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Plot Summary:
Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parent's lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together. The situation is complicated by the fact that her parents virtually vanished, as did the accident wreckage, so there's no evidence for the police and certainly no closure for her. Jesse meets her fears head-on when she and a group of filmmakers break into an abandoned mental institution, she immediately experiences a visceral deja-vu. The asylum seems somehow connected to her missing parents and furthermore, the building is far from deserted. The group discovers that a sinister doctor has taken up residence in the building's vast underground and he is using extreme science trying to bring his wife back from the dead! The basement also contains the countless remains of the doctor's failed experiments, all of which are now slowly coming back to life when they make contact with a murky substance that has begun to leak out of several holding tanks!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, brutal, suspense, sadistic, psychotronic
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Don't Wake the Dead (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of women, hired to assist with an impromptu concert, spend the evening at an ancient German castle. Unbeknownst to them, they've chosen the worst night on Earth to visit, as every sixty-six years, the long-dead bodies of Templar Knights buried there have the chance to wake and feast upon the living.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Zombies: The Beginning (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman floating on a raft in the middle of the Pacific. She was found by a rescue team and taken ashore. Once there, she tells a story of how she escaped from an island full of zombies. She was persuaded to lead a commando unit to the island to explore.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, scary
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Dead Country (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Raving Maniacs (2005)
Plot Summary:
At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a remote desert oasis, a fortune in gold was hidden by the Nazis during World War 2. 50 years later, a bunch of fortune-hunters converge on that selfsame oasis. Imagine their discomfiture upon discovering that the gold is being guarded by an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, gothic horror, grindhouse, perverse, classic horror, twisted, slasher
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Zombiez (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Kingdom Come (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, bleak
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Zombie A-Hole (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zombie A-Hole takes place in a world that's a bit different from our own. A realm that teeters on the edge of sleaze and comic book stylized awesomeness. It's Planet Terror meets Sin City meets The Good The Bad and The Ugly. All the men are hard-asses, and all the women are bombshells. Just because vengeance is your way of life doesn't mean you can't look damn sexy while you dole out hearty doses of whoop-ass. Everything is just a bit bigger and more interesting than their real life counterparts. This is a an exploitation flick with a southern gothic flair. Written by Dustin Mills.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, retro
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Underground (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends fight for their lives against the lethal and ravenous creatures lurking beneath the Earth's surface. The group finds themselves at the mercy of creatures genetically engineered by the military to be expendable in battle. Though they fought countless battles in Iraq, these friends never knew real fear until they went underground.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, scary, disturbing, slasher
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Doomed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds).
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Forever Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Inmate Zero (2020)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St Leonards Island in the north Atlantic, who must unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, bleak, apocalyptic
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Debris Documentar (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man unknowingly leads a double life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychotronic, brutal, controversial, splatter, independent film
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Dead Squad (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, weird
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Lake Nowhere (2014)
Plot Summary:
From the vaults of the golden age of slasher films comes LAKE NOWHERE, a raucous, bloody romp which resurrects the thrill of gory midnight movies for an hour-long plunge into the depths of horror. Inspired by the dusty days of VHS, LAKE NOWHERE is preceded by original trailers & commercials, replicating the experience of watching a long lost bootleg tape. When a group of friends arrive at a desolate lakeside cabin, they are stalked and murdered by a Masked Maniac, whose lust for blood transcends our world. This age-old tale of senseless slaughter quickly spirals into the realm of supernatural horror and classic monster movies, as we learn the true power that lies within LAKE NOWHERE.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology, creepy, slasher horror, bizarre
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Demon Resurrection (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic
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The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Plot Summary:
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Bath Salt Zombies (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a punk-rock homage to "Reefer Madness," two plot threads intertwine: a hapless junkie falls victim to "Bath Salts" addiction, while a police detective attempts to uncover and stamp out a new strain of designer drug products.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, independent film
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Zombie Beach Party (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ulysses, a professional wrestler, is going to watch another fight in which a wrestler is up against a horde of zombies. One of the zombies kills a waitress and Ulysses and his friends decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the origins of the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, suspense, rough, offbeat, humorous, slasher
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Army of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
The filming of a hit reality TV show goes horribly wrong when a group of small town cops respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, domestic disturbance.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, detective
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World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen (2015)
Plot Summary:
To celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago – but an army of the undead and a brand new war.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, fake documentary
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Deadsight (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man with partial blindness and a young pregnant police officer must work together to escape a deadly virus that has spread across Grey County.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, detective
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13 Eerie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts who systematically hunt them down, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
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Bite (2015)
Plot Summary:
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, rough, tense, suspenseful, splatter, spooky, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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Lullaby (2022)
Plot Summary:
A new mother discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Honeydew (2020)
Plot Summary:
Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, sadistic, scary, brutal, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing, weird