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Plot Summary:
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Dr. Nayland Smith.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: UK, West Germany, Spain, Italy, Liechtenstein
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Kiss Me Monster (1969)
Plot Summary:
It was shot at the same time as Rote Lippen Sadisterotica (1969), and once again features Yanni and Reynaud as statuesque “Red Lips” girls, a detective duo with undefined links to Interpol. It’s a phantasmagoric mixture of ultracamp and virtually incomprehensible hi-jinks.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, eurospy, campy
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The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Plot Summary:
When the Red Dragon Tong murders his daughter, Geoffrey Jackson is determined to crush this underground organisation. The Tong, a ruthless clan whose profits from protection rackets, white slave traffic, smuggling and drug-running amount to millions of dollars, will resort to anything to protect their powerful position.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
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The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, twisted, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
Plot Summary:
In his remote China hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, West Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic
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The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Plot Summary:
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast
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The Presence (1992)
Plot Summary:
After their plane crashes in the Pacific ocean after a storm a group of people scramble to a tropical island. At first the place seems home to palm trees and exotic wildlife but on the discovery of a disused military base they find out the island poses a severe threat to them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Madame Sin (1972)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, campy
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I, Monster (1971)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, medical horror, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious
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The Twilight People (1972)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, exotic
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Evil Bong 2: King Bong (2009)
Plot Summary:
Renowned herb connoisseur Tommy Chong returns in this sky-high horror comedy about a murderous smoking apparatus. The goofy and indelibly outré Evil Bong 2: King Bong is directed by low-budget genre legend Charles Band, the man behind such classics as Demonic Toys, Dollman, and Puppet Masters. Jonathan Frey, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, horror comedy, terrifying, offbeat, weird
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The Delta Factor (1970)
Plot Summary:
Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to rescue a scientist from a dictator-run island, disguised as a drug dealer with another agent posing as his wife, while simultaneously plotting to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bloody Judge (1970)
Plot Summary:
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes 'traitors', who sympathize with the King's opponent William of Orange, as well as 'witches', who are accused of being in league with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, disturbing, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, period piece
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The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
Plot Summary:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, cult horror, classic horror, scary, atmospheric
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The Gorgon (1964)
Plot Summary:
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, serious, scary, psychological, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic
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99 Women (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, sensual, cult classic, explicit, independent film, rough
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Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Plot Summary:
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, perverse, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, dark
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Supersonic Man (1979)
Plot Summary:
A masked superhero (Michael Coby) with a private-eye disguise thwarts a madman's (Cameron Mitchell) death-ray plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, campy
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, grindhouse, independent film, scary, mind bending, offbeat
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One Spy Too Many (1966)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the meglomanic Alexander (Rip Torn) from committing the world's greatest crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, spy comedy, campy
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The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Plot Summary:
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, rough, independent film
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Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
Plot Summary:
Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Trancers 6: Life After Deth (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine (Zette Sullivan), on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, exciting, tense, disturbing, cult classic, cult film, sequel to cult film
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Spymate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Amelia, a young genius and daughter of a top secret agent, unknowingly invents a contraption that makes her the target of an evil scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic
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The Oblong Box (1969)
Plot Summary:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary, gothic, bleak, gothic horror, cult classic, slasher
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, atmospheric, satanic, grindhouse, creepy
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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Count Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, suspense, perverse, twisted, scary, atmospheric
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, psychotronic