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Plot Summary:
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they are dissolved into it. No one knows that Jake is the carrier except him. This brings about the "red objects" that specify every object that he has touched, as discovered by the community with cats. They use cats to test inanimate objects for the disease. And they cover themselves in garbage bags to protect themselves. Then they discover that Jake is the carrier and they chase him around.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, philosophical, depressing, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Thirst (1998)
Plot Summary:
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Alien Predator (1986)
Plot Summary:
3 young friends are on vacation in Spain, until weird things begin to occur and then a man from NASA tells them what's really going on: Dangerous Alien Organisms from the Apollo 14 Moon Mission, which was tested on animals on SkyLab. But then the organisms fell to earth with SkyLab and they are now starting to infect people by brutally killing them off. And these 3 friends and NASA scientist must get an antidote from a NASA Lab nearby and save themselves and the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, scary, apocalyptic, surprise ending, offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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The Terror Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
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Buried Alive (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, slasher horror, campy
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Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing
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Warning Sign (1985)
Plot Summary:
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, disaster movie
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Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, grindhouse, spooky, serious, lovecraft
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The Cavern (2005)
Plot Summary:
8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Dead Creatures (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of women afflicted with a horrible disease (which forces them to cannibalism) try to support one another.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Tooth and Nail (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, futuristic, surprise ending
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Cold Storage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may be dead, but she'll always be true and she'll never grow old - at least as long as he keeps her on ice. When Cathy and Deric show up looking for the missing traveler, Clive takes them both hostage in a sinister bid to hide his ghoulish secret. ~ Jason Buchanan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychological, tense, slasher, twisted, scary, serious, realistic
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Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, queer horror, erotic, scary, mind bending
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Trigger Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, mumblecore, retro, scary, exciting, serious, realistic
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Growth (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1989, a breakthrough in "advanced parasitic research" on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But - something in the experiment went horribly wrong, and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Infection (2011)
Plot Summary:
A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of the "Modern Plague", and the reporter soon realizes that the truth may be harder to uncover than the lies.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, independent film
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Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Plot Summary:
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, dark, tense, serious, independent film, fast
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Dead Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic
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Chemical Peel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A weekend trip to the woods for a bachelorette party turns deadly when a nearby train accident causes a chemical reaction that overtakes the secluded valley. But waiting out the disaster inside could prove to be just as dangerous as being outdoors.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, suspense, rough, realistic, psychological thriller, semi serious, disaster movie
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Night Shadows (1984)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, scary, offbeat, grindhouse, creepy, campy
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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
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Panic at Rock Island (2011)
Plot Summary:
An island on spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun Top international artists. Tens of thousands of music fans from across the world Idyllic... Until unimaginable disaster strikes.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, rough, realistic
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Contaminated Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem to follow in the path of Joseph Mueller (Peter Weller), a seemingly ordinary man who works as a security guard. Unknown to Mueller, his body carries a strange contaminant that's deadly to many people, and Whitman is desperate to find Mueller and stop him before he can cause more deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Mulberry Street (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they fight to survive the night against the rats and rapidly multiplying cannibal mutants.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, dark drama, independent film, disaster movie
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Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
Plot Summary:
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Infection (2019)
Plot Summary:
Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, exciting
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State of Emergency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, bleak
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Venomous (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the virus to healthy persons. The military puts the town under quarantine. Local physicians try to control the epidemic, while the military is primarily concerned with keeping the virus a secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, suspense, ridiculous, campy, cult film, disaster movie
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After the Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
A survivor of warfare born chemical attack, Cassie Becker faces a new world of terrible realization. The Human race has suffered terrible recourse in the wake of an attack that never should have been leaving the remaining inhabitants in a state far less then human. It has been six months since to the day in this new world of indescribable destruction and isolated fear. In search of the only person she holds dear Cassie must fight the onslaught of creatures once precious to her in an unstoppable journey to reunite.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Plot Summary:
Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, sexy, apocalyptic, grindhouse, detective
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Psychic Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic