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Plot Summary:
A holidaygoer in Italy cuts himself on a strange dagger and gets possessed by a demon.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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The Devil's Rock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter, satanic, demonic, creepy, cult classic, classic horror, independent film
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When Evil Lurks (2023)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Violent New Breed (1997)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Hunting Creatures (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous experiments are turning the citizens of a small town into dangerous creatures or rather zombies. Some gangsters, which have nothing to do with the experiments, are fighting against them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, splatter
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Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors are trying to stop a rampant epidemic of zombieism. They fend off zombies spilling many a gallon of blood in the process.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: bloody, medical horror, splatter
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Cross of the Seven Jewels (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a werewolf after being cursed by a black magic society. Only a jeweled necklace he wears can stop the transformations taking place.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult film
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Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mike Strauber catches his wife Sharon in bed with his best friend Jerry. He gets mad and takes off to embark on an adventure of murder and self-mutilation in demented games of truth or dare.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, controversial, splatter, independent film, slasher horror, cult film
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Sadisticum (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sadisticum tells the story of a man for whom there seems to be only one purpose in life, the torture and killing of others. At age 17, he has already killed two people. But he manages to suppress his appetite for many years. Half of his life he spent with working and adapting the company externally. But the void in his life has been increased steadily, until one day it happens again, he kills. Only this time he would not stop, this time he would give free rein to his appetite. But even by the brutal killing of his fellow man, he learns no more satisfaction. His ever-growing need for recognition is driving him to create some kind torture course. He'd selected peers point to which way is best torturing anyone without killing him early. But it does not stop at a seminar, his addiction to attention and admiration grows into the vast, ever more cruel torture methods he tried. But one day, the story takes a surprising turn.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, Pooh and Piglet, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, independent film, spooky
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555 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he's dressed like a hippie. As the detective searches for the killer, he begins to have suspicions about his superior, an older man who is haunted by memories of his military service in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Meatcleaver Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Four crazed killers, butchered his wife, son and daughter. From his hospital deathbed he called upon the power of the occult for revenge... And he got it, he really got it!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, supernatural thriller, cult film
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White Cannibal Queen (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: demonic, tense, suspense, mockbuster, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)
Plot Summary:
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, demonic, religious horror, fake documentary
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Silent Scream (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students travels to the cottage of their psychology professor Barren in an isolated island as a reward of their teamwork in the research of Barren. They expect to spend the weekend with lots of sex, but a serial-killer turns their party in a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, slasher horror
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Anthropophagous 2000 (1999)
Plot Summary:
The millionaire Nikos Karamanlis (Andreas Schnaas) and his family are on a boat trip, when they get into a storm, in which the daughter dies and the yacht sinks. After days without food on a life raft, Nikos wants to eat the corpse.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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No Reason (2010)
Plot Summary:
Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming life. While planning to move, Jennifer and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! It all begins with a strange visit from her soon to be ex-neighbor, the postman who mentions an urgent need. Later when Jennifer comes home from grocery, she discovers an elderly neighbor, who is her son's babysitter, has disappeared. She also receives a terrifying and disturbing letter which contains a macabre death poem, plus some compromising sex photos of her husband and the missing babysitter! To get over the initial shock, she decides to take a bath, and promptly falls asleep in the bathtub. When she awakes, she finds herself on the floor of her apartment covered in blood and body parts! Center to this surreal and horrific scene is a mysterious masked man who promises to lead Jennifer on the right path toward the sacred white light . The story continues as a tale of physical and mental torture!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surprise ending, splatter, bleak, suspense, sadistic, brutal, surreal, controversial, extreme horror
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Ozone! Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986)
Plot Summary:
An ecological disaster turns some rednecks into flesh-eating mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: splatter, dark comedy, horror comedy
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Doomed (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds).
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Plot Summary:
An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of savage hoodlums, and three sisters do their best to stay alive and survive this harrowing ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon (2000)
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A bunch of zombies that are used by the government to fight in a major war in the near future get launched into space. The space shuttle gets caught in a time warp and returns to Earth in the present day. Naturally, the zombies get loose and terrorize a motley assortment of folks who are trapped inside a high school.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Coma-Brutal Duel (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a man is killed by a drunk driving, his son wants revenge, which starts a big battle that will continue for years.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, controversial, splatter
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In the Woods (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out of the woods becomes a nightmare for the two men.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
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Black Past (1989)
Plot Summary:
Thommy and his family move to a new place. In the attic, he finds a box surrounded with chains. He opens it. In the box, he finds a mirror and a diary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, splatter
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Demon Resurrection (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic
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The Abomination (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mother obsessed with mind-altering televangelism consequently vomits a pulsating growth that slithers down the throat of her son during the night. Upon spewing the parasite, the son is driven by an uncontrollable force to murder and feed corpses to the now-multiple-toothed monsters manifesting throughout the house. This gory, shot-on-Super-8 regional rarity is a micro-budget salute to H.G. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft. — Evan Husney, Drafthouse Films.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, art house, grindhouse, medical horror, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, lovecraft, horror comedy
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Back from Hell (1993)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring movie star sells his soul. Things go wrong, as they tend to. He goes home, which leads to all manner of unpleasantry for himself and his childhood friend, who has become a priest.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: satanic, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Violent Shit (1989)
Plot Summary:
A demented, wicked, deformed, cannibalistic killer named K. The Butcher Shitter, escapes from the police and slaughters people in many gory, bloody ways.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, extreme horror, splatter, psychotronic, cult film
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Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A small community is besieged by vampires. After he watches friends ravaged in a convenience store, a lone avenger goes off to do battle with the undead, armed with shotgun, chainsaw, and Holy water. Later he finds other survivors and they try to stay alive long enough to do battle with Liven, king of the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, underground film, splatter
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Demons (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: demonic, scary, suspense, splatter, slasher, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bloody, cult horror