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Plot Summary:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, tense
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They Nest (2000)
Plot Summary:
After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested with a strange type of carnivorous cockroach. But when Dr. Cahill tries to warn the townsfolk of the danger, they are naturally skeptical. Will they realize the truth before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, atmospheric, independent film
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Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
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Endangered Species (2002)
Plot Summary:
When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally execute human beings. Finding themselves out of their depth they are forced to rely on a mysterious alien hunter that has volunteered his help.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, slasher, rough, serious, fast
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Phase IV (1974)
Plot Summary:
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, natural horror, psychotronic, mystical, atmospheric, surreal, splatter, art house, grindhouse, deep
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Skeeter (1993)
Plot Summary:
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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DNA (1996)
Plot Summary:
DNA is a 1997 American science fiction action film starring Mark Dacascos and Jürgen Prochnow, and directed by William Mesa. Filming took place in the Philippines. The film was retitled ADN - La menace for its French DVD release, and Scarabée for its television showing.An evil scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, scenic, independent film, exciting, cult film
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Kaw (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, natural horror, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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The Rats (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, wild, campy
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Man's Best Friend (1993)
Plot Summary:
A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, natural horror, retro, independent film, surprise ending
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, natural horror, spoof, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Bugs (2003)
Plot Summary:
A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours him. FBI agent Matt Pollack is brought in to investigate, and when forensics reveal the source of the problem, he turns to his friend and entomologist Emily Foster for help. Her studies have chilling results. Matt and a team of crack SWAT commandos must go down and rid the underground of its evil predators. Once in the tunnel, the team is attacked by an army of the creatures. They retaliate with massive firepower, causing the collapse of the tunnel entrance. Their only way out is ten miles ahead through an emergency exit. Matt and his team must get there and exterminate the bugs before they escape into the city causing chaos and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, slasher
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Hybrid (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's an experiment in human behavior. It's an exploration of the most natural of animal impulses. It's something new under the moon. And it bites. When security dispatcher Aaron Scates is blinded in an explosion, he's put in the care of Dr. Andrea Hewlitt, famous in her field for spearheading extraordinary-though controversial-medical breakthroughs. Her newest is cross-species organ transplants, and Aaron is her first human subject. When a severely wounded wolf is brought to Dr. Hewlitt's office by museum curator Lydia Armstrong, Dr. Hewlitt leaps on the opportunity and successfully transplants the wolf's eyes to Aaron-despite Lydia's objections. Aaron, however, is thrilled. Not only can he see again, he can see in the dark. He also has an unusually acute sense of hearing, and tears into a raw steak like never before. Unfortunately, he also tends growl, and to target people as prey.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary
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Caved In (2006)
Plot Summary:
An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides , blackouts , cave-ins - whatever might threaten their journey and commence their descent into the depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror, suspense, disaster movie
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In the Spider's Web (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher, psychotronic
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Mimic 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of "Judas" bugs and introduced them into the environment, where they were to "mimic" the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant cockroaches are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror, surprise ending, wild
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Bottom Feeder (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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Killer Rats (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, natural horror
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Bats (1999)
Plot Summary:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, retro, dark, slasher, saga
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C.H.U.D. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, cult horror, retro, detective
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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The Boogens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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Mosquito Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly contagious, fatal infection Guinin. A convicted murderer, whom Thom arrested, is one of their special drug test subjects, but escapes. The convict and Jen are affected by radioactively altered DNA from an experimental reactor used on mosquitoes which transfer quinine. The convict soon mutates into a mosquito-like monster, which sucks its victims dry. By the time Thom and his junior murder brigade partner Charlie Morrison figure out what happens, Jen starts mutating herself.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, mockbuster, perverse, serious, tragic ending, biting
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Mimic (1997)
Plot Summary:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, cult classic, psychological, retro, dark, art house
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The Thaw (2009)
Plot Summary:
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, dark, underground film, splatter, natural horror, surprise ending
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Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of college smalltime thieves puts a virus in the security system to participate in a scavenger hunt, the greatest attractions of the zoo - sabretoothes from the prehistoric age developed from DNA found in fossils - escape, killing the hosts and guards for fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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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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Mulberry Street (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they fight to survive the night against the rats and rapidly multiplying cannibal mutants.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, dark drama, independent film, disaster movie
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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Abominable (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mythical, perverse, action packed, slasher, natural horror, spooky
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The Untold (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne, renowned wilderness expert and author Winston Burg and the beautiful Marla Lawson. Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Huxley Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, psychotronic