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Plot Summary:
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don't arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about her powers and takes revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, action thriller
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Andromedia (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her “soul.”.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: cyber, exciting, serious, suspenseful, experimental, stylized
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Another Heaven (2000)
Plot Summary:
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, detective, creepy, scary, mind bending, surprise ending
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Pegasus Vs. Chimera (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two mythological creatures battle each other.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, computer animated
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Parasite Eve (1997)
Plot Summary:
Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, natural horror, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at first, but when one of her female students dies after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada's intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, computer animated
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The Breed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vampires have come out of the shadows and are living as normal citizens. Two policemen, one a vampire, are assigned to track down a serial killer who tears the throat of his victims and drains their blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, enigmatic, bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized
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Southern Gothic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hazel Fortune works in a strip club in the small Southern town of Redemption. Haunted by the death of his only daughter, Fortune has become a self-destructive, suicidal alcoholic, until he meets Starla Motes. Hazel's downward spiral is interrupted when is befriended by Starlas daughter, Hope. But when Hope is kidnapped by Enoch Pitt, a ruthless, psychotic preacher on a bloody crusade, Hazel must make the decision to rejoin the living and risk life and limb to save her from a terrible end.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, independent film
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Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Plot Summary:
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, perverse, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, dark
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
Plot Summary:
This final installment of the recent Gamera trilogy begins with schoolgirl Ayana discovering a large egg in a cave that, according to legend, houses demons. The egg hatches into a small monster, which Ayana decides to raise and quickly develops a psychic bond with. As Ayana's monster, named Iris, grows to adulthood, the flying turtle Gamera begins to take an interest in this new potential threat. Who will be the victor in the final battle, and how much of Japan will be left standing at the end?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult classic, daikaiju, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, post modern, cult film
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Reign in Darkness (2002)
Plot Summary:
When molecular biologist Michael Dorn is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing, his life takes a dramatic turn. The virus turns its victims into a unique breed of elite vampires. Now on the run, with relentless bounty hunter Lance and informant vampire Gage in pursuit, Michael must decide the fate of the world. Follow this action packed, modern gothic fable, as we take you behind closed doors to reveal a virus so potent that it could change the evolution of mankind, a virus that is believed to be existing among us today...RVK-17.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, fast, independent film
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Before the Fall (2008)
Plot Summary:
A meteorite will destroy the world in three days. For Ale (Victor Clavijo), that means 72 hours of alone time, getting as drunk as possible. But when a mysterious drifter (Eduard Fernández) appears, the self-serving Ale faces a more immediate danger. Now, he finds himself protecting his mother (Mariana Cordero) and his brother's children from his fellow man in humanity's final hours. Daniel Casadella co-stars in this thought-provoking drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film
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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Plot Summary:
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark
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Three Inches (2011)
Plot Summary:
Walter Speckman is a nobody, until one day he is struck by lightning and gains the ability to move any object with his mind... but only for 3 inches at a time. A recruiter who knows of super-powered individuals finds Walter and offers him the chance to use his powers to do good... and join with a team of other people with similar abilities. Walter accepts, but soon discovers that "good" and "evil" aren't as easy to differentiate as he thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychotronic
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Scanners II: The New Order (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, christmas horror, cult classic, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film
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Werewolf Warrior (2004)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat, splatter
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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Scanner Cop II (1995)
Plot Summary:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
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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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Seance (2000)
Plot Summary:
A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house and her ghost begins to haunt the couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, gothic, thrilling
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Spawn (1997)
Plot Summary:
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda (Theresa Randle). In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, dark fantasy, dark, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, epic, bloody, suspense
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Sky High (2002)
Plot Summary:
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Mercury Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
An ancient legend tells of two holy forces Lunar Mercury and Solar Mercury that will create an indestructible power when combined together. Usama, an international terrorist had studied the secrets of the legend and wants the power of both forces for his own evil deeds. During a rescue mission, one of the holy forces, Solar Mercury becomes accidentally embedded into the body of Chan, an unsuspecting fireman, giving him superhuman strength and powers. As Usama and his terrorists plot to destroy the world. Chan becomes MERCURY MAN and learns to control and use his new powers to save the world. A battle between Good and Evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, scenic, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three ancient guardian beasts awaken to protect Japan against Godzilla.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, scary, post modern
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Pulse 2: Afterlife (2008)
Plot Summary:
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, suspense, apocalyptic, surprise ending, futuristic
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Immortally Yours (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coven of Sexy, modern Day vampires ravage the American Midwest with the thirst for blood, while a romantic twist puts the vampires at odds among themselves and with the murderous Illuminati that seek to gain their immortality.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful