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Plot Summary:
The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to put an end to the family curse.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, period piece, gay cinema, low-budget
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Legacy of Blood (1978)
Plot Summary:
Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs are dispatched by an unknown killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Deranged (1987)
Plot Summary:
Joyce seems to have the perfect life - she lives in a nice apartment with a wealthy husband, is soon going to give birth to a baby boy, and has all the money she'll ever need. But while her husband is away in London on business, Joyce is attacked by a masked intruder, that unleashes within her a frightened little girl, haunted by her "special" relationship with her daddy, and a crazed madwoman who is hungry for revenge. From then on, Joyce's wild hallucinations take over, and she begins to murder anyone and everyone who comes near her, in a violent fit of rage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Blood Mania (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, psychotronic, twisted, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Venom (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
Plot Summary:
Little Richie Bridgestone (whose parents are divorced) goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He spends the rest of the film trying to convince his mother, and his therapist that his father is now a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
Plot Summary:
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
Plot Summary:
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Guru, The Mad Monk (1970)
Plot Summary:
A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, bizarre, cult film
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The Ghastly Ones (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, terrifying, psychotronic, independent film, hood, gay cinema, weird
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Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)
Plot Summary:
After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, psychological, bloody, cult classic, pastoral, mind bending
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Carnage (1984)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Link (1986)
Plot Summary:
A zoology student must try to out smart a murderous and super-intelligent orangutan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild, eighties, low-budget
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Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Lynn kills her father while he tries to rape her - the receiving officer at the mental hospital cannot convince her that her father is dead. After electric shock treatment she escapes in a nurses car. There is a farm where the manager is unable to feed his pigs on the usual swill, they have tasted blood - Human Blood! Lynn stumbles on the farm, she is looking for work she explains. "Papa they tell me, what do you see One little girl as deadly as can be." The circle begins, feed people to the pigs - then eat the pigs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, spooky, natural horror, independent film, cult film
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Savage Beasts (1984)
Plot Summary:
PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating and killing whatever they fancy, wreaking a night of bloody terror. It's up to regular Italian-trash whipping girl Lorraine De Selle and obnoxious Super Mario lookalike zookeeper John Aldrich to sort it out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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Howling: New Moon Rising (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gary Brandner's horror novels come to life again in this sequel to "The Howling." A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like the work of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in another nearby town, police are hot on the trail of a killer they believe is a werewolf. This is "Howling" with a country-western angle.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, scary, rough, serious, cult film
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Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the dusty little town of Furlough in Texas, an animal is slaughtering the cattle and the locals. When the teenager Tommy is killed, their friends Anna Furlough, her Mexican-American boyfriend Miguel Gonzalez, Jill Gillespie and Rosie finds that a Mexican werewolf Chupacabra is the killer and they plot a plan to kill the beast.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Uncanny (1977)
Plot Summary:
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, classic horror, natural horror, scary, serious
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KatieBird* Certifiable Crazy Person (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the obviously psychotic Katiebird immediately after the death of her father.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, controversial
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Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, low-budget
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The Body Beneath (1970)
Plot Summary:
A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, independent film, gay cinema, weird
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Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
Plot Summary:
Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse
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Wolfman (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man finds out that his family has a werewolf curse put apon them.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic
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Lycan Colony (2006)
Plot Summary:
Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor's family are about to find out this town's darkest secret...the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Shapeshifter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat Glazer and A.J. Hammond make up the ensemble cast of this independent horror thriller from director Gregory Lemkin, who also shares screenwriting credits.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, offbeat, serious
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Plot Summary:
Throughout his upbringing, unnatural phenomena surround Leon. He is plagued with a terrible curse, over which he exercises no control. During the full moon he changes into a ferocious beast, initiating an orgy of indiscriminate killing. His love for Cristina enables Leon to suppress his lycanthropic feelings - until the engagement is broken off, which precipitates a tragic conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense, dark, creepy, serious, suspenseful
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Willard (1971)
Plot Summary:
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, grindhouse, controversial, classic horror, tense, serious
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Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
Plot Summary:
When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, cult film, nostalgic
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Late Phases (2014)
Plot Summary:
When deadly attacks from the forests beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a grizzled veteran to figure what the residents are hiding.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mumblecore, disturbing, grindhouse
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Silver Bullet (1985)
Plot Summary:
The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside, he's preparing the barbecue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, tense, suspense, splatter, cult classic, terrifying, epic
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Never Cry Werewolf (2008)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Loren (Nina Dobrev) doesn't like her new neighbor, Jared (Peter Stebbings), or his vicious dog. Along with her friend Steven (Sean O'Neill), Loren spies on Jared and begins to suspect he's a werewolf, responsible for a rash of disappearances. But Jared is watching her just as closely, because Loren reminds him of his dead wife. As a full-moon night nears, Loren enlists the help of TV star Redd Tucker (Kevin Sorbo), who knows how to hunt -- and who believes her werewolf theory.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing