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Plot Summary:
A monster created from a garbage dump; local pollution terrorizes a town.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Horror of the Humongous Hungry Hungan (1991)
Plot Summary:
A genetic experiment goes wrong as it creates a hideous monster from dead body parts:a re-animated corpse thirsty for blood.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Alien from the Deep (1989)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of hugely dangerous waste, but they get caught by the vigilantes working for the company. One of them, the super-hot Maria Giulia Cavalli, manages to escape and she is saved by a snake farmer who lives alone in the jungle. Together they try to bring down the company, but it’s too late. Years of chemical poisoning have spawned a deadly monster that is set out to exact revenge on humans that have unknowingly brought him to life. Directed by legendary Antonio Margheriti, the unholy master of Italian B movies, Alien from the Deep is one of the most beloved Italian rip-offs. A wildly entertaining ride, the movie is an inventive crossover where lots of different genres and styles are mixed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, independent film
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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The Intruder Within (1981)
Plot Summary:
Drillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they accidentaly brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Blue Monkey (1987)
Plot Summary:
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, cult horror, surprise ending, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
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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Xtinction: Predator X (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is in major debt with the bank, her ex-boyfriend is the town sheriff, and her ex-husband has quit his job as a world-renowned professor who is now suspiciously buying up swampland in the area. In an effort to save the swamp and to pass the time, Laura decides to work the dying family business giving boat tours of the Louisiana swamp. But on her first sunset tour, deep in the swamp, Laura and her passengers witness two Bayou swamp rats toss a squirming body into a gator pit, only the gators aren't the ones that feast on the flesh. Instead it's the most terrifying creature Laura has ever seen...(IMDB,com).
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, natural horror, independent film
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Island Claws (1980)
Plot Summary:
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Millennium Bug (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there. Abducted by a vicious hillbilly clan, the Haskins fight for survival, but neither they nor the hillbilly Crawfords can comprehend the monstrous nightmare about to erupt from the bowels of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, scary, tense, surprise ending, independent film
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Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990)
Plot Summary:
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult horror, classic horror, surprise ending, brutal, independent film, lovecraft, disaster movie
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Destination Inner Space (1966)
Plot Summary:
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, vintage
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Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988)
Plot Summary:
A secret formula that can cause plants and animals to expand a thousand-fold in size is stolen by a terrorist group. During a wild chase and shoot-out, the formula is lost. It's found by a little girl who accidently gives the formula to her pet snake. After the snake grows to an immense size, it follows and protects her. When the terrorists go after the girl, the snake begins destroying everything in its path.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Don't Speak (2020)
Plot Summary:
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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Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)
Plot Summary:
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: natural horror, scary, independent film, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, entertaining, slasher
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Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, vintage, cult film
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Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Plot Summary:
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, cult classic, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, unusual plot structure
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Queen Crab (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl steals her dad's growth experiment infused grapes and feeds them to a pet crab. Years later, the now gigantic crustacean attacks the town!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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The Crawlers (1990)
Plot Summary:
People from a small town are attacked by evil radioactive tree roots growing in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: natural horror, funny, cult classic, splatter, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Alligator (1980)
Plot Summary:
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, stylized, witty, suspenseful, grindhouse, humorous, slasher, natural horror, splatter
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Skeeter (1993)
Plot Summary:
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Savage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A blazing fire rips its way through Bear Valley National Park. As the firefighters try to contain it, the animals are being forced out of their habitat including a beast that was better left undiscovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Night of the Lepus (1972)
Plot Summary:
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, suspense, absurd, horror comedy, psychotronic, funny, retro
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The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
Plot Summary:
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, natural horror, captivating, retro, cult classic, offbeat, psychotronic, independent film
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Monster (1980)
Plot Summary:
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: retro, natural horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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The Boogens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic, retro, independent film, spooky
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The Lake (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious monster rises from the Mekong River and attacked Bueng Kan, cuts off people from the outside world. Officials and people in the area, including Chinese scientists who accidentally came to conduct research in Thailand, all forces must be mobilized to catch this crazy monster before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Prophecy (1979)
Plot Summary:
A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, mystic, offbeat
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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