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Plot Summary:
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, bloody, disturbing, exciting, rough, splatter, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, horror comedy
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Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treat him like an idiot, and Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. An assassin is sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. Thus begins the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, parody, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, surreal, anime, horror comedy, perverse
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Sukeban Boy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A raucous teen boy with a feminine face is teased everywhere, so his odd biker father dresses him as a girl and sends him to an all-girl school. The lad introduces himself as Sukeban, and a classmate, Michiko, takes him to after-school activities. Lessons on humility turn violent when a masked hatchet-wielding woman turns up. Jealousy, syringes of hormones, bare breasts, a blood bath, and more figure in the resolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot
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Dead Sushi (2012)
Plot Summary:
Keiko, daughter of a famous sushi chef, leaves home to escape his overbearing training in both sushi-making and martial arts. Finding work at a rural inn, she is bullied by the staff and ridiculed by the guests, including the president of Komatsu Pharmaceuticals, who has come to the inn for a vacation with his associates. Little do they know, however, that disgruntled Komatsu researcher Yamada has followed them there with designs on revenge, using a serum he developed that can awaken the murderous instincts of fish on rice, creating…killer sushi! Bloodthirsty tuna and squid soon descend upon the humans, killing many and turning the remainder into zombie-like creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, slasher, splatter, horror comedy, weird, bizarre
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Organ (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group's surgical headquarters. Numata barely escapes, while a wounded Tosaka gets left behind. Through a series of surreal and gory events, the identities of the organ dealers are revealed as Numata plans his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, scary, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, surreal, stylized
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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, sexy, surreal, underground film, black comedy
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Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, absurd, splatter, horror comedy, bloody, psychotronic, bizarre
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Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (2008)
Plot Summary:
The dead have risen to feast on the flesh of the living, and just when it seems that all hope for humanity has been lost, bikini girls with machine guns take one last shot at saving mankind from certain extinction. In the near future, a deranged scientist named Sugita has conducted a series of experiments intended to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately for the entire population of the planet, these experiments were a resounding success. Now, as a massive, shambling army of the undead launches a bloody war against their living counterparts, wandering beauties Aya (Eri Otoguro) and Reiko (Manami Hashimoto) team up to destroy every last zombie in sight. Unfortunately, Aya's sword-wielding schoolgirl sister Saki (Chise Nakamura) is in league with the nefarious Sugita. When Aya discovers that Saki has killed their father, she vows to take brutal revenge against her murderous younger sibling. Meanwhile, the zombie population is growing at an alarming rate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, scary, suspense, action adventure, fast, surprise ending
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Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fictional country of Heaven Valley, the film is the story of a man, Adam, who following the suspicious death of his wife begins to investigate her murder and in doing so, discovers the involvement of local mafia boss: Denny Richards. Unable to trust the police, corrupt and controlled by Denny, Adam, consumed by anger, summons a demon who offers him superhuman strength and dark powers. The demon follows him during his trip, promising to lead Adam to the door of the murderer if he does everything the demon asks. This unleashes a bloody war that will bring Adam, the demon on his side, against the police department with all its dark allies. The fight begins and it will be extreme!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher, bloody, suspense, controversial, grindhouse
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami's vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires. Meanwhile, Mizushima decides that he wants to fully become a vampire with Monami's help. Keiko, Mizushima's girl friend, sees the two on the school rooftop kissing and in a state of hysteria, attempts to throw Monami off the roof but falls off herself instead. Keiko dies but her father, Kenji Furano, the mad scientist, resurrects her as Franken girl. Thus begins a deadly combat between Franken Keiko and Vampire Monami in the name of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, stylized, not serious, dark fantasy, splatter, horror comedy, gothic, bloody, suspense
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Gun Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film
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Samurai Princess (2009)
Plot Summary:
When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (Aino Kishi) the only survivor, she becomes infused with her comrades' souls. Transformed into an android, she sets out to avenge their deaths. Dai Mizuno co-stars as the princess's human partner in this Kengo Kaji-directed gore fest that features breast grenades, detachable chainsaw limbs, deadly guitar riffs and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, semi serious, tense, splatter, captivating, offbeat, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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RoboGeisha (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, captivating, surreal, splatter, entertaining, bloody, cyber, horror comedy
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Helldriver (2010)
Plot Summary:
Stilling reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, splatter, apocalyptic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bloody, disturbing, dark comedy, splatter, cult classic, stylized, horror comedy, brutal, futuristic
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Psycho Gothic Lolita (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yuki lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and kill her mother. In order to revenge herself Yuki becomes a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, using a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in God's name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, bleak, realistic, splatter, surreal, offbeat
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Feast III: The Happy Finish (2009)
Plot Summary:
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus, who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Seagal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called The Hive. Armed with this knowledge, they decide to fight back and destroy the beasts.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, suspense, intense, horror comedy, cult horror, terrifying
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Grindhouse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, suspense, tense, exciting, dark comedy, brutal, bloody, entertaining, surreal
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Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad who's mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, bloody, futuristic, splatter, cyber, disturbing, suspense, cult horror, grindhouse
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Cheerleader Camp (1988)
Plot Summary:
Alison follows her friends to a summer camp for cheerleaders. But she is having bad nightmares. Her boyfriend has followed her to the camp but he seems to be more interested in the other girls, girls who sooner or later are found brutally murdered. Alison starts to believe that she has a split-personality who kills them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, bloody, entertaining, sex comedy, cult classic, rough
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The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Plot Summary:
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, dark comedy, bloody, splatter, disturbing, cult classic, horror comedy, black comedy, funny, cult horror
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
Plot Summary:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic, rough, visual, cult classic, stylized, slasher
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Death Proof (2007)
Plot Summary:
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense, absurd, scary, rough, exciting, cynical
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Planet Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bloody, black comedy, grindhouse, splatter, exciting, scary, parody, horror comedy, cult classic, action packed
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Feast (2005)
Plot Summary:
Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, suspenseful, exciting, horror comedy, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, bloody
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Battle Royale (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 192000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting, psychological, splatter, epic, futuristic, harsh
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Teeth (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, biting, black comedy, satirical, bloody, controversial, sexual, suspense
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Mother's Day (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, independent film, brutal, bloody, funny
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Hatchet (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, horror comedy, rough, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody, non-linear, tense, suspense, visually appealing, visual, visually stunning, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led by Johnny, the town's service station owner, his two co-workers, Andy and Stanley, who along with their socially and mentally challenged friend Matthew, set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, bloody, controversial, harsh