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Plot Summary:
The story concerns a shipwrecked group who discover natural wonders and a gold treasure on a dangerous island populated by dinosaurs and living seaweed. Terence Stamp is the bad guy. Supposedly the most expensive film made in Spain to that point, it has an admittedly strong genre cast including Peter Cushing, Paul Naschy, and Ian Sera.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain, Puerto Rico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Sea Serpent (1985)
Plot Summary:
A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, independent film, cult film
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The Presence (1992)
Plot Summary:
After their plane crashes in the Pacific ocean after a storm a group of people scramble to a tropical island. At first the place seems home to palm trees and exotic wildlife but on the discovery of a disused military base they find out the island poses a severe threat to them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Lost Continent (1968)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, mythical, classic horror, natural horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious
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Monster Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mutant radioactive bugs attack VJs, Carmen Electra and an island full of MTV contest winners in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to B-movies, monster flicks and even MTV. MTV Original Movies presents Monster Island, a flick with old school effects mixed with hot new celebrities. There’s action, romance and big bugs--now is that something you really want to miss?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, retro, sexy, fast, psychotronic, spoof, scary, offbeat
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Screamers (1979)
Plot Summary:
Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, lovecraft, retro, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic
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The Great Alligator (1979)
Plot Summary:
A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild, cult film
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Mongolian Death Worm (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is treasure hunter and adventure seeker who spent his life searching for a legendary tomb, fabled to be protected by the Death Worms. He knows he must do what he can to kill the creatures, but stopping these monsters may mean destroying his life's work forever!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, natural horror, exciting, serious
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Crocodile (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends including Brady Turner, Claire and Duncan McKay go out on a boat trip on a lake in Southern California, but their joyful weekend turns into horror, when a giant killer crocodile searching for its stolen eggs, picks off anyone who gets in its way. Can they all escape in one piece or will they slowly and painfully fall to the mammoth reptile.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, exciting, suspense, slasher, horror comedy, disgusting, independent film
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Frankenfish (2004)
Plot Summary:
When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a floating house and he meets his family and friends. They find that Chinese snake-heads genetically engineered that belong to a wealthy hunter are attacking and killing the locals. While the group fights to survive, the hunter Jeff arrives with his team to hunt the predators.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, spooky, queer horror, serious, slasher, splatter
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic
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Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family. As they come face to face with the killer Kraken, they must also battle a ruthless crime lord, who will stop at nothing to seize the coveted treasure for himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, natural horror, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, independent film, computer animated
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Grizzly Park (2008)
Plot Summary:
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, natural horror, cult film
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Komodo (1999)
Plot Summary:
During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized. Now, with his therapist Victoria, they return to confront his fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, scary, natural horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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King Kong (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, and as the military attempt to stop him, he falls to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, daikaiju, fairy tale, funny, depressing, slasher, natural horror, scary, exciting, sentimental
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SnakeHead Swamp (2014)
Plot Summary:
A horrifying hybrid of genetic science and nature has taken over the Louisiana bayou, leaving terror in its wake! In the heat of the summer, what began as an day of boating and bikinis changes drastically when a school of genetically enhanced snakehead fish finds their way into Black Briar Swamp.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, psychotronic, campy
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Blood Surf (2000)
Plot Summary:
A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two thrill-seeking surfers to the coast of Florida to capture some gnarly footage. But, as they blood surf, they encounter something even more deadly: a colossal prehistoric crocodile intent on devouring them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, natural horror, suspense, perverse, scary, psychotronic, prehistoric
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Dinocroc (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the information is kept from sheriff Harper. His daughter, county dog catcher Diane Harper, helps her ex (welding artist Tom Banning) with his kid brother Michael's beloved dog. They bump into Campbell and discover the dinocroc is growing, having escaped down a tunnel. Although Gereco hires Australian crocodile specialist and intrepid hunter, Richard 'Dick' Sydney, the beast proves impervious to bullets, so the body count rises alarming.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, scary, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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The Lost Tribe (2010)
Plot Summary:
While navigating with his girlfriend Alexis and his partners and friends Chris and Tom and his girlfriend Anna to a close a Broadband Internet access business in Asia in the motor pleasure yacht of Joe, they rescue a wounded drowned man in shock. During the night, the stranger overrides the automatic pilot and steers the vessel to change the direction; however he accidentally wrecks on a rock and the vessel sinks. The castaways reach a beach in an island and they try to contact the coast-guard through the radio. However, during the night, the body of the stranger vanishes from the grave and then Tom also disappears. The group decides to seek-out Tom and sooner they find that the wild jungle has hostile inhabitants that hunt in pack and the survivors are the prey.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, captivating, slasher, apocalyptic, serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Supergator (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Snakehead Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd, psychotronic, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, hilarious
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Tremors (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, entertaining, suspenseful, horror comedy, humorous, cult classic, dark comedy, suspense, splatter, black comedy
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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Raptor Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological, feel good, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
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Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, mockbuster, fast, computer animated, psychotronic
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SharkMan (2005)
Plot Summary:
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, psychotronic
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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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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous