Italy - "Mad in Italy" is a truly disturbing psychological film based on true events about one girl's ordeal to stay alive at the hands of a young maniac. Featuring amazing cinematography by one of the most...

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The Perfect Husband

Score: 23%

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The Perfect Husband - Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their...

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The Hounds

Score: 22%

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The Hounds - A group of old friends, Sarah, Jake, Dave and Martin, decide to relive their college days by going on a hiking weekend, camping out overnight. At the same time, Mike, a police detective, is investigating...

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Evil Souls

Score: 22%

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Evil Souls - A child is born with a prophecy preordained. The guardian of the room unleashes his wrath on those who challenge his will. His evil soul knows no boundary as he ravages his sister in sexual gratificat...

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Beautiful People

Score: 22%

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Beautiful People - In a mansion in the woods, the peaceful life of a medical scientist and his family is upset by a three masked men raid. During an endless night of terror and violence, the unthinkable happens: the...

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The Pyramid

Score: 22%

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The Pyramid - Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.

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Sleepless

Score: 20%

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Sleepless - An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

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War Games

Score: 19%

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War Games - A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt...

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Morituris

Score: 18%

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Morituris - Rome, in 73 B.C. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators wich saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against the roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them went crazy and started murders, rapes and violence. Spartacus punished them with dead. But in those lands, when blood gets shed, they come back...

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P.O.E.: Project of Evil

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P.O.E.: Project of Evil - Following up the successful "P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie", some of the original filmmakers regrouped for this newest experiment which aims to bring the tales of Edgar Allen Poe to life through the...

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Evilenko

Score: 18%

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Evilenko - In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children...

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House of Flesh Mannequins

Score: 17%

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House of Flesh Mannequins - Sebastian, a loner artist, photographer and filmmaker spends his days in the seediness of life's elements. Taking pictures, photographing violent acts and spending a lot of time watching homemade films filled with jarring imagery, Sebastian also happens to be his building's landlord. He has also suffered an abused childhood...

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Bloodline

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Bloodline - Sandra's twin sister was brutally murdered by a serial killer when they were children. Fifteen years later Sandra is now a professional journalist whose career is on the fritz. Sandra is given one...

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The Butterfly Room

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The Butterfly Room - Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies, is befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother daughter...

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Shadow

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Shadow - A Young soldier returning from Iraq goes on a high mountain adventure in a desolate place in Europe to forget his past, he will lear truth in a mysterious local legend discovering that reality can be...

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Bloody Sin

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Bloody Sin - A crew of pornographers from New York travel to an ancient Italian castle, intending to revitalise the magazine they work for with some adventurous torture photography. There they are greeted by Terence Fisher, the castle’s German owner, whereupon two tales of old evil collide in bizarre and unpredictable ways.

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The Three Faces of Terror

Score: 15%

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The Three Faces of Terror - Three stories of terror.

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Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.

Score: 15%

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Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. - 1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti hypothesizes the possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of...

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Imago mortis

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Imago mortis - They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his...

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The Gerber Syndrome

Score: 14%

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The Gerber Syndrome - A TV crew is making a documentary about this new pathology. It's the Gerber syndrome, a highly contagious virus with devastating effects. Through the testimony of three people that are directly involved with the disease (a doctor, an infected girl, a young security agent) the truth is revealed, and it is way more terrifying than what the authorities want us to believe...

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Ghost Son

Score: 14%

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Ghost Son - A married couple Stacey and Mark live on the farm with their black teenage maid. Mark and Stacey love each other deeply. Unfortunately Mark dies in a tragic truck accident.Stacey returns to the farm and decides to remain there since she feels close to Mark.She is also carrying Mark's baby. After delivering the baby Stacey quickly becomes sure that her infant son is possessed by Mark's spirit. The evil force tries to kill Stacey to bring her to Mark.

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Mother of Tears

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Mother of Tears - An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking y...

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Hate2O

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Hate2O - Five girls travel to a remote mansion in the middle of a island, choosing to feed only on water in order to be purified. Seven days. No food, no electricity, no phones. Is the water their only mean of...

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The Last House in the Woods

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The Last House in the Woods - A woman escapes a group of bullies seeking to rape her and takes refuge with a seemingly kind couple who have a dark secret hidden in their quiet, secluded house.

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Eaters

Score: 12%

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Eaters - The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race...

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The Torturer

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The Torturer - The gorgeous young actress Ginette auditions for the lead role in the first long feature film of the controversial artist Alex Sherba and she's almost immediately submitted to a long series of harassing questions and indecent proposals. Alex quickly turns out to be a mentally unstable and potentially dangerous man...

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Naftalina

Score: 12%

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Naftalina - No plot.

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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show

Score: 11%

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Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show - Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's ...

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Tulpa

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Tulpa - Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career, but at night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything...

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Extreme Jukebox

Score: 9%

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Extreme Jukebox - Welcome to Nova Springs, a rock and roll metropolis chock-full of rising stars. Here you’ll meet Jessie Cake, a charismatic glam metal frontman and his groupie girlfriend, Chloe. After unearthing a...

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Paura 3D

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Paura 3D - Three young musicians think they have luck on their side when they score the keys to a beautiful villa outside of Rome for the weekend. Unfortunately, they soon discover that they are not alone.

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Zombie Massacre

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Zombie Massacre - A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies...

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Paranormal Stories

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Paranormal Stories - A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies...

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Evil Things

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Evil Things - Four kids take part in a pervert game - a torturer, the blog's master, four victims, none of them really innocent.

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Dracula 3D

Score: 7%

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Dracula 3D - When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker...

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The Haunting of Helena

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The Haunting of Helena - After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But...

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Smile

Score: 7%

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The Tomb

Score: 7%

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Cannibal World

Score: 7%

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Surrounded

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Surrounded - A woman finds herself home alone after her husband looks for work. A stranger shows up at her house, which is in the middle of nowhere.

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The House in the Wind of Dead

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The House in the Wind of Dead - Italy 1947. Attilio is a former movie star Fascist disgraced. In desperation, he joins a band of robbers to make a heat. After the robbery Attilio and his friends run to the hills being hunted by...

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Anger of the Dead

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Anger of the Dead - In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the plague.

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In the Market

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