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Plot Summary:
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, grindhouse, controversial, disturbing, splatter, extreme horror, scary, suspenseful, brutal
Best tv shows and movies like Cannibal Ferox (1981):
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Cut and Run (1984)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, brutal, controversial, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, tense, serious, realistic
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Sacrifice! (1972)
Plot Summary:
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, controversial, terrifying, scary, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
In the Land of the Cannibals (2004)
Plot Summary:
Commandos head deep into the Amazon jungle to rescue a general's daughter who has been kidnapped by a cannibal tribe.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, intense, retro
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Jungle Holocaust (1977)
Plot Summary:
An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, scary, terrifying, epic, suspense, creepy, perverse, rough
Similar in 83%
Eaten Alive! (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspense, controversial, cult classic, scary, exciting
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The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, sensual, creepy, terrifying, queer horror, scary
Similar in 77%
Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Plot Summary:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: brutal, scary, disturbing, controversial, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, mockumentary, cult classic
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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Plot Summary:
While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly extinct tribe of cannibals is still very much alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, suspense, controversial, art house, sensual, perverse, scary
Similar in 77%
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Plot Summary:
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful, slasher, semi serious, bloody, splatter
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Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
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Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
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Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, erotic, suspense, dark, bloody
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The Green Inferno (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, intense, creepy
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, bloody, psychotronic, psychological, controversial
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Plot Summary:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody, psychotronic, gothic, rough, lovecraft, controversial
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Zombie (1979)
Plot Summary:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, slasher, splatter, atmospheric, gothic, brutal, creepy
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, brutal, sexy, bloody, disgusting
Similar in 75%
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
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Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
Plot Summary:
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense, cult classic, scary, psychological, gothic, saga, disturbing
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic, bloody, splatter, creepy, tense, suspense
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Hostel: Part II (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal, splatter, disturbing, psychological, suspense, sexy
Similar in 79%
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, gothic, rough, creepy
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, splatter, brutal, scary, stylized
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Frontier(s) (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing, brutal, slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense
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Hostel (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, serious, bloody, brutal, splatter, rough
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sadistic, disturbing, scary, controversial, bad ending, bloody, brutal, suspense, disgusting, surreal
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The Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter