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Plot Summary:
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, weird, mad, bizarre
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Mister Designer (1987)
Plot Summary:
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, art house, visual, mystical, psychological, sinister, mystic, esoteric, weird
Similar in 89%
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Plot Summary:
Beatnick Jerry takes his girl, Angie to the carnival. Angie wants to go see the gypsy fortune teller, Jerry does not but relents. After visiting the fortune teller and hearing bad news, Jerry goes alone to see Carmelita, the dancer (the fortune teller's sister). He is invited backstage and is mesmerized into becoming a psychotic killer. Angie, and Jerry's best friend Harold realize something is amiss when Jerry tries to kill Angie.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: horror musical, absurd, grindhouse, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious
Similar in 75%
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
Plot Summary:
A group of students on an archaeology assignment in the Everglades decide to throw a dance party one night.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, independent film, psychotronic, weird
Similar in 85%
Wound (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wound is a supernatural horror that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met – a mother who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father who remains stuck in her present life. Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess her mother with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution. A dark, disturbing look into a haunted woman’s mind. This is one terrible dream you will never wake up from.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, weird
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Necropolis (1970)
Plot Summary:
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, weird
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Motion Sickness (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lost on a train of thought tunneling through the dark night of his unconscious, a former rabbinical student struggles to resolve a paralyzing conflict between his mind and his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, surreal, disturbing
Similar in 81%
The Dead Don't Die (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, psychotronic, weird
Similar in 81%
Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter gruesome, flesh-eating Beast Creatures!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 89%
The Dead One (1961)
Plot Summary:
A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Bombshell Bloodbath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Carter losts his wife and devotes his life to resurrecting her. However, every test of his C-900 formula creates hungry, flesh-eating zombies. Then, his daughter Cara contracts the virus and she and her sister strive to obtain the anti-serum.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic, independent film
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Someone's Knocking at the Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing, erotic, sexy, controversial
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Amethyst (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl tragically consumes a full vial of LSD and quickly succumbs to a bizarre fantasy world, with strange beings and a magical obelisk that might be her portal home.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, dark, mythical, fairy tale, bizarre
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Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Plot Summary:
Orgy of the Dead is an unrated 1965 film directed by Stephen C. Apostolof under the alias A. C. Stephen. The screenplay was adapted by cult film director Edward D. Wood, Jr from his own novel. It is a combination of horror and erotica, and is something of a transition for Wood, who began as a horror writer and later began writing pornography.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, queer horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Rampo Noir (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychedelic, avant garde, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, inspirational, clever, suspense
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Fiend (1980)
Plot Summary:
This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victoms' throats.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, weird
Similar in 76%
The Child (1977)
Plot Summary:
A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spooky, terrifying, independent film, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Mausoleum (1983)
Plot Summary:
Traumatized by her mother's death, young Susan is becoming possessed by the same demon that possessed her mother before she died. More and more her husband and psychiatrist are noticing the strange changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, scary, gothic horror, demonic, psychotronic, classic horror, independent film, mind bending, serious
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Something Weird (1967)
Plot Summary:
An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, stylized, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Witch Graveyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four travelers innocently decide to rest in a wooded area off an old freeway. Unbeknown to them, they are at an old abandoned and haunted cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Zombie Nightmare (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tony Washington is killed by a gang of rampant trendy teenagers. Molly Mokembe is a voodoo lady who brings him back from the dead to seek revenge on his killers so he can rest in peace.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
The Boneyard (1991)
Plot Summary:
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)
Plot Summary:
Set in Berlin during WWII, the Nazi regime is attempting to develop a drug that will animate the dead, in order to use in the war effort. Toulin arouses suspicion as a Nazi dissident, and his secret is discovered. During a Nazi raid on his home, Toulin's beautiful wife is murdered. Toulin vows revenge, with the help of his animated puppets.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, grindhouse, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, serious
Similar in 75%
Puppet Master II (1990)
Plot Summary:
The puppets return, this time they hunt some Paranormal Researchers to take their brain fluid for the dead/living puppet master, Andre Toulon.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, dark, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, serious
Similar in 89%
Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, demonic, cult horror, terrifying, ridiculous
Similar in 90%
Blade the Iron Cross (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this standalone spinoff of Charles Band's Puppet Master series, an unspeakable evil from Blade’s past emerges in the form of a murderous Nazi scientist named Dr. Hauser. As Hauser’s heinous crimes are discovered, the psychic war journalist, Elisa Ivanov, awakens Blade, and together the bloody journey of revenge begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Begotten (1989)
Plot Summary:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, disturbing, experimental, atmospheric, independent film, controversial, black and white, postmodern, mindfuck
Similar in 83%
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, sexy, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, cult classic
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, suspense, creepy, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, sensual, psychological, splatter
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Creepshow 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, slasher, black comedy, suspense, splatter, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic
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Eraserhead (1977)
Plot Summary:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, disturbing, psychedelic, experimental, atmospheric, black and white, dark