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Plot Summary:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
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Purple Glow (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 82%
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
Biohazard (1985)
Plot Summary:
Alien monster uses a psychic to try to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, independent film, corny
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Plaguers (2008)
Plot Summary:
When an alien contagion is released aboard a spaceship transforming its victims into demonic flesh-eaters, the crew must either destroy the infected or join them.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: space horror, suspense, psychotronic
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Panic (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Evil Spawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Plot Summary:
For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, slasher, mythical, independent film, scary, rough, semi serious, corny, campy
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The Mutations (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Dead Space (1991)
Plot Summary:
Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and controlled research facility until a distress signal calls for Commander Kreiger and his robot Tinpan. Together, they try to save the planet from a spreading virus and an odd and growing cocoon. Remake of "Forbidden World" (1982).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, lovecraft, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, space horror, cult film
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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by sexual exhaustion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, captivating, grindhouse, mysterious, classic horror, queer horror, independent film, erotic
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Virus X (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about a case of highly contagious swine flu virus engineered by rogue scientists. A cover up by a mysterious dark lady linked to the High Spheres adds action and mystery.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, teen horror
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Little Monsters (2019)
Plot Summary:
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, humorous, scary, colorful, funny, splatter, apocalyptic, dark comedy, hilarious, psychotronic
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Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher, apocalyptic, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, futuristic
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The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Russian scientist is arriving to the states caring secret information’s. Disembarking from his plane, he and his American contacts are attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison). Later, it is revealed that he has wandered in range of an American nuclear test. The radiation transforms Javorsky into a mindless killing beast (the Beast).
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, psychotronic, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror, independent film
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Rabid (1977)
Plot Summary:
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, controversial, christmas horror, medical horror
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Brain of Blood (1971)
Plot Summary:
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, offbeat, serious
Similar in 75%
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre, and hilarious orgy of death and dismemberment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, gothic horror, scary, disturbing, grindhouse, terrifying, psychotronic, retro, bloody
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Rejuvenator (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 76%
Shivers (1975)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, sexual, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, cynical
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Species III (2004)
Plot Summary:
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual, scary, suspense, grindhouse, ridiculous
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The Wasp Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Janice Starlin is an aging model who owns a cosmetics company. When a researcher experimenting with wasps brings her a serum that will turn back the aging process, she decides to first try it on herself. The serum works, but it also turns her into a killer wasp woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, remake of cult film
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Creepozoids (1987)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, freeze frame
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Forbidden World (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse, erotic, disturbing, medical horror, cult classic, lovecraft
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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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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Plot Summary:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, slasher, cult classic, splatter, lovecraft, independent film, absurd
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From Beyond (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, lovecraft, demonic, grindhouse, surreal, intense, slasher, bloody