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Plot Summary:
Special ops squad "Hell's Bastards" are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic, intense
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Black Site (2018)
Plot Summary:
80's inspired John Carpenteresque Action. A young woman is forced to push past her worst fears and battle to deport an ancient entity back to where it came from. Set inside an underground military base known as The Artemis Black Site, the movie mixes an Escape From New York style survival story with Lovecraftian elements and large scale mythology building.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft
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400 Bullets (2021)
Plot Summary:
One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup before the rogue squad, led by the backstabbing Sergeant Bartlett, can hunt them down to retrieve a case of missile guidance chips that Noah intercepted. But Bartlett and his men do not count on Rana, whose ferocious Gurkha training makes him a force to be reckoned with.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Subterano (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Paragraph 78: Film One (2007)
Plot Summary:
The peoples of the world has finally managed to agree on the most important issues on the planet and there was long overdue balance. Signed an agreement to terminate development of weapons of mass destruction, but in secret all the superpowers continue to build up military power on classified sites, which seemed never existed. Goodwin, a former commander of special forces, is tasked to collect his former people responsible for the mission. Something very serious has happened to the base where secretly working to develop a new combat the virus, and more recent cohorts, who have almost nothing left in common, have come together again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, serious, fast
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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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Reign in Darkness (2002)
Plot Summary:
When molecular biologist Michael Dorn is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing, his life takes a dramatic turn. The virus turns its victims into a unique breed of elite vampires. Now on the run, with relentless bounty hunter Lance and informant vampire Gage in pursuit, Michael must decide the fate of the world. Follow this action packed, modern gothic fable, as we take you behind closed doors to reveal a virus so potent that it could change the evolution of mankind, a virus that is believed to be existing among us today...RVK-17.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, fast, independent film
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Osombie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Osama bin Laden returns from his watery grave and creates an army of zombie insurgents.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, apocalyptic, independent film, campy
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Living Hell (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, natural horror, scary
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Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
Plot Summary:
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, action packed, tense
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Slayer (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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The Devil's Tomb (2009)
Plot Summary:
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, perverse, classic horror, psychotronic, religious horror
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The Vanguard (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, serious, fast
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Bloodsuckers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, scary, bleak, futuristic, fast
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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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Zombie Wars (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world's population struggles to survive against the zombie hordes.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film, serious
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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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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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Devil's Playground (2010)
Plot Summary:
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, disturbing, futuristic, fast
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Flying Virus (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a series of Amazonian Indian attacks on US owned petroleum installation in Brazil, both governments start a secret 'special program'. In fact colonel Ezekial's men use GM killer bees to eradicate the tribes. During an Indian attack, reporter Ann Bauer is stung, yet survives after a mysterious rescue. Dr. Stephen North realizes the venom has priceless healing powers and smuggles the bee aboard a flight to New York. Bauer, her nearly-divorced husband, Martin, who is aboard and her friend, US State Department project representative, Scotty, face potential mass-killing after turbulence releases the bees aboard.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, fast, cult film, disaster movie
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Infected (2013)
Plot Summary:
A blood virus infects a small group of hunters turning a father and son trip into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, scenic, cult classic
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Code Red (2013)
Plot Summary:
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, scary, psychological, exciting, stylized
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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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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Zombie Massacre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies. The plan is to bring an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear plant to pretend a terrible accident occurred. No one has to know the truth. A team of mercenaries is hired to complete the mission. The battle is on. Hordes of monsters against the team. Who will survive?.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, rough, independent film
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Slime City Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, futuristic, splatter
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Resident Evil: Red Falls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is ticking for captain Jackson Elis as he interrogates a mysterious man with ties to an unnamed bioterrorist group holding a team of B.S.A.A. operatives hostage. Foxtrot team is sent in to rescue the hostages through the zombie infested Red Falls. Is there any hope for the B.S.A.A. hostages?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bloody, suspense, futuristic, anime, independent film
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tech noir, cult classic, fast, scary
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Doom (2005)
Plot Summary:
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, splatter, action packed, futuristic, space horror, action adventure, psychological, atmospheric, captivating