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Plot Summary:
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, offbeat, serious
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Brides of Blood (1968)
Plot Summary:
Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exotic
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The Crawling Hand (1963)
Plot Summary:
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, a teenager finds a severed arm among wreckage on earth. Soon the thing returns to life to murder and posses the young man's mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, scary, suspense, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, offbeat
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The Twilight People (1972)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, exotic
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, absurd, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, crying, psychotronic
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The Dark (1993)
Plot Summary:
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this miraculous being. Stalking the creature in it's subterranean habitat, neither man is aware of the battle they are about to start. A battle for science, survival and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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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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Beware! The Blob (1972)
Plot Summary:
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Plot Summary:
Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, psychotronic
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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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Venus Flytrap (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates man eating creatures from carnivorous plants.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, psychotronic
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Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, campy
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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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Growth (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1989, a breakthrough in "advanced parasitic research" on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But - something in the experiment went horribly wrong, and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Slime People (1963)
Plot Summary:
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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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 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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Monster (1980)
Plot Summary:
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: retro, natural horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Plot Summary:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film, scary, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Larva (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for research. Later, he finds the same parasite in a creek and he summons the population for a meeting, warning that the cause might be the animal food. However, Fletcher Odermatt, the wealthy owner of the local Host Tender Meals that has been providing free animal food for the farmers, brings his lawyer Hayley Anderson and discredits Eli. When a huge mutant parasite attacks Eli and Jacob, they discover that the meals are actually an experimental genetic cocktail that is growing parasites inside the cattle and people. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, enigmatic, natural horror
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C.H.U.D. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, cult horror, retro, detective
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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Hydra (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (and apparent former Nazi) unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, gain revenge on those who have spurned him, and kidnap nubile young women to similarly transform so that he can breed. Or something like that.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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The Boogens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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The Bog Creatures (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, offbeat
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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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Watchers II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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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 Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror, cult horror, mind bending
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Parasite (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, natural horror, apocalyptic