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Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, intense, psychotronic, splatter, queer horror, weird
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Human Zoo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Contestants on a reality TV show must stay in solitary confinement to win a $1 million prize.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, non fiction
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Dark Mountain (2013)
Plot Summary:
In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman mine. Their bodies were never found... but their camera was.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mockumentary, disturbing, splatter, spooky, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Unholy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania, comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn't succeed in stopping her child's horrific demise, but the girl's death gradually leads the grieving mother to investigate a conspiracy that involves a legendary local witch, Nazi dabbling with the occult, and secret government experiments, with the story even referencing the fabled Philadelphia Experiment.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing, independent film, scary, slasher
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Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Plot Summary:
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. "A Quality of Mercy", "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life", and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, anthology, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, twist ending, suspense, intense, stylized, serious
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp Women, The Wasp Woman, and The Beast with a Million Eyes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, tense, harsh, disturbing, grindhouse, talky
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Madelines (2022)
Plot Summary:
Working in their garage, indie entrepreneurs Madeline and Owen discover the secret of time travel. There's only one hitch: a bug in the code creates a new copy of Madeline at the same time every day.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, futuristic, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Replace (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic, dark drama, queer horror, mad, weird
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The Voices (2020)
Plot Summary:
Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken her own life. While coming to terms with this heavy realization, Grace also uncovers another terrible little secret that has her struggling to maintain her own sanity and ultimately scurrying to save herself and her family from further harm.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
When shark conservationist Dr. Misty Calhoun is invited to consult on a top-secret project run by pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant, she is shocked to learn that the company is using unpredictable and highly aggressive bull sharks as its test subjects, which soon break loose and cause havoc.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, absurd
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Sabertooth (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing, perverse, fast, psychotronic, serious
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Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, serious, surprise ending
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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Panic in the tower (1990)
Plot Summary:
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, classic horror, disgusting, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Morlocks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, psychotronic
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological, retro, psychedelic
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Vampire Virus (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman contracts a deadly virus after an unusual sexual encounter, and soon develops a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, gothic, brutal, serious, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, erotic, psychotronic
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Intersect (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Running Against Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Take Shelter (2011)
Plot Summary:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, disturbing, stylized, independent film
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The Blob (1988)
Plot Summary:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic
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Brain Dead (1990)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, black comedy, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, psychotronic, dark comedy, scary
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Altered States (1980)
Plot Summary:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, mind bending, scary, suspense, philosophical, suspenseful
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Timecrimes (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, cerebral, mindfuck, tricky, confusing, mind twisting
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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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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The Fly (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, cerebral, rough, psychological thriller, bloody
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From Beyond (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, sexy, lovecraft, demonic, grindhouse, surreal, intense, slasher, bloody
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Primer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, surreal, independent film, mind bending, confusing, thought provoking, enigmatic, clever, mindfuck