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Plot Summary:
A robber is arrested and his two siblings are shot dead by a cop. Same day, the cop's wife gives birth to twins. The babies have birthmarks on their foreheads, which just like the wounds on the two dead robbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Criminals, Part 4: Assault (1977)
Plot Summary:
Part 1 : 'Maniac' - A gang is kidnapping and raping young women. Part 2: 'Queen of Temple Street' - A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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The Mad Executioners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Bloody Psycho (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is one of the five films legendary director Lucio Fulci supervised in 1989 to re-use some of the gory bits for his 1990 gorefest "A Cat in the Brain". "Bloody Psycho" features a haunted castle plus wimpy doctor Vogler,who is performing some sort of a psychic therapy on lesbian owner of the place.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Life After Life (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Untold Story 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
The blood flows freely in this sequel to the first Untold Story, which now finds Anthony Wong Chau-Sang in a different role; in a film that is just as violent and frightening as the original. An unhappily married couple invite the wife's beautiful cousin, who has survived a horrifying experience in Mainland China, to live with them. She has her own special way of overcoming hardship and becomes the master of the barbecue.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Rule Number One (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rookie Sergeant Lee is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong, a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD’s role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD’s rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, detective, scary, mind bending, serious, surprise ending, freeze frame
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Edgar Allan Poe's Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a group of young actors adapt an Edgar Allan Poe tale into a theater production, the line between truth and fiction becomes terrifyingly blurred as elements from the harrowing story begin to bleed over into reality. The ensemble soon comes to the horrifying realization that life has begun to imitate art, and their collective descent into madness has reached a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Diary of a Serial Killer (1995)
Plot Summary:
This is like a CAT III version of the classic sick flick Maniac (1980) but as depressing and mean-spirited as another classic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986): unable to satisfy his sexual desires with his wife, Bill regularly visits prostitutes. Afterwards, he ties up and tortures them in various ways before killing them. Bill believes that if they die, they will be reincarnated and have a better life. He murders over a dozen people. One day, a young woman named Jade comes to stay with Bill's family. He falls in love with her but is afraid that he will kill her, so he makes her leave. Jade has nowhere to go and starts working as a prostitute. When Bill finds Jade doing this, he has sex with her and gets her pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, erotic, slasher
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The Criminals (1976)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
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Blood Link (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, surreal, independent film, psychotronic, slasher horror
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The Psycho Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Hong Kong Butcher (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Hong Kong serial killer Lam Kor-wan. He was arrested in 1982 after murdering four women.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: asian horror
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The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Video Violence 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Howard and Eli, the killers from the first Video Violence movie, are back and are now hosting their own TV show. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the show looks a the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy. Some viewers are shocked and horrified, but many more become avid fans, clamoring for more and more blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slasher, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Bonesetter Returns (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, independent film, low-budget
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Death Nurse 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
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Death Nurse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Shady Palms Clinic, a place where nurse Edith Mortley and her brother Dr. Gordon Mortley take great care of their patients. They tuck you in, offer free burial service, and serve freshly made sandwiches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Purgatory Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father’s modest nest egg, Travis grows up blaming himself for his parents’ suicide. Becoming a priest who operates a highway confessional with his ambivalent brother, Michael, he offers sage advice to chosen sinners while raining death on unrepentant thieves. Into the world of this antagonistic duo comes Mary Francis, a deranged young woman with psychopathic tendencies who kills a thief who threatens to expose the decidedly un-holy siblings. Filled with gratitude, Travis invites the woman into their sacred world which begins a chain of carnage-laced events that threaten to destroy the brothers’ bloody, decades-long partnership.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial, religious horror
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Dr. Lamb (1992)
Plot Summary:
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, controversial, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, asian horror
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Milo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under happier circumstances in the same town where it happened. They believe that Milo drowned in a river shortly after the murder, but soon learn that the demonic killer Milo has also returned, still a young boy, unchanged even after almost two decades.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, slasher, slasher horror, scary
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Head Case (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pseudo-documentary edited from the home movies of serial killers Wayne & Andrea Montgomery, presenting a look into their quiet, suburban lives...as well as the graphic & disturbing details of their horrific crimes.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, scary, rough, disturbing, mockumentary, controversial, tense, realistic, independent film
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There Is a Secret in My Soup (2001)
Plot Summary:
"There Is A Secret in My Soup" is based on infamous HK crime case called 'Hello Kitty Murder'.In 1999 three triad gangsters kidnapped,brutally tortured and beat a 23-year old woman named Fan Man-yee for one month until she died.Then they dismembered and cooked the body,threw most of it out with the trash,fed legs and arms to stray dogs and hid the skull inside the head of a giant-sized Hello Kitty doll.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, cult film
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The Rapist (1994)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist is loose in the Hong Kong suburb of Tuen Mun. Based on the true story of Lam Kwok-wai, who raped and murdered women in the early 90s.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Ghastly (2011)
Plot Summary:
Desperately wanting a child, Ga-hee receives help from an exorcist and kidnaps and seals a child in a jar. After she gives birth to her son Bin, Ga-hee is brutally murdered. Along with her husband Jang-hwan and her sister Yoo-rin, Sunny moves into her nephew Bin’s house to look after him. Although empathetic towards her orphan nephew, Bin’s strange behaviors give Sunny mysterious chills, and the nightmares that start haunting Sunny since moving into Bin’s house become unbearable. Sunny gets the hunch that there is something between Bin’s increasingly violent behaviors and this house with an ominous aura.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, sinister, tension
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Torment (1986)
Plot Summary:
A detective sets out to capture a psycho who kills women, but the psycho turns the tables and goes after the detective's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Come Out and Play (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, brutal, disturbing, suspense, mindfuck, terrifying
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House on the Hill (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, "House On The Hill" is a true crime melodrama with strong horror elements, chronicling the outrageous 1980s murder spree of serial killer Leonard Lake, who would target, kidnap, rob and kill people - and even whole families. Sonia, the only survivor of Lake's killing spree, teams up with a private investigator to help him locate a woman who disappeared into Lake's compound. In the process, Sonia recounts the horrors of the house, where Lake and his accomplice would force her to videotape the killings.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killer Nurse (2008)
Plot Summary:
He called himself the Angel of death but when the police department discovered that he was involved in over 40 deaths his name soon became Killer nurse in the beginning it was his story against theirs. Soon he gave up his version of the events and admitted to killing 43 patients in his care at St. Mary's hospital. Charles Cullen became one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of the US.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, talky, independent film
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Nightstalker (2002)
Plot Summary:
A stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, detective