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Plot Summary:
A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, slasher, surreal, controversial, scary, disturbing
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The Portal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Nobody (2007)
Plot Summary:
A cold-blooded killer gets caught up in a surreal game of death in this neo-noir thriller starring Costas Mandylor. The winter winds are whipping outside when the unremorseful assassin dispatches with his latest target. But this time something goes wrong. Time begins to fold in on itself when a shadowy assailant strikes out from the darkness, turning hunter into prey in the span of seconds. The mysterious pursuer seems to anticipate the killer's every move, and as events begin to repeat themselves nobody is who they seem. A sudden stranger to his friends and associates, the killer begins to question his sanity after fresh wounds vanish from his flesh without a trace. When an unexpected telephone call reveals that his intended target is still alive, he is forced to relive his actions time and again while speeding ever closer toward a confrontation with the one adversary who could bring about his downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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The Dark (1993)
Plot Summary:
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this miraculous being. Stalking the creature in it's subterranean habitat, neither man is aware of the battle they are about to start. A battle for science, survival and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Uncharted (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Uncharted" is a story of a documentary film crew who crash on an island, when they were in hopes of finding a rare animal, a jaguar, that is believed to inhabit the jungle. Unfortunate circumstances arise when her charter plane goes down and crashes on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, serious, fake documentary
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Sea of Fear (2006)
Plot Summary:
College athlete Lance and his friend Tom meet Tom's girlfriend Kate and her friend Ashley in a marina to travel on a rented boat on a leisure trip. The Captain brings his navigator and first mate Joel and another unexpected passenger, Derek, along on the trip. Soon the boat is stranded and one by one the shipmates are murdered.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Plot Summary:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic, scary, rough, suspenseful, independent film, slasher
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Below Zero (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him company. Despite the cold, Jack's imagination is red-hot as he concocts the story of Frank (Furlong), a tow truck driver who's locked in a fridge with the dying victim of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Kaw (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, natural horror, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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Stranded (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, space horror, suspense, slasher
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Severed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, splatter, serious
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Scintilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Maneater (2009)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scenic, scary, slasher
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Bane (2008)
Plot Summary:
Held captive in an underground prison by a sadistic sicko who fancies himself a surgeon, 4 women fight for their lives, knowing the exact time they're scheduled to die thanks to a crudely carved set of numbers on each of their bodies. None of them can remember how they got there, but if any of them figure out the secret to their imprisonment, they stand at least some chance of surviving.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, tense, psychological, slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Paranormal Incident (2011)
Plot Summary:
The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish, corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood, flashlights fail and something or someone begins toying with the group. Days later, when five of the six friends turn up missing, the lone survivor must go through the recovered footage in order to clear his name and find out what happened to his friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Bloodwork (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, scary, disgusting, lovecraft, vintage
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Silent Night, Zombie Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
A week before Christmas a viral outbreak turns the citizens of Los Angeles into the walking dead. On the brink of severing ties with both his wife and longtime partner, L.A.P.D. officer Frank Talbot finds himself trapped with them. As death closes in their survival is further threatened by the fact that both men love the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, bleak, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, serious
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The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, medical horror, captivating, surreal, offbeat, serious
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Scourge (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town except our young heroes Scott and Jessie who rediscover their love for each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
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Scanner Cop II (1995)
Plot Summary:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
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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Warriors of Terra (2006)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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The Thaw (2009)
Plot Summary:
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, dark, underground film, splatter, natural horror, surprise ending
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Zombex (2013)
Plot Summary:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Slime City Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, futuristic, splatter
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Dead Shadows (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, lovecraft
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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, psychotronic
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Psychic Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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The Brood (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, creepy, surreal, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse
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Pontypool (2008)
Plot Summary:
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, apocalyptic