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Plot Summary:
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, anime, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, captivating, manga, seinen, action thriller
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Kamen Rider: The First (2005)
Plot Summary:
Takeshi Hongo, a man of extraordinarily keen intellect, has his promising future snuffed out by an evil secret society known as Shocker. They create experimental cyborgs in an attempt to take over the world. Eventually, Hongo is turned into a cyborg — Masked Rider 1 — but soon regains his self-awareness. Realizing that he is now controlled by evil, Hongo escapes. Shocker views Hongo as a traitor and dispatches a new, nearly identical cyborg — Masked Rider 2 — to destroy him. But they're too evenly matched and their duel ends in a draw. Growing impatient, Shocker sends two new cyborgs — Snake and Cobra — to kill them both. KAMEN RIDER THE FIRST is a new adaptation of the popular original manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, manga
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Terra Formars (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, psychological, manga
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Hungerford (2014)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a group of teenagers are turned upside down when their town is taken over by sinister forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Laughing Under the Clouds (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring crime rates the new era has brought. Serving as the ferrymen are the famous Kumou brothers: the eccentric family head, Tenka; the reckless but noble second son, Soramaru; and the guileless youngest, Chuutarou. In spite of their grim work, the three lead relatively peaceful lives in the ever-cloudy town of Oumi, together with their housekeeper, Shirasu Kinjou. But buried in the long history of Oumi is the legend of the terrifying "Orochi," a serpentine beast that awakens every three hundred years in a human vessel. Unbeknownst to Soramaru and Chuutarou, the actual job of the Kumou family is to seal the Orochi away before it fully revives—or the world will be plunged into destruction. Amid the monster's next resurrection, the Kumou family must find the resolve to keep laughing under the clouds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, splatter
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Alienate (2016)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Killers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Nomura is an eerily handsome, sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on the women of Tokyo. In Jakarta, a world-weary journalist named Bayu finds himself unexpectedly falling into vigilantism after brutally killing two sadistic robbers. When each posts videos of their violent sprees online, the pair find one another on the Internet and begin a toxic and competitive duel. While Bayu clings to the hope that he can resume a normal life, Nomura continues to spill blood without remorse. Killing, advises Nomura, is something everyone ought to consider.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, dark, slasher, crime drama, action thriller
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The Promised Neverland (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, anime, dark fantasy, manga, shounen, touching
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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Plot Summary:
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, manga, queer horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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Meatball Machine (2005)
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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Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: manga, anime, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, post modern
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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Assassination Classroom (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious creature destroys 70% of the moon. The creature then warns that if he is not destroyed by March of next year, Earth will be next. The creature also demands that he becomes the homeroom teacher for 3rd grade E class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The government is powerless to say no. The creature then becomes the homeroom teacher of 3rd grade E class which consists of failed students including Nagisa Shiota (Ryosuke Yamada). The creature is called Teacher Koro. Meanwhile, the government requests that the students try to kill Teacher Koro even though he possesses super powers. The government offers a 10 billion yen reward for whomever successfully kills him. The students are confused by the situation, but decide to kill Teacher Koro. When their class begins with Teacher Koro, the students finds themselves having a good time with their new teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, tense, light, humorous, slasher, surreal, lovecraft
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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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Tokyo Ghoul: 'S' (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ken Kaneki is a university student. He is also half-ghoul and half-human. He agonizes over his situation. Trying to avoid other ghouls, he shelters himself at Anteiku Cafe and spends time with Toka Kirishima. One day, a ghoul, Shu Tsukiyama, appears at Anteiku Cafe and he is called the "Gourmet.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful, seinen
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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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Gatchaman (2013)
Plot Summary:
By the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, anime, captivating, tense, heroic, intense, scenic, serious
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, stylized, anime, mecha
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Shin Godzilla (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the mind behind Evangelion comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, natural horror, captivating, dark, political, stylized, cult classic, daikaiju
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Deadland (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of an eye, America has been plunged back into the Stone Age. Money is worthless, food is scarce, and those who once thought they were fortunate to survive the initial attack are now slowly being consumed from the inside out, the victims of an all-consuming nuclear scourge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Patient Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, rough, slasher, experimental, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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The Host (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her guardian shamelessly drunk. Ignoring her father's excuses for Nam-il, Hyun-seo is soon engrossed in her aunt Nam-joo's archery tournament on TV. Meanwhile, outside of the snack bar, people are fascinated by an unidentified object hanging onto a bridge. In an instant, the object reveals itself as a terrifying creature turning the riverbank into a gruesome sea of blood¡¦ Amid the chaos, Hyun-seo is helplessly snatched up by the creature right before Gang-du's eyes. These unforeseen circumstances render the government powerless to act. But receiving a call of help from Hyun-seo, the once-ordinary citizen Gang-du and his family are thrust into a battle with the monster to rescue their beloved Hyun-seo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, splatter, creepy, tense, bleak, cerebral
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Doom (2005)
Plot Summary:
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, splatter, action packed, futuristic, space horror, action adventure, psychological, atmospheric, captivating
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Inuyashiki (2018)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, anime, serious, captivating, suspense, manga, crying
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Plot Summary:
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji. Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear himself and make a bit of money as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, anime, atmospheric, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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As the Gods Will (2014)
Plot Summary:
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, manga, touching, visual, cult classic, aesthetic
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Gantz, Part II: Perfect Answer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz, a mysterious giant black orb, and he is close to reaching the score he needs to resurrect his friend Kato. Outside his night time missions, Kurono continues to live his normal life, spending time with his new girlfriend Tae. Meanwhile, young pop star Eriko is being secretly ordered by Gantz to carry out assassinations, and cop Shigeta inches closer towards finding out the truth about the Gantz missions. As the missions begin to get increasingly dangerous for both the alien fighters and the general public, Kurono discovers that the endgame for Gantz is quickly approaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, anime, stylized, seinen, manga
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Stake Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, road movie, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, brutal, futuristic