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Plot Summary:
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy, cult film
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Frankenstein (2015)
Plot Summary:
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, disturbing, medical horror
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The Body Shop (1972)
Plot Summary:
Emminent plastic surgeon and mad scientist Don Brandon loses his wife Anitra - pinup model and social butterfly - in a tragic accident. He and his faithful humpbacked and drooling assistant Igor - oops, I mean Greg - busy themselves experimenting with re-animation experiments. Once ready, the good Doctor begins luring young women back to the lab with hypnosis in order to gather select parts to create a New and Improved.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film
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Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Plot Summary:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
Plot Summary:
A doctor (Bernie Casey) in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy
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Frankenstein Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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The Projected Man (1966)
Plot Summary:
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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Creatures from the Abyss (1994)
Plot Summary:
Five teenagers embark on a boating trip off the coast of Florida. The teens get hopelessly lost at sea after they get caught in a fierce storm. Fortunately, the quintet stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board it. Unfortunately, there are also ferocious mutated prehistoric fish running amok on the yacht. Will any of the teens survive this harrowing ordeal?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, gothic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zombiez (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Uninvited (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, classic horror, natural horror, surprise ending, independent film, psychotronic
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Embryo (1976)
Plot Summary:
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, tech noir, mystic, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Plot Summary:
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, scary, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, campy
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)
Plot Summary:
Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a rabid weasel is transformed into a gigantic killer mutant. Prowling the countryside, the huge weasel kills and devours victims. The creature is captured by a disturbed scientist who plans to use its regenerative blood to amass an army of similar monsters, enabling him to conquer the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, natural horror, weird, cult film
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Frankenstein (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: gothic 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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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Island Claws (1980)
Plot Summary:
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by sexual exhaustion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, captivating, grindhouse, mysterious, classic horror, queer horror, independent film, erotic
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Nightbeast (1982)
Plot Summary:
An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, slasher, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, captivating, medical horror, classic horror, offbeat, talky
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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The Nest (1987)
Plot Summary:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, natural horror, retro, cult horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Mosquito Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly contagious, fatal infection Guinin. A convicted murderer, whom Thom arrested, is one of their special drug test subjects, but escapes. The convict and Jen are affected by radioactively altered DNA from an experimental reactor used on mosquitoes which transfer quinine. The convict soon mutates into a mosquito-like monster, which sucks its victims dry. By the time Thom and his junior murder brigade partner Charlie Morrison figure out what happens, Jen starts mutating herself.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, mockbuster, perverse, serious, tragic ending, biting
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Creepozoids (1987)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, freeze frame
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Forbidden World (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse, erotic, disturbing, medical horror, cult classic, lovecraft
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Hybrid (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of space renegades hook up with a drifter named McQueen. Together they hole up in an abandoned research facility for the night and are relentlessly pursued by a human/monster hybrid.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, independent film, futuristic, psychotronic
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Plot Summary:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, slasher, cult classic, splatter, lovecraft, independent film, absurd
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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