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Plot Summary:
Trapped on an island, a team of mercenaries on a rescue mission begin to question everything around them as they encounter threatening creatures living in the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Hellblazers (2022)
Plot Summary:
An evil cult unleashes a monster on a small south-western town that refuses to go down without a fight.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny
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Motel Acacia (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the cold west, Motel Acacia is tasked with exterminating immigrants by the government through a BED, haunted with the spirit of a Filipino tree demon, that eats men and impregnates women. A young Filipino man, JC, is groomed by his tyrannical caucasian Father to take over the business.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Slovenia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Wolf Mountain (2022)
Plot Summary:
Aj and his brother revisit the spot where their parents were killed. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Kinderfänger (2020)
Plot Summary:
When vulnerable kids start going missing, Olivia, a hard-of-hearing/deaf teacher goes searching - only to find herself in a battle with the Kinderfänger, a mythical creature who will stop at nothing to keep the children he's stolen.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
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Battle for Pandora (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a rescue ship to Pandora, a moon of Saturn. But when they try to land, they discover Pandora is inhabited by a highly evolved humanoid species.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster
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Stories in the Night (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
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Dead Zone (2022)
Plot Summary:
To stop the collapse of humanity, an elite team of soldiers must descend on a radiation-poisoned town and perform the ultimate stealth mission using high-tech armor and weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Dinosaur World (2020)
Plot Summary:
The best players from around the world are gathered to be Russell's lab rats on his new game, anything could happen. Everyone has their eyes on the prize, which will give them a second chance at life. Greed will take over friendship, allies will become enemies and the unexpected will come with every move you make in this made-up world infested with dinosaurs. Only one can come up triumphant.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: China, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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What Waits Below (1984)
Plot Summary:
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson (Blount) are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Take Back the Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her. Jane's efforts intensify, but her troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface causing her family, community, and authorities to question the authenticity of her account. Suddenly alone in her fight, Jane starts to doubt her own memory of the attack...to doubt if Monster exists at all.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Human Lanterns (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps from, yes, the skin of his enemies' sisters, mistresses, and wives. Although insanely conceived, it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung-fu favorites.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, weird, cult film
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Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Underground (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fight for their lives against the lethal and ravenous creatures lurking beneath the Earth's surface. The group finds themselves at the mercy of creatures genetically engineered by the military to be expendable in battle. Though they fought countless battles in Iraq, these friends never knew real fear until they went underground.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, scary, disturbing, slasher
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The Strangeness (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, lovecraft, cult film
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Lurking Fear (1994)
Plot Summary:
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left, including the local priest and a woman traumatised by the death of her sister. But when John Martense turns up to claim his illicit family fortune, with bad guys in pursuit, the last stand had become a lot more complicated. Based on the writings of H P Lovecraft.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, christmas horror, gothic, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, scary, serious, cult film
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Dark Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
The first vampire himself Vlad Tepes arrives in the sleepy community of Willcox and quickly turns an innocent private nurse into his vampire queen. He then has her commit acts of murder on the communities less desirable and draining them of their blood, while also supplying him with a female representing all 8 blood types to become his brides. Damien Cruz investigates the murders and disappearances, which at first he believes Nicole or the mysterious priest Father Nero could be responsible for. But what will happen when Vlad realizes how close Damien is getting to discovering his evil deeds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, detective
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Karate Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Teeth and Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful diva is murdered on the set of horror director Vincent Augustine's latest film "Chapel Blood." Somewhere between the crime scene and the coroner's van, the body mysteriously disappears. Meanwhile, the city's supply of donated blood is being dangerously depleted. Suspecting a connection between the events, detectives Mike Hung and Sasha Colfax go undercover at the studio to investigate. Their attempt to crack the case quickly turns into a desperate battle for survival when they uncover an age-old war between rival vampire covens that threatens to consume humanity in a final, grisly assault of Teeth and Blood!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
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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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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, psychological thriller, bloody, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough
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HellKat (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fallen MMA fighter must win a netherworld no-holds-barred death tournament against man, beast and demon to save her soul.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Demon Hunter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young girl tormented by the tragedies of her past is brought in for questioning by the police over the death of a man, who she claims to be a demon. Detective Beckett realizes this is the same girl he made a broken promise to seven years ago that he'd find the monster that raped and murdered her 12 year old sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Death Valley (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse
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Crack House of the Dead (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the dawn of a zombie outbreak an undercover drug deal goes wrong forcing the cop, the dealer, and others urban misfits to take refuge in the last safe place in the city - a Crack House.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wailer (2006)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Banshee!!! (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. "Banshee!!!" takes the idea of the legendary Irish myth and spins it around into a terrifying and unstoppable monster!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious
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Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on the game, Dead Rising takes place during a large-scale zombie outbreak. When a mandatory government vaccine fails to stop the infection from spreading, the four leads must evade infection while also pursuing the root of the epidemic, with all signs pointing to a government conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, bleak, funny, scenic
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Fear (2021)
Plot Summary:
A lethal virus forces humanity to remote regions for survival, one family fights to try to save its children from a band of marauders bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, scary
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Plot Summary:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, sadistic, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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Zombies (2017)
Plot Summary:
When the world is in shambles, plagued by a zombie outbreak, only the strong will survive, but just how much determination will it take? Will Luke and his crew have enough ambition and ammunition to stay alive long enough to save the human race?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing