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Plot Summary:
A yeti-like monster is stalking the mountains of rural Mexico, sometimes displaying the powers of hypnosis. It ultimately plays a part in destroying two shady characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 76 min
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It! (1967)
Plot Summary:
After a warehouse fire, museum director Groof and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Groof is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror, sinister, weird
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Stomp! Shout! Scream! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Theodora, Jody and Carol, collectively The Violas, are on tour when their van breaks down in a small southern beach town. The local police are investigating a mass of mysterious debris on the beach and the disappearance of a little girl's parents after she's found walking the beach in a state of shock. Scientist John Patterson is called in to help investigate. Both John and local mechanic Hector Garcia fall for Violas lead singer Theodora, but she seems to have no interest in them, possibly because of a mysterious past. Hector convinces the girls to stay in town when he offers to repair their van in exchange for playing his party, but the mysterious creature is still on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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Rostro infernal (1963)
Plot Summary:
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Infernal Coffin (1962)
Plot Summary:
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
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Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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Museum Of Horror (1964)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, slasher, independent film
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Gorgo (1961)
Plot Summary:
Never take a baby from his mother. You'll see why in this action-packed monster thriller as young Gorgo, a creature from the sea, is relocated to London from Ireland, with rampaging mommy-dearest not far behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, natural horror, retro, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, atmospheric, offbeat
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Curtain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Danni moves into a New York apartment and starts sprucing the place up. She doesn’t know the previous tenant committed suicide in very strange circumstances. Nor does she know there’s a mysterious portal to another dimension in the bathroom that’s hungry for…. shower curtains! But where does this unusual gateway hidden behind the white tiling lead? That’s what Danni and her ‘Whale Saver’ chugger workmate Tim decide to find out. It’s an investigation into a unique phenomenon full of surprise and unimaginable horror as they both enter The Yonder in a stunningly directed, creatively devised and quirky oddball gem.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Curse of Bigfoot (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students on an archaeological dig discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave. Removing the mummy, it soon comes back to life, revealing itself to be an inhuman beast that terrorizes a small California town.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Night Claws (2012)
Plot Summary:
A small town is being terrorized by a killer Bigfoot. One that is blood thirsty, vicious and kills without warning and without discrimination. A scientist by the name of Sarah Evans (Leilani Sarelle) shows up to help the town's sheriff (Reb Brown) and his deputy girlfriend Roberta (Sherrie Rose) hunt this thing down and put an end to the killings. At the same time, Hunter Crawford (David Campbell) is a thug-like character who along with his two henchmen, is hunting the creature himself, for his own personal gain and he does not care who he has to go through to accomplish his goal.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Demonwarp (1988)
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A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, bizarre, corny
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Vacaciones de terror 2 (1991)
Plot Summary:
En esta noche de brujas la muerte estara presente.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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La loba (1965)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, medical horror
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Shriek of Terror (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hugo Stiglitz is a treasure hunter who leads an expedition that includes Roberto Ballesteros, an important scientist, and Edna Bolkan, a beautiful anthropologist, into the jungle. The group arrives at an ancient tomb and after opening it, they take the bones found inside. But the remains in the tomb seem connected to a high priest who was sacrificed. By violating the tomb, the group has unwittingly awoken a diabolical being named Chaneque, who will commit the bloodiest murders in order to retrieve the stolen remains. The key to the plot is a little girl who the beast intends to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Rage of the Yeti (2011)
Plot Summary:
A team of treasure hunters in the Arctic are attacked by ferocious snow beasts. Before long, the adventure is no longer about finding riches - it’s about getting down the mountain alive.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Trog (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave. Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) unearths a troglodyte (an Ice Age ‘missing link” half-caveman, half-ape) and manages to domesticate him – until he’s let loose by an irate land developer, and goes on a rampage, terrorizing the local citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, black and white, horror comedy, classic horror, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Creature of Destruction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A resort hypnotist and his assistant predict murders, which she then commits as a fanged monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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'It's Alive!' (1969)
Plot Summary:
A farmer traps three people in a cave with his pet prehistoric monster.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, parody, campy
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Terror in the Swamp (1985)
Plot Summary:
In effort to create the perfect nutria for breeding by the fur industry, a scientist and his assistant inadvertently create a brutal mutation that escapes into the nearby swamps.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The X Species (2018)
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Deep in the woods, an archaeological expedition is on the verge of a historic discovery, when they find themselves with no defense against an unrelenting predator. Taking refuge in the catacombs of a cave hidden in the hills, tensions escalate as the team begins a descent into insanity navigating their way through winding and endless caverns. As fight to survive turns to fear, the real terror begins in ancient grounds, where humans have always been prey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, mockumentary
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Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
Plot Summary:
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, exciting, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, mind bending, psychedelic, gothic, suspense, gothic horror
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Inner Ghosts (2018)
Plot Summary:
If ghosts can think and remember who they are, then the physical brain is not the only place where we store our inner selves. Helen is asked to train two young women into the art of communicating with the dead. But Helen's days as a medium are long gone. In fact, she gave up that life 15 years ago when she lost her daughter. Today Helen is a different woman dedicated to her career in brain research. Things start to change when a visit from the other side offers her the design of a device that can do amazing things. But to everything there is a risk.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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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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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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Snowbeast (1977)
Plot Summary:
In this made for TV film, an enormous and angry yeti begins to terrorize a Colorado ski resort by eating several skiers during a winter carnival. Everyone insists it is just a bear until a ski patrolman sees a white, shadowy and beastly shape disappearing into the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disturbing, christmas horror, black and white, cult horror, classic horror, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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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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The Sighting (2016)
Plot Summary:
A terrifying psychological thriller set near the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana. Two high school friends, Travis and Nate, are on a road trip to Canada when they're attacked by mysterious and vicious creatures. Nate is stolen into the woods and Travis will stop at nothing to get him back. Travis recruits Nate's older brother Chris to bring an arsenal and wage war against these monsters in an effort to retrieve Nate.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, psychotronic, low-budget
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Dawn of the Beast (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, slasher
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Abominable (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mythical, perverse, action packed, slasher, natural horror, spooky
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The Thing (2011)
Plot Summary:
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, psychotronic, tense, intense, lovecraft