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Plot Summary:
PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating and killing whatever they fancy, wreaking a night of bloody terror. It's up to regular Italian-trash whipping girl Lorraine De Selle and obnoxious Super Mario lookalike zookeeper John Aldrich to sort it out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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And When She Was Bad (1981)
Plot Summary:
Julia (Trish Everly, in her only film role), a young teacher for deaf children living in Savannah, Georgia. Julia has horrid memories of her childhood, which was scarred by her sadistic twin sister Mary (Allison Biggers). At the urging of her uncle, Father James, Julia visits Mary, suffering from a severe skin disease, in a mental institution. The meet does not go well, and Mary vows to make Julia "suffer as she had suffered". As their mutual birthday approaches, several of Julia's friends and neighbors begin to die gruesome deaths, some of which committed by a mysterious Rottweiler dog that has some sort of connection to Mary. But is Mary really the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, retro, bloody, art house, southern gothic, grindhouse
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The Occultist (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a group of med students go to take their final exams, they find themselves subjects of a twisted and bloody Satanic ritual led by their professor. It's up to two of them to save all.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, exciting, tense, rough, medical horror, splatter
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Rat Man (1988)
Plot Summary:
A maniac butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investagation and decides to go snooping on her own. With her friend, Fred, their investagations lead them to an unknown part of the island where they discover a monstrosity of a rat like man. The creature is killed by Fred, but the true horror of it's nature is just beginning.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic
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The House of Clocks (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, black comedy
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Ballad in Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's the day after Halloween. Jacopo and Duke wake up in the apartment of two girls: Lenka, the Czech Republic, and Elizabeth, English, both in Italy thanks to the Erasmus project. The dawn of that new day brings with it a big problem: Elizabeth died. But there's more, because none of the three remember what happened. Neither James nor Duke nor Lenka, remember what happened that night.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hot
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Link (1986)
Plot Summary:
A zoology student must try to out smart a murderous and super-intelligent orangutan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild, eighties, low-budget
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The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire playboy Hugo flies around Acapulco in his private helicopter to pick up sexy young women. He whisks them away to his secluded old castle, where he wines and dines them. With the aid of his bald mute little helper Gorgo, he kills his dates, keeping their heads in a crystal cage and feeding their chopped up body parts to his 1,000-strong army of blood thirty, flesh hungry cats.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic
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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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Shark Lake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meredith Hendricks happens to be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and her team discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, suspenseful, natural horror
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The Pyramid (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology, splatter
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The Uncanny (1977)
Plot Summary:
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, classic horror, natural horror, scary, serious
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Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Slugs (1988)
Plot Summary:
People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, natural horror, slasher, retro, splatter, horror comedy, perverse
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Willard (1971)
Plot Summary:
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, grindhouse, controversial, classic horror, tense, serious
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The Great Alligator (1979)
Plot Summary:
A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild, cult film
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Cat Sick Blues (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Ted’s beloved cat dies, the trauma triggers a terrible mental breakdown. His broken brain prompts him to bring his feline friend back – all he needs is nine human lives. Ted dons vicious deadly cat claw gloves and a creepy cat mask, and goes on a murderous rampage. As the butchery escalates, a twisted romance blossoms between Ted and Claire, a young woman who has also recently lost her cat in a horrifying incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, weird
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Prey (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Lion Terrorizes the City of Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, natural horror
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Strays (1991)
Plot Summary:
Family moves into new home and is attacked by stray cats.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, natural horror
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The Last Shark (1981)
Plot Summary:
An enormous and angry 35 foot Great White Shark takes revenge on humans when they build a beach just for swimmers by a coastal town. After several shark attacks, and the Mayor does nothing to stop it, James Franisscus and Vic Morrow sail in pursuit to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, mockbuster, cult classic, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sabertooth (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing, perverse, fast, psychotronic, serious
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Clawed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after the incidents in Black Claw Mountain, a group of students are prey to a monster part human, part bear and part liquid.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surprise ending, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Demons (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspense, splatter, slasher, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult horror
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The Black Cat (1981)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, psychological, mind bending, serious, demonic, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Croc (2007)
Plot Summary:
A large man-eating crocodile terrorizes tourists and locals near Krabi, in Thailand. Michael Madsen plays a hunter stalking the immense reptile, while sub-plots include a rivalry between a foreigner, who owns a crocodile-farm, and a Thai man who plays a part in framing the foreigner for the crocodile's rampage.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing, captivating, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Nightwing (1979)
Plot Summary:
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, wild, cult film
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Halloween II (1981)
Plot Summary:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, slasher horror, tense, creepy, cult classic
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Plot Summary:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody, psychotronic, gothic, rough, lovecraft, controversial
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Graveyard Shift (1990)
Plot Summary:
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, slasher, disturbing, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark
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Inferno (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, psychological, scary, gothic, suspenseful, grindhouse, suspense, atmospheric, surreal