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Plot Summary:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, suspense, hilarious, independent film
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Death is only the beginning for the young victim of a drive-by shooting. Devastated at the loss of his younger brother Jermaine, scientific older sibling Ricky uses the situation as an opportunity to test an experimental serum designed to breathe new life into dead cells. Though Ricky's reanimation serum does indeed help to get his previously deceased younger brother back on his feet, Jermaine's insatiable hunger for human flesh soon spreads like wildfire throughout the neighborhood, leaving his older brother to find a way to halt the epidemic before the army of flesh-eaters become too powerful to be contained.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, experimental
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It's the 13th month of the 13th year of the new millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new "guinea-pigs" for Gyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and a mysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsman of the epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, brutal, apocalyptic, psychological, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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Plot Summary:
The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bloody, cult classic, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, epic, serious
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Plot Summary:
A car roars through the darkened country roads. Inside, a distraught Sarah, holding her stricken dad, Mark, is desperately trying to stem the flow of blood. Having been re-directed to an Evacuation facility on the edge of town, Steve, an off-duty Paramedic is in a race against time fully aware that Mark's chances of survival are rapidly slipping away. The scene that greets them on arrival is one of chaos. The floor, awash with blood, is covered with the bodies of the dying and injured, doctors dart back and forth, clearly overwhelmed. A violent convulsion causes Mark to lose consciousness, heart stopped he slumps to the floor. As the adrenalin needle slams into her Fathers heart Sarah stumbles back and her world fades to black. Upon regaining consciousness Sarah is greeted by the uneasy silence of a seemingly deserted building. Bleeding and dazed she stumbles through the darkened corridors unaware of the fate that awaits her.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, slasher, cliffhanger, splatter
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, bleak
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, apocalyptic, cult classic, scary, tense
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Plot Summary:
A young couple plans to have a rockabilly themed wedding out at the old farm, despite warnings of a West Nile Virus outbreak. Things go horribly wrong when the virus spawns zombie-creating mosquitoes, who begin to feed on the wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Long Live the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five shorts in the zombie genre; "Dweezle", "A Picture To Die For", "Black Bone Woods", "Zoe Dies In The End", and "Here Lies Bud.".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts who systematically hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
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Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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Plot Summary:
On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, scenic, horror comedy, classic horror, fast
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Plot Summary:
The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, remake of american film
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, tense, serious, independent film, fast
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IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, disturbing, futuristic, fast
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Edges of Darkness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three interconnected tales of terror set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 998
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Country: USA
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Plot tags: scary, rough, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, mockumentary, suspense, futuristic, fake documentary