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Plot Summary:
In this remake to the original 1980 ecological horror movie, a secret government experiment turns nightmarish when genetically altered fish, bred as amphibious weapons, escape. Scientists believe them dead after a biohazardous chemical spill. Far from it, the creatures thrive as bloodthirtsy killers, threatening to annihilate a small coastal town by slaughtering the men and abducting the women for mating! Government scientists attempt to keep the creatures' origin a secret while trying to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark, mystic
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Creature of Destruction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A resort hypnotist and his assistant predict murders, which she then commits as a fanged monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Terror Beneath the Sea (1966)
Plot Summary:
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men capture the pair and keep them prisoner in their underwater city.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. What he doesn't know is that the ship is guarded by the spirit of an ancient Moro princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: 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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The Alien Within (1995)
Plot Summary:
Crew of an undersea mining platform falls prey to mysterious and dangerous parasite. The parasite has the ability to affect people's minds, so survivors can't be certain who is safe and who is infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Haunted Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious ship is found adrift in mid-ocean without a crew. But this mystery is soon forgotten when Captain Ramsey, his two sexy first mates and the crew discover its precious cargo of ancient Aztec treasure. However, their joy quickly succumbs to greed, paranoia and fear, as they must battle the murderous creature which guards the accursed treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Mildew from Planet Xonader (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1984. Researchers at the secretive Bentan Labs are celebrating the completion of their latest weapons project: a previously unknown type of mildew, capable of spreading and consuming any kind of vegetation... and ideal for attacking stockpiles of enemy food. When a sponsor is accidentally infected, the mildew's spores are set loose across the facility. As aggressive soldiers flood the complex and the infected staff begin to mutate, the survivors come to realize that the mildew is in fact an alien creature! To avoid an agonising death, the remaining scientists must join forces with "Toxic" - a mysterious mercenary who has infiltrated the building on a covert mission. Will anyone escape the clutches of this out of control fungus and the army of crazed mutants it has created? Body melts, alien mutations, tons of action and geysers of gore await you. The '80s are back!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter
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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
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A man accidentally learns that he has a mystical connection with sharks, and is given a strange medallion by a shaman. Becoming more and more alienated from normal society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks telepathically, setting out to destroy anybody who harms sharks. People enter into his strange world to exploit his weird passion, and he uses the animals to gain revenge on anybody who double crosses him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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Gargantua (1998)
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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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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Up from the Depths (1979)
Plot Summary:
A menacing shark-like predator attacks a Hawaiian tourist area in this low-budget creature feature. An uncredited Roger Corman served as executive producer.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, absurd, natural horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, dark comedy, parody
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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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Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, exciting, suspense, psychotronic, tense, intense, enigmatic
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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
When shark conservationist Dr. Misty Calhoun is invited to consult on a top-secret project run by pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant, she is shocked to learn that the company is using unpredictable and highly aggressive bull sharks as its test subjects, which soon break loose and cause havoc.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, absurd
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The Fly II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, splatter, cult classic, psychedelic, heartbreaking, slasher, sad, tech noir, medical horror
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Octaman (1971)
Plot Summary:
A scientific team in Mexico discover a pool of unusual baby "octopus-like" specimens. Gathering a few for analysis back at the lab, it is soon discovered that the critters belong to a gangly six-foot half man/half octopus-like creature, that's pretty angry and wants her 'babies' returned….
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: natural horror, retro, grindhouse, scary, offbeat, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Hydra (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (and apparent former Nazi) unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, gain revenge on those who have spurned him, and kidnap nubile young women to similarly transform so that he can breed. Or something like that.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Plot Summary:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, mystic, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, surprise ending, tense
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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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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
Plot Summary:
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: absurd, stylized, natural horror, exciting, tense, retro, suspense, dark, mockbuster, creepy
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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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Species (1995)
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In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, sexual, slasher horror, disturbing
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The Terror Within (1989)
Plot Summary:
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists discover creatures mutated by the plague. Now they prepare to do battle against their worst fear: The Terror Within.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, retro, mystic, cult horror, independent film, exciting
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Species II (1998)
Plot Summary:
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, mystical, dark, mystic
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Alien Resurrection (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 260000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, saga, splatter, action packed, bleak, epic, slasher
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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