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Plot Summary:
A woman tries to attract her reincarnated lover from her previous life but eventually turns to the aid of an evil sorcerer who rules over a tribe of cannibal midgets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Maya (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Ancient Mayan curse is awakened in the ancient temples in Mexico, and people are killed in strange and gory ways by an invisible force.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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Ever After (2018)
Plot Summary:
An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva have to fight the undead together, as well as the demons of their past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, captivating, stylized, intense, existential horror, urban fantasy
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The Nymph (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful flesh-eating mermaid wants to be part of the human world at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Scorpion Thunderbolt (1988)
Plot Summary:
A female journalist transforms into a snake demon and goes on murderous rampages.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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The Returning (1991)
Plot Summary:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
Plot Summary:
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, terrifying, psychotronic, biting
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Black Magic (1975)
Plot Summary:
A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
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Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of well-meaning archaeology students unearth an ancient jewel box in Southern California's Burbank mountains, they unleash a deadly curse that turns perfectly normal women into maniacal, bloodthirsty cannibals. Written and directed by Kirk Bowman, this hilariously campy horror flick -- purportedly based on a true story, if you can believe it -- will have you laughing one minute and screaming the next.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, campy
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The Magic Curse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Man-Ying is a bowl spirit playboy with kung fu skills. After being told that his uncle disappeared in Boreos jungles he goes there immediately on rescuemission. He is attacked by some sort of cannibalistic zombies and soon it is clear that the evil snake-sect controls the jungle with its black magic. Man Ying falls in love with the beautiful priestess, who, however, leaving him with a curse at parting: all women without her he is with will die a painful death!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Warrior (1981)
Plot Summary:
Barry Prima plays Jaka Sembung, a Robin Hood figure who possesses mystical powers. Captured, tortured and left for dead, he returns even more powerful than before. In desperation the invaders resurrect an evil wizard and set him against Jaka Sembung in a fierce fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Witch's Curse (1962)
Plot Summary:
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, satanic, psychotronic
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Cannibal World (2004)
Plot Summary:
The network where the famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte works, is collapsing and she would do everything to regain the favour of the audience, therefore she convinces her professional team to go to the Amazon jungle for a sensational scoop about the cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, retro
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White Cannibal Queen (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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Primitives (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Horror Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, decadent reading for maids. It takes you through the history of the cinema, from silent films, to the beginning of sound and up to the very present.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, expressionism, spoof, dark comedy, metafiction, horror spoof
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The Devil's Sword (1984)
Plot Summary:
The DEVIL'S SWORD lies hidden in a secret cave inside Devils Mountain, everything evil will fight to the death for it... "For whoever possesses the sword, will rule the kingdom!" Four warriors attack the keeper of the mountain and try to force him to hand over the map that will lead them to the sword. The tortured keeper escapes and runs to MANDALA his master, who after hearing of the attempt, sets off on his own journey to save the DEVIL'S SWORD. He has many blood-curdling battles along the way, he is attacked by the evil crocodile men and encounters many fiendish traps set for intruders entering the mountain. At last MANDALA captures his prize - can he call upon the Gods and use the mystical sword against the raging warriors with their awesome magical power? Will he win the fight with the crocodile queen who craves the DEVIL'S SWORD at any cost?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, action adventure, cult film
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Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film, sexploitation film
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Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation (2013)
Plot Summary:
There's something strange happening inside Buffalo Central Terminal. A group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, independent film, spoof, slasher horror, parody, horror spoof
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Donner Pass (2011)
Plot Summary:
Donner Pass has a well-known and macabre history - the place where George Donner and his party got stuck in the winter of 1846 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to keep from starving. But what if it wasn't just history?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, independent film
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There Is a Secret in My Soup (2001)
Plot Summary:
"There Is A Secret in My Soup" is based on infamous HK crime case called 'Hello Kitty Murder'.In 1999 three triad gangsters kidnapped,brutally tortured and beat a 23-year old woman named Fan Man-yee for one month until she died.Then they dismembered and cooked the body,threw most of it out with the trash,fed legs and arms to stray dogs and hid the skull inside the head of a giant-sized Hello Kitty doll.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, cult film
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Adam and Eve (1983)
Plot Summary:
God casts Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because Eve decided to have a fling with a visiting Cro-Magnon named Bearkiller. The disgraced couple find themselves on the outside up against an assortment of various dinosaurs, flying monsters and cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: christian film, psychotronic, independent film
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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
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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
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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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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
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White Slave (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, grindhouse, brutal, suspense, realistic, psychotronic
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Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, splatter, tense, disturbing
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Cannibal Ferox (1981)
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
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren't dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, folk tale, fantasy adventure, cult classic