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Plot Summary:
A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, cult film
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Awakening (2006)
Plot Summary:
A new deadly virus is transmitted to humans via mosquito bites and then learns to control their corpses. A bunch of survivors let their guard down once they find shelter and sex in each other.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Rostro infernal (1963)
Plot Summary:
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective
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Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors are trying to stop a rampant epidemic of zombieism. They fend off zombies spilling many a gallon of blood in the process.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: bloody, medical horror, splatter
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The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
Plot Summary:
A doctor kidnaps young couples and performs bizarre experiments on them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, bizarre
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The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (1964)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Austria, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, classic horror, gothic horror, psychotronic
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Purple Glow (2005)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Plot Summary:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
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Night of the Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist seeks test subjects for a zombie experiment and gets a bevy of sorority girls to take the bait.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Alien Dead (1980)
Plot Summary:
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic
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Zeppo: Sinners from Beyond the Moon! (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Exhumed (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three stories across the centuries of individuals given the power to raise the dead, set in feudal Japan, 1940s USA, and a post-apocalyptic future.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, anthology, tense, rough, humorous, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, independent film, detective
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Psyclops (2002)
Plot Summary:
Video geek Shepard 'Shep' Franco (Dan Merriman) uncovers a 135 year old videotape on which mad scientist Artemis Winthrop (Phip Barbour) displays a machine he's invented, which he believes can bridge dimensions. With his buddies Kim (Irene Joseph), Dave (Rob Monkiewicz), and Heather (Diane Di Gregorio), Shep tracks down the machine despite warings of Winthrop's great-granddaughter, a wiccan named Amelia (Liz Hurley). Shep restores the machine and while video taping it in action, a horrible accident transforms him into the ultimate tapehead (while unleashing killer bugs from another dimension and a few walking corpses along the way). Shep kidnaps Heather to turn her into his monster bride and only the intervention of the mysterious Amelia can halt the madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, lovecraft
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Night of the Zombies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA special-agent Nick Monroe is sent to flush out what are suspected to be deserters from the old U.S. Army Chemical Corps unit. NB: Not to be confused with the same-name (in USA) Italian film of 1983.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Rabid (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is left scarred beyond recognition following an accident, she undergoes a radical untested stem-cell treatment. And while the procedure turns her into the belle of the ball, the experimental transformation comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, psychological, bloody, dark, apocalyptic, grindhouse, medical horror
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The Immortalizer (1989)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist sends out his mutant creations to kidnap young, beautiful men and women to bring back to his lab so he can transplant their brains into the bodies of old, wealthy people.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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Panic (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Plot Summary:
For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, slasher, mythical, independent film, scary, rough, semi serious, corny, campy
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The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird
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Last of the Living (2009)
Plot Summary:
A contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, apocalyptic, horror comedy, offbeat, futuristic, spoof
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Virus X (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about a case of highly contagious swine flu virus engineered by rogue scientists. A cover up by a mysterious dark lady linked to the High Spheres adds action and mystery.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror, terrifying, serious
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Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, campy
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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Rabid (1977)
Plot Summary:
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, controversial, christmas horror, medical horror
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre, and hilarious orgy of death and dismemberment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, gothic horror, scary, disturbing, grindhouse, terrifying, psychotronic, retro, bloody
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Shivers (1975)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, sexual, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, cynical
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Parasite (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, natural horror, apocalyptic
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The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of the zombie diaries.
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
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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