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Plot Summary:
A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it? A little boy who has an extensive array of pets he likes to call "specimens" finds an alien egg to hatch, somewhat like Horton. The creature manages to use his snout to suck up peanuts and warp time and space with his fingers. Unfortunately, his brother who is found by poachers go on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, psychotronic, cult film
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The Substitute (2007)
Plot Summary:
6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, scary, captivating, horror comedy, underground film, disturbing, cult classic, serious, suspenseful
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After the Lethargy (2018)
Plot Summary:
The police confirms the presence of a "86-Code" in the National Park. A beast, coming from another world, could have woken up from its lethargy.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Alienator (1990)
Plot Summary:
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up with some teens and Ward Armstrong and together they all try not to get killed by the pursuing Woman of Death - The Alienator.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, campy, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Galaxy Invader (1985)
Plot Summary:
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, light, dark, psychotronic, independent film
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Not of This Earth (1995)
Plot Summary:
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, remake of cult film, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, space horror, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, dark, slasher
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Strange Invaders (1983)
Plot Summary:
Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don't believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he is chased by the aliens.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult film
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Island of the Burning Damned (1967)
Plot Summary:
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, gothic horror, disturbing, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, independent film
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The Creeping Terror (1964)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, retro, suspense, detective, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Alien Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, horror comedy, campy
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U.F.O. (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. Suddenly this regular group of friends is battling to survive as the entire human race is threatened by the alien army hovering ominously above.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Supersonic Man (1979)
Plot Summary:
A masked superhero (Michael Coby) with a private-eye disguise thwarts a madman's (Cameron Mitchell) death-ray plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, campy
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Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Plot Summary:
Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, splatter, spoof, parody
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Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
Plot Summary:
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Plot Summary:
Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers are the first to go through the gate - but are soon attacked by something that interrupts the communication with Earth. This horrible something uses the gate to travel back to the underground complex. Most of the staff are evacuated, except four heavily-armed militaries and Dr. Casserly and Dr. Summerfield who just can't stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, space horror, suspense, classic horror, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Alien Species (1996)
Plot Summary:
Huge Motherships from an alien species sneak ominously into orbit around Earth. Lethal bat-winged fighters descend on the planet. Citizens are abducted. Homes are destroyed. The invasion has begun! A small town sheriff, two deputies and a professor discover the alien plan. With the secret to destroy the attacking ships, there's a chance they could stop the alien invasion... for now!!!!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, fast, cult film
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Nightbeast (1982)
Plot Summary:
An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, slasher, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Alien Predator (1986)
Plot Summary:
3 young friends are on vacation in Spain, until weird things begin to occur and then a man from NASA tells them what's really going on: Dangerous Alien Organisms from the Apollo 14 Moon Mission, which was tested on animals on SkyLab. But then the organisms fell to earth with SkyLab and they are now starting to infect people by brutally killing them off. And these 3 friends and NASA scientist must get an antidote from a NASA Lab nearby and save themselves and the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, scary, apocalyptic, surprise ending, offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Plot Summary:
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, offbeat, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, black and white, scary, serious
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Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Plot Summary:
Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, psychotronic
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Alien Origin (2012)
Plot Summary:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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Ejecta (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror, independent film
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Unknown (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five young field-biologists are sent to northern Sweden to investigate effects of a large forest fire. However, what was thought to be some weeks of camping and easy work soon turns into a nightmare as they find the remains of a mysterious creature and take it in for examination.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, disturbing
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Night Skies (2007)
Plot Summary:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, depressing, suspense
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Grey Skies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will have to outwit a force that is both inhuman and extremely intelligent in order to survive. The outcome will shock and amaze you as we come to realize... we are not alone in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological, cult film
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The Slime People (1963)
Plot Summary:
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Invaders from Mars (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, scary, slasher, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, serious
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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The Thing (2011)
Plot Summary:
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, psychotronic, tense, intense, lovecraft