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Plot Summary:
Two years after the nuclear bombs dropped and welcome to the future, where there’s no fuel or power, and society is a barbaric mess. Survivors Kate, husband Sam, and daughter Suzi are searching for a rumoured bunker that people say is full of food and medicine. En route, they meet the solitary Joe, who may not have the group’s best interests at heart. Kate will have to do everything possible to protect her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful
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Fear by the Lake (2020)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Tear Me Apart (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive, only to fall for their prey, a teenage girl... and possibly the last female left alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, psychological, tense
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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Postscript (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Postscript" is a series of short stories set in a nightmarish post-apocalyptic not-too-distant future. The film follows a handful of desperate survivors scattered around the globe as they endeavour to survive life-or-death struggles through harsh yet beautiful dystopian landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, psychotronic
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School's Out Forever (2021)
Plot Summary:
No sooner has 15-year-old Lee Keegan been expelled from his private school than an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world's population. With his father dead and mother trapped abroad, Lee is given one instruction: go back to school. But safety and security at St. Mark's School for Boys is in short supply. Its high walls can't stop the local parish council from forming a militia and imposing marshal law, while inside the dorms the end of the world is having a dangerous effect on his best friend and his unrequited crush on the school nurse isn't helping him concentrate on staying alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, apocalyptic, weird
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Virus Shark (2021)
Plot Summary:
A shark bite spreads a virus across the globe, turning the world upside down. Deep below the ocean, a group of researchers race against time to find a cure. Something has infected the lab technicians and it’s a race against time to reach the surface with an antidote before they are all killed by themselves and the sharks lurking inside the test pool and outside in the ocean.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, scary, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Armageddon Tales (2021)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a worldwide pandemic, two men with different agendas, two women from a survival colony, and young girl and a man each form alliances as they cross post-apocalyptic landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Mutant Blast (2018)
Plot Summary:
Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Portugal
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, psychotronic, splatter, independent film
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The Infected (2011)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around Marcos, a thirty something year old man largely unremarkable but for the fact that he managed to escape an epidemic of the undead sweeping through Mexico City - and, indeed, the world - by taking flight and surviving as best he can in the remote hill country. It is there that he meets and takes up with the oafish Renato, young mother Claudia and her young daughter Zoe. The rules to survive are simple. Leave no trace, make no sound and leave no odors behind. The undead, you see, hunt by sound and smell. And no matter how careful Marcos and his group are, the undead are ranging farther and farther afield looking for food as the population in the city dwindles. It is only a matter of time before they are found.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Zombie Exorcism (2010)
Plot Summary:
Opstandelsen brings the zombie apocalypse into the house of God. Simon's three siblings gather at his funeral - where all hell breaks loose as the undead rise from their graves, driving the siblings down into the deep dark catacombs below the church. Surrounded by death, they now have to face the congregation of zombies in order to escape the house of God alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft
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3 Hours till Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
An AWOL soldier with PTSD goes into hiding along with his brother and a few friends. They retreat into a rural farm area unaware that the outside world has ceased to function. On their way back to civilization, his brother is attacked by an infected farmer. He quickly morphs into a rabid animal and lives for exactly three hours. Realizing they are in grave danger, they head back to the forest trying to outlive the legions of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Year After Infection (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four stories, represented by each season, with diverse groups of people and the challenges they face after a zombie apocalypse. Trying to create a new life under the most dire of circumstances and dealing with letting go of their former lives, while coping with the constant danger of the infected. Will they survive? Will they want to?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Plan Z (2016)
Plot Summary:
One man has a plan for a zombie outbreak, when one occurs it will take all his will to stick to it and all of his courage to change it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Rat Scratch Fever (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brought back from a doomed space mission, an army of giant rats develop a big appetite for Los Angeles residents.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I Am Toxic (2018)
Plot Summary:
Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2101. The world has been ravaged by a biological warfare. A man wakes up in the desert, unable to remember anything of his previous life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Call of the Undead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A virus gets loose in Taipei Army and SWAT teams oversee evacuation but in Ximending the gangs don't want the police They attack the military but when both find themselves under attack by zombies there is an alliance as they try and escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scenic
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Apocalypse Rising (2018)
Plot Summary:
A human girl and her warrior comrades from another world travel to Earth to save humanity from an impending apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, apocalyptic, independent film
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The Carrier (2015)
Plot Summary:
England has been overrun by a pandemic with no apparent cure. As the infection continues to spread, safety - for a lucky few - looms in the form of a damaged 747 set to seek solace abroad. It's only once the plane is airborne that the survivors discover the infection made it onto the flight with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Night Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dinner party turns deadly when a group of friends is trapped inside of their house after a massive alien invasion threatens to take over the world. Things take a turn for the worse when they discover that the chemical the military is using to destroy the aliens is also turning humans into zombie-like savages. Now the group must band together and try to survive the night... if they don't kill each other first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dustwalker (2019)
Plot Summary:
An alien spaceship crash-lands in an isolated town in the middle of the Australian desert, releasing an insidious parasite that attacks the brain of all creatures including humans, making them disorientated, unnaturally strong and violent. Sargeant Jo Sharp, readying for a return to the big city beat, wakes to find the township, her family and friends falling victim to an evil that is spreading faster than it can be contained.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Hope (2020)
Plot Summary:
The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit restore order to the internment facilities when law and order breaks down. When the arrival of a mysterious girl collides with the uprising at the Briar's Hill Detention Centre, will Australia, the last hope for many, finally fall?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Road Wars (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disaster movie
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G - Zombie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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The Dead Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bad night out just got a fair bit worse, it's the end of the world! Something terrible has happened, the undead are out in force; roaming the streets and devouring all who get in their way. A group of soldiers, civilians and teenagers take shelter in a local school for protection from the undead hordes outside, but no rescue is coming. Food is running low - morale doubly so, tensions are high and things are looking bad when a stranger arrives outside the gate. Then they get a whole lot worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tension
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Edge of Extinction (2020)
Plot Summary:
15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying away from others has been key to his survival. But this self-imposed isolation comes to an abrupt end when he crosses paths with another group of survivors and faces an enemy far more savage than any of them could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: disturbing, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, splatter
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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Chrysalis (2014)
Plot Summary:
Joshua and Penelope are survivors of a deadly infection that laid waste to humanity 25 years ago. When they encounter fellow survivor Abira, their lives are forever changed as they fight off the remnants of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Germ (2013)
Plot Summary:
The military's attempt to shoot down an orbiting satellite unleashes a space-borne epidemic on a remote, small town. Deputy Max Brody and his girlfriend Brooke must battle their way through an army of infected townsfolk and soldiers as they struggle to save themselves and their loved ones from a horrible, early death. When cannibalism is contagious, will even the strong survive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, disaster movie
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Survivors (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kate Meadows (Joanne Gale) and her cameraman Duke (Simon Burbage) embark on a mission to uncover whether or not a government weapons contractor has secretly been using humans as their test subjects. As they dig deeper, they realise the brutal reality... The test subjects have escaped and are carrying a deadly new contagion meant for use in biological war. They soon find themselves in a race for their own survival as the military lose the fight against the infected and those responsible for the outbreak stop at nothing to prevent the truth being revealed... In a world without laws, without order and with nobody watching, how far would you go to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, disaster movie