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Plot Summary:
In this direct-to-video remake, when an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan), to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a mysterious -- and horrifying -- subterranean universe. Giant spiders and treacherous dinosaurs abound in this pulse-pounding update of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi adventure, which also stars Dedee Pfeiffer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, mockbuster, exciting, disturbing, prehistoric, natural horror, computer animated, psychotronic, independent film, captivating
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Plot Summary:
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster, offbeat, suspenseful, computer animated, suspense, psychotronic
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Jabberwock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn of an imminent attack by a winged creature with the body of a dragon the head of a gruesome insect and deadly claws. As the beast descends upon the peaceful town brash Alec draws his sword and the villagers arm themselves. Now the brothers must stand together to save their home and the people they love.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, serious
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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Legendary (2013)
Plot Summary:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn't supposed to exist ... their mission to capture a Cryptid which is wreaking havoc in a remote village and they need to do this before it is killed by Harker, the legendary bounty hunter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, scary
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Supergator (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, gothic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, computer animated
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and mad genius Captain Nemo (Patrick Stewart), who lives on the island for his own secretive ends.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, fairy tale, epic, psychotronic
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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Raptor Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological, feel good, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
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The Lost World (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To date, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets through 2004. The series continued to be rerun in the United States on TNT at 5:00AM EST Monday through Friday, until eventually that came to an end as well. The series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired on syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, retro, sexy, heroic, exciting, offbeat
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AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
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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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Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, mockbuster, fast, computer animated, psychotronic
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious, natural horror, offbeat, serious, computer animated, psychotronic
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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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100 Million BC (2008)
Plot Summary:
A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a giant, man-eating dinosaur back through the portal and into modern-day, downtown Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, tense, mockbuster, natural horror, offbeat, psychotronic
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Age of Dinosaurs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, mockbuster, disgusting
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, natural horror, psychotronic, suspenseful
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, humorous, semi serious, mockbuster, stylized
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The Lost World (2001)
Plot Summary:
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychotronic, serious, computer animated
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Congo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, natural horror, humorous, entertaining
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Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Plot Summary:
Spencer returns to the world of Jumanji, prompting his friends, his grandfather and his grandfather’s friend to enter a different and more dangerous version to save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: funny, breathtaking, action adventure, captivating, action comedy, scenic, colorful, fairy tale, atmospheric, entertaining
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The Dinosaur Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, disgusting, natural horror, independent film, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, teen, psychotronic, atmospheric, feel good, ironic, mockbuster, cult classic, action adventure
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 438000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, scenic, suspenseful, saga, exciting, apocalyptic, cult classic, tense, sweet, epic
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Jurassic Park III (2001)
Plot Summary:
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, predictable, saga, action adventure, intense, slasher, apocalyptic, anime
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Jurassic World (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 670000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: entertaining, scenic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, serious, suspense, epic, saga, action adventure