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Plot Summary:
Daniel Emerson is acquited of the rape of classical pianist Gaily Morton, and part of the blame for the acquittal lies with the testimony of Daniel's friends Norman, Oscar, Toby, and Craig, who all helped Daniel rape Gaily. Still devastated by the rape and unable to deal with the acquittal, Gaily commits suicide by jumping off of the top of the court building as soon as the trial ends, much to the horror of her brother Albert, who is a scientist. Five years later, Daniel has made Norman, Oscar, Toby, and Craig partners in his business, which forces homeowners and their homes out of the way to make way for bigger developments. By this time, after five years of working with Gaily's body, Albert has turned Gaily into a cyborg that is programmed to get bloody revenge on Daniel, Norman, Oscar, Toby, and Craig.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Storm Trooper (1998)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after murdering her abusive husband, a woman (Carol Alt) takes an injured stranger into her home. She soon discovers the stranger is a cyborg. He then persuades her to help him flee from a mysterious gang of armed men who soon ….
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Alpha Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alpha Girls is about a Sorority House terrorized by an unholy curse of their own creation.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, bleak, psychotronic, satanic
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Blood Hunt (2017)
Plot Summary:
Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, perverse
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Trancers II (1991)
Plot Summary:
Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his courageous actions as he struggles to save the future. His difficulties are compounded when his boss sends his first wife back from the future to help Deth who has unfortunately, married a 20th-century girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, psychotronic, cult film
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Vampire Cop (1990)
Plot Summary:
Cop who just happens to be a vampire goes after the drug dealer who killed his partner with the help of a news reporter.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, surprise ending, twist ending, cult film
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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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Chopping Mall (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the "intruders". The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, cult horror
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Eyeborgs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Are government surveillance cameras intended to keep us safe actually killing people? Is it a plot by the government to suppress the opposition, or have our terrorist enemies secretly gained control of our security system and are now using it against us? Following another major terrorist attack the US instigates an intense government surveillance program in which every camera in the country is linked into a single, all-seeing network called the ODIN system (for Optical Defense Intelligence Network). The system includes millions of mobile, robotic surveillance cameras known as "Eyeborgs," which watch everyone for suspicious behavior, all in the name of security, law enforcement and keeping America safe. An agent for the Department of Homeland Security grows suspicious of the system after a series of odd murders in which the physical evidence doesn't match up to what the video records show. Now he must work outside the system to find out who is really controlling the Eyeborgs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, computer animated, cult film
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Mandroid (1993)
Plot Summary:
In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, bleak, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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The Breed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vampires have come out of the shadows and are living as normal citizens. Two policemen, one a vampire, are assigned to track down a serial killer who tears the throat of his victims and drains their blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, enigmatic, bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized
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Samurai Princess (2009)
Plot Summary:
When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (Aino Kishi) the only survivor, she becomes infused with her comrades' souls. Transformed into an android, she sets out to avenge their deaths. Dai Mizuno co-stars as the princess's human partner in this Kengo Kaji-directed gore fest that features breast grenades, detachable chainsaw limbs, deadly guitar riffs and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, semi serious, tense, splatter, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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Raptor (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, natural horror, independent film, fast, cult film
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Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, splatter, psychotronic, nostalgic
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Class of 1999 (1990)
Plot Summary:
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when he violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, retro, dark, grindhouse, cyber, cult classic, mindfuck, independent film, rough
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Evolver (1995)
Plot Summary:
Meet Evolver, the ultimate toy for the Cyberpunk generation, a virtual-reality game brought to fierce, three-dimensional life. With each battle, Evolver lives up to his name. He becomes faster, smarter and deadlier. Meet Kyle Baxter (Ethan Randall) the teenage video game whiz who wins the first ever Evolver robot. Suddenly, some fatal accidents begin to happen. With help from Jamie Saunders (Cassidy Rae), a beautiful rival game player, Kyle digs up a terrifying missing link: Evo was created from a scrapped U.S. Defense Robotics Department. Designed to infiltrate enemy encampments, he has the capacity to adapt to any situation, and he's programmed to leave no survivors. By the time Kyle and Jamie discover this, Evo has evolved to his most advanced and dangerous state and will stop at nothing until he annihilates the young man who is his one undefeated opponent.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, scary, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, splatter
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Shadowchaser (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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T-Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, cybernetic research has developed advanced robots with human traits, whioch are widely used in the service industry. They have also been turned into cyber cops with a licence to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, campy
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Cyborg Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic, action thriller
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The Terminators (2009)
Plot Summary:
A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mockbuster, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, fast
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Prototype (1992)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing psychosexual derams. After a brilliant research scientist experiments on Hawkins, he is dramatically transformed into the Prototype - half-man, half-robotic machine and all-warrior. But, when the experiment gets badly out of control, the deadly Prototype escapes and goes hunting for Chandra, his prime target for elimination. In an explosive climax, the ultimate battle commences to determine whether mankind or machines will survive to rule the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, experimental
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
International terrorist leader, Fatima, is critically injured when she attempts to hijack a jumbo jet and is thwarted by Eric Matthews and his anti-terrorist organization, The Retaliators. Fatima is taken to a top-secret research institute, where she is turned into a lethal cyborg and programmed to hunt down the members of her own terrorist group. In the heat of battle, her computerized brain malfunctions, and she turns her lethal vengeance on the Retaliators. Now Eric Matthews and his team must match human cunning against deadly technology.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Scanner Cop II (1995)
Plot Summary:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, dark, slasher, detective, independent film
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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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Automatic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, bleak
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Cyborg Cop (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, suspenseful, semi serious, tech noir, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, humorous, fast
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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
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The Crazies (1973)
Plot Summary:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, black comedy