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Plot Summary:
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspense, christmas horror, cult classic, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film
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Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her father. Her brother, who is also a scanner, is the only one powerful enough to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, experimental, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Plot Summary:
It's the final chapter in the cult classic Class of Nuke'Em High Trilogy, and this time the fate of Tromaville hangs in the balance! Following the destruction of the Nukamama Power Plant by the lovable and horribly mutated toxic squirrel Tromie. Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) and his half-subhumanoid son Adlai (also played by Brick Bronsky) are working to rebuild Tromaville into a place where human and subhumanoid can live together in peace. Unbeknownst to them, Adlai's twin brother Dick (again played by Brick Bronsky!), kidnapped at birth and raised by the evil Power Clite, has plans to regain contol of the Subhumanoids and turn Tromaville into a nuclear waste dump. In a showdown for the ages, "The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" face off in an explosive sci-fi battle of epic proportions!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, not serious, semi serious, psychotronic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, humorous, horror comedy, slapstick, controversial, spoof, mockbuster, cult horror, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, enigmatic, bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: natural horror, scary, independent film, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, entertaining, slasher
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, fast, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark
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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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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
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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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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, serious, fast
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Plot Summary:
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, scary, bleak, futuristic, fast
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
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Country: Canada
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
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Country: USA, Bulgaria
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
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Country: USA, Japan
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
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Country: Canada, Germany, USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 998
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 293000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 203000
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IMDB Votes: 34000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 284000
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min
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