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Plot Summary:
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, tense, classic horror, psychotronic, noir, offbeat, neo noir
Best tv shows and movies like These Are the Damned (1962):
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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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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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Curse of the Fly (1965)
Plot Summary:
Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, played by Brian Donlevy and two grandsons). Seems the son wants to continue and perfect the machine while his two sons want to get out of the scientist business and live "normal" lives. The oldest son, Martin, decides to take a wife (who just happens to have escaped from a mental hospital after her parents died). Martin's father is not happy with this intrusion but finally gives in because he understands him son's needs. They all try to be a happy family until humans used in botched experiments are discovered by the new bride and the police nearly discover the lab while looking for Martin's wife. Everyone tries to get out of there via the transporter but things just don't go according to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, black and white, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, classic horror
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Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Plot Summary:
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, stylized, cult classic, suspenseful, serious
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The Bride (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, fairy tale, dark, cult classic, humorous
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Plot Summary:
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Tom Baker also star.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, stylized, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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The Godsend (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, psychotronic
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Konga (1961)
Plot Summary:
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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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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The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Plot Summary:
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, offbeat, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, black and white, scary, serious
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Frankenstein (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death. “Nobody’s ever done a Frankenstein like this one and nobody’s ever done a better one” (Houston Chronicle).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror
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We Are What We Are (2010)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies... and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they sate their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge... But without human meat the family will die.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, psychological, bloody, surreal, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse
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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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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, period piece, creepy, cult classic, terrifying, scary, rough
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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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The Slime People (1963)
Plot Summary:
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Plot Summary:
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of Triffids: farmed plants harvested for their oils, which are capable of moving themselves around and are carnivorous. In this film version, however, the Triffids are not indigenous plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in this and an earlier meteor shower. Derided by the original novel's author, John Wyndham, for straying so far away from the source material.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, enigmatic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, retro, natural horror, classic horror, spooky
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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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Children of the Damned (1964)
Plot Summary:
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, black and white, classic horror, psychotronic, gothic horror, expressionism
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Plot Summary:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, mystic, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, surprise ending, tense
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Frankenstein (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, gothic horror, costume drama, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, dramatic
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The Keep (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, scary, atmospheric, dark, cult classic, gothic horror, lovecraft, suspenseful, allegory
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Ravagers (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Perfect Creature (2006)
Plot Summary:
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, dark, neo noir, psychotronic, detective
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Plot Summary:
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, sexy, offbeat
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Paperhouse (1988)
Plot Summary:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, tense, intense, serious, creepy
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Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, dark, sexy, enigmatic, talky, serious
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The Kindred (1987)
Plot Summary:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, lovecraft, funny, psychotronic
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The Fly (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, cerebral, rough, psychological thriller, bloody