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Plot Summary:
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, tech noir, mystic, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black and white, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, medical horror, perverse, twisted, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
The Body Shop (1972)
Plot Summary:
Emminent plastic surgeon and mad scientist Don Brandon loses his wife Anitra - pinup model and social butterfly - in a tragic accident. He and his faithful humpbacked and drooling assistant Igor - oops, I mean Greg - busy themselves experimenting with re-animation experiments. Once ready, the good Doctor begins luring young women back to the lab with hypnosis in order to gather select parts to create a New and Improved.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film
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Black Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy, cult 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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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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The Stranger Within (1974)
Plot Summary:
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago and Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious:as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic blend of horror & sci-fi.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, mystic, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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The Unborn II (1994)
Plot Summary:
A sinister fertility experiment has created a generation of twisted children. A relentless woman has made it her business to destroy these mutant babies before they destroy the world! One mother and her only friend are torn between love an repulsion of this deformed being and are ready to fight for it's survival, but this baby doesn't need love. It's been programmed to survive at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: mystic, independent film
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Swamp Thing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous, epic, cult horror, psychological thriller
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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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Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)
Plot Summary:
Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a rabid weasel is transformed into a gigantic killer mutant. Prowling the countryside, the huge weasel kills and devours victims. The creature is captured by a disturbed scientist who plans to use its regenerative blood to amass an army of similar monsters, enabling him to conquer the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective, natural horror, weird, cult film
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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Plot Summary:
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, queer horror, scary, atmospheric
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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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The Mutations (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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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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Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by sexual exhaustion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, captivating, grindhouse, mysterious, classic horror, queer horror, independent film, erotic
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Sssssss (1973)
Plot Summary:
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror, slasher, absurd, medical horror, cult horror, freeze frame
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Demon Seed (1977)
Plot Summary:
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, sexy, depressing, suspense, tech noir, mystic, deep
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The Manitou (1978)
Plot Summary:
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, atmospheric, demonic, mystic, horror comedy, lovecraft, supernatural thriller
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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It Lives Again (1978)
Plot Summary:
The monster child returns - but now there are three!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, mystic, medical horror, cult horror, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, slasher
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It's Alive (1974)
Plot Summary:
Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster that kills the team in the delivery room and escapes through a skylight. Lieutenant Perkins comes to the hospital to investigate the murder and the press divulges the identity of the parents. Frank discovers a dark secret about Lenore and the baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough, bloody, suspense, cult classic, classic horror, grindhouse
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It's Alive (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the responsible for the killings?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, mystic, psychotronic, remake of american film
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Horror Planet (1981)
Plot Summary:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, space horror, scary, psychotronic, erotic, retro, mystic, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Carnosaur (1993)
Plot Summary:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, natural horror, tense, psychotronic, dark, perverse
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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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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, psychotronic
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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
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Plot Summary:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, slasher, cult classic, splatter, lovecraft, independent film, absurd
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Splice (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, twist ending, rough, stylized, scary, splatter, cult classic, erotic
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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