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Plot Summary:
A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Demon Spies (1974)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Killers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychological thriller, psycho film
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La alacrana (1986)
Plot Summary:
Those involved in the making of an amateur porn video end up getting slashed to death with a cane sword. It's up to the brave policewoman Eugenia aka The Scorpion (Maribel Guardia) to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Passionate Killing in the Dream (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman can see through the mind of a serial killer. But can she use her talents to alert the police to the killer's next move or will the killer catch on and track her down.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971)
Plot Summary:
A man commits a series of murders due to his dual personalities and his zodiac birth sign.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Massacre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute is brutally killed by the road side by a maniancal killer. Nearby a horror film is being produced but the director is worried that the script is too passé for a modern audience and so he plans to include a séance scene - he hires a real medium to carry out a ceremony with the cast and crew to help inspire the script but she is attacked by an evil spirit. Meanwhile members of the cast are being picked off one by one and police detective Walter is desperate to stop his girlfriend, the lead actress Jennifer, becoming the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Ghost Festival (1985)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath solicits ghostly help to find out who killed his wife, and then concocts a bizarre plan to get vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Blood Moon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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School Killer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Six teenagers decide to spend the night at an old abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre occurred. The kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard who committed the brutal killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
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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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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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Bloodbath in the House of Knives (2010)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a harmless visit to a hypnosis demonstration turns into a roller coaster ride filled with dead bodies that start to pile up around poor Ivy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, 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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Lucker the Necrophagous (1986)
Plot Summary:
John Lucker is a serial rapist/murderer with a necrophilia fetish. Eight years ago, he went on a killing spree that took eight victims, until he was finally caught and institutionalized. Now he's been put in a private clinic after attempting suicide during a mental hospital transfer. He awakens from his drugged state to kill his two nurses, and then heads in for the town. When he hears on the news that one of his victims, Cathy Jordan had survived his rampage eight years ago, he becomes furious, and that rage becomes infested as a physical psychosis that can only be relieved by killing more women as he heads to kill his survivor. One the corpses he keeps to "commit the deed" with a week later before returning on his search for Cathy. He kills one woman and captures another on the way, and then finds Cathy. He psychologically torments both women, but Cathy is able to get away. Lucker, now furious, heads off to settle the score once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, bloody, experimental, controversial, psychotronic, independent film, banned film
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Delirium (1987)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the mistress with pictures of their disfigured corpses taken in front of her semi-nude posters visible in the background. Is she going to be the psycho's next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual
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Gun Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film
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Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Corpse Mania (1981)
Plot Summary:
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, detective, surprise ending, weird
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
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The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
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Dead on Site (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dead On Site is the story of a group of media arts majors who decide as a final project to take over a vacant house where a family had been wiped out a year before. They plan to re-enact the murders and web-cast them on a site while they search for clues to the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, independent film
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Murder in Law (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man's mother comes from Louisiana to live with her son in San Francisco. What her son doesn't know is that Mom was confined to a mental hospital in Louisiana, and she murdered an orderly to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Psycho Gothic Lolita (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yuki lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and kill her mother. In order to revenge herself Yuki becomes a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, using a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in God's name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, bleak, realistic, splatter, surreal, offbeat
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X-Ray (1981)
Plot Summary:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, medical horror, grindhouse, psychotronic, bloody, atmospheric
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Graduation Day (1981)
Plot Summary:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious
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Pieces (1982)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bloody
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The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Plot Summary:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, bloody, creepy, retro, gothic horror, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror
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Sleepless (2001)
Plot Summary:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological, rough, suspense, detective, bloody, disturbing