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Plot Summary:
In the year 2000 the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. Written by Jeremy Lunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist is conducting experiments with evolution on the locals deep in the rural swamps of Texas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, independent film, scary, serious, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 79%
The Wizard of Mars (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 1974, four astronauts, silver shoe-clad Dorothy, overweight Doc, goofy Charlie, and wooden Steve, crash land on Mars when taking readings, with only four days of supplies. They must try to survive on the surface, which is barren except for some canals with huge maggots with fins. After embarking through a golden igneous cavern, braving a storm and finding an unmanned Earth vessel, they discover a golden road which leads them to the unchanging ruins of what was once a beautiful Martian city. The Martians are modeled on the Flatheads of Oz, and their collective consciousness, the "Wizard," forbids them to leave until they perform a very small task.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Plot Summary:
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, scary, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, campy
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Interplanetary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nine men and women, employees of Interplanetary Corporation, live and work on Mars. Their days aren't particularly interesting, much less exciting, until they are assaulted by a murderous band of strangers and a seemingly unstoppable alien creature. Do these attacks have anything to do with the Martian fossil recently uncovered by one of the employees? Will the rapidly increasing body count adversely affect Interplanetary's stock price? And can anyone survive long enough to fill out the inevitable paperwork?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, parody, space horror, exciting, offbeat, spoof
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Attack of the Eye Creatures (1967)
Plot Summary:
Alien "eye" creatures invade a small town in this uncredited remake of "Invasion of the Saucer Men".
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspense, absurd, independent film, offbeat, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Plot Summary:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, retro, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 88%
Laserblast (1978)
Plot Summary:
Loner teenager Billy Duncan (Kim Milford) stumbles across a lost alien ray gun while wandering the desert one day. Billy uses the destructive weapon to get revenge on his enemies, but quickly finds himself beginning to turn into a violent, alien creature who destroys anyone who offends him.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, mysterious, grindhouse, mockbuster, cult classic, disgusting, scary, exciting, offbeat
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The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Plot Summary:
A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, horror comedy
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The Creeping Terror (1964)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, retro, suspense, detective, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious
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Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
Plot Summary:
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Purple Death from Outer Space (1966)
Plot Summary:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Shadowzone (1990)
Plot Summary:
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, bizarre, cult film
Similar in 90%
Heatstroke (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, computer animated, disaster movie
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Crash and Burn (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of th.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mecha, cult film
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Monster a-Go Go (1965)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns an American astronaut, Frank Douglas, who mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is apparently replaced by or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of scientists and military men attempt to capture the monster — and at one point succeed, only to have him escape again. Neither the capture nor the escape are ever shown, simply mentioned by the narrator.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surreal
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Dark Universe (1993)
Plot Summary:
On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, creating a situation which threatens contagion and/or death to all who encounter the shuttle or its mutated pilot.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, space horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Moontrap (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: space horror, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 77%
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Plot Summary:
Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Queen of Blood (1966)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship is sent to Mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, serious, space horror, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror
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Dracula 3000 (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew composed of the blonde assistant Aurora Ash; the crippled navigator Arthur "The Professor" Holmwood, who believes that he is a genius; the strong and dumb Humvee; the intern Mina Murry; and the drug addicted 187, decide to claim the possession of Demeter. While exploring the spacecraft, they see a tape of fifty years ago of Captain Varna telling that he was locked in his cabin since his crew was acting weird after getting a cargo of coffins in Transylvania station. When 187 decides to search in the coffins for some possible hidden dope, he cuts his hand and his blood awakes Count Orlock, a.k.a. Count Dracula. When Aurora discloses who Dracula is, the survivors try to find a way to destroy the vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror, suspense, psychotronic, spoof, parody, cult film
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Crimson Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the High Priest of Mars' royal guards and the High Priestess' warriors. The crew is divided with one half deciding to help the High Priest make peace with Earth and the other side with the High Priestess who is secretly plotting to kill her husband and invade Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
Similar in 75%
Critters 4 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Just before bounty hunter Charile triggers his gun to destroy the last two Critter-eggs, he gets a message that it would be illegal to extinguish the race from the galaxy. He's sent a transporter where he puts the eggs - unfortunately the transporter takes him with it and then gets lost in space.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: futuristic, space horror, cult horror, epic, slasher, saga, splatter, horror comedy, classic horror, independent film
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The Slime People (1963)
Plot Summary:
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Russian scientist is arriving to the states caring secret information’s. Disembarking from his plane, he and his American contacts are attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison). Later, it is revealed that he has wandered in range of an American nuclear test. The radiation transforms Javorsky into a mindless killing beast (the Beast).
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, psychotronic, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror, independent film
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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, suspense, futuristic, perverse, exciting, thought provoking, breathtaking
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Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Plot Summary:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film, scary, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Invaders from Mars (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, scary, slasher, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, serious
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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Creature (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky, cult film