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Plot Summary:
In a tunnel deep under Manhattan, the Old Man rules the citizens of Scum-City. He swears to lead them to a paradise within the hollow earth once he finds five noble souls; but until then his followers must steal and deal to support him. A terminally ill hunchback named Goliath, crazed by his approaching death, decides to find the five noble souls and present them to the Old Man;by beheading New Yorkers he deems worthy of the honor. Meanwhile, another Scum-City dweller known as The Kid tries to do the Old Man's bidding, tangling with deadly gangsters and eccentric drug dealers-even though The Kid is only nine and his main weapon is a water pistol filled with acid. As both Goliath and The Kid pursue paths they believe will lead to paradise, they rob, kill;and inevitably confront each other in a grand showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)
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Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Logos (2013)
Plot Summary:
A computer science student becomes obsessed with finding an algorithm for ensuring certainty in life after his father dies in the 9/11/2001 attacks.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags:
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Twisted Pair (2018)
Plot Summary:
Identical twin brothers become hybrid A.I (artificial intelligence) entities, yet torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disgusting, psychological thriller, philosophical
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Flesh Feast (1970)
Plot Summary:
A doctor in Florida conducts shady experiments involving maggots and stolen body parts, which may be in preparation for a larger plot.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Blue Caveman (2024)
Plot Summary:
Two musicians embark on a quest to find a mysterious caveman and stumble upon true romance, pure evil, and a kick-ass demo tape.
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Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychedelic, cerebral, thought provoking
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Timesweep (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of people enter an old movie studio and are suddenly confronted with a variety of strange phenoma. Among other things they are transported through time and the building is surrounded by a deadly acid fog . The filmmakers also throw Roman centurions, alien spaceships and giant killer roaches at the hapless explorers, decimating the groups one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Breeders (1997)
Plot Summary:
It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark, independent film, tension, suspense
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Berlin: Part 1 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Taking place before and after the event of the film Savage High (2015). A wacko is on the loose and is ready to get revenge upon the death of his friend and will try to destroy 'Delia Fox', the murderer from the previous film Psychedelia (2016), and will finish what 'Nica Soles' character did not in 'Savage High'.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, dark, scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, cult classic, light, retro, sexy
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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
Plot Summary:
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected is a 1991 Japanese film. The film was produced by the Japanese film company Toho.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Hallows Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in an abandoned schoolhouse with an evil they helped create, but cannot defeat, the students are ill prepared for their last lesson...in terror!.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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House of the Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of high-school kids set out to play a Halloween prank at an abandoned house, but once they enter they become victims of a demonic witch who has set her wrath upon them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic, interesting
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Pinocchio's Revenge (1996)
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Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, slasher, suspenseful, surprise ending, dark, independent film, surreal, ambiguous ending
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The Dolls (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man is having repeated nightmares about dolls trying to kill him. The dreams continues and the nightmares starts to escalate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, hispanic, grindhouse
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Portals (2019)
Plot Summary:
A series of worldwide blackouts cause millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies to appear everywhere across the planet. Some people are drawn into them with horrifying consequences.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mysterious, cerebral
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Dead & Rotting (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three prankster buddies release the wrath of an aged witch, Abigail, when they unwittingly become accomplices to the murder of her son. Scheming in anger, the witch seduces the three friends and then uses the men's own ill-born spawn to destroy them. Death and rot are left in the wake.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, mind bending, offbeat
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Ghosts in the Machine (2016)
Plot Summary:
Six young people find an old VCR in an abandoned French house. The machine turns out to be magical... or is it cursed?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Coin (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four horror stories focusing on a group of neglected children and their unfortunate guardians come to life in this terrifying anthology from Wild Dogs Productions.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, 2d animation
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Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke (2007)
Plot Summary:
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after, members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Before returning to England for provisions, leader John White puts his son-in-law Ananais Dare in charge, and Dare realizes the island is haunted by Norse spirits. Enlisting the aid of a friendly Native American, Dare attempts to free the spirits from their earthly captivity before the entire colony is lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, exciting, tense, gloomy, independent film
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Stay Alive (2006)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, creepy, dark, serious, teen horror, psychological
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The Axiom (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher
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Puppet Master 4 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there's a mysterious case containing the puppets of the "puppet master". When the puppets are brought to life, they help destroy the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, dark, controversial, horror comedy, cult horror, classic horror, terrifying, independent film, serious
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Innocence (2013)
Plot Summary:
After losing her mother in a tragic accident, Beckett Warner realizes that her troubles may be far worse—her school is run by a coven of beautiful women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic, spooky, serious
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Blade the Iron Cross (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this standalone spinoff of Charles Band's Puppet Master series, an unspeakable evil from Blade’s past emerges in the form of a murderous Nazi scientist named Dr. Hauser. As Hauser’s heinous crimes are discovered, the psychic war journalist, Elisa Ivanov, awakens Blade, and together the bloody journey of revenge begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic
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It's Alive (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the responsible for the killings?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, mystic, psychotronic, remake of american film
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Mimic (1997)
Plot Summary:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, cult classic, psychological, retro, dark, art house
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The Faculty (1998)
Plot Summary:
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, teen, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, entertaining, cult classic, teen horror
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Area 51 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending
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Fantasy Island (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, tense, horror comedy, scary, slasher, splatter
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Creep (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, sexy, serious
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Holidays (2016)
Plot Summary:
An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, christmas horror, suspense, psychological, dark, tense, slasher, captivating, scary, mumblecore