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Plot Summary:
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town, and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Hollywood 90028 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes through life detached, alone, and unable to control his psychotic desire to kill the things he loves most. Employed as a cameraman in a seedy porno operation, he spends his days separated from the shame and degradation by the camera he uses to record it. When he is confronted with the reality of an actual sexual encounter, without his camera for protection, he invariably strangles his partner during the lovemaking process. But then he meets a girl...and the nightmare begins!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Play Dead (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, brutal, independent film, awful
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The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Plot Summary:
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Black Zoo (1963)
Plot Summary:
A deranged animal lover unleashes his toothy pets on anyone who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, natural horror
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Killer Bees (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic
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Heatwave! (1974)
Plot Summary:
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Flood! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Migrants (1974)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Cyclone (1978)
Plot Summary:
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film
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Baba Joon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti doesn't like working in the turkey barn; his passion is fixing up junkyard cars and bringing them back to life. Moti's mother Sarah tries to reconcile between the two, while his grandfather pushes Yitzhak to take a firm hand with his son. Yitzhak takes Moti's refusal to work in the turkey barn as a personal rejection. Though he loves his son dearly, he makes it his mission to impose the family farm on Moti. The arrival of Darius, the uncle from America, sets off a chain of events that will undermine the familial harmony. Soon enough Yitzhak will learn that his son is just as stubborn as he is. The conflict is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic
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Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Plot Summary:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, corny, disaster movie
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993)
Plot Summary:
In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Squirm (1976)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, perverse, pastoral, independent film
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979)
Plot Summary:
The girl by the side of the road. You've seen her standing there. Thumb out. Smiling. There are thousands like her all over America. And you've heard about what happens to some of them when they get in the wrong car. This movie is about one of these kids. And about her family. But it could be about your family. Where is your daughter tonight?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Sin You Sinners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
Plot Summary:
TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Ants (1977)
Plot Summary:
A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, natural horror, suspense, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, ridiculous, cult film, disaster movie
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The Savage Bees (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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SST: Death Flight (1977)
Plot Summary:
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, disaster movie
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Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
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Killer Bees (2002)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff tries to save unsuspecting townspeople, including his estranged wife and young daughter, from a deadly swarm.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, scary, psychotronic
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Plot Summary:
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Skylark (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Swarm (2020)
Plot Summary:
Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura (15) and Gaston (7) and raises locusts as a high-protein crop. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high. But everything changes when she discovers the locusts have a taste for blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, atmospheric, perverse, psychological horror, psychological, weird
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The Witch in the Window (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, psychological horror, spooky, psychotronic, cult film
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Under the Bed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mystical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Hurricane (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Locusts (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, scary, rough, disaster movie
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Burning Bright (2010)
Plot Summary:
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating beast. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the gutsy heroine and her younger sibling as they struggle to outwit the ravenous predator and find a way to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious, realistic, psychotronic, natural horror, surreal, minimal cast