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Plot Summary:
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, suspense, grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror
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Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Plot Summary:
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, gothic, gothic horror, suspense, dark, slasher, dark fairy tale, classic horror, atmospheric
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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, slasher, classic horror, suspense, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, atmospheric
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Fear Chamber (1968)
Plot Summary:
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Island of the Burning Damned (1967)
Plot Summary:
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, gothic horror, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, independent film
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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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The Curse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Hayes family and the members of the community.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, bleak, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, retro, slasher, surreal, grindhouse, classic horror
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Monstrosity (1963)
Plot Summary:
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, surreal, semi serious, cult film
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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Plot Summary:
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, queer horror, scary, atmospheric
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The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Plot Summary:
Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating his own monster. The gothic genre is re-worked to create a drama of black humour and farce.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak, suspense, classic horror, touching, grindhouse, dark comedy, medical horror
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Curse of the Fly (1965)
Plot Summary:
Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, played by Brian Donlevy and two grandsons). Seems the son wants to continue and perfect the machine while his two sons want to get out of the scientist business and live "normal" lives. The oldest son, Martin, decides to take a wife (who just happens to have escaped from a mental hospital after her parents died). Martin's father is not happy with this intrusion but finally gives in because he understands him son's needs. They all try to be a happy family until humans used in botched experiments are discovered by the new bride and the police nearly discover the lab while looking for Martin's wife. Everyone tries to get out of there via the transporter but things just don't go according to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, black and white, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, classic horror
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Plot Summary:
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Konga (1961)
Plot Summary:
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Shatterbrain (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, detective, retro, creepy, gothic, suspense, slasher, splatter, psychological horror, cult horror
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The Mutations (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
Plot Summary:
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, exciting, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, mind bending, psychedelic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror
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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Plot Summary:
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, satanic, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, suspense
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The Gorgon (1964)
Plot Summary:
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, serious, scary, psychological, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, grindhouse, independent film, scary, mind bending, offbeat
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Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Plot Summary:
During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a reptilian monster goes on a rampage. Eventually the Frankenstein creature and the reptile face off in a terrible battle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, offbeat, psychotronic
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The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark fantasy, demonic, detective
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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Plot Summary:
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, silent, stylized, suspenseful, surreal, visual, creepy
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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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Mind Ripper (1995)
Plot Summary:
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation. With the door sealed from within, there is no way out.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Haunted Palace (1963)
Plot Summary:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, tense, serious, classic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Russian scientist is arriving to the states caring secret information’s. Disembarking from his plane, he and his American contacts are attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison). Later, it is revealed that he has wandered in range of an American nuclear test. The radiation transforms Javorsky into a mindless killing beast (the Beast).
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, psychotronic, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror, independent film
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Warriors of Terra (2006)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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The Woman in Black (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, terrifying, dark, slasher
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From Beyond (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, lovecraft, demonic, grindhouse, surreal, intense, slasher, bloody