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Plot Summary:
In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. Camille, a nine year old girl wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombies and the armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone who might be infected. However, the little girl will find other kids like her that share a recurring dream of: they all have visions of the ocean as their destiny. Together they will try to survive the journey to the ocean in search of an escape from the military who seem to be as determined on their destruction as on the zombies. Written by David Pollison/Solos Website.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, natural horror, exciting, offbeat, lovecraft
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Real Playing Game (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, futuristic
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For the Cause (2000)
Plot Summary:
The ultimate showdown on a forbidden planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, stylized, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Time of the Apes (1985)
Plot Summary:
A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, experimental
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Zombie Dawn (2011)
Plot Summary:
2006. A mysterious mining accident in a remote territory unleashes an unspeakable horror that creates a zombie horde with an appetite for human flesh. It decimates large portions of the country. The only course of action is to rapidly enclose the infected areas and seal them off from the rest of the remaining, living population. NOW. 15 years later the tattered remains of the government and the mining corporation responsible where the initial event took place commit themselves to finding out what may have happened at the mining complex. The solution is to send in a group of mercenaries and scientists into the quarantined zone to find answers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror, War
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspense
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Viral Assassins (1997)
Plot Summary:
To some, it’s murder. To them, it’s just work. The Troma Team is proud to present Robert Larkin’s intense sci-fi thriller Viral Assassins. In the not so distant future, a terminal disease will make cancer look like the common cold. The government’s solution to this epidemic is to make carrying the disease a capital crime, punishable by death through a team of highly trained assassins. This not only lowers the risk of the disease spreading but also greatly lowers health costs for the average Joe. But what happens if the government becomes infected? The only hope for a vaccine is trapped within the diseased body and mind of a government lab technician. Unfortunately, the government hires their most dedicated and trigger-happy assassin to eliminate her. Will the assassin uphold the government’s heinous order, or will he jeopardize his own life, reputation and health insurance by eliminating her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockbuster, exciting, bleak, political thriller
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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White Wall (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of the world's population. The non-infected survivors now cling to life in four quarantined cities behind a wall. Shawn Kors and his brother, Jude, survived the VXII only to grow up in a squalid internment camp for orphaned children. Under the care of the militia, they were pitted against other children in backwoods death matches. Shawn, Jude, and the few who escaped became notorious for their incredible fighting skills. They have since parted ways. Shawn now makes a comfortable living as a janitor at the local medic station. He spends his days dreaming of curing the VXII. When Shawn discovers the discarded body of a fellow internment camp friend, he is forced out of hiding and pulled into a rabbit hole of conspiracy and violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting
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Knight of the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights escort the holy grail through a valley of black death where they must hack and slash their way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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The Dead 2: India (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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Days of Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the planet. For the few human beings who remain, going head to head with the flesh-eating fiends is their only chance for long-term survival. Yet their battle will be dark and cold, with overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense
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Zombie Wars (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world's population struggles to survive against the zombie hordes.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film, serious
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Lost In Apocalypse (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of seemingly unrelated individuals fight their way out of a virus-infested hotel, only to find themselves at a worse place than before.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dead Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bad night out just got a fair bit worse, it's the end of the world! Something terrible has happened, the undead are out in force; roaming the streets and devouring all who get in their way. A group of soldiers, civilians and teenagers take shelter in a local school for protection from the undead hordes outside, but no rescue is coming. Food is running low - morale doubly so, tensions are high and things are looking bad when a stranger arrives outside the gate. Then they get a whole lot worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tension
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Zombex (2013)
Plot Summary:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Code Red (2013)
Plot Summary:
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, scary, psychological, exciting, stylized
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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Ninja Apocalypse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Framed for assassinating the Grandmaster, the Lost Ninja Clan must battle their way up an underground nuclear bunker filled with hordes of supernatural enemies, mutants and flesh eating zombies. Trapped a thousand feet below the earth's crust, these ninjas will face hell.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, retro, stylized
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Rise of the Zombies (2012)
Plot Summary:
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, exciting, serious, independent film
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
Plot Summary:
The United States Government has developed a highly effective nerve gas that is unleashed upon the residents of a small Maryland City. During the top secret exercise the infected citizens begin to convert each resident into a sort of living zombie, until the remaining town residents, 6 total strangers, are trapped inside a movie theater cineplex.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, exciting
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Teenage Caveman (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, queer horror, futuristic, splatter, psychotronic, sex comedy
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I Am Omega (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.].
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, cyber, futuristic, fast, disaster movie
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Deadland (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of an eye, America has been plunged back into the Stone Age. Money is worthless, food is scarce, and those who once thought they were fortunate to survive the initial attack are now slowly being consumed from the inside out, the victims of an all-consuming nuclear scourge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie
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Autumn (2009)
Plot Summary:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, interactive
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Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Plot Summary:
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mockbuster, natural horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Dead Shadows (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, lovecraft
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Remains (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on two lone survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world's population to zombies. They take refuge in a vacant casino and fight a losing battle against the undead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, futuristic, scenic, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic, serious, epic, bloody, psychological, exciting