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Plot Summary:
From The King of the Japanese Cult Movie Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that roiled modern-day Japan, including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult, are dramatized with gruesome detail, as the perpetrators of those crimes are forced to stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty - by Lucifer himself - of committing heinous crimes during their time on earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Bloody Ape (1997)
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THE BLOODY APE is the most outrageous, drive-in movie take on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" ever committed to film. A carnival barker foolishly releases his 400 pound gorilla, who then literally goes bananas on a rampage of raw rape and boffo butchery - leaving the low rent population of Long Island either sexually violated, slaughtered - or both! From maverick indy filmmaker Keith J. Crocker (Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69), THE BLOODY APE is a gore-soaked love letter to the sex and violence of the grind house movie era that pulls no punches and offers no apologies for wallowing in a skin-drenched stew of crudeness and camp! Banned from numerous festivals around the world, ignored by critics and loathed by the politically correct....but now there just is no stopping THE BLOODY APE!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Flænset (2000)
Plot Summary:
A guy catches his wife cheating on him and takes brutal revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: controversial, slasher, splatter
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Lust in Hell - Edge of the World (2009)
Plot Summary:
After losing her parents in a tragic traffic accident, Koto (Mari Sakurai, BIG TITS ZOMBIE) develops the ability to communicate with the souls of the dead. Hospitalized for extreme trauma, Koto escapes to return to the place where her parents died. There she meets Shinji, whose lover also died in a car accident, and they begin a torrid and tempestuous affair. The pair embark on an illicit and terrifying journey heightened by lust and death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Violent New Breed (1997)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Necronos (2010)
Plot Summary:
Necronos, one of the mightiest minions of the devil himself has come to earth to create an invincible army of the undead under leadership of barbaric demons, called Berzerkers. To achieve his goal Necronos needs numerous often very macabre and difficult to come by ingredients. So Satan sends him two assistants to achieve his goal - Goran, a Blood Demon and footman loyal to Necronos as well as The Mighty Witch to locate the chosen one - a virgin witch.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial
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The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
Plot Summary:
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, cult classic, serious, crying, psychotronic, cult film
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Sadisticum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sadisticum tells the story of a man for whom there seems to be only one purpose in life, the torture and killing of others. At age 17, he has already killed two people. But he manages to suppress his appetite for many years. Half of his life he spent with working and adapting the company externally. But the void in his life has been increased steadily, until one day it happens again, he kills. Only this time he would not stop, this time he would give free rein to his appetite. But even by the brutal killing of his fellow man, he learns no more satisfaction. His ever-growing need for recognition is driving him to create some kind torture course. He'd selected peers point to which way is best torturing anyone without killing him early. But it does not stop at a seminar, his addiction to attention and admiration grows into the vast, ever more cruel torture methods he tried. But one day, the story takes a surprising turn.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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The Demon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, gothic horror, detective, grindhouse, psychotronic, odd
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Man Hunting: Resurrection (2012)
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The 3rd installment of the thriller series in which immortal human weapons and hunters attack. A secret work of a certain country aiming to capture a hunter is activated. The genius murderous demon, Kyumon, who directs the operation, drafts a plan to trap the hunter. Ayano, a gravure idol, is chosen as the "bait".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida) , a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for the murder of a circus girl, he spots the photo of a recently deceased man, Genzaburo Komoda, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. By pretending to have been resurrected, Hirosuke assumes the dead man's identity, fooling everyone, including Komoda's widow and mistress. Whilst at the Komoda household, Hirosuke recalls memories that convince him to travel to a nearby island, home of Jogoro, the web-fingered father of Genzaburo. Whilst on the island, Hirosuke not only discovers Jogoro's plans to build his 'ideal community' (by transforming perfectly normal humans into hideous freaks), but also the awful truth behind his own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, slasher, experimental, gothic horror, disturbing, controversial, art house, grindhouse, creepy
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Splatter Farm (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two young twins are sent to spend time at their aunt's farm. What nobody knows is that the aunt's handyman is a psycho serial killer who dismembers his victims and stores their body parts in the barn.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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A Night to Dismember (1983)
Plot Summary:
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer (2001)
Plot Summary:
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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No Reason (2010)
Plot Summary:
Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming life. While planning to move, Jennifer and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! It all begins with a strange visit from her soon to be ex-neighbor, the postman who mentions an urgent need. Later when Jennifer comes home from grocery, she discovers an elderly neighbor, who is her son's babysitter, has disappeared. She also receives a terrifying and disturbing letter which contains a macabre death poem, plus some compromising sex photos of her husband and the missing babysitter! To get over the initial shock, she decides to take a bath, and promptly falls asleep in the bathtub. When she awakes, she finds herself on the floor of her apartment covered in blood and body parts! Center to this surreal and horrific scene is a mysterious masked man who promises to lead Jennifer on the right path toward the sacred white light . The story continues as a tale of physical and mental torture!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surprise ending, splatter, bleak, suspense, sadistic, brutal, surreal, controversial, extreme horror
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Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
Plot Summary:
One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, crying, weird
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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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Girl Hell 1999 (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of an innocent woman called Misaki. Her mother is gone and her sister is disabled from a car accident. Her father sexually molests the two girls and Misaki and her and a friend turn to prostitution. It is only a matter of time before Misaki reaches breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, extreme horror, perverse, weird
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The Butcher (2007)
Plot Summary:
Relentlessly gruesome, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jin-Won's torture flick chronicles the making of a snuff film from two perspectives: that of the sadistic producers and that of the unfortunate "stars." Their terror captured through vérité-style camera work, the victims are made to endure the agonizing screams of their fellow captives before meeting their own grim fate at the hands the titular butcher in his bloody abattoir.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, terrifying, independent film
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Big Monster War (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bizarre
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Black Past (1989)
Plot Summary:
Thommy and his family move to a new place. In the attic, he finds a box surrounded with chains. He opens it. In the box, he finds a mirror and a diary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two friends in Mexico discover the Lament Configuration and unleash Pinhead, but one decides to try to survive by swapping himself with someone else. Once they go missing, family members go in search of them, but find Pinhead instead.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher, psychological, bloody, splatter, lovecraft, mindfuck
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Teke Teke (2009)
Plot Summary:
The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, asian horror
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Vampire Clay (2017)
Plot Summary:
Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, weird, asian horror
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Tomie vs Tomie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Partially based on "The Gathering" in the Tomie manga. A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attention of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, perhaps a genetic one-off, in that he feels no particular attraction to Tomie. This of course intrigues Tomie, and she begins to become obsessed with him. Soon, he is caught in a vicious struggle between two rival Tomies. And neither Tomie will die.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, corny
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Tomie: Unlimited (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back. Little by little, Tomie will start to show her darkest side to Tsukiko, making her nightmares come to life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, disturbing, splatter, corny, asian horror
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground. Soon Hideo winds up a bloody mess in the bathroom stall, and his two compatriots are assaulted with a series of bizarre events in which Tomie possesses other girls' bodies, winds up a yammering severed head with claw-like arms, and taunts them no matter how often they kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, surprise ending
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Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Plot Summary:
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, crying
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Eko Eko Azarak II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to 'Wizard of Darkness' to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. 'Birth of the Wizard' begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches and wizards. I say former, because someone seems to have slaughtered them. Skip to the present day, and an archaeologist discovers a mummy from the village. Blissfully unaware that the mummy is, in fact, possessed by an evil spirit (naturally), he runs off, leaving his assistant alone. The mummy comes to life, kills her, and the evil spirit takes over her body. This evil spirit is now searching for Misa, who is protected by Kyle Reese, It is Misa's destiny to defeat this evil spirit, but she needs Saiga's help to do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet housewife Kanae and school girl Tamae. With no choices left to them, the group of girls decides to take a stand and arm themselves with assault rifles and explosives to fight off hordes of horny zombies. What is the secret to killing the zombies for good?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: brutal, tense, splatter, disturbing, black comedy, dark comedy, ridiculous, asian horror
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Red Room (1999)
Plot Summary:
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychological, splatter, extreme horror, heavy, terrifying, scary, rough, bleak