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Plot Summary:
Overnight, the United Kingdom was consumed by an epidemic of terrifying proportions. The majority of the population were killed in a matter of hours as millions of recently-dead people returned to life and began to attack and kill the living. The disaster spread so rapidly that the government had no time to control the situation. The order to evacuate England was given. But it was too late. Now, the following day, a small group of mismatched survivors find themselves trapped in the famous town of Brentwood, hunted by large hordes of fast-moving corpses. They must learn to work together and reach the last-known point of rescue, Southend-on-Sea, or face certain death. Or worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, rough, scary, cult film
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Forever Yours (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two intertwining stories of a group of people dealing with their loved ones being attacked by zombies. One won't accept the loss, while the other seeks revenge on every undead creature she can hunt. Josh plans to propose to his girlfriend, Kate. His plans go off track and even further from what he planned when they encounter a group of survivors from a zombie attack. They soon find themselves held in siege in a basement surrounded by a horde of zombies. While this is happening, Patti must witness her boyfriend and roommates killed by the undead. Patti arms herself with a machete and goes on the hunt for revenge against every creature she can find. Flashbacks give light to how her life and the lives of those she lost were interrupted. And her path becomes laid out in blood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, rough, surprise ending, independent film
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The Pyramid (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, anthology, splatter
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Nightshift (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is stuck in the morgue - on her first day - working as an assistant to a pathologist when the dead begin to manifest signs of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful
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Eaters (2011)
Plot Summary:
The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new "guinea-pigs" for Gyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and a mysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsman of the epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, brutal, apocalyptic, psychological, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense
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A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, bleak
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Isle of the Dead (2016)
Plot Summary:
Strangers trapped on a secluded island struggle to survive against hordes of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense
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Undertaker (2012)
Plot Summary:
The dead return to life as cruel predators - the so-called "returners" have spread all over the world. Only a few survivors succeeded in escaping from this madness. They are submerged in remote areas, because the cities were completely occupied by the returners. There is only one person who still daggers in the cities: the Undertaker. A dark hero, a champion of the battlefield and equipped for the world after the apocalypse, starts his own personal revenge campaign.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, manga, asian horror
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Zombie Mutation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Follows 6 people low life junkies & strippers as they battle for survival in the midst of a zombie outbreak in a run town on the outskirts of a city.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen (2015)
Plot Summary:
To celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago – but an army of the undead and a brand new war.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, fake documentary
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Walking Dead In The West (2013)
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The Arizona Territory, the 1870's. Marshal Frank Wilcox, along with a Buffalo Soldier from the U.S. Army, must galvanize a group of survivors to fight back when the living dead rise and seek the flesh of the living. It's a world gone mad and a battle against the unthinkable. Joined by an Apache Chief and an outlaw prisoner, the group must learn how to survive in a time where the dead walk.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, wild
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Rockabilly Zombie Weekend (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young couple plans to have a rockabilly themed wedding out at the old farm, despite warnings of a West Nile Virus outbreak. Things go horribly wrong when the virus spawns zombie-creating mosquitoes, who begin to feed on the wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The zombies that arose after the nuclear outbreak are still high in numbers. The group of girls have lost some of their comrades and are fighting off the horny zombies to stay alive themselves. Can they stop the plague for once and for all?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, splatter, asian horror
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Deadsight (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man with partial blindness and a young pregnant police officer must work together to escape a deadly virus that has spread across Grey County.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, detective
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Plot Summary:
Two weeks after a local nuclear power plant explosion (which totally wasn't an evil secret Nazi research laboratory), zombies have taken over the town!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Trees Have Eyes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of bounty hunters head into a vast New England forest to track down a dangerous felon. But as they get further into the woods, they begin to realize there is something far deadlier than a murderer on the run. The group suddenly find themselves surrounded by a seemingly endless horde of the undead, and with no shelter, no help and no end to the carnage, survival seems hopeless.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Long Live the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five shorts in the zombie genre; "Dweezle", "A Picture To Die For", "Black Bone Woods", "Zoe Dies In The End", and "Here Lies Bud.".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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In a devastated, post-apocalyptic world, all men have turned into rape demons. The only hope for the future is to travel to the past and prevent the outbreak, the source of which still remains a mystery.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
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One man has a plan for a zombie outbreak, when one occurs it will take all his will to stick to it and all of his courage to change it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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In a world overtaken by a recent virus pandemic, all governments have conspired together to brainwash the remaining survivors using 5G cell service to create a new world order. Watch our world crumble from various perspectives...just when you thought it couldn't get any worse!.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Plot Summary:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
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Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 329
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, bleak, funny, scenic
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Zombie (1979)
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A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
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15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, disaster movie
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Infection (2019)
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Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
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28 Weeks Later (2007)
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In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, creepy, apocalyptic, intense, bloody
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Plot Summary:
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
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