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Plot Summary:
Vena Norris and her parents get jobs at Mr. Malatesta's carnival running a midway games booth. But they are really part of the traveling show circuit under incredibly false pretenses. Vena's brother disappeared one night while visiting the evil attraction, and his kinfolk are convinced they can discover what happened to him by scamming teenagers out of their allowances. What they do learn is pretty strange indeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, spooky, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, slasher, independent film
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Carnival of Blood (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, surprise ending, slasher horror, cult film
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New York Vampire (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man (Tommy Sweeney) who's depressed about his failed suicide attempt, winds up going to a friends party anyway. Although his friends seem insensitive about his plight, he meets a model who sheds a different light on death.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, hot
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Blood Massacre (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gang are on the run after a video store robbery goes wrong and results in a death. One of their party, Rizzo is maybe not as stable as he should be. Hiding out at a family's farm house, events unfold that reveal not everything is as it seems. Who will survive the Blood Massacre?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film, biting, suspense, weird
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She Freak (1967)
Plot Summary:
Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, slasher, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, campy, cult film
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Mo (1983)
Plot Summary:
After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monsters, spooky apparitions, beastly crocodile skeletons, flying human heads, a sexy female zombie with long talons, and demonic bats lie in store for our hero.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychedelic, controversial, psychotronic, mystic, dark comedy, spooky, weird, bizarre
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Blood Bath (1966)
Plot Summary:
A crazed artist who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a murderous vampire kills young women, then boils their bodies in a vat.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surreal, cult film
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I Eat Your Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, black and white, exotic, cult film
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Welcome to Arrow Beach (1973)
Plot Summary:
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Unnamable (1988)
Plot Summary:
Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead to 1998, and some college students have heard the story about the unnamable and want to check out the vault.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, slasher, independent film, retro, splatter, mystic, semi serious, spooky, weird, eighties
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XX (2017)
Plot Summary:
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, USA, Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, christmas horror, captivating, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher
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Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, low-budget
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Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Sideshow (2000)
Plot Summary:
While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, weird, cult film
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This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, controversial, scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surreal
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Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973)
Plot Summary:
Novice witch Cindy is transported into a world of safe sex by the voice of Abigail from the 17th century.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, satanic, psychotronic, grindhouse, weird
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Cover Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates (Keith and Rupert Davies) were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie (Kim Butcher) begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, gothic horror, creepy, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, dark comedy, psychological, atmospheric
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Bloodeaters (1980)
Plot Summary:
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
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Messiah of Evil (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, atmospheric, creepy, classic horror, psychological, psychological thriller, slasher, surreal, gothic horror
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Baby Blood (1990)
Plot Summary:
A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, controversial, demonic, mystic, perverse
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Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
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Dracula's Dog (1977)
Plot Summary:
Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird, cult film
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The Funhouse (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, atmospheric, bloody, grindhouse, stylized, intense, disturbing, rough
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Plot Summary:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy, demonic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, scary, brutal, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, grindhouse
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, suspense, bloody, splatter, cult classic, creepy, dark
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The Evil Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, psychotronic, bloody, grindhouse, creepy, controversial, dark, lovecraft, independent film
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, disturbing, bloody, creepy, dark, spooky
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Fright Night (1985)
Plot Summary:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandrige has set his sights on Charley's girlfriend (Amanda Bearse) in this clever spoof of the horror genre.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, cult classic, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, splatter, grindhouse