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Plot Summary:
Austria-Hungary 1813: Two soldiers returning from the Napoleonic war encounter a creeping invasion in a remote mountain village that far exceeds their imagination - especially as the powerful enemy calls for actions that put the humanity of the two men to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria
Duration: 106 min
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Frankenstein Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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The Brain Leeches (1978)
Plot Summary:
Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town. The head leech is a wad of black tinfoil with a couple of white thumbtacks for eyes. Others are spidery-like rubber things pulled along by strings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film, amateur film
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Doctor Who: Besieged (2013)
Plot Summary:
Epic 2 part fan film production that crosses Doctor Who with the Alien Saga. The Doctor and his Companion are summoned aboard the HMS Archer, a military research vessel in deep space, trapped by an unknown and unstoppable alien force.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror
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Within the Rock (1996)
Plot Summary:
Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
Plot Summary:
A group of cave explorers are confronted in an underground cavern by a mysterious living rock. Little do they know that it bears home to deadly, flesh-eating creatures, intent on wiping out the entire human population. An ultra low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, brutal, gothic horror, mystic, mockbuster, classic horror, disgusting, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Alien from the Deep (1989)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of hugely dangerous waste, but they get caught by the vigilantes working for the company. One of them, the super-hot Maria Giulia Cavalli, manages to escape and she is saved by a snake farmer who lives alone in the jungle. Together they try to bring down the company, but it’s too late. Years of chemical poisoning have spawned a deadly monster that is set out to exact revenge on humans that have unknowingly brought him to life. Directed by legendary Antonio Margheriti, the unholy master of Italian B movies, Alien from the Deep is one of the most beloved Italian rip-offs. A wildly entertaining ride, the movie is an inventive crossover where lots of different genres and styles are mixed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, independent film
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Invasion for Flesh and Blood (1991)
Plot Summary:
Something strange is afoot in the suburbs of New Jersey! Carnivorous entities from out of this world have invaded the Garden State, seeking out the tastiest dish in the entire universe: human flesh! Now only a gang of burnt-out metalheads and one sexy psychic starlet can stand up to the alien invaders devious plans of world domination and human consumption!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Revenge of the Lost (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of three survivors must make their way through the dinosaur apocalypse to a military base, the last safe place on earth. Once there, they come across a plot that's more terrifying than the dinosaurs themselves.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine (2017)
Plot Summary:
Saber Raine is hired to guide three elite soldiers on a rescue mission to recover a prince and princess who have been abducted from their home world. The trail leads Saber and his allies to a planet deep within uncharted space that is inhabited by strange mutated creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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Feeders (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two friends on a road trip pass through a town where aliens are landing and feeding upon the some of the civilians.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Alien Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, horror comedy, campy
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Alien Terminator (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five miles below the Earth's surface, a group of scientists is working in self-imposed isolation, perfecting a series of DNA experiments that could literally change the world. But when one of those experiments goes awry, it unleashes a nearly immortal organism--one capable of instant regeneration, and with an insatiable appetite for living flesh. Soon, nothing can contain the creature, and with the lab's life support systems quickly shutting down, the scientists grimly prepare for their final battle... A small group of scientists are working in self-imposed isolation below the Earth's surface. They are all working to create DNA which could change the world, but one of the scientists have been given an secret assignment, and when the assignment goes wrong, all hell breaks lose. The new creation is now aboard the ship and will destroy anyone who gets in its way, as it moves towards the surface.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to disfuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film
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Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Plot Summary:
Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, splatter, spoof, parody
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The Lair (2022)
Plot Summary:
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient "baby" beings hunting down and killing its male DNA donors, while at the same time trying to mate with its female donors. The head of the lab wants to destroy the monster before the press can get wind of the story, but the former head of security wants to expose the whole thing.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unseen Evil 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, Kate. But first they have to get her released from the mental institution she's been confined to since the horrific attack. Written.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Fire Serpent (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alien creatures emerge from the sun and attack Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three earthlings (John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante) leave on a space mission to destroy flesh creatures of a prehistoric lost planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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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
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Harbinger Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, nautical, lovecraft, retro, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Sputnik (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, philosophical, atmospheric, enigmatic, political, dark, slasher
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Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: manga, anime, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, post modern
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Body Snatchers (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, mystical, classic horror, space horror
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Monsters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, road movie, breathtaking, stylized, meditative, apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, enigmatic, suspenseful
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Plot Summary:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 264000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, disturbing, suspenseful, dark, slasher, anamorphic, spooky, thrilling
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Predator (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, scary, futuristic, tense, exciting, action packed, bloody, saga
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A Quiet Place (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 570000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, minimal cast, disturbing, psychological, apocalyptic, spooky, surprise ending, tension, psychological horror