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Plot Summary:
An American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977. Branded "The American Cannibal" by the press during his trial, Dr. Timothy Darrow defended himself by claiming a mythic human-ape creature was responsible for the murders. The news outlet documented an indigenous tribe on Flores, the very same island where the hobbit remains were discovered, which had its own accounts of little wild men that stood just over three feet tall, climbed trees, walked on two feet and thrived on cannibalism. And according to the local legend, those creatures may never have died out at all. Follow an expedition team deep into the heart of Flores Island to investigate Dr. Timothy Darrow's claims and find out once and for all if hobbits still exist in the deepest, most remote realms of the Indonesian jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A mutated monster terrorizes campers in the woods of 1950's Wisconsin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, retro, parody, horror spoof
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sensual
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A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Curtain (2015)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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The Encounter (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Plot Summary:
A group of soldiers are taken to the mountains of Wales to investigate a strange looking monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dead Squad (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Creature of Destruction (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A father and son on a weekend hunting trip encounter supernatural horror in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, horror comedy, independent film, psychotronic, neo noir
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With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, cult horror, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Evil Spawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cannibal Holocaust II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Barrio Tales (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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BlackBoxTV Presents (2010)
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BlackBoxTV Presents is an American horror anthology web series created by Tony E. Valenzuela and Philip DeFranco. The first season, which featured a cast of YouTube creators including DeFranco, iJustine and Shane Dawson, was self-funded by Valenzuela and debuted on the BlackBoxTV YouTube channel on August 17, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min
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The Broken Shore (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
US Navy battles monsters unearthed from the frozen arctic.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, lovecraft, campy
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Upon arriving at their grandparents farm, a family soon realise the entire town has been taken out by an unknown monster that hunts by sound. And soon, they become its prey.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, bleak, disturbing
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A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, retro, grindhouse
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Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 101 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, extreme horror, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Young Cannibals (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends summon a monster when they are tricked into eating burgers made of human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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For We Are Many (2019)
Plot Summary:
The shock portmanteau showcases the work of upcoming genre directors from around the world. Each gives a fun, fresh and frightening take on a different demon, from Succubi and Wendigos to the Biblical and Lovecraftian, making this chilling collection a wild, fun-filled, terrifying ride through a diabolical and fantastical bestiary.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, bleak, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, lovecraft
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Eyes in the Dark (2010)
Plot Summary:
Secret video files just discovered on an FBI server prove that the government has been hiding unexplained disappearances and a dangerous presence in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Abstruse (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two young women get themselves into a very compromising situation that proves life changing, the aftermath is almost worse as all trails of the event has been wiped out and all of a sudden the tables turn and Amanda goes from being the victim to the accused. Amanda's father decides to look into it only to realize it's much bigger than they first anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
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A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Sweeney Todd (2006)
Plot Summary:
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, enigmatic, stylized, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, gothic horror, psychological, tense
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Diary of a Cannibal (2007)
Plot Summary:
They met on the Internet. They fell in love. They drove to the desert and stopped at an abandoned warehouse. They wandered inside. Inside they found unspeakable horror. Only one of them survived the ordeal of CANNIBAL. From a hospital bed, an injured Noelle tells shocked police detectives a tale of cannibal terror. In recounting her ordeal, the detectives learn of an even more awful truth behind the actions of this tragic couple. Horror master Ulli Lommel's depraved tale of a modern-day CANNIBAL is based on the real-life case of a man who murdered and consumed his lover -- liver and all! -- in a strange act of consensual love. In Lommel's film of the events, two star-crossed lovers enter a world where madness rules and even a loved one can transform into a flesh-eating cannibal.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough, offbeat, serious
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Veil (2017)
Plot Summary:
The temptation to have a one night stand leads a man to a distant town and a woman with a dark agenda. When he doesn't return, it falls upon his black sheep sister to uncover the truth of what happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing