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Plot Summary:
When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, anthology, detective, weird
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J-Horror Anthology: Underworld (2005)
Plot Summary:
Six short stories. • Chain Mail • Left Behind • Tattoo • Viewfinder's Memory • Guardian Angel • Mortuary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, anthology, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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Curse of the Blind Dead (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are captured during a ritual and brutally murdered by the locals. Just before the execution, the Knights swear to return from their graves to haunt the village and the nearby forest. Centuries later, in a post-apocalyptic future, a man and his daughter try to survive against both the undead Knights and a sect commanded by a mad preacher.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Gut Instincts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gut Instincts contains four horrific little tales. Call Me is about a man who thinks a night of passion is in store, but when he gets home, what awaits him is far from passion. In Patterson Road, a group of teens ventures to a wooded area rumored to have a hidden cemetery. They should have been careful what they asked for because in this case, that's exactly what they got. Speaking Ill of the Dead has a basic theme that karma is a bitch. And Trip has Terra, a struggling alcoholic looking for anything to decrease her stress. In all of these tales, characters had a bad feeling, a gut instinct, about what they were doing, but they didn't listen and paid the ultimate price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, anthology, independent film
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Hana-Dama (2014)
Plot Summary:
Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. With a guy named Shibanai (Syun Asada), Mizuki and Kirie decide to stand up to their tormentors. Mizuki though is badly beaten by Aya. Kirie and Shibanai are assaulted by teachers and endure shocking violence. Mizuki decides to get revenge. She wanders the street at night. At that time, Mizuki becomes possessed by a poisonous flower spirit. Madness of the flower spirit begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, weird, asian horror
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The Pyramid (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology, splatter
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Bone Sickness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, medical horror, terrifying, independent film, weird, cult film
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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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One Cut of the Dead Spin-Off: In Hollywood (2019)
Plot Summary:
This 59-minute feature was made for TV in Japan and is now being shopped around by Nikkatsu in advance of the film market in Cannes beginning in a few weeks. This feature was directed by Nakaizumi Yuya, supervised by original director Ueda and stars several of the key players from the original films including Hamatso Takayuki, Mao, Shuhama Harumi, and many more.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, funny, horror comedy
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
A strange virus turns 90% of the world population into Lust eating Zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males were found to be uninfected. These men team up with the Zombies to go after the flesh and blood of surviving young women to fill their lust. The women survivors must fight to survive in an apocalyptic Japan.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, ridiculous, asian horror
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Zomvideo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Aiko and Hashimoto discovere a VHS videotape called "A Guide to Surviving Zombies From". This is a video with a set of instructions that will help them cope with the invasion of the undead living in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Last Zombie (2022)
Plot Summary:
A genetics specialist is sent to stay in a coastal inn to find the origin of an infection that has started spreading slowly.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero (2019)
Plot Summary:
Giko Nokomura is a female student at Nightingale Academy, who carries around her very own chainsaw. One day she begins to be attacked by modified corpses created by one of her classmates, Nero Aoi . She tears her way through the corpses and busts into Nero's hideout. Why is Nero so intent on attacking Giko?! The reason will shock you!After her battle with Nero, she encounters a new enemy. It's the leader of the Nightingale Academy Student Council Guardians, Nemesis.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two slackers put on their superhero suits to save Hong Kong from a zombie invasion. This hybrid directorial debut packs one hell of an emotional punch.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, horror comedy
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S.O.Z: Soldiers or Zombies (2021)
Plot Summary:
Drug lord Alonso Marroquín escapes from a Mexican prison in an attempt to go into hiding. A US military secret experiment goes wrong and the elite unit from the Mexican Police that is after Marroquín gets infected, creating a new zombie species. The Army and the zombies end up at the drug lord’s hideout and a battle for human survival begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Werewolf Game: Mad Land (2018)
Plot Summary:
Abducted teen Moe Koike is thrust into the Werewolf Game, where a role playing fight to the death plays out with nine other unfortunate souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Plaga zombie: Zona mutante (2001)
Plot Summary:
A small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks with some kind of disease, but of course it spread with disastrous results. And now, three oddballs have been dumped into the middle of this town as test subjects or something, and the race for survival is on. John West is a strongman, with a cowboy hat and leopard skin tights, Bill is a medical student, and Max is a mathematical genius, and it's them against the zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, bloody, suspense
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Virus-32 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, slasher horror, slasher
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Deadman Inferno (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hiroya Munakata (Sho Aikawa) is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi (Shingo Tsurumi) is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga (Maika Yamamoto) says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya’s subordinate Shinya (Red Rice) go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, asian horror
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Z (2014)
Plot Summary:
A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, asian horror
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Rape Zombie Side-Story: Hardcore of the Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
Men all over the world except for virgin otaku turn into rape-crazed zombies who kill women with their toxic semen. Some of the surviving otaku get revenge on the three-dimensional women who have shunned them by hunting them down with packs of tamed zombies. The women of Japan must band together to survive the zombie plague before all is lost forever!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, black comedy, dark comedy, transgressive
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Undertaker (2012)
Plot Summary:
The dead return to life as cruel predators - the so-called "returners" have spread all over the world. Only a few survivors succeeded in escaping from this madness. They are submerged in remote areas, because the cities were completely occupied by the returners. There is only one person who still daggers in the cities: the Undertaker. A dark hero, a champion of the battlefield and equipped for the world after the apocalypse, starts his own personal revenge campaign.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, manga, asian horror
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Zombie Mutation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Follows 6 people low life junkies & strippers as they battle for survival in the midst of a zombie outbreak in a run town on the outskirts of a city.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 5 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Convinced of the final outcome, a team of scientists travels back in time to stop the spread of a virus turning men into zombified rapists through society and causes them to finally uncover the source of the deadly disease which causes them to attempt to stop it before it happens again.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, splatter
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Rockabilly Zombie Weekend (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple plans to have a rockabilly themed wedding out at the old farm, despite warnings of a West Nile Virus outbreak. Things go horribly wrong when the virus spawns zombie-creating mosquitoes, who begin to feed on the wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Atomic Zombies!!! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two weeks after a local nuclear power plant explosion (which totally wasn't an evil secret Nazi research laboratory), zombies have taken over the town!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rape Zombie: Lust Of The Dead 4 (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a devastated, post-apocalyptic world, all men have turned into rape demons. The only hope for the future is to travel to the past and prevent the outbreak, the source of which still remains a mystery.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, splatter
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Kill Zombie! (2012)
Plot Summary:
The bizarre story takes place in Amsterdam-West, where a virus turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. Although much blood is flowing and many limbs chopped off, there is a lot to laugh at in this bizarre horror comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, tense, scary, offbeat, not serious, campy
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Navy Seals vs. Zombies (2015)
Plot Summary:
A team of highly skilled Navy SEALS find themselves embarking on the battle of their lives when they come face-to-face with the undead. After a deadly outbreak occurs in New Orleans, the SEALS must fight for their lives, and the city, against an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Love You as the World Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
26-year-old car mechanic Hibiki Mamiya lives with his high school sweetheart of the same age, Kurumi Ogasawara. Life together feels so natural and filled with the warmth of each other's love. It was a happiness they expected would last a lifetime. Hibiki is secretly preparing his proposal to Kurumi when misfortune strikes. A tunnel collapses, trapping him for four days. Barely making it out alive, he discovers a world completely changed. There is absolutely no one around, communication signals are dead, the transportation network is a wreck, and the only information available is the emergency evacuation order being repeated on the radio. Everywhere Hibiki goes, he sees bloodstains. Just what happened to this town?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing