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Plot Summary:
Evil voodoo-practicing serial killer Shadow gets executed for murdering pregnant women. Twenty years later the prison Shadow was put to death at has been turned into an experimental women's penitentiary. Tough and fiercely autonomous new inmate Solitaire has some kind of link with Shadow. When Shadow and his lethal shambling zombie minions are resurrected, it's up to Solitaire to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, grindhouse, erotic, suspense, independent film
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Hard Ride to Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of family and friends on a camping trip through the Texas badlands are taken on a on-way ride to Hell after they inadvertently witness a ritual sacrifice at a deserted campsite. Pursued by the devil worshiping biker gang responsible, they hole up in an abandoned church near the border, only to discover that they are pawns in a decades-old battle between good and evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, slasher, semi serious, satanic, suspenseful, psychological, rough, suspense, cult horror
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Scarecrow Slayer (2003)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman is killed during a fraternity prank and is resurrected as a demonic scarecrow.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, tense, disturbing, cult film
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The Dead Want Women (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beginning at a stylish mansion in the roaring 1920's, a socialite, flappers, and the men who love them come to their ultimate demise. These ghosts continue to haunt the mansion throughout the decade. Now they've come back to haunt and chase after a new generation of beautiful girls. The Dead Want Women!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, independent film
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Sugar Hill (1974)
Plot Summary:
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, psychotronic, grindhouse, creepy, exciting, serious
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Shapeshifter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat Glazer and A.J. Hammond make up the ensemble cast of this independent horror thriller from director Gregory Lemkin, who also shares screenwriting credits.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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Maniac Nurses (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a remote fortress, a sinister sorority of surgically skilled sisters lie in wait of their next victim. They control a bevy of caged women who have been brain washed and sponge-batherto become the worlds most anatomically awesome surgeons. This is the git-wrenching story of one innocent girl, Sabrina, who finds herself trapped in a living nightmare. Captive to a slavery ring that is training an.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, Hungary, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, horror comedy, queer horror, independent film, sexy, scary, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, psychological thriller, bloody, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija Board séance, the schoolmates accidentally unearth three dead executioners from their graves. A little confused, and quite a bit angry, the Crypt Keepers initiate a killing spree that will only end when everyone is dead. Fortunately, the schoolmates all wore black. Too bad it's for their own funerals.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, teen horror, gay cinema
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The 8th Plague (2006)
Plot Summary:
The 8th Plague is the story of a woman named Launa who is investigating the disappearance of her sister, Nikki. Nikki had gone camping in the mountain town of Halcyon Springs and never came back. Becoming more and more frustrated, Launa realizes that she must find her sister on her own with the help of Mason, a mysterious local man with a shadowed past.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, dark, psychotronic, weird
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Women's Prison Massacre (1983)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners are forced underwater, while others are obliged to look on. Emanuelle finds an enemy in the deranged Albina, who "runs the prison." For the pleasure of the warden, Emanuelle and Albina are forced to fight each other with knives. Bad becomes worse when four men awaiting execution escape and take over the prison. Gore flows like water.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, sensual, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, sexy
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Death House (1988)
Plot Summary:
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Possessed by the Night (1994)
Plot Summary:
A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinatown, hoping it will be a creative inspiration for his work. Instead, the odd mutation provokes a rage of violence and lust to envelop the suburban villa where the writer lives with his wife and sexy secretary.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, melancholic, satirical, erotic, mystic, independent film, scary, serious, sexual
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Dead Men Walking (2005)
Plot Summary:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is to escape; but once you're inside this prison, there's really no way of getting out safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, creepy, psychotronic
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Slaughter Night (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen-year-old Kristel survived a car accident in which her father dies. Tormented by nocturnal visions she begins to care for her father's investigation of serial killers - especially Andries Martíns, a killer of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary
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Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
Plot Summary:
Upon taking her vows to become a nun, Sister Sarah is abused, brainwashed and drugged into submission by the corrupt clergy. On the verge of death from a lethal dose of drugs, Sister Sarah receives a message from God telling her to take vengeance on all those who did her wrong. Armed with God's will and an arsenal of big guns, she dispenses Judgment Day on her former tormentors. When the church hires the merciless motorcycle gang the "Los Muertos" to track down and kill her they soon realize that this sister is one bad mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, grindhouse, retro, bloody, disturbing, mockbuster
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The Wickeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seven teenagers travel to an old, decrepit house, the site of a horror movie set and rumored to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead, it becomes the ultimate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, scary, rough, serious, independent film
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Werewolf in a Womens Prison (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, queer horror, scary, offbeat, serious, hot, campy
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7 Mummies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Six escaped convicts and their female hostage make a desperate run for the Mexican border, where they stumble across a lost treasure of untold wealth, and find certain death instead on the Arizona desert.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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The Era of Vampires (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 17th century China, zombies and vampires roamed the lands, feeding on the unsuspecting. A group of martial artists / vampire hunters find themselves employed by a very rich - and very insane - old man who has kept everyone of his relatives preserved in wax and not buried. Apparently it is his family's tradition. So, having generations of potential zombies in your cellar may not be the smartest idea ever, but it takes two to tango. In this case, a thief wants the old-man's treasure and hires a zombie-wrangler to re-animate the waxed up relatives in order to sneak into the mansion and steal the treasure. It's up to the kung-fu fighting vampire hunters to save the day (or night).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, stylized, psychotronic
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Caged Fury (1990)
Plot Summary:
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and her new friend find themselves in a women's prison run by sadistic guards and a lesbian warden.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, fast
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House of Whipcord (1974)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic, creepy, serious, realistic, independent film
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Hatchet II (2010)
Plot Summary:
Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, bloody, splatter, psychological, funny
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Swamp Zombies!!! (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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The Rage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Death Factory (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility to have a party and come face-to-face with creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, suspense, queer horror, offbeat
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Vampyres (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian vampire couple haunt an abandoned castle and the English country side around it. They prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, grindhouse, gothic horror, cult classic, phantasmagoric
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Lust for Dracula (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mina Harker isn't the happiest of Hollywood Hills wives - even though she's married to wealthy pharmaceuticals magnate Jonathan Harker. The repressed Mina longs for Jonathan's love and the happiness a child would bring them, yet the arrival of the beautiful and mysterious Dracula - seductive vampire servants at her side - will change their lives forever. Dracula offers Mina the sensual existence she so desperately craves - one that is immediately threatened by Mina's sister, Dr. Abigail Van Helsing. Van Helsing seeks to not only destroy the monstrous vampire but covet Mina's seemingly perfect life and husband Jonathan, too. As these troubled characters move ever closer toward their destinies and a final battle with Dracula, blood will be spilled, souls will be destroyed, and love will become undying.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, erotic, sexual, biting, sexy, suspense
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The Halfway House (2004)
Plot Summary:
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, slasher, queer horror, offbeat, sexual
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Zombie Nation (2004)
Plot Summary:
A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective
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Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the verge of a major arms deal, the two toughest gangs in L.A. will find themselves trapped in an abandoned warehouse by a ravenous mob of bloodthirsty zombies. They will have to work together with the cops to avoid being torn limb-from-limb and eaten alive. A one of a kind urban-zombie film, Gangs of the Dead is a gore-filled and action-packed thriller for both the horror fan and the urban audience.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic