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Plot Summary:
A young woman is released from prison, after serving an eight-year sentence for murder, and wishes to start her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper through a friend, she tries to settle in despite the pressures of being an ex-convict. When bizarre incidents begin to occur both at work and at home, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her. NOTE: This is the 1985 IFD (Godfrey Ho & company) re-edit (with English dubbing) of Karen Yang Taiwanese thriller, Exposed to Danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the Canyon High School reopens under the administration of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, the students recall Devon Anderson, a boy that killed his parents and vanished. On the first day of class, there is double homicide and Symphony, her boyfriend Craig and her friends Josh and Genesis believe that Bloody Devon is back, but the police believe in a copycat. The sensationalist reporter Miller also attributes the murder to Devon. But Devon is really back with his baseball golf and he wants to play killing people.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Horror, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Satan Returns (1996)
Plot Summary:
Women born on the 6th June are being killed around Hong Kong. There is a lunatic on the loose. Ching, a police psychologist, looks to be the next victim. She is suffering from terrifying dreams involving the devil himself. All becomes clear when the killer is revealed as Satan's disciple, his body possessed, searching for the reincarnation of Satan's daughter on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, twist ending, ambiguous ending
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The Oily Maniac (1976)
Plot Summary:
A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
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Revenge of the Corpse (1981)
Plot Summary:
A story of a coffin maker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Eventually released constable loose of some grave robbers, the constables ghost is out to make the lives of all those involved in his death miserable. (A Shaw Brothers production).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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The dignified killers (1991)
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Huei (Lam Wai - Long Arm of The Law) returns home and gets heavily involved in gangster activity once more working alongside boss Luo (Ku Feng). Re-connecting with friend Ping (Emily Chu - A Better Tomorrow) who's now working as a bar girl to earn money for her father's operation, gangster activity is now mixed with romantic activity. Something that enrages Huei's triad brother Sen (Lung Siu-Wa) to the point of betrayal...(www.sogoodreviews.com).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Shaolin Handlock (1978)
Plot Summary:
As an expert of the 'Cross fists' technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the 'Shaolin Handlock' while an old wolf-in-sheep's-clothing friend Fang Yun-piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Handlock maneuver, Cheng-ying & Kun Shih joins forces to exact revenge on the evil Ling Hao after the truth is unraveled.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
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Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)
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Ailing, egotistical and sexually perverted rock-star Bobby Barzell (who sold his soul for wealth and rock and roll stardom) awaits a liver transplant from a psychotic fugitive of the law; as a vengeful, demonic alien tries to collect a past debt.
IMDB Rating: 1.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, neo noir, independent film, exciting
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Passionate Killing in the Dream (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman can see through the mind of a serial killer. But can she use her talents to alert the police to the killer's next move or will the killer catch on and track her down.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
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The Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead (1991)
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A teacher and his five female students are attacked by a monster with neon-green eyes.The teacher escapes but his students are completely dismembered.He soon discovers the monster is worshipped by a cult whose ambition is to rule the world and tear the clothes off young girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
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Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, disturbing, independent film
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Blood of the Dragon (1971)
Plot Summary:
White Dragon must get a list with the names of rebel supporters to Prince Ma Tung, the leader of the rebellion. Trying to stop him in his mission is the evil Prime Minister, who naturally wants the list in order to crush his opposition. Adding another complication is the fact that Ma Tung wants to kill White Dragon in revenge for the humiliation Tung's father suffered in a duel against White Dragon years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Fighting Ace (1979)
Plot Summary:
20 years after the death of his parents, a martial artist sets out to avenge their deaths by pretending he doesn't know kung fu. But when it is revealed that he does know kung fu, the killer sets to kill him and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Human Lanterns (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps from, yes, the skin of his enemies' sisters, mistresses, and wives. Although insanely conceived, it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung-fu favorites.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, weird, cult film
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Blood Hunt (2017)
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Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, perverse
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Damon's Revenge (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of young adults spend the weekend at a friend's house by the lake. Joined by the local sheriff, the group encounters an escaped convict Native American chief, a copycat killer and the return of the terrifying masked killer, Damon.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Wrath of Silence (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mortician seeks revenge against a serial killer who has murdered her sister. However, there is a case of mistaken identity and she begins to target her psychiatrist instead.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
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The Ravager (1970)
Plot Summary:
While serving in Vietnam, a demolitionist witnesses the brutal torture/rape/murder of a young woman… ultimately, he becomes a serial rapist and killer himself, preferring explosives as his murder weapon of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
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Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, cult classic, scary, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Karl Jr continues his killing spree on a remote island with the help of his father and their army of metal masked mercenaries known as the Infantry Of Doom. A band of castaways are turned loose in the wilderness and hunted down, where they must fight to survive. They have moon's phase time to make across the island safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, splatter, cult film
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Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Plot Summary:
Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, bloody, disturbing, controversial, art house, hood, cult classic, cult horror, action adventure, indie film
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Wilderness (2006)
Plot Summary:
Juvenile delinquents gets sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoners death, where they have to fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bloody, dark, disturbing
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When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (2008)
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The dead have risen to feast on the flesh of the living, and just when it seems that all hope for humanity has been lost, bikini girls with machine guns take one last shot at saving mankind from certain extinction. In the near future, a deranged scientist named Sugita has conducted a series of experiments intended to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately for the entire population of the planet, these experiments were a resounding success. Now, as a massive, shambling army of the undead launches a bloody war against their living counterparts, wandering beauties Aya (Eri Otoguro) and Reiko (Manami Hashimoto) team up to destroy every last zombie in sight. Unfortunately, Aya's sword-wielding schoolgirl sister Saki (Chise Nakamura) is in league with the nefarious Sugita. When Aya discovers that Saki has killed their father, she vows to take brutal revenge against her murderous younger sibling. Meanwhile, the zombie population is growing at an alarming rate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, scary, suspense, action adventure, fast, surprise ending
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Monster Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer leaves behind a trail of headless bodies; the special agent assigned to the case begins to uncover the supernatural truth, as his young protégé falls for a beautiful girl who may be more than humanity can handle.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, splatter
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Demon Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young girl tormented by the tragedies of her past is brought in for questioning by the police over the death of a man, who she claims to be a demon. Detective Beckett realizes this is the same girl he made a broken promise to seven years ago that he'd find the monster that raped and murdered her 12 year old sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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3 from Hell (2019)
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After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Wilson, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, rough, scary, suspenseful, bleak, grindhouse, splatter, cult classic, mindfuck
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Plot Summary:
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, captivating, perverse, offbeat, fast
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Psycho Gothic Lolita (2010)
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Yuki lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and kill her mother. In order to revenge herself Yuki becomes a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, using a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in God's name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, bleak, realistic, splatter, surreal, offbeat
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The Horde (2009)
Plot Summary:
A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise block, these two opposing gangs find that they are not alone in the lair of bloodthirsty corridors of death. Joining forces to survive, they must reach ground level together or perish. Loaded with a bad ass attitude, guns, axes and extremely creative hand-to-hand combat sequences that project the fears and paranoia that are the fighting forces behind the need to survive, when caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, brutal, epic
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Plot Summary:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, sadistic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, bloody