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Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, psychotronic
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Corruption (1968)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, offbeat, medical horror, independent film
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Dr. Moreau's House of Pain (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a big mansion, a scientist has been experimenting with humans and animals, mixing their DNA together.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, medical horror, natural horror, independent film
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Night of the Dead: Leben Tod (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant and frightened, Anais is not allowed to leave the specialized hospital where her husband, Peter has a medical internship with his uncle, Dr. Gabriel Schreklich, a man with a serum that can resurrect the dead. But things go terribly wrong and the Ghouls take over the hospital. Now, the only way for Anais to save her unborn baby is to get one of the Ghouls to help her to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, independent film, hispanic, dark
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Cross of the Seven Jewels (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a werewolf after being cursed by a black magic society. Only a jeweled necklace he wears can stop the transformations taking place.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult film
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KillerKiller (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, there lies a secure facility housing only serial killers. One morning the doors are open and the guards have vanished, but a strange freezing mist surrounds the building, preventing the inmates from leaving. Then, one by one, they are murdered. The survivors bicker, fight and blame each other, but the thing that's killing them looks suspiciously like a traditional 'victim'... A babysitter in a shower, a cheerleader, a camper.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, slasher, dark comedy
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Doctor Franken (1980)
Plot Summary:
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Evil Face (1974)
Plot Summary:
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror
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The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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The Man with the Severed Head (1976)
Plot Summary:
A mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: natural horror
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Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, Victor uses his mechanically-enhanced reanimated corpse to murder young women in order to furnish "raw parts" for her new body, among other devious things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, art house, retro, psychedelic, expressionism, independent film
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Liechtenstein, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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Frankenstein's Patchwork Monster (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror - A wager is made, a book of horror fiction is written. It becomes know as, "Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus", by Mary Shelley. Though what happens if fiction was fact? Can a soul be immortal. Is everlasting life worth such misery? - Melantha Blackthorne, Robert Bozek, Paul McGinnis.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, exotic
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Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, gothic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ballad in Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's the day after Halloween. Jacopo and Duke wake up in the apartment of two girls: Lenka, the Czech Republic, and Elizabeth, English, both in Italy thanks to the Erasmus project. The dawn of that new day brings with it a big problem: Elizabeth died. But there's more, because none of the three remember what happened. Neither James nor Duke nor Lenka, remember what happened that night.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hot
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Terror Night (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfortunates, using various weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. She finds herself attracted to him, so immerses herself in her work to suppress her lusty desires. A rash of rather brutal murders occurs in the area and she soon discovers that the Baron is not what he seems. Not long thereafter, the Baron transforms into a demon, and the beautiful young woman becomes his very own love slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film
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Nurse Sherri (1977)
Plot Summary:
A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: medical horror, slasher, slasher horror, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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The Return of the Exorcist (1975)
Plot Summary:
A priest becomes involved in demonology and exorcisms.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: demonic, suspense, sexploitation film
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Stabbed in the Face (2004)
Plot Summary:
A slasher throwback to the grandest clichés and stereotypes, Terror Optics presents Stabbed in the Face. Follow a group of teenagers into the woods for a good time. Undoubtedly, you'll find serial killers, red herrings, boobs and booze all in one night. Leaving little to the imagination, Terror Optics continues the party-film concept of having a really good time with little regard to critics and potential fans. Set in an undeterminable time period, stocked with a slew of villains and well deserving victims, Stabbed in the Face proves that slasher films are ONLY about the boobs, butts, and body count.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, controversial
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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century baron. Von Klaus heir Ludwig is distantly related to the royal, which makes him the target of suspicion. Can he clear his name, or will he wind up giving in to his dark side?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, splatter, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, psychotronic
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Debris Documentar (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man unknowingly leads a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, brutal, controversial, splatter, independent film
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Lust for Frankenstein (1998)
Plot Summary:
Moira Frankenstein, the grand-daughter of noted mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein, has become obsessed with the work of her ancestor and she decides to pick up the family business where he left off.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Lady Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankensteins' daughter, who is in love with the aging lab assistant Marshall, continues with her fathers experiments and attempts to transplant Marshall's brain into a new body to prolong his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, rough, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, gothic, psychotronic
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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Plot Summary:
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, medical horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Death-Scort Service Part 2: The Naked Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the heart of Las Vegas a new killer has emerged. Having survived the previous psycho's last wrath (Michelle) Krystal "Pixie" Adams is left behind to start anew and forget about her black past. Problem is this new murderer is unstoppable!!. A new group of up and coming hookers are on the streets left to pick up the pieces and start fresh. Will they survive, or will they become prey to this maniac slasher!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Pinup Dolls on Ice (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Pinup Dolls are a hot retro act who put the tease back in striptease. But when an old friend (Suzi Lorraine) hires them to put on a show at a secluded campground, the girls find themselves being stalked by a homicidal maniac with a sick obsession with ice. As they're hunted one-by-one, they soon realize they'll have to rely on more than just their looks to survive this nightmare named Moe.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter
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Death-Scort Service (2015)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada a group of local up and coming escorts become targets for murder! A deranged slasher is on the loose and out for revenge. From the studios that brought you Amerikan Holokaust and Die Die Delta comes a blood-soaked tale about prostitutes who fall victim to a mysterious slasher.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (2005)
Plot Summary:
Near an isolated beach on California's coast, a sinister plan is underway in a laboratory of horror. Three renegade scientists have resurrected the Frankenstein Monster. . . legendary indestructible dead man come to life. . . and they have also created a biogentically engineered half-man, half fish abomination. . . to use as secret weapons in the fight against terrorists worldwide. However, disaster strikes when the terrifying monsters chemical brainwashing fails and the entire plan goes to hell! Instead of stopping terror, these invincible monsters spread terror! The first victims. . . young people on a glamour photo shoot are attacked by the amphibious beast of evil! Rescued and held hostage by the scientists, the survivors must find a way to escape the madmen and the monsters!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, black and white, cult horror, campy