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Plot Summary:
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, medical horror, captivating, surreal, offbeat, serious
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Metamorphosis (1990)
Plot Summary:
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: medical horror, cult horror, independent film, scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy
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Ghost from the Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power and Cody's deepening obsession threaten the safety of his only remaining family: his younger brother, James (Max Hauser). Matt Osterman directs this ghostly sci-fi thriller that also stars Matthew Feeney.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, scary, captivating, tense, suspenseful, independent film, weird
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Darker Than Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful
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Fear Chamber (1968)
Plot Summary:
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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The Immortalizer (1989)
Plot Summary:
A crazed scientist sends out his mutant creations to kidnap young, beautiful men and women to bring back to his lab so he can transplant their brains into the bodies of old, wealthy people.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, serious, slasher, suspenseful
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Don't Look Up (1996)
Plot Summary:
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai (Yanagi), is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi (Shiroshima), the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori (Ishibashi), is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Dead Still (2014)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary, gothic, mind bending, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Tormented (2011)
Plot Summary:
To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, psychological, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, clever, atmospheric, serious
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The Child's Eye (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of breaking up, Ling (Elanne Kwong) and her brother Rex (Rex Ho), and Ciwi (Ciwi Lam) and her boyfriend Hei (Izz Xu). Their driver takes them to the old Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen (Lam Ka-tung), where strange things start happening as soon as they arrive: Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling a disembodied hand. At dinner that night, the three men mysteriously disappear. Under Rainie's leadership, the three girls - helped by the young Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang - set out to try and find them in the hotel's underground passages, in between being haunted by the female ghost and a strange monster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense, saga, scary, atmospheric
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, serious
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Monster a-Go Go (1965)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns an American astronaut, Frank Douglas, who mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is apparently replaced by or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of scientists and military men attempt to capture the monster — and at one point succeed, only to have him escape again. Neither the capture nor the escape are ever shown, simply mentioned by the narrator.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, surreal
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Mutants (2008)
Plot Summary:
The greedy Braylon owns the Just Rite Sugar Company and has hired the unethical scientist Sergei to conduct an experiment to make an addictive sugar stronger than heroin or nicotine to increase his sales. Sergei uses invisible people as test subjects, like beggars, addicted junkies and illegals, in the clandestine Shadow Rock Mill. When Braylon's men mistakenly kidnap Ryan, who is the brother of his secretary Erin and son of his security chief Griff, and Hannah, the youngster becomes an important non-contaminated subject. However, Erin receives some mysterious e-mails from the unknown Cinderella with a picture of Ryan and a hint that he might be in Shadow Rock and together with her father, they decide to seek out Ryan.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, scary, rough, bleak, independent film
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror, terrifying, serious
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, captivating, medical horror, classic horror, offbeat, talky
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Venus Flytrap (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates man eating creatures from carnivorous plants.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, psychotronic
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Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, rough, offbeat, serious, campy
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
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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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Scintilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Rubber's Lover (1996)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: clever, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, black and white, cyber, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough
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UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine (2006)
Plot Summary:
Waylon and Buddy decide to join the army as it appears to be their best option. But when they realize.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, exciting
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Bloodwork (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, scary, disgusting, lovecraft, vintage
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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Septic Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, slasher, surreal, controversial, scary, disturbing
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Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Plot Summary:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film, scary, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Warriors of Terra (2006)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror, cult horror, mind bending
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The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, grindhouse, fake documentary
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Dead Shadows (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, lovecraft
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Psychic Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, independent film, psychotronic