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Plot Summary:
A clone/mix of PREDATOR and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an international cast, exotic locale and good electronic music.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Shocking Dark (1989)
Plot Summary:
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, intelligent, spooky, intellectual
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Troma's War (1988)
Plot Summary:
A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, parody, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other -- a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, eighties, cult film
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After Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, slasher, splatter, apocalyptic, scary, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
Plot Summary:
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, sadistic, scary, erotic, retro, epic, slasher, grindhouse, splatter
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The Sunset Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
Thai government hires group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful druglord from Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the druglord, but his men are trying to set him free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local tough-girl Rosanna Boom, is dispatched by the CIA to recapture Jenkins and put a stop to his heroin-smuggling captors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, cult film
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Strike Commando (1987)
Plot Summary:
While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he escapes to continue his mission despite being hampered by a traitor in his own ranks.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, campy, cult film
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Eastern Condors (1987)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook up with a trio of female freedom fighters and a happy go lucky martial artist named 'Rat'. The entire group is captured by the VC because one of them is a double agent, but they escape, cross an un-crossable bridge, and get to the secret base just ahead of the VC. By this point nearly all of the original group is dead, and it's up to Tung and Rat to fight the VC's leader, a bizarre giggling man who's lightning fast with martial arts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, grindhouse, bleak, fast, eighties
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1985)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with some marine friends to form an assassination squad and annihilate the gang of crazed killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: hood, cult classic, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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House of the Dead (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead... Prequel to the House of the Dead video games.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, rough, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, tense, disturbing, psychological, dark
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The Salena Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious, extraterrestrial object lands in the mining town of Salena, Arizona, the government dispatches a team of Marines to contain the possible threat. Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards and personnel aboard hostage. Arriving in the seemingly deserted town, they come across the Special Ops captain, the sole survivor of a horrible carnage that's decimated the rest of his unit. Now, with time running out, the group must unite to combat the threat of the savage aliens hunting them in the mine tunnels below, and the peril above from a squad of fighter planes sent to bomb the town to oblivion, in this pulse-pounding, sci-fi thriller.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Battle of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing, tense, exciting, psychotronic
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The Terminators (2009)
Plot Summary:
A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mockbuster, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, fast
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Slayer (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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The Ascent (2019)
Plot Summary:
Special ops squad "Hell's Bastards" are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic, intense
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House of the Dead 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak of zombies in the campus, and the government sends a NSA medical research team, formed by Dr. Alexandra Morgan a.k.a. Nightingale and lieutenant Ellis, with a special force leaded by lieutenant Dalton, trying to get the zero sample from the first generation zombie. The team has a very short time to accomplish their mission and leave the place before missiles are sent to destroy the area. However, the place is crowded of hyper sapiens and the group has to fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, classic horror, spectacular, fast
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Zombi 3 (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: splatter, apocalyptic, epic, suspense, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, fast
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Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Plot Summary:
A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, cult classic, bloody, mockbuster
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Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher, apocalyptic, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, futuristic
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Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror, apocalyptic, tech noir, scary, surprise ending
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Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, scary, exciting, computer animated
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Alone in the Dark (2005)
Plot Summary:
Edward Carnby is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world, searching for truth in the occult remnants of ancient civilizations. Now, the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark, splatter, detective, suspense, gothic, cult classic
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
Plot Summary:
When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation "UniSol".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, tense, serious, bloody, action packed, scenic, tech noir, cult classic, fast
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Spectral (2016)
Plot Summary:
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, intense, tricky, suspense, futuristic, psychotronic, scenic
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Dead and Deader (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for human flesh. Now with the help of a wisecracking cook and a sexy film geek, the part-zombie Quinn must stop the plague before it can infect the entire nation. Who holds the shocking secret behind this blood-crazed carnage? And what happens when Quinn stops gnawing on raw steak and starts chomping on the hot chick?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense, humorous, fast, psychotronic, horror comedy
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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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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Plot Summary:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed, exciting, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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Predator (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, scary, futuristic, tense, exciting, action packed, bloody, saga