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Plot Summary:
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, cult classic, scary, cult horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic, rough, serious
Best tv shows and movies like Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994):
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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, psychological thriller, bloody, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough
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The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)
Plot Summary:
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. So he decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, humorous, horror comedy, splatter, slapstick, spoof, mockbuster, cult horror, 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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Death Street USA (1988)
Plot Summary:
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: perverse, slasher, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)
Plot Summary:
Robert "Tank" begins to work for Dr. Magrew sculpting a puppet for the Doctor to bring to life using the work of Andre Toulon. Robert begins to fall in love with the Doctors daughter, Jane. Unbeknownst to Robert the Doctor is trying to create a "perfect race" of puppet humans. Jane discovers a "matt puppet" which is from his first assistant. She comes back just in time to see her father, cut up by the puppets, has succeeded in putting a living human, Robert, into the puppet he carved.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, controversial, cult horror, terrifying, independent film, slasher, surprise ending
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Soulkeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious
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Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Demonic Toys are back, so policewoman Judith Grey seeks the help of 12 inch tall Dollman and his 12 inch tall girlfriend, Nurse Ginger. The Toys hole up in an evil deserted toy factory and it's up to Dollman to keep the Toys from summoning the powers of darkness to the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: demonic, slasher, sexy, dark, surreal, controversial, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, scary
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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Dead Heat (1988)
Plot Summary:
LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, scary, humorous, splatter, spoof, black comedy, funny, action comedy, horror comedy, cult horror
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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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Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher, cult horror
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Cemetery Gates (2006)
Plot Summary:
When two ecologists break-in the laboratory of Dr. Belmont, they find a box with a subject and they decide to set the experiment free in the woods. During the transportation, the box opens and releases the mutant Tasmanian Devil that devours the two activists and escapes to the woods. Meanwhile, Dr. Belmont's son Hunter travels in a van with four friends to film a horror movie in the cemetery in the woods, while Belmont and his associate Dr. Christine Kollar seek their deadly experiment called Precious.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, twist ending, awful
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
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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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Phantasm II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, cult classic, scary, classic horror, road movie, cult horror, spooky, terrifying, rough
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, demonic, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy, creepy, cult classic, horror comedy
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Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Plot Summary:
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, weird
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, horror comedy, scary, humorous, slasher, splatter, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, apocalyptic
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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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John Dies at the End (2012)
Plot Summary:
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious, dark comedy, atmospheric, enigmatic, horror comedy, cult classic
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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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Blade: Trinity (2004)
Plot Summary:
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed - The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him, the original vampire, Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, action packed, exciting, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, saga
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Jason X (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, entertaining, space horror
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Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the verge of a major arms deal, the two toughest gangs in L.A. will find themselves trapped in an abandoned warehouse by a ravenous mob of bloodthirsty zombies. They will have to work together with the cops to avoid being torn limb-from-limb and eaten alive. A one of a kind urban-zombie film, Gangs of the Dead is a gore-filled and action-packed thriller for both the horror fan and the urban audience.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic
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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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Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
Plot Summary:
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. Meanwhile, Reggie battles the spheres and the undead in a quest to find Mike before the Tall Man can complete his transformation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, cult horror, terrifying, relaxing, saga, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Nightbreed (1990)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, creepy, suspense
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Phantasm (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, slasher, twist ending, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, surreal, grindhouse
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Wishmaster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, rough, retro, surreal, psychological
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Van Helsing (2004)
Plot Summary:
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 281000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful, fairy tale, gothic horror, entertaining, serious, stylized