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Plot Summary:
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Fearway (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young couple travelling down the freeway seem to be unable to get off the road after being hunted by someone intent on keeping them on the road.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Solar Impact (2019)
Plot Summary:
Solar debris crashes down to Earth, causing widespread destruction and unleashing solar radiation around the world. As genetic mutations rapidly spread, a group of friends must fight to stay alive and escape the chaos.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Exorcist (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Tin Can (2020)
Plot Summary:
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
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Arcadia (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future where a deadly disease has gripped the world, Arcadia has been built as safe disease-free haven for the privileged. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years - unless they can earn a place amongst the elite.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Lockdown (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rex and his men aim to kill the homeless people living in a local deserted school hoping it'll slow an ultra-deadly strand of COVID. Now, outnumbered 100 to 1, Hap must save his little sister.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Terror Within II (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Mindwarp (1991)
Plot Summary:
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic, surprise ending, cult film, awful
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In the Year 2889 (1969)
Plot Summary:
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Containment (2015)
Plot Summary:
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher, mysterious, creepy, disaster movie
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Pulse (2006)
Plot Summary:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, intense, apocalyptic, cyber
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, tense
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Antisocial (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. With nowhere else to turn, they barricade themselves indoors with only their phones, laptops, and other tech devices. They use their devices to research the possible cause of this outbreak. Information and video footage over flow their computers as they descend further into the cause and the ensuing chaos. As the virus spreads, the mood in the house changes from fear to paranoia. Who is safe? Who can they trust? Reality becomes blurred as they slowly discover the source of the virus causing the sickness...and there is no going back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, christmas horror, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Plan 9 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal… To wipe out all mankind! Only the townsfolk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store, and even those trying to stay alive in the streets, this night will decide the fates of all who walk the planet and thought they were the top of the food chain.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Night Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dinner party turns deadly when a group of friends is trapped inside of their house after a massive alien invasion threatens to take over the world. Things take a turn for the worse when they discover that the chemical the military is using to destroy the aliens is also turning humans into zombie-like savages. Now the group must band together and try to survive the night... if they don't kill each other first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zombex (2013)
Plot Summary:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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Teenage Caveman (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, queer horror, futuristic, splatter, psychotronic, sex comedy
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Mulberry Street (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they fight to survive the night against the rats and rapidly multiplying cannibal mutants.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, dark drama, independent film, disaster movie
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Apocalypse (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, scary, political, futuristic, cult classic
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The Domestics (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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The Signal (2007)
Plot Summary:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic, atmospheric, rough, slasher, splatter, cerebral
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Aftermath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named Hunter survives the nuclear attack and is thrown together by happenstance with a group of wounded and frightened victims, including Elizabeth, a strong-willed confidant to Hunter, Brad - an antagonistic redneck jackass, and Jennifer, a barely coherent young woman suffering from severe post-traumatic stress. Together, they attempt to endure the devastating holocaust as they struggle with claustrophobia and conflicting personalities. In a makeshift shelter, Hunter and his dying companions wait for news from the government while fending off hunger, radiation sickness, and a horde of frightened and dying refugees.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, serious, scary, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, erotic
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Autumn (2009)
Plot Summary:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, interactive
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Hidden (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, surprise ending, tricky, apocalyptic, splatter, creepy
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Quarantine (2008)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, scary, intense, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, serious, mockumentary, splatter
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The Mist (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 333000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, depressing
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The Silence (2019)
Plot Summary:
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, splatter, apocalyptic, creepy, disgusting