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Plot Summary:
Two modern-day treasure hunters go searching for the lost gold of a legendary 1800s outlaw in the remote jungles of Far North Queensland.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, cliffhanger, detective, exciting
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There's Something in The Pillaga (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Pilliga Yowie, - or 'Jingra' - has haunted the Australian outback for centuries, stalking a remote part of New South Wales, where men seldom dare tread, content to keep to itself... until now. Blokish truck driver Jay and his cameraman buddy Dylan journey into the PIlliga National Park with Liz and Tammy, two good time girls they meet in a pub. Things take a sinister turn when a local legend comes out to play - complete with big teeth, sharp claws and a craving for human flesh!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Creature in the Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
A trio of young film-makers shooting a survival video in the woods are menaced by a strange creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, teen horror
Similar in 82%
Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mystical Sasquatch is on the loose in suburbia and only a Native-American warrior can stop it.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, folk tale, psychotronic, mystical
Similar in 78%
Animal Among Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found - but something horrific still waits in those woods.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
Similar in 79%
Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
Plot Summary:
Three children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film, spooky
Similar in 78%
Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1976)
Plot Summary:
Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 85%
Shadows of the Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers try to escape a creature that lives among the shadows and is hunting them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 77%
Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Sasquatch Mountain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
Similar in 80%
Nightmare Shark (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of shark-attack survivors is hunted by a supernatural shark that haunts their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, cliffhanger
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Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, fast, computer animated, splatter
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Boar (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, perverse, natural horror
Similar in 75%
Yeti (2008)
Plot Summary:
Surviving the plane crash was only the beginning ... After their plane crashes into uncharted territory in the Himalayas, the survivors set out to find help in the freezing cold. As the days pass and with no sign of a rescue, tensions begin to mount. The survivors wrestle with their consciences as they realise that in order to survive, they must use the bodies of the dead as food. But when it appears that something else is already feeding upon the dead, the survivors realise that their biggest danger is not hunger but something infinitely more sinister: a legendary Yeti is stalking them and is moving in for the kill. Can they outsmart the beast or will they die trying?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, christmas horror, psychotronic, awful
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D-Railed (2018)
Plot Summary:
Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, scary, bad ending
Similar in 77%
Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Similar in 89%
Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
Plot Summary:
James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, mythical, splatter, serious, psychotronic, disaster movie
Similar in 76%
Manticore (2005)
Plot Summary:
Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic
Similar in 80%
Big Legend (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiance's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, disturbing, scary, action adventure, suspense, cliffhanger
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Primal Rage (2018)
Plot Summary:
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: scary, surprise ending, slasher, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, intense, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)
Plot Summary:
Professor and students camp out to find Bigfoot-type creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
Cerberus (2005)
Plot Summary:
The breastplate of Attila the Hun is stolen as it has clues to the location of the Sword of Mars. It is said the Sword of Mars made Attila invincible and is guarded by Cerberus.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, fast
Similar in 84%
Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, hilarious
Similar in 75%
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, enigmatic, independent film, surprise ending, natural horror, fake documentary
Similar in 88%
Mega Snake (2007)
Plot Summary:
Duff Daniels (John T. Woods), the younger, stupider brother of Les (Michael Shanks), can't help himself from stealing a rare snake that's been kept in a jar by a Native American snake dealer (Ben Cardinal), and which has to follow some rules: don't let it out of the jar, then don't let it eat anything anything living, and never fear the heart of the snake.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, perverse, hilarious, ridiculous
Similar in 76%
The Rig (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
Similar in 75%
Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving a bloody trail of corpses. Murdoch runs, instructing his staff to clean up. They keep failing and being eaten like unsuspecting locals, some alive, even after enlisting ruthless big game hunter Hammett. The fast-growing pregnant monster sheds its skin, thus disabling the only tracking device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, saga, perverse, fast, rough
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Plot Summary:
The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling their way upriver, the explorers brave poisonous insects, ferocious crocodiles and savage headhunters, unaware they're being stalked by an even greater danger: a nest of giant anacondas, voracious, fifty-foot-long flesh-eaters who'll stop at nothing to protect their breeding ground, the blood orchid's home.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting, natural horror, dark, saga, perverse, rough
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Anaconda (1997)
Plot Summary:
A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Peru
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, natural horror, cult classic, slasher, psychological, psychological thriller
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Snow Beast (2011)
Plot Summary:
People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, folk tale, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
The Untold (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne, renowned wilderness expert and author Winston Burg and the beautiful Marla Lawson. Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Huxley Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, psychotronic