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Plot Summary:
A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film
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Frankenstein Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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Watchers Reborn (1998)
Plot Summary:
An extra-smart dog and detective team up to stop a DNA enhanced killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic, independent film
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Within the Rock (1996)
Plot Summary:
Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Alien from the Deep (1989)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere deep in the jungle a chemical corporation dumps tons of toxic waste in a still active volcano. Two environmentalists try to expose these illegal ways of getting rid of hugely dangerous waste, but they get caught by the vigilantes working for the company. One of them, the super-hot Maria Giulia Cavalli, manages to escape and she is saved by a snake farmer who lives alone in the jungle. Together they try to bring down the company, but it’s too late. Years of chemical poisoning have spawned a deadly monster that is set out to exact revenge on humans that have unknowingly brought him to life. Directed by legendary Antonio Margheriti, the unholy master of Italian B movies, Alien from the Deep is one of the most beloved Italian rip-offs. A wildly entertaining ride, the movie is an inventive crossover where lots of different genres and styles are mixed.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, independent film
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Biohazard (1985)
Plot Summary:
Alien monster uses a psychic to try to take over the earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, independent film, corny
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Uninvited (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, classic horror, natural horror, surprise ending, independent film, psychotronic
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Carnosaur 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, fast, light, unusual plot structure, humorous
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Scared To Death (1980)
Plot Summary:
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, splatter, psychotronic, independent film
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Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Evil Spawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ticks (1993)
Plot Summary:
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, semi serious, natural horror, retro, dark, independent film, psychotronic, weird
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The Alien Factor (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, horror comedy, campy
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Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to disfuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: classic horror, independent film
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Dead Space (1991)
Plot Summary:
Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and controlled research facility until a distress signal calls for Commander Kreiger and his robot Tinpan. Together, they try to save the planet from a spreading virus and an odd and growing cocoon. Remake of "Forbidden World" (1982).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, lovecraft, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, space horror, cult film
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The Being (1981)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, cult film
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Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient "baby" beings hunting down and killing its male DNA donors, while at the same time trying to mate with its female donors. The head of the lab wants to destroy the monster before the press can get wind of the story, but the former head of security wants to expose the whole thing.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unseen Evil 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, Kate. But first they have to get her released from the mental institution she's been confined to since the horrific attack. Written.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Terror Within II (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Demon Seed (1977)
Plot Summary:
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, sexy, depressing, suspense, tech noir, mystic, deep
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The Nest (1987)
Plot Summary:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, natural horror, retro, cult horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Deep Space (1988)
Plot Summary:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature. Co-starring Julie Newmar as a powerful psychic, this low-rent horror flick finds the police force continually confounded by the organism's evolving physical features.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic, lovecraft, independent film, scary, exciting, slasher
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Carnosaur (1993)
Plot Summary:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, natural horror, tense, psychotronic, dark, perverse
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Watchers II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark, classic horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Harbinger Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, scary, nautical, lovecraft, retro, psychotronic, horror comedy
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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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Species III (2004)
Plot Summary:
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual, scary, suspense, grindhouse, ridiculous
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Watchers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, classic horror, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Creature (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky, cult film
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Phantoms (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, lovecraft, serious, retro, dark, slasher
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Body Snatchers (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, mystical, classic horror, space horror