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Plot Summary:
A woman posing in erotic magazines is stalked by a maniac who kills the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, neo noir, erotic, twist ending, mad
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The Infernal Trio (1974)
Plot Summary:
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, clever, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Lovesick: Sick Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a hard-working girl with two jobs and a boyfriend, Istvan, who is a rock musician and always in trouble. When cocaine dealers threaten to kill him over a debt, she tries to help him come up with the money. This starts an unfortunate chain of events at her daytime job at the hotel, and brings her and the hotel manager, O'Ryan, closer together, or so it seems. Then, in his unrequited love for Julia, O'Ryan goes a step too far, way too far, and from there, things get very ugly!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, weird
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The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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American Nightmare (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Iced (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Lolita Vibrator Torture (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sicko lures a young girl to his freight container and subjects her to plenty of mean and nasty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: controversial, detective, transgressive
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Shadows Run Black (1984)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, relaxing, erotic, crying, independent film
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Olga's Girls (1964)
Plot Summary:
A vicious underworld leader brings the pain for her female underlings in this celebrated sexploitation "roughie," a sequel to White Slaves of Chinatown. Olga (Audrey Campbell) is a woman who, working with "the Syndicate" (a criminal network that encompasses the local mafia and several Russian and Chinese communist operatives), oversees a stable of women who do double duty as prostitutes and drug pushers. Olga is a cruel woman who will tolerate no misbehavior among her charges (many of whom are addicted to "the Big H" and work for her to feed their habits), and subjects them to periodic torture sessions when she feels they aren't living up to her expectations. When Olga discovers that one of her girls has turned informant, she takes it upon herself to beat the truth out of the women until she finds out who has betrayed her, leading several embittered hookers and addicts to turn against their cruel mistress...though Olga ends up having the last word.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Cat's Cradle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The House That Vanished (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young model and her petty thief boyfriend find their way through the English fog to a backwoods manor in hopes of looting it. What they find instead is murder, and when the model attempts to find the house again, her efforts come to naught.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Diary of a Serial Killer (1995)
Plot Summary:
This is like a CAT III version of the classic sick flick Maniac (1980) but as depressing and mean-spirited as another classic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986): unable to satisfy his sexual desires with his wife, Bill regularly visits prostitutes. Afterwards, he ties up and tortures them in various ways before killing them. Bill believes that if they die, they will be reincarnated and have a better life. He murders over a dozen people. One day, a young woman named Jade comes to stay with Bill's family. He falls in love with her but is afraid that he will kill her, so he makes her leave. Jade has nowhere to go and starts working as a prostitute. When Bill finds Jade doing this, he has sex with her and gets her pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, erotic, slasher
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Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three gangsters spend their time assaulting students until their leader feels guilty and saves a young girl from being raped. Following the incident the gang decides he must now prove himself by raping her himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial
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Fatal Pulse (1988)
Plot Summary:
A girl is killed and raped minutes after fighting with her boyfriend (Jeff) and he left her. Jeff is the assistant of professor Caldwell at the university, and he wanted to return with his old girlfriend (Lisa). The girl lived with another five girls, including Lisa. All these girls begin to be killed, one by one, in different and strange ways. The main suspect is Jeff.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
Plot Summary:
Joan Barnard (Elvire Audray, AMAZONIA: THE KATHERINE MILES STORY), wife of archeologist Arthur Barnard (John Saxon, ENTER THE DRAGON), is being plagued by nightmares of ritualistic deaths within an ancient Etruscan tomb. Unsettling as they are, these dreams have also been unconsciously providing Joan with detailed knowledge of a lost temple that her husband has only just recently discovered. While talking on the phone about her violent and vivid dreams, Joan's life is forever altered, as she is forced to listen as her husband is murdered, his head nearly twisted off. Determined to uncover her husband's killer and get to the bottom of her hallucinogenic, maggot infested visions, Joan travels to the site of Arthur’s most recent excavation, escorted by her friend and colleague Mike Grant (Paolo Malco, THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY) uncovering a web of murder and mysticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody
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Blood Link (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, independent film, psychotronic, slasher horror
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The Psycho Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Exorcism (1975)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing them to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, sensual, perverse, classic horror, twisted, sexploitation film
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The Last House on the Beach (1978)
Plot Summary:
Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, killing one by raping her with a cane, until Bolkan renounces her teachings and seeks bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, poliziottesco, cult film
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Nightmares Come At Night (1970)
Plot Summary:
Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring dancers, Cincia and Anne, who embark on an erotically charged partnership. But when Anne starts to have nightmares that feature her as a murderous killer, she begins to lose her grip on reality. Or is reality merely rearing its ugly head in her dreams? She's determined find out what's causing this turmoil before something deadly happens.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Liechtenstein
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark drama
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Killer's Moon (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, offbeat, mysterious, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)
Plot Summary:
Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
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Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. The killer is a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. An unsettling darkness descends.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, erotic, psychological, rough, bleak, tense, suspenseful, bloody, slasher
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99 Women (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, sensual, cult classic, explicit, independent film, rough
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Out of the Dark (1988)
Plot Summary:
An employee at a telephone fantasy service helps hunt for the killer preying on her silken-voiced colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, erotic, independent film, scary, serious
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Too Beautiful to Die (1988)
Plot Summary:
The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency, Alex. During the party, Alex is playing games in his computer and it looks like the girls have the house to themselves, but there's another guest…. and an accident happens - a fatal accident. This will start a string of murders - all those that were at that party begin to fall one by one. The police intervene, investigations are made, but the killer is like an elusive shadow….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, suspense, slasher horror
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Smile Before Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
Teenaged Nancy Thompson arrives unexpectedly at her mothers county villa. She discovers that her mom has died a violent death.The police investigate and believe the she killed herself by cutting her throat with a piece of broken of glass.Nancy meets and becomes friends with Gina who was her mothers best friend and who has a special relationship with her stepfather.Soon the older man turns his roving eye toward this young beauty as suspicion about the suicide starts to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Torment (1986)
Plot Summary:
A detective sets out to capture a psycho who kills women, but the psycho turns the tables and goes after the detective's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug addiction, begin to come to light. It turns out that Isabella had kept a diary detailing these vices, and now almost every employee becomes nervous.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, suspense, gothic, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir
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Fascination (1979)
Plot Summary:
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, creepy, sexy, suspense, slasher, art house, classic horror