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Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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Blood Beach (1980)
Plot Summary:
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, stylized, natural horror, spoof
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The Dead and the Damned (2011)
Plot Summary:
A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, exciting, wild
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How to Make a Monster (2001)
Plot Summary:
Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game: EVILUTION. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming tam find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, computer animated, spooky
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Kaw (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, natural horror, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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Mind Ripper (1995)
Plot Summary:
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation. With the door sealed from within, there is no way out.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, grindhouse, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Rats (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, wild, campy
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The Forgotten Ones (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot. A horrifying action-adventure in the vein of Predator and Lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film, psychotronic
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Plot Summary:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, natural horror, spoof, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dire Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, and a couple of government agents to stop the beast before things get too out of hand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, suspense, independent film
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, tense
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Night of the Lepus (1972)
Plot Summary:
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, suspense, absurd, horror comedy, psychotronic, funny, retro
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Panic in the tower (1990)
Plot Summary:
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, classic horror, disgusting, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Unseen Evil (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Bottom Feeder (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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Killer Rats (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, natural horror
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Bats (1999)
Plot Summary:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, retro, dark, slasher, saga
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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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The Nest (1987)
Plot Summary:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, natural horror, retro, cult horror, independent film, psychotronic
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C.H.U.D. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, cult horror, retro, detective
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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Grim (1996)
Plot Summary:
A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film, psychotronic
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Watchers II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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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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The Rig (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
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Teenage Caveman (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, queer horror, futuristic, splatter, psychotronic, sex comedy
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The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, grindhouse, cult horror, classic horror, psychotronic, bloody, horror comedy, perverse, cult classic
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Isolation (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, rough, serious, natural horror, weird
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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Abominable (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mythical, perverse, action packed, slasher, natural horror, spooky
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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, psychotronic