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Plot Summary:
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Valley of the Dead (2020)
Plot Summary:
They're soldiers on different sides of the war. But when the dead come back to life, the only side they want to be on is the one that survives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse
Similar in 84%
Nang-Nak (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak (Winai Kraibutr) is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Romance, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period piece, scary, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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The 13th Floor (1988)
Plot Summary:
As a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pure Blood (2001)
Plot Summary:
Combining a new age black maid, blood-drinking zombie racists and a plot to poison the town with blood cakes, what ensues is a dark comedy that pits the forces of fascism against the redeeming power of true love and home cooking….
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, slasher, psychotronic, splatter
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Barang (2006)
Plot Summary:
A heart-pounding fright movie about a provincial lass whose life and death is shrouded by inexplicable and ghastly events so affecting the whole community of Sta. Barbara. Igan suffers a gruesome death in the hands of a devil worshipper, Nana Ursula. After young Igna incurs the wrath of a spiteful witch, a strong spell leaves the unlucky provincial woman cursed for the rest of her life and her death. Eager to exact revenge from the grave, Igna targets three young visitors. The trio must fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Ghosts of Garip (2016)
Plot Summary:
American documentarist John Gillespie and his crew travel to Turkey to shoot a docufilm about Vlad Tepes, the Romanian Emperor known as Vlad the Impaler. Tepes was imprisoned in Turkey for a number of years before dying on the battlefield in his native country. His body was brought back to Istanbul and buried somewhere... Or so the legend says. During their research, John and his crew are introduced to a mysterious historian who claims to have evidence of Tepes' burial site. Things take an unexpected twist when the Americans run into a sinister story of children that were abducted and brutally sacrificed in a village not too far from Istanbul. Apparently, the very same place where Vlad had been kept prisoner prior to his death... John is skeptical but agrees to investigate further. And thus begins his journey to Garip. The village of ghosts. The place where it all began, and where all will end.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary
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Tough to Kill (1979)
Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Ghosts That Still Walk (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is possessed by the spirit of an Indian medicine man and begins to terrorize the local population.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, wild
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She Waits (1972)
Plot Summary:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Hotel Inferno 2: The Cathedral of Pain (2017)
Plot Summary:
You, Frank Zimosa, are dead - brutally killed by the Mistandrian Cultists and trapped in the nightmarish Hotel Inferno: a special layer of Hell where demons co-exist with cultists, providing them dark, forbidden knowledge in exchange for endless pain and suffering. Alongside another tormented soul, trapped in the inferno since the Middle Ages, you must locate the five elements comprising the human soul - so that you may reclaim your physical form on Earth - before your body rots away. Do you have the strength to face the hordes of hell and take the first element - The Fire - from the hands of its powerful, ancient protector? There's only one way to find out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, bloody, splatter, scary, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, dark, extreme horror
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City of Blood (1987)
Plot Summary:
A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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Death by Invitation (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Tokolosh (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on South African Tokolosh myths & legends. The Tokolosh is believed to be a dwarf like creature that has been killing people since 1838. Set in modern day South Africa a young architect tries to find out more about his wife's mysterious death and realizes there is something more sinister at work.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, low-budget
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Under the Mill (2017)
Plot Summary:
ONCE A YEAR THE AMATEUR GHOST GROUP "GHOST CONS" GET TOGETHER TO ILLEGALLY BREAK INTO A KNOWN HAUNTED LOCATION TO EXPLORE- THIS TIME IT IS THE HAUNTED MILL,WELL BUDDY THE KLOWN AND HIS BROTHERS KUTTER, and KILLY BILLY IS UP TO IT AGAIN, ALWAYS GETTING INTO TROUBLE, THIS TIME THEY HAVE WENT TO FAR OR IS IT AS IT ALWAYS WAS. SOME AMATEUR GHOST HUNTERS FIND OUT THE HARD WAY.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Sadomaster Total Mayhem (2011)
Plot Summary:
Anarchist punks battle a neo-fascist Argentine government in a near-future dystopia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
The Haunting of M. (1979)
Plot Summary:
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman's description of the "visitor", Marianna's sister decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
Plot Summary:
Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, France, Kazakhstan, Belarus
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse
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Asian Ghost Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of a dead Chinese railway worker seeking revenge possesses the body of a lethal assassin!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
Plot Summary:
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, psychological, funny, enigmatic, splatter, disgusting
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The Lost Platoon (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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In the Mouth of the Wolf (1988)
Plot Summary:
The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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R-Point (2004)
Plot Summary:
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, clever, suspense, disturbing, mind blowing
Similar in 77%
Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Plot Summary:
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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Grey Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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Game for Vultures (1979)
Plot Summary:
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Red Sands (2009)
Plot Summary:
During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, demonic, spooky, surprise ending, disaster movie
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Manhattan Baby (1982)
Plot Summary:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, sinister, psychotronic
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Outpost (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, dark, disturbing, splatter, apocalyptic
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Straight Into Darkness (2004)
Plot Summary:
The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, surreal, rough, bleak, serious, twisted, offbeat
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Rogue (2020)
Plot Summary:
Battle-hardened O’Hara leads a lively mercenary team of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, bleak, disturbing, perverse, psychological thriller, surprise ending, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy