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Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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The Day It Came to Earth (1977)
Plot Summary:
A glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. Students from the local college use the pond for a swimming hole. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Purple Glow (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Frankenstein (2015)
Plot Summary:
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, disturbing, medical horror
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Black Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy, cult film
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Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Plot Summary:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
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The Brain Leeches (1978)
Plot Summary:
Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town. The head leech is a wad of black tinfoil with a couple of white thumbtacks for eyes. Others are spidery-like rubber things pulled along by strings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film, amateur film
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Biohazard (1985)
Plot Summary:
Alien monster uses a psychic to try to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, independent film, corny
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The Dark (1979)
Plot Summary:
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, slasher, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Assignment Terror (1970)
Plot Summary:
Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by praying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists (Michael Rennie and Karin Dor) back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster (both played by Jacinto Molina), the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic horror, detective, grindhouse, classic horror, cult film
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Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Plot Summary:
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, scary, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, campy
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Island of Terror (1966)
Plot Summary:
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, black and white, classic horror, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Watchers III (1994)
Plot Summary:
A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Terror in the Swamp (1985)
Plot Summary:
In effort to create the perfect nutria for breeding by the fur industry, a scientist and his assistant inadvertently create a brutal mutation that escapes into the nearby swamps.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Evil Spawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Frankenstein (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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Frankenstein's Army (2013)
Plot Summary:
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, scary, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, mockbuster, mockumentary
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Laserblast (1978)
Plot Summary:
Loner teenager Billy Duncan (Kim Milford) stumbles across a lost alien ray gun while wandering the desert one day. Billy uses the destructive weapon to get revenge on his enemies, but quickly finds himself beginning to turn into a violent, alien creature who destroys anyone who offends him.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, mysterious, grindhouse, mockbuster, cult classic, disgusting, scary, exciting, offbeat
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The Alien Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, horror comedy, campy
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Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to disfuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film
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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Island Claws (1980)
Plot Summary:
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient "baby" beings hunting down and killing its male DNA donors, while at the same time trying to mate with its female donors. The head of the lab wants to destroy the monster before the press can get wind of the story, but the former head of security wants to expose the whole thing.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unseen Evil 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, Kate. But first they have to get her released from the mental institution she's been confined to since the horrific attack. Written.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror, terrifying, serious
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, captivating, medical horror, classic horror, offbeat, talky
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The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
Plot Summary:
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, natural horror, captivating, retro, cult classic, offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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The Nest (1987)
Plot Summary:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, natural horror, retro, cult horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Hydra (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (and apparent former Nazi) unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, gain revenge on those who have spurned him, and kidnap nubile young women to similarly transform so that he can breed. Or something like that.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, surprise ending