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Plot Summary:
After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five includes 3 scientists, Zane's brother Jack, and a reporter. Quickly, the group is down to three and then Jack and Bridget, the reporter. With a small piece of alien technology, they must escape from the aliens, who take human form, and try to convince others that aliens exist.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious
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Strange Invaders (1983)
Plot Summary:
Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don't believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he is chased by the aliens.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult film
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Alien Abduction (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, independent film
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The Invader (1997)
Plot Summary:
Good alien from a dying race must impregnate an Earth woman to avoid extinction of his race. Bad alien whose race helped wipe out good alien's race doesn't want to see this happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystic, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious
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Attack of the Unknown (2020)
Plot Summary:
A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Specimen (1996)
Plot Summary:
After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring back their "specimen"--dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Silent Warnings (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer joins his girlfriend and four friends of them to visit and clean the inherited farm in the country. The local Sheriff Bill Willingham is an old friend of Layne, and also grieves the death of Joe. When the group arrives in the farm, some weird and mysterious signs appear in the cornfield, but they believe the other locals are joking with them. When Iris Doyle vanishes, the rest of the group realizes that there is a serious menace jeopardizing that place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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Endangered Species (2002)
Plot Summary:
When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally execute human beings. Finding themselves out of their depth they are forced to rely on a mysterious alien hunter that has volunteered his help.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, slasher, rough, serious, fast
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Species: The Awakening (2007)
Plot Summary:
A scientist, Dr Holander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, sexy, grindhouse, classic horror, exciting
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The Shadow Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They awaken a couple of hours later, seemingly unscathed but soon driven mad by recurring nightmares. It soon appears that they have been abducted by aliens as proved by their sons handycam that had suddenly started running right after the incident. This mysterious fact is discovered by even more mysterious Men In Black who start nagging the family up to the point of threatening to kill them. Laughed at by the police the threesome seek refuge at sf-writer Stan Mills' house and start fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Ejecta (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror, independent film
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Altered (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Night Skies (2007)
Plot Summary:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, depressing, suspense
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Species III (2004)
Plot Summary:
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual, scary, suspense, grindhouse, ridiculous
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Extraterrestrial (2014)
Plot Summary:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, teen horror, psychological, futuristic, slasher
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Project Viper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle Olympus is on a routine mission, but with a far-from-routine payload: "Project Viper," an experimental hybrid of human genes and computer chips, designed to adapt to any environment, particularly that of Mars. But as the shuttle crew prepares to launch the prototype into space, something unexpected occurs. Soon the astronauts are dead, and the Secretary of Defense orders the remaining prototype destroyed. To do the job, he calls on devil-may-care special agent Mike Connors (Patrick Muldoon).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
Plot Summary:
Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death. It ran for five seasons between October 6, 1997, and May 20, 2002. The original title for the show was Battleground: Earth, but the producers changed it because it sounded too much like L. Ron Hubbard's novel, Battlefield Earth. The executive producer was Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. She also appeared in some early episodes as the character Dr Julianne Belman. Barrett was in possession of notes Roddenberry kept of story and series ideas; after his death, these notes provided the basis for this series.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful
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Area 51 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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Species (1995)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, sexual, slasher horror, disturbing
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Alien Raiders (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, christmas horror, intense, captivating, futuristic, cult classic
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Invasion of the Pod People (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a meteor shower in California, Melissa feels that her co-workers and her boss Samantha that work in the agency owned by Vickland are acting differently after receiving a weird plant. She shares her fears with her colleague Billie and with Detective Alexander that are the only persons that she can trust.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, suspense, apocalyptic, natural horror, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, detective, sexy
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Terminal Invasion (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, fast, cult film
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Species II (1998)
Plot Summary:
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, mystical, dark, mystic
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The Puppet Masters (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic, apocalyptic, anamorphic, action adventure, space horror, serious
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Supernova (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting, captivating, entertaining, dark, cyber, disgusting
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The Arrival (1996)
Plot Summary:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic, surprise ending, atmospheric, mystical, apocalyptic
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The Hidden (1987)
Plot Summary:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic, intense, detective
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Dark Breed (1996)
Plot Summary:
Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them. What could the government want them for?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mockumentary, scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, space horror, atmospheric, spooky