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Plot Summary:
Straight to video version of the classic story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, tech noir, independent film
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The Man with Two Heads (1972)
Plot Summary:
Horror remake of "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
Plot Summary:
A doctor (Bernie Casey) in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it's no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide (1972)
Plot Summary:
A crazed doctor, who has already murdered a man, finds Dr. Jekyll's diary and mixes up Jekyll's formula. He mixes up a batch of the potion, turns into the Jekyll monster and begins to stalk, rape and murder women.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jackie Stevenson is a Los Angeles based therapist and scientist who tries to invent a serum to separate the pure from the lustful side of the female psychosis. After she has an unsuccessful experiment with a female client named Martine, which drove her patient to insanity and to a mental hospital, Jackie tries part of the serum on herself and becomes her lustful alter ego Heidi Hyde; a voracious lesbian who prowls the streets of L.A. after dark looking for carnal pleasures.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, surprise ending
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Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (2001)
Plot Summary:
Musical version of the Robert Louis Stevenson story about a doctor who conducts an experiment on himself that results in his bringing out the dark, murderous side of his inner self, "Mr. Hyde".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, stylized, horror musical, realistic
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
Plot Summary:
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Livestock (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious cult has decided to take a new direction in giving Victor, a hard working trusted member, a promotion. However, his cruel minded disciples have decided to take action of their own. Growing tired of their monotonous plans, they begin to take their malevolent acts one step further. In a world seemingly far removed from Victor's, two young girls, Annabel and Tina, are trying to make changes in their own lives. Annabel prepares for a second date with Jerry, a man she met online, while Tina keeps focused on an important meeting that is sure to open up new doors in her life. Soon these two worlds collide as Annabel and Tina find themselves deep within the belly of the beast, and the long, dark history of a secret organization is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Jekyll + Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality-enhancing drug that he believes will turn him into the successful and popular person he so craves to be. But after testing the drug on Mary and himself, Jekyll discovers it has horrific consequences - ones that he might not be able to control.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense
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I, Monster (1971)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, medical horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Plot Summary:
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, queer horror, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, erotic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, controversial, sensual, phantasmagoric, mad
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Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Plot Summary:
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, stylized, cult classic, suspenseful, serious
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Plot Summary:
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Frankenstein (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Tom Baker also star.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, stylized, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, scary, psychological, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, period drama
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What Waits in the Red (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Derelicts, The Physiologist and The Salesman. All are trapped; prisoners of circumstance. The Bell. A gateway to another place; the chance to escape. But at what cost? Each must give something in return, and risk coming face to face with What Waits in the Red. The choice is simple: Would you sell your soul to save your life?.
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Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, twisted
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Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
Plot Summary:
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, tech noir, tense, serious, tension
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The Absence of Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, splatter, independent film
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The Unborn (1991)
Plot Summary:
A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. The horror surrounding the child comes to light when the parents find that their child has been part of a mad experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, medical horror, bleak, suspenseful, scary, mystic, horror comedy, cult classic, queer horror, independent film
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Don't Grow Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, spooky
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Frankenstein (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death. “Nobody’s ever done a Frankenstein like this one and nobody’s ever done a better one” (Houston Chronicle).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror
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The Fly II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, splatter, cult classic, psychedelic, heartbreaking, slasher, sad, tech noir, medical horror
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Monkey Shines (1988)
Plot Summary:
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, creepy, natural horror, retro, controversial
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror, cult horror, mind bending
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Frankenstein (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, gothic horror, costume drama, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, dramatic
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The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Plot Summary:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense, apocalyptic, classic horror, black and white, tense, bleak
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The Fly (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, cerebral, rough, psychological thriller, bloody