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Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Hong Kong serial killer Lam Kor-wan. He was arrested in 1982 after murdering four women.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: asian horror
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The Underground Banker (1994)
Plot Summary:
A man's family is torn apart when his wife takes a loan from a loan shark who will stop at nothing to get his money back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, terrifying, black comedy, banned film
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Cold Light of Day (1990)
Plot Summary:
True story of serial Killer Dennis Nilsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gay cinema, weird
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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The Psycho Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Ghost Festival (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath solicits ghostly help to find out who killed his wife, and then concocts a bizarre plan to get vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
Plot Summary:
A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, atmospheric, controversial, poliziottesco, cult film
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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
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Deadly Intruder (1985)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Bare Foot Thriller (1997)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist/murderer with a leg fetish notices a pretty female police officer at a shootout, and stalks her and her family to be his next victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dr. Lamb (1992)
Plot Summary:
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, asian horror
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Las Poquianchis (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. the suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis" The sisters were very religious but were the owners of brothels and recruited poor girls with the false promises of jobs, instead they were forced to prostitution, and some were killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, period drama
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The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant, which serves delicious pork bao. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant's former owner; he and his family have disappeared; staff at the restaurant continue to go missing; and, Wong can't produce a signed bill of sale: but there's no evidence. The police arrest Wong and try to torture him into a confession. Can they make him talk? And what was in those pork bao?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, dark comedy, extreme horror, slasher, brutal, depressing, detective, horror comedy
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Speck (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Rapist (1994)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist is loose in the Hong Kong suburb of Tuen Mun. Based on the true story of Lam Kwok-wai, who raped and murdered women in the early 90s.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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Bloodline (2018)
Plot Summary:
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, dark, neo noir, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
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A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to manage their work. In the end, his obsession with devastating consequences when he captures the assassin he hunts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, psychological thriller, independent film
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Calling All Police Cars (1975)
Plot Summary:
After the daughter of the prominent professor Icardi goes missing an investigation is quickly commenced, much to the chagrin of commisioner Solmi who thinks Icardi is receiving benefits because of his status and that instead the professor should be treated like anyone else would have been treated in his place. The girl is soon found, murdered, shot in the head. The investigation gets under way and with only a few, thin, leads to go by, it's not going to be an open and shut case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, psychotronic
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Ryde (2017)
Plot Summary:
Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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The Cohasset Snuff Film (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, the small town of Cohasset, Massachusetts was rocked with tragedy. A 17-year-old high school senior named Collin Mason murdered three classmates. All the murders were videotaped and uploaded to the Internet via bit torrent sites and for three days, the world viewed the murders of these three innocent teens. Through legal action, the parents of the victims were able to remove all footage from the Internet and the town tried to save face by pretending it never happened. Bootleg copies of this footage are still passed around and downloaded through illegal means. The impact of this video is still being felt in Cohasset today. The video has become infamous, and is now referred to as The Cohasset Snuff Film.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary, serious
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, retro, detective, period piece
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House on the Hill (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, "House On The Hill" is a true crime melodrama with strong horror elements, chronicling the outrageous 1980s murder spree of serial killer Leonard Lake, who would target, kidnap, rob and kill people - and even whole families. Sonia, the only survivor of Lake's killing spree, teams up with a private investigator to help him locate a woman who disappeared into Lake's compound. In the process, Sonia recounts the horrors of the house, where Lake and his accomplice would force her to videotape the killings.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killer Nurse (2008)
Plot Summary:
He called himself the Angel of death but when the police department discovered that he was involved in over 40 deaths his name soon became Killer nurse in the beginning it was his story against theirs. Soon he gave up his version of the events and admitted to killing 43 patients in his care at St. Mary's hospital. Charles Cullen became one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of the US.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, talky, independent film
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Curse of the Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
Genre guru Ulli Lommel (THE BOOGEYMAN, BTK KILLER) directs this horror film about the infamous Zodiac killer. Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of his identity has never been solved.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, psychological thriller
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Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Anamorph (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, bleak, realistic
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Kemper (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, scary
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Son of Sam (2008)
Plot Summary:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher