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Plot Summary:
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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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 Frozen Dead (1966)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, psychological horror, psychological
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Black Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy, cult film
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Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Plot Summary:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
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Creatures from the Abyss (1994)
Plot Summary:
Five teenagers embark on a boating trip off the coast of Florida. The teens get hopelessly lost at sea after they get caught in a fierce storm. Fortunately, the quintet stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board it. Unfortunately, there are also ferocious mutated prehistoric fish running amok on the yacht. Will any of the teens survive this harrowing ordeal?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious, surprise ending, psychotronic
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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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Time Walker (1982)
Plot Summary:
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, ambiguous ending, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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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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Island of Terror (1966)
Plot Summary:
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, black and white, classic horror, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Swamp Thing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous, epic, cult horror, psychological thriller
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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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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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The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Plot Summary:
For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, slasher, mythical, independent film, scary, rough, semi serious, corny, campy
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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
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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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Frankenstein (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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The Mutations (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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The Night Caller (1965)
Plot Summary:
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, black and white, independent film, cult film
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Dead Space (1991)
Plot Summary:
Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and controlled research facility until a distress signal calls for Commander Kreiger and his robot Tinpan. Together, they try to save the planet from a spreading virus and an odd and growing cocoon. Remake of "Forbidden World" (1982).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, lovecraft, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, space horror, cult film
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Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
Plot Summary:
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, psychotronic, campy
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The Creature Below (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful, spooky, psychotronic
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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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Shadowzone (1990)
Plot Summary:
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, bizarre, cult film
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Demon Seed (1977)
Plot Summary:
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, sexy, depressing, suspense, tech noir, mystic, deep
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, 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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The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Russian scientist is arriving to the states caring secret information’s. Disembarking from his plane, he and his American contacts are attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison). Later, it is revealed that he has wandered in range of an American nuclear test. The radiation transforms Javorsky into a mindless killing beast (the Beast).
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, psychotronic, cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror, independent film
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Rejuvenator (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
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Creepozoids (1987)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, freeze frame
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Forbidden World (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse, erotic, disturbing, medical horror, cult classic, lovecraft