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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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She-Demons of the Black Sun (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Sting of Death (1966)
Plot Summary:
A mutant jellyfish stalks biology students in the Florida everglades.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, natural horror, sexy, independent film, psychotronic, weird
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Alien from the Deep (1989)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of hugely dangerous waste, but they get caught by the vigilantes working for the company. One of them, the super-hot Maria Giulia Cavalli, manages to escape and she is saved by a snake farmer who lives alone in the jungle. Together they try to bring down the company, but it’s too late. Years of chemical poisoning have spawned a deadly monster that is set out to exact revenge on humans that have unknowingly brought him to life. Directed by legendary Antonio Margheriti, the unholy master of Italian B movies, Alien from the Deep is one of the most beloved Italian rip-offs. A wildly entertaining ride, the movie is an inventive crossover where lots of different genres and styles are mixed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, independent film
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Spasms (1983)
Plot Summary:
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, retro, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror, independent film, detective, weird
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Killer Fish (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, UK, Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, surprise ending, 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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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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Evil Spawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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 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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The Creature Below (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, psychotronic
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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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Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient "baby" beings hunting down and killing its male DNA donors, while at the same time trying to mate with its female donors. The head of the lab wants to destroy the monster before the press can get wind of the story, but the former head of security wants to expose the whole thing.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Piranhaconda (2012)
Plot Summary:
A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, sexy, slasher, grindhouse, mockbuster, surprise ending
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, natural horror, spoof, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Piranha (1995)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, rough, humorous, psychotronic, surprise ending, banned, wild
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Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher, apocalyptic, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, futuristic
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Mosquito (1994)
Plot Summary:
An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. Will the few survivors fight successfully against this nightmare...?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, absurd, funny, natural horror, independent film, bleak, wild, campy
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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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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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Creature (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky, cult film
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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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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, 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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Splice (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, twist ending, rough, stylized, scary, splatter, cult classic, erotic
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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