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Plot Summary:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: brutal, scary, disturbing, controversial, bloody, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, mockumentary, cult classic
Best tv shows and movies like Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980):
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Primitives (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Cannibal Holocaust II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Sacrifice! (1972)
Plot Summary:
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, controversial, terrifying, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Jungle Holocaust (1977)
Plot Summary:
An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, scary, terrifying, epic, suspense, creepy, perverse, rough
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Eaten Alive! (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspense, controversial, cult classic, scary, exciting
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The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, epic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, sensual, creepy, terrifying, queer horror, scary
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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Plot Summary:
While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly extinct tribe of cannibals is still very much alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, suspense, controversial, art house, sensual, perverse, scary
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Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Plot Summary:
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful, slasher, semi serious, bloody, splatter
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Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, bloody, splatter, psychological
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Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, splatter, tense, disturbing
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August Underground's Mordum (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged friends bring along another guy to go on a random murder rampage. They kidnapped lesbian lovers, couples and they torture them in any way that the viewer can imagine. Your worst fears will come true in this shocking account of a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, bleak, realistic, scary, tense, serious, bloody, controversial, disgusting
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Blood Feast (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, bloody, splatter, suspense, stylized, rough
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Anthropophagus (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, psychological thriller, controversial, splatter
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Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, erotic, suspense, dark, bloody
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The New York Ripper (1982)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, detective, dark, suspenseful, scary, bloody, controversial, suspense
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The Green Inferno (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bloody, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, intense, creepy
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: controversial, erotic, disturbing, psychological, disgusting, bleak, sadistic, art house, surreal, extreme horror
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, extreme horror, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, brutal, sexy, bloody, disgusting
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August Underground (2001)
Plot Summary:
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, suspense, controversial, mockumentary, rough, bloody, slasher, disgusting, splatter
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Hostel: Part III (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, splatter, brutal, sexy
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic, bleak, psychological, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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Eden Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, harsh
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Cannibal Ferox (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, slasher, grindhouse, controversial, disturbing, splatter, extreme horror, scary, suspenseful, brutal
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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
Plot Summary:
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, suspense, cult classic, scary, psychological, gothic, saga, disturbing
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, splatter, brutal, scary, stylized
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Cabin Fever (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter, creepy, dark comedy, bloody, cult classic, teen
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The Evil Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, psychotronic, bloody, grindhouse, creepy, controversial, dark, lovecraft, independent film
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High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Plot Summary:
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives' utter horror. They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, and in doing so bring to life "the human centipede.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, bloody, splatter, creepy, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, disgusting, intense