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Plot Summary:
Solar debris crashes down to Earth, causing widespread destruction and unleashing solar radiation around the world. As genetic mutations rapidly spread, a group of friends must fight to stay alive and escape the chaos.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
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Gangnam Zombie (2023)
Plot Summary:
Citizens from upscale Gangnam in Seoul start experiencing unusual and terrifying symptoms, devolving into inhuman creatures, leaving only a few survivors with the possibility to make it out alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Strange Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant but obsessive scientist goes to extremes to develop a universal cure for all disease, he finds himself infected with a bizarre parasite that begins to transform him into a bloodthirsty madman. Time running out, he must find a way to stop the monster that is growing within and prevent the rest of the world from being "cured.".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, brutal, bloody, depressing
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Project Legion (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Tin Can (2020)
Plot Summary:
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Dawning Of The Dead (2017)
Plot Summary:
While a virus that causes the dead to reanimate brings the world to its knees, the scientist responsible entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a troubled ex-war correspondent turned anchor-woman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her crew witness the collapse of society via video feeds from around the globe, a deadly special agent climbs the building floor by floor, his only goal to ensure her silence. Armed only with information and an indomitable will to live, Katya must overcome her crippling anxiety and learn to lead in order to make it out of the studio and into a terrifying new world where only the dead survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Welcome to Essex (2018)
Plot Summary:
Overnight, the United Kingdom was consumed by an epidemic of terrifying proportions. The majority of the population were killed in a matter of hours as millions of recently-dead people returned to life and began to attack and kill the living. The disaster spread so rapidly that the government had no time to control the situation. The order to evacuate England was given. But it was too late. Now, the following day, a small group of mismatched survivors find themselves trapped in the famous town of Brentwood, hunted by large hordes of fast-moving corpses. They must learn to work together and reach the last-known point of rescue, Southend-on-Sea, or face certain death. Or worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, rough, scary, cult film
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White Sky (2021)
Plot Summary:
When three campers witness an alien mothership descending on their town and turning the population into "Altered" human beings, they team up with a reclusive stranger who offers to guide them to safety. As they're chased deep into the forest and one of them becomes infected, they realize there's nowhere to hide from the Altered horde that seems intent upon finding and assimilating them.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Plot Summary:
At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But things have a way of backfiring. . .don't they? So don't be surprised if Clare and Julie wind up on tonight's menu!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Terror Within II (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Don't Grow Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, spooky
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The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Plot Summary:
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, offbeat, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, black and white, scary, serious
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Virus X (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about a case of highly contagious swine flu virus engineered by rogue scientists. A cover up by a mysterious dark lady linked to the High Spheres adds action and mystery.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Containment (2015)
Plot Summary:
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher, mysterious, creepy, disaster movie
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Plan Z (2016)
Plot Summary:
One man has a plan for a zombie outbreak, when one occurs it will take all his will to stick to it and all of his courage to change it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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5G Zombies (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a world overtaken by a recent virus pandemic, all governments have conspired together to brainwash the remaining survivors using 5G cell service to create a new world order. Watch our world crumble from various perspectives...just when you thought it couldn't get any worse!.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Call of the Undead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A virus gets loose in Taipei Army and SWAT teams oversee evacuation but in Ximending the gangs don't want the police They attack the military but when both find themselves under attack by zombies there is an alliance as they try and escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scenic
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Creepozoids (1987)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, freeze frame
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The Demented (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, serious
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Plan 9 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal… To wipe out all mankind! Only the townsfolk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store, and even those trying to stay alive in the streets, this night will decide the fates of all who walk the planet and thought they were the top of the food chain.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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The Rezort (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, spooky, psychological, tense, scary, enigmatic, creepy
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Night Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dinner party turns deadly when a group of friends is trapped inside of their house after a massive alien invasion threatens to take over the world. Things take a turn for the worse when they discover that the chemical the military is using to destroy the aliens is also turning humans into zombie-like savages. Now the group must band together and try to survive the night... if they don't kill each other first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Chrysalis (2014)
Plot Summary:
Joshua and Penelope are survivors of a deadly infection that laid waste to humanity 25 years ago. When they encounter fellow survivor Abira, their lives are forever changed as they fight off the remnants of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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Dead Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors-- but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic, cult film
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Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, disaster movie
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State of Emergency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, bleak
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Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something wrong with the water surrounding the island.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting, bleak, captivating, disturbing, psychological, splatter
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The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of the zombie diaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, mockumentary, suspense, futuristic, fake documentary