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Plot Summary:
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black and white, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, medical horror, perverse, twisted, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966):
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The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (1964)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Austria, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, classic horror, gothic horror, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, medical horror, classic horror, erotic
Similar in 76%
The Body Shop (1972)
Plot Summary:
Emminent plastic surgeon and mad scientist Don Brandon loses his wife Anitra - pinup model and social butterfly - in a tragic accident. He and his faithful humpbacked and drooling assistant Igor - oops, I mean Greg - busy themselves experimenting with re-animation experiments. Once ready, the good Doctor begins luring young women back to the lab with hypnosis in order to gather select parts to create a New and Improved.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: medical horror, independent film
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Dr. Orloff's Invisible Monster (1970)
Plot Summary:
An evil scientist creates a murderous, invisible ape-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, medical horror, independent film, psychotronic
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The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a remote desert oasis, a fortune in gold was hidden by the Nazis during World War 2. 50 years later, a bunch of fortune-hunters converge on that selfsame oasis. Imagine their discomfiture upon discovering that the gold is being guarded by an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, gothic horror, grindhouse, perverse, classic horror, twisted, slasher
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Liechtenstein, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide (1972)
Plot Summary:
A crazed doctor, who has already murdered a man, finds Dr. Jekyll's diary and mixes up Jekyll's formula. He mixes up a batch of the potion, turns into the Jekyll monster and begins to stalk, rape and murder women.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Demons (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, queer horror, sexploitation film
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The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Embryo (1976)
Plot Summary:
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, tech noir, mystic, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. She finds herself attracted to him, so immerses herself in her work to suppress her lusty desires. A rash of rather brutal murders occurs in the area and she soon discovers that the Baron is not what he seems. Not long thereafter, the Baron transforms into a demon, and the beautiful young woman becomes his very own love slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film
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Exorcism (1975)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing them to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Horror
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic horror, sensual, perverse, classic horror, twisted, sexploitation film
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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962)
Plot Summary:
Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century baron. Von Klaus heir Ludwig is distantly related to the royal, which makes him the target of suspicion. Can he clear his name, or will he wind up giving in to his dark side?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, splatter, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, psychotronic
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The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadistic practices.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, medical horror, classic horror, grindhouse, black and white, cult horror, scary
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Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
Plot Summary:
This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the flesh pots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul... Top grade Euro-horror and definitely the craziest werewolf film ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Plot Summary:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Rabid (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is left scarred beyond recognition following an accident, she undergoes a radical untested stem-cell treatment. And while the procedure turns her into the belle of the ball, the experimental transformation comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, psychological, bloody, dark, apocalyptic, grindhouse, medical horror
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Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Plot Summary:
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, queer horror, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, erotic, suspense, slasher, disturbing, controversial, sensual, phantasmagoric, mad
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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Plot Summary:
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, queer horror, scary, atmospheric
Similar in 79%
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Plot Summary:
Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating his own monster. The gothic genre is re-worked to create a drama of black humour and farce.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak, suspense, classic horror, touching, grindhouse, dark comedy, medical horror
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Zombie Lake (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic, erotic, epic, suspense, grindhouse, detective
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She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, erotic, sexy, art house, medical horror, sensual, perverse, twisted, queer horror
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The Ghost (1963)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Perverse Countess (1975)
Plot Summary:
Jess Francos softcore version of "The most dangerous game".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, sensual, perverse, classic horror, twisted, erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Death Heads: Brain Drain (2018)
Plot Summary:
The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
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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Await the Dawn (2020)
Plot Summary:
A troubled family traveling cross country are highjacked by a desperate man. Only to discover he's running from something more dangerous than he is.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft, cult horror
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror, cult horror, mind bending