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Plot Summary:
Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Along with the local doctor Alyson Hart, they soon become caught up in the investigation of a series of recent drownings with unexpected results. As Jack explores the surrounding ocean for a mysterious marine creature, Brandon discovers and befriends a three-foot-long baby creature that is able to leave the ocean and walk on land. As more dangerous and giant creatures come onto the island, and the military begins to take offensive action, Jack must risk everything to save the creatures, the island and his son. Written by ADAM G. THOMAS.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, disaster movie
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Carnosaur 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, fast, light, unusual plot structure, humorous
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Xtinction: Predator X (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is in major debt with the bank, her ex-boyfriend is the town sheriff, and her ex-husband has quit his job as a world-renowned professor who is now suspiciously buying up swampland in the area. In an effort to save the swamp and to pass the time, Laura decides to work the dying family business giving boat tours of the Louisiana swamp. But on her first sunset tour, deep in the swamp, Laura and her passengers witness two Bayou swamp rats toss a squirming body into a gator pit, only the gators aren't the ones that feast on the flesh. Instead it's the most terrifying creature Laura has ever seen...(IMDB,com).
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, natural horror, independent film
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Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)
Plot Summary:
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: natural horror, scary, independent film, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, entertaining, slasher
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The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Plot Summary:
An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two begin to battle across Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, natural horror, grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Thing Below (2004)
Plot Summary:
A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, captivating, computer animated, cult film
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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
Plot Summary:
The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: natural horror, depressing, dark, daikaiju, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Heatstroke (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, computer animated, disaster movie
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Raptor (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, natural horror, independent film, fast, cult film
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The Hive (2008)
Plot Summary:
When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, hilarious, natural horror
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Piranhaconda (2012)
Plot Summary:
A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, sexy, slasher, grindhouse, mockbuster, surprise ending
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Skeeter (1993)
Plot Summary:
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Behemoth (2011)
Plot Summary:
Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, mysterious, apocalyptic, mockbuster, scary, offbeat, bleak
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Komodo (1999)
Plot Summary:
During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized. Now, with his therapist Victoria, they return to confront his fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, scary, natural horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, hilarious
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Poseidon Rex (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles below the ancient ocean floor. From here, an ancient evil is released, that quickly, savagely, and without warning, destroys Jackson s boat and kills his crew. The sole survivor of the carnage, Jackson teams up with marine biologist, Sarah, to venture back to the site and investigate the horrific events. They extract an egg from the darkest depths of the ocean and take it back to the lab to investigate. But when it hatches, they realise they have awaken a deadly prehistoric monster, the P-Rex, which will stop at nothing until the entire island is destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspense, rough, natural horror, serious, campy
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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd, psychotronic, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, hilarious
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Pterodactyl (2005)
Plot Summary:
A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Armenia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, perverse, fast
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SharkMan (2005)
Plot Summary:
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, psychotronic
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Megalodon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, natural horror, suspense
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The Rig (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
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The Rift (1990)
Plot Summary:
An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic, retro, captivating, fast, cult film
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Octopus (2000)
Plot Summary:
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror, suspense, serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Beast of the Bering Sea (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sea vampires terrorize a small community.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating, mockbuster
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Sector 7 (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic
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Octopus II (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the harbor will be filled with boats for the 4th of July celebrations.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, scary, natural horror, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, campy
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Deep Shock (2003)
Plot Summary:
When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise in temperature that threatens to melt the ice cap and flood the surface of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Venomous (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the virus to healthy persons. The military puts the town under quarantine. Local physicians try to control the epidemic, while the military is primarily concerned with keeping the virus a secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, suspense, ridiculous, campy, cult film, disaster movie
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous