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Plot Summary:
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: splatter, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody, disturbing, clever, suspense, controversial, dark fantasy
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami's vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires. Meanwhile, Mizushima decides that he wants to fully become a vampire with Monami's help. Keiko, Mizushima's girl friend, sees the two on the school rooftop kissing and in a state of hysteria, attempts to throw Monami off the roof but falls off herself instead. Keiko dies but her father, Kenji Furano, the mad scientist, resurrects her as Franken girl. Thus begins a deadly combat between Franken Keiko and Vampire Monami in the name of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, stylized, not serious, dark fantasy, splatter, horror comedy, gothic, bloody, suspense
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Embryo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kevin and his girlfriend Evelyn are camping in the woods when she is abducted and impregnated by otherworldly beings. As the entity within her begins to grow, Evelyn discovers that her cravings can only be satisfied by human flesh and blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Chile
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, futuristic
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Samurai Princess (2009)
Plot Summary:
When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (Aino Kishi) the only survivor, she becomes infused with her comrades' souls. Transformed into an android, she sets out to avenge their deaths. Dai Mizuno co-stars as the princess's human partner in this Kengo Kaji-directed gore fest that features breast grenades, detachable chainsaw limbs, deadly guitar riffs and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, semi serious, tense, splatter, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
Plot Summary:
A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata, witness a giant ball of fire drop from the sky and crash into the forest. When the warriors find and attempt to identify the object, they discover aliens that attack and feast on them. Yamata and the survivors swear vengeance, but in challenging the aliens, they learn that their weapons have no effect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, humorous, captivating, splatter, exciting, offbeat, stylized, not serious, neo noir
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the Dimension Tide, a device that creates artificial black holes! During a test of the Dimension Tide, eggs appear in the city of Shibuya and hatch into terrifying Meganurons! These creatures need water to grow and flood the city of Shibuya by breaking underground water veins. As they multiply and grow, they start to feed on the energy of humans. After gathering enough energy, they transform in to giant dragonfly monsters called Meganuras! And now they target Godzilla for energy to feed to the larva of their queen, which eventually hatches into the terrifying 60-meter Megaguirus who also begins to attack Godzilla for his energy. Now a 3-way battle between Godzilla, the Megaguirus, and humans begins! Will Godzilla win? Will humanity survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, fast, cult film
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Reign in Darkness (2002)
Plot Summary:
When molecular biologist Michael Dorn is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing, his life takes a dramatic turn. The virus turns its victims into a unique breed of elite vampires. Now on the run, with relentless bounty hunter Lance and informant vampire Gage in pursuit, Michael must decide the fate of the world. Follow this action packed, modern gothic fable, as we take you behind closed doors to reveal a virus so potent that it could change the evolution of mankind, a virus that is believed to be existing among us today...RVK-17.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, fast, independent film
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Helldriver (2010)
Plot Summary:
Stilling reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, splatter, apocalyptic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous
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Deep Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, cliffhanger
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Werewolf Warrior (2004)
Plot Summary:
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat, splatter
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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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Bloodsuckers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, scary, bleak, futuristic, fast
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Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad who's mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, bloody, futuristic, splatter, cyber, disturbing, suspense, cult horror, grindhouse
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The Dark Lurking (2009)
Plot Summary:
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, scary, independent film, futuristic
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Rubber's Lover (1996)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: clever, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, black and white, cyber, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough
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Screams of Blasphemy (1991)
Plot Summary:
Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while wandering aimlessly through the city. Himiko has also been memory-wiped, possibly by the same company that produced Pinocchio, but she is fully functional. Himiko spends her days drawing maps of the city, to aid other memory-wiped people. Himiko takes Pinocchio home and tries to teach him to speak. After much effort he has a breakthrough and finally becomes aware of his situation. At this point his body erupts in an inexplicable metamorphosis and it becomes clear that his modifications were much more involved and esoteric than simple memory loss. Himiko also begins to transform, though in a much more subtle manner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, disturbing, surreal, clever, experimental, controversial, creepy, intelligent, twisted
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, suspense, experimental, disturbing, controversial, splatter, serious
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
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Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror, apocalyptic, tech noir, scary, surprise ending
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Monster Invaders from Space (2018)
Plot Summary:
Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
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Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Yakuza Weapon (2011)
Plot Summary:
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, manga, crime drama, rough, humorous, semi serious
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Gantz: The Movie, Part 1 (2010)
Plot Summary:
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, serious, futuristic, anime, manga, surreal, fast
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Alien Raiders (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, christmas horror, intense, captivating, futuristic, cult classic
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Slime City Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, futuristic, splatter
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Parasite (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, natural horror, apocalyptic
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The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, grindhouse, cult horror, classic horror, psychotronic, bloody, horror comedy, perverse, cult classic
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, disturbing, black and white, experimental, splatter, independent film, art house, atmospheric