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Plot Summary:
Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, independent film
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Twice Dead (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground for a local street gang. But the gang is not all the Cates children have to worry about as Tyler's ghost makes it known he is not pleased with their intrusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)
Plot Summary:
Horror story of a beautiful girl turns into a man-eating cobra.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 81%
The Last Resort (2009)
Plot Summary:
They were looking for the ultimate getaway, they planned for the perfect paradise vacation; what they’re about to get is a trip no one is prepared for. When a group of five girlfriends heads for the tropics, they relax, hit the beach and step out for a night of partying. All is fun and games, until someone gets hurt. Robbed by their tour guide and left for dead, the girls take shelter in an old ab.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bloodtide (1982)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, lovecraft, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of cave explorers are confronted in an underground cavern by a mysterious living rock. Little do they know that it bears home to deadly, flesh-eating creatures, intent on wiping out the entire human population. An ultra low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, brutal, gothic horror, mystic, mockbuster, classic horror, disgusting, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Sledgehammer (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Demon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, gothic horror, detective, grindhouse, psychotronic, odd
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The Black Room (1982)
Plot Summary:
A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Hellmaster (1992)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Silent Madness (1984)
Plot Summary:
A homicidal maniac is accidentally released from a hospital because of a computer error and heads to the site (a sorority) of his past murders to continue his penchant for mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, cult classic, independent film, slasher horror, weird, cult film
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Caregiver (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Paige Hopkins begins working at a halfway house for degenerate teenage girls, she believes that her syrupy sweet disposition is just what the girls need to find their path to redemption. But these hardened street girls show Paige that she couldn't be more out of place. So Paige quickly adapts to their ways - which includes beatings, torture and even murder - all delivered with a smile. Gradually, it becomes clear that she may be more troubled than any of her charges. Written by Brain Damage Films.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Barracuda (1978)
Plot Summary:
Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, rough, natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror, surprise ending, independent film
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Horror on Snape Island (1972)
Plot Summary:
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, sexy, classic horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bikini Mayhem (2015)
Plot Summary:
All Ivy Winters wanted was to be a model. After meeting with a potential agent, it seemed like her career was finally on the right path. But she soon finds herself drugged and humiliated. With her life spiraling out of control, Ivy is on the fast track to destruction. When tragedy strikes, she quickly realizes it's time to enact bloody revenge on those who destroyed her dreams. It's time for a little...Bikini Mayhem!.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Memorial Valley Massacre (1988)
Plot Summary:
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, classic horror, independent film
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Up from the Depths (1979)
Plot Summary:
A menacing shark-like predator attacks a Hawaiian tourist area in this low-budget creature feature. An uncredited Roger Corman served as executive producer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, absurd, natural horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, dark comedy, parody
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The Watermen (2012)
Plot Summary:
A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, rough, bleak
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Cabin by the Lake (2000)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychotronic, creepy, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Bonehill Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young couple become stranded in the woods where they encounter a werewolf and a house of horrors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic
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Lake Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, perverse, serious, independent film
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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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Shark Night 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror, psychotronic, teen horror, surprise ending
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The Wisher (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, teen horror
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, natural horror, spoof, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, scary, funny, brutal, sensual, classic horror, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl who possesses the power of telekinesis accidentally causes her father's death after a family dispute at Crystal Lake. Years later, when a doctor tries to exploit her abilities, her power becomes a hellish curse, and she unwittingly unchains the merciless, bloodthirsty Jason Voorhees from his watery grave.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, bloody, classic horror, suspense, splatter, retro, dark, anime, cult horror
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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, bloody, sadistic, splatter, slasher, brutal, rough, suspenseful
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Piranha 3DD (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, splatter, horror comedy, humorous, spoof, disturbing, erotic
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, suspenseful, psychological, slasher horror, saga, controversial, mystic
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Plot Summary:
Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders. Now it’s up to Tommy to stop the dark, devious and demented deaths that he unwittingly brought about.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror, suspense, retro, dark, controversial, anime