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Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, slasher, mystic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Lost Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
After leaving a doctor visit with the worst news, Valerie Dreyfuss and her sister Melissa come to a stop on a lonely stretch of road. Their car is engulfed by a blinding light....12 hours later Valerie wakes to the horror that her sister is gone, nowhere to be found.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, serious
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Almost Human (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago. His friend Seth Hampton was the last to see him alive. Now a string of grisly, violent murders leads Seth to believe that Mark is back, and something evil is living inside of him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, psychotronic, disturbing, retro, psychological, suspense, mumblecore, grindhouse
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Darkening Sky (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the "modern mythology" of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about. All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, independent film, scary, serious
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Alien Abduction (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, independent film
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Seedpeople (1992)
Plot Summary:
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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Nightbeast (1982)
Plot Summary:
An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, slasher, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Silent Warnings (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer joins his girlfriend and four friends of them to visit and clean the inherited farm in the country. The local Sheriff Bill Willingham is an old friend of Layne, and also grieves the death of Joe. When the group arrives in the farm, some weird and mysterious signs appear in the cornfield, but they believe the other locals are joking with them. When Iris Doyle vanishes, the rest of the group realizes that there is a serious menace jeopardizing that place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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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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Deep Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, cliffhanger
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Unaware (2010)
Plot Summary:
In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic, mockumentary, tense, suspense, scary, exciting, rough
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Altered (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological horror
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Night Skies (2007)
Plot Summary:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, depressing, suspense
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Breeders (1986)
Plot Summary:
An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, detective, surprise ending
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It Lives Again (1978)
Plot Summary:
The monster child returns - but now there are three!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, mystic, medical horror, cult horror, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, slasher
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Horror Planet (1981)
Plot Summary:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, space horror, scary, psychotronic, erotic, retro, mystic, rough, serious, suspenseful
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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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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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Xtro (1982)
Plot Summary:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, retro, slasher, classic horror, spooky, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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Dark Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological, twist ending, tense, creepy, tricky, disturbing, intense
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Communion (1989)
Plot Summary:
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating, spiritual, christmas horror, mindfuck
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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Species (1995)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, sexual, slasher horror, disturbing
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Interceptor Force (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, fast
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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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Village of the Damned (1995)
Plot Summary:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, splatter, grindhouse
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Species II (1998)
Plot Summary:
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, scary, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, mystical, dark, mystic
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The Puppet Masters (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic, apocalyptic, anamorphic, action adventure, space horror, serious
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They Are Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in order to eventually strip the planet of resources they need to live.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, splatter, action packed, saga, apocalyptic, psychological thriller